Sorry for the other thread... this one says an OEM builder can install OEM Windows on a VM.
Q. Can I install OEM on a virtual machine (VMware)?
A. You may install OEM in a virtual environment as long as you have a separate license for each instance of the software. It is fine to use the OEM version as long as it is properly licensed. To be clear, a separate version of software must be installed for both the “standard” and “virtual” installations.
(from http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/Pages/support-faq.aspx ) So you can't use the same OEM license for both the host and the guest (which makes sense), but it appears that you can use the OEM license on the guest only. I have no idea whether once installed on physical hardware if you can transfer that license to a VM. Why do they make this so confusing?
I hear you... and I haven't found anything to indicate that XP OEM licenses can be virtualized, but strangely enough this is explicitly allowed in Windows 8.
For Windows operating system software licenses acquired through the OEM channel, the Windows use rights are outlined in the Software License Terms that accompany the software. These license terms provide use rights to run Windows locally on the licensed device in a virtual operating system environment (OSE).
Agreed. A large install base will only help the Ubuntu ecosystem. Yes some initial difficulties may arise but I think this will work out. It will at the very least open some eyes to the concept that there are other OSs and they can be useful also.
I know it's been mentioned elsewhere... make a VM out of the XP box. This works surprisingly well. Whatever host OS you decide to use shouldn't matter a great deal so long as you have the disk space and memory to accomplish it. For business use, my XP VM has only 1.5GB allocated and will run acceptably in 1GB.
The good news is a small computer shop or consultant can make a lot of money doing this for people. They're bound to hear about it and some will be curious. For those a little more tech savvy they can do it on their own. I think it's a wonderful idea.
At some future point I can see human-embeddable devices becoming commonplace, and this is a beta proving ground for the concept. The phone is an accessory people carry everywhere... shrink it and figure out a way for batteries to be charged through motion or vibration and have much improved recharged cycles. I can see someone getting an ear implant to go along with it.
May not happen in our lifetime, but it's not so far out there as to be impossible either. Think of the Human+ movement.
True, the lists are not the same, but I think (based on limited research I just did) that it's reasonable to say most gun owners are NRA members.
I'm a gun owner and strongly anti-NRA. I support strong background checks, gun restrictions (caliber, rate of fire, and magazine capacity), and closing the private sales loophole (iow, requiring background checks in all situations). I do not advocate hunting except in certain circumstances (and I don't eat meat anymore which is part of that) or teaching children to shoot. Teenagers start to become old enough and responsible enough for that.
The NRA tends to think of guns as the solution to a lot of problems, which means now you have new problems. I also do not share the thinking that our guns would be sufficient to fight off the government. "Well-regulated" is very important to me.
My other responses on this thread give a couple of NRA policy examples... making a home shooting range for children as well as trying to arm schoolteachers. Both would be funny if The Onion wrote them. The fact that Americans really want these things is frightening.
If the NRA already collects names, who's to say they don't share them with the government already, willingly or unwillingly? Seems like a pretty easy nut to crack... and oh boy they have a lot of nuts in that org.
Marketshare for IOS will probably drop, but have you seen the average IOS user's statistics versus Android and others? Have you seen how much money IOS users spend versus the rest? Which is more used by business? You may understand statistics but you're missing out on the big picture here.
Confusing isn't a word I'd apply to Apple products past or present. Maybe you're thinking of someone else? And the "chips from anyone actually good" -- you do know these machines really accomplished a lot with those chips, with their very wide data buses and relatively short pipelines, right?
Oh, and you seem pretty angry for some reason. I think a lot of that is caused by your confusion.
It's an interesting parallel problem. I wonder if GPU processing will be the best architecture for it. (and keeping in form, I didn't read the article yet)
Most colo contracts include "hands and eyes" time where they will hard power-cycle machines, push a button, grant physical access to a vendor who is pre-approved to do some work... simple things. Whether you trust them enough to do that and whether it's a good idea to do that are separate issues. In the case of an emergency though it really helps.
To play Devil's Advocate, choosing a DE makes no statement about the capabilities of the designer. My company chooses to pay me for other work I do that results in profits, and pay Red Hat for the support for DE's. I've been coding a very long time, and if I thought that coding my own DE and supporting it forevermore was the way to go, I would do it.
And while I know you work on Fedora and aren't personally responsible for all RHEL / Fedora issues, you need to understand that some of us are your RHEL / RHEV customers. When we're talking about silly things not working -- such as the System Monitor in Fedora and RHEL not showing all 16 cores (it's way too wide for the screen and can't be made narrower), which should have been vetted in Fedora before shipping in RHEL -- we can become frustrated. We were told by Red Hat that Activity Monitor was broken and they were aware of the issue, and we should use KSysGuard with all its KDE dependencies instead. The point is, sometimes a usable value isn't set as default, and common configurations don't work as expected. That's GNOME 3. The key to using a system is to provide reliable features with little surprise and even less irritation wherever possible. When you're buying expensive licenses you expect the built-in tools to work as expected, barring inevitable bugs. When a bug is brought up through the normal support channels and after an unsatisfactory support response you include your VAR, assigned Red Hat sales staff, as well as Red Hat technical support, you expect real answers.
GUI KVM settings don't save if you use the command-line kvm tools? Well then, don't use the GUI, we were told. It will be fixed soon.
Windows 2008 R2 timing settings result in CPU spikes on Nehalem, while idling, under RHEV 3? *No one* at Red Hat support -- and I had more than 4 reps involved with that one over a couple of months -- could solve it. I solved it and reported the solution so it could be incorporated into a bugfix.
And don't get me started on what we were promised with RHEV 3 vs what was delivered either, or the fact that I was told our problems would be fixed "in a couple months" all the way through October, then told it was ready but there was no upgrade path yet, and finally when there's a semi- sort-of upgrade path, it's too risky to justify. Companies like the one I work for don't like the risk and it was embarrassing to be kept waiting when Red Hat sales said a bugfix was imminent.
It's never -- not even once -- been a problem for me. I have a Liteon DVD burner I bought years ago. Now you don't get the menus or interactive bits, it's just a DVD recorder that acts like a VCR. With far better quality though. It's simple enough for anyone to use, just choose the recording length and go.
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Q. Can I install OEM on a virtual machine (VMware)?
A. You may install OEM in a virtual environment as long as you have a separate license for each instance of the software. It is fine to use the OEM version as long as it is properly licensed. To be clear, a separate version of software must be installed for both the “standard” and “virtual” installations.
(from http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/Pages/support-faq.aspx ) So you can't use the same OEM license for both the host and the guest (which makes sense), but it appears that you can use the OEM license on the guest only. I have no idea whether once installed on physical hardware if you can transfer that license to a VM. Why do they make this so confusing?
Shoot. I missed the "on the licensed device". Guess not.
For Windows operating system software licenses acquired through the OEM channel, the Windows use rights are outlined in the Software License Terms that accompany the software. These license terms provide use rights to run Windows locally on the licensed device in a virtual operating system environment (OSE).
(from page 1 of the document http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/D/98D6A56C-4D79-40F4-8462-DA3ECBA2DC2C/Licensing_Windows_Desktop_OS_for_Virtual_Machines.pdf ).
Agreed. A large install base will only help the Ubuntu ecosystem. Yes some initial difficulties may arise but I think this will work out. It will at the very least open some eyes to the concept that there are other OSs and they can be useful also.
I know it's been mentioned elsewhere... make a VM out of the XP box. This works surprisingly well. Whatever host OS you decide to use shouldn't matter a great deal so long as you have the disk space and memory to accomplish it. For business use, my XP VM has only 1.5GB allocated and will run acceptably in 1GB.
Please mod up... I wish it weren't true but it's the reality we have.
The good news is a small computer shop or consultant can make a lot of money doing this for people. They're bound to hear about it and some will be curious. For those a little more tech savvy they can do it on their own. I think it's a wonderful idea.
Partner the watch with a Google-Glass-type augmented accessory and it becomes much more usable.
At some future point I can see human-embeddable devices becoming commonplace, and this is a beta proving ground for the concept. The phone is an accessory people carry everywhere... shrink it and figure out a way for batteries to be charged through motion or vibration and have much improved recharged cycles. I can see someone getting an ear implant to go along with it.
May not happen in our lifetime, but it's not so far out there as to be impossible either. Think of the Human+ movement.
Exactly. Or at their clinics or at any of their other functions. I'm shocked, I tell you!
If only they were armed... oh wait.
And then stuff like this is just so wrong you have to wonder if anybody is in control of their mental faculties at the NRA. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/03/1961871/after-child-shooting-nra-conference-peddles-guns-for-kids/
True, the lists are not the same, but I think (based on limited research I just did) that it's reasonable to say most gun owners are NRA members.
I'm a gun owner and strongly anti-NRA. I support strong background checks, gun restrictions (caliber, rate of fire, and magazine capacity), and closing the private sales loophole (iow, requiring background checks in all situations). I do not advocate hunting except in certain circumstances (and I don't eat meat anymore which is part of that) or teaching children to shoot. Teenagers start to become old enough and responsible enough for that.
The NRA tends to think of guns as the solution to a lot of problems, which means now you have new problems. I also do not share the thinking that our guns would be sufficient to fight off the government. "Well-regulated" is very important to me.
My other responses on this thread give a couple of NRA policy examples... making a home shooting range for children as well as trying to arm schoolteachers. Both would be funny if The Onion wrote them. The fact that Americans really want these things is frightening.
Have you never heard of Wayne LaPierre and Ted Nugent? Have you never heard of the NRA's position on guns in schools ( http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/02/nra-school-security-hutchinson/2045565/ ), or their recommendations on building indoor gun ranges for children? ( http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/08/1978921/nra-youth-magazine-home-shooting-ranges/ )
Perhaps, sir, you should consider coming out from under that rock before calling people names.
If the NRA already collects names, who's to say they don't share them with the government already, willingly or unwillingly? Seems like a pretty easy nut to crack... and oh boy they have a lot of nuts in that org.
Marketshare for IOS will probably drop, but have you seen the average IOS user's statistics versus Android and others? Have you seen how much money IOS users spend versus the rest? Which is more used by business? You may understand statistics but you're missing out on the big picture here.
This is one of many reviews. http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/ios-vs-android/
Confusing isn't a word I'd apply to Apple products past or present. Maybe you're thinking of someone else? And the "chips from anyone actually good" -- you do know these machines really accomplished a lot with those chips, with their very wide data buses and relatively short pipelines, right?
Oh, and you seem pretty angry for some reason. I think a lot of that is caused by your confusion.
We're very close.
Elegant and no energy costs. It recycles something we all have handy. Easy to install also. Hard to argue with all those benefits!
Do people search for other things?
It's an interesting parallel problem. I wonder if GPU processing will be the best architecture for it. (and keeping in form, I didn't read the article yet)
Most colo contracts include "hands and eyes" time where they will hard power-cycle machines, push a button, grant physical access to a vendor who is pre-approved to do some work... simple things. Whether you trust them enough to do that and whether it's a good idea to do that are separate issues. In the case of an emergency though it really helps.
Assuming you're using the correct driver, it sounds like a cable issue. I've had frustrating printing problems disappear when I switched cables.
Wish it wasn't true, but you hit the nail on the head. My iPad 1 is much less useful now than it was out of the box.
To play Devil's Advocate, choosing a DE makes no statement about the capabilities of the designer. My company chooses to pay me for other work I do that results in profits, and pay Red Hat for the support for DE's. I've been coding a very long time, and if I thought that coding my own DE and supporting it forevermore was the way to go, I would do it.
And while I know you work on Fedora and aren't personally responsible for all RHEL / Fedora issues, you need to understand that some of us are your RHEL / RHEV customers. When we're talking about silly things not working -- such as the System Monitor in Fedora and RHEL not showing all 16 cores (it's way too wide for the screen and can't be made narrower), which should have been vetted in Fedora before shipping in RHEL -- we can become frustrated. We were told by Red Hat that Activity Monitor was broken and they were aware of the issue, and we should use KSysGuard with all its KDE dependencies instead. The point is, sometimes a usable value isn't set as default, and common configurations don't work as expected. That's GNOME 3. The key to using a system is to provide reliable features with little surprise and even less irritation wherever possible. When you're buying expensive licenses you expect the built-in tools to work as expected, barring inevitable bugs. When a bug is brought up through the normal support channels and after an unsatisfactory support response you include your VAR, assigned Red Hat sales staff, as well as Red Hat technical support, you expect real answers.
GUI KVM settings don't save if you use the command-line kvm tools? Well then, don't use the GUI, we were told. It will be fixed soon.
Windows 2008 R2 timing settings result in CPU spikes on Nehalem, while idling, under RHEV 3? *No one* at Red Hat support -- and I had more than 4 reps involved with that one over a couple of months -- could solve it. I solved it and reported the solution so it could be incorporated into a bugfix.
And don't get me started on what we were promised with RHEV 3 vs what was delivered either, or the fact that I was told our problems would be fixed "in a couple months" all the way through October, then told it was ready but there was no upgrade path yet, and finally when there's a semi- sort-of upgrade path, it's too risky to justify. Companies like the one I work for don't like the risk and it was embarrassing to be kept waiting when Red Hat sales said a bugfix was imminent.
I second your views on Xfce. I can put someone in front of it and they don't need UI training. Things just work as expected.
It's never -- not even once -- been a problem for me. I have a Liteon DVD burner I bought years ago. Now you don't get the menus or interactive bits, it's just a DVD recorder that acts like a VCR. With far better quality though. It's simple enough for anyone to use, just choose the recording length and go.