[Ham-Mac] Virtual PC

[Kim Mackey]

I am running a mixed Mac and PC network here at my house.  It was very 
simple to set up.  I am running a G4 dual 500 with OS 10.2 and two 
windows XP Pros.  I download stuff I want for me pc directly.  To keep 
the viruses out, I don't check email on my pc and the Mac is has the 
only IP that is visible to the internet (via my router settings).  I've 
run this way for several years.  Just recently I put McAfee on my pc 
and it found no viruses.  I did however install a spyware detector and 
it found and deleted lots of junk.  Nothing that was causing me any 
difficulties though.

I have experimented around some with ham radio on one of my XP 
machines.  So far I must say that the pc world has much better stuff in 
that respect.  But things are beginning to change as people are porting 
Unix stuff.  I have VPC on the Mac but quit using it quite some time 
back as a slow (600MHz pc) is faster than my Mac G4.

K. Mackey
KC9BZL