Break-even point for VDI infrastructure is 150 workstations.
The original poster would save significant amounts of money by deploying 1000 terminals as it sounds like he doesn't need 3D.
Sure, he would probably have to spend some time&money for training, but he'd waste same amount or more assembling 1000 pcs.
That wouldn't work with project blackbox datacenters. You could just load the thing on a flatbed and drive off.
Network would fallback to 3G or satellite uplink and your servers would be happily crunching onboard while your truck heads down the open road..
Microsoft tried the "internet as a commercial venture" but luckily the real internet caught on instead the MSN that was shipped with windows 95.
You're spot on about the content. That's what made internet what it is today.
Content seems to be driving other industries aswell. It seems like it's irrelevant if you can actually make calls with current smartphones, but oh boy! if they can't run the fart app of the week.
but a lot of good things came out of the cold war. One of them is the internet
I sometimes think how the world would work if there weren't the internet we know of today.
It's amazing how hard it would be to do some tasks that we consider trivial today.
Voice line telephone networks would be much more heavily used compared to what those are today.
ISPs should hand out routers which utilize Network Access Protection by default.
The router should verify if the endpoint is clear for internet access, and if it's not, it should limit user access to antivirus vendors, known OS upgrade services etc and requesting user to follow this link to repair their computer(or have it cleaned by someone skilled enough).
There are (or should be!) multi-platform NAP/NAC solutions to do this.
Of course, users should have opt-out option, which allows them to disable the NAP, and take responsibility of maintaining their systems themselves without "middle-maintenance".
Opted out systems would receive direct disconnect until user verifies by phone to the operator that their misbehaving system has been fixed. (for example, spam zombie)
AppleTV - but it's more expensive than I am willing to pay
Is it really? I paid $100 for my 1st gen appletv, threw in $40 for the broadcom crystalhd chip, installed linux with XBMC on it and it works great.
It took few hours of tinkering but now it plays 1080p smoothly.
The only reason I just bought an Android phone instead of an N900
NITDroid(Android 2.2) runs on N900 just fine, if you don't like the Nokia software, switch.
Thats why N900 is superior platform, it gives YOU the ability to choose the OS yourself instead telling what you can and can't do with the hardware.
It's nice that they add features like asterisk calls, but after 5 years, the bloody thing still doesn't support active directory authentication without hacking it in yourself.
Problem with vTiger probably is that they have weak project management skills. They lack the skills to set goals to certain release targets and assign meaningful tasks to work on, instead they crunch away with yet another useless feature and throw out once-a-year update which breaks 2/3rds of everything even on vanilla system.
Don't let me even get started with the code quality.. probably better just to say half of what's there is reasonable, other half is bubble gum.
The account interface lacks support for bigger companies which might have subsidiaries, and it doesn't even check if the account you're creating already exists with identical name. Same thing with contacts though I understand that there can be 10 persons called John Doe, but do they all work at the same company?
Email system? There's 4 different routines to send email from vtiger, and each sucks more than the other ad finity.
Why is the email system half-assed? For example, (perhaps it's just me, I hate micromanaging) getting email from vtiger saying that someone in sales added a phone number to certain account drives me nuts, because it wastes my time with irrelevant information.
Truly open source? Yes, but that's really required since you spend 2-3 weeks actually fixing the idiotic things to get it in semi-working state at first.
Most car stereos have bluetooth. The stereo system is connected to other systems in car.
Granted that statement is WILDLY far fetched but in theory, badly designed system could leak access through it.
Post your full name, address, credit card number and cvv as a reply to this post and we will get back to you if your card has been exposed to the threats on internet.
Desktop virtualisation is hypeword of the month. Don't get suckered into it until you understand the whole concept.
It's financially feasible only after you have 200+ desktops which you turn into virtual machines. With less, it'll just cost more.
Your case might be slightly different though.. you want to virtualise the OS on same hardware the user is currently using.
Remember that hypervisor adds overhead, you lose performance always.
It also creates some funky clock skew issues sometimes, and your virtual machines might have hard time updating their virus definitions.
For 20 machines, I'd say its more trouble than worth, unless you need to do it for compatibility reasons (like running older autocad on windows 7 64bit).
> It is really disgusting the way people build servers these days. They think all they need to do is to install a couple packages, change a couple config lines and boom, the server is ready. They are getting what they asked for when stuff like this happens.
Well, you probably have proper budget and are paid enough to actually care about things like fallback configurations.
If you have shoelace budget for software and hand-down hardware for servers in addition of having hourly salary comparable to the janitor, you tend to take the easy route.
> And what will DNS look like in 100 years when 95% of all domain names belong to companies that no longer exist but refuse to let anybody recycle it?
This is almost what I'm facing with one domain.
It was previously used by another company during IT-bubble.
That company has been defunct for 15 years, and the domain expired.
The domain was grabbed by a company specializing in reselling domains, and they are asking 100x more than I'm willing to pay for the domain.
Or not. My last job years ago was driving a delivery truck. Today, I'm CIO of a multinational company. Although my boss told me later that he took enourmous gamble when hiring me, but after 3 months of trial period, his main concern was that I stayed on rather than moved on to another company.
This is a case where Mr. Smith should excercise his body (and reconsider his diet) rather than his right to free speech. Being obese will shorten his lifespan.
And while speaking of airliners, captain in a plane is as much a captain as one on a boat. If he says you're not welcome on board, you're out.
Those coexisted with NT4 and W2k which represented the business-line.
9x/ME were half-assed attempt to create multitasking window manager designed pre-internet era( Gates actually was dreaming of something internet-like, but microsoft controlled network, MSN). But their legacy still lives as parts of the original gui concept are still part of almost every OS today.
Today there's only different versions of the home-oriented OS. Calling OS enterprise and actually not having it behave like a different product doesn't really make it more corporate-oriented. It still seems like it was designed for entertainment rather than productivity.
During these 10 years, there's been change in the target audience of Windows.
Older versions of windows were designed specifically for office use.
Windows 2000 and XP did not change this line and were still clearly aimed for business users.
Vista and 7 changed the playfield. Apple came along with OS X, and Windows started to compete for home users market share, and somewhere on the line pretty much forgot the business users. The OS is no longer clearly aimed for business users.
Vista was a disaster pretty much every way you look at it, but 7 has fixed some of its flaws.
Part of the problem is the overly simplifying things and forcing old reliable tree-browsing into libraries.
Library-like browsing is fine, if you want to watch photographs or browse mp3 collections at home, but it doesn't really work for corporate cases.
Fileservers are easier to use if you can logically follow the treeview. (yes 7 has treeview too, but it sucks compared to old xp model)
step 3) If possible test network changes on the production equipment at 2am so that impact on users will be less
Been there, done that. Sadly the only way to see how your setup works is to try it in production. Sure it helps if you can test it beforehand, but sometimes your lab might not reflect what happens in real network when you roll something out.
Just make sure you can clock those am hours as overtime/nighttime work.
And remember to backup the running config twice so you can restore the production network if something goes fubar.
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Break-even point for VDI infrastructure is 150 workstations. The original poster would save significant amounts of money by deploying 1000 terminals as it sounds like he doesn't need 3D.
Sure, he would probably have to spend some time&money for training, but he'd waste same amount or more assembling 1000 pcs.
That wouldn't work with project blackbox datacenters. You could just load the thing on a flatbed and drive off.
Network would fallback to 3G or satellite uplink and your servers would be happily crunching onboard while your truck heads down the open road..
Netbios?
IPX?
*runs away scared of the thought*
Microsoft tried the "internet as a commercial venture" but luckily the real internet caught on instead the MSN that was shipped with windows 95.
You're spot on about the content. That's what made internet what it is today.
Content seems to be driving other industries aswell. It seems like it's irrelevant if you can actually make calls with current smartphones, but oh boy! if they can't run the fart app of the week.
but a lot of good things came out of the cold war. One of them is the internet
I sometimes think how the world would work if there weren't the internet we know of today.
It's amazing how hard it would be to do some tasks that we consider trivial today.
Voice line telephone networks would be much more heavily used compared to what those are today.
ISPs should hand out routers which utilize Network Access Protection by default.
The router should verify if the endpoint is clear for internet access, and if it's not, it should limit user access to antivirus vendors, known OS upgrade services etc and requesting user to follow this link to repair their computer(or have it cleaned by someone skilled enough).
There are (or should be!) multi-platform NAP/NAC solutions to do this.
Of course, users should have opt-out option, which allows them to disable the NAP, and take responsibility of maintaining their systems themselves without "middle-maintenance".
Opted out systems would receive direct disconnect until user verifies by phone to the operator that their misbehaving system has been fixed. (for example, spam zombie)
AppleTV - but it's more expensive than I am willing to pay
Is it really? I paid $100 for my 1st gen appletv, threw in $40 for the broadcom crystalhd chip, installed linux with XBMC on it and it works great. It took few hours of tinkering but now it plays 1080p smoothly.
The only reason I just bought an Android phone instead of an N900
NITDroid(Android 2.2) runs on N900 just fine, if you don't like the Nokia software, switch.
Thats why N900 is superior platform, it gives YOU the ability to choose the OS yourself instead telling what you can and can't do with the hardware.
It's nice that they add features like asterisk calls, but after 5 years, the bloody thing still doesn't support active directory authentication without hacking it in yourself.
Problem with vTiger probably is that they have weak project management skills. They lack the skills to set goals to certain release targets and assign meaningful tasks to work on, instead they crunch away with yet another useless feature and throw out once-a-year update which breaks 2/3rds of everything even on vanilla system.
Don't let me even get started with the code quality.. probably better just to say half of what's there is reasonable, other half is bubble gum.
The account interface lacks support for bigger companies which might have subsidiaries, and it doesn't even check if the account you're creating already exists with identical name. Same thing with contacts though I understand that there can be 10 persons called John Doe, but do they all work at the same company?
Email system? There's 4 different routines to send email from vtiger, and each sucks more than the other ad finity.
Why is the email system half-assed? For example, (perhaps it's just me, I hate micromanaging) getting email from vtiger saying that someone in sales added a phone number to certain account drives me nuts, because it wastes my time with irrelevant information.
Truly open source? Yes, but that's really required since you spend 2-3 weeks actually fixing the idiotic things to get it in semi-working state at first.
Spy devices require an antenna that actually transmits something, so apple products are quite safe to use. Atleast the new iPhone
gibberish?
It's not gibberish, it's math and its been used for centuries.
Everyone should know that XXX=30.
Most car stereos have bluetooth. The stereo system is connected to other systems in car.
Granted that statement is WILDLY far fetched but in theory, badly designed system could leak access through it.
Are you saying Samba4 doesn't exist?
Granted, theres no production release yet, but there are few people running it in production already.
Post your full name, address, credit card number and cvv as a reply to this post and we will get back to you if your card has been exposed to the threats on internet.
Desktop virtualisation is hypeword of the month. Don't get suckered into it until you understand the whole concept.
It's financially feasible only after you have 200+ desktops which you turn into virtual machines. With less, it'll just cost more.
Your case might be slightly different though.. you want to virtualise the OS on same hardware the user is currently using.
Remember that hypervisor adds overhead, you lose performance always.
It also creates some funky clock skew issues sometimes, and your virtual machines might have hard time updating their virus definitions.
For 20 machines, I'd say its more trouble than worth, unless you need to do it for compatibility reasons (like running older autocad on windows 7 64bit).
> It is really disgusting the way people build servers these days. They think all they need to do is to install a couple packages, change a couple config lines and boom, the server is ready. They are getting what they asked for when stuff like this happens.
Well, you probably have proper budget and are paid enough to actually care about things like fallback configurations.
If you have shoelace budget for software and hand-down hardware for servers in addition of having hourly salary comparable to the janitor, you tend to take the easy route.
> And what will DNS look like in 100 years when 95% of all domain names belong to companies that no longer exist but refuse to let anybody recycle it?
This is almost what I'm facing with one domain. It was previously used by another company during IT-bubble.
That company has been defunct for 15 years, and the domain expired.
The domain was grabbed by a company specializing in reselling domains, and they are asking 100x more than I'm willing to pay for the domain.
> Get any IT job
Or not. My last job years ago was driving a delivery truck. Today, I'm CIO of a multinational company. Although my boss told me later that he took enourmous gamble when hiring me, but after 3 months of trial period, his main concern was that I stayed on rather than moved on to another company.
Just say no to rapidshare and alike "please pay us or wait imaginary seconds for a download slot" sites.
You can use google docs to share large files.
If you pay for it, its yours to sell forward. This applies to resale of licenses as well.
Should we try the hollywood approach here instead?
You wouldn't sell a car..
This is a case where Mr. Smith should excercise his body (and reconsider his diet) rather than his right to free speech. Being obese will shorten his lifespan.
And while speaking of airliners, captain in a plane is as much a captain as one on a boat. If he says you're not welcome on board, you're out.
Those coexisted with NT4 and W2k which represented the business-line.
9x/ME were half-assed attempt to create multitasking window manager designed pre-internet era( Gates actually was dreaming of something internet-like, but microsoft controlled network, MSN). But their legacy still lives as parts of the original gui concept are still part of almost every OS today.
Today there's only different versions of the home-oriented OS. Calling OS enterprise and actually not having it behave like a different product doesn't really make it more corporate-oriented. It still seems like it was designed for entertainment rather than productivity.
During these 10 years, there's been change in the target audience of Windows. Older versions of windows were designed specifically for office use. Windows 2000 and XP did not change this line and were still clearly aimed for business users.
Vista and 7 changed the playfield. Apple came along with OS X, and Windows started to compete for home users market share, and somewhere on the line pretty much forgot the business users. The OS is no longer clearly aimed for business users.
Vista was a disaster pretty much every way you look at it, but 7 has fixed some of its flaws. Part of the problem is the overly simplifying things and forcing old reliable tree-browsing into libraries.
Library-like browsing is fine, if you want to watch photographs or browse mp3 collections at home, but it doesn't really work for corporate cases. Fileservers are easier to use if you can logically follow the treeview. (yes 7 has treeview too, but it sucks compared to old xp model)
looks like they copied their design from old tunturi mopeds
step 3) If possible test network changes on the production equipment at 2am so that impact on users will be less
Been there, done that. Sadly the only way to see how your setup works is to try it in production.
Sure it helps if you can test it beforehand, but sometimes your lab might not reflect what happens in real network when you roll something out.
Just make sure you can clock those am hours as overtime/nighttime work.
And remember to backup the running config twice so you can restore the production network if something goes fubar.