I am trying to get my home computer (now running Suse Linux 9.1 personal) to understand some windows programs i used to have in my computer (they ran fine on win 2K until the OS crashed and died for no appearent reason, and nothing i do makes it come alive again). I found VMWare, but found the price tag well beyond my scope. Then i found SourceForge.net: Bochs, which is a freeware version, doing the same thing, but i do not know if it is any good. Anyone have any hints?
For years i felt like i belonged to some other place. I was born and grew up in Göteborg, on the west coast of Sweden. My father is Swedish, my mother is Finnish. I grew up with my mother, and i always identified with her Finnish roots. Every summer we went to Finland, i learned some (not much) Finnish, and felt like i belonged there.
Turning 20 i decided to move there. I went "home", or so i thought. I quickly discovered that they did not much care for me there. My family relations there were not especially happy to see me, nor did they keep much in touch. The swedish speaking minority was not very open, to put it mildly. I thought we would through a common language be able to communicate, but i soon found out that there was not much in common there.
In short, it would take years to adapt. Hence i have done exactly that, and found a place for me. Now having lived in Helsinki for close to 18 years i consider it "home". But as i walk these streets i realise i am no
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