Yeah, they can be marketed as "green" devices. Hemp PCBs! Plastics derived from plant matter. In an emergency, you could eat it! Just please remember to remove the battery first.
They are 2 separate, currently supported distros; RHEL 5.x runs kernel 2.6.18-x and RHEL 6.x runs kernel 2.30.x IIRC (please correct me...haven't looked at RH6.x in several months).
Anyway, think of it like say Windows Server 2003 & Windows Server 2012 as 5.0 and 6.0, and the 5.1, 5.2..5.9/6.1..6.3 as service packs. Similar concept really.
Google should provide anti-piracy protection to its developers. It could--it is a walled garden and each device has a unique ID... but chooses not to.. Most developers don't make a penny selling Android software... Google should take as many steps as possible to encourage a healthy marketplace for quality developers. Ideas such as paying devs a $99/year cash prize for apps that good but not yet profitable would be a start.. And re-vamping the app store to make it easier to find software would be another good first step.
Same way Google should brick stolen phones.. But AFAIK, doesn't.
Really good read, I encourage anyone who is not familiar w/the term "Superdollar" to read the article linked above. My favorite part was the "tell". Apparently, this supply of completely counterfeit $100US bills began circulating (and likely still are to a certain extent). The subtle giveaway?
The quality of the fake is higher than that of the real $100 bill.
Hopefully there will also be suicide booths, like in Futurama, or that ST:TOS episode. Because after a long day of all of that which was described in that post, I'd like to relax, and retire to a nice suicide booth...
I have a 50Mb/s down Time Warner connection in Charlotte, NC and get the full throughput on torrets/ISOs/etc. It will sustain 5+ MB/sec on ISO downloads for example.
There's something wrong with your connection. There is no conspiracy.
I know this is off topic, but from your post, I'm curious if you're an admirer of the late Ken Fishcher's amps/circuit designs. Some of my favorite designs.
So you're telling me that, if this was a "little guy" vs. Microsoft (or Apple), and the little guy won this judgement, that you'd be singing the same tune?
These guys are so all over the map, it's amazing. Just like this post. Is anybody actually steering this ship? The only things that outnumber the silly (for the most part) bullet points of new features for each new VMware release, are the times they change the frickin' product names and the details of their licensing. It's like business via improvisation with these guys. Just random shit left and right. And their web site? Holy crap, I think they need more products.... my eyes just glaze over. It is nicely set up, with pop up menus, but damn, just the sheer number of Products/Solutions... overwhelming really.
I guess you can't blame them though; they need to diversify as their core products become commoditized and commonplace if they wish to stay relevant. More on that below. They just seem unfocussed, throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, almost. Sort of like playing the lottery.
They need a new killer app, plain and simple. And it needs to have a mid-long term strategy and laser focus. I have no idea what that could be.
One thing that's interested me is the virtual desktop angle. It seems like it's been slow on the uptake for reasons such as the cost of the terminal was no different than a PC, plus you also need the back end servers and storage. So really, your costs would increase; why bother? But with the proliferation of cheap ARM/Android devices, it's only a matter of time before there's a $75 palm sized device, with just the right feature set, to act as the terminal: USB for mouse/kbd; HDMI for display, Ethernet, quad A9 clocked up, running a lightweight Linux or Android hosting a VNC/RDP session. These devices already exist, but they're just too slow at this price point at this time. See the Mk802 for reference. The only problem with that device, is it is pretty anemic. Single core A10@1Ghz/1GB DDR2/3; not quite there yet, but still a fun toy. If it had twice the cores and clocks, we'd be talking an almost disposable desktop replacement; just keep your current KVM setup. So another 18 months we should have that power at that price point; if there's a viable open source virtualization environment sporting live vmotion that's a snap to configure, VMware's ESXi/vSphere/VDI goose is cooked.
One thing they could do to make some sure fire bucks for a couple of years at least, and to get their VDI platform standardized, would be to have the aforementioned devices manufactured in quantity to hit a below $99 price point, bundle that with their VDI crap, and get some interest generated. Once the desktop can be replaced with a throw away device, things get very interesting. And so what, you don't get the early adopter tax anymore and in order to generate interest by keeping the device cost low (subsidizing it almost I guess), you forgo that bit of profit on the hardware. But you license a ton more software for a year or two before this setup, too, becomes commonplace & easy to replace with free software.
The Thrill is Gone
To expand on my earlier rambling, what were their core products? GSX Server, then ESX, then ESXi-vSphere combo. These things once seemed almost magical, but now we completely take them for granted. The engines of these products, their hypervisor, have become commodities. The focus has left the hypervisor, though improvements still abound. But hell, they give it away now. The special sauce is vCenter, and everyone's favorite trick: live migration. That right there is really 90% of the magic,and the reason we gladly hand over 5 figures for licensing; the rest is just gravy. The minute there is a free, reliable, easy to set up environment that supports Xen or KVM and live migration, the jig is up on the vCenter special sauce and that cash cow is dry. I give it a year or two.
I get there's a lot more to it than just live migration. For instance: storage vmotion. Great trick, being able to live-migrate the VMs disk store; realy realy cool to migrate from the old array to the new one wit
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Yeah, they can be marketed as "green" devices. Hemp PCBs! Plastics derived from plant matter. In an emergency, you could eat it! Just please remember to remove the battery first.
You mean Sand People?
I'm seeing the same thing in Charlotte, NC on Time Warner. Not sure where the blockage is, or if the upload service is completely overloaded...
I seem to be connected to the Utah facility.... it's very fast!
Crap, I meant RH6.x runs kernel 2.6.30-x...
They are 2 separate, currently supported distros; RHEL 5.x runs kernel 2.6.18-x and RHEL 6.x runs kernel 2.30.x IIRC (please correct me...haven't looked at RH6.x in several months).
Anyway, think of it like say Windows Server 2003 & Windows Server 2012 as 5.0 and 6.0, and the 5.1, 5.2..5.9/6.1..6.3 as service packs. Similar concept really.
"Messenger App Brings Free VoIP to US Facebook Users - At a Price"
/blink
/head asplodes
skip all dat and plum run it dru de Jive filter. Ah be baaad... whut it is. Right On!
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jbc/home/chef.html
How about releasing a Linux client, then you can tell us how cool you are, how you "roll".
Umm, the Eskimos and local wildlife drink it? Man, don't they teach you kids this shit in school anymore?
Google should provide anti-piracy protection to its developers. It could--it is a walled garden and each device has a unique ID... but chooses not to.. Most developers don't make a penny selling Android software... Google should take as many steps as possible to encourage a healthy marketplace for quality developers. Ideas such as paying devs a $99/year cash prize for apps that good but not yet profitable would be a start.. And re-vamping the app store to make it easier to find software would be another good first step.
Same way Google should brick stolen phones.. But AFAIK, doesn't.
Really good read, I encourage anyone who is not familiar w/the term "Superdollar" to read the article linked above. My favorite part was the "tell". Apparently, this supply of completely counterfeit $100US bills began circulating (and likely still are to a certain extent). The subtle giveaway?
The quality of the fake is higher than that of the real $100 bill.
Priceless.
It's like The Matrix, but with chickens.
>> It's no more a fad than e-mail is a fad.
So then it's only a matter of time before only old people in Korea use Facebook.
Hopefully there will also be suicide booths, like in Futurama, or that ST:TOS episode. Because after a long day of all of that which was described in that post, I'd like to relax, and retire to a nice suicide booth...
I have a 50Mb/s down Time Warner connection in Charlotte, NC and get the full throughput on torrets/ISOs/etc. It will sustain 5+ MB/sec on ISO downloads for example.
There's something wrong with your connection. There is no conspiracy.
I know you're being funny, I know, but it might as well be the FBI's goddamn unofficial charter...
I know this is off topic, but from your post, I'm curious if you're an admirer of the late Ken Fishcher's amps/circuit designs. Some of my favorite designs.
So you're telling me that, if this was a "little guy" vs. Microsoft (or Apple), and the little guy won this judgement, that you'd be singing the same tune?
I don't believe that for 1 second.
Now hold on a minute, there's lots of different kinds of art.
Is it art, as in Manzoni's "Merda d'artista"?
>>On my list of most annoying things about GNOME 3's GNOME shell is that I can't remove or customize the bar on the top... not easily anyway.
Oh, that's easy. On something like Fedora, you'd enter:
`yum -y groupinstall Xfce && yum -y install switchdesk && switchdesk XFCE'
Log out, back in, and you're good to go!
It's entirely possible, and stop calling me Shirley.
These guys are so all over the map, it's amazing. Just like this post. Is anybody actually steering this ship? The only things that outnumber the silly (for the most part) bullet points of new features for each new VMware release, are the times they change the frickin' product names and the details of their licensing. It's like business via improvisation with these guys. Just random shit left and right. And their web site? Holy crap, I think they need more products.... my eyes just glaze over. It is nicely set up, with pop up menus, but damn, just the sheer number of Products/Solutions... overwhelming really.
I guess you can't blame them though; they need to diversify as their core products become commoditized and commonplace if they wish to stay relevant. More on that below. They just seem unfocussed, throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, almost. Sort of like playing the lottery.
They need a new killer app, plain and simple. And it needs to have a mid-long term strategy and laser focus. I have no idea what that could be.
One thing that's interested me is the virtual desktop angle. It seems like it's been slow on the uptake for reasons such as the cost of the terminal was no different than a PC, plus you also need the back end servers and storage. So really, your costs would increase; why bother? But with the proliferation of cheap ARM/Android devices, it's only a matter of time before there's a $75 palm sized device, with just the right feature set, to act as the terminal: USB for mouse/kbd; HDMI for display, Ethernet, quad A9 clocked up, running a lightweight Linux or Android hosting a VNC/RDP session. These devices already exist, but they're just too slow at this price point at this time. See the Mk802 for reference. The only problem with that device, is it is pretty anemic. Single core A10@1Ghz/1GB DDR2/3; not quite there yet, but still a fun toy. If it had twice the cores and clocks, we'd be talking an almost disposable desktop replacement; just keep your current KVM setup. So another 18 months we should have that power at that price point; if there's a viable open source virtualization environment sporting live vmotion that's a snap to configure, VMware's ESXi/vSphere/VDI goose is cooked.
One thing they could do to make some sure fire bucks for a couple of years at least, and to get their VDI platform standardized, would be to have the aforementioned devices manufactured in quantity to hit a below $99 price point, bundle that with their VDI crap, and get some interest generated. Once the desktop can be replaced with a throw away device, things get very interesting. And so what, you don't get the early adopter tax anymore and in order to generate interest by keeping the device cost low (subsidizing it almost I guess), you forgo that bit of profit on the hardware. But you license a ton more software for a year or two before this setup, too, becomes commonplace & easy to replace with free software.
The Thrill is Gone
To expand on my earlier rambling, what were their core products? GSX Server, then ESX, then ESXi-vSphere combo. These things once seemed almost magical, but now we completely take them for granted. The engines of these products, their hypervisor, have become commodities. The focus has left the hypervisor, though improvements still abound. But hell, they give it away now. The special sauce is vCenter, and everyone's favorite trick: live migration. That right there is really 90% of the magic,and the reason we gladly hand over 5 figures for licensing; the rest is just gravy. The minute there is a free, reliable, easy to set up environment that supports Xen or KVM and live migration, the jig is up on the vCenter special sauce and that cash cow is dry. I give it a year or two. I get there's a lot more to it than just live migration. For instance: storage vmotion. Great trick, being able to live-migrate the VMs disk store; realy realy cool to migrate from the old array to the new one wit
Yeah, funny and somewhat true. To be fair though, their licensing has always been a mess, even pre-EMC.
Would you Pay to have a sharpened #2 pencil slowly shoved into your eardrum?
I'll pass, but thanks for the "offer".