a virtual image of XP Pro that I created in VMware. I put it on a Corsair Flash Voyager USB key, with some coaching from the MokaFive tech support people. Like I said, loading up your virtual software images can be tricky. Thereafter, I had my portable virtual...

Bill Lake installs and tests Parallels against a native Apple Boot Camp installation of XP.. I used the Windows Express option to create a basic Windows XP VM. After the Product Key screen you are instructed to insert the Windows CD and click Finish...

hardware items and once enough of the underlying system changes to trigger a violation, it refuses to run on the current hardware. We understand Vista works the same way, too. We got around this by using an image of plain-vanilla Windows XP with SP2 slipstreamed...

3: Windows installer writing the Astlinux boot image to a CF card Since I'm no Linux wizard I needed to load the CF card with the boot image using my Windows XP desktop. The Windows installer for Astlinux includes a utility called "physdiskwrite" for loading...

The light blue line is Windows XP Pro that we decided to test when FreeNAS would not boot on the test system. The key qualitative conclusions of this chart are: XP Pro has a bigger write cache than the Linuxes. I would guess bigger than 32 MB because that is...

system you have access to. Installation of the CF Image using MS Windows NT/2000/XP Under MS Windows NT/2000/XP, it is easiest to use physdiskwrite.exe, the Windows NT/2000/XP command line tool written by Manuel Kasper specifically for the job (http://www.m0n0.ch/...

write performance, although values are much higher than in the read test due to write caching effects in Win XP. Figure 8: Write Performance (click on image to enlarge) To put the results in perspective, I also ran the same iozone tests against a Linksys...

Athlon XP Has SSE, So Does That Make It Faster?. faster than real. Intel's support helped to make the DivX codec considerably faster, primarily due the SSE optimization. Athlon XP owners can also enjoy the benefits of this improvement, provided that they use...