VHD is Microsoft own virtual hard drive file format as used in their virtualization software.
Both mounting and creation has been supported as far back as XP/2003 as part of MS Virtual Server (an extra install).
From W2008/Vista, creating and mounting VHDs have been available in the OS, however, there is a need to use command line tools to create the files.
The files can be mounted from disk manager in Vista/7 etc.
One cool feeature that is not well known is that on Windows 7, you can boot from VHDs. This require Win7 as both installed on the disk (requires the bootloader from Win7) and only Win7 is supported in the VHD. May work with Win2008 R2 as well, but I have not checked.
>these are trivial operations we all have been doing for decades
Actually, no. My kids have not even lived for decades.
Improving GUI is not about making it simpler for BOFs like me and you. It is more about making it simpler for those who are not comfortable pulling down every menu to find the correct entry.
>What was surprising, was that nearly all of my classmates used MS Office, and yet they couldn't access Microsoft's OWN formats!
Well, they could if they installed the plugin that Microsoft provided for all Office versions back to Office 2000... Maybe it was not only the teachers that "had absolutely no idea what they were doing"...
Actually the guy managing Hyper-V development has said something similar.
Then on the other hand: Maybe adding virtualization in the end is simpler and requires less resources than doing it "properly" in the OS? The OS has different layers, so this is another layer. No big deal...
(And finally, to be a little difficult on a friday night:) What is "proper" by the way? Is there any god-given way to create an OS?
Parallels are working on it. I have seen claims (from the people in our company who sell both Linux and Windows software with heavy graphics) that it works. The graphic chipmakers are working on virtualization friendly graphics chips. They will come, but probably bit in the mainstream PC chips for a number of years, more likely in the high end.
For some reason, when I need to edit a sound file, I always have to dig out Cool Edit 2000 to get it done. I have tried a few sound editors over the years (amongst them a few versions of Audacity), but none really match it. Too bad it was taken off the market.
I have bookmarked Wavosaur as the next one to be tried. Could be the one...
You really do not have a clue what it takes to start an exploration company, do you?
Besides, the companies are publicly traded, which mean over (a pretty short) time they will not have the same owners anymore. Do you think the owners of the upstream company feel a need to give away money?
>We could probably run our vehicles on water soon
No. That will actually never happen, but if you really think so, I am a Nigerian princess that need your help to get a large sum of money out of Nigeria
>and the electric car is already in action SO then end of oil is near overall
Let me reveal a secret to you: Oil is used for a lot of better things than energy for your car.
It splits the responsibility of drilling away from the DOWNSTREAM part of the company. But it is the UPSTREAM part of the company that is the big profit center, so at best what they are doing is removing liability from the least profitable part of the company. Which mean the liability stays where the big money is.
The only reason you do not get fixed IPs is the lack of IP space. It is a lot simpler for the ISPs to assign fixed IPs out of a huge address space than to mess with private IP spaces as they do now.
I work in a global team, and as we are a global organization (in places you did not know existed...) some teams must be global to ensure interests from all regions are covered. This is not for coding, but for other stuff. In my case it is IT support related.
Is it worth it? Is it worth running a global enterprise? The stockholders say yes, and I guess that is the final answer!
Then they have to be extremely lucky. All mail servers my emails went through around that time are long gone (replaced with completely new systems twice, actually). And I would highly doubt that any university keep email logs for 6-7 years... even less keep copies of the emails.
>I was too, and I was using Apple IIs, my c64, PCs, and VMS simultaneously while still in grade school. When I sat in front of say -- an 8-bit Atari or a Mac it wasn't a foreign experience because certain fundamental things always remained true.
So you were a geek. Precisely my point.
So there were non geeks on IRC? Big deal. Now all the non-geeks are on Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, MSN, twitter and they now upload pictures to one of the gazillion picture sharing sites and do music and movie sharing and edit and upload movie clips to Youtube... and even my 11 year old can use Google. And your point was again?
So what would you expect? "We are now six year into moving our infrastructure to open source, but we are not really certain about the end result"? Yeah... that would go down really well...
Until you have audited numbers for the change to OSS and the return to Windows (which will never happen), all this article provide is some entertainment and another trigger for a flamewar between the incompetent and the uninformed (both categories will be represented on both sides, and being in one category does not prevent being in the other).
The problem with calling them a troll is that IBM actually carry out a significant amount of research, and also create products based on their research. IBM is behind real research that have created significant parts of what has made the IT industry successfull (like hard disks).
The fact that you will have to license patents from them is a just because they have made actual inventions, not because they have patented a lot of silly ideas, as many of the companies that caused the term to be creatred have done.
Look up the definition of a patent troll, and you will see that IBM does not fit the definition.
And no, I do not have any relation to IBM.
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Just a clarification:
VHD is Microsoft own virtual hard drive file format as used in their virtualization software.
Both mounting and creation has been supported as far back as XP/2003 as part of MS Virtual Server (an extra install).
From W2008/Vista, creating and mounting VHDs have been available in the OS, however, there is a need to use command line tools to create the files.
The files can be mounted from disk manager in Vista/7 etc.
One cool feeature that is not well known is that on Windows 7, you can boot from VHDs. This require Win7 as both installed on the disk (requires the bootloader from Win7) and only Win7 is supported in the VHD. May work with Win2008 R2 as well, but I have not checked.
>Given the focus on searching in Windows Vista and 7 I can't fathom why they haven't done this yet.
That was the single most constructive comment in this entire discussion (of which I have only read a little, but I extrapolate...)
The single most useful feature in Vista/7 is the start menu search. Menu/function search in Office would be brilliant! I want it. NOW!!!
>these are trivial operations we all have been doing for decades
Actually, no. My kids have not even lived for decades.
Improving GUI is not about making it simpler for BOFs like me and you. It is more about making it simpler for those who are not comfortable pulling down every menu to find the correct entry.
And by the way: I actually like the ribbon...
>What was surprising, was that nearly all of my classmates used MS Office, and yet they couldn't access Microsoft's OWN formats!
Well, they could if they installed the plugin that Microsoft provided for all Office versions back to Office 2000... Maybe it was not only the teachers that "had absolutely no idea what they were doing"...
Actually the guy managing Hyper-V development has said something similar.
Then on the other hand: Maybe adding virtualization in the end is simpler and requires less resources than doing it "properly" in the OS? The OS has different layers, so this is another layer. No big deal...
(And finally, to be a little difficult on a friday night:) What is "proper" by the way? Is there any god-given way to create an OS?
Parallels are working on it. I have seen claims (from the people in our company who sell both Linux and Windows software with heavy graphics) that it works. The graphic chipmakers are working on virtualization friendly graphics chips. They will come, but probably bit in the mainstream PC chips for a number of years, more likely in the high end.
While they are running?
For some reason, when I need to edit a sound file, I always have to dig out Cool Edit 2000 to get it done.
I have tried a few sound editors over the years (amongst them a few versions of Audacity), but none really match it.
Too bad it was taken off the market.
I have bookmarked Wavosaur as the next one to be tried. Could be the one...
You really do not have a clue what it takes to start an exploration company, do you?
Besides, the companies are publicly traded, which mean over (a pretty short) time they will not have the same owners anymore. Do you think the owners of the upstream company feel a need to give away money?
>We could probably run our vehicles on water soon
No. That will actually never happen, but if you really think so, I am a Nigerian princess that need your help to get a large sum of money out of Nigeria
>and the electric car is already in action SO then end of oil is near overall
Let me reveal a secret to you: Oil is used for a lot of better things than energy for your car.
It splits the responsibility of drilling away from the DOWNSTREAM part of the company.
But it is the UPSTREAM part of the company that is the big profit center, so at best what they are doing is removing liability from the least profitable part of the company.
Which mean the liability stays where the big money is.
The only reason you do not get fixed IPs is the lack of IP space. It is a lot simpler for the ISPs to assign fixed IPs out of a huge address space than to mess with private IP spaces as they do now.
Actually, if you read the linked Apple document, that would be OK by Apple.
Who is Ryan Giggs?
Like Dell?
I work in a global team, and as we are a global organization (in places you did not know existed...) some teams must be global to ensure interests from all regions are covered. This is not for coding, but for other stuff. In my case it is IT support related.
Is it worth it? Is it worth running a global enterprise? The stockholders say yes, and I guess that is the final answer!
Then they have to be extremely lucky. All mail servers my emails went through around that time are long gone (replaced with completely new systems twice, actually). And I would highly doubt that any university keep email logs for 6-7 years... even less keep copies of the emails.
So maybe this is a case for Mythbusters?
>I was too, and I was using Apple IIs, my c64, PCs, and VMS simultaneously while still in grade school. When I sat in front of say -- an 8-bit Atari or a Mac it wasn't a foreign experience because certain fundamental things always remained true.
So you were a geek. Precisely my point.
So there were non geeks on IRC? Big deal. Now all the non-geeks are on Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, MSN, twitter and they now upload pictures to one of the gazillion picture sharing sites and do music and movie sharing and edit and upload movie clips to Youtube... and even my 11 year old can use Google. And your point was again?
One: Governments get access to the source code of proprietary software if they ask for it and sign the proper NDAs.
Two: Governments are big buyers. Software vendors listen to big buyers.
Three : Ideology: Government transparency has nothing to do with software architecture. It has to do with the way they execute their politics.
Four: The above does not say they should NOT use open source.
Most of us prefer the government to govern, rather than wasting time and resources on software design.
If that were to be, it would be the first bug free printer driver on the planet.
So what would you expect? "We are now six year into moving our infrastructure to open source, but we are not really certain about the end result"? Yeah... that would go down really well...
Until you have audited numbers for the change to OSS and the return to Windows (which will never happen), all this article provide is some entertainment and another trigger for a flamewar between the incompetent and the uninformed (both categories will be represented on both sides, and being in one category does not prevent being in the other).
Bring the popcorn.
Actually, only geeks felt at home on any OS in the 1980s. I know. I was there.
The problem with calling them a troll is that IBM actually carry out a significant amount of research, and also create products based on their research. IBM is behind real research that have created significant parts of what has made the IT industry successfull (like hard disks).
The fact that you will have to license patents from them is a just because they have made actual inventions, not because they have patented a lot of silly ideas, as many of the companies that caused the term to be creatred have done.
Look up the definition of a patent troll, and you will see that IBM does not fit the definition. And no, I do not have any relation to IBM.
Please explain: Precisely how are IBM a big patent troll?