Today I got to experience how much has changed with class time since I was in College.
We each had our own computer with 5 virtual PCs installed even though we ran only 3 today. They were Windows XP, Win Server 2003 with Exchange 2003, and NT 5.5 all on their private networks and running on an XP installation.
This also meant that we had web access so in downtimes while there were no lectures I was able to surf, read the news, and find a local restaurant.
On top of that, I took my mp3 player with me and set it to record. THe microphone is not made to handle a lecture, but he was close enough that I can hear him on the recording. I recorded about 4 hours of lecture timeusing a AAA battery (with enough charge for at least tomorrow as well. It took up about 60MB of the 1GB of space I have available.
This definitely beats the tape recorders that needed flipped during class and burned through batteries like a portable electrical device running on AAs.
VMware ???
I’ll post some details about it during a break tomorrow. I’ll update it into the post.