There are technical limitations to VMotion around CPU type, so for example, you may have separate clusters for Intel and AMD systems as you cannot do a live migration between the two. I generally advocate a single large cluster for most small to medium datacenter, up to the supported limit of 32 ESX hosts per cluster.
The reason you don't need separate clusters is because the resource pool feature in VI3 allows you to partition your host resources in a logical manner rather than a physical one, so it really doesn't matter which host you're running on provided you have resources available *somewhere* in your cluster.
Natural cycles of inflation in deflation in hard currency are at least fair because they affect everyone equally. When a certain group of people can control the money supply, those who benefit the most are the ones that get to spend the new money first, namely the mega corporations that profit from wars. Inflation is a hidden tax on the middle class and the poor because they never get access to this fresh money before the value drops.
Please indicate what you deem as incorrect. He sounds rather accurate in terms of post-1913 economic history. You might try some research into the Austrian school of economics before you go touting that which you don't understand as BS.
It is clear that we must promptly launch an investigation on whether this "life" believes in a democratic system of government. If not, we should immediately impose sanctions, inform the public their WMDs, and begin planning a military invasion to begin approximately 18 months from now. If the terrorists possess oil and make attempts to trade it under the Euro currency, we must accelerate this plan, using any means possible to defeat this threat to America. It is clear this life poses a terrorist threat to America. We must preemptively strike against us before they bring their War on Terror to our soil.
VMware does most of their contracting through their VMware Authorized Consultant Partner (VAC) program. These are companies that employ certified consultants and do both their own work and work subcontracted by VMware. You may have better luck finding a local VAC and working with them to schedule a consultant's time. VAC Locator
Installing OS X on a bare box is not the same experience you get when buying a new Mac. You need to install the software that Apple ships with a Mac if you want a true comparison of distributions. (Install iLife, iWorks, etc)
Mac OS X is just that, an OS. You're comparing a entire Linux distribution to an simple OS when you really need to compare it Apple's base software distribution on a new system if you want to have an accurate comparison.
While the big schools are apparently riding the latest wave of technology, many smaller schools do not have the staff or budget to maintain an adequate technology infrastructure. I graduated in May from Albright College, a small (~1500 students) liberal arts school, and there have been many issues with the IT staff experienced by both students and faculty.
As a freshman, one of the things promised was campus-wide wireless, which at the time they only had in one building. Four years later when I graduated, the wireless access was still limited to just that building, with the IT department trying to shut that down.
The IT staff was totally unable to maintain two labs of Mac OS X systems, with a brand new xServe remaining mostly unused, configured for network home directories but having most classes just tell students to login as the local administrator.
This fall they implemented an access system for the dorm ethernet ports where students must register their computers by MAC address to gain access to the network. I have never heard of a campus with such an absurd policy which obviously has no real impact on network security.
Has anyone else had similar experiences, or better experiences with small schools?
-Halim
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There is, in fact, lossless audio compression, and there are quite a few programs to do it, including the open source FLAC.
This page has a nice overview of lossless audio compression.
The rest of the industry didn't seem to care or follow suit when Apple made this move, but will we see other PC vendors start dropping the floppy drive now that Dell has dropped the ball?
Does anyone expect to see Dell or other PC vendors moving towards a completely legacy-free PC, as Apple has already done? Most systems I've seen still ship with PS/2 keyboards and mice, although I'm sure there are some smaller PC vendors that have taken Apple's initiative and thrown out legacy technology.
A good site with a lot of reviews of "underground" type music, including some electronic type stuff, would be The Wrapped in Wire Music Exile. I've found quite a few artists I like by reading these reviews and downloading mp3's.
What about MPEG-4 on Linux? I haven't really looked for it, but I was just wondering how well, if at all, it is supported, since the new QuickTime 6 preview supports it.
MPEG-4 is really sweet stuff. Just as a test today, a friend and I encoded an entire full-length movie that was captured via FireWire DV and encoded it into a 653MB MP4 file using QuickTime 6 on OS X. I was amazed at the quality. It blew away MPEG-1/VCD, DivX, and even Sorenson in video quality, and the audio quality was quite good too, all while fitting on a single 700 MB CD-R.
I would love to see DVD players support MP4 playback from burned CD-R's. The quality is actually good enough that you can sit back and watch a movie distributed on a single CD and just enjoy it without being annoyed by poor quality video and audio.
MP4 will really revolutionize video... if the licensing issues don't kill it before it gets off the ground, but that is another story:)
Why don't you take your eat your own words and run XMMS under OS X then for your comparison? Talk about comparing Apples to Oranges. iTunes is not XMMS. There is an OS X port of XMMS, you know.
Just some elements of the GUI in OS X are slow, the OS as a whole fares quite well though.
While this is a perfectly valid opinion of your personal preference, this obviously is at the extreme end of the spectrum and does not represent the view of most computer users, more importantly, the ones that will make the purchasing decisions.
The only way you can really fairly make a comparison here is by comparing OS X vs. Linux on Macintosh hardware, because most people and businesses, no matter how good OS X is, will not simply move their desktops to OS X because it requires the purchase of Macintosh hardware.
I think OS X vs. Linux on PPC hardware is easily won by OS X. PPC Linux does not give you the ability to seamlessly run Windows software and games in an environment such as Wine like x86 Linux does. Sure, there is MacOnLinux, but Mac OS X's classic environment outclasses MOL's feature set and speed in nearly every aspect.
You also must consider the target of each OS. OS X is truly designed to be a desktop OS, with server use as a secondary function. They even offer a higher priced server version of OS X that would be more of a comparison for Linux on the server market.
I think with Macintosh hardware, OS X clearly wins over Linux. With x86 hardware, Linux obviously wins, because there is no OS X for x86 hardware:) (and there probably won't be any time soon either)
I've got an old G4 400 tower and a TiBook 500 both with OS X, so I'm covered too. I used to run NetBSD on an old Centris system till OS X 10.0 came out, and I've run LinuxPPC in the past.
Like I said in my original post, its tempting to get one now cuz they're neat, but I'm most likely waiting until at least January, in hopes of a price decrease. My college's digital media lab ordered one to play around with, so I'll have to see how I like it.
I was expecting to remove the headphones and use a cassette adaptor for on-the-road listening. It would be useless to me without that ability. I use my portable CD player's tape adaptor with my TiBook in the car sometimes... Makes a nice 48GB older cousin for an iPod;) Definately rather big for an MP3 player though. I'm on the road a lot (several hours per day, so it would beat the mindless RIAA-slave radio stations and burning CD-RW's every other day for my CD player).
I was also assuming it was HFS+. The only thing that would stop it from working on Linux is lack of Firewire disk drivers and HFS+ support. Last I checked, Firewire support was still in early development and not considered stable in Linux, and HFS+ was also getting close to working, but still had the tendancy to trash filesystems. There may have been progress though, it has been months since I've looked into these things.
The iPod copying limitations are not really restrictions, but rather just hiding the actual MP3 files. The MP3's can be accessed thru the command line in OS X or thru a number of graphical third party utilities, a process outlined in this Mac Observer article.
Some more interesting (?) discussion about the iPod's internals and copy protection is over at a similar article on MacSlash.
I'm getting an iPod myself, but not till January when hopefully they'll drop in price a bit when Apple announces their next line of products.
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There are technical limitations to VMotion around CPU type, so for example, you may have separate clusters for Intel and AMD systems as you cannot do a live migration between the two. I generally advocate a single large cluster for most small to medium datacenter, up to the supported limit of 32 ESX hosts per cluster.
The reason you don't need separate clusters is because the resource pool feature in VI3 allows you to partition your host resources in a logical manner rather than a physical one, so it really doesn't matter which host you're running on provided you have resources available *somewhere* in your cluster.
Natural cycles of inflation in deflation in hard currency are at least fair because they affect everyone equally. When a certain group of people can control the money supply, those who benefit the most are the ones that get to spend the new money first, namely the mega corporations that profit from wars. Inflation is a hidden tax on the middle class and the poor because they never get access to this fresh money before the value drops.
He meant inflation rather than deflation in that line you cited, but otherwise it is correct.
Please indicate what you deem as incorrect. He sounds rather accurate in terms of post-1913 economic history. You might try some research into the Austrian school of economics before you go touting that which you don't understand as BS.
It is clear that we must promptly launch an investigation on whether this "life" believes in a democratic system of government. If not, we should immediately impose sanctions, inform the public their WMDs, and begin planning a military invasion to begin approximately 18 months from now. If the terrorists possess oil and make attempts to trade it under the Euro currency, we must accelerate this plan, using any means possible to defeat this threat to America. It is clear this life poses a terrorist threat to America. We must preemptively strike against us before they bring their War on Terror to our soil.
VMware does most of their contracting through their VMware Authorized Consultant Partner (VAC) program. These are companies that employ certified consultants and do both their own work and work subcontracted by VMware. You may have better luck finding a local VAC and working with them to schedule a consultant's time. VAC Locator
that the terrorists were not attempting to smuggle liquid explosives on the plane, but rather SNAKES! Snakes on the mother f'ing plane!
Installing OS X on a bare box is not the same experience you get when buying a new Mac. You need to install the software that Apple ships with a Mac if you want a true comparison of distributions. (Install iLife, iWorks, etc)
Mac OS X is just that, an OS. You're comparing a entire Linux distribution to an simple OS when you really need to compare it Apple's base software distribution on a new system if you want to have an accurate comparison.
While the big schools are apparently riding the latest wave of technology, many smaller schools do not have the staff or budget to maintain an adequate technology infrastructure. I graduated in May from Albright College, a small (~1500 students) liberal arts school, and there have been many issues with the IT staff experienced by both students and faculty.
As a freshman, one of the things promised was campus-wide wireless, which at the time they only had in one building. Four years later when I graduated, the wireless access was still limited to just that building, with the IT department trying to shut that down.
The IT staff was totally unable to maintain two labs of Mac OS X systems, with a brand new xServe remaining mostly unused, configured for network home directories but having most classes just tell students to login as the local administrator.
This fall they implemented an access system for the dorm ethernet ports where students must register their computers by MAC address to gain access to the network. I have never heard of a campus with such an absurd policy which obviously has no real impact on network security.
Has anyone else had similar experiences, or better experiences with small schools?
-Halim
There is, in fact, lossless audio compression, and there are quite a few programs to do it, including the open source FLAC.
This page has a nice overview of lossless audio compression.
The rest of the industry didn't seem to care or follow suit when Apple made this move, but will we see other PC vendors start dropping the floppy drive now that Dell has dropped the ball?
Does anyone expect to see Dell or other PC vendors moving towards a completely legacy-free PC, as Apple has already done? Most systems I've seen still ship with PS/2 keyboards and mice, although I'm sure there are some smaller PC vendors that have taken Apple's initiative and thrown out legacy technology.
Steve just announced it at Macworld. It IS true, unfortunately.
And now that link appears to be down. It worked a minute ago...
No, it is real. Look at this: http://mac.com/1/mac_faq.html
Let Apple know you are upset! I did!
http://www.apple.com/contact/feedback.html
A good site with a lot of reviews of "underground" type music, including some electronic type stuff, would be The Wrapped in Wire Music Exile. I've found quite a few artists I like by reading these reviews and downloading mp3's.
What about MPEG-4 on Linux? I haven't really looked for it, but I was just wondering how well, if at all, it is supported, since the new QuickTime 6 preview supports it.
:)
MPEG-4 is really sweet stuff. Just as a test today, a friend and I encoded an entire full-length movie that was captured via FireWire DV and encoded it into a 653MB MP4 file using QuickTime 6 on OS X. I was amazed at the quality. It blew away MPEG-1/VCD, DivX, and even Sorenson in video quality, and the audio quality was quite good too, all while fitting on a single 700 MB CD-R.
I would love to see DVD players support MP4 playback from burned CD-R's. The quality is actually good enough that you can sit back and watch a movie distributed on a single CD and just enjoy it without being annoyed by poor quality video and audio.
MP4 will really revolutionize video... if the licensing issues don't kill it before it gets off the ground, but that is another story
OS X comes with GNU Make. What are you guys talking about?
Why don't you take your eat your own words and run XMMS under OS X then for your comparison? Talk about comparing Apples to Oranges. iTunes is not XMMS. There is an OS X port of XMMS, you know.
Just some elements of the GUI in OS X are slow, the OS as a whole fares quite well though.
While this is a perfectly valid opinion of your personal preference, this obviously is at the extreme end of the spectrum and does not represent the view of most computer users, more importantly, the ones that will make the purchasing decisions.
:)
My mom is not going to use vi. Period
The only way you can really fairly make a comparison here is by comparing OS X vs. Linux on Macintosh hardware, because most people and businesses, no matter how good OS X is, will not simply move their desktops to OS X because it requires the purchase of Macintosh hardware.
:) (and there probably won't be any time soon either)
I think OS X vs. Linux on PPC hardware is easily won by OS X. PPC Linux does not give you the ability to seamlessly run Windows software and games in an environment such as Wine like x86 Linux does. Sure, there is MacOnLinux, but Mac OS X's classic environment outclasses MOL's feature set and speed in nearly every aspect.
You also must consider the target of each OS. OS X is truly designed to be a desktop OS, with server use as a secondary function. They even offer a higher priced server version of OS X that would be more of a comparison for Linux on the server market.
I think with Macintosh hardware, OS X clearly wins over Linux. With x86 hardware, Linux obviously wins, because there is no OS X for x86 hardware
Its all in the hardware platform.. not the OS.
I've got an old G4 400 tower and a TiBook 500 both with OS X, so I'm covered too. I used to run NetBSD on an old Centris system till OS X 10.0 came out, and I've run LinuxPPC in the past.
;) Definately rather big for an MP3 player though. I'm on the road a lot (several hours per day, so it would beat the mindless RIAA-slave radio stations and burning CD-RW's every other day for my CD player).
Like I said in my original post, its tempting to get one now cuz they're neat, but I'm most likely waiting until at least January, in hopes of a price decrease. My college's digital media lab ordered one to play around with, so I'll have to see how I like it.
I was expecting to remove the headphones and use a cassette adaptor for on-the-road listening. It would be useless to me without that ability. I use my portable CD player's tape adaptor with my TiBook in the car sometimes... Makes a nice 48GB older cousin for an iPod
I was also assuming it was HFS+. The only thing that would stop it from working on Linux is lack of Firewire disk drivers and HFS+ support. Last I checked, Firewire support was still in early development and not considered stable in Linux, and HFS+ was also getting close to working, but still had the tendancy to trash filesystems. There may have been progress though, it has been months since I've looked into these things.
were they able to put it back together after tearing it apart? and did it work after that?
The iPod copying limitations are not really restrictions, but rather just hiding the actual MP3 files. The MP3's can be accessed thru the command line in OS X or thru a number of graphical third party utilities, a process outlined in this Mac Observer article.
Some more interesting (?) discussion about the iPod's internals and copy protection is over at a similar article on MacSlash.
I'm getting an iPod myself, but not till January when hopefully they'll drop in price a bit when Apple announces their next line of products.