Not if you're traveling to China. This is a real problem that Microsoft customers (and MS themselves!) are facing, state sponsored industrial espionage is a real threat and MS is working on trying to fix the situation.
Of course you can, that's the entire point of secure boot, to allow TPM and EUFI to confirm that the installed OS is in fact the one listed in the TPM keystore!
Yep, NVidia was scheduled to introduce a bunch of new GK108 based parts last month but due to TSMC production issues at 28nm they aren't even able to make enough of the much, much more profitable GK104 based parts to meet demand.
You are an idiot, the Windows 8 Ready program requires manufacturers to make adding additional secure boot keys available to the end user. Secure Boot isn't some conspiracy to get rid of Linux, it's an attempt to try to get rid of physical access == owned. Paranoid Linux lovers have turned it into a conspiracy because MS == evil in their eyes, whereas the real evils (Chinese government for one) are given a pass even though the attempt is to get rid of things like rootkits installed at customs.
Since the Canadian supreme court ruled in April that even in exigent circumstances that the government must obtain a warrant the bill is unconstitutional on its face. This is just like the US Congress passing CDA, COPA et al, it's pandering to the conservative right even though anyone with a brain has to know it won't stand up to judicial review.
Err, what? The turn by turn directions will tell you what section are tolls and even allows you to avoid toll roads. This even works with google maps mobile. The two features I wish GMM had are cache along route (caching the tileset around a specific point is a start but it needs to be able to do it along an entire route). and route override (ie drag and drop route placement, sometimes I know a certain part of a route won't work and the only way to do this with GMM is to pre-plan the route on the PC and save it).
No, there are 3GPP extensions (VoLTE and VoLGA) that optionally do this. Neither has any serious momentum in the US at the moment. Also it will be a long, long time before every tower in the country has a fiber backhaul to enable LTE so phones that can fall back to GSM/CDMA will be needed for the foreseeable future.
Or, for the same $35 you could get unlimited data and text on Virgin Mobile and use Skype/Google Voice (or if you're like most people just live with the 300 minutes a month, overages are only $.10/minute so unless you talk more than 5 hours a month regularly it's damn cheap).
VoLTE/VoLGA is currently going nowhere in the US and even more nowhere in the rest of the world. It'll be at least five years we see any type of adoption.
VMWare has shown a single host doing one million IOPS at normal latency, if you've got storage related performance problems look at your SAN vendor not VMWare.
It depends on load, I run multiple copies of SQL Enterprise as VM's in my VMWare environment as we have applications that need specific version of SQL Server (some down to the patch level) but none which will max out more than one or two CPU's. Our Oracle boxes aren't virtualized, partly because of load but mostly because of Oracle's retarded licensing policies regarding VM's and mobility.
In my experience MS clustering causes WAY more problems than it solves. This is probably resolved with SQL 2012 since it uses the same kind of shared nothing clustering that Exchange 2010 uses, but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet (most of our applications don't even support SQL 2008R2 yet).
While this is correct, it is also true that a vcenter 5.0 appliance is fully supported managing a 5.0u1 cluster. We run this exact configuration for our DMZ cluster. The biggest limitation with the appliance is that it only supports a few hosts and VM's (5 and 50 come to mind) which means you can only run very small environments on the appliance. For our DMZ network it was a fine choice since we didn't want those hosts talking to our main vcenter instance and we only run about a dozen DMZ machines.
It depends, by default you'd have to login to one or more hosts directly and fire up VM's. I have my vcenter setup to only run on the first two hosts in my production cluster so for me I would login to those two and fire up vcenter (this is if it didn't come up on its own, which it should since I changed the properties of my vcenter server and a few other critical VM's (domain controllers, database servers, etc) to power on with host, but that is not the default out of the box. Bringing up vcenter would just make things faster, it's not a requirement.
Yep, FT is still limited to a single vCPU in 5.0, that should be changing in the next release since VMWare has released some papers around vSMP and machine state synchronization.
25k and 40k kg to LEO are a bit far short of the 53k kg of Falcon 9 heavy. Also I hope they get a bunch of launch contracts for Falcon 9 so they can fund the $1B they need for Merlin 2, it will be the first engine to produce more thrust than the F1 from the Saturn 5.
If you send it to pm.sprint.com the message gets sent as an MMS as isn't fubar AFAICT, the email must also have only one recipient or it gets flagged as spam by the gateway (T-Mobile was the same). We send all the pages from our enterprise monitoring tools out this way and I have no issues receiving the messages.
There's not enough satellite bandwidth for more than a handful of drones, not to mention latency is too high for air to air combat and that any enemy with better than stone age tech will be able to jam your control signal. No, remote piloted drones are NOT the future, perhaps non-piloted drones will be, but they're unlikely to be 100% of the force anytime soon.
No, on any decent array background scrubbing does full stripe verifies which will in fact catch bit-rot. Parity might not be calculated on a standard read but that doesn't mean that RAID5/6 has no value with respect to data integrity.
Meh, we replicate to DR, backup to disk pool, and duplicate to tape and we're investigating replicating the disk pool to DR (or backing up the DR replica to disk) since recovery from tape is so damn slow when you've got 14TB of data with millions upon millions of files. Nothing even remotely heart attack inducing about the cost either, backup is small potatoes next to software licensing, HA systems, or the cost of reproducing the data.
Nah, if you're really paranoid you need parity information so RAID6 or RAIDZ, for Windows folks RAID5 + REFS might be good enough (if they can make performance not suck).
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Not if you're traveling to China. This is a real problem that Microsoft customers (and MS themselves!) are facing, state sponsored industrial espionage is a real threat and MS is working on trying to fix the situation.
Of course you can, that's the entire point of secure boot, to allow TPM and EUFI to confirm that the installed OS is in fact the one listed in the TPM keystore!
Yep, NVidia was scheduled to introduce a bunch of new GK108 based parts last month but due to TSMC production issues at 28nm they aren't even able to make enough of the much, much more profitable GK104 based parts to meet demand.
This is not a troll, saying that MS is trying to eliminate Linux through secure boot is a troll....
You are an idiot, the Windows 8 Ready program requires manufacturers to make adding additional secure boot keys available to the end user. Secure Boot isn't some conspiracy to get rid of Linux, it's an attempt to try to get rid of physical access == owned. Paranoid Linux lovers have turned it into a conspiracy because MS == evil in their eyes, whereas the real evils (Chinese government for one) are given a pass even though the attempt is to get rid of things like rootkits installed at customs.
Since the Canadian supreme court ruled in April that even in exigent circumstances that the government must obtain a warrant the bill is unconstitutional on its face. This is just like the US Congress passing CDA, COPA et al, it's pandering to the conservative right even though anyone with a brain has to know it won't stand up to judicial review.
Err, what? The turn by turn directions will tell you what section are tolls and even allows you to avoid toll roads. This even works with google maps mobile. The two features I wish GMM had are cache along route (caching the tileset around a specific point is a start but it needs to be able to do it along an entire route). and route override (ie drag and drop route placement, sometimes I know a certain part of a route won't work and the only way to do this with GMM is to pre-plan the route on the PC and save it).
No, there are 3GPP extensions (VoLTE and VoLGA) that optionally do this. Neither has any serious momentum in the US at the moment. Also it will be a long, long time before every tower in the country has a fiber backhaul to enable LTE so phones that can fall back to GSM/CDMA will be needed for the foreseeable future.
There are cordless phones with multiple handsets that will use your cellphone for the outgoing line.
Or, for the same $35 you could get unlimited data and text on Virgin Mobile and use Skype/Google Voice (or if you're like most people just live with the 300 minutes a month, overages are only $.10/minute so unless you talk more than 5 hours a month regularly it's damn cheap).
VoLTE/VoLGA is currently going nowhere in the US and even more nowhere in the rest of the world. It'll be at least five years we see any type of adoption.
VMWare has shown a single host doing one million IOPS at normal latency, if you've got storage related performance problems look at your SAN vendor not VMWare.
Kemp has some very inexpensive virtual load balancers that will probably cost a few percent of what the equivalent hardware LB would cost.
It depends on load, I run multiple copies of SQL Enterprise as VM's in my VMWare environment as we have applications that need specific version of SQL Server (some down to the patch level) but none which will max out more than one or two CPU's. Our Oracle boxes aren't virtualized, partly because of load but mostly because of Oracle's retarded licensing policies regarding VM's and mobility.
In my experience MS clustering causes WAY more problems than it solves. This is probably resolved with SQL 2012 since it uses the same kind of shared nothing clustering that Exchange 2010 uses, but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet (most of our applications don't even support SQL 2008R2 yet).
While this is correct, it is also true that a vcenter 5.0 appliance is fully supported managing a 5.0u1 cluster. We run this exact configuration for our DMZ cluster. The biggest limitation with the appliance is that it only supports a few hosts and VM's (5 and 50 come to mind) which means you can only run very small environments on the appliance. For our DMZ network it was a fine choice since we didn't want those hosts talking to our main vcenter instance and we only run about a dozen DMZ machines.
It depends, by default you'd have to login to one or more hosts directly and fire up VM's. I have my vcenter setup to only run on the first two hosts in my production cluster so for me I would login to those two and fire up vcenter (this is if it didn't come up on its own, which it should since I changed the properties of my vcenter server and a few other critical VM's (domain controllers, database servers, etc) to power on with host, but that is not the default out of the box. Bringing up vcenter would just make things faster, it's not a requirement.
Yep, FT is still limited to a single vCPU in 5.0, that should be changing in the next release since VMWare has released some papers around vSMP and machine state synchronization.
25k and 40k kg to LEO are a bit far short of the 53k kg of Falcon 9 heavy. Also I hope they get a bunch of launch contracts for Falcon 9 so they can fund the $1B they need for Merlin 2, it will be the first engine to produce more thrust than the F1 from the Saturn 5.
Nah, much better info at sprint 4g rollout updates.
If you send it to pm.sprint.com the message gets sent as an MMS as isn't fubar AFAICT, the email must also have only one recipient or it gets flagged as spam by the gateway (T-Mobile was the same). We send all the pages from our enterprise monitoring tools out this way and I have no issues receiving the messages.
There's not enough satellite bandwidth for more than a handful of drones, not to mention latency is too high for air to air combat and that any enemy with better than stone age tech will be able to jam your control signal. No, remote piloted drones are NOT the future, perhaps non-piloted drones will be, but they're unlikely to be 100% of the force anytime soon.
No, on any decent array background scrubbing does full stripe verifies which will in fact catch bit-rot. Parity might not be calculated on a standard read but that doesn't mean that RAID5/6 has no value with respect to data integrity.
Meh, we replicate to DR, backup to disk pool, and duplicate to tape and we're investigating replicating the disk pool to DR (or backing up the DR replica to disk) since recovery from tape is so damn slow when you've got 14TB of data with millions upon millions of files. Nothing even remotely heart attack inducing about the cost either, backup is small potatoes next to software licensing, HA systems, or the cost of reproducing the data.
Nah, if you're really paranoid you need parity information so RAID6 or RAIDZ, for Windows folks RAID5 + REFS might be good enough (if they can make performance not suck).