It lets Ctrl+Alt+Del through because on Windows PCs, this key sequence is known as a Non-Maskable Interrupt. This means that, short of hijacking the keyboard driver and changing the mapping from actual to virtual key or other very low level actions, the key sequence cannot be overridden. As a single interface across all versions of the product makes the upgrade treadmill less difficult and OS switching simpler (sit down at any computer with any version of the software and you don't have to be concerned with the underlying OS or other details) and as VMWare's goal is to make money and that means pleasing the largest market and not pissing off the lesser markets as much as the competitors, the interface was likely designed mainly with Windows in mind, with linux support added on where it did not interfere with the Windows capabilities. That said, VMWare very well could have fairly simply modified the interface so the linux version of the software could have reflected the difference in host OS, but this of course would have taken time, and time is money, and any additional money spent gets passed on to the consumer, which results in a decrease in consumers, so they followed the simple rule "You can't please everyone all the time, so be nice to the bear because unless it's a very vicious beast and you lack a holy hand grenade, the cuddly bunny isn't going to be much of a threat". That being said, what would be truly ideal would be for VMWare to adopt a plugin system with platform-independent modules (or at least as platform-independent as possible, if the SDK supported lower-level operations they would obviously e less cross-platform) that would allow you to modify the VMWare behavior, interface, display, and addditional details, but that would require relinquishing some modicum of control of their software and most big software companies are against that. Live and let live.
The point is you're comparing two products with vastly different aims. VmWare workstation is designed for a single workstation and as such it is designed to use limited resources as efficiently as possible to make the experience inside the virtual os as similar as possible to native performance. On the other hand, VmWare Server is designed for servers, which generally have vastly more memory than a standard workstation and as such, it is not nearly as important to focus on having a single virtual machine functioning as close to native performance as possible, but rather it is designed to quickly allow a server to perform as multiple virtual servers with multiple operating systems and have each of those virtual machines perform reliably, especially in a network environment. As such individual performance of a virtual machine on a workstation may be poorer in VmWare Server than in VmWare Workstation, however on a server platform with multiple virtual machines running concurrently, VmWare Server will probably be a better choice. Who knows, it's still in beta. I don't have a server to test it on, but people really shouldn't make these broad comparisons without at least understanding the difference in goals of each product. I for one am all for the opening up of virtualization platforms, especially as virtualization technology is adopted by processors themselves. Preemptive multitasking is going to be preempted by preemptive multi-osing, where you will have multiple applications running on multiple platforms at the same time, all easy enough to switch between as it is to switch between programs today. It's what Java promised us years ago yet failed to deliver for one reason or another: the full abstraction of computer hardware and the independence of our computers from their operating systems. I look forward to this future and hope at least half of these promises are fulfilled. See ya in 5 years guys.
There was a time on/. where actual information rated higher than a sassy comeback. Then again, there was a time when I would have done the same thing as the above poster. Then I decided to actually use my brain for the purpose it was intended. I'm sure Steve B is sitting at home thinking he's quite clever, but he's probably also sitting at home with his air horn wondering why the damn telemarketers keep calling him. Why don't they get the idea and give up? Oh wait, maybe there was something about that in that post I flamed. Man I got him good. Damn telemarketer should die. Steve....come up here and make it happen. Everyone complains about the weather, well here's your chance to get something done. Or you can just sit at home and enjoy me calling you during dinner. Oh, and yes, the telemarketers do know that every hour after 5 pm is dinner time, regardless of whether you are actually eating or not. Enjoy.
If the scripting is only needed for image handling and manipulation, Photoshop has built-in batch automation that should be sufficient for a photography business. The 'jobs' that Photoshop automation can handle can range into the complex, where he could have all of his images generically 'enhanced' with the simple click of a button. Maybe he needs something more complicated, but if that's it, stick with Photoshop.
Before you go pulling out your airhorn on the next telemarketer who calls you, sign up at your local telemarketting call center and work there for just one month. You'll see that telemarketers aren't really as evil as they seem. All they are are people trying to make a living, often times in some small, nameless town where the telemarketting company actually pays the best wages because they can get away with it in Middle-of-Nowhere Ohio (mind you it's barely over minimum wage). They are supporting families, supporting their lives, not signing up because they love annoying people. You have to go a few levels up to find those kinds of people. Because in their contracts and training, if you airhorn a telemarketer and hang up and they never got a 'contact' (spoke to someone who can make decisions) they are required to call you back, and you will keep getting called back until you've been called the maximum number of times (which can be more than 10, and answering machines don't count). Telemarketers are not trying to annoy you. The calls are all computer dialed and it doesn't make a difference to that telemarketer if you hang up right away, they push three buttons and you're called back the next day. Yelling at a telemarketer does absolutely nothing either. They are trained to be sickeningly polite, but in the end, if they never got their contact, you're getting called back. If you don't want to be called, react calmly, rationally, and just ask to be removed from the list. All companies are required to maintain company Do Not Call lists (political and non-profit are exempt of course). But seriously, you're taking your anger out on the wrong people. You want to do something about getting less calls, identify yourself, react calmly, ask to be removed from the list, and hey, while you're at it, write your congressman and tell them what you'd like to see happen with telemarketing. They aren't going to kill it completely, too much money is invested in it, but if you have a good suggestion that can save us all some trouble, hey, kudos to you. This matter here has absolutely no meaning, as state Do Not Call lists are next to meaningless compared to the Federal one. Federal law makes sense for a Do Not Call list, as mentioned above, because most calls are made over state lines and State lists are often very similar to the federal list. Almost nothing will change if state regulations are placed into the same regulations as the federal list. This is a non-issue. I work for a telemarketting company, but only because there isn't much choice here in this little town. I do quality assurance, so you'll never hear me on the phone unless you have a problem, but hey, if you're going to flame me, it's tonyb452@hotmail.com Telemarketting companies only exist because big business companies pay them huge amounts of money to call you. You want to complain about telemarketting, find out who the company is behind the call (SBC, Verizon, American Express, Discover, etc, etc, etc) and call them and tell them you're unhappy. That is the way to make progress.
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It lets Ctrl+Alt+Del through because on Windows PCs, this key sequence is known as a Non-Maskable Interrupt. This means that, short of hijacking the keyboard driver and changing the mapping from actual to virtual key or other very low level actions, the key sequence cannot be overridden. As a single interface across all versions of the product makes the upgrade treadmill less difficult and OS switching simpler (sit down at any computer with any version of the software and you don't have to be concerned with the underlying OS or other details) and as VMWare's goal is to make money and that means pleasing the largest market and not pissing off the lesser markets as much as the competitors, the interface was likely designed mainly with Windows in mind, with linux support added on where it did not interfere with the Windows capabilities. That said, VMWare very well could have fairly simply modified the interface so the linux version of the software could have reflected the difference in host OS, but this of course would have taken time, and time is money, and any additional money spent gets passed on to the consumer, which results in a decrease in consumers, so they followed the simple rule "You can't please everyone all the time, so be nice to the bear because unless it's a very vicious beast and you lack a holy hand grenade, the cuddly bunny isn't going to be much of a threat". That being said, what would be truly ideal would be for VMWare to adopt a plugin system with platform-independent modules (or at least as platform-independent as possible, if the SDK supported lower-level operations they would obviously e less cross-platform) that would allow you to modify the VMWare behavior, interface, display, and addditional details, but that would require relinquishing some modicum of control of their software and most big software companies are against that. Live and let live.
The point is you're comparing two products with vastly different aims. VmWare workstation is designed for a single workstation and as such it is designed to use limited resources as efficiently as possible to make the experience inside the virtual os as similar as possible to native performance. On the other hand, VmWare Server is designed for servers, which generally have vastly more memory than a standard workstation and as such, it is not nearly as important to focus on having a single virtual machine functioning as close to native performance as possible, but rather it is designed to quickly allow a server to perform as multiple virtual servers with multiple operating systems and have each of those virtual machines perform reliably, especially in a network environment. As such individual performance of a virtual machine on a workstation may be poorer in VmWare Server than in VmWare Workstation, however on a server platform with multiple virtual machines running concurrently, VmWare Server will probably be a better choice. Who knows, it's still in beta. I don't have a server to test it on, but people really shouldn't make these broad comparisons without at least understanding the difference in goals of each product. I for one am all for the opening up of virtualization platforms, especially as virtualization technology is adopted by processors themselves. Preemptive multitasking is going to be preempted by preemptive multi-osing, where you will have multiple applications running on multiple platforms at the same time, all easy enough to switch between as it is to switch between programs today. It's what Java promised us years ago yet failed to deliver for one reason or another: the full abstraction of computer hardware and the independence of our computers from their operating systems. I look forward to this future and hope at least half of these promises are fulfilled. See ya in 5 years guys.
There was a time on /. where actual information rated higher than a sassy comeback. Then again, there was a time when I would have done the same thing as the above poster. Then I decided to actually use my brain for the purpose it was intended. I'm sure Steve B is sitting at home thinking he's quite clever, but he's probably also sitting at home with his air horn wondering why the damn telemarketers keep calling him. Why don't they get the idea and give up? Oh wait, maybe there was something about that in that post I flamed. Man I got him good. Damn telemarketer should die. Steve....come up here and make it happen. Everyone complains about the weather, well here's your chance to get something done. Or you can just sit at home and enjoy me calling you during dinner. Oh, and yes, the telemarketers do know that every hour after 5 pm is dinner time, regardless of whether you are actually eating or not. Enjoy.
If the scripting is only needed for image handling and manipulation, Photoshop has built-in batch automation that should be sufficient for a photography business. The 'jobs' that Photoshop automation can handle can range into the complex, where he could have all of his images generically 'enhanced' with the simple click of a button. Maybe he needs something more complicated, but if that's it, stick with Photoshop.
Before you go pulling out your airhorn on the next telemarketer who calls you, sign up at your local telemarketting call center and work there for just one month. You'll see that telemarketers aren't really as evil as they seem. All they are are people trying to make a living, often times in some small, nameless town where the telemarketting company actually pays the best wages because they can get away with it in Middle-of-Nowhere Ohio (mind you it's barely over minimum wage). They are supporting families, supporting their lives, not signing up because they love annoying people. You have to go a few levels up to find those kinds of people. Because in their contracts and training, if you airhorn a telemarketer and hang up and they never got a 'contact' (spoke to someone who can make decisions) they are required to call you back, and you will keep getting called back until you've been called the maximum number of times (which can be more than 10, and answering machines don't count). Telemarketers are not trying to annoy you. The calls are all computer dialed and it doesn't make a difference to that telemarketer if you hang up right away, they push three buttons and you're called back the next day. Yelling at a telemarketer does absolutely nothing either. They are trained to be sickeningly polite, but in the end, if they never got their contact, you're getting called back. If you don't want to be called, react calmly, rationally, and just ask to be removed from the list. All companies are required to maintain company Do Not Call lists (political and non-profit are exempt of course). But seriously, you're taking your anger out on the wrong people. You want to do something about getting less calls, identify yourself, react calmly, ask to be removed from the list, and hey, while you're at it, write your congressman and tell them what you'd like to see happen with telemarketing. They aren't going to kill it completely, too much money is invested in it, but if you have a good suggestion that can save us all some trouble, hey, kudos to you. This matter here has absolutely no meaning, as state Do Not Call lists are next to meaningless compared to the Federal one. Federal law makes sense for a Do Not Call list, as mentioned above, because most calls are made over state lines and State lists are often very similar to the federal list. Almost nothing will change if state regulations are placed into the same regulations as the federal list. This is a non-issue. I work for a telemarketting company, but only because there isn't much choice here in this little town. I do quality assurance, so you'll never hear me on the phone unless you have a problem, but hey, if you're going to flame me, it's tonyb452@hotmail.com Telemarketting companies only exist because big business companies pay them huge amounts of money to call you. You want to complain about telemarketting, find out who the company is behind the call (SBC, Verizon, American Express, Discover, etc, etc, etc) and call them and tell them you're unhappy. That is the way to make progress.