Simultaneous game issue

[Pocus]

Gryphin : If I remember well, you can close a profil with applications still running (and you can pwd a profile). But a kid will always be able to shut down your PC. He will gets a warning that some profiles are still loaded, but I doubt he will care

After some querying to more geeky persons than me, it seems a harduous task to have an utility able to save and restore a program to the HD. One of the issue is that he wont be able to restore the application to the same memory segment that it occupied.

Altough a possibility exists to save the whole operating system (any OS). You have to use a virtual machine like the software VMWare, which allows you to create a virtual PC in to you PC (you can even have a virtual PC with XP inside a windows 98). With this utility, you can suspend and save to disk your virtual machine, and restore it and your will (along with SE IV running).

The problem is not that VMWare is difficult to use, it can be set to function in 5 minutes (you will have to spend an hour to install a windows in your virtual machine though). The problem is that VMWare is not freeware. If you want to meddle with the dark side, you can find serial keys, but we are far from having an honest and not cumbersome solution to save a simultaneous turn.

But theorically, if you pay your VMWare licence, you can. Or if you have some hundred dollars, buy a laptop with the system save feature

nb : I'm not encouraging anyone to do illegal things, I'm just saying a fact. Like the fact that most peer to peer Users are pirating things. Telling a thing is not encouraging to do it.

[Stone Mill]

I don't know if this helps, but WIN 2000 (and I believe XP) has "hibernate mode" next to the shutdown options which will put your computer to sleep. When you turn the computer on again, all programs restored will be at the exact point in time you gave the hibernate command.

I do this when I'm working on a big turn and need to leave.

Unfortunately, if someone else needs to use the computer, you need to brief them not to close SEIV, and leave it minimized while working, etc, and especially to hibernate it again, as opposed to shutting down.

[JLS]

You can set the option for a password entree, when coming off hibernate or sleep.

[Fyron]

JLS:
I will ask you not to post any racist jokes in the future. They are always offensive.

Originally posted by JLS:
You can set the option for a password entree, when coming off hibernate or sleep.

Which eliminates the possibility of others being able to use the PC, which is wholely counter-productive.

[JLS]

Understood.
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I was answering your question, I did not realize at the time were you were heading.
I was poking fun of my self, only.

I Meant no disrespect to others.

It won't happen again.

[ May 08, 2003, 23:58: Message edited by: JLS ]

[JLS]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
JLS:
I will ask you not to post any racist jokes in the future. They are always offensive.

quote:

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Originally posted by JLS:
You can set the option for a password entree, when coming off hibernate or sleep.

Which eliminates the possibility of others being able to use the PC, which is wholely counter-productive.

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O'Kay, I was not considering productivity, just securing the PC; so I may get a bite to eat and no one will fiddle with my game turn.

In regards to shuting the PC down, my kids don't even turn the lights off behind them

[ May 09, 2003, 00:21: Message edited by: JLS ]

[QBrigid]

When Saint Patrick was converting Ireland, he was baptizing a Chieftain, when Patrick began the ceremony, he jammed his staff in the ground, accidentally spearing it through the foot of the Chieftain, at the conclusion of the ceremony, Patrick realized what had happened and asked the Chieftain, who was in extreme pain, why he had not said something, the chieftain replied, "I thought it was part of the ceremony."

FYI--The exact story is as follows:

"When about baptise the King [Aongus], Patrick thrust his pastoral staff, by its sharp iron point, into the earth-as he thought. But it was through the foot of Aongus he thrust it. He discovered his grave mistake only when the ceremony was finished. "Why did you not tell me this?" he cried to the king. And Aongus answered simply, "Because I thought it was part of the ceremony."

This is copied directly from page 117 of the book "The Story of the Irish Race, A popular History of Ireland, Written by Seumas MacManus.

So you see, it is not a racist joke at all but a documented history. I'm sure JLS intended no offence.