We've been a bit busy,,,

Sorry it's all gone a bit quiet here. Tracy's away at a wood fair in Yorkshire for work, and I've bought a new hard drive so have been reinstalling software on my laptop.

For those with a technical interest, I've installed Mandriva Linux, and within that I'm using VirtualBox to create a virtual machine that runs Windows XP. This basically means Windows is running inside Linux, but is fooled into thinking it has a whole computer to itself. It's handy for running the one or two applications I have that are only available for Windows (e.g. camera software), and means I can finally go back to using Linux after seven or eight years away from it! :-)

I'll admit to still having a basic Windows setup on another partition on the hard drive, just in case something in this transition doesn't go according to plan...

Mike

p.s. if the above seems a bit incongruous coming from someone who uses a chainsaw in the woods, remember my old job involved doing this kind of stuff...

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