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jprad Once again many thanks, you certainly bring up an important issue with Virtual Box. It looks that history repeats itself: a good product going down the tube because bad marketing. (same as dad telling me how OS/2 was initially a very nice product and Gates pulling a fast one on IBM...

Have been involved with VMware since version 4.xx and recently learned about VMware's Fusion for MAC. I do have a genuine business license for XP SP1 due to work I was involved in. (no activation required, :D ) and similarly I do have an office 2000 SP1 business license. I am hanging on to...

Ninja thank you, this looks promising. Have already downloaded OpenSolaris but it won't connect the network on my test machine (Z61m), have not yet had the time to check out why. But I did see that many T61 / T61p machines were fully functional. I actually did at one stage work with Sun...

I am no longer attached to IBM / Lenovo now the collaberation between IBM and Lenovo is coming to an end. Recent models have seen some changes that I was not too keen on, e.g. the nice quiet Hitachi hard disks being replaced by noisy and rattling Seagates, the nice IPS screen being dumped and...

If you want to find out more about the thinkpads go to www.thinkpads.com which is not associated with Lenovo or IBM. When I heard the IBM engineers would be leaving Lenovo in 2009 I bought one of the last, if not the last, T61p's coming off the line (in the US they were already discontinued)...

Thanks for the replies sofar, keep them coming. Perhaps I have not been clear: I want to run the Windows legacy systems inside Unix / Linux, dual boot is a definite no-no. I am pretty computer savvy (have a degree in computer science) so can do more than the simplist of things. Maria

Sorry, I think your better do some investigations before making statements and "assuming" that the Japanese hosuewives have little impact and that banks, governments and coprorations exchange. In addition your line of thinking is similar to what the Fed is using but ain't working in todays...

Experts amongst ET'rs: I did experiment some years ago with SunSE and Ubuntu and did work with VMWare 5.xx. But time moves on and I have not kept up with the developments in this area. I must have purchased one of the last Lenovo T61p laptops (if not the very last one) and it came with Vista...

Just nonsense and wasting your time. (and money) You do not have the constitutional right to be a customer. If someone does not want to have you as a customer there is nothing you can do about it.

just use some remote pc duplication to show them what you have on your screen. Am no longer up with what is available but no need of remotely logging into your account. And if they really want to learn then they can become a customer themselves like kiwi-trader suggested. They can afterwards...

This is developping in an interesting thread, all name calling aside. Perhaps someone can tell me who the architect was of the free currency trade. Perhaps someone can tell me who is the idiot who after the LTCM debacle did not enforce rigid controls of the derivatives. Perhaps somone...

do you never notice that when there is a sudden flury of activity your order execution takes longer? Are you that unobservant? do you know why that is happening? Well my dear chap, that is because the databases cannot keep up. These databases log the trades, check the margin requirements...

yes, the liquidity is much needed however the hardware and internet bandwidht taken up by these people are an expense too and somehow it needs to be paid for. You cannot expect that of the xx million traders everyone is allowed to place 16 K changes for 1 trade - the hardware cannot cope with...

of there is corruption in the bootup software / procedures then you will not find out until you reboot. Now if there is a problem while trading and you need to reboot then you do not want to discover that you cannot reboot. Not as often these days as it used to be but it can happen when...

sorry to burst your bubble but why should other traders subsidize someone who just is waiting for the nut who puts in a market order that will create a spike? It takes up bandwidth and other resources, both at IB and at the exchange. edit: or did you not read the post about a trader...

your thinking is directly in line with your handle - in contrast we are not interested in pocket change because one day your pocket gets picked and you are left with nothing. risk is just too high - I see more flaws in your approach and the more I look at your post the more I am convinced I...

Kudos on IB, prudent and proper action taken. I really like it when regulations and compliance is being observed and adhered to. 1) IB cannot give the reason why they closed the account because they may then get themselves in some legal loophole. 2) Since this is an non US account and...

This will only stay afloat until such time that volatility overtakes the average volatility. It will also not work in a "thinner" market and assumes that there is always someone to take th other side of your trade. Besides the fact this it is not scalable to making the real big money...

To quote Kenny Rogers ("the Gambler") You have to know when to hold them You have to know when to fold them You have to know when to walk away You have to know when to run To the OP: it all depends on how good your system is. If you know exact turning points in the markets and know how...

plenty: you can invest accordingly....