Home virtual topo map advice?

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:57:57 +0930, Tim wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:15 +0000, BeartoothHOS wrote:
>> and no serial/USB adapter I know of helps
> 
> Tangential question:  Is via USB the only way you can add a serial port?

	I'm not sure I understand the question -- perhaps because I don't 
speak hardware.

	All my PCs in recent years have been assembled by friends to suit 
my usage. So they all have actual serial ports. But I've only managed 
once, even so, to establish connections -- for a month or so.

	At that point, thinking the last barrier surmounted, I gleefully 
cleansed the house of the XP installs on separate hard drives to which I 
had been dual-booting. And then, as Murphy would have it, the capability 
evaporated, and has yet to be restored.

	Users and developers of Wine/CXO seem almost all to want to run 
games a/o office software; hunters, fisherfolk, et hoc genus omne are all 
but unrepresented -- while cartographers, wardrivers, et al. stick to 
linux-native map software, all of which has invariably required a 
learning curve unimaginable to those advanced enough to write it.

	I perceive a consensus, among Alpha Plus Technoids of my 
acquaintance, that virtualization beats dual-booting; so I'm trying to 
tackle that ....
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.