I understand virtual machines from my old IBM days, but
so far I have yet to do anything with them on PCs. Likely for my startup, as the work moves along (today made good progress on some de/serialization issues -- wrote some small test programs that showed that de/serialization was working
like it should; now to find out why it was not working
in the code of a Web page talking to one of my 'servers',
now just software on the same computer but intended to be
on a separate computer, TCP/IP communications in both cases).
The sand boxing security sounds good. Maybe in practice for years VMs are the only easy path we have to
security from 'malware', etc.
Have you considered a hardware upgrade and switching to a virtual OS workflow?
I intend to buy a second computer fairly soon. I will install the copy of Windows 7 Professional I already have and then get used to the computer, arrange that each of my computers can copy backup files to the other one. And/or get a hard drive connected vis USB and some appropriate software, or maybe just use XCOPY or WinZip.
With two computers, if one of them is down for some reason, then I can still get to the Internet with the other one.
The second computer will also be the first server for
my startup, to go live fairly soon -- the software is all ready except I just need to debug the code for the last
two Web pages.
So this second computer will also have appropriate
copies from the Microsoft BizSpark program
of Windows Server, IIS, and SQL Server for production for
my startup.
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I understand virtual machines from my old IBM days, but so far I have yet to do anything with them on PCs. Likely for my startup, as the work moves along (today made good progress on some de/serialization issues -- wrote some small test programs that showed that de/serialization was working like it should; now to find out why it was not working in the code of a Web page talking to one of my 'servers', now just software on the same computer but intended to be on a separate computer, TCP/IP communications in both cases).
The sand boxing security sounds good. Maybe in practice for years VMs are the only easy path we have to security from 'malware', etc.
I intend to buy a second computer fairly soon. I will install the copy of Windows 7 Professional I already have and then get used to the computer, arrange that each of my computers can copy backup files to the other one. And/or get a hard drive connected vis USB and some appropriate software, or maybe just use XCOPY or WinZip.
With two computers, if one of them is down for some reason, then I can still get to the Internet with the other one.
The second computer will also be the first server for my startup, to go live fairly soon -- the software is all ready except I just need to debug the code for the last two Web pages.
So this second computer will also have appropriate copies from the Microsoft BizSpark program of Windows Server, IIS, and SQL Server for production for my startup.