We build monitoring software. We need lots of OSes to test against and on. ie w2k3, w2k8,w2k8sp1,w2k8r2,xp,xpsp2,win7,win7sp1, win8,w2k12,RHEL4.5,5,5.5,5.6,5.7,5.8,6,6.1,6.2,6.3, same for CentOS, similar for SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu. Also, have to throw in lots of hardware to test our probes on - switches, sans, UPSes, routers, etc.
Even at full price, I'm paying WAAAAY less in licensing than if I had to have all that hardware running, moreso when you throw on renting more space, paying for more power/AC/network/etc.
Relative value - good website is worth one cleaning or twenty? Relative distance - do I have to drive to upstate NY to clean your house? Relative tolerance - what if I won't clean houses/mow/etc?
Have you tried placing a smart phone on your wrist? Even with curved glass/plastic/screens you'd have to roll your arm back & forth just to read this post.
Slashdot Mirror
Not sure if irony:
"Humanity is fucking doomed- nothing has really changed for the last 50 thousand years in terms of human behavior"
"Fixed"
Good points.
Most of our VMs are idle, to run probes/monitors against.
A few large VMs that manage the monitors against all those other VMs.
It's overloaded, but doable.
And the cost to learn said virtualization stack?
For the whole developer org who all have power user rights?
Probably a lot more, if counting lost productivity time to developers.
Also, said stack doesn't support about half of our guest OS targets.
We build monitoring software. We need lots of OSes to test against and on. ie w2k3, w2k8,w2k8sp1,w2k8r2,xp,xpsp2,win7,win7sp1, win8,w2k12,RHEL4.5,5,5.5,5.6,5.7,5.8,6,6.1,6.2,6.3, same for CentOS, similar for SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu.
Also, have to throw in lots of hardware to test our probes on - switches, sans, UPSes, routers, etc.
Our testing matrixes are ugly.
You mean like last week when one of the 'redundant' AC units went out and I had to shut down most servers for 1.5 days until all repairs were made?
Yeah, didn't change their mind.
CapEx vs OpEx
Happy to post a screen shot if you'd like.
About 100 VMs on a Dell R720 full of memory & fast hard drives is reasonable.
Yes, I don't have failover capacity among many other things, but mgmt isn't willing to pay for it.
"shows many smaller businesses that it is possible" assuming you have a dedicated department of people to make it happen.
I have ~950 VMs on 14 servers.
Even at full price, I'm paying WAAAAY less in licensing than if I had to have all that hardware running, moreso when you throw on renting more space, paying for more power/AC/network/etc.
Relative value - good website is worth one cleaning or twenty?
Relative distance - do I have to drive to upstate NY to clean your house?
Relative tolerance - what if I won't clean houses/mow/etc?
Definitely not all in the US, but doesn't look like it's in France.
https://twitter.com/jobs/international
in 140 characters, or less.
Except that there's a German eBay - ebay.de
And the restrictions only apply to items sent to Germany, France and others with similar nazi memorabilia prohibition laws.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/offensive.html
Laws != rights
Did you even read what I wrote? Or you just had to be a jackass?
Of course smartphones != smartwatches. That was my point! The GP said something about reading email on a watch, which I said wasn't a good idea.
But maybe you forgot the ~ at the end of your post.
Oh, wait, you just wanted to go for a run?
Yep. Just open Nike+, set to my favorite playlist, put phone back in pocket and I'm good to go. Songs, mileage, pace, tracking, cumulative stats, etc.
Funny joke.
Not dated at all.
Forehead would be a much funnier visual.
What you've heard? Vaporware != actual products.
Have you tried placing a smart phone on your wrist? Even with curved glass/plastic/screens you'd have to roll your arm back & forth just to read this post.
http://memeburn.com/2011/08/the-google-graveyard-20-products-that-failed/
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_Q?id=nexus_q&hl=en
Hmm, I already have the Nike+ app on my iPhone. Do I need anything else?
You mean aside from screen size, right?
I don't want to have to scroll ten times to read a three sentence email.
But Samsung's will be better!
More plasticky!!
And more Samsumgy Software!!!
I wonder if Apple has weekly 'laugh at what we can make others do' meetings.
Until Apple extends their claims to their entire supply chain, there is no point.
You don't have a right to not be offended.
So fuck off.