On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:36:27 -0800, Y-Not:: wrote
(in article <011120050336273989%+10$-Y-Not@here.com>):
> In article <0001HW.BF8C36A10025FCF6F0305550@news.easynews.com>, Caprice
> <Caprice@badluck.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:39:17 -0800, Y-Not:: wrote
>> (in article <311020052339170172%+10$-Y-Not@here.com>):
>>
>>> In article <4h9dm1htj84hj7u32k5ke6ojaeke1l81jl@4ax.com>, go||um
>>> <sdf@ertgm.sdtoh> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I thought you might find this interesting:
>>>>
>>>> -g
>>>
>>> ""warned' by him"... Who is him? Yardbird? Does he promote the posting
>>> of encrypted movies?
>>>
>>> What "secret corner"?
>>>
>>> Which "bad security' horror stories", and can we include then in our
>>> security posts?
>>>
>>> The AOL user is speaking through his own selfishness. He wants people
>>> to violate their security for HIM.
>>>
>>> Is this going on in the girl groups?
>>>
>>> I spent the day trying to get Virtual PC (a program that lets Windows
>>> and Linux run in it) to update and run on the Mac. The old versions
>>> won't work correctly in the current OS, and the newer versions of VPC
>>> have been "messed with" by their new owner, Micro$haft, so that it's
>>> not compatible with any other operating system to run, but Win2000 and
>>> XP. I still haven't gotten it to run right, but I gave up on it for
>>> today.
>>> I need some Windows available to test some security software, including
>>> anonymous remailing programs. A Fort person has been sending me lots of
>>> information, and I want to learn it and try to USE it.
>>>
>>> KH would be horrified! I can't use Win98 on the Mac any more. I was
>>> planning on doing that. It's been more than a year since I last did it.
>>> Too bad I can't now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Take care,
>>>
>>>
>>> Y Not
>>>
>>>
>>
>> My understanding is as you say. VPC will only run Win2000 and XP when
>> running under OS X. I don't know that first hand as I don't use it.
>>
>
> Well, I wasn't aware of that, until I found out the hard way.
> I tried to convert Win98 and DOS "virtual machines", which are hard
> drives with saved installations of OSs, from previous versions, with
> DOS and Win98 on them, to be used by the new version of the host
> program. The current version of VPC made a mess of them. The OSs would
> run, but there were no useful virtual drivers, so networking and
> sharing didn't work.
>
> The day before yesterday, CH's former boyfriend (hereafter called "BF")
> wanted to run some DOS games on his Mac, and and asked me for help. I
> sent him Guest PC. I hadn't used it, so we installed it on our
> computers at the same time, communicating with phone and IMs. It
> installed and ran well, but oh boy is it STRANGE. It's simple and
> inscrutable, and I'm not even talking about the DOS it has in it. Yet.
> The OS it comes with is SOME kind of proprietary DOS that uses the same
> commands, but those command files are all contained in ONE "director"
> file. That's all there is, except for mouse and CD drivers in the
> "drive". You are presented with a DOS "director" window in front, that
> looks like a primitive file manager, who's menus have a lot of useful
> commands. After I figured out how to bypass the director window, I was
> able to execute the usual DOS commands, such as "ver", with gave info I
> have never seen before, or even heard of. BF wasn't able to get that
> far, and I didn't have time to try to explain it to him. He then tried
> to install VPC7, that he had got from CD, who got it from me, but the
> version he had didn't come with an OS, and we didn't know at the time
> that it wouldn't do DOS. We haven't been in contact since.
> I expect there to be a visit between us soon, because he wants all the
> dragon pics I've been collecting for him, and software, and he wants me
> to lobby his father into getting him a G5 for the holidays.
>
> There is another PC emulation program for the Mac that's supposed to be
> better than Guest PC, and it's open source and free, but I don't
> remember the name, and can't find it. :-(
> A poster who is using a "nym" account and remailers (no, not KH) has
> sent me a whole bunch of stuff to go over, and from that I located and
> downloaded some software that will automate some of those things. But
> of course, those programs only "work" on the PC. When I do manage to
> set up a system whereby I can usefully do what I'm looking to do, with
> the least amount of PC software, including the emulation program, would
> you like me to send you the data on it? I'm not sure it should be done
> publicly.
> I'm not going to get involved with manually configuring each message to
> use nym and remailers on the Mac. It's SO complicated, with so much
> careful typing, I KNOW I'll never get it right. Stupid dyslexia! :-)
>
> Sometimes people seem to get so attached to some of their ideas that
> they don't realize that some of them actually conflict with some of
> their other attached to ideas. KH promotes the "don't get noticed"
> first level of security, but seems to be somewhat opposed to the use of
> Hushmail for it's "never leaving the server, so no one can know you are
> communicating with", system, that seems to work well with the first
> idea of security. And since it's less complicated than using "nym" and
> remailers, less can go wrong with it on the USER end, and is therefore
> more likely to be used, and used successfully. From what I saw, in your
> "moderator" post, that I "encouraged" (ha!) you to make, You seemed to
> somewhat agree with this. Sure, there are slightly more secure ways in
> which to communicate, but we have to start somewhere.
>
> By the way, KH is aware of this group. :-)
>
>
> Y Not
You may want to look at
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html
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