VMware would definitely say that the vmkernel used by their current hypervisor ESXi is not built on Linux.
The management VM that loads up after the vmkernel uses BusyBox nowadays. Also, it's been a while, but if I recall their initial product was VMware workstation and ran on Windows.
Just as food for thought. Imagine (hypothetically) that the NSA had a way to defeat TOR (not that they do, but who knows...). They may have turned this over to the NSA who found what they needed, but determined that making it public that they know how to defeat TOR was not worth it for this case.
Not only child care, but what about the societal costs of dealing with home-alone bored teenagers. I'm not sociologist, but I'd be willing to bet we see some increased crime, teen pregnancies, and other unintended costs.
Here in Wisconsin they cut $900 million for our education budget this year. It will be an interesting experiment to see the effect, if any, that this has.
At least at the PTA meetings I've been at I've seen parents get up in arms over cutting morning/evening hours. It all has to do with child care (at least for younger kids). They basically use school system as a drop-off before work, pick up after work child care system with the added benefit of education.
People were getting really bothered over a proposal to not let kids into the school until 15 minutes before start time to save money. They were doing an hour before start time where the kids would sit in the cafeteria with a teacher or two until school started. AFAIK they're still doing that. I've since moved a private school/home school hybrid scenario that works great for our family.
RPC over HTTPS with cached Exchange mode... Done. You get all the benefits of Exchange using TLS over HTTP (aka SSL)...
I see it all day long for multiple companies with people all over Asia, Europe, US, you name it. Configuration is fucking easy if you set up your servers properly and know what you're doing (set up OMA, Outlook Anywhere, and a proper X.509 cert with the proper alternative subject names...).
All that end users have to do it type in their email address and password and Outlook, iPhone, Andriod, whatever just starts working with all the groupware goodness.No mail servers, domains, nothing like that.
Have really big mailboxes (over 15 GB) or really complex compliance needs? Then create add some more mailbox servers to your Exchange Org and locate them closer to where they are needed. But that's probably overkill unless you have thousands of overseas users.
IDK what I was thinking. I just watched the trailer for it and it looks pretty good. I could have sworn when I was flipping through HBO and it was on the scenes had a very bluish/greenish tint to them and they were wearing outfits from like the 1800s or something.
Anyway, I live sci-fi as much as anyone here so I'll check it out.
Looks like Inception (the movie) won the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form" award. Was it any good? Did anyone like it? I've tried to watch it a few times but those outfits just drive me away in seconds. Also, I tend to not like movies that won a lot of Oscars:)
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed your story. It has a somewhat Orwellian and Apple-esk undertone to it.
If I could humbly make one suggestion, it would be to change the background color to something more standard (like white or gray) as it's hard to read for those of us with imperfect vision (I had to paste it into word).
No worries. I've seen the studies that measure and computer hypervisor overhead to bare metal before. The point I was making is that with virtualization you can have really, really powerful hardware (a super fast SAN and multiple high-end hosts/networking) and run your VMs on it. When one of them needs that horsepower it can use it. So in reality that computing workload has access to more hardware resources than it would if it were running on a single server. There are many caveats and places where bare metal makes sense, but virtualization cannot be ignored these days and makes economic and technical sense for places that have lots of servers (I'd say it starts to make economic sense at 10 or 15 servers).
In my experience just thinking about it like a menu does the trick. Just giving this to end users before an upgrade helps tremendously. People are smart and can pick things up quickly. Good luck!
Right, the ribbon is just very similar to the traditional drop down menus, except that things have icons next to them. Once you realize that, it's simple and fast to use.
The ribbon is collapsible (just press the little up arrow). It hides when you're not using it, just like the old File, Edit, View... menu. I think the reason they leave it visible is so that you get a smoother experience when using the live preview features.
If you RTFA the real problem was that these guys are switching to terminal servers (it doesn't say which technology, but one can safely assume it's Microsoft-based so probably Remote Desktop Services, possibly with Citrix). Anyway, the problem that they had is that if they only had say 500 people who needed to use Office, they would have to have paid for all 25,000 users because those users because Microsoft Office is licensed on a per device model (there is no per user licensing anymore). That is you have to have a license for Office for every device that Office might be accessed from. There are probably a few loopholes around this, but I'm not aware of any. They can, of course, continue to use their existing Office licenses or buy OEM/Retail/volume for their PCs or laptops.
For future reference, assuming a legitimate copy of Windows XP when you go to activate chose the phone option, call in, give the ID displayed on the screen and it will automatically give you a new activation ID. If it doesn't it you just have to answer that this is the only computer this copy of Windows is installed on and you will be given a new ID. It takes like a minute. A PITA for sure, but I don't think it's draconian.
An arm of the company I work at has an advanced network engineering team that does many things, among them wireless. They've done wireless in really, really challenging environemnts (think 150K sqft room full of steel bars 75 feet high); also some hotels. Over the years, many vendors, technologies, etc. have been evaluated and used and we always come back to Cisco. Their stuff fucking just works and requires zero maintenance when configured properly. I'm talking, you just give people the password and go. Done. It's not even that expensive. Cisco, like some others, have central management that not only manages the devices but also hands off wireless clients from one AP to another seamlessly, among many other smart things. It's very different from stringing up a bunch of DLinks and putting them on different channels.
If you want to this work really well and require as little maintenance as possible find yourself some people that have done this before and have a high level of certifications and many references in their area. Otherwise, you might save a few bucks buying gear but the hotel guests will be constantly frustrated by drops, slowdowns, and other problems.
Agreed on 2003. We still have a few of those around and try to squash them as we go. We actually have one MSSQL 2000 box that is doing some crazy heavy lifting given it's age. Luckily the project to update it was approved and we're working on doing that. It's actually been relatively easy to get it up to MSSQL 2008 R2.
Can you give some examples? I find I can do anything needed to manage hundreds of Windows boxes through a CLI (using utilities or powershell). Have you heard of Windows Server 2008?
You're right, though. *PROPERLY* managing a Windows network requires a lot of skill, learning, and dedication, just like anything else.
Citation please. With modern hypervisors and properly configured hardware you can get near or identical to bare metal performance. Of course, database server clusters, replication, log shipping, etc. still are a great option for many use cases.
One of the problems is that people who are new to SANs and virtualization tend to believe whatever the sales guy at CDW tells them and then they're all upset when their Microsoft Hyper-V "SAN" (ugh) doesn't get the performance they expected. I've literally seen people trying to run way too many VMs on clearly underpowered hardware.
When properly designed (using math and science, gasp!) a virtualized infrastructure can easily out perform a single-server model infrastructure in just about all areas.
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Citation please.
VMware would definitely say that the vmkernel used by their current hypervisor ESXi is not built on Linux.
The management VM that loads up after the vmkernel uses BusyBox nowadays. Also, it's been a while, but if I recall their initial product was VMware workstation and ran on Windows.
Good points.
Just as food for thought. Imagine (hypothetically) that the NSA had a way to defeat TOR (not that they do, but who knows...). They may have turned this over to the NSA who found what they needed, but determined that making it public that they know how to defeat TOR was not worth it for this case.
Does anyone know what was ICE investigating? Search warrants aren't granted just because someone is using TOR.
Doug Engelbart, is that you again?
The federal government does contribute in certain ways to public schools ESEA, school lunch programs, etc. http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html
Citations please.
Not only child care, but what about the societal costs of dealing with home-alone bored teenagers. I'm not sociologist, but I'd be willing to bet we see some increased crime, teen pregnancies, and other unintended costs.
Here in Wisconsin they cut $900 million for our education budget this year. It will be an interesting experiment to see the effect, if any, that this has.
At least at the PTA meetings I've been at I've seen parents get up in arms over cutting morning/evening hours. It all has to do with child care (at least for younger kids). They basically use school system as a drop-off before work, pick up after work child care system with the added benefit of education.
People were getting really bothered over a proposal to not let kids into the school until 15 minutes before start time to save money. They were doing an hour before start time where the kids would sit in the cafeteria with a teacher or two until school started. AFAIK they're still doing that. I've since moved a private school/home school hybrid scenario that works great for our family.
RPC over HTTPS with cached Exchange mode ... Done. You get all the benefits of Exchange using TLS over HTTP (aka SSL)...
I see it all day long for multiple companies with people all over Asia, Europe, US, you name it. Configuration is fucking easy if you set up your servers properly and know what you're doing (set up OMA, Outlook Anywhere, and a proper X.509 cert with the proper alternative subject names...).
All that end users have to do it type in their email address and password and Outlook, iPhone, Andriod, whatever just starts working with all the groupware goodness.No mail servers, domains, nothing like that.
Have really big mailboxes (over 15 GB) or really complex compliance needs? Then create add some more mailbox servers to your Exchange Org and locate them closer to where they are needed. But that's probably overkill unless you have thousands of overseas users.
IDK what I was thinking. I just watched the trailer for it and it looks pretty good. I could have sworn when I was flipping through HBO and it was on the scenes had a very bluish/greenish tint to them and they were wearing outfits from like the 1800s or something.
Anyway, I live sci-fi as much as anyone here so I'll check it out.
Looks like Inception (the movie) won the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form" award. Was it any good? Did anyone like it? I've tried to watch it a few times but those outfits just drive me away in seconds. Also, I tend to not like movies that won a lot of Oscars :)
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed your story. It has a somewhat Orwellian and Apple-esk undertone to it.
If I could humbly make one suggestion, it would be to change the background color to something more standard (like white or gray) as it's hard to read for those of us with imperfect vision (I had to paste it into word).
No worries. I've seen the studies that measure and computer hypervisor overhead to bare metal before. The point I was making is that with virtualization you can have really, really powerful hardware (a super fast SAN and multiple high-end hosts/networking) and run your VMs on it. When one of them needs that horsepower it can use it. So in reality that computing workload has access to more hardware resources than it would if it were running on a single server. There are many caveats and places where bare metal makes sense, but virtualization cannot be ignored these days and makes economic and technical sense for places that have lots of servers (I'd say it starts to make economic sense at 10 or 15 servers).
Sure, it's definitely not for everyone.
For those that care or need it (it's great for end users), there is a helpful website from Microsoft that let's you do something in Office 2003 and then shows you the steps in Office 2007/2010. It's super easy: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-and-related-products-HA101794130.aspx#_Toc268688374
In my experience just thinking about it like a menu does the trick. Just giving this to end users before an upgrade helps tremendously. People are smart and can pick things up quickly. Good luck!
Right, the ribbon is just very similar to the traditional drop down menus, except that things have icons next to them. Once you realize that, it's simple and fast to use.
The ribbon is collapsible (just press the little up arrow). It hides when you're not using it, just like the old File, Edit, View... menu. I think the reason they leave it visible is so that you get a smoother experience when using the live preview features.
If you RTFA the real problem was that these guys are switching to terminal servers (it doesn't say which technology, but one can safely assume it's Microsoft-based so probably Remote Desktop Services, possibly with Citrix). Anyway, the problem that they had is that if they only had say 500 people who needed to use Office, they would have to have paid for all 25,000 users because those users because Microsoft Office is licensed on a per device model (there is no per user licensing anymore). That is you have to have a license for Office for every device that Office might be accessed from. There are probably a few loopholes around this, but I'm not aware of any. They can, of course, continue to use their existing Office licenses or buy OEM/Retail/volume for their PCs or laptops.
Funny. I've heard that there will be a facial recognition logon option. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042211-windows8-facial-recognition.html
Of course not, this is all FUD. See the above comments.
For future reference, assuming a legitimate copy of Windows XP when you go to activate chose the phone option, call in, give the ID displayed on the screen and it will automatically give you a new activation ID. If it doesn't it you just have to answer that this is the only computer this copy of Windows is installed on and you will be given a new ID. It takes like a minute. A PITA for sure, but I don't think it's draconian.
An arm of the company I work at has an advanced network engineering team that does many things, among them wireless. They've done wireless in really, really challenging environemnts (think 150K sqft room full of steel bars 75 feet high); also some hotels. Over the years, many vendors, technologies, etc. have been evaluated and used and we always come back to Cisco. Their stuff fucking just works and requires zero maintenance when configured properly. I'm talking, you just give people the password and go. Done. It's not even that expensive. Cisco, like some others, have central management that not only manages the devices but also hands off wireless clients from one AP to another seamlessly, among many other smart things. It's very different from stringing up a bunch of DLinks and putting them on different channels.
If you want to this work really well and require as little maintenance as possible find yourself some people that have done this before and have a high level of certifications and many references in their area. Otherwise, you might save a few bucks buying gear but the hotel guests will be constantly frustrated by drops, slowdowns, and other problems.
Good luck!
Agreed on 2003. We still have a few of those around and try to squash them as we go. We actually have one MSSQL 2000 box that is doing some crazy heavy lifting given it's age. Luckily the project to update it was approved and we're working on doing that. It's actually been relatively easy to get it up to MSSQL 2008 R2.
Can you give some examples? I find I can do anything needed to manage hundreds of Windows boxes through a CLI (using utilities or powershell). Have you heard of Windows Server 2008?
You're right, though. *PROPERLY* managing a Windows network requires a lot of skill, learning, and dedication, just like anything else.
Citation please. With modern hypervisors and properly configured hardware you can get near or identical to bare metal performance. Of course, database server clusters, replication, log shipping, etc. still are a great option for many use cases.
One of the problems is that people who are new to SANs and virtualization tend to believe whatever the sales guy at CDW tells them and then they're all upset when their Microsoft Hyper-V "SAN" (ugh) doesn't get the performance they expected. I've literally seen people trying to run way too many VMs on clearly underpowered hardware.
When properly designed (using math and science, gasp!) a virtualized infrastructure can easily out perform a single-server model infrastructure in just about all areas.