On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:25:00 -0800 in K Barrett wrote:
I have a macbook laptop I only use for orchid judging. Operating systems
are OSX, Parallels 3.0 and XP Pro. It has Intel core 2 duo 2.00 ghz, 2 Gb
SDram memory, and a 200 Gb harddrive. So it should be quicker than it is.
It seems like I'm always the last person to pull up an award at the judging
table.
[SNEEP].
Okay, nothing in what you wrote explains why you are running something
under Windows XP under OSX. Nor do you explain what is involved in pulling
up an award, whether the application is up and running already and you then
pull up an award and whether you retrieve that award from a database on the
local harddisk, or from a database residing on the network, or from a web
application.
Possibilities.
1) Judging software only runs under Windows XP
2) Judging software requires win32 APIs
3) Judging software requires IE6
4) Everyone else is using hibernate and suspend to ram, you're booting
it from a cold stop each time.
5) Handwaving relating to the network and DNS.
6) Handwaving relating to memory.
Let's start with the easy one, #4. If you're waiting to boot the thing
until you get there, stop doing that. Get everything ready to go when
you pack, and preferably suspend to ram. If travel time is longer than the
battery will keep the suspended state in ram, hibernate, or invest in an
inverter to provide juice while you travel.
#1, #2, #3) If orchid judging requires something microsoft windows specific,
then start with something that runs Microsoft Windows natively.
The options would be.
a) Get a new non-mac laptop and add the Vista to XP upgrade to the purchase.
b) Obtain 'bootcamp' from Apple and have the laptop run XP natively.
(You get a little boot menu to pick whether to boot to OSX or to boot to
XP).
c) Obtain 'bootcamp' from Apple, and a replacement harddrive so you can
setup XP to run natively without dorking up whatever you've currently done.
#2, #3) If just the win32 APIs are needed run the software under WINE instead
of a full machine emulator see
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX.
The products from CodeWeavers may be an other option if you're one to call
for support.
#3) Contact me offline if you need IE6 pre-bundled to run under WINE.
#6) I found XP to be an unpleasant experience with less than 1G of ram
devoted to it, and that's with as much garbage turned off as possible.
See if you can get Parallels to allocate 1.5G of ram to the virtual machine.
#5) I know nothing about how parallels virtualizes the network and insulates
the user from such things. I do know that OSX has some adhoc nameservice
capabilities that can slow things down if they are the first to be used
and noone else is using them on the network.
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