[geeks] HD/IDE question

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
>Date: 2006/09/26 Tue AM 10:45:29 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] HD/IDE question

>On 9/26/06, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> > Tue, 26 Sep 2006 @ 10:23 -0400, Sridhar Ayengar said:
>> >> I agree that ext2 appears to be the only choice.  I haven't tried it
>> >> under Windows yet, but it works fine under NetBSD.
>> >
>> > Just one caveat: I've found that Windows is very slow xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> There, I fixed that for you.  :)
>
>Well, I guess it's easy to fix Windows if you just cross it out. :-D
>
>Truth be told, if my dance pad worked on the Mac with Step Mania (aka
>"geek exercise"), I might even forego Windows at this point.  That and
>Diablo II are the only games I've played lately, aside from Nethack on
>my PocketPC (which is an excellent formfactor for keeping the OCD
>quality of Nethack in check).

What about VMWare Player on Linux host - can it run your games adequately? Why not just divorce yourself from Windows as a platform for any "work" that requires "files" (i.e. a pure game machine)? If need be, your Windows desktop can access FTP servers on other platforms and work reasonably well with them (i.e. access the folders via Windows Explorer)...

Just a thought,

Lionel