"Well, the question is, why virtualization?" "virtualization is very usefull in a corporate context, eg you want to separate environnements, ease up backups, increase security, have 10 different OSes installed on one server for testing purposes"
You really answered your own question, which is something to respect in the slashdot halls, where an empty question is more common...
To add my own thoughts, though, I'd say that's exactly why I want virtualization, and why I'd rather have it at the hardware level than anywhere else. If I could test out what the latest patch from my software vendor will do (whose patches have a tendency to crap out their system) in an entirely simulated environment, I would love it.
While I'm preparing for implementing a new and improved way of doing things, such as authenticating against LDAP instead of locally on each of my ten servers, it's reassuring to my higher ups to see the process actually implemented in a test environment, with ten servers, and working. Something tangeable for them to try out always sells better than "I think we can do this, I read about it, but I haven't tried it out yet."
Running in a production environment may be something of a different beast. I'll probably wait a year for others to test the waters before I jump on board, but I AM anxious to do so.
It was great to see the latest (I think) AMD hardware running Suse 10 with its Xen installation (So, Linux base) with an unmodified Windows XP OS on top. Sweet stuff. I'll never use it. But it indicates I'll be able to install any version of Linux, without kernel modification, and use it for my daily test needs. As soon as I can remember what the underlying hardware was, that's going on my list of 'toys to buy'.
Sorry to jump on your bandwagon, but I had to say it somehow...
Pardon the thought, but some of you guys do that girl thing too well. Oh well... There goes the illusion that I was chatting with a *girl* in IRC back in the day...
Weightlessness is not due to an increased distance to the earth
Not to pick noses, but that's only partly true. Weightlessness IS due to an increased distance to the Earth, but apparent weightlessness is not.
You can be apparently weightless as you, say, fall in an elevator. You will appear to be floating, while the system including the elevator will be accelerating to the ground. You can be weightless, at least to a large degree, by increasing the distance between your body and the earth.
The formula for the gravitational force (I think) is F=G(mM)/(r^2), where m is your mass, M is the Earth's, G is the gravitational constant, and r is the distance between you two. As you can see, the distance you travel affects this greatly. Extend yourself out towards infinity, and you will feel no force from the earth (though you may from some other object we've extended out and left there:)
Again, it's only approximately weightless, but it's still less of an acceleration than you experience on the Earth's surface. Now to go back to organizing my pocket protectors. Nyehey!
It might just as well be Venus for all the emotional impact I get from it.
And that's the impact. Suddenly, we're lost in the view of the universe. Our significant planet Earth is not too significant when you step a certain distance away, is it? It's just a blue dot.
The new bad guy has been described as a 'BAD motha.'
Is Samuel L. Jackson REALLY going to be in the movie?
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Could someone with financial background tell us if this is related to SCOX waiting to report their earnings for another two weeks?
Any correlation? How would these moves affect their reports?
*dons tinfoil hat*
My father was a lawyer, and a geeky one, too. He was the first in the state to use digital copies of case material in a court setting, and, during the final years of his profession, had repeatedly expressed his interest in digitizing his entire case archive - eliminating the need to store the past records off site, and use up a huge amount of space and paper.
What was holding him back? The digital documents were not yet proven to be legal, legitimate copies in a court setting.
He said to me many times that "the biggest problem with our legal system is that we fear change". That's all I could think about when I read this article.
McBride states "The future of the global economy hangs in the balance."
I say it could, but only if you think like the founders of our legal system. Could they have envisioned a world connected like we are?
This is a change - a recent one - in our model of commerce and development. Who would've thought that it could actually become more cost effective to share your ideas with others and see what you could all come up with?
The whole basis for this latest FUD will strike deep into the hearts of every lawmaker who had training in the ancient system. Should we take a giant leap forward, even with the appropriate research, into something that was never tried before? Should we let software patents be a thing of the past? Or should we sit here safely in the routines we didn't create?
I thought he was more analogous to the man with his legs and arms cut off in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie: really annoying, maybe bleeding on you, but too persistent to be ignored...
I think the whole thing was a sideways jab at hackers:
While virus writers are usually socially adept, many hackers are not.
That's the only line that really stuck out to me in this story... If you read on, however, it looks like they're talking about crackers of sorts. Any idea on who they're trying to insult here?
In a recent outbreak of confessions by users across the UK and other parts, technicians of all types took the information available on BBC's site, and beat the users with their respective keyboards...
Seriously, some people should have restraining orders not allowing them to use computers. What was that one person's comment? "Good thing I didn't put the laptop in first" (referring to setting down the laptop to put their kid in the car) - so, they're saying they would've been just as careless with their KID? Isn't that a little disturbing?
Anyway, I'm probably just one of those types of people who actually doesn't enjoy running over laptops, unlike the majority of people in that article.
Most Impressive, I'd say... I can identify the assembly hanger and the launch pad (see the two tall buildings?), but besides that, I don't know enough about it to make a guess. Any thoughts? http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/zoo mviewer/ind ex.php?display_img=chinaprelaunch
I read an article on New Scientist, and I guess it sums up the coolness of this flight:
'Xie Guangxuan, director of China Rocket Design Department, told the Chinese news web site Sina.com: "China's space technology has been created by China itself. We may have started later than Russia and the US, but it's amazing how fast we've been able to do this."'
Also, remember that stunt Brazil pulled a few months back? The big cheese of these events is that people are getting more interested in space flight, and so, as the others have commented, the world will be spurred into another space race - hopefully culminating in a serious funding increase for international space programs.
I can see how this would help if you dropped it from a table, or your briefcase, but what do they have to help the laptop that reaches its terminal velocity? It's not accelerating, so it'll unlock the drive, and then SLAM! your data's gone! Skydiving with a satellite connection may not be popular at IBM, but hey, think of the rest of us, you insensitive clod!
Before the flames and monkey automatons hit, let me explain. My fiancee and I invested in a nice computer. I thought she wouldn't be too interested in Linux, so we installed Windows XP on it. Also, she needed it for image editing and creation (Photoshop and Illustrator) for her college classes. When she began using Linux in her OS class, she wanted it installed, too. Unfortunately, we used the entire drive for Windows XP (dumb, I know). But now, I'm too lazy to reinstall Windows AND install Linux, plus we have no time to do so, thus we looked for a repartitioning utility that handles NTFS. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough (and maybe I don't want to fork the dough out for Partition Magic) but I've not been able to find one that even makes claims of recognizing NTFS partitions, much less resizing them. (Hey, if you know of one, feel free to burn me, and then give me the URL!)
from the e-insite article: "And the longer you wait, the worse the problem gets..." No kidding, huh? I thought performance would improve after the leaking capacitors juiced my mobo. In all seriousness, we've bought probably around 100 boards from a certain manufacturer who will remain nameless (because I don't remember it right now...) and in two months time, we accumulated over twenty boards with pus-filled capacitors. We tried to send them back, but the manufacturer wouldn't have that. Since that time, we've made it a habit to check all capacitors even before we do a RAM check, just because it's more likely to be the capacitors!
Otherwise you could be like me and the programmer who picked up a frog princess and stuffed her in his pocket, because a talking frog is really cool...
So, I tried translating this page from Italian using babelfish (ignoring the irony), but the translation left a lot to be desired. For example:
Historical documents of the Secret Archives Vatican
* Liber Diurnus
* Agreed of Worms
* Diploma of Federico the Barbarossa
* All your base are belong to us
"Please consider this letter as secret... I ensure you absolute secrecy," the e-mail stated.
"Oh, all right... The combination is: One" "One" "Two" "Two" "Three" "Three" "Four" "Four" "Five" "Five" "One two three four five... that sounds like the combination some idiot would use on his luggage!" *later* "Amazing! That's the same combination I use on my luggage!"
All hail President Screw... I guess the absolute secrecy part has a clause that a certain individual selects a good password.
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"Well, the question is, why virtualization?"
"virtualization is very usefull in a corporate context, eg you want to separate environnements, ease up backups, increase security, have 10 different OSes installed on one server for testing purposes"
You really answered your own question, which is something to respect in the slashdot halls, where an empty question is more common...
To add my own thoughts, though, I'd say that's exactly why I want virtualization, and why I'd rather have it at the hardware level than anywhere else. If I could test out what the latest patch from my software vendor will do (whose patches have a tendency to crap out their system) in an entirely simulated environment, I would love it.
While I'm preparing for implementing a new and improved way of doing things, such as authenticating against LDAP instead of locally on each of my ten servers, it's reassuring to my higher ups to see the process actually implemented in a test environment, with ten servers, and working. Something tangeable for them to try out always sells better than "I think we can do this, I read about it, but I haven't tried it out yet."
Running in a production environment may be something of a different beast. I'll probably wait a year for others to test the waters before I jump on board, but I AM anxious to do so.
It was great to see the latest (I think) AMD hardware running Suse 10 with its Xen installation (So, Linux base) with an unmodified Windows XP OS on top. Sweet stuff. I'll never use it. But it indicates I'll be able to install any version of Linux, without kernel modification, and use it for my daily test needs. As soon as I can remember what the underlying hardware was, that's going on my list of 'toys to buy'.
Sorry to jump on your bandwagon, but I had to say it somehow...
..if I ever managed to become the laughing stock of the entire internet...
Dude, I thought you knew... Sorry man.
Pardon the thought, but some of you guys do that girl thing too well. Oh well... There goes the illusion that I was chatting with a *girl* in IRC back in the day...
"It's counter-intuitive, poorly documented, slow and overly complex."
Well, THAT should make the switch easier for Microsoft admins!
"Those 10 minutes occur during the night between July 31st and September 9th."
Which, if you ask me, is the longest night of the year. 9 days of night is nothing to sneeze at.
You're absolutely right. Sorry, I got too focused on a technicality that wasn't errored in the original, and came up with that junk I posted first.
Weightlessness is not due to an increased distance to the earth
:)
Not to pick noses, but that's only partly true. Weightlessness IS due to an increased distance to the Earth, but apparent weightlessness is not.
You can be apparently weightless as you, say, fall in an elevator. You will appear to be floating, while the system including the elevator will be accelerating to the ground. You can be weightless, at least to a large degree, by increasing the distance between your body and the earth.
The formula for the gravitational force (I think) is F=G(mM)/(r^2), where m is your mass, M is the Earth's, G is the gravitational constant, and r is the distance between you two. As you can see, the distance you travel affects this greatly. Extend yourself out towards infinity, and you will feel no force from the earth (though you may from some other object we've extended out and left there
Again, it's only approximately weightless, but it's still less of an acceleration than you experience on the Earth's surface. Now to go back to organizing my pocket protectors. Nyehey!
Artificial intelligence would enhance them all.
Uh huh. Shall we get back to our chess game?
"Strap on some running shoes and shorts, and enjoy some nature..."
Please no shorts... not geeks in shorts... ANYTHING but SHORTS!!!
Scratch that - anything but shorts or spandex! Sweatpants work fine.
It might just as well be Venus for all the emotional impact I get from it.
And that's the impact. Suddenly, we're lost in the view of the universe. Our significant planet Earth is not too significant when you step a certain distance away, is it? It's just a blue dot.
The new bad guy has been described as a 'BAD motha.'
Is Samuel L. Jackson REALLY going to be in the movie?
Could someone with financial background tell us if this is related to SCOX waiting to report their earnings for another two weeks?
Any correlation? How would these moves affect their reports?
*dons tinfoil hat*
My father was a lawyer, and a geeky one, too. He was the first in the state to use digital copies of case material in a court setting, and, during the final years of his profession, had repeatedly expressed his interest in digitizing his entire case archive - eliminating the need to store the past records off site, and use up a huge amount of space and paper.
What was holding him back? The digital documents were not yet proven to be legal, legitimate copies in a court setting. He said to me many times that "the biggest problem with our legal system is that we fear change". That's all I could think about when I read this article.
McBride states "The future of the global economy hangs in the balance." I say it could, but only if you think like the founders of our legal system. Could they have envisioned a world connected like we are?
This is a change - a recent one - in our model of commerce and development. Who would've thought that it could actually become more cost effective to share your ideas with others and see what you could all come up with?
The whole basis for this latest FUD will strike deep into the hearts of every lawmaker who had training in the ancient system. Should we take a giant leap forward, even with the appropriate research, into something that was never tried before? Should we let software patents be a thing of the past? Or should we sit here safely in the routines we didn't create?
I thought he was more analogous to the man with his legs and arms cut off in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie: really annoying, maybe bleeding on you, but too persistent to be ignored...
I think the whole thing was a sideways jab at hackers:
While virus writers are usually socially adept, many hackers are not.
That's the only line that really stuck out to me in this story... If you read on, however, it looks like they're talking about crackers of sorts. Any idea on who they're trying to insult here?
In a recent outbreak of confessions by users across the UK and other parts, technicians of all types took the information available on BBC's site, and beat the users with their respective keyboards...
Seriously, some people should have restraining orders not allowing them to use computers. What was that one person's comment? "Good thing I didn't put the laptop in first" (referring to setting down the laptop to put their kid in the car) - so, they're saying they would've been just as careless with their KID? Isn't that a little disturbing?
Anyway, I'm probably just one of those types of people who actually doesn't enjoy running over laptops, unlike the majority of people in that article.
Most Impressive, I'd say... I can identify the assembly hanger and the launch pad (see the two tall buildings?), but besides that, I don't know enough about it to make a guess. Any thoughts?o mviewer/ind ex.php?display_img=chinaprelaunch
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/zo
I read an article on New Scientist, and I guess it sums up the coolness of this flight:
'Xie Guangxuan, director of China Rocket Design Department, told the Chinese news web site Sina.com: "China's space technology has been created by China itself. We may have started later than Russia and the US, but it's amazing how fast we've been able to do this."'
Also, remember that stunt Brazil pulled a few months back? The big cheese of these events is that people are getting more interested in space flight, and so, as the others have commented, the world will be spurred into another space race - hopefully culminating in a serious funding increase for international space programs.
I can see how this would help if you dropped it from a table, or your briefcase, but what do they have to help the laptop that reaches its terminal velocity? It's not accelerating, so it'll unlock the drive, and then SLAM! your data's gone! Skydiving with a satellite connection may not be popular at IBM, but hey, think of the rest of us, you insensitive clod!
Before the flames and monkey automatons hit, let me explain.
My fiancee and I invested in a nice computer. I thought she wouldn't be too interested in Linux, so we installed Windows XP on it. Also, she needed it for image editing and creation (Photoshop and Illustrator) for her college classes.
When she began using Linux in her OS class, she wanted it installed, too. Unfortunately, we used the entire drive for Windows XP (dumb, I know). But now, I'm too lazy to reinstall Windows AND install Linux, plus we have no time to do so, thus we looked for a repartitioning utility that handles NTFS.
Maybe I'm not looking hard enough (and maybe I don't want to fork the dough out for Partition Magic) but I've not been able to find one that even makes claims of recognizing NTFS partitions, much less resizing them.
(Hey, if you know of one, feel free to burn me, and then give me the URL!)
from the e-insite article:
"And the longer you wait, the worse the problem gets..."
No kidding, huh? I thought performance would improve after the leaking capacitors juiced my mobo.
In all seriousness, we've bought probably around 100 boards from a certain manufacturer who will remain nameless (because I don't remember it right now...) and in two months time, we accumulated over twenty boards with pus-filled capacitors. We tried to send them back, but the manufacturer wouldn't have that. Since that time, we've made it a habit to check all capacitors even before we do a RAM check, just because it's more likely to be the capacitors!
Otherwise you could be like me and the programmer who picked up a frog princess and stuffed her in his pocket, because a talking frog is really cool...
A pumpkin pc is really cool, too.
So, I tried translating this page from Italian using babelfish (ignoring the irony), but the translation left a lot to be desired. For example:
Historical documents of the Secret Archives Vatican
* Liber Diurnus
* Agreed of Worms
* Diploma of Federico the Barbarossa
* All your base are belong to us
Quite disappointing, I must say...
When you've been driving a '78 Chevy truck, it sure is! I measured gallons/mile instead of miles/gallon :)
"Please consider this letter as secret ... I ensure you absolute secrecy," the e-mail stated.
"Four"
"Oh, all right... The combination is:
One"
"One"
"Two"
"Two"
"Three"
"Three"
"Four"
"Five"
"Five"
"One two three four five... that sounds like the combination some idiot would use on his luggage!"
*later*
"Amazing! That's the same combination I use on my luggage!"
All hail President Screw...
I guess the absolute secrecy part has a clause that a certain individual selects a good password.