Dell is a Texas company and Texas is a 1 party state. Only 1 party has to know the conversation is being recorded and do not require you tell the other party. Though they always DO tell you by saying "this call may be recorded for monitoring or training purposes" I nearly ALWAYS tell the person when I call tech support the exact same thing. It's amazing how I always seem to get a more attentive CSR that way. I rarely DO record them but then I do say "may be" recorded:)
If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Alex and Dom, based on the Raspbian optimised version of Debian, and containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.
In a few words, I like it. I actually like it a lot. I don't own a tablet or laptop, just a bunch of desktops, and I like it. Do I care for Modern UI or whatever metro is called now? No, not really. I paid the 5 bucks and bought Start8 so I don't even have to know it's even there. [yes I KNOW there are free alternatives, but free to me doesn't always equate to better]. I got used to the "no glass" aero and actually prefer it now. I find it faster and even more stable than 7 [though 7 is rock solid too so it's kind of hard to quantify that last part].
Thing is I have not been a "start menu" user for a long time. I have 3 big monitors and have always just pinned icons to my desktop of most things I use and it never clutters up my primary screen.
I also noticed something, Back when I beta tested NT4, when the beta was over I stayed running 4. When beta testing 2000 and it finished I stayed in 2000. When beta testing XP and it was over I went back to 2000. When beta testing Vista and it was over I went back to XP. When beta testing 7 and it was over I stayed in 7 and with this BS public beta testing in 8 I actually stayed in 8. So many of these self entitled cry babies killed MS beta testing. "WHERE'S MY FREE COPY BOO HOO". Anyways
8 is not a bad OS at all, and unlike Vista does not deserve the bad rap everyone is giving it. If you don't like Modern, then don't use it, it's that simple. Plenty of other good things TO like about it,
That's funny. When I repeatedly pointed this fact out on slashdot, without fail, it was moderated down. Slashdot has some serious hatred for truth when it comes to the Pi. The Pi is going to cost you ~$75-$100 to get up and running. For the money, you can get superior hardware. The catch is getting software to drive that hardware. For now, because of software complications, the Pi remains attractive. But that time is quickly coming to an end. Soon you'll have much faster hardware much more memory (1-2G), built in SATA (with port), HDMI, actual ethernet (vs ethernet on USB), WIFI, a case, power supply, and in many cases, an IR remote, with well supported software, for roughly $55-$75; delivered. Meaning more and faster hardware for less. Hell, some of the newer hardware even comes with gpio, SPI, and I2C.
I expect within another couple of months, there will be far superior solutions for less money available. Until such time, the Pi will likely remain attractive. Having said that, I've never really understood which segment the A-model will address.
yah this is the 1st post I have ever been modded down for. Lol kind of funny. I wasn't really even bashing it, just stating some facts. Yes there are "cheaper" parts I could have bought, such as a cheaper, less powerful wall wart. A cheaper and slower sdcard. A cheaper and shorter usb cable. But I wanted to give my little RPI the best I could. I did say it was cool a number of times in the post, but people see one negative word about the PI and it's downmod central. Sheesh
I got my model b last week and it's been pretty fun so far. But one thing that kinda sucks about it is its speed. Even overclocked to 1Ghz it's pretty painful to do anything on. Not to mention it wasn't 35 dollars to get it up and running. I wrote this a few days ago for another site but it is pretty relevant here too.
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How a $35 computer cost me $90 bucks..
So a long time ago I signed up to order one of these cool little Raspberry PI $35 dollar card sized computers. After a month or 2 I finally was able to order it. After a. week or two I finally was able to hold it. After a day or two I finally was able to actually use it..
I’ll explain. It’s JUST the little pc, nothing else.
SO I had to buy the following:
1x 1k 5v USB wall wart. $20 bucks.
1x 16 Gig Class 10 SD Card $20 bucks.
1x Micro USB to USB Cable $10 bucks.
Factor in the cost of the PC with shipping $43.79 + $20 + $20 + $10 and now that $35 dollar computer is actually almost $94 bucks..
That said, it’s actually kinda cool. Not as powerful as one might like but cool none the less..
As a test I set it up running the debian installer [this took about 6 hours], setup to compile XBMC [this took about 2.5 hours] and went about compiling it..
On my main rig the compile takes all of about 8 minutes [after a make clean], on the RPI it took over 12 hours. 12 HOURS to do what my main rig can do in 8 minutes!.
Now I understand it's "only" a 35 dollar PC so one cannot expect a whole lot out of it, but in reality it's NOT a 35 dollar pc. It's a 90 dollar phone guts without the phone parts.
An Engine does not a good game make. The engine is great, what is being done WITH the engine is what I'm talking about. Roberts did Wing Commander 22 years ago and was AWESOME, then came WC2 and it was no longer his baby and instead he made Strike Commander which was pretty meh in 93 [19 years ago] WC3 and 4 [as well as privateer] were decent games if you don't put too much into the "Acting" that went into the cut scenes. Roberts wanted to do movies, but it SUCKED and now is back trying to make a couple games. I would like to think they are going to be good, but the track record doesn't bode well. 20 years of meh doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence that either of these 2 are going to be worth my 100 bucks.
I pretty much doubt this will even be CLOSE to a triple A title. Starlancer was no Wing Commander. And even though much of the problem with that game was Microsoft buying it and rushing it out the door. Though if they hadn't it would have been a case like 38 Studios, where the game never gets finished, and the devs go tits up.
"The One Laptop Per Child project has disappointed in Peru" I don't know why but that just sounds weird to me. Maybe "The One Laptop Per Child project has been a disappointment in Peru" or something, I don't know, but the way it's written just makes me want to cringe.
it's RELIABILITY issues they need to fix first. I just sent my first SSD back for RMA after only 7 months usage. An OCZ Vertex 3 MI and it was junk from day one. But just started tossing smart errors like mad. Bought a Vertex3 non MI and it's been rock solid, now I just have to wait for the other one to get back so I can re-raid them and then be happy. Another thing that sucks about SSD's are write speeds. They go from awesome on a bare drive to crap once the drive starts filling up.
When I get the MI and benched it, it shows the proper 500+MB/s read/writes. When I sent it back it was showing 450+ Read and 200+ writes:( And I could feel it.
This one is showing 500+ reads and about 350 writes alone wich isn't bad. When I raided the two before sending it back, I was getting about 1000+ reads and 350+ writes. The reads are pretty phenomenal but the writes are pretty meh. Hopefully when I get the replacement drive back next week [or the next:(] I'll see awesome writes again. I asked them to send me back a non-mi drive in return and they agreeed. This way I have 2 matching drives with matching firmare and matching everything:) But if last weeks test is anything to go by. I am REALLY looking forward to getting this drive back:)
didn't start out that way:( And it wasn't actually raid0, it was more like I built my media center with a 1TB drive, everything went high-def, needed more space to store my tv shows and stuff so I kept adding another 2 TB as dynamic drives to the pool until I added the last drive and started to worry. I really DID want to back it up and redo it but I didn't have enough space on the rest of my network to backup everything [not many people have a spare 6TB just laying there:(] And then this goddamn flood drove the 2TB drives to over 300 bucks each and I was like, I'll wait until they come back down, and well... poof its gone.
My real big loss is about 25 virtual machines which I can not get back, the other stuff I can re-rip or whatever. But the hours lost alone suck, I really wish I had not posted but it just was like you have got to be kidding me, I'm reading about hard drives and poof a 2TB drive dies on me that same very instant [could have been 6 minutes earlier as that is what I have my system watcher poll] but now its there and there is nothing I can do about it. Worse than drunk texting I would think,
then you are the luckiest person alive. I have used seagates since there WAS seagates and over the last 5 or 6 years they have gone to shit.
It's easy to say I have never had a drive fail when you only have one or two drives, but I have 10 computers most with 4 drives each, some with up to 10 drives.
yes it was my fault for putting anything important on a raid0. and as I look most of what I had there is replaceable. I do keep my REALLY important stuff spread out over a few raid5's and I DO backup my just cant live without crap.
Out of the last 100 or so hard drives I have bought and or sold in the last couple of years I'd have to say at LEAST 20% of the seagates have died or are showing issues, [yes all under warranty and i happen to live 10 miles from seagate's RMA center in McAllen, sp at least no shipping] about 5% of the western digitals and not one of the 5 hitachi's I have have failed. Though I still am weary of the Deathstar name. I have some seagates that are 7 years old [if not older] and work perfectly. But lately seagates BLOW. about 6 months ago I built a 6 disk raid6 with dual hotspares using 120Gig seagates and 2 have already dropped off the raid. have another raid6 using the same setup but is over a year old and 3 of those drives have dropped. I have another with 8 1TB WD 5200rpm and none of them have even hickupped using 3ware 9650SE controllers, I double and sometimes triple backup all my clients stuff, but it never becomes an issue to me unless poof it's gone.
I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if I can order a paddle board and see if I can get the drive to last long enough to move stuff off, but I double whammied myself this time. I didn't hardware raid, I made them dynamic disks and just kept adding them as I got them.
Right now I am about 55% seagate, 40% WD and 5% other so it is slightly skewed against seagate, but the fact that I have 9 drives sitting on my bench to either RMA or pull magnets and of those ALL are seagate, all different sizes, some pata some sata but all dead says a lot about seagate.
since I can't find a delete I need to appoligize for my outburst. I was in [and still am] in a kind of shock you only feel when you realize you didn't plan ahead and lost almost 6 TB worth of data that I have accumilated over the years, all my programs sources, old websites I have done, all my games, mp3s, movies, dvd/blu-ray rips [that can take an hour + each to rip:(:(:(:(:(:(:(] But where does one backup THAT much data?
Anyway sorry for the outburst, I am sorry if anyone took the time to read my post.
I litterally as I was reading these a Seagate 2TB died on me that was part of a 7TB raid0. it's the 8th fucking seagate I have had die on me in the last 2 years. I have had 1 WD die on me in the same amount of time[out of about 25+ active drives 12ish are seagates and the rest are WD or hitachi]. I will NEVER buy another seagate drive for me or my clients. EVER. I've had enough. The last 3 drives I sent in for RMA came back and 1 was DOA 1 died again within 6 months the other was the same fucking drive I sent in and it was still broken. As soon as I am done bitching here I am going to seagate and cancelling my partner program and I am going to pull the 15 or so seagate drives I still have, wipe them and put them on Ebay. I had 10 years of my life on those drives and NO I did not have backups. I'm just one person who can't afford to buy another 7 goddamn TB just to backup my main 7. Though looking back I just lost FAR more of my life then the 1400 dollars it would have cost me to have a spare backup. Do youselves a favor and NEVER buy a fucking Seagate drive, but if your a glutton for punishment I'll have about 10 drives on ebay this weekend you can pick up cheap.
Over the last year or so with the prices of USB sticks coming down so much and most PC's being able to boot from said sticks I RARELY burn anymore. Iso mounting, Iso Extracting. Or pushing it to a usb is all I pretty much need any more. Not to mention for 4 bucks I can put 3 CD's or pretty much 1 dvd and re-write it over and over and over at a much faster clip then burning. Having a killer network WDS Server doesn't hurt either as I've put every OS that I need to install on my WDS server and now I RARELY need to boot to a usb key anymore either. [still haven't figured out wireless remote boot but hey] It does all my *nix installs and all my windows installs and was worth every penny. I can't imagine NOT having a deployment server. All tech is supplanted eventually by whatever is more convienent and cheaper.
Two great OS's that breath new life into my now ancient but still awesome HTC HD2 or as WP sees it, HD7:) If this thing had a front facing camera I would never want to get rid of it. Gingerbread is getting kinda old now but I find it more "fun" to use than WP7.5 but I find WP7.5 more fun to hack around with and use on a day to day basis. Now if I could just stop it from DESTROYING my battery.
but the cap is 40gigs [20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak]? at those speeds you could use up your whole allotment in like 2 days, and I hate to see what the overages costs.
seriously if you must know the hardware as well as the 0's and 1's on the platters are destroyed all you need is a simple, low tech, say it with me. HAMMER, doesn't even have to be that big. shatter the platters and its no more data
I've been managing ESX environments for over 6 years now and the change makes complete sense to me. VMware based their initial licensing on the number of processor cores in a box. This made sense when we were putting 16, 32 or 64 GBs of ram into a 2 or 4 core box. At max we were seeing 32 GBs of RAM per core and VMware found a price point that worked under this model. With changes in technology (mainly memory virtualization in the Cisco UCS platform) we are now seeing 100s of GBs per core and less total cores due to the expanding number or processors we can fit on a chip.
Simply put, we used to get x number of VMs per core license. Now we are getting 4 to 10 times that many per license. That's a losing equation for any licensing scheme and they needed to make changes.
All of that said I was on the initial bandwagon of outrage when the news came out. The starting point for vRam entitlements as well as some of the other changes were concerning. Realizing that now single VMs could cost thousands just in VM licensing was not appealing and had me second guessing whether or not VMware was the platform of the future. After seeing the recent changes they've made to the licensing scheme (upping vRam entitlements, maxing out vRam counts on individual machines, pooling, and soft limits) I feel the changes are completely reasonable/understandable considering how things have changed for virtualizing systems.
I'm sure many will disagree but I still don't feel like VMware is gouging anybody...
When it costs MORE to virtualize a server due to licensing then it does to build a physical server then that is gouging. VMWare is just shooting themselves in the foot trying to bleed more money. Though greed seems to be the big equalizer. A company gets big, makes a ton of cash, gets really greedy, and then gets wiped out by company B: coming along with a decent product at 1/2 the cost or less.
Personally I have had great luck with VMWare Server which is free.
At one time I had thier "technet" of vmware and it was awesome but of course they dropped that 2 years later. When the bottom line becomes more important than the product it's time to find another vendor. Quickly!
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Dell is a Texas company and Texas is a 1 party state. Only 1 party has to know the conversation is being recorded and do not require you tell the other party. Though they always DO tell you by saying "this call may be recorded for monitoring or training purposes" I nearly ALWAYS tell the person when I call tech support the exact same thing. It's amazing how I always seem to get a more attentive CSR that way. I rarely DO record them but then I do say "may be" recorded :)
I wonder why they picked that name since it is already what the Raspberry PI's version of Debian [Raspbian] is called.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
From the webpage above
Raspbian “wheezy”
If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Alex and Dom, based on the Raspbian optimised version of Debian, and containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.
Works like a charm on my Ipad 3. I've been waiting for this FOREVER....well since I accidentally upgraded to 6.0.1 without backing it up first :(
Thing is I have not been a "start menu" user for a long time. I have 3 big monitors and have always just pinned icons to my desktop of most things I use and it never clutters up my primary screen.
I also noticed something, Back when I beta tested NT4, when the beta was over I stayed running 4. When beta testing 2000 and it finished I stayed in 2000. When beta testing XP and it was over I went back to 2000. When beta testing Vista and it was over I went back to XP. When beta testing 7 and it was over I stayed in 7 and with this BS public beta testing in 8 I actually stayed in 8. So many of these self entitled cry babies killed MS beta testing. "WHERE'S MY FREE COPY BOO HOO". Anyways
8 is not a bad OS at all, and unlike Vista does not deserve the bad rap everyone is giving it. If you don't like Modern, then don't use it, it's that simple. Plenty of other good things TO like about it,
That's funny. When I repeatedly pointed this fact out on slashdot, without fail, it was moderated down. Slashdot has some serious hatred for truth when it comes to the Pi. The Pi is going to cost you ~$75-$100 to get up and running. For the money, you can get superior hardware. The catch is getting software to drive that hardware. For now, because of software complications, the Pi remains attractive. But that time is quickly coming to an end. Soon you'll have much faster hardware much more memory (1-2G), built in SATA (with port), HDMI, actual ethernet (vs ethernet on USB), WIFI, a case, power supply, and in many cases, an IR remote, with well supported software, for roughly $55-$75; delivered. Meaning more and faster hardware for less. Hell, some of the newer hardware even comes with gpio, SPI, and I2C.
I expect within another couple of months, there will be far superior solutions for less money available. Until such time, the Pi will likely remain attractive. Having said that, I've never really understood which segment the A-model will address.
yah this is the 1st post I have ever been modded down for. Lol kind of funny. I wasn't really even bashing it, just stating some facts. Yes there are "cheaper" parts I could have bought, such as a cheaper, less powerful wall wart. A cheaper and slower sdcard. A cheaper and shorter usb cable. But I wanted to give my little RPI the best I could. I did say it was cool a number of times in the post, but people see one negative word about the PI and it's downmod central. Sheesh
How a $35 computer cost me $90 bucks..
So a long time ago I signed up to order one of these cool little Raspberry PI $35 dollar card sized computers. After a month or 2 I finally was able to order it. After a .
week or two I finally was able to hold it. After a day or two I finally was able to actually use it..
I’ll explain. It’s JUST the little pc, nothing else.
SO I had to buy the following:
1x 1k 5v USB wall wart. $20 bucks.
1x 16 Gig Class 10 SD Card $20 bucks.
1x Micro USB to USB Cable $10 bucks.
Factor in the cost of the PC with shipping $43.79 + $20 + $20 + $10 and now that $35 dollar computer is actually almost $94 bucks..
That said, it’s actually kinda cool. Not as powerful as one might like but cool none the less..
As a test I set it up running the debian installer [this took about 6 hours], setup to compile XBMC [this took about 2.5 hours] and went about compiling it..
On my main rig the compile takes all of about 8 minutes [after a make clean], on the RPI it took over 12 hours. 12 HOURS to do what my main rig can do in 8 minutes!.
Now I understand it's "only" a 35 dollar PC so one cannot expect a whole lot out of it, but in reality it's NOT a 35 dollar pc. It's a 90 dollar phone guts without the phone parts.
An Engine does not a good game make. The engine is great, what is being done WITH the engine is what I'm talking about. Roberts did Wing Commander 22 years ago and was AWESOME, then came WC2 and it was no longer his baby and instead he made Strike Commander which was pretty meh in 93 [19 years ago] WC3 and 4 [as well as privateer] were decent games if you don't put too much into the "Acting" that went into the cut scenes. Roberts wanted to do movies, but it SUCKED and now is back trying to make a couple games. I would like to think they are going to be good, but the track record doesn't bode well. 20 years of meh doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence that either of these 2 are going to be worth my 100 bucks.
I pretty much doubt this will even be CLOSE to a triple A title. Starlancer was no Wing Commander. And even though much of the problem with that game was Microsoft buying it and rushing it out the door. Though if they hadn't it would have been a case like 38 Studios, where the game never gets finished, and the devs go tits up.
wonder who they ticked off this time
Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
"The One Laptop Per Child project has disappointed in Peru" I don't know why but that just sounds weird to me. Maybe "The One Laptop Per Child project has been a disappointment in Peru" or something, I don't know, but the way it's written just makes me want to cringe.
it's RELIABILITY issues they need to fix first. I just sent my first SSD back for RMA after only 7 months usage. An OCZ Vertex 3 MI and it was junk from day one. But just started tossing smart errors like mad. Bought a Vertex3 non MI and it's been rock solid, now I just have to wait for the other one to get back so I can re-raid them and then be happy. Another thing that sucks about SSD's are write speeds. They go from awesome on a bare drive to crap once the drive starts filling up. When I get the MI and benched it, it shows the proper 500+MB/s read/writes. When I sent it back it was showing 450+ Read and 200+ writes :( And I could feel it.
This one is showing 500+ reads and about 350 writes alone wich isn't bad. When I raided the two before sending it back, I was getting about 1000+ reads and 350+ writes. The reads are pretty phenomenal but the writes are pretty meh. Hopefully when I get the replacement drive back next week [or the next :(] I'll see awesome writes again. I asked them to send me back a non-mi drive in return and they agreeed. This way I have 2 matching drives with matching firmare and matching everything :) But if last weeks test is anything to go by. I am REALLY looking forward to getting this drive back :)
didn't start out that way :( And it wasn't actually raid0, it was more like I built my media center with a 1TB drive, everything went high-def, needed more space to store my tv shows and stuff so I kept adding another 2 TB as dynamic drives to the pool until I added the last drive and started to worry. I really DID want to back it up and redo it but I didn't have enough space on the rest of my network to backup everything [not many people have a spare 6TB just laying there :(] And then this goddamn flood drove the 2TB drives to over 300 bucks each and I was like, I'll wait until they come back down, and well... poof its gone.
My real big loss is about 25 virtual machines which I can not get back, the other stuff I can re-rip or whatever. But the hours lost alone suck, I really wish I had not posted but it just was like you have got to be kidding me, I'm reading about hard drives and poof a 2TB drive dies on me that same very instant [could have been 6 minutes earlier as that is what I have my system watcher poll] but now its there and there is nothing I can do about it. Worse than drunk texting I would think,
then you are the luckiest person alive. I have used seagates since there WAS seagates and over the last 5 or 6 years they have gone to shit. It's easy to say I have never had a drive fail when you only have one or two drives, but I have 10 computers most with 4 drives each, some with up to 10 drives. yes it was my fault for putting anything important on a raid0. and as I look most of what I had there is replaceable. I do keep my REALLY important stuff spread out over a few raid5's and I DO backup my just cant live without crap. Out of the last 100 or so hard drives I have bought and or sold in the last couple of years I'd have to say at LEAST 20% of the seagates have died or are showing issues, [yes all under warranty and i happen to live 10 miles from seagate's RMA center in McAllen, sp at least no shipping] about 5% of the western digitals and not one of the 5 hitachi's I have have failed. Though I still am weary of the Deathstar name. I have some seagates that are 7 years old [if not older] and work perfectly. But lately seagates BLOW. about 6 months ago I built a 6 disk raid6 with dual hotspares using 120Gig seagates and 2 have already dropped off the raid. have another raid6 using the same setup but is over a year old and 3 of those drives have dropped. I have another with 8 1TB WD 5200rpm and none of them have even hickupped using 3ware 9650SE controllers, I double and sometimes triple backup all my clients stuff, but it never becomes an issue to me unless poof it's gone. I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if I can order a paddle board and see if I can get the drive to last long enough to move stuff off, but I double whammied myself this time. I didn't hardware raid, I made them dynamic disks and just kept adding them as I got them. Right now I am about 55% seagate, 40% WD and 5% other so it is slightly skewed against seagate, but the fact that I have 9 drives sitting on my bench to either RMA or pull magnets and of those ALL are seagate, all different sizes, some pata some sata but all dead says a lot about seagate.
since I can't find a delete I need to appoligize for my outburst. I was in [and still am] in a kind of shock you only feel when you realize you didn't plan ahead and lost almost 6 TB worth of data that I have accumilated over the years, all my programs sources, old websites I have done, all my games, mp3s, movies, dvd/blu-ray rips [that can take an hour + each to rip :(:(:(:(:(:(:(] But where does one backup THAT much data?
Anyway sorry for the outburst, I am sorry if anyone took the time to read my post.
I litterally as I was reading these a Seagate 2TB died on me that was part of a 7TB raid0. it's the 8th fucking seagate I have had die on me in the last 2 years. I have had 1 WD die on me in the same amount of time[out of about 25+ active drives 12ish are seagates and the rest are WD or hitachi]. I will NEVER buy another seagate drive for me or my clients. EVER. I've had enough. The last 3 drives I sent in for RMA came back and 1 was DOA 1 died again within 6 months the other was the same fucking drive I sent in and it was still broken. As soon as I am done bitching here I am going to seagate and cancelling my partner program and I am going to pull the 15 or so seagate drives I still have, wipe them and put them on Ebay. I had 10 years of my life on those drives and NO I did not have backups. I'm just one person who can't afford to buy another 7 goddamn TB just to backup my main 7. Though looking back I just lost FAR more of my life then the 1400 dollars it would have cost me to have a spare backup. Do youselves a favor and NEVER buy a fucking Seagate drive, but if your a glutton for punishment I'll have about 10 drives on ebay this weekend you can pick up cheap.
Over the last year or so with the prices of USB sticks coming down so much and most PC's being able to boot from said sticks I RARELY burn anymore. Iso mounting, Iso Extracting. Or pushing it to a usb is all I pretty much need any more. Not to mention for 4 bucks I can put 3 CD's or pretty much 1 dvd and re-write it over and over and over at a much faster clip then burning. Having a killer network WDS Server doesn't hurt either as I've put every OS that I need to install on my WDS server and now I RARELY need to boot to a usb key anymore either. [still haven't figured out wireless remote boot but hey] It does all my *nix installs and all my windows installs and was worth every penny. I can't imagine NOT having a deployment server. All tech is supplanted eventually by whatever is more convienent and cheaper.
Two great OS's that breath new life into my now ancient but still awesome HTC HD2 or as WP sees it, HD7 :) If this thing had a front facing camera I would never want to get rid of it. Gingerbread is getting kinda old now but I find it more "fun" to use than WP7.5 but I find WP7.5 more fun to hack around with and use on a day to day basis. Now if I could just stop it from DESTROYING my battery.
What strikes me as odd is how much they look like average modern Mexican buildings. And many here in South Texas. wow 3000 years ago.
but the cap is 40gigs [20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak]? at those speeds you could use up your whole allotment in like 2 days, and I hate to see what the overages costs.
seriously if you must know the hardware as well as the 0's and 1's on the platters are destroyed all you need is a simple, low tech, say it with me. HAMMER, doesn't even have to be that big. shatter the platters and its no more data
yes it does you insensitive clod
I've been managing ESX environments for over 6 years now and the change makes complete sense to me. VMware based their initial licensing on the number of processor cores in a box. This made sense when we were putting 16, 32 or 64 GBs of ram into a 2 or 4 core box. At max we were seeing 32 GBs of RAM per core and VMware found a price point that worked under this model. With changes in technology (mainly memory virtualization in the Cisco UCS platform) we are now seeing 100s of GBs per core and less total cores due to the expanding number or processors we can fit on a chip. Simply put, we used to get x number of VMs per core license. Now we are getting 4 to 10 times that many per license. That's a losing equation for any licensing scheme and they needed to make changes. All of that said I was on the initial bandwagon of outrage when the news came out. The starting point for vRam entitlements as well as some of the other changes were concerning. Realizing that now single VMs could cost thousands just in VM licensing was not appealing and had me second guessing whether or not VMware was the platform of the future. After seeing the recent changes they've made to the licensing scheme (upping vRam entitlements, maxing out vRam counts on individual machines, pooling, and soft limits) I feel the changes are completely reasonable/understandable considering how things have changed for virtualizing systems. I'm sure many will disagree but I still don't feel like VMware is gouging anybody...
When it costs MORE to virtualize a server due to licensing then it does to build a physical server then that is gouging. VMWare is just shooting themselves in the foot trying to bleed more money. Though greed seems to be the big equalizer. A company gets big, makes a ton of cash, gets really greedy, and then gets wiped out by company B: coming along with a decent product at 1/2 the cost or less.
Personally I have had great luck with VMWare Server which is free.
At one time I had thier "technet" of vmware and it was awesome but of course they dropped that 2 years later. When the bottom line becomes more important than the product it's time to find another vendor. Quickly!
this needs a +5
Just because they are indi doesn't mean they don't have to do the same stuff as the big guys do to get their stuff noticed, namely, advertise.
Yup it costs money but XBLM is NOT "The Field of Dreams" There is no "if you make it they will come"
You want people to buy your stuff, let them know it's out there TO buy.