I'd rather work at a place where my performance matters, not bullshit superficial appearances.
Agreed. Wondering if this will have any measurable repercussions? Less than two decades ago, I remember coming across the old adage "nobody ever got fired for picking big blue". Is any backlash relevant? (With the sale of client/server to Lenovo what seems like ages ago). As a GenX IT consultant, IBM just rose to the top of my sh!t list. Odds are they aren't the only one doing this, they just got caught and made El Reg. Would like to know the outcome of this case. Seems like a David vs. Goliath. It'd be nice to do more than just send good wishes to Jonathan Langley. Like a KickStarter for his legal team, or a GoFundMe for his (inevitable) side-gig (not mentioned in TFA).
IBM sucks, which was apparent nearly a century ago. How is this not a modern-day twist on Dehomag, 45 notwithstanding?
Most "pollution" today (excepting CO2) is emphatically not from modern cars.
reinforcing what Anthony says, in addition to coal, the emissions from cargo ships using bunker fuel also results in a staggering amount of pollution. Automobile pollution is negligible in comparison, (although many L.A. residents would likely disagree). "A car driven 9,000 miles a year emits 3.5 ounces of sulfur oxides--while the engine in a large cargo ship produces 5,500 tons" and "bottom line: One giant container ship pollutes the air as much as 50 million cars" (Voelcker, 2009; linky). A Google search for bunker fuel pollution returns an article over at the Daily Mail, How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world. (of course I doubt that this is news to most Slashdotters...).
which if you read carefully is exactly what i said.
esx and esxi are bare metal, vmware server needs an underlying os
Feyr, when I read your post carefully, as you suggested...
their ESX software is an hypervisor that you must install directly on the hardware to start with. if you want to run linux/win under it, you need to get vmware server.
Please help me understand what "it" refers to here:
if you want to run linux/win under it...
The first item you mentioned was "their ESX software", which you pointed out, is a hypervisor. Your original sentence seems to suggest that if someone wants to run Windows or Linux under "it", as in "their ESX software"...
if you want to run linux/win under it [their ESX software], you need to get vmware server.
Fortunately, you were kind enough to clarify what you meant, since what you posted failed spectacularly to reflect that.
If I continue to read your post carefully, as you suggested, your use of "an hypervisor" is another mistake. You also fail to capitalize. Excellent (ab)use of the English language, sir. But, at least you got some spelling right. Congrats.
Kindly spend just a bit more time proofing your own posts. Rest assured, I'll do the same.
is the lack of a service console--no command line. I have a few Dell 2550(?) that for some reason have CDrom issues that I need console access for.
It is possible, though unsupported, to SSH in to ESXi. This doesn't have the same functionality as the service console, as you're probably aware. It's enabled on one or more of the ESXi servers we use, (for development, not production, lest the flames ensue), and is handy in a pinch. Paul Lalonde posted instructions in the community at http://communities.vmware.com/message/881978;jsessionid=529C6EC4C2DAD952438F591A8052BBBB quoting his instructions...
Boot your ESXi server, wait for it to finish loading, and then do the following:
ALT-F1 to change to the main console
Type 'unsupported' (you will not be able to see what you're typing)
When prompted, enter the root user's password
Type: vi/etc/inetd.conf
Find the line that begins with #ssh
Cursor over the first 's' and press the 'i' key (for insert mode)
backspace, esc
Type SHIFT+colon (:) and then 'wq!' to write and exit
Type 'ps | grep inetd' to find the inetd process
Send the hangup signal to the process ID output from step 10 with: kill -s HUP
their ESX software is an hypervisor that you must install directly on the hardware to start with. if you want to run linux/win under it, you need to get vmware server.
I disagree with the last part of what you said. The VMware Server product will let you run one or more virtual machines on top of Linux or Windows. ESXi has no underlying host OS, and is (supposed to be) a bare metal hypervisor, (god, I hate that word), allowing you to run one or more virtual machines on the bare metal, using only the hypervisor, (Without Windows or Linux booting first. The ongoing debate of whether ESX or ESXi leverages any *nix is not for me to engage in). VMware Server is a completely different product as opposed to ESX and ESXi. And now that both VMware Server and ESXi are available free, seems like VMware Server just became the red-headed stepchild.
ESX does not require VMware Server. Two separate products, now both available free of charge.
VMware Server might be a cheap alternative if you can't shell out the $300 for Workstation. The latter of which, is worth every penny.
Re:Openness is the first casualty of going public?
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twoarticles seem really similar. The article at Technology Review has a bit more detail, and also covers Akamai well. Interesting as heck. But is the first page copied a bit, or plagiarized?
I'm going to go Google for some of those same sentences.;-)
Excellent point. I wonder how many enterprises have such a system in place for their users? That would seem almost impossible for a small to medium business to implement. Disposable passwords almost seem exclusive to the realm of the large enterprise.
I was going to post a blatent plug for Citrix's NFuse Classic, because we've been using it at work for over a year and it's been pretty well received, (in fact, using MetaFrame as a whole has allowed us to continue to use legacy hardware which would just get scrapped or recycled anyway, which means more terminals pointed to speedy terminal servers, and more busy users, fewer bucks on new hardware).
Of course, using NFuse from a locked-down public terminal is a hindrance. (Darn inconveient, too, I reckon). Did the public terminal have any Java runtime installed? There's a Citrix ICA Java client, but I think you'd have to run a Java applet from a web page for the current one (7.x). We don't use the applet on any of our web sites. I'm curious to take a crack at it now. Although, few if any of our users are likely to try it from a public temrinal and read the site to work-around, (they're more than likely to get frustrated and walk away logged-in).
I had to stop using NetFlix a couple months ago because my USPS carrier wouldn't consistently put them in my apartment's mailbox (leaving them outside risking theft--those big red & white envelopes just scream FREE DVD!).
When I went to kill my membership, they offered me the same membership for less money, what was 3 DVD's for $20 a month, was now two or three bucks less. And the savings could be had on all there other plans, if agreed to use their services for a year or so.
Seems like they've got some pretty "creative" ways of handling their customers. I'm content buying DVDs off of eBay.
We've had to block a number of Korean & China-based IP's in recent months (especially during the Summer). In addition to blocking a number of temporary (PPPOE and such) IP's by domestic service providers, (read: Comcast), the foreign IP's seem to be more static, but also offer a higher quantity of spam. (Are a number of these just open relays?) Though, in our case, it's usually short-lived. Except for Klez, which is the devil.
Good point about the pig singing. While Comcast is extremely unhelpful (bordering on incompetent), foreign ISP's don't face any accountability. There's no decent legal recourse. So blocking the IP is the simplest route.
Has anyone else seen a significant amount of spam from Brazil? Where is the onslaught of OSS Bayesian filters?
Stick with Windows. Reformat her system and install Windows 2000 or XP. (Hey, XP Home is $89, and it includes everything you need to run a perfectly functional, STABLE desktop that will run all of your programs, connect to the network, etc.)
As a Windows 2000 Sysadmin (and Linux Advocate, not trying to start a flame war, I've seen the light, relax), I'd recommend against Win XP Home. I've heard enough horror stories to believe that the differences between XP Home and XP Professional are vast (more than lacking RDP & able to join a domain, etc.). Home users always seem to get a halfway OS from M$. Doh.
I recommend to both friends and business clients, (who don't have in-house IT), that anyone looking to put Windows on their desktop should install one of the 'Professionals', either Win 2000 (of which I manage over 500 clients running) or Win XP Professional (which I have at home & at work and am reasonably pleased with--though it's no 2000 for stability).
As MSDOS-based GUI's go, avoid them like the plague, though if you have to settle, take Win 98 Second Edition. When Windows is required, use an NT-based Windows, NT5 aka 2000 is fine. We have inifinitely fewer BSODs with 2000 than with NT4. Its the patching that makes you crazy.
That's exactly right! Because of the nature of Klez, there are actually three parties involved, (anonymous infected sender, victim recipient, victim-accused "From"). You need to get an attorney with enough understanding of IT to combat this sort of knee-jerk ignorance. (And in the mean time, tell everyone you know who has you in their address book or Outlook Contacts to reinstall & maintain their antivirus). This isn't going to stop until the person you & the CEO have in common cleans up their machine!
Cough up the bucks and pay an IT-saavy lawyer the retainer. And expect more Klez nonsense.
I think we'd all like to know what Co. the CEO is with. It's unfortunate so many are in the dark about Klez & its variants.
Mac and Cheese, OK...but 3 year old EGGS???
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Most of the MRE's I've had when out backbacking and such have been fine (gotta use the tobasco every time). While adding Macaroni & Cheese sounds good, does anyone really want to eat nuked scrambled eggs that are a couple years old?
Ever eat eggs that have been in the fridge too long?
Just give me the chicken loaded with enough preservatives and chemicals to kill my colon & petrify my inestines, thanks.
ZDP--thanks!
As another Star Blazers fan who's been waiting for the series to come out on DVD, I really appreciate your post. Enough talk--time to go promote e-commerce.
Earth has only [insert random 3-digit #] days left....
Thanks again...:o)
Bullcrap, Will. Guns don't kill people. They're inanimate friggin' objects. The human pulling the trigger does.
The fact that our school system still penalizes intelligence and diversity, and rewards conformity and ignorance makes me wonder why the teen-age violence is falling, it should be increasing. I still want to venge on the jocks who harassed me through high school. Is revenge just making a salary that's xfold their's?
Our schools too closely resemble prisons in their structure and behavior. Is it any wonder those of us who are singled out as being different and having greater than a single-digit IQ occasionally crack?
Too much heat and pressure and it could happen to anyone. You. Your kid. Deal.
Screw that, I'll just homeschool my kids when the time (kids) come.
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I'd rather work at a place where my performance matters, not bullshit superficial appearances.
Agreed. Wondering if this will have any measurable repercussions? Less than two decades ago, I remember coming across the old adage "nobody ever got fired for picking big blue". Is any backlash relevant? (With the sale of client/server to Lenovo what seems like ages ago). As a GenX IT consultant, IBM just rose to the top of my sh!t list. Odds are they aren't the only one doing this, they just got caught and made El Reg. Would like to know the outcome of this case. Seems like a David vs. Goliath. It'd be nice to do more than just send good wishes to Jonathan Langley. Like a KickStarter for his legal team, or a GoFundMe for his (inevitable) side-gig (not mentioned in TFA).
IBM sucks, which was apparent nearly a century ago. How is this not a modern-day twist on Dehomag, 45 notwithstanding?
Most "pollution" today (excepting CO2) is emphatically not from modern cars.
reinforcing what Anthony says, in addition to coal, the emissions from cargo ships using bunker fuel also results in a staggering amount of pollution. Automobile pollution is negligible in comparison, (although many L.A. residents would likely disagree). "A car driven 9,000 miles a year emits 3.5 ounces of sulfur oxides--while the engine in a large cargo ship produces 5,500 tons" and "bottom line: One giant container ship pollutes the air as much as 50 million cars" (Voelcker, 2009; linky). A Google search for bunker fuel pollution returns an article over at the Daily Mail, How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world. (of course I doubt that this is news to most Slashdotters...).
which if you read carefully is exactly what i said.
esx and esxi are bare metal, vmware server needs an underlying os
Feyr, when I read your post carefully, as you suggested...
their ESX software is an hypervisor that you must install directly on the hardware to start with. if you want to run linux/win under it, you need to get vmware server.
Please help me understand what "it" refers to here:
if you want to run linux/win under it...
The first item you mentioned was "their ESX software", which you pointed out, is a hypervisor. Your original sentence seems to suggest that if someone wants to run Windows or Linux under "it", as in "their ESX software"...
if you want to run linux/win under it [their ESX software], you need to get vmware server.
Fortunately, you were kind enough to clarify what you meant, since what you posted failed spectacularly to reflect that. If I continue to read your post carefully, as you suggested, your use of "an hypervisor" is another mistake. You also fail to capitalize. Excellent (ab)use of the English language, sir. But, at least you got some spelling right. Congrats.
Kindly spend just a bit more time proofing your own posts. Rest assured, I'll do the same.
is the lack of a service console--no command line. I have a few Dell 2550(?) that for some reason have CDrom issues that I need console access for.
It is possible, though unsupported, to SSH in to ESXi. This doesn't have the same functionality as the service console, as you're probably aware. It's enabled on one or more of the ESXi servers we use, (for development, not production, lest the flames ensue), and is handy in a pinch. Paul Lalonde posted instructions in the community at http://communities.vmware.com/message/881978;jsessionid=529C6EC4C2DAD952438F591A8052BBBB quoting his instructions...
HTH
their ESX software is an hypervisor that you must install directly on the hardware to start with. if you want to run linux/win under it, you need to get vmware server.
I disagree with the last part of what you said. The VMware Server product will let you run one or more virtual machines on top of Linux or Windows. ESXi has no underlying host OS, and is (supposed to be) a bare metal hypervisor, (god, I hate that word), allowing you to run one or more virtual machines on the bare metal, using only the hypervisor, (Without Windows or Linux booting first. The ongoing debate of whether ESX or ESXi leverages any *nix is not for me to engage in). VMware Server is a completely different product as opposed to ESX and ESXi. And now that both VMware Server and ESXi are available free, seems like VMware Server just became the red-headed stepchild.
ESX does not require VMware Server. Two separate products, now both available free of charge.
VMware Server might be a cheap alternative if you can't shell out the $300 for Workstation. The latter of which, is worth every penny.
crap-free, printer-friendly view to aid in long week of patch craziness (yay)
We could only get reruns of the original ScreenSavers on phone, on demand
The nasa web server is at capacity, but here's the google cache of it
These two articles seem really similar. The article at Technology Review has a bit more detail, and also covers Akamai well. Interesting as heck. But is the first page copied a bit, or plagiarized?
;-)
I'm going to go Google for some of those same sentences.
Excellent point. I wonder how many enterprises have such a system in place for their users? That would seem almost impossible for a small to medium business to implement. Disposable passwords almost seem exclusive to the realm of the large enterprise.
I was going to post a blatent plug for Citrix's NFuse Classic, because we've been using it at work for over a year and it's been pretty well received, (in fact, using MetaFrame as a whole has allowed us to continue to use legacy hardware which would just get scrapped or recycled anyway, which means more terminals pointed to speedy terminal servers, and more busy users, fewer bucks on new hardware).
Of course, using NFuse from a locked-down public terminal is a hindrance. (Darn inconveient, too, I reckon). Did the public terminal have any Java runtime installed? There's a Citrix ICA Java client, but I think you'd have to run a Java applet from a web page for the current one (7.x). We don't use the applet on any of our web sites. I'm curious to take a crack at it now. Although, few if any of our users are likely to try it from a public temrinal and read the site to work-around, (they're more than likely to get frustrated and walk away logged-in).
more about the 7.x Citrix Java client here
According to netcraft, he's running Win2k / IIS5. I wonder what kind of hardware it is (was) on...
I had to stop using NetFlix a couple months ago because my USPS carrier wouldn't consistently put them in my apartment's mailbox (leaving them outside risking theft--those big red & white envelopes just scream FREE DVD!).
When I went to kill my membership, they offered me the same membership for less money, what was 3 DVD's for $20 a month, was now two or three bucks less. And the savings could be had on all there other plans, if agreed to use their services for a year or so.
Seems like they've got some pretty "creative" ways of handling their customers. I'm content buying DVDs off of eBay.
Anybody else think they're a little "funny"?
We've had to block a number of Korean & China-based IP's in recent months (especially during the Summer). In addition to blocking a number of temporary (PPPOE and such) IP's by domestic service providers, (read: Comcast), the foreign IP's seem to be more static, but also offer a higher quantity of spam. (Are a number of these just open relays?) Though, in our case, it's usually short-lived. Except for Klez, which is the devil.
Good point about the pig singing. While Comcast is extremely unhelpful (bordering on incompetent), foreign ISP's don't face any accountability. There's no decent legal recourse. So blocking the IP is the simplest route.
Has anyone else seen a significant amount of spam from Brazil? Where is the onslaught of OSS Bayesian filters?
I recommend to both friends and business clients, (who don't have in-house IT), that anyone looking to put Windows on their desktop should install one of the 'Professionals', either Win 2000 (of which I manage over 500 clients running) or Win XP Professional (which I have at home & at work and am reasonably pleased with--though it's no 2000 for stability).
As MSDOS-based GUI's go, avoid them like the plague, though if you have to settle, take Win 98 Second Edition. When Windows is required, use an NT-based Windows, NT5 aka 2000 is fine. We have inifinitely fewer BSODs with 2000 than with NT4. Its the patching that makes you crazy.
And Knoppix is bloody awesome.
That's exactly right! Because of the nature of Klez, there are actually three parties involved, (anonymous infected sender, victim recipient, victim-accused "From"). You need to get an attorney with enough understanding of IT to combat this sort of knee-jerk ignorance. (And in the mean time, tell everyone you know who has you in their address book or Outlook Contacts to reinstall & maintain their antivirus). This isn't going to stop until the person you & the CEO have in common cleans up their machine!
Cough up the bucks and pay an IT-saavy lawyer the retainer. And expect more Klez nonsense.
I think we'd all like to know what Co. the CEO is with. It's unfortunate so many are in the dark about Klez & its variants.
Most of the MRE's I've had when out backbacking and such have been fine (gotta use the tobasco every time). While adding Macaroni & Cheese sounds good, does anyone really want to eat nuked scrambled eggs that are a couple years old?
Ever eat eggs that have been in the fridge too long?
Just give me the chicken loaded with enough preservatives and chemicals to kill my colon & petrify my inestines, thanks.
ZDP--thanks! :o)
As another Star Blazers fan who's been waiting for the series to come out on DVD, I really appreciate your post. Enough talk--time to go promote e-commerce.
Earth has only [insert random 3-digit #] days left....
Thanks again...
The fact that our school system still penalizes intelligence and diversity, and rewards conformity and ignorance makes me wonder why the teen-age violence is falling, it should be increasing. I still want to venge on the jocks who harassed me through high school. Is revenge just making a salary that's xfold their's?
Our schools too closely resemble prisons in their structure and behavior. Is it any wonder those of us who are singled out as being different and having greater than a single-digit IQ occasionally crack?
Too much heat and pressure and it could happen to anyone. You. Your kid. Deal.
Screw that, I'll just homeschool my kids when the time (kids) come.