"Also, VMWare's support -- I'm told -- for FireWire is limited and/or not present, and USB 2.0..."
Doesn't matter. only the host os is supposed to support it, then you "mount" the partitions to your guest oses from the host os.
However, if you need, you can always try to mount it in the guest, my usb 2 pendrive on linux was sucessfully detected by the winxp guest os (vmware server beta which is now at 1.0).
At work I am using vmware for develoment servers for years now (started with vmware 1 or 2). this saves a great bunch of hardware since I use many different setups but usually use only 2-3 servers concurrently. On a P2.4ghz with 1.5GB Ram this is really performant and convenient. Windows Desktop software is tested in vmware before rollout. we use a vm with a std windows setup and create a snapshot before installing s/w. if it fails we just roll back that snapshot (it's eighter one click or copying a couple of files [namely the disk images] back into place).
A couple of our customers require Windows web hostings. these are all low bandwidht/low load hostings. these are run in a VMWare vm too. if a server gets compromised or start bitching after an update (ever tried to get rid of a DAC upgrade after it made all your database dependant applications go nuts?) we can just rollback to the snapshot before the update (the user data and logs are stored on a seperate partiotion which is not affected by that rollback).
At home i use vmware on my linux laptop to run some games (3D acceleration heavy games will not run in VMWare and SafeDisc will give you a hard time, but there are "patches":) and windows apps which refuse to work with wine.
I also read often that people who write windows software use VMware to test their installers/applications on windwos... because rolling back to a snapshot is so easy and you can always start testing from exactly the same point (ever tried to clean the registry propperly after an installation ?).
All in all, i am extremely satisfied with the ease of use, cost effectiveness and power consumption of vmware on linux and windows. it's really the best thing since sliced bread.
As I understand it; Owners of vista will be allowed to run a virtual XP (with the same license).
despite the fact that microsoft will get into the virtualisation market, could this also be a preparation for the vista transition (for applications which will not or be late migrated to vista) ?
i second that and would add: any commercial os vendor would just never tell you wenn this happens (except the stolen source code is beeing published on the net, heh).
the spellchecker is already in the mozilla codebase. it was added during work on nvu (the wysiwyg editor from daniel glazman) and then committed to the mozilla 1.8 branch. so why should they disable it if it is already in there anyway (just for adding duplicate work with an extension later on, note extensions are usually more ressource consuming and slower).
Well, from the screencast i cannot tell how it is done. because i have a century experience with JavaScript i would say: the animated gif approach while sending post/get data is not crossbrowser save (go try it on the various IE Version from IE4-6 and the GRE pre FF 1.0). OTOH adding rows in a form (table) is pretty simple with dom-javascript because you can just clone the preceeding row and null the values in the input fields. so... no xmlhttprequest involved with this, usually - it's simpler that way, takes of load from the server and the ui is more responsive.
So i guess it is rather the way i explained it, but we can only speculate.
you do not use cpanel/DirectAdmin/Plesk to manage your server.
why do you know that i don't !?
I would agree with you if we are speaking about a server for a handfull of domains, but at large Plesk is very convenient. Let's me setup dns/mail/www and webapplications all trough a browser (yes, even from IE wehn i am not on one of my personal computers).
It - indeed - eases the work of an admin at an isp. i am doing this for 10 years now for an isp now and then, and since i know bind, sendmail and apache well i would not actually need such a tool, but it is certainly convenient and makes even the less savy admins productive. and on the other hand, the customer can benefit from it as well, because it lets him do part of the work on his own (if the admin allows it).
On the other side, Plesk has also a well documented api which lets you write your custom scripts to batch administrate multiple servers, and all customer information is available to these scripts, so one doesn't have to lookup which databases belong to customer xy and bound to which web application (for example)... it's all available trough their api.
altough it is only a screencast (no demo available AFAIK) I find the UI is pretty nice and cleaned up. We are using Plesk here which is kinda messy (UI wise). I did no really see the point in using AJAX from what was shown in the demo. the only use of ajax in the demo was displaying an animated image while submitting data (and adding some rows in forms, but this is just javascript).
So, comparing (from what was shown) with cPanel or Plesk, i do not see that killer feature which would make ISP's switch (except maybe the price, but i couldn't find any).
My brother is an airline pilot. A Kat C procedure lets a modern airliner basicly land fully automatic (sight below 150ft.). However, if the weather conditions allow it they will land that damn thing by hand just for the fun of it (and for not to loosing training, it's said that older pilots have particularly problems flying manually because some of them get out of training due to too much auto-piloting).
Spaceshuttle is able to land fully automatically too, however it is said that the pilots usually prefer to land that damn thing manually (if saftey allows it) just because they might never ge a chance to do that again.
A saying among avationists says: "Landing is flying". it is usually the most challenging and interesting job during a flight.
I used to work for civil engineering offices for some years. Here in sitzerland many power cables are underground. this is nearly for 100% true on the last mile (connection inside cities to the houses) and inter city conenctions. only the very large "main" lines are build overground.
The biggest problem we are facing is lack of documentation of older underground lines. These are frequently damaged on building sites. When machines digg out a hole and they are not aware of the power cables (these cables could partially be detected, however nobody is payed for doing this). this is dangerous for the workers and leads to (ususally small) outages within, let's say, a block of houses.
Once or twice a year we are hit by storms which reach 200kmh, personally i think having these lines underground helps prevent large power outages, but it has some drawbacks too. in our case maintenance costs are high due to the lack of documentation, high costs for documenting now (what should have been done when they put it into the ground in the first place).
You might google for Wengo phone. An xulrunner application (well soon, now its a firefox extension) created by Daniel Glazman (former Netscaper and Author of "N|Vu" WYSIWYG editor).
get your facts straight, IE7 will not implement much more CSS support than IE6 did. Let's just hope they get the screwed box model redering fixed (as promised for strict mode).
IE7 will basicly be an IE6 redering engine with little more css2 support, a new UI, and hopefully a fixed box model that's about it!
try ubuntu. Kubuntu != ubuntu. probably userland software failed (the kde media players?). i, for one, am running ubuntu for some time on various machines and it played mp3's out of the box.
Google says in their FAQ that all data will be transferred and stored encrypted. Only you have the PIN Code (as they call it) to decrypt it. Wether this is true or not is anotehr question.
as a gamer i have to say (well, i am not addicted but which addicted would confess)...
Like other addicts, Bakker said, gamers are often trying to escape personal problems. When they play, their brains produce endorphins, giving them a high similar to that experienced by gamblers or drug addicts.
this is the real problem, don't blame the games, don't blame the drugs. It's a social problem. Look where you came from, look how you got there.
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"Also, VMWare's support -- I'm told -- for FireWire is limited and/or not present, and USB 2.0..."
Doesn't matter. only the host os is supposed to support it, then you "mount" the partitions to your guest oses from the host os.
However, if you need, you can always try to mount it in the guest, my usb 2 pendrive on linux was sucessfully detected by the winxp guest os (vmware server beta which is now at 1.0).
Cheers,
-S
At work I am using vmware for develoment servers for years now (started with vmware 1 or 2). this saves a great bunch of hardware since I use many different setups but usually use only 2-3 servers concurrently. On a P2.4ghz with 1.5GB Ram this is really performant and convenient. Windows Desktop software is tested in vmware before rollout. we use a vm with a std windows setup and create a snapshot before installing s/w. if it fails we just roll back that snapshot (it's eighter one click or copying a couple of files [namely the disk images] back into place).
:) and windows apps which refuse to work with wine.
... because rolling back to a snapshot is so easy and you can always start testing from exactly the same point (ever tried to clean the registry propperly after an installation ?).
A couple of our customers require Windows web hostings. these are all low bandwidht/low load hostings. these are run in a VMWare vm too. if a server gets compromised or start bitching after an update (ever tried to get rid of a DAC upgrade after it made all your database dependant applications go nuts?) we can just rollback to the snapshot before the update (the user data and logs are stored on a seperate partiotion which is not affected by that rollback).
At home i use vmware on my linux laptop to run some games (3D acceleration heavy games will not run in VMWare and SafeDisc will give you a hard time, but there are "patches"
I also read often that people who write windows software use VMware to test their installers/applications on windwos
All in all, i am extremely satisfied with the ease of use, cost effectiveness and power consumption of vmware on linux and windows. it's really the best thing since sliced bread.
As I understand it; Owners of vista will be allowed to run a virtual XP (with the same license).
despite the fact that microsoft will get into the virtualisation market, could this also be a preparation for the vista transition (for applications which will not or be late migrated to vista) ?
i second that and would add: any commercial os vendor would just never tell you wenn this happens (except the stolen source code is beeing published on the net, heh).
the spellchecker is already in the mozilla codebase. it was added during work on nvu (the wysiwyg editor from daniel glazman) and then committed to the mozilla 1.8 branch. so why should they disable it if it is already in there anyway (just for adding duplicate work with an extension later on, note extensions are usually more ressource consuming and slower).
Cheers,
-S
Well, from the screencast i cannot tell how it is done. because i have a century experience with JavaScript i would say: the animated gif approach while sending post/get data is not crossbrowser save (go try it on the various IE Version from IE4-6 and the GRE pre FF 1.0). OTOH adding rows in a form (table) is pretty simple with dom-javascript because you can just clone the preceeding row and null the values in the input fields. so ... no xmlhttprequest involved with this, usually - it's simpler that way, takes of load from the server and the ui is more responsive.
So i guess it is rather the way i explained it, but we can only speculate.
-S
why do you know that i don't !?
I would agree with you if we are speaking about a server for a handfull of domains, but at large Plesk is very convenient. Let's me setup dns/mail/www and webapplications all trough a browser (yes, even from IE wehn i am not on one of my personal computers).
It - indeed - eases the work of an admin at an isp. i am doing this for 10 years now for an isp now and then, and since i know bind, sendmail and apache well i would not actually need such a tool, but it is certainly convenient and makes even the less savy admins productive. and on the other hand, the customer can benefit from it as well, because it lets him do part of the work on his own (if the admin allows it).
On the other side, Plesk has also a well documented api which lets you write your custom scripts to batch administrate multiple servers, and all customer information is available to these scripts, so one doesn't have to lookup which databases belong to customer xy and bound to which web application (for example) ... it's all available trough their api.
altough it is only a screencast (no demo available AFAIK) I find the UI is pretty nice and cleaned up. We are using Plesk here which is kinda messy (UI wise). I did no really see the point in using AJAX from what was shown in the demo. the only use of ajax in the demo was displaying an animated image while submitting data (and adding some rows in forms, but this is just javascript).
So, comparing (from what was shown) with cPanel or Plesk, i do not see that killer feature which would make ISP's switch (except maybe the price, but i couldn't find any).
are tubes explained as well ? because i'd like to read up that part again ... i've somehow fergotten!
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Seems they have.
My brother is an airline pilot. A Kat C procedure lets a modern airliner basicly land fully automatic (sight below 150ft.). However, if the weather conditions allow it they will land that damn thing by hand just for the fun of it (and for not to loosing training, it's said that older pilots have particularly problems flying manually because some of them get out of training due to too much auto-piloting).
Spaceshuttle is able to land fully automatically too, however it is said that the pilots usually prefer to land that damn thing manually (if saftey allows it) just because they might never ge a chance to do that again.
A saying among avationists says: "Landing is flying". it is usually the most challenging and interesting job during a flight.
and remeber, not troubles with the re-entry procedure neither, heh.
A 28 ft long cable to "remote-control" the shuttle ? they are not gonna go far this time, are they ? ;)
-S
I used to work for civil engineering offices for some years. Here in sitzerland many power cables are underground. this is nearly for 100% true on the last mile (connection inside cities to the houses) and inter city conenctions. only the very large "main" lines are build overground.
The biggest problem we are facing is lack of documentation of older underground lines. These are frequently damaged on building sites. When machines digg out a hole and they are not aware of the power cables (these cables could partially be detected, however nobody is payed for doing this). this is dangerous for the workers and leads to (ususally small) outages within, let's say, a block of houses.
Once or twice a year we are hit by storms which reach 200kmh, personally i think having these lines underground helps prevent large power outages, but it has some drawbacks too. in our case maintenance costs are high due to the lack of documentation, high costs for documenting now (what should have been done when they put it into the ground in the first place).
You might google for Wengo phone. An xulrunner application (well soon, now its a firefox extension) created by Daniel Glazman (former Netscaper and Author of "N|Vu" WYSIWYG editor).
Cheers,
-S
Ie 7 does *not* implement all of the CSS1 features, let alone CSS 2 and 3.
David Hammond has taken the time to test it and put up a comparsion matrix:
http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support_css.php
get your facts straight, IE7 will not implement much more CSS support than IE6 did. Let's just hope they get the screwed box model redering fixed (as promised for strict mode).
IE7 will basicly be an IE6 redering engine with little more css2 support, a new UI, and hopefully a fixed box model that's about it!
Cheers,
-S
try ubuntu. Kubuntu != ubuntu. probably userland software failed (the kde media players?). i, for one, am running ubuntu for some time on various machines and it played mp3's out of the box.
and before that, the romans were there.
oh right, i should have said "influenced" instead of "derived" concerning english.
;)
Bitte vergeben Sie mir, ich spreche deutsch. - Please forgive I speak german.
in most latin derived languages (except english) it's just called football however.
Google says in their FAQ that all data will be transferred and stored encrypted. Only you have the PIN Code (as they call it) to decrypt it. Wether this is true or not is anotehr question.