they can be BSD or Windows 98 apps, and you are NEVER going to get those to run right in a linux kernel, but they will run just fine in vmware.
If you have legacy BSD applications that you can't recompile on Linux (or you can't have BSD box dedicated to them), you have more serious problem than choice of virtualization environment.
If you have legacy Windows 98 applications, you have a REALLY serious problem, and the last thing you should think of is a choice of virtualization environment.
For another example, NETFLIX. No chance of getting it to run on your Linux desktop but in vmware it runs just great on Windows!
If that's your idea of a business application, the problem you have is far beyond anything related to your computing environment.
"Virtualization" always means something that emulates a host hardware that runs a separate and full operating system instance. Most such environments include "acceleration" that bypasses emulation for "important" functionality, but the defining characteristic is the existence of fake hardware and full OS running on it. It has no place in production environment unless Windows is involved.
Host partitioning is a completely different technology, it keeps single instance of OS kernel (or at least large part of it) and provides multiple interfaces that from userspace look like isolated environments. It's a legitimate technology, and it should not be lumped under "virtualization" umbrella.
Windows is a hostile environment, it has no interfaces for host partitioning, and can not be reduced to anything usable running under any other system. Independed from that, by the virtue of its immense suckage, it belongs under virtualization even if there is nothing else on the same host.
But I am sure, people who run Windows do not care about performance. Or security. Or reliability. Or having usable package management.
It's also very useful for testing, development, prototyping. What better way to have a vast variety of platforms for these tasks?
I have already said that it is useful for development.
I have no idea what the fuck "prototyping" is (translation: I am absolutely certain, there is no such thing in proper software development process).
Testing in virtual environment is a part of development, however it's foolish to bypass testing on regular hardware if software is supposed to work on it, virtualization usually provides extremely simplified "hardware" with quirks and anomalies that may conceal serious problems in software running on it, or trigger abnormal-looking behavior specific to virtualization or its particular implementation.
Unless you write all of your own software, you are going to have old legacy applications in your system, whether you like it or not. If these applications are not CPU intensive but they are still necessary, virtualization is an ideal solution.
If legacy applications run on Linux, they will work under schroot (as in, chroot environments maintained by schroot utility used by everyone but you for the purpose of maintaining them). Old Linux versions, multiple distributions, 32-bit system on 64-bit host, etc. And schroot is the most primitive form of host partitioning -- for example, it doesn't handle networking and resource restrictions, other such environments do that, too.
The article doesn't make any sense, either. Who, other than scammers, cares about trivial shit like one button being pressed by a random person that wandered to some web page? People write software that users use to accomplish some work. You can't recruit random people to perform random actions on a randomly changing user interface, and then collect statistics on what they accomplished.
To think of it, if someone did that, the "best" interface would look just like GNOME3... Oh shit...
Virtualization is a stone-age technology, useful for crippling hostile environments. This is why "cloud" providers love it, and developers use it for testing. Incompetent sysadmins use it in hope that they can revert their mistakes by switching to pre-fuckup images, having this strange fantasy that this shit is going to fly in a production environment.
If you REALLY need separate hosts for separate applications in production environment (what you almost certainly don't in presence of package manager and usable backup system), there is host partitioning -- VServer, OpenVZ, LXC-based environments, up to schroot-based chroot environments.
Censorship is ultimately about breaking trust networks.
Censorship only applies to public communications, and its goal is preventing the spread of propaganda.
Personal communications at this point are completely irrelevant because anyone who has enough brain to hide anything important, uses encryption and secure authentication.
Every unneeded flight over a backyard; lock him up! Every observation of your children if not in the course of actual police business; lock him up. Every abuse - into the slammer.
Flying over backyards and observing people is not an invasion of privacy. You don't have sovereignty over the column starting from the center of Earth and ending at the distance to the Moon with cross-section of the "land" you supposedly "own".
Though probably not intended as such, this confirms that English-language Wikipedia articles have US-centric (that is, rampant right-wing, as both Republicans and Democrats are right-wing by non-US standards) bias.
I haven't noticed the extra odd $million in my account recently.. Just use their system with an accessible vote history on each account.
And if they don't match, do what exactly? Vote "no" next time when there is a vote for keeping this system in use? Without third-party verification it's all worthless.
Contrary to their earlier discussion of the physics model F=ma, which requires no tuning.
Of course, it does! You have to be able to reproduce the units of mass, force and acceleration, and to calibrate your measurement instruments in those units.
Worse yet, the only way to perform such calibration is to assume that the formula is true, so direct verification is impossible (how do you know that your scale of force is linear?). Verification comes from indirect consequences that do not depend on individual measurements.
But bottom line is that actions speak louder than words.
What actions, and what do you know about them other than what your propaganda-filled media told you? Did you measure the contamination? Have you seen what was announced and when? I did.
Do you really want to see how well the human race gets along with one another when there is nowhere left for us to spread and nothing left to eat but each others precious little babies?
I work out quite regularly, and the one thing that I do is "raise" my testosterone by limiting my sexual activities for a week or two at a time. It makes me slightly aggressive, but it also greatly improves my sex life and my workout regimen. And using my free time to do productive activities like entrepreneurship and investment, interesting and fun activities like rock climbing or surfing, and even (relatively) mundane activities like reading, building lego contraptions, or fixing up my house makes my life infinitely interesting than someone who is hooked to a video game.
In my eyes, until you have a child of your own, you're still a kid. It knocks you out of the center of your universe.
And in my eyes you are still a kid until you see your whole country destroyed, and you have moved to a place with language, culture and traditions are fundamentally incompatible with ones you lived with before, the place in large part populated by ignorant, arrogant, intellectually and ethically underdeveloped assholes whom you hate with the deepest and purest form of hatred that you have ever thought of being possible.
Or something like that -- it's easy to make pompous, self-serving claims if you have even a tiniest grain of truth somewhere buried in them.
Look, it's well known that the Soviets sat on the Chernobyl accident as long as they could.
It is "well known" among writers and readers of anti-Soviet propaganda.
In reality, they simply did not know what exactly to report, because without measurements, it would be interpreted as "everyone, RUN!!!" by at least half of the country. They could organize initial measurements better -- I ended up getting results a week after the disaster with homemade ionizing radiation meter before the government had said anything definite -- but it was the usual incompetence and lack of equipment that most people in government didn't even know how to locate.
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Oh, I am aware of "marketplace" -- it's full of snake oil salesmen and products marketed to people who want to appear to be competent.
they can be BSD or Windows 98 apps, and you are NEVER going to get those to run right in a linux kernel, but they will run just fine in vmware.
If you have legacy BSD applications that you can't recompile on Linux (or you can't have BSD box dedicated to them), you have more serious problem than choice of virtualization environment.
If you have legacy Windows 98 applications, you have a REALLY serious problem, and the last thing you should think of is a choice of virtualization environment.
For another example, NETFLIX. No chance of getting it to run on your Linux desktop but in vmware it runs just great on Windows!
If that's your idea of a business application, the problem you have is far beyond anything related to your computing environment.
"Virtualization" always means something that emulates a host hardware that runs a separate and full operating system instance. Most such environments include "acceleration" that bypasses emulation for "important" functionality, but the defining characteristic is the existence of fake hardware and full OS running on it. It has no place in production environment unless Windows is involved.
Host partitioning is a completely different technology, it keeps single instance of OS kernel (or at least large part of it) and provides multiple interfaces that from userspace look like isolated environments. It's a legitimate technology, and it should not be lumped under "virtualization" umbrella.
Windows is a hostile environment, it has no interfaces for host partitioning, and can not be reduced to anything usable running under any other system. Independed from that, by the virtue of its immense suckage, it belongs under virtualization even if there is nothing else on the same host.
But I am sure, people who run Windows do not care about performance. Or security. Or reliability. Or having usable package management.
It's also very useful for testing, development, prototyping. What better way to have a vast variety of platforms for these tasks?
I have already said that it is useful for development.
I have no idea what the fuck "prototyping" is (translation: I am absolutely certain, there is no such thing in proper software development process).
Testing in virtual environment is a part of development, however it's foolish to bypass testing on regular hardware if software is supposed to work on it, virtualization usually provides extremely simplified "hardware" with quirks and anomalies that may conceal serious problems in software running on it, or trigger abnormal-looking behavior specific to virtualization or its particular implementation.
Unless you write all of your own software, you are going to have old legacy applications in your system, whether you like it or not. If these applications are not CPU intensive but they are still necessary, virtualization is an ideal solution.
If legacy applications run on Linux, they will work under schroot (as in, chroot environments maintained by schroot utility used by everyone but you for the purpose of maintaining them). Old Linux versions, multiple distributions, 32-bit system on 64-bit host, etc. And schroot is the most primitive form of host partitioning -- for example, it doesn't handle networking and resource restrictions, other such environments do that, too.
The article doesn't make any sense, either. Who, other than scammers, cares about trivial shit like one button being pressed by a random person that wandered to some web page? People write software that users use to accomplish some work. You can't recruit random people to perform random actions on a randomly changing user interface, and then collect statistics on what they accomplished.
To think of it, if someone did that, the "best" interface would look just like GNOME3... Oh shit...
Virtualization is a stone-age technology, useful for crippling hostile environments. This is why "cloud" providers love it, and developers use it for testing. Incompetent sysadmins use it in hope that they can revert their mistakes by switching to pre-fuckup images, having this strange fantasy that this shit is going to fly in a production environment.
If you REALLY need separate hosts for separate applications in production environment (what you almost certainly don't in presence of package manager and usable backup system), there is host partitioning -- VServer, OpenVZ, LXC-based environments, up to schroot-based chroot environments.
Censorship is ultimately about breaking trust networks.
Censorship only applies to public communications, and its goal is preventing the spread of propaganda.
Personal communications at this point are completely irrelevant because anyone who has enough brain to hide anything important, uses encryption and secure authentication.
CIA must know what political movements to hijack, and whom to blackmail!
Every unneeded flight over a backyard; lock him up! Every observation of your children if not in the course of actual police business; lock him up. Every abuse - into the slammer.
Flying over backyards and observing people is not an invasion of privacy. You don't have sovereignty over the column starting from the center of Earth and ending at the distance to the Moon with cross-section of the "land" you supposedly "own".
Though probably not intended as such, this confirms that English-language Wikipedia articles have US-centric (that is, rampant right-wing, as both Republicans and Democrats are right-wing by non-US standards) bias.
I haven't noticed the extra odd $million in my account recently.. Just use their system with an accessible vote history on each account.
And if they don't match, do what exactly? Vote "no" next time when there is a vote for keeping this system in use?
Without third-party verification it's all worthless.
Contrary to their earlier discussion of the physics model F=ma, which requires no tuning.
Of course, it does! You have to be able to reproduce the units of mass, force and acceleration, and to calibrate your measurement instruments in those units.
Worse yet, the only way to perform such calibration is to assume that the formula is true, so direct verification is impossible (how do you know that your scale of force is linear?). Verification comes from indirect consequences that do not depend on individual measurements.
Of course, it can! If it doesn't matter what is on the client, it can just as well be the worst OS in the history of makind!
But bottom line is that actions speak louder than words.
What actions, and what do you know about them other than what your propaganda-filled media told you? Did you measure the contamination? Have you seen what was announced and when? I did.
Clearly, you are not familiar with video games, porn and the Internet. The definition of copypasta is the first link in the article I linked to.
Why would anyone argue about this?
lol libertarians.
Do you really want to see how well the human race gets along with one another when there is nowhere left for us to spread and nothing left to eat but each others precious little babies?
Jonathan Swift already thought of this.
I work out quite regularly, and the one thing that I do is "raise" my testosterone by limiting my sexual activities for a week or two at a time. It makes me slightly aggressive, but it also greatly improves my sex life and my workout regimen. And using my free time to do productive activities like entrepreneurship and investment, interesting and fun activities like rock climbing or surfing, and even (relatively) mundane activities like reading, building lego contraptions, or fixing up my house makes my life infinitely interesting than someone who is hooked to a video game.
Here is a better copypasta for you: http://encyclopediadramatica.se/So_cash
In my eyes, until you have a child of your own, you're still a kid. It knocks you out of the center of your universe.
And in my eyes you are still a kid until you see your whole country destroyed, and you have moved to a place with language, culture and traditions are fundamentally incompatible with ones you lived with before, the place in large part populated by ignorant, arrogant, intellectually and ethically underdeveloped assholes whom you hate with the deepest and purest form of hatred that you have ever thought of being possible.
Or something like that -- it's easy to make pompous, self-serving claims if you have even a tiniest grain of truth somewhere buried in them.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2842591&cid=39963587
It's full of annoying commercials?
Then how do you explain that MyCleanPC guy stands out among the other spammers here?
Look, it's well known that the Soviets sat on the Chernobyl accident as long as they could.
It is "well known" among writers and readers of anti-Soviet propaganda.
In reality, they simply did not know what exactly to report, because without measurements, it would be interpreted as "everyone, RUN!!!" by at least half of the country. They could organize initial measurements better -- I ended up getting results a week after the disaster with homemade ionizing radiation meter before the government had said anything definite -- but it was the usual incompetence and lack of equipment that most people in government didn't even know how to locate.