You're describing the practice of using virtualization to host multiple dedicated-purpose "appliances." I use this approach myself; I've got a Debian VPS doing proxy work, another couple of nodes for static HTML serving, another for dynamic apps, one that just serves as an XHTML validation server, etc.
Hardware is cheap these days, and virtualization makes the clean separation of appliances on a single managed box very easy to accomplish.
At one installation I managed, it was decide that the single (Linux) "server-that-did-everything" approach would be scrapped in favor of multiple virtualized appliances.
Without boring everyone with the details, the "experts" brought in to do this left with tail between legs when it was found that the harware previously used, and which never exceeded 2% CPU Utilization, was woefully inadequate to handle the four virtual machines into which it was virtualized.
New hardware was going to be needed. The manager sent the experts packing, and paid his in-house staff overtime to restore the system to its prior state.
Virtualizing an entire operating system to run a single system for the sake of simplicity is still absurdly wasteful of CPU cycles, memory, and disk space.
NO, New hardware is not cheap.
Anyone who believes it is cheap is looking only at the sticker price and not the staff, power, cooling, backup, rack-space, setup-time needed.
To use the cheapness of new hardware as a justification for virtualization is to turn the whole Virtual Machine concept on its head.
At the end of the day you have to ask: Why vitrualize if doing so means you are going to have to buy new hardware? Just buy the new iron and split out your functions across different platforms and take advantage of the redundancy, and reliability of not having all services disappear do to a single component failure.
I wonder if they hired some virus hackers to write this thing for them. Seems a lot like the various viruses and worms that have been circulating for the last several years.
Pretty soon half the worlds available computing power will be involved in a power struggle with the other half.
Name one cell phone for which you can't buy a charger but which has not yet been made obsolete due to other situations (such as the dropping of analog).
> n fact, if all the phone manufacturers standardized on USB, they would also need a 2nd connector for the wired microphones and headsets as the USB port would not accept it.
What an odd statement. My Razr came with a wired mic/headset. Plugs into the same USB port.
Quote:
"This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s, dominated by proprietary, overpriced, non-interoperable components. IBM moved in with its PC and blew the field wide open, paving the way for today's mix-and-match technology."
Skuze me?!?!?
Wasn't that a clear cut case of laissez-faire capitalism to the rescue? Did some government body force IBM to open their platform?
If you are going to rant against a particular system (what ever it may be) don't use a crowning example of the success of said system in the same paragraph.
> "The profile in question here is a profile of > what variables and chunks of code the program > (in this case FireFox) uses the most"
So why could not the same profile be used to build a Linux version. Other than system calls (which are not about to be swapped out anyway) how do linux users use of Firefox code differ from windows users?
1) Devise something (spend 4 years getting to version 1.0) 2) Spend 15 years trying to get any handset makers to use it. 3) Defend handset maker in court after Microsoft sues their pants off 4) rinse repeat..
> I love multi-touch. I used to like having a mouse on a laptop, but now that multi-touch is here, its simply better than a mouse.
Perhaps for small notebooks, (or tablets), but realistically its simply too slow and disruptive with larger screens to be waving your entire arm around just to click a button. It also requires a very sparse interface to allow for imprecision of touch.
Much as a mouse can be compared to poking at machine together with a stick, multitouch can be like trying to assemble small parts while wearing mittens.
I do this every day, you presumptuous whippersnapper!
Post your cell phone number and as soon as I find my teeth and my iPhone I'll call you up and give you a piece of my mind. As soon as I remember where I put it.
Those days are past. There are precious few parents old enough such that they have not gleaned any experience with computers by now. Those that haven't are well into their 80s and have more than likely lost interest in anything but pictures of grand kids.
> This is a real problem, since short fiction is generally where new writers cut their teeth,
Hello! This is the future calling. You know, the one the SIFI writers have been writing about all this time...?!?
The writers have the web. They can make more selling google ads on any blog site than they ever could have getting published in a low-volume sifi rag.
I don't see this as a "Problem" for anyone except the publisher, and even they were clearly not in it for profit. It's just another example of people rationally abandoning their failed business model for a more high-tech one.
Do this: Grab last year's copies of any of these rags and google some of the authors you find in there. You will find they are not dead, merely transported to another reality.
> The cost is still too high and the output is still too low but at some point the technology is going to catch up.
And that would be the time to buy it.
Buying something now in the hopes that what ever you eventually have to replace it with might be better is sort of like planting an Egg and waiting for chickens to sprout.
If they have your machine, its only a matter of time before they discover a way to access your porn.
You can't cold boot attack a machine without physical access. If "they" have your machine for long enough to pull off a successful cold boot attack, chances are they could just as easily take your hard drive back to their lab, in which case all bets are off.
And we all know student photos need the highest possible resolution so they can all look back fondly at the sheer variety and size of each and every zit, whitehead, and pimple.
I just want the damn thing to without any emotional baggage.
Who exactly wants a human personification in a lawn mower. Why would anyone want this and why would someone spend any money on this, and how can we stop them before its too late?
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> You can run VMWare on Windows or on Linux (or Mac for that matter).
And bigger installations run Vmware on Bare metal.
And that's where it REALLY shines.
You're describing the practice of using virtualization to host multiple dedicated-purpose "appliances." I use this approach myself; I've got a Debian VPS doing proxy work, another couple of nodes for static HTML serving, another for dynamic apps, one that just serves as an XHTML validation server, etc.
Hardware is cheap these days, and virtualization makes the clean separation of appliances on a single managed box very easy to accomplish.
At one installation I managed, it was decide that the single (Linux) "server-that-did-everything" approach would be scrapped in favor of multiple virtualized appliances.
Without boring everyone with the details, the "experts" brought in to do this left with tail between legs when it was found that the harware previously used, and which never exceeded 2% CPU Utilization, was woefully inadequate to handle the four virtual machines into which it was virtualized.
New hardware was going to be needed. The manager sent the experts packing, and paid his in-house staff overtime to restore the system to its prior state.
Virtualizing an entire operating system to run a single system for the sake of simplicity is still absurdly wasteful of CPU cycles, memory, and disk space.
NO, New hardware is not cheap.
Anyone who believes it is cheap is looking only at the sticker price and not the staff, power, cooling, backup, rack-space, setup-time needed.
To use the cheapness of new hardware as a justification for virtualization is to turn the whole Virtual Machine concept on its head.
At the end of the day you have to ask: Why vitrualize if doing so means you are going to have to buy new hardware? Just buy the new iron and split out your functions across different platforms and take advantage of the redundancy, and reliability of not having all services disappear do to a single component failure.
3 to 5 years jail time.
> When the state looses income don't stop the give away program, no, tax everyone
Why, yes, Pentalive, you can TAX your way out of a depression. Didn't you get the memo?
> optic made of glass receives the incoming light, amplifies it
I'm sorry, but an "optic made of glass" can not amplify light. All it can do is concentrate it.
In fact the whole this just sounds like packaging a solar cell and an elaborate magnifying glass to me.
No net decrease in surface area. No proven increase in efficiency.
I wonder if they hired some virus hackers to write this thing for them. Seems a lot like the various viruses and worms that have been circulating for the last several years.
Pretty soon half the worlds available computing power will be involved in a power struggle with the other half.
Was this cranked into their Windows TCO calcs?
Really?
Name one cell phone for which you can't buy a charger but which has not yet been made obsolete due to other situations (such as the dropping of analog).
Seems like fud to me.
> n fact, if all the phone manufacturers standardized on USB, they would also need a 2nd connector for the wired microphones and headsets as the USB port would not accept it.
What an odd statement. My Razr came with a wired mic/headset. Plugs into the same USB port.
Care to rephrase?
Most of this stuff is moving to Bluetooth anyway.
ERP - Today's shibboleth for software nobody needs obfuscated by an acronym nobody understands.
Does this mean the CRM and HRM rage is over?
Quote:
"This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s, dominated by proprietary, overpriced, non-interoperable components. IBM moved in with its PC and blew the field wide open, paving the way for today's mix-and-match technology."
Skuze me?!?!?
Wasn't that a clear cut case of laissez-faire capitalism to the rescue? Did some government body force IBM to open their platform?
If you are going to rant against a particular system (what ever it may be) don't use a crowning example of the success of said system in the same paragraph.
How would a standard connector promote longer life?
Who trades in a phone just to get a different connector?
> "The profile in question here is a profile of
> what variables and chunks of code the program
> (in this case FireFox) uses the most"
So why could not the same profile be used to build a Linux version. Other than system calls (which are not about to be swapped out anyway) how do linux users use of Firefox code differ from windows users?
It would be very hard.
1) Devise something (spend 4 years getting to version 1.0)
2) Spend 15 years trying to get any handset makers to use it.
3) Defend handset maker in court after Microsoft sues their pants off
4) rinse repeat..
> I love multi-touch. I used to like having a mouse on a laptop, but now that multi-touch is here, its simply better than a mouse.
Perhaps for small notebooks, (or tablets), but realistically its simply too slow and disruptive with larger screens to be waving your entire arm around just to click a button. It also requires a very sparse interface to allow for imprecision of touch.
Much as a mouse can be compared to poking at machine together with a stick, multitouch can be like trying to assemble small parts while wearing mittens.
The patent mentions "a device" in Apple's case. Its sufficient broadly worded to not tie it explicitly to software.
A more pertinent question: Can you patent a dance step?
Yes, lets DO dumb it down for those lease interested.
> Start hanging out with older people.
I do this every day, you presumptuous whippersnapper!
Post your cell phone number and as soon as I find my teeth and my iPhone I'll call you up and give you a piece of my mind. As soon as I remember where I put it.
Oh, stop with this older generation stuff...
Those days are past. There are precious few parents old enough such that they have not gleaned any experience with computers by now. Those that haven't are well into their 80s and have more than likely lost interest in anything but pictures of grand kids.
> This is a real problem, since short fiction is generally where new writers cut their teeth,
Hello! This is the future calling. You know, the one the SIFI writers have been writing about all this time...?!?
The writers have the web. They can make more selling google ads on any blog site than they ever could have getting published in a low-volume sifi rag.
I don't see this as a "Problem" for anyone except the publisher, and even they were clearly not in it for profit. It's just another example of people rationally abandoning their failed business model for a more high-tech one.
Do this: Grab last year's copies of any of these rags and google some of the authors you find in there. You will find they are not dead, merely transported to another reality.
> The cost is still too high and the output is still too low but at some point the technology is going to catch up.
And that would be the time to buy it.
Buying something now in the hopes that what ever you eventually have to replace it with might be better is sort of like planting an Egg and waiting for chickens to sprout.
Why would you assume my machine would be set up to boot from any USB device?
Good luck with that.
Why worry?
If they have your machine, its only a matter of time before they discover a way to access your porn.
You can't cold boot attack a machine without physical access. If "they" have your machine for long enough to pull off a successful cold boot attack, chances are they could just as easily take your hard drive back to their lab, in which case all bets are off.
And we all know student photos need the highest possible resolution so they can all look back fondly at the sheer variety and size of each and every zit, whitehead, and pimple.
There is a shortage of dogs and cats?
Exactly so.
I just want the damn thing to without any emotional baggage.
Who exactly wants a human personification in a lawn mower. Why would anyone want this and why would someone spend any money on this, and how can we stop them before its too late?