[ RadSafe ] Update "Half Century of Health Physics" DVD

Sun Jul 12 15:54:45 CDT 2009

Finally managed to get this DVD running on a Vista machine in a Windows 98 virtual PC window. It was not as easy as I would have liked it to be. Here is the process:

  1.. Installed virtual PC on my Vista machine a while back. Microsoft sais that you need the pro version, but it installed fine on my home version.
  2.. Installed Windows 98 on the virtual PC. This was a bit tricky since my bootable 98 was on floppy and the new laptop came without a floppy drive. Looked on Google and found a workaround.
  3.. Installed the Health Physics DVD on the Win 98 virtual PC and asked it to install Acrobat Reader 7, since win98 comes with Acrobat Reader 4 and the install tells you that you need Acrobat Reader 5 or higher.
  4.. Acrobat Reader 7 does not run on Win 98, so the Acrobat install failed and I was able to browse the DVD, but not view the pdf files. 
  5.. Installed Acrobat Reader 5 from the web and finally was able to get it to work (after a re-boot).
BTW, I chose to install a win 98 virtual PC, rather than an XP one, because I still have several XP machines around and I wanted more backward compatibility. The DVD did not run on my XP machines, probably since they have recent updates installed.

Hope this info is useful to others trying to view the DVD on a newish computer. 

Regards,
Kai

Kai Kaletsch
Environmental Instruments Canada Inc.
http://www.eic.nu/
http://www.webrad.biz/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Cherry" <bobcherry at satx.rr.com>
To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Update "Half Century of Health Physics" DVD

> The new Microsoft Windows 7 due out in the fall will contain a virtual
> version of Windows XP, so maybe the DVD will work with it.
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti
> cleId=9132119&source=rss_news
> 
> After setup, it looks like running the DVD will be no problem.
> 
> Also, Vista can run a virtual PC into which you can load a copy of Windows
> XP as the operating system.
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-
> afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en
> 
> This is a more complicated workaround, but you might have fun trying it. I
> use it to run RESRAD on my Vista computer.
> 
> Bob C
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
> Of Demers, Joseph W
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:26 AM
> To: 'radsafe at radlab.nl'
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Update "Half Century of Health Physics" DVD
> 
> First, thanks to all that replied either on line or directly to me.
> 
> Here is what I have found regarding the ability to run the subject program:
> 
> If you have an old install of XP (even SP3) without recent updates the
> program will run.  As to why this is and some possible avenues for folks
> more Windows knowledgeable than I to think about see below.
> 
> According to the HP Journal folks, they are aware that the program does not
> work under Vista.  They had not heard of my XP problem.  They aren't
> supporting the program but are at the early stages of developing a follow on
> product.
> 
> RadSafers results were mixed with about half able to run the program under
> XP, usually with the caveat that the machine was older.
> 
> In looking around the net,  the QLU program is legacy now, but appears to
> have operated via HTTP protocol using a program called xserver.exe.  My
> suspicion is that updates to Win XP fixed a vulnerability that blocks port
> 8080 that xserver wants to use to communicate with QLU.
> 
> My fix was to dig out an old laptop that had not been updated in a while and
> try the program.  It worked so as long as I don't allow for updates it
> should continue to do so.  Please be aware if you try this approach that
> some updates will make the program non-functional.
> 
> If the above sparks anyone to a better solution, please let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> Joe DeMers, CHP, CSP
> Health Physicist
> 509-376-0733
> The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect the
> views or position of the U.S. Department of Energy or the federal
> government.
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