According to the AlwaysOn Groups link you provided, he would need to bother with clustering:
"Each availability replica must reside on a different node of a single Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster. For more information about prerequisites, restrictions, and recommendations for availability groups, see Prerequisites, Restrictions, and Recommendations for AlwaysOn Availability Groups (SQL Server)."
I don't particularly disagree that things do change, and that textbooks get updated, I'm just saying that putting technology into classrooms for the sole reason that you have instantly updated information is perhaps unnecessary.
I'd venture to say that this is not entirely true for many subjects that students learn in K-12. For example, geometry, arithmetic, algebra, even basic calculus haven't changed significantly in hundreds of years. Why would you need instantly up to date information to learn these subjects? The same is true for english, history, etc., etc.
Just a thought.
Um, Richard Stallman is a crazy person. I'm all for free and open source software, and I use a fair bit of it, but I also understand that there are people out there that might want to make money from their hard work. What's brilliant is that you have a choice: you can either find free and open source software, or you can choose to pay those people.
Either way, the scenario Stallman paints in that asinine "Right to Read" piece will not happen. People need to stop listening to crazy people like him.
IIRC, the free version of ESXi has some weird memory restrictions that make it not very useful for larger enterprise setups, but otherwise I think you're right.
While every environment varies, we've been running a three-node Hyper-V cluster with an iSCSI SAN backend for three years, and it's never crashed. To compare setups, we have 10TB of storage on our SAN, and two Internet connections, with all the network infrastructure one would expect to find between those Internet connections and the cluster. The cluster currently runs 17 Windows servers (from 2003 through 2008 R2) and four Linux servers. We also have one standalone Hyper-V host with DAS storage running an additional four Windows servers and two Linux servers. Your comment about Hyper-V being absolute crap is maybe a bit overstated. Just my two cents.
I work at a non-profit, and we went with Hyper-V about three years ago because of the licensing. Microsoft almost gives away their products to non-profits, and you still get support. For us, it was a no-brainer. I've worked with VMWare also, and I don't really feel we're missing anything. I have an assortment of Windows, Ubuntu, and CentOS servers, and everything works the way it's supposed to for us. Just my two cents.
Would be for Apple to let us virtualize OS X server on our existing (insert VM platform of your choosing) clusters, instead of requiring Apple hardware. I had an Apple rep tell me the other day that they have that requirement because the experience is better on their hardware (when talking about a server that sits in a rack that you never look at). What a joke.
Is anyone really all that interested in a game that started out as a Quake mod in 2001? Anyone other than open source bigots who are excited that they can play a game and it's totally free?
Except that he specifically said the ribbon UI. He then goes on to talk about giving up on Office 97 about a year ago, which calls further into doubt that he ever tried Office 2007. Face it, this person is a dirty troll.
I don't mind someone having a legitimate beef with something, but I'm sick and tired of the people that just jump on the bashing bandwagon and have never even tried a product.
You clearly don't use Office 2007, or are a moron. Outlook 2007 is the single Office 2007 application that DOESN'T use the ribbon interface. That apparently won't happen until Office 2010.
Not sure foreign sites are relevant to the fact that the South Carolina AG is calling the South Carolina site a criminal enterprise. Who knows, the laws may be entirely different in foreign countries regarding how Craigslist can and cannot deal with postings on its site.
I got called for jury the other day, and I put my iPhone and my MSI Wind (with webcam) down right in front of the security guards and they let me walk right through. Maybe our court house isn't quite as intense...
"There are two options here: Option 1) This is Ziff-Davis MSFT flamebait. Option 2) The author of the piece is an idiotic fuck who screwed up his install."
Option 3) This reply was written in typical Mac fanboy style. The only real answer is that Apple's software is perfect, and any problems are clearly the fault of the person using their software, because it "just works."
Regardless of whose fault it is, the fact remains that it could take a year to get drivers for Linux. And, no matter what people say about Vista's "lack of driver support," Vista still supports a vast amount of hardware when compared to Linux.
I can't think of a single person that I've talked to recently that said, "you know what, I'm just dreaming of the day when Dell will sell me a computer with Ubuntu on it so I can finally run Linux." Most of the people I know what know what to do with themselves if they had Linux on their computer. If everyone I know suddenly had Linux, the number of phone calls I get about computers would increase by a factor of ten, at least. I would be willing to pay the extra $50 for them to get the Vista version, since it would at least be less scary for them.
I'm using Vista Business and Vista Ultimate, and all of those products are working just fine for me. All of this hype over Vista breaking everything hasn't seemed to really pan out for me. The one program I haven't gotten to work is NetStumbler, and I have a feeling it's because MS changed the way drivers interact with the system, and NetStumbler doesn't like that. So, I don't see what all the fuss is about. I have three machines with three different sets of hardware and various apps, everything seems fine. Definitely not a large sample, but who knows. Everyone just calm down a bit.
I loved my TI-92. It did pretty much everything, had a better screen than the earlier TI's, and was still allowed on the AP tests. It also had a lot stronger programming language for added flexibility. Check it out!
If you actually read the article you'll see the sentence which says:
"Polymer Vision does not intend to commercialize this concept as a product in the market. Instead, it is demonstrating the fitness of its rollable displays for use in future mobile devices."
They know there are problems, but wanted to see if it's even doable.
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According to the AlwaysOn Groups link you provided, he would need to bother with clustering: "Each availability replica must reside on a different node of a single Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster. For more information about prerequisites, restrictions, and recommendations for availability groups, see Prerequisites, Restrictions, and Recommendations for AlwaysOn Availability Groups (SQL Server)."
"What's a 160-miles-per-charge, $50k car worth to you?" Presumably, $50k.
I don't particularly disagree that things do change, and that textbooks get updated, I'm just saying that putting technology into classrooms for the sole reason that you have instantly updated information is perhaps unnecessary.
I'd venture to say that this is not entirely true for many subjects that students learn in K-12. For example, geometry, arithmetic, algebra, even basic calculus haven't changed significantly in hundreds of years. Why would you need instantly up to date information to learn these subjects? The same is true for english, history, etc., etc. Just a thought.
Um, Richard Stallman is a crazy person. I'm all for free and open source software, and I use a fair bit of it, but I also understand that there are people out there that might want to make money from their hard work. What's brilliant is that you have a choice: you can either find free and open source software, or you can choose to pay those people. Either way, the scenario Stallman paints in that asinine "Right to Read" piece will not happen. People need to stop listening to crazy people like him.
IIRC, the free version of ESXi has some weird memory restrictions that make it not very useful for larger enterprise setups, but otherwise I think you're right.
While every environment varies, we've been running a three-node Hyper-V cluster with an iSCSI SAN backend for three years, and it's never crashed. To compare setups, we have 10TB of storage on our SAN, and two Internet connections, with all the network infrastructure one would expect to find between those Internet connections and the cluster. The cluster currently runs 17 Windows servers (from 2003 through 2008 R2) and four Linux servers. We also have one standalone Hyper-V host with DAS storage running an additional four Windows servers and two Linux servers. Your comment about Hyper-V being absolute crap is maybe a bit overstated. Just my two cents.
I work at a non-profit, and we went with Hyper-V about three years ago because of the licensing. Microsoft almost gives away their products to non-profits, and you still get support. For us, it was a no-brainer. I've worked with VMWare also, and I don't really feel we're missing anything. I have an assortment of Windows, Ubuntu, and CentOS servers, and everything works the way it's supposed to for us. Just my two cents.
Would be for Apple to let us virtualize OS X server on our existing (insert VM platform of your choosing) clusters, instead of requiring Apple hardware. I had an Apple rep tell me the other day that they have that requirement because the experience is better on their hardware (when talking about a server that sits in a rack that you never look at). What a joke.
Is anyone really all that interested in a game that started out as a Quake mod in 2001? Anyone other than open source bigots who are excited that they can play a game and it's totally free?
Except that he specifically said the ribbon UI. He then goes on to talk about giving up on Office 97 about a year ago, which calls further into doubt that he ever tried Office 2007. Face it, this person is a dirty troll. I don't mind someone having a legitimate beef with something, but I'm sick and tired of the people that just jump on the bashing bandwagon and have never even tried a product.
You clearly don't use Office 2007, or are a moron. Outlook 2007 is the single Office 2007 application that DOESN'T use the ribbon interface. That apparently won't happen until Office 2010.
Not sure foreign sites are relevant to the fact that the South Carolina AG is calling the South Carolina site a criminal enterprise. Who knows, the laws may be entirely different in foreign countries regarding how Craigslist can and cannot deal with postings on its site.
I got called for jury the other day, and I put my iPhone and my MSI Wind (with webcam) down right in front of the security guards and they let me walk right through. Maybe our court house isn't quite as intense...
As soon as I read the summary I wondered if it had anything to do with Anathem, or vice versa. Definitely enjoyed the book.
"There are two options here:
Option 1) This is Ziff-Davis MSFT flamebait.
Option 2) The author of the piece is an idiotic fuck who screwed up his install."
Option 3) This reply was written in typical Mac fanboy style. The only real answer is that Apple's software is perfect, and any problems are clearly the fault of the person using their software, because it "just works."
Regardless of whose fault it is, the fact remains that it could take a year to get drivers for Linux. And, no matter what people say about Vista's "lack of driver support," Vista still supports a vast amount of hardware when compared to Linux.
I can't think of a single person that I've talked to recently that said, "you know what, I'm just dreaming of the day when Dell will sell me a computer with Ubuntu on it so I can finally run Linux." Most of the people I know what know what to do with themselves if they had Linux on their computer. If everyone I know suddenly had Linux, the number of phone calls I get about computers would increase by a factor of ten, at least. I would be willing to pay the extra $50 for them to get the Vista version, since it would at least be less scary for them.
I'm using Vista Business and Vista Ultimate, and all of those products are working just fine for me. All of this hype over Vista breaking everything hasn't seemed to really pan out for me. The one program I haven't gotten to work is NetStumbler, and I have a feeling it's because MS changed the way drivers interact with the system, and NetStumbler doesn't like that. So, I don't see what all the fuss is about. I have three machines with three different sets of hardware and various apps, everything seems fine. Definitely not a large sample, but who knows. Everyone just calm down a bit.
I loved my TI-92. It did pretty much everything, had a better screen than the earlier TI's, and was still allowed on the AP tests. It also had a lot stronger programming language for added flexibility. Check it out!
If you actually read the article you'll see the sentence which says: "Polymer Vision does not intend to commercialize this concept as a product in the market. Instead, it is demonstrating the fitness of its rollable displays for use in future mobile devices." They know there are problems, but wanted to see if it's even doable.
The sad thing is that some people will actually believe comments like yours.