Apples makes the software that they sell under license. Apple makes the hardware that it is licensed to run on. If you don't like it you are 100% free to run something else. This is nothing to do with slavery, and a company licensing software to you is, and should be, allowed to place whatever licensing terms on it they deem fit. You don't like it? Run something else.
No. For linking ESX servers together, you need to run vCenter, with its licensing and other requirements (either a physical windows box, or Windows VM to host it). Stand-alone ESX/ESXi is fine for one machine - if you have 2 or more that you want to migrate things to/from - you need vCenter.
However, if you're trying to do vmotion, you also need shared storage (typically a SAN though it does work on NFS as well - obvously you need decent hardware behind it) anyway - which puts you in the "big money, enterprise use" category - the vmware licensing/support costs are not huge in the context of that environment.
If you just want to play, and learn - I'm pretty sure all the vmware ESX/ESXi/virtualcenter, etc comes with a 60 (or is it 120) day eval license mode that enables ALL features with no key.
There are pre-2001 emergency document floating around wtih planes flying towards buildings. You think that bin laden, et al are so intelligent that they thought up the idea of flying into buildings, yet the "best and brightest" in the US were unable to?
With electronic distribution, getting the game out there costs them effectively nothing. So... launch at 60 bucks, or 100 or whatever, and drop the price when sales taper off. There is no unsold inventory to worry about or ship, so they can charge whatever they like without having to worry so much about inventory levels.
Not. Blu-ray has established itself as the HD format. At the PS3's current price point, its a reasonably priced BD player, with a console thrown in for free...
Agreed. It depends on usage patterns. Mac mini (with maxxed out RAM) + a PS3 does all the gaming and general purpose PC usage that I want. Is it the latest and greatest? No - but then, i've not seen any PC games as of late that make me consider upgrading (or, for that matter, booting) my PC (Q6600 with 4gig and 8800GT). Consoles are more of a social gaming machine too - if you have friends over its easier to sit in the living room with wireless controllers, etc than crowd around a desk to use someone's PC.
now all we need is memory density and IO throughput to catch up. for most server/vm deployments memory and IO are your bottlenecks. Sure, this will be useful in niche markets such as scientific research, but a "cloud" processor it is not... without the IO and RAM to back up all those cores very few people will be able to actually make use of them in a single machine.
The BSOD was probably fixed in SP1. I've run Vista on machines with 1GB, which is the min spec for 7. Performance is/was different yes, but it runs. I maintain that the biggest difference is that people simply more often have better hardware 3 years later.
Not sure, i think i get about 3-4hrs out of the regular battery. However when i'm on battery, i am usually using the laptop outside or in a fairly sunny area, so the screen brightness is up a fair bit.
Would it be different if it was Windows malware? The fact that it is linux malware is irrelevant. Your software is doing the same thing (installing unauthorized code onto people's machines).
I say release the ideas, or at least document the concepts with pseudocode so that the average skript kiddie can't just download and modify - they'd at least need to spend the time implementing it in some language.
This way, people qualified to fix the problem can review your proof of concept and fix the problem, but you're limiting the exposure to the average bored 15 year old who's skillset doesn't extend too far beyond downloading a.c file and running gcc.
Turn off speedstep in the bios. Fixed it for me. however the bios options are all arse about and the option that looks like enabling it DISABLES it, and vice versa. At least the bios version on my E6400 does, anyway. it was driving me mad until I disabled speedstep.
Windows 3.1 can't use my 4gb of ram. Or my video card. Or 3 of my cpu cores. Or my raid controller. Or my network adapter. But my copy did come on 3.5" disks.
Test each in a VM and see what you think. I've run Solaris x86 back in the day (2.6) and compared to linux or bsd - its slow. It can handle load gracefully without stumbling, but if you're running a benchmark or relying on high throughput for fairly serialized tasks - its not really what its intended for.
If you need the features (or paid sun support) though, go for it - but FreeBSD has most of the feature set these days and is much faster. Ports are also way easier than obtaining package X from source and then running into whatever undiscovered bugs exist in that particular package under opensolaris becuase you happen to be the first one to actually run it on that platform.
It REALLY depends on your intended purpose as to which OS is best - the only one who can really answer that, whilst taking into account your previous history, skillset andn willingness to learn/fiddle is you.
Well, problem is that what you propose will result in another 10-25 years worth of development and mistakes in implementation to get back to where we are today (in terms of stability, feature set, and correctness under real world operating conditions). During which time the "old, outdated" operating systems will have moved on and left you behind (HURD, I'm looking at you).
What problems are you trying to solve? Re-writing code for the sake of rewriting code to make it look shiny or do shiny type things is all well and good, but if there is no real world problem to mitigate you're basically putting effort into a non-problem - effort that could be put to better use solving problems we do have - such as improving existing code.
Its easy to look at the current platforms out there and think that you could do better if you had the resources, but you're starting from so far behind. And with coding, you can't always just throw more programming hours at it. This is what Microsoft has done with Windows and look where they're at - it works, but no one knows how exactly (including coders within MS - hence the big project for minwin).
I guess my point is this: re-inventing the wheel for the sake of reinvention (eg, the linux way of "not invented here!" for many things) is wasted effort. Think long and hard before going down that path, but if you do - good luck with it. Many talented and intelligent people have tried and just added yet another fragment to the software universe.
OpenBSD, on the other hand, gets very little corporate support, in spite of the fact that everyone ships OpenSSH.
I wonder if it's Theo's charming personality:D Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I don't but god damn he can spew some bile if you get on the wrong side of his argument.
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Apples makes the software that they sell under license. Apple makes the hardware that it is licensed to run on. If you don't like it you are 100% free to run something else. This is nothing to do with slavery, and a company licensing software to you is, and should be, allowed to place whatever licensing terms on it they deem fit. You don't like it? Run something else.
Tell that to Commodore, Atari, Tandy, and all of the other computer manufacturers from the 80s. They sell a device. The OS is part of the device.
They're close. They have almost all of the features of ESX, but not quite yet. Definitely way in front of hyper-v.
Gah... i didn't mean to post anonymously...
However, if you're trying to do vmotion, you also need shared storage (typically a SAN though it does work on NFS as well - obvously you need decent hardware behind it) anyway - which puts you in the "big money, enterprise use" category - the vmware licensing/support costs are not huge in the context of that environment.
If you just want to play, and learn - I'm pretty sure all the vmware ESX/ESXi/virtualcenter, etc comes with a 60 (or is it 120) day eval license mode that enables ALL features with no key.
Disagree. On the desktop, yes - Virtualbox and others have caught up to workstation. On servers with ESX? Haha... no one is even close.
Vmware FT, Vmotion, DRS, Storage vmotion, linked clones, templates - no one has them all, and they're all extremely useful.
disclaimer: i run ESX 4 and Workstation 7 at work - and Workstation 7 / Virtualbox (on the mac) at home...
Because 4gb of RAM is about 80 bucks, and rebooting sucks.
There are pre-2001 emergency document floating around wtih planes flying towards buildings. You think that bin laden, et al are so intelligent that they thought up the idea of flying into buildings, yet the "best and brightest" in the US were unable to?
With electronic distribution, getting the game out there costs them effectively nothing. So... launch at 60 bucks, or 100 or whatever, and drop the price when sales taper off. There is no unsold inventory to worry about or ship, so they can charge whatever they like without having to worry so much about inventory levels.
Not. Blu-ray has established itself as the HD format. At the PS3's current price point, its a reasonably priced BD player, with a console thrown in for free...
Agreed. It depends on usage patterns. Mac mini (with maxxed out RAM) + a PS3 does all the gaming and general purpose PC usage that I want. Is it the latest and greatest? No - but then, i've not seen any PC games as of late that make me consider upgrading (or, for that matter, booting) my PC (Q6600 with 4gig and 8800GT). Consoles are more of a social gaming machine too - if you have friends over its easier to sit in the living room with wireless controllers, etc than crowd around a desk to use someone's PC.
now all we need is memory density and IO throughput to catch up. for most server/vm deployments memory and IO are your bottlenecks. Sure, this will be useful in niche markets such as scientific research, but a "cloud" processor it is not... without the IO and RAM to back up all those cores very few people will be able to actually make use of them in a single machine.
The BSOD was probably fixed in SP1. I've run Vista on machines with 1GB, which is the min spec for 7. Performance is/was different yes, but it runs. I maintain that the biggest difference is that people simply more often have better hardware 3 years later.
Not sure, i think i get about 3-4hrs out of the regular battery. However when i'm on battery, i am usually using the laptop outside or in a fairly sunny area, so the screen brightness is up a fair bit.
Vista runs on anything 7 runs on - hardware has just moved on. Even so, when vista was released, anyone serious was running 2gb of ram already anyway.
Of course, repositories can never be hacked, that's unpossible!
I say release the ideas, or at least document the concepts with pseudocode so that the average skript kiddie can't just download and modify - they'd at least need to spend the time implementing it in some language.
This way, people qualified to fix the problem can review your proof of concept and fix the problem, but you're limiting the exposure to the average bored 15 year old who's skillset doesn't extend too far beyond downloading a .c file and running gcc.
I had less problem with 7 than i did with vista on it - with this exact issue.
It STATES this, but it doesn't. The bios description is buggy, as is the code.
Turn off speedstep in the bios. Fixed it for me. however the bios options are all arse about and the option that looks like enabling it DISABLES it, and vice versa. At least the bios version on my E6400 does, anyway. it was driving me mad until I disabled speedstep.
Windows 3.1 can't use my 4gb of ram. Or my video card. Or 3 of my cpu cores. Or my raid controller. Or my network adapter. But my copy did come on 3.5" disks.
If you need the features (or paid sun support) though, go for it - but FreeBSD has most of the feature set these days and is much faster. Ports are also way easier than obtaining package X from source and then running into whatever undiscovered bugs exist in that particular package under opensolaris becuase you happen to be the first one to actually run it on that platform.
It REALLY depends on your intended purpose as to which OS is best - the only one who can really answer that, whilst taking into account your previous history, skillset andn willingness to learn/fiddle is you.
What problems are you trying to solve? Re-writing code for the sake of rewriting code to make it look shiny or do shiny type things is all well and good, but if there is no real world problem to mitigate you're basically putting effort into a non-problem - effort that could be put to better use solving problems we do have - such as improving existing code.
Its easy to look at the current platforms out there and think that you could do better if you had the resources, but you're starting from so far behind. And with coding, you can't always just throw more programming hours at it. This is what Microsoft has done with Windows and look where they're at - it works, but no one knows how exactly (including coders within MS - hence the big project for minwin).
I guess my point is this: re-inventing the wheel for the sake of reinvention (eg, the linux way of "not invented here!" for many things) is wasted effort. Think long and hard before going down that path, but if you do - good luck with it. Many talented and intelligent people have tried and just added yet another fragment to the software universe.
I wonder if it's Theo's charming personality :D Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I don't but god damn he can spew some bile if you get on the wrong side of his argument.