I am searching our local library, online. They have a magnificent online presence. Ironically, the search tool and the advanced search tool are the ones I struggle with the most. Perhaps that is because I use them the most. But there are excellent tools for reserving, checking out, renewing, paying fines, researching resources, etc. It has reciprocal links to the county and regional library systems. I'm very happy with my access to these precious resources.

Your suggestion about getting a University library card is wonderful! I'll let you know this morning about that one. I'd love to get to those libraries. God tip, thanks!

Thanks for the link. I folllowed it through to Informationweek and through that to a download for the Bochs VPC for Windows. I might try at playing with Linux.

Update:

Since I am not affiliated with the University of Washington, I can only obtain borrowing privileges at $90.00/yr. Can't do that right now. Oh well.

I'll check out the community colleges' policies too.

I thought he was talking about straight Knoppix :)
 

Oops.

Otherwise, I run Virtual PC on this Mac here, as well as VMWare ESX Server and other programs.

Virtual PC is OK, and it lets me run multiple OSes at once (I use it to run Linux and OpenBSD on my Mac for network utilities OS X doesn't have yet).

VMWare has much better Linux and BSD support :).

Otherwise, both run by emulating a complete machine in one main process, with VMWare utilizing several device drivers to improve performance. Virtual PC does the same on OS X (which is why you can't run it on the Intel Macs just yet, it utilizes kernel extensions). I don't know how it does kernel-level extensions on Windows.

My apologies for getting this one a little wrong :(.

Mitch

I checked that out quite a while ago. It was okay, but I liked Windows better. More compatability.