to be fair i wouldn't touch it till exchange 2000 - which ran decent but still had nightmares with it - then moved to exchange 2003 wich to be fair while not x64 does a decent job with medium size setups.
But the point is to everyone who things of the horror of putting exchange in a VM - the reality is that it is far more stable in a VM than on real hardware.
Exchange is stable if the hardware does what it says to..
one of the things i feel gives Exchange a bad name is that to increase it's preformace it actuly replaces some of the NTFS filesystem driver files (i would have to look them up to remember).. but depending on your storage this can be a very bad thing (and yet unavoidable) remember not everyone has FC and a SAN.. exchange is used on closer to comodity hardware than most thing alot fo the times (rememer SBS has exchange installed)
so while running on perfect hardware it has zero problem.. but i will tell you right now that if excahnge says write and the controler comes back with IO wait.. and IO fail.. screw that mail store. Virtualizeing exchange eliminates the IO Wait and IO Fail as if their is an actual IO Wait on the hardware the VM is momentrarly paused till it is corrected as with IO fail the Host server will retry where exchange on real hardware wouldn't. once the IO succeds that is passed up to the VM and exchange moves on never having a clue wht happend.
alot of hardware and drivers arn't perfect.. this causes exchange to get a croupt store.. once you remove that exchange runs very smooth
i love linux as much as everyone else but in reality there isn't a product yet out side of exchange that gives the amount of seemless intgration that exchange gives.
but exchange sucks ass when talking to the rest of the world directly.
so we use slack+sendmail+clamav+spamassiasn to buffer and filter all incoming mail - then use one to buffer and send out. while it adds a couple second to a couple min delay on incoming mail based on filter lists.. it is a perfect setup for us, and all running virtualized on the same box.
to be honest i was thinking the same thing.. after seeng some of the patterns in the image versions i was wondering if they where going to take either the individual pairs and match them with and instrament or have one modify the other or something - kinda like the network analyser that turns logs and box loads into clasical music..
if they did that and it was remotely nice to listen to.. i would have it book marked - but after 30seconds of that thing i will never touch it again except maybe to troll someone
actualy for MS exchange it is the reverse of what you claim.
Exchange runs quite well with very few problems in and of it's self - but if there is an IO timeout or a fail to write or something of that sort or buggy hardware drivers you will have big problems.
While you do lose some to over head virtulizing exchange is a very good idea in pratice - it plays very well and is exceptional stable in a VM.
the trick is not to never let exchange talk directly to the outside world but rather to trusted hosts you manage - which any decent size exchange deployment should be doing.
I've been running exchange in an VM for over 3 years now and have had zero problems with stability or preformace.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.. although i do have to scratch my head on doing it on a mainframe..
the "other devices" is the first thing i thought of when i saw this.
I use a phone with Windows Mobile on it (the 8525) - i like the iPhone but without support for teathering (need it for work) it's a no go for me.
I already use my phone to read ebooks and if this software was avaliable for mobile 5 i would be downloading it instead of writing this response.
While honestly the page sync is nice it is a gimic really.. having the sync of the collection is very nice, I do have to wonder about adding books i already have to the collection and how that would work.
I can only hope that they will push forward and release a WM5/6 version and not neglect it (sorry even MS has neglected their ebook reader for WM5/6)
although one has to wonder what will happen to the service and your collection when amazon dies or drops the service.
i do the same thing with sendmail - and guess what? unless you are sure to strip everything of all possiable TNEF data then if one of the "special" e-mails passes your spam filtering it will go right on to the exchange server where it will be proccessed and you will be screwed.
this isn't someone sending a malformed SMTP message that effects only exchange's SMTP MTA.. this is specialy formatted content inside a perfectly ligit e-mail. no normal or even abnormal spam filter would catch this if it was directed and intentional.
When i used CRT's anything less than 85 Hz was painful to use.
and yes i agree with you about the florescent lights.. i at one point got the idea to convert my house from normal to CFL's.. then i realized my headachs didn't stop when i got home.. i have now moved back to incdecents in the house and have also replaced the florescent lights in my office with can lights with reveals in them.. makes all the diffrence in the world for my head.
"but the whole 6/7/8 bit and response time thing: is it noticeable?"
yes - it is.. I remember when gateway first started putting out LCD's my boss got me one.. i tried using it for about 3 days before i put my old CRT right back.. the ghosting was so bad - now modern panels don't have that much of an issue BUT the color depth is an issue..
right now i run dual screens at work.. a nice Samsung via DVI and the laptop screen as the primary.
the Samsung is wonderful - even true colors.. where as the laptop (thanks dell) is horrid and you can see artifacts on gradients because it just doesn't have the color depth.. it also has very poor contrast so if i have it in the car or out side in day light by the time i turn the brightness up to read it it is all washed out.
to the Home user.. yea it doesn't matter really - but to someone who spends 8-14 hours infront of the screen it matters alot.. if there was a way to replace the pannle in my laptop with a better one i would do it in a heart beat.
I'm fine with caps at all ranges - as long as they are advertised as such - and i don't mean in the small print - if they advertise a connection as unlimited it should be just that.. unlimited.. not "unlimited until 200gb"
well here in NC they view driving (and i agree with this) as a prevliage not a right.. if you are completely uncoaprative in ensuring safty on the roads then you lose the prevliage.
in my state you can refuse - but if you do you automaticly lose your license for 6 months.. no you don't get the DUI/DWI on your record just the lose of license - what you can do how ever is refuse a breathalizer on the basis that it is not acurate to what definds drunk driving which is blood achol level - and then say you are willing to go to the ER and have an actual blood test for it. as long as you offer to take you blood test you can deny the breath test without penatly - although if when they do the blood test you are over the limit you are screwed because there is no question in it's acuracy
while that is true.. when i need replacement parts and need them covered under warrenty and need them asap.. lenovo gets it done.. dell drags their feet (well they did dill we ended up in their "gold" support area)
the first link shows a pointless chart.. i do not belive that only 5% of homes in the US have a DVD player while 7% have a blueray player..
if you are to compare the uptake from VHS->DVD to the uptake of DVD->BluRay it needs to be % of population over the relevent uptake times.. aka from release of the first player to the market on via time.
very true.. we use at&t not by choice but rather fucntion.. they are the largest GSM provider in the US.. and the rest of the world is GSM.. meaning one phone works just about every where..
from a biz perspective.. any company that has people travel overseas this isn't even an option..
sorry but someoen is going to have to show me actual end user purchase rates for blueray vs population and dvd vs population over time before i will even moderatly entertain the idea that bluray is catching on faster than dvd did from vhs
because they ship them formatted because 90% of buyers are stupid.
it is cheaper for them to pay a fee to licence a file system - preformat the card than it is to ship them blank only to have the consumer call in saying it is broke + the costs associated with said consumer returning perfectly good products thinking they are broken.
users are idiots - if they ship them non formatted then people will think they are broken
very very true.. sadly i know people that still run 98se.. honestly win2k was extreamly good.. XP was kinda annoying but turned out fine.. server 2003 is perfect in my mind - from a windows stand point.. there are some nice things in vista and server 08.. but server 2003 provides extreamly good reliability and stability compared to all other windows OS's
i agree.. but if the released this - and it was the size and weight of a c64 they would only sell a handfull where as going thin and lite they will sell alot more - its a function of trying to make something that fills the void they are wanting to fill.. if being small and lite is what they need then they will do it that way.. i was just noting that using the "apple" style keyboard can be explained in a way to make it sturdy not just to look stylish.
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i don't know why .. but when i read that i read the name as
Ikea Want'a Be
and was wondering why anyone would want to be cheap prefab furniture *scraths head*
to be fair i wouldn't touch it till exchange 2000 - which ran decent but still had nightmares with it - then moved to exchange 2003 wich to be fair while not x64 does a decent job with medium size setups.
But the point is to everyone who things of the horror of putting exchange in a VM - the reality is that it is far more stable in a VM than on real hardware.
Exchange is stable if the hardware does what it says to..
one of the things i feel gives Exchange a bad name is that to increase it's preformace it actuly replaces some of the NTFS filesystem driver files (i would have to look them up to remember).. but depending on your storage this can be a very bad thing (and yet unavoidable) remember not everyone has FC and a SAN.. exchange is used on closer to comodity hardware than most thing alot fo the times (rememer SBS has exchange installed)
so while running on perfect hardware it has zero problem.. but i will tell you right now that if excahnge says write and the controler comes back with IO wait.. and IO fail.. screw that mail store. Virtualizeing exchange eliminates the IO Wait and IO Fail as if their is an actual IO Wait on the hardware the VM is momentrarly paused till it is corrected as with IO fail the Host server will retry where exchange on real hardware wouldn't. once the IO succeds that is passed up to the VM and exchange moves on never having a clue wht happend.
alot of hardware and drivers arn't perfect.. this causes exchange to get a croupt store.. once you remove that exchange runs very smooth
i love linux as much as everyone else but in reality there isn't a product yet out side of exchange that gives the amount of seemless intgration that exchange gives.
but exchange sucks ass when talking to the rest of the world directly.
so we use slack+sendmail+clamav+spamassiasn to buffer and filter all incoming mail - then use one to buffer and send out. while it adds a couple second to a couple min delay on incoming mail based on filter lists.. it is a perfect setup for us, and all running virtualized on the same box.
to be honest i was thinking the same thing.. after seeng some of the patterns in the image versions i was wondering if they where going to take either the individual pairs and match them with and instrament or have one modify the other or something - kinda like the network analyser that turns logs and box loads into clasical music..
if they did that and it was remotely nice to listen to.. i would have it book marked - but after 30seconds of that thing i will never touch it again except maybe to troll someone
actualy for MS exchange it is the reverse of what you claim.
Exchange runs quite well with very few problems in and of it's self - but if there is an IO timeout or a fail to write or something of that sort or buggy hardware drivers you will have big problems.
While you do lose some to over head virtulizing exchange is a very good idea in pratice - it plays very well and is exceptional stable in a VM.
the trick is not to never let exchange talk directly to the outside world but rather to trusted hosts you manage - which any decent size exchange deployment should be doing.
I've been running exchange in an VM for over 3 years now and have had zero problems with stability or preformace.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.. although i do have to scratch my head on doing it on a mainframe..
the "other devices" is the first thing i thought of when i saw this.
I use a phone with Windows Mobile on it (the 8525) - i like the iPhone but without support for teathering (need it for work) it's a no go for me.
I already use my phone to read ebooks and if this software was avaliable for mobile 5 i would be downloading it instead of writing this response.
While honestly the page sync is nice it is a gimic really.. having the sync of the collection is very nice, I do have to wonder about adding books i already have to the collection and how that would work.
I can only hope that they will push forward and release a WM5/6 version and not neglect it (sorry even MS has neglected their ebook reader for WM5/6)
although one has to wonder what will happen to the service and your collection when amazon dies or drops the service.
PBX's have been doing that for a long time now with systems that support Voice Mail, VOIP clients, multi site grouping and routing.
i do the same thing with sendmail - and guess what? unless you are sure to strip everything of all possiable TNEF data then if one of the "special" e-mails passes your spam filtering it will go right on to the exchange server where it will be proccessed and you will be screwed.
this isn't someone sending a malformed SMTP message that effects only exchange's SMTP MTA.. this is specialy formatted content inside a perfectly ligit e-mail. no normal or even abnormal spam filter would catch this if it was directed and intentional.
When i used CRT's anything less than 85 Hz was painful to use.
and yes i agree with you about the florescent lights.. i at one point got the idea to convert my house from normal to CFL's .. then i realized my headachs didn't stop when i got home.. i have now moved back to incdecents in the house and have also replaced the florescent lights in my office with can lights with reveals in them.. makes all the diffrence in the world for my head.
"but the whole 6/7/8 bit and response time thing: is it noticeable?"
yes - it is.. I remember when gateway first started putting out LCD's my boss got me one.. i tried using it for about 3 days before i put my old CRT right back.. the ghosting was so bad - now modern panels don't have that much of an issue BUT the color depth is an issue..
right now i run dual screens at work.. a nice Samsung via DVI and the laptop screen as the primary.
the Samsung is wonderful - even true colors.. where as the laptop (thanks dell) is horrid and you can see artifacts on gradients because it just doesn't have the color depth.. it also has very poor contrast so if i have it in the car or out side in day light by the time i turn the brightness up to read it it is all washed out.
to the Home user.. yea it doesn't matter really - but to someone who spends 8-14 hours infront of the screen it matters alot.. if there was a way to replace the pannle in my laptop with a better one i would do it in a heart beat.
I'm fine with caps at all ranges - as long as they are advertised as such - and i don't mean in the small print - if they advertise a connection as unlimited it should be just that.. unlimited.. not "unlimited until 200gb"
don't for get the seat belts for the action sequences
well here in NC they view driving (and i agree with this) as a prevliage not a right.. if you are completely uncoaprative in ensuring safty on the roads then you lose the prevliage.
in my state you can refuse - but if you do you automaticly lose your license for 6 months.. no you don't get the DUI/DWI on your record just the lose of license - what you can do how ever is refuse a breathalizer on the basis that it is not acurate to what definds drunk driving which is blood achol level - and then say you are willing to go to the ER and have an actual blood test for it. as long as you offer to take you blood test you can deny the breath test without penatly - although if when they do the blood test you are over the limit you are screwed because there is no question in it's acuracy
while that is true.. when i need replacement parts and need them covered under warrenty and need them asap.. lenovo gets it done.. dell drags their feet (well they did dill we ended up in their "gold" support area)
Vmware isn't going any place.. to have them on the list just shows how much of a joke this is
the first link shows a pointless chart.. i do not belive that only 5% of homes in the US have a DVD player while 7% have a blueray player..
if you are to compare the uptake from VHS->DVD to the uptake of DVD->BluRay it needs to be % of population over the relevent uptake times.. aka from release of the first player to the market on via time.
very true.. we use at&t not by choice but rather fucntion.. they are the largest GSM provider in the US.. and the rest of the world is GSM.. meaning one phone works just about every where..
from a biz perspective.. any company that has people travel overseas this isn't even an option..
truely screwing them selves
sorry but someoen is going to have to show me actual end user purchase rates for blueray vs population and dvd vs population over time before i will even moderatly entertain the idea that bluray is catching on faster than dvd did from vhs
thats what i prefer about server 2003 you can install it without media player, outlook express, or even IE (takes alittle effort)
humm USB support has been present since 95 OSR2
my comment about people on 98se was to parrents ~ME was MS's way of getting people off win 9x~ which i agree
because they ship them formatted because 90% of buyers are stupid.
it is cheaper for them to pay a fee to licence a file system - preformat the card than it is to ship them blank only to have the consumer call in saying it is broke + the costs associated with said consumer returning perfectly good products thinking they are broken.
users are idiots - if they ship them non formatted then people will think they are broken
- yes it's sad - yes its true
very very true.. sadly i know people that still run 98se.. honestly win2k was extreamly good.. XP was kinda annoying but turned out fine.. server 2003 is perfect in my mind - from a windows stand point.. there are some nice things in vista and server 08.. but server 2003 provides extreamly good reliability and stability compared to all other windows OS's
i agree.. but if the released this - and it was the size and weight of a c64 they would only sell a handfull where as going thin and lite they will sell alot more - its a function of trying to make something that fills the void they are wanting to fill.. if being small and lite is what they need then they will do it that way.. i was just noting that using the "apple" style keyboard can be explained in a way to make it sturdy not just to look stylish.