wow, what a little humour can do... even talking about your own country :-)

anyways I would say Europeans and occidental people are strange for oriental people too, heh.., half of the world laugh at the other half.

on topic...
virtual machines..., she could find it difficult too. I would tell to install windows7 and forget about the others,
better one virus than four at once...

In England, the southerners are a lot weirder than northerners. And if they're too weird for the north, they usually move to the south. It's a natural instinct, like bird migration.

I'm weird just for the sake of being weird.

BrianL likes to sail reeeeally close to the edge

That's the best reason. Who's to say what is weird or normal, anyway? Some normal people seem pretty weird to me, and some weird people seem pretty normal.

Isn't this weird outside Japan... ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%C3%B4

True, but Win 7 has a "integrated mode" that allows the VM to be entirely hidden from the user of the machine, with the VM programs being "published" to the Win 7 desktop. It's really just a fancy shortcut, but it sounds good. If none of the VMs have independent network access and are scanned by the host OS, then I don't think the security burden is any greater.

BTW, I heard on a news story sumo was losing popularity as more of the champions have been non-japanese. Reputable report or trash journalism?

Nah... trash news...

Sumo is Still very popular...

Sumo is Gendai Budo, like Karate, Judo, Dayto Ryu Aiki Jutsu, Shinto Ryu, but somehow more traditional...

Being picky about the terms, I'd found quadruple booting twice as weird as dual booting, which is weird enough, considering that on all computers I've met, only one operating system may boot and run at one time. Dual (or quadruple) booting would then mean two (four) operating systems would boot at the same time, which is something I'd like to see What's even more weird, some folks ask how to duel (as in "fight between the two") boot their Windows and GNU/Linux, which could be understood such that the two ought to fight for the right to boot. If nothing else, that would at least solve the age-old question of which is better, Windows or Linux...

Yes, it is understood that multi-booting means having multiple options to choose from, rather than simultaneously booting them all, but this was literally taken, as are most of the jokes that cause violence and blood baths.

Why wouldn't she want to boot Windows 98 SE? Let alone the infamous 95?

Hey, as long as she isn't booting winME. Even Win95 is better than that.

Don't forget Microsoft Bob

I thought ME was 98SE with whipped cream and a cherry on top

Who knows what the hell it was, just like what the hell Vista was. I can't even believe that Microsoft managed to severely screw up WindowsNT itself too. Then again, WIndowsNT went down hill with the introduction of XP to the masses.

I have much more fond memories of NT 4.0 and 5.0, when it wasn't targeted to 'regular' users, and things actually just worked right for a change. NT4/2000 were gems, and NT will never again have that status of ACTUAL reliability, and decent working environment.

Except that some (quite a few, if you ask me) companies still have machines that run WinNT, because of some weird software that isn't going to work on anything else, and they're not into paying for anything newer.

Vista is a great testing platform. If something (cross-platform) works well on it, it's pretty much granted it works at least as well on any other "modern" operating system, taking into account OS-specific quirks that are not directly related to the testing target itself

Hi...

I told Pak Soo Lee ( that is the name of the cutie )

How to do, and helped her in the process :

fdisk the laptop's HDD, and install Windows 7 in one partition. This will Hold W$ 7 and VBox manager.

Install Ubuntu ( c'mon folks, you were not expecting me to install Slackware or Arch in a First-time-contact-with-Linux person, were you...?! ) in the remaining partitions, and letting her select at boot what will it be... the 7 or the Laughing Lhama ...

Neat, isn't it...?