"Users of Australia's largest ISP, BigPond, have decided to ditch it. The users posted a terse update on the service's website, citing reasons of low popularity and the existence of better services. BigPond customers were not impressed, given that the ISP is infamous in Australia for its high prices and relatively low monthly quotas of bandwidth (many users are on 10gb or 25gb per month plans) and for canceling a download service, downloads from which did not count towards their monthly limits."
A virtualized development environment is brilliant!
A few years ago we bought a large spec Dell server: PowerEdge 2950 with dual quad-core Xeons At present we have (just) 16Gb of RAM We use 6 750Gb SATA 7200PRM drives in a RAID6 configuration. This server runs VMware ESX 3.5
Today you could get even more powerful CPUs now and load up much more RAM. VMware 4.0 would probably also perform better
Each developer has a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine.
The server is housed in a datacenter in The Netherlands, we access the virtual infra via VPN and RDP (Microsoft's remote deskop protocol).
I'm developing from Sweden, a colleague works in Belgium.
I often don't even realise that I'm working remotely, only when I try to run Google Maps in a browser does it break down...
So don't tell me virtualisation is only for servers not for workstations.
When will those trying to concoct DRM schemes realise that DRM in an open environment is impossible?
You can't give someone something and at the same time not give them something.
You can't stream media to a PC and at the same time restrict what will be done with it (unless they can control all other variables, which they can't as soon as the data leaves the server).
I sometimes wonder if people actually understand technology.
An average person realises that an average car has a top speed of 100mph but an average person views a computer as some magic device that makes everything possible.
The Oracle-Sun alliance has been strained of late; Larry wants to be independent of everyone else, it's not in his style to forge alliances. Oracle's embracing of Linux hasn't helped this alliance either.
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"Users of Australia's largest ISP, BigPond, have decided to ditch it. The users posted a terse update on the service's website, citing reasons of low popularity and the existence of better services. BigPond customers were not impressed, given that the ISP is infamous in Australia for its high prices and relatively low monthly quotas of bandwidth (many users are on 10gb or 25gb per month plans) and for canceling a download service, downloads from which did not count towards their monthly limits."
A virtualized development environment is brilliant!
A few years ago we bought a large spec Dell server:
PowerEdge 2950 with dual quad-core Xeons
At present we have (just) 16Gb of RAM
We use 6 750Gb SATA 7200PRM drives in a RAID6 configuration.
This server runs VMware ESX 3.5
Today you could get even more powerful CPUs now and load up much more RAM. VMware 4.0 would probably also perform better
Each developer has a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine.
The server is housed in a datacenter in The Netherlands, we access the virtual infra via VPN and RDP (Microsoft's remote deskop protocol).
I'm developing from Sweden, a colleague works in Belgium.
I often don't even realise that I'm working remotely, only when I try to run Google Maps in a browser does it break down...
So don't tell me virtualisation is only for servers not for workstations.
When will those trying to concoct DRM schemes realise that DRM in an open environment is impossible?
You can't give someone something and at the same time not give them something.
You can't stream media to a PC and at the same time restrict what will be done with it (unless they can control all other variables, which they can't as soon as the data leaves the server).
I sometimes wonder if people actually understand technology.
An average person realises that an average car has a top speed of 100mph but an average person views a computer as some magic device that makes everything possible.
Who'd want to buy software/solutions from SCO?
The Oracle-Sun alliance has been strained of late; Larry wants to be independent of everyone else, it's not in his style to forge alliances. Oracle's embracing of Linux hasn't helped this alliance either.
http://www.mantisbt.org/
We use this and it works pretty well.
Cheers,
Colin
Sounds like a comment someone else made once.
What colour was it?
Does Sun see itself as a Software company or Hardware company?