Since I deal mainly with Linux servers (Red Hat) VMware has been more and more of a headache for me because of this dependence on Windows. Plus having our VMware stuff locked down also causes headaches. But I need test Linux VMs. Lately I'm using kvm A LOT and I really love it. It completely rocks.
I just went through something similar. For me it was back surgery. Hospital sent letter saying it cost 27K. I got billed about 2K. No way I could have come up with 27K. It totally sucks. So grateful I have insurance. (For now)
My ex GF was kicked off medicaid because her son turned 18 or 19.(Can't remember exactly which) About 3 months into dating her. She is still now trying to get on SSI, which will automatically get her back on medicaid, because she says she can't work ever again. But for now she is employed under the table sometimes and in and out of mental institutions. So she just goes to the emergency room a lot and throws away the bills. Her teeth are rotting out. No insurance. Its sad that the state won't help her (N.C) but I also wasn't going to stick around for her decent into crazyness. I gave this woman thousands of dollars paying her rent and buying her food. In return she attacked me one day and lost out on my support system after that. Her Mom does help her some with work. I only dated this woman for like a year. Its not like we were married or something... When I first met her she had a job / seemed normal. But then she got fired. I guess shes been having mental problems long before I met her. Through all this the state pays for therapy and meds for her Psychiatric care. To you know, keep her out of the underfunded mental hospitals. But not for like, say cancer or an infection in her mouth. Um.. Why? In some states like North Carolina you are fucked if you need the safety net though... I think shes been denied 3 times for SSI. I NEVER knew it was this bad...
I've recently started using KVM as a desktop virtualization solution. On CentOS 5.5 and RHEL 6.0 Its pretty damn awesome imho. You can use virt-v2v to convert older VMs to newer VMs. Also can convert VMware VMs though I have not done that. I am using KVM to lean more about different Linux distros besides Red Hat. I have 4 VM's always running on my desktop at work (RHEL 6) as test boxes and I don't notice that much of a slowdown. I give a huge thumbs up to KVM. I have to use VMware at work but KVM is a better Linux solution for me. No rdesktop to a stupid windows box to run viclient for 1 example.
Sometimes I have had to change network from virtio to E1000 for some Linux flavors to get network to work but in general it just "works." I never got into Xen though. I gather the commands are similar. (virsh start domainname, virt-manager, etc.)
I just started using nx technology (freenx, nx, and the No Machine client) about a year ago and I absolutely depend on it. I find it better to remote into a Linux box to work rather than use rdesktop to a windows session. And then have to use xwin32 + putty with some windows crap which is just a shitty experience... I am using an EVDO modem (like from a cell phone company) and either rdesktop or NX are the only things that are fast enough to be usable for GUI type apps with my network connection from my personal experience. NX seems quite a bit faster then even rdesktop to windows... I am sad they are closing the source. Hopefully the freenx stuff will continue to work for a few years.
And for the people who say "Just use a browser, dumbass!" I'd love to do that or just use CLI type apps via ssh but sometimes it isn't an option. Sometimes the customer wants their backup and you are on the road or home sick and you have to launch some X windows app to do that because the company you work for bought a proprietary app to do that with and you have to use the X Windows GUI... and it has to be launched on some specific fileserver. I admit these kind of things are rare but the NX stuff is just awesome for that kind of situation.
I use OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 on CentOS 5. It does take a bit of time to launch the first time you run it in a session, like 10-15 seconds. But running it again it only takes 3-4 seconds to start. Sometimes less. The startup time doesn't bother me. My dad can view weird PP slides everyone emails him in O.O. 3.1.1 on a similar CentOS 5 system I set up for him.
O.O. is way more word processor and spreadsheet than I will ever need. All my personal word processing / spreadsheet documents are stored in od* files. I add that version (3.1.1) to several RHEL 5 Linux labs at N.C.S.U. university and a LOT of students run it every day. Maybe it runs like crap on Windows which is why so many people are dissing it on this site? Or maybe people remember older versions? Or people "HAVE" to have it load instantly? I admit I don't use Office or Windows so I am biased in that respect. Still, I think Microsoft should be worried about the younger future customers. And the price was awesome. If Oracle wants to make money off of it I guess they should charge for support of some kind like Sun tried to do.
I'd like to see (As an American) the U.S.A. + E.S.A. + Russia work together to return to the moon. I also agree that NASA could open source certain aspects of it. It doesn't have to be communism. All these countries have free market economies. Perhaps even the Chinese could jump on that.
Red Hat supports KDE just fine. Its just not the default desktop environment on Red Hat. You can make it the default environment for your session on a Red Hat system if you prefer KDE over GNOME... (If the packages have been installed)
I prefer "yum" to that brain damaged Red Hat "up2date" crap. "apt" is pretty cool also but I mostly deal with red hat systems since thats what I'm paid to do in the daytime.
> How can you use Yahoo Messenger on Linux? (I'm dual-booting for gaming purposes, but yahoo messenger is > one of the few internet functions I use windows for).
You can also use "gaim" to connect to yahoo. I recently set up gaim on Linux to do that to chat with someone who only uses the yahoo client. In gaim go into
Tools menu -> Accounts
then "add" and under the protocol tab select "Yahoo" and fill out all the stuff you need to.
Americans have no free speech rights. The U.S. supreme court already said we can't have "bong hits 4 jesus" posters out even when displayed by a student in a public space who wasn't at a school sponsored event. After all, the poster was troubling to Justice Roberts. This person shouldn't assume he has freedom of speech either anywhere within the U.S. of A.
The U.S. Supreme court has a majority of retards but thats the system we unfortunately live under.
But Intel is dumping their product below cost. At least thats what Mr. Negroponte claimed on 60 minutes last night at some speech he gave at MIT. Surely the windows licenses have to add into the cost of the ClassmatePC ? Right? If ClassmatePC is running windows I don't see how it can't be dumping unless Intel gets every copy of Windows for like a dollar or two.
I had a C64. I don't really pine for it. Well, maybe a little bit.:)
I can still fire up some of the old games on the C64 emulator. (On my Lenovo fedora laptop)
You could do 80 colums on a stock C64 with a monitor. There was a program you loaded that converted the display to 80. I used it all the time. I also had a C= 1200 bps modem software that had an 80 column mode.
Where can I but a *brand new* scanner (CDW, for example) and have it work? I've checked the xsane site and most of those are no longer sold or hard to find online. This is for a lab full of RHEL 4 boxes, BTW. Soon to be RHEL 5.
I need a new scanner so that I can put one in a lab full of Linux computers for students to use. So it should be a good one. Not a combo job. Just a scanner.
Actually thats the one thing I really hate about Gnome. The first time you go to access the menus it takes forever to draw. But just the first time in a session. After that it draws pretty quickly. Gnome and Windows need to make it work better it seems.
I know this thread is about virtualization, not emulation, but...
Does anyone else remember running MacOS (classic) under shapeshifter or Amax on AmigaOS? I seem to recall Apple being pretty pissed about that also. Tried to dry up ROMS or something IIRC. (Its been a long time so I don't recall all the details)
What if you need to run crappy Windows license servers with dongles and the company that makes said software doesn't provide a Linux version? We've got several of those right now and we are trying to virtualize them. It seems like M$ is trying to make people like us pay more money if we want to run a virtual M$ license server and move it to another machine. For those license servers that run on Unix, we already run them there. But there are some companies that don't do any software on Unix/Linux.
I don't speed. In fact I often drive a bit below the speed limit on highways to save GAS.:)
Most highyway patrol I see go whooshing past me pretty damn fast on the highway. Maybe its because they can. Maybe its because they are in an emergency and can't have their lights / sirens on. I really don't know which it is but they should follow the same rules as all of us if they aren't responding to something or chasing someone.
I remember browsing the web on my old Amiga. I used to use the voyager browser. It used to crash when the chip ram would get used up. The more pictures a web page had on it the more likely you would see that software failure alert.
I still miss some things about the Amiga but I've moved on the fabulous world of Linux. Still its interesting some people are still hacking on those things!
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Since I deal mainly with Linux servers (Red Hat) VMware has been more and more of a headache for me because of this dependence on Windows. Plus having our VMware stuff locked down also causes headaches. But I need test Linux VMs. Lately I'm using kvm A LOT and I really love it. It completely rocks.
Something similar can be found in both VMware (vmxnet 2/3 adapter) and KVM (virtio paravirtualized adapters).
I just went through something similar. For me it was back surgery. Hospital sent letter saying it cost 27K. I got billed about 2K. No way I could have come up with 27K. It totally sucks. So grateful I have insurance. (For now)
Here is something scary I experienced...
My ex GF was kicked off medicaid because her son turned 18 or 19.(Can't remember exactly which) About 3 months into dating her. She is still now trying to get on SSI, which will automatically get her back on medicaid, because she says she can't work ever again. But for now she is employed under the table sometimes and in and out of mental institutions. So she just goes to the emergency room a lot and throws away the bills. Her teeth are rotting out. No insurance. Its sad that the state won't help her (N.C) but I also wasn't going to stick around for her decent into crazyness. I gave this woman thousands of dollars paying her rent and buying her food. In return she attacked me one day and lost out on my support system after that. Her Mom does help her some with work. I only dated this woman for like a year. Its not like we were married or something... When I first met her she had a job / seemed normal. But then she got fired. I guess shes been having mental problems long before I met her. Through all this the state pays for therapy and meds for her Psychiatric care. To you know, keep her out of the underfunded mental hospitals. But not for like, say cancer or an infection in her mouth. Um.. Why? In some states like North Carolina you are fucked if you need the safety net though... I think shes been denied 3 times for SSI. I NEVER knew it was this bad...
On the other hand... Check this page out:
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/the_terrible_awful_truth_about_1.html
I've seen some people in that same apt. complex totally game the system. But I guess they had no choice.
I've recently started using KVM as a desktop virtualization solution. On CentOS 5.5 and RHEL 6.0 Its pretty damn awesome imho. You can use virt-v2v to convert older VMs to newer VMs. Also can convert VMware VMs though I have not done that. I am using KVM to lean more about different Linux distros besides Red Hat. I have 4 VM's always running on my desktop at work (RHEL 6) as test boxes and I don't notice that much of a slowdown. I give a huge thumbs up to KVM. I have to use VMware at work but KVM is a better Linux solution for me. No rdesktop to a stupid windows box to run viclient for 1 example.
Sometimes I have had to change network from virtio to E1000 for some Linux flavors to get network to work but in general it just "works." I never got into Xen though. I gather the commands are similar. (virsh start domainname, virt-manager, etc.)
I just started using nx technology (freenx, nx, and the No Machine client) about a year ago and I absolutely depend on it. I find it better to remote into a Linux box to work rather than use rdesktop to a windows session. And then have to use xwin32 + putty with some windows crap which is just a shitty experience... I am using an EVDO modem (like from a cell phone company) and either rdesktop or NX are the only things that are fast enough to be usable for GUI type apps with my network connection from my personal experience. NX seems quite a bit faster then even rdesktop to windows... I am sad they are closing the source. Hopefully the freenx stuff will continue to work for a few years.
And for the people who say "Just use a browser, dumbass!" I'd love to do that or just use CLI type apps via ssh but sometimes it isn't an option. Sometimes the customer wants their backup and you are on the road or home sick and you have to launch some X windows app to do that because the company you work for bought a proprietary app to do that with and you have to use the X Windows GUI... and it has to be launched on some specific fileserver. I admit these kind of things are rare but the NX stuff is just awesome for that kind of situation.
I use OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 on CentOS 5. It does take a bit of time to launch the first time you run it in a session, like 10-15 seconds. But running it again it only takes 3-4 seconds to start. Sometimes less. The startup time doesn't bother me. My dad can view weird PP slides everyone emails him in O.O. 3.1.1 on a similar CentOS 5 system I set up for him.
O.O. is way more word processor and spreadsheet than I will ever need. All my personal word processing / spreadsheet documents are stored in od* files. I add that version (3.1.1) to several RHEL 5 Linux labs at N.C.S.U. university and a LOT of students run it every day. Maybe it runs like crap on Windows which is why so many people are dissing it on this site? Or maybe people remember older versions? Or people "HAVE" to have it load instantly? I admit I don't use Office or Windows so I am biased in that respect. Still, I think Microsoft should be worried about the younger future customers. And the price was awesome. If Oracle wants to make money off of it I guess they should charge for support of some kind like Sun tried to do.
My Ultra 25 box at work is called slowlaris.
(Its a sun and X is way slow compared to my DELL with NVidia drivers)
My Linux box is named vaporware. I tend to build rpms there. So the name fits I guess.
I like names from the jargon file.
I'd like to see (As an American) the U.S.A. + E.S.A. + Russia work together to return to the moon. I also agree that NASA could open source certain aspects of it. It doesn't have to be communism. All these countries have free market economies. Perhaps even the Chinese could jump on that.
Red Hat supports KDE just fine. Its just not the default desktop environment on Red Hat. You can make it the default environment for your session on a Red Hat system if you prefer KDE over GNOME... (If the packages have been installed)
I prefer "yum" to that brain damaged Red Hat "up2date" crap. "apt" is pretty cool also but I mostly deal with red hat systems since thats what I'm paid to do in the daytime.
Here is an interesting Robert X. Cringely article that explained
the troubles with lithium ion type batteries from 2006...
http://www.ecovehicle.com/new_page_33.htm
Perhaps your cell phone might be next? Hopefully the chances of an explosion are extremely small.
> How can you use Yahoo Messenger on Linux? (I'm dual-booting for gaming purposes, but yahoo messenger is
> one of the few internet functions I use windows for).
You can also use "gaim" to connect to yahoo. I recently set up gaim on Linux to do that to chat with someone who only uses the yahoo client. In gaim go into
Tools menu -> Accounts
then "add" and under the protocol tab select "Yahoo" and fill out all the stuff you need to.
I'm using gaim with AIM and jabber also.
ok....
t ml
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/152368.h
Here is a link to another point of view. It was not a school sponsored event.
It seems the facts of that case are in dispute. I read the event in question was sponsored by the coca cola company. Not the school.
Americans have no free speech rights. The U.S. supreme court already said we can't have "bong hits 4 jesus" posters out
even when displayed by a student in a public space who wasn't at a school sponsored event. After all, the poster was
troubling to Justice Roberts. This person shouldn't assume he has freedom of speech either anywhere within the U.S. of A.
The U.S. Supreme court has a majority of retards but thats the system we unfortunately live under.
But Intel is dumping their product below cost. At least thats what Mr. Negroponte claimed on 60 minutes last night at some speech he gave at MIT. Surely the windows licenses have to add into the cost of the ClassmatePC ? Right? If ClassmatePC is running windows I don't see how it can't be dumping unless Intel gets every copy of Windows for like a dollar or two.
I had a C64. I don't really pine for it. Well, maybe a little bit. :)
I can still fire up some of the old games on the C64 emulator. (On my Lenovo fedora laptop)
You could do 80 colums on a stock C64 with a monitor. There was a program you loaded
that converted the display to 80. I used it all the time. I also had a C= 1200 bps modem
software that had an 80 column mode.
Where can I but a *brand new* scanner (CDW, for example) and have it work?
:)
I've checked the xsane site and most of those are no longer sold or hard to find online.
This is for a lab full of RHEL 4 boxes, BTW. Soon to be RHEL 5.
I need a new scanner so that I can put one in a lab full of Linux
computers for students to use. So it should be a good one. Not a combo job. Just a scanner.
Thanks for your expert answer. Anyone.
Actually thats the one thing I really hate about Gnome. The first time you
go to access the menus it takes forever to draw. But just the first time in
a session. After that it draws pretty quickly. Gnome and Windows need to make it
work better it seems.
I know this thread is about virtualization, not emulation, but...
Does anyone else remember running MacOS (classic) under shapeshifter
or Amax on AmigaOS? I seem to recall Apple being pretty pissed about that also.
Tried to dry up ROMS or something IIRC. (Its been a long time so I don't recall all the details)
What if you need to run crappy Windows license servers with dongles and the company that makes said software doesn't provide a Linux version? We've got several of those right now and we are trying to virtualize them. It seems like M$ is trying to make people like us pay more money if we want to run a virtual M$ license server and move it to another machine. For those license servers that run on Unix, we already run them there. But there are some companies that don't do any software on Unix/Linux.
I don't speed. In fact I often drive a bit below the speed limit on highways to save GAS. :)
Most highyway patrol I see go whooshing past me pretty damn fast on the highway. Maybe its
because they can. Maybe its because they are in an emergency and can't have their lights / sirens on.
I really don't know which it is but they should follow the same rules as all of us if they
aren't responding to something or chasing someone.
I remember browsing the web on my old Amiga. I used to use the
voyager browser. It used to crash when the chip ram would get used
up. The more pictures a web page had on it the more likely you would
see that software failure alert.
I still miss some things about the Amiga but I've moved on the
fabulous world of Linux. Still its interesting some people are
still hacking on those things!
From:
1 028873#post1028873
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=
You can put
Option "RenderAccel" "False"
in your
or
You can upgrade to 1.0-9625 or 1.0-9626
Pretty easy fix. I'm running a job now to secure all 300 of my NVidia lab machines
with the RenderAccel" "False" line.