CloudStack is open source, owned by the ASF, and you can totally host it yourself and make any changes you need.
Citrix has their Citrix CloudPlatform product based on the Apache CloudStack (ACS) source code, IBM might have their own product based on ACS (or SoftLayer), but at the end of the day, neither IBM's product or Citrix's product is ACS as neither company owns or controls the Apache Foundation.
It's quite easy to get Apache CloudStack up and running. There are a few Docker containers for the ACS management server as well as Ansible Playbooks and Chef Cookbooks to deploy it for you, but the manual installation process can realistically be completed in less than an hour (provided a local mirror for things like System VM templates and the RPM/DEB packages).
There is ALWAYS a difference between test and production. No matter how many test cases and iterations of changes that you go through, there is always a non-zero percent chance that the change in production will behave differently. This is why most companies require fall-back procedures for any production change in addition to testing. It sounds like it may have taken them longer than some might be comfortable to reach the point where they did roll back changes...but I'm sure that this change tested as okay in all of their test cases.
"The Cloud" has always been nothing more than marketing buzz. All "The Cloud" is are physical servers running a hypervisor and running your machine instances as VMs. There's still people, switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and storage that are used to build "The Cloud."
This belief that doing things in "The Cloud" makes them impervious to hardware failure, power outage, network connection drops, etc. has always been misinformed.
Use FreeBSD. Jails may not be quite to the functionality of Zones, but it's better than what Linux has got...and ZFS v.15 (and v. 25 IIRC in 9.0 when it goes -CURRENT) is better than no ZFS at all.
My company used a X4500 and we discovered the bug that caused Sun to make the X4540 - the Marvell SATA chipset in the X4500 had a serious bug in firmware that was exacerbated by the Solaris X86 Marvell chipset driver. Under heavy small block random IO intermingled with heavy sequential large block IO, the box would kernel panic and hang - only a power cycle would reset the box.
Sun ended up refunding us the cost of the servers and providing us exceptionally large incentives to purchase Sun StorageTek storage.
It wouldn't surprise me if the X4540 would have similar issues because they were rushing to replace the X4500 to try and minimize the possibility about bad PR over the X4500 being amazingly unstable.
This is why I'll be waiting for FreeBSD to support this because they will probably have better SATA chipset drivers and the chances of the system hanging because the Solaris kernel drivers for the SATA chipset (nevermind that it's a SATA chipset that Sun put into their own board).
Who's to say you can't buy, play, and enjoy both? To me, Eternal Sonata is a bit more appealing because I am enamored with Tales-style Action RPGs...which Sonata brings quite effectually to the table....but that doesn't mean that I'm not picking up Blue Dragon.
Of confirm it by looking at sites browser stats. This one shows Mac userbase doubling in 3 years.
Because it's so hard to go from 12 users to 24...over 3 years...
As I've owned a Zaurus 5500, Tungsten T3, and currently own a HP iPAQ 4155, I definately have to give the "coolness," "gadget," and "power" to the iPAQ hands down.
User replaceable battery (one of the issues with the Tungsten), 400 MHz XScale processor (whole lot more powerful than the 5500), integrated Bluetooth (more than the Zaurus has) and WiFi (more than the T3 has) and with a couple of third-party apps to "fix" the annoying things about the Pocket PC operating system I'm most definately in love with this iPAQ...
I'm sorry, the handwriting recognition on the Zaurus sucks (Decuma OnSpot for PocketPC, OTOH is able to decypher my hardly intelligable chicken-scratch) and my fingers are fat enough that trying to use the thumb keyboard is annoying at best. WiFi, while not essential in a PDA, is damn nice (access to the fileshares on the Windows network at work while doing things where a laptop isn't readily accessable but I'm in WiFi range is schweet) and gives me the ability to use Pocket Putty to ssh into my fileserver at home while sitting on the couch.
The Zaurus has a cool "geek" factor, but really, I got tired of the shitty quality of the PIM apps and fighting with the device to try and get it to sync got old after about 3 weeks.
I just bought CoH yesterday to give it a shot with the new WineX and it runs like a champ. Supposedly there's some manner of cursor-related bug, but the only such bug I encountered was when I was switching between CoH and the console...and the cursor turned into this blurry mess of pixels, but moving the mouse over a target to have the cursor repaint as a different color fixed this issue.
I don't know......in the small town of Nezbit, Mississippi, there's a store named "Grapes of Wrath Liquor and Ammunition"......and sure as hell, they sell nothing but booze and ammo...
I don't know what kind of cracked out webcam you're using...but the "hotplug" package in my SuSE setup on my laptop and my Gentoo setup on my desktop auto-detect every device I've plugged into them thus far and load appropriate drivers. Hell, hotplug has even IDed and installed device drivers for hardware that I never would've known which driver to load (like the IR port on my laptop).
I have read them. IANAL however I have friends who are...and have been educated in the ways of legalese...
These bills are written exceedingly ambiguously and could be applied to almost any manner of data communicaitons... There are several key points (and subpoints of more restrictive points) which if read in the state of mind they are attempting to address, are rather fair and intellegent... However, if you read these points with an open interpretation of what these laws are being applied to, they are ambiguous enough to potentially be applied to encryption, port forwarding, and many other privacy and security related means of data transmission......and all it will take is one lawyer to interpret these laws in the general mindset as opposed to the assumed mindset for these to be abused...
Well yeah...when the legislators and lobbyists discover that their new "whiz-bang cure-all" law to force everyone into being nice, hugging puppies, and playing within the boundaries of the law fucks over those individuals who make their lives comfortable...I'm pretty sure they'll stop and think about it for a second. "Wait...you mean that any Timmy out there can see me surfing preteenethiopianasseating.com from work? Why can't I hide that shit?!...wait...you mean we can if this silly law doesn't pass? Okay..."
Just make sure your local legislators know how much they're screwing over the IT world by trying to do this...
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CloudStack is open source, owned by the ASF, and you can totally host it yourself and make any changes you need.
Citrix has their Citrix CloudPlatform product based on the Apache CloudStack (ACS) source code, IBM might have their own product based on ACS (or SoftLayer), but at the end of the day, neither IBM's product or Citrix's product is ACS as neither company owns or controls the Apache Foundation.
It's quite easy to get Apache CloudStack up and running. There are a few Docker containers for the ACS management server as well as Ansible Playbooks and Chef Cookbooks to deploy it for you, but the manual installation process can realistically be completed in less than an hour (provided a local mirror for things like System VM templates and the RPM/DEB packages).
Add me to the list of low-ish UIDs saying thank you for creating what was once the absolute center of my Internet experience.
Over the years, /. has kept me informed, entertained, aware, and enlightened. While it hasn't always been the smoothest of sailing, I keep coming back.
Thank you, Rob. Thank you so very, very much.
Have you ever worked in a real environment?
There is ALWAYS a difference between test and production. No matter how many test cases and iterations of changes that you go through, there is always a non-zero percent chance that the change in production will behave differently.
This is why most companies require fall-back procedures for any production change in addition to testing.
It sounds like it may have taken them longer than some might be comfortable to reach the point where they did roll back changes...but I'm sure that this change tested as okay in all of their test cases.
"The Cloud" has always been nothing more than marketing buzz. All "The Cloud" is are physical servers running a hypervisor and running your machine instances as VMs.
There's still people, switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and storage that are used to build "The Cloud."
This belief that doing things in "The Cloud" makes them impervious to hardware failure, power outage, network connection drops, etc. has always been misinformed.
Use FreeBSD. Jails may not be quite to the functionality of Zones, but it's better than what Linux has got...and ZFS v.15 (and v. 25 IIRC in 9.0 when it goes -CURRENT) is better than no ZFS at all.
It's free and works well.
On Windows Vista/7, you can use the Clipper Tool to do a grab of a window with a menu dropped down.
My company used a X4500 and we discovered the bug that caused Sun to make the X4540 - the Marvell SATA chipset in the X4500 had a serious bug in firmware that was exacerbated by the Solaris X86 Marvell chipset driver.
Under heavy small block random IO intermingled with heavy sequential large block IO, the box would kernel panic and hang - only a power cycle would reset the box.
Sun ended up refunding us the cost of the servers and providing us exceptionally large incentives to purchase Sun StorageTek storage.
It wouldn't surprise me if the X4540 would have similar issues because they were rushing to replace the X4500 to try and minimize the possibility about bad PR over the X4500 being amazingly unstable.
This is why I'll be waiting for FreeBSD to support this because they will probably have better SATA chipset drivers and the chances of the system hanging because the Solaris kernel drivers for the SATA chipset (nevermind that it's a SATA chipset that Sun put into their own board).
Gladly.
Just get Moko to ship a product and I'm waiting, cash in hand, for one.
The Creative Zen Stone or Zen V.
Good UI. Similar, if not smaller form factor. Same, if not more, space. Less price.
Anyone who has ever worked retail during the American Holiday Season would be more than willing to use war-analogies towards retail.
Who's to say you can't buy, play, and enjoy both? ...but that doesn't mean that I'm not picking up Blue Dragon.
To me, Eternal Sonata is a bit more appealing because I am enamored with Tales-style Action RPGs...which Sonata brings quite effectually to the table.
Of confirm it by looking at sites browser stats. This one shows Mac userbase doubling in 3 years.
Because it's so hard to go from 12 users to 24...over 3 years...
As I've owned a Zaurus 5500, Tungsten T3, and currently own a HP iPAQ 4155, I definately have to give the "coolness," "gadget," and "power" to the iPAQ hands down.
User replaceable battery (one of the issues with the Tungsten), 400 MHz XScale processor (whole lot more powerful than the 5500), integrated Bluetooth (more than the Zaurus has) and WiFi (more than the T3 has) and with a couple of third-party apps to "fix" the annoying things about the Pocket PC operating system I'm most definately in love with this iPAQ...
I'm sorry, the handwriting recognition on the Zaurus sucks (Decuma OnSpot for PocketPC, OTOH is able to decypher my hardly intelligable chicken-scratch) and my fingers are fat enough that trying to use the thumb keyboard is annoying at best. WiFi, while not essential in a PDA, is damn nice (access to the fileshares on the Windows network at work while doing things where a laptop isn't readily accessable but I'm in WiFi range is schweet) and gives me the ability to use Pocket Putty to ssh into my fileserver at home while sitting on the couch.
The Zaurus has a cool "geek" factor, but really, I got tired of the shitty quality of the PIM apps and fighting with the device to try and get it to sync got old after about 3 weeks.
I just bought CoH yesterday to give it a shot with the new WineX and it runs like a champ.
Supposedly there's some manner of cursor-related bug, but the only such bug I encountered was when I was switching between CoH and the console...and the cursor turned into this blurry mess of pixels, but moving the mouse over a target to have the cursor repaint as a different color fixed this issue.
I don't know... ...in the small town of Nezbit, Mississippi, there's a store named "Grapes of Wrath Liquor and Ammunition"... ...and sure as hell, they sell nothing but booze and ammo...
I don't know what kind of cracked out webcam you're using...but the "hotplug" package in my SuSE setup on my laptop and my Gentoo setup on my desktop auto-detect every device I've plugged into them thus far and load appropriate drivers.
Hell, hotplug has even IDed and installed device drivers for hardware that I never would've known which driver to load (like the IR port on my laptop).
I have read them.
...and all it will take is one lawyer to interpret these laws in the general mindset as opposed to the assumed mindset for these to be abused...
IANAL however I have friends who are...and have been educated in the ways of legalese...
These bills are written exceedingly ambiguously and could be applied to almost any manner of data communicaitons...
There are several key points (and subpoints of more restrictive points) which if read in the state of mind they are attempting to address, are rather fair and intellegent...
However, if you read these points with an open interpretation of what these laws are being applied to, they are ambiguous enough to potentially be applied to encryption, port forwarding, and many other privacy and security related means of data transmission...
Well yeah...when the legislators and lobbyists discover that their new "whiz-bang cure-all" law to force everyone into being nice, hugging puppies, and playing within the boundaries of the law fucks over those individuals who make their lives comfortable...I'm pretty sure they'll stop and think about it for a second. ...wait...you mean we can if this silly law doesn't pass? Okay..."
"Wait...you mean that any Timmy out there can see me surfing preteenethiopianasseating.com from work? Why can't I hide that shit?!
Just make sure your local legislators know how much they're screwing over the IT world by trying to do this...
Individuals within Cyan have confirmed that at launch there will be at least a PC and Mac client.
Go Taco!
Taco, taco, taco!
...must obey the Taco man...
heheh...
Here's a pic from Yahoo! even...