I'll tell you what, I'll mail you a Linux binary and you just go ahead and run it for me.
Silly person. Why would he?
Last I checked, downloading programs from untrusted sources is something that only Windows users do. The relative merits, whys and wherefors aren't nearly as relevant as the recognition that doing so defines (outside of strictly controlled corporate environments) what it means to be a Windows user.
As a cyclist, father, neighbour of wheelchairs users and part time pedestrian I can attest to the problems caused by poor parking (and speeding, red light jumping etc.).
Hell, you don't need to be any of those. Going for a walk (with or without missus, the girfriend, or the dog) should provide ample evidence that most all drivers behave like complete assholes[1].
Not sure that CCTV cameras would help. To the extent they could, however, the focus would be on the most egregious and obviously illegal behaviour, leaving things like terrifying pedestrians unaddressed.
--------------- 1. Yes, gentle Slashdot reader, that probably means you. Driving 35 in a 25, for example, may not seem like a big deal, but it's a huge frigging difference to everybody living in the neighbourhood, walking on the street, or simply not in your car. If you think that's an exaggeration, try running a few laps through your office and see how long it is before someone wants to knock your block off, or calls security.
Back in the dinosaur age if something happened to you(passed a test got herpes whatever) you would actually have to phone/write several people saying the exact same thing. You weren't always looking for a response but just wanted to share the news. Thats what twitter is for.
No wonder I can't figure this twitter thing out. I'm out of school and don't have herpes.
If everyone voted in 100% of elections, cared enough to research every candidate and initiative, had access to solid information on the issues and candidates, and was educated enough to navigate through FUD when finding that information, then it would not be possible to "buy" a seat or referendum, because any money used creating FUD would just be poured down a hole and any money spent on GOTV would be useless.
That's one approach, but solid information? The only information out there (short of first-hand knowledge) is provided via the television airwaves. And most of that is in the form of soundbites, superficial coverage, and/or ads. If the cheering that's heard when someone predicts the imminent death of newspapers is any indication, I'd suggest people like it that way.
So if people are going to get their information from the TV, a better approach would be for the networks to meet their obligations to the public and provide free air time for candidates. The high cost of running for office is almost entirely attributable to the high cost of television advertising campaigns. Remove the need to raise that money, and you've removed the corrosive influence of money in politics. From a randomly selected article
Since 2002, the average cost of gaining a House seat has risen 49 percent and now exceeds $1.36 million. The average cost of attaining a Senate seat has risen 68 percent and now exceeds $3.03 million, according to the Campaign Finance Institute.
I wasn't sure what the heck this article was talking about, so I had to read the start of TFA.
You weren't sure? Hell, I thought the article was about Michael Mann, as in the Michael Mann who directed Miami Vice. That's from someone who takes pride in keeping abreast of current events.
But what happens if the system stores those values opaquely, so that you can't ever know what they are, or refer to them as something distinct from the system itself?
The Windows registry.
Apparently, it's fully documented, and much easier to understand, parse, manipulate, backup and restore than those nasty "config files" that need to be "edited manually" using "cryptic commands".
Or so I'm told.;-)
Your comment on the "rote memorization" aspect of using GUIs I found particularly astute. When I see official documentation that consists of a little other than a series of screenshots, I wonder how it came to be that behaving like a monkey, or more charitably, aspiring to ignorance, became not only widespread, but acceptable.
Please feel free to post if you've found a source for reliable (as in 20 year life span) major appliances.
How's "Miele" for a start?
Most anything they sell will give you a good 20 years of service, and if not, the construction and quality of materials is such that a rebuild (motor, etc.) is worth the money and trouble. I've heard Steve Jobs opted for Miele washing machines and dryers. Could have been an aesthetic choice, but folks buying a BMW or a Porsche may be doing the same.
If a stove is what you want, then try something from a manufacturer like Wolf. There's no reason a good quality stove shouldn't last you 50 years or more.
All in all, it depends on how much money you want to spend. And how willing you are to shop somewhere other than the local mall. We live in a Walmart world where convenience and price reign supreme for most people, so any meaningful discussion of quality is typically among the "select few". Put another way, I have to make a special trip to buy my vacuum cleaner bags.;-)
Well, would you be inclined buy something accurately labelled as "soy juice", or would you buy "soy milk" instead? Personally, I prefer moo cow fuck milk for both the honesty and the wholesome goodness, with the added benefit of not spending my time reading manufacturer labels.
In the US, particularly here in California, the prison industry and unions have a disproportionate influence on the workings of the criminal justice system.
The way I see it, the only way a GPS-based system would be implemented as anything but a pilot program would if there were huge amounts of money to be made. If saving money was the issue, we could reduce crime, costs, and prison populations starting tomorrow simply by writing each offenders a monthly check for a portion of their incarceration cost. Last I heard, that would give each evil do-er a comfortable middle class existence.
They don't rename it, but NTFS has been improved with each version of Windows... No shame in not knowing about file systems, it is rather esoteric, but then please don't go shooting off at the mouth about how $your_chosen_platform has the bestest FS and everything else sucks.
1. Sorry, mate, NTFS does indeed have unique version numbers.
2. Like most Micorosft apologists, you're spending considerable time and effort going on about "features", an approach that's more appropriate to a marketing brochure than a technical discussion. So while NTFS may have lots of "features", so do most file systems. What matters is the implementation, and how that translates to the real world. On that count, few people are as impressed as you seem to be.
Only a few months ago I was searching long and hard to find a case that had enough 5.25 bays (10+) to build a decent fileserver with...
This tower should do the trick. You can fit 12 hot swap drives in a 2U, but if you want something quieter, less expensive, and with space for your 10 drives and have room to expand, a proper 4U chassis is what I'd think you want.
A 4U, incidentally, can be as quiet as comparable desktop. And with a custom cabinet (with or without rails), it will look a helluva lot nicer, not to mention that you'll have none of the cabling mess, etc. typically associated with tower setups.
One drive for reading, one for writing, that way you didn't fill up your tiny 4GB Hard drive with CD images.
I don't think many of us are using 4GB HDs, and given that HD space is so affordable, I don't see any reason not to store ISO images.
In my case, I got rid of all my CD/DVD drives a long time ago because I consider them mostly useless and a waste of space. I also stopped buying blanks as I've never considered them reliable enough. Installs are the only reason I can see why someone would want a CD/DVD Rom. But those can be done via PXE, a USB stick, or in certain cases, an empty USB-attached HD that will get installed into a new box.
As for the original question as to what to do with empty drive bays, I'd suggest if you have extra space that will never be used, you've bought the wrong case. If it's a server, implementing any kind of RAID (or using ZFS) should fill up the available bays. If it's a desktop, well, lots of alternatives are available. A Mac Mini, for example, would be more appropriate for most end users than a multi-bay tower.
These dogs are used for hunting bears in the Caucasus. In Chechnya, for example, bear hunting is considered a local sport. That other local sport is scaring the hell out of Russian troops trying to invade.
Agreed, but in any kind of textual output, columnar alignment will vary according to the width of the tab. It's hardly uncommon to see a set of comments, for example, prefacing code that includes a warning that a certain tab setting should be used.
And then, reading something outside your editor (in a pager), you're dealing with defaults of 8 space tabs. Those too can be changed, but you'll never get to a point where everything always looks the way it should. However you define it.
Personally, I prefer a tab width of 4 spaces for most things. But a manpage using that kind of spacing? Too hard to read.
I also live in Louisiana and this comes as no surprise. This is a VERY religious state. Every 100 yards you see a church, no lie! Louisiana is all about big churches, big trucks / SUVs, low IQs, and butchering the English language.
Really? My opinion (as an outsider) is that the South (Lousiana and New Orleans, in particular) represents the best food, the best music, and the best culture this country has to offer. Texas, on the other hand...
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Do I find this article surprising? Not at all.
I'd generally agree, but it's nice to see an article like this. The biggest mistake attributable to new users is making uninformed hardware choices. If the hardware is fully supported, and there's an write-up somewhere on the web confirming that, then the rest is easy.
That said, what's missing from the article is the dmesg output. A quick search suggests that the motherboard has onboard Realtek RTL8111B NICs, and those NICs aren't supported by FreeBSD. Whether that's the case, or whether it matters, I don't know, but it does underscore the need to know what it is you're buying before you buy it.
USPS will never recover and or be profitable, their labor and benefits costs are way too high.
Should we care about profitability and labour/benefit costs?
Seems to me if someone has a good job with real job security and some kind of pension thrown into the bargain, we should pause for a moment and realise that most of us will never haver anything like it, and we should be envious.
Schoolteachers, firefighters, postmen, these are the kinds of people that represent the middle class (or what's left of it). Personally, I don't give a damn if the departments they fall under aren't run as efficiently as possible, just so as long as they meet a "mostly works" criteria.
Funny, but only for those who are confusing Dell's consumer products with their server offerings.
When you put in order an order for a server, you specify what's in the box. That means you choose whether they ship Windows, or whether they ship Red Hat, SUSE, or VmWare's ESX.
As a side note, there should be no space before punctuation like a question mark. Doing so is as wrong as it is stupid.
The real reason is that Disney wants to make a new movie about the life of Muhammad and wants protection from pairing him with an effeminate wise-cracking camel.
LOL.
I'm hoping you're not a Danish cartoonist, because that premise would provide material for a syndicated comic strip.
They are, it's just that nobody uses them. Well except me.
Nobody uses them on Windows either (past accepting the defaults), so you are special. Just like mom told you.;-)
Getting back to the original off-topic topic, I'm wondering how you'd think 'ls' could display ACLs and maintain standard columnar output. The fact that you can't get a simple, clear, easy to understand and use octal representation, for example, is, I think, one of the many reasons people stay away from them.
I'm sure you can come up with more charitable interpretation than this one, but my initial impression is that it's a reaction (read "typical knee-jerk Republican reaction based wholly on idealogy") to anything that involves foreign "powers" with respect to how the US behaves collectively, or its individual citizens individually.
You only need to be a casual follower of current events to find evidence of that. A general distrust of the UN (when it doesn't suit the purposes of the US), trade legislation, or the uproar over the possibility that those in the US military could be guilty of war crimes and end up being tried in the Hague, are just three examples.
While putting on an anti-glare screen cover may work, it sounds like an anathema to Apple's design principles. Hell, the idea reminds me of all the crappy monitor "accessories" people bought in the 80's and 90's.
Glossy screens work poorly outside (polarised sunglasses help, but only partially), they work poorly inside (office environments are rarely customisable, and home environments can be tricky), and they're hard to keep clean. So while end users (along with marketers and merchandisers) may appreciate the "vibrant colours", people who work in art departments seem to be complaining about those same colours not being true enough.
Glossy screen are, for better or worse, here to stay. All of Apple's products are now glossy. I believe you can order Macbooks with a matte finish, but what you end up getting is a laptop with the glass removed.
My hope is glossy screens turns out to be a fad, like the black lacquer furniture fad of the early 80's. In the meantime, I'll probably end up buying one like everyone else.
Am I the only one that wants to stab my head with a fork whenever someone starts talking about "cloud" technology? Look, we've had compute and storage clusters for decades... tell us in precise technical terms what you're offering that's new and why it'd be suitable for general projects.
I think that's a disease that inflicts all companies catering to "enterprise" users.
Most people have at least a passing familiarity with Microsoft's nomenclature, where everything is constructed with an overlong string of polysyllabic names, sometimes (but not always) prefixed with "Microsoft". Service names are just one example. On *nix, you have daemons with one-word names that you stop|start|restart. Useage is as clear as its configuration and implementation. Ask a Windows admin about a given service, and he'll probably know its name, but how it works, how it's implemented and how it's configured will result in a blank stare.
Then, of course, there's the folks at VMware. Not only do they adopt the same enterprisey naming conventions that vendors like Microsoft use, but they go and change them to similarly nutty names, making no attempt to distinguish the new name from the old one. Their documentation, while reasonably complete, is bewildering to read. God help you if you are considering (or looking for) the "free" version of the "VMware vSphere Hypervisor".
What I can't figure out who is who these people think their audience is. Technical people want techncial answers. Instead, they get vague references to "technologies", a few hundred links to "knowledge base articles", and yet another frigging "control panel" to dumb down and obfuscate everything.
Now, You say 'erbs' and we say 'herbs' because there's a fucking 'h' in it!
The French have institutionalised a prescriptive approach to their language. For them, the "h" in "herbe" is silent. The English, by contrast, have institutionalised an aversion to all things French, so it's entirely possible they started aspirating their "haitches" in spite. At least that's my theory.;-)
So which pronunciation is correct? I'd suggest both are. To say "none" seems a bit inane. I'd like to believe that somewhere between an overly rigid approach, and language as spoken in Idiocracy (the logical conclusion of your "non prescriptive" posturing), is a compromise, one that most adults in the room can agree to. Following (or advocating) established rules is how we get along, yes?
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I'll tell you what, I'll mail you a Linux binary and you just go ahead and run it for me.
Silly person. Why would he?
Last I checked, downloading programs from untrusted sources is something that only Windows users do. The relative merits, whys and wherefors aren't nearly as relevant as the recognition that doing so defines (outside of strictly controlled corporate environments) what it means to be a Windows user.
As a cyclist, father, neighbour of wheelchairs users and part time pedestrian I can attest to the problems caused by poor parking (and speeding, red light jumping etc.).
Hell, you don't need to be any of those. Going for a walk (with or without missus, the girfriend, or the dog) should provide ample evidence that most all drivers behave like complete assholes[1].
Not sure that CCTV cameras would help. To the extent they could, however, the focus would be on the most egregious and obviously illegal behaviour, leaving things like terrifying pedestrians unaddressed.
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1. Yes, gentle Slashdot reader, that probably means you. Driving 35 in a 25, for example, may not seem like a big deal, but it's a huge frigging difference to everybody living in the neighbourhood, walking on the street, or simply not in your car. If you think that's an exaggeration, try running a few laps through your office and see how long it is before someone wants to knock your block off, or calls security.
Back in the dinosaur age if something happened to you(passed a test got herpes whatever) you would actually have to phone/write several people saying the exact same thing. You weren't always looking for a response but just wanted to share the news. Thats what twitter is for.
No wonder I can't figure this twitter thing out. I'm out of school and don't have herpes.
If everyone voted in 100% of elections, cared enough to research every candidate and initiative, had access to solid information on the issues and candidates, and was educated enough to navigate through FUD when finding that information, then it would not be possible to "buy" a seat or referendum, because any money used creating FUD would just be poured down a hole and any money spent on GOTV would be useless.
That's one approach, but solid information? The only information out there (short of first-hand knowledge) is provided via the television airwaves. And most of that is in the form of soundbites, superficial coverage, and/or ads. If the cheering that's heard when someone predicts the imminent death of newspapers is any indication, I'd suggest people like it that way.
So if people are going to get their information from the TV, a better approach would be for the networks to meet their obligations to the public and provide free air time for candidates. The high cost of running for office is almost entirely attributable to the high cost of television advertising campaigns. Remove the need to raise that money, and you've removed the corrosive influence of money in politics. From a randomly selected article
I wasn't sure what the heck this article was talking about, so I had to read the start of TFA.
You weren't sure? Hell, I thought the article was about Michael Mann, as in the Michael Mann who directed Miami Vice. That's from someone who takes pride in keeping abreast of current events.
But what happens if the system stores those values opaquely, so that you can't ever know what they are, or refer to them as something distinct from the system itself?
The Windows registry.
Apparently, it's fully documented, and much easier to understand, parse, manipulate, backup and restore than those nasty "config files" that need to be "edited manually" using "cryptic commands".
Or so I'm told. ;-)
Your comment on the "rote memorization" aspect of using GUIs I found particularly astute. When I see official documentation that consists of a little other than a series of screenshots, I wonder how it came to be that behaving like a monkey, or more charitably, aspiring to ignorance, became not only widespread, but acceptable.
Please feel free to post if you've found a source for reliable (as in 20 year life span) major appliances.
How's "Miele" for a start?
Most anything they sell will give you a good 20 years of service, and if not, the construction and quality of materials is such that a rebuild (motor, etc.) is worth the money and trouble. I've heard Steve Jobs opted for Miele washing machines and dryers. Could have been an aesthetic choice, but folks buying a BMW or a Porsche may be doing the same.
If a stove is what you want, then try something from a manufacturer like Wolf. There's no reason a good quality stove shouldn't last you 50 years or more.
All in all, it depends on how much money you want to spend. And how willing you are to shop somewhere other than the local mall. We live in a Walmart world where convenience and price reign supreme for most people, so any meaningful discussion of quality is typically among the "select few". Put another way, I have to make a special trip to buy my vacuum cleaner bags. ;-)
What's in a name?
Well, would you be inclined buy something accurately labelled as "soy juice", or would you buy "soy milk" instead? Personally, I prefer moo cow fuck milk for both the honesty and the wholesome goodness, with the added benefit of not spending my time reading manufacturer labels.
What happened?
Can't speak for all feeds, but one my favourite RSS feeds went empty one day. When I checked the website, the word "Censored" appeared. ;-)
Apparently, neither does incarceration. ;-)
In the US, particularly here in California, the prison industry and unions have a disproportionate influence on the workings of the criminal justice system.
The way I see it, the only way a GPS-based system would be implemented as anything but a pilot program would if there were huge amounts of money to be made. If saving money was the issue, we could reduce crime, costs, and prison populations starting tomorrow simply by writing each offenders a monthly check for a portion of their incarceration cost. Last I heard, that would give each evil do-er a comfortable middle class existence.
They don't rename it, but NTFS has been improved with each version of Windows ... No shame in not knowing about file systems, it is rather esoteric, but then please don't go shooting off at the mouth about how $your_chosen_platform has the bestest FS and everything else sucks.
1. Sorry, mate, NTFS does indeed have unique version numbers.
2. Like most Micorosft apologists, you're spending considerable time and effort going on about "features", an approach that's more appropriate to a marketing brochure than a technical discussion. So while NTFS may have lots of "features", so do most file systems. What matters is the implementation, and how that translates to the real world. On that count, few people are as impressed as you seem to be.
Only a few months ago I was searching long and hard to find a case that had enough 5.25 bays (10+) to build a decent fileserver with ...
This tower should do the trick. You can fit 12 hot swap drives in a 2U, but if you want something quieter, less expensive, and with space for your 10 drives and have room to expand, a proper 4U chassis is what I'd think you want.
A 4U, incidentally, can be as quiet as comparable desktop. And with a custom cabinet (with or without rails), it will look a helluva lot nicer, not to mention that you'll have none of the cabling mess, etc. typically associated with tower setups.
One drive for reading, one for writing, that way you didn't fill up your tiny 4GB Hard drive with CD images.
I don't think many of us are using 4GB HDs, and given that HD space is so affordable, I don't see any reason not to store ISO images.
In my case, I got rid of all my CD/DVD drives a long time ago because I consider them mostly useless and a waste of space. I also stopped buying blanks as I've never considered them reliable enough. Installs are the only reason I can see why someone would want a CD/DVD Rom. But those can be done via PXE, a USB stick, or in certain cases, an empty USB-attached HD that will get installed into a new box.
As for the original question as to what to do with empty drive bays, I'd suggest if you have extra space that will never be used, you've bought the wrong case. If it's a server, implementing any kind of RAID (or using ZFS) should fill up the available bays. If it's a desktop, well, lots of alternatives are available. A Mac Mini, for example, would be more appropriate for most end users than a multi-bay tower.
A bear is much better than even several dogs.
Really?
These dogs are used for hunting bears in the Caucasus. In Chechnya, for example, bear hunting is considered a local sport. That other local sport is scaring the hell out of Russian troops trying to invade.
Agreed, but in any kind of textual output, columnar alignment will vary according to the width of the tab. It's hardly uncommon to see a set of comments, for example, prefacing code that includes a warning that a certain tab setting should be used.
And then, reading something outside your editor (in a pager), you're dealing with defaults of 8 space tabs. Those too can be changed, but you'll never get to a point where everything always looks the way it should. However you define it.
Personally, I prefer a tab width of 4 spaces for most things. But a manpage using that kind of spacing? Too hard to read.
I also live in Louisiana and this comes as no surprise. This is a VERY religious state. Every 100 yards you see a church, no lie! Louisiana is all about big churches, big trucks / SUVs, low IQs, and butchering the English language.
Really? My opinion (as an outsider) is that the South (Lousiana and New Orleans, in particular) represents the best food, the best music, and the best culture this country has to offer. Texas, on the other hand ...
Do I find this article surprising? Not at all.
I'd generally agree, but it's nice to see an article like this. The biggest mistake attributable to new users is making uninformed hardware choices. If the hardware is fully supported, and there's an write-up somewhere on the web confirming that, then the rest is easy.
That said, what's missing from the article is the dmesg output. A quick search suggests that the motherboard has onboard Realtek RTL8111B NICs, and those NICs aren't supported by FreeBSD. Whether that's the case, or whether it matters, I don't know, but it does underscore the need to know what it is you're buying before you buy it.
USPS will never recover and or be profitable, their labor and benefits costs are way too high.
Should we care about profitability and labour/benefit costs?
Seems to me if someone has a good job with real job security and some kind of pension thrown into the bargain, we should pause for a moment and realise that most of us will never haver anything like it, and we should be envious.
Schoolteachers, firefighters, postmen, these are the kinds of people that represent the middle class (or what's left of it). Personally, I don't give a damn if the departments they fall under aren't run as efficiently as possible, just so as long as they meet a "mostly works" criteria.
Its not bad enough they ship with windows ?
Funny, but only for those who are confusing Dell's consumer products with their server offerings.
When you put in order an order for a server, you specify what's in the box. That means you choose whether they ship Windows, or whether they ship Red Hat, SUSE, or VmWare's ESX.
As a side note, there should be no space before punctuation like a question mark. Doing so is as wrong as it is stupid.
The real reason is that Disney wants to make a new movie about the life of Muhammad and wants protection from pairing him with an effeminate wise-cracking camel.
LOL.
I'm hoping you're not a Danish cartoonist, because that premise would provide material for a syndicated comic strip.
They are, it's just that nobody uses them. Well except me.
Nobody uses them on Windows either (past accepting the defaults), so you are special. Just like mom told you. ;-)
Getting back to the original off-topic topic, I'm wondering how you'd think 'ls' could display ACLs and maintain standard columnar output. The fact that you can't get a simple, clear, easy to understand and use octal representation, for example, is, I think, one of the many reasons people stay away from them.
I'm sure you can come up with more charitable interpretation than this one, but my initial impression is that it's a reaction (read "typical knee-jerk Republican reaction based wholly on idealogy") to anything that involves foreign "powers" with respect to how the US behaves collectively, or its individual citizens individually.
You only need to be a casual follower of current events to find evidence of that. A general distrust of the UN (when it doesn't suit the purposes of the US), trade legislation, or the uproar over the possibility that those in the US military could be guilty of war crimes and end up being tried in the Hague, are just three examples.
While putting on an anti-glare screen cover may work, it sounds like an anathema to Apple's design principles. Hell, the idea reminds me of all the crappy monitor "accessories" people bought in the 80's and 90's.
Glossy screens work poorly outside (polarised sunglasses help, but only partially), they work poorly inside (office environments are rarely customisable, and home environments can be tricky), and they're hard to keep clean. So while end users (along with marketers and merchandisers) may appreciate the "vibrant colours", people who work in art departments seem to be complaining about those same colours not being true enough.
Glossy screen are, for better or worse, here to stay. All of Apple's products are now glossy. I believe you can order Macbooks with a matte finish, but what you end up getting is a laptop with the glass removed.
My hope is glossy screens turns out to be a fad, like the black lacquer furniture fad of the early 80's. In the meantime, I'll probably end up buying one like everyone else.
Am I the only one that wants to stab my head with a fork whenever someone starts talking about "cloud" technology? Look, we've had compute and storage clusters for decades... tell us in precise technical terms what you're offering that's new and why it'd be suitable for general projects.
I think that's a disease that inflicts all companies catering to "enterprise" users.
Most people have at least a passing familiarity with Microsoft's nomenclature, where everything is constructed with an overlong string of polysyllabic names, sometimes (but not always) prefixed with "Microsoft". Service names are just one example. On *nix, you have daemons with one-word names that you stop|start|restart. Useage is as clear as its configuration and implementation. Ask a Windows admin about a given service, and he'll probably know its name, but how it works, how it's implemented and how it's configured will result in a blank stare.
Then, of course, there's the folks at VMware. Not only do they adopt the same enterprisey naming conventions that vendors like Microsoft use, but they go and change them to similarly nutty names, making no attempt to distinguish the new name from the old one. Their documentation, while reasonably complete, is bewildering to read. God help you if you are considering (or looking for) the "free" version of the "VMware vSphere Hypervisor".
What I can't figure out who is who these people think their audience is. Technical people want techncial answers. Instead, they get vague references to "technologies", a few hundred links to "knowledge base articles", and yet another frigging "control panel" to dumb down and obfuscate everything.
In the immortal words of Eddie Izzard:
The French have institutionalised a prescriptive approach to their language. For them, the "h" in "herbe" is silent. The English, by contrast, have institutionalised an aversion to all things French, so it's entirely possible they started aspirating their "haitches" in spite. At least that's my theory. ;-)
So which pronunciation is correct? I'd suggest both are. To say "none" seems a bit inane. I'd like to believe that somewhere between an overly rigid approach, and language as spoken in Idiocracy (the logical conclusion of your "non prescriptive" posturing), is a compromise, one that most adults in the room can agree to. Following (or advocating) established rules is how we get along, yes?