I'd probably second choice VMWare Server, which is also free and works equally well.
To each their own, but I'd definitely go with VirtualBox over anything VMWare offers for multiple reasons -- and Server is an especially poor fit, as I'll describe momentarily. I've used VB as well as VMWare ESX, VMWare Workstation and the current (free as in beer) VMWare Server, and have never been particularly fond of VMWare. VMWare Workstation broke every time I updated the Linux host (Gentoo, which admittedly may have been part of the problem), frequently requiring some elaborate hacks to get it working again (like custom bash/Perl wrappers to start and stop the stupid thing). VMWare ESX was a PITA to update -- it was essentially a reinstall -- but did actually work quite well once it was installed. VMWare Server is just...clunky. I can't get the server consoles to work reliably on anything other than IE (shudder), and can't get it to work *at all* on Chrome or Safari. Furthermore, Server was designed for exactly that: running servers. If you want to run a desktop as OP stated, it's really not a good fit. You'll either need to set up VNC/Remote Desktop to access the virtual workstation or use the finicky remote console through a web browser (ugh...).
VirtualBox, on the other hand, is simple to install, simple to update, simple to use, reliable, and gives you a desktop to work in so you don't have to use RDP, VNC or an ActiveX/Java control through a web browser to access your virtual machine.
I think perhaps you are being a bit of a bleeding heart. When someone steals a bicycle, instead of just lopping off an appendage, I think we should slowly lop off body parts -- starting with things like fingers, toes and ears -- then slowly work our way inwards. After several hours of successively mutilating the thief -- and for the first offense, I might add; why wait for multiple offenses? -- they eventually die of shock, blood loss, or the loss of a vital organ. That will provide some real incentive not to steal, and there will be one less thief in the world, too! EVERYBODY wins! </sarc>
Dude, you took a grain of truth and in your anger at the thief who stole your daughter's bicycle, twisted it into a complete mockery of what you claim to stand for. Yes, what happens to a victim is never fair. No, they never chose to become a victim. Therefore, ideally, they should be compensated for their loss, plus interest. However, there are two problems with your point of view. First, life isn't fair. Get over it. Most people figure this out in kindergarten, and move on. Your daughter didn't deserve to have her bicycle stolen. My wife and I didn't deserve to have a trusted friend and employee steal $18,000 from my wife's business, but it happened anyway. Excrement occurs, <shrug>. I can spend the rest of my life pissed about how we were wronged, or I can pick up the pieces and keep moving on. I'd rather move on. Second, by seeking vengeance upon the thief that far outweighs the wrong that was done to your daughter, you are creating a *second* victim. Will that really make anything better? Will that take away any of the harm that was done to your daughter when the bike was stolen? "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Keep in mind that *ALL OF US* at some time or another have wronged someone else. I just thank God that others have had mercy on me when I've screwed up, and consequently, I've tried to have extend that same grace to those who have wronged me.
You have to admit, the punishments were effective.
If you actually read the Old Testament -- not just skim a few parts like most people do -- you'll find that the punishments weren't really as bad as people often assume. Yes, there were a lot of harsh consequences spelled out in Torah...but there were a lot of remediations available, too. Check out the requirements to make restitution in Exodus 22: "If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep." (v. 1), "If the stolen animal is found alive in [the thief's] possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double." (v. 4), "If a man gives his neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if he is caught, must pay back double." (v. 7). I could go on, but you get the idea: if you wrong someone else, you must pay them back for the inconvenience with enough interest to provide incentive not to do that again, but it's hardly the "lop off an appendage or two" that Archangel Michael (/. user, not THE Archangel Michael, lol) seems to favor.
It does. I use connectbot to SSH to servers and such at work from my Android. However, it was an app I had to download from the Market; it wasn't included by default. Also, the web browser supports HTTPS (SSL), and that is by default.
Especially when you see how nice Ubuntu is (for n00b types, anyway) on a netbook that costs half as much or less...
I run Ubuntu on my Dell Mini 9 and I'm not exactly a n00b. I'm a Linux sys admin at a telco, and have been for about nine years, now. Why Ubuntu? Because I got fed up fighting with the Intel WiFi drivers every time I ran "emerge --update world" on my Gentoo-based laptop years ago. Wireless just worked in Ubuntu, even with the stupid, proprietary Broadcom card in my Mini 9. Okay, technically I had to tell it to use the non-free driver first, but *then* it worked, even after running "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" several times since then.
I have run FreeBSD -- I even got a custom kernel running on a hacked Whistle Interjet about six or seven years ago, and it's still happily serving up DNS on my home network. That was a fun project, but on a portable computer, I'd rather just run Ubuntu. For me, a laptop or netbook is a means to an end, so the less time I have to spend getting everything to work correctly, the more time I can spend actually getting work done...and therefore, the more time I can spend arguing with complete strangers here on/.:)
None of which negates GPP's point: laptops and netbooks are *tools*. No one in his right mind uses a jackhammer to chisel a hole in a door frame for the deadbolt to slide into. Likewise, no one in his right mind uses a hammer and chisel to remove a quarter mile of old asphalt before laying a new road.
Maybe *you* don't get to go any place where you will be carrying a computer in a backpack for an extended period of time, but that doesn't mean NO ONE ever does. For that matter, not everyone who has a need for a tough, lightweight, ultra-portable computer is doing for recreation. The company I work for provides voice and data services over a roughly million square mile area in some of the most remote parts of the U.S. The only access to some of these areas is by airplane, snow machine and 4-wheeler. I have a company-issued MacBook Pro ($$$), but when I go to those areas, I take my $400 Dell Mini (also company-issued) because it's the right tool for the job.
That happens, regardless of OS (except maybe Mac, but that's only because they strictly limit the hardware that OS-X runs on...). I've had the same problem with drivers that you described when installing Windows on various machines -- my wife's old XP desktop a few years ago, the Win2K3 server I built recently (and that required a freaking *FLOPPY DRIVE* to install 3rd party RAID drivers, sigh...). Sometimes Windows has the right driver built in, sometimes Linux does.
I was once offered a chance at a class-action lawsuit because the maker of my computer monitor advertised a 15-inch screen. The lawyer took exception to the way the manufacture measured the screen, and launched a class-action lawsuit for false advertising. Did the manufacturer's method of measuring the screen size *really* harm me? No. I bought the monitor because it was the nicest one I could afford at the time; I really couldn't have cared less if it was 15 inches or 14.85 inches. I was happy with the size* of the screen. So in the end, this manufacturer's profits were down a few million dollars (which probably meant someone -- probably several someones, in fact) got laid off or R&D got cut or something, people who were perfectly happy with their products before the lawyer found the 0.15-inch discrepancy made less than $5 each off the lawsuit, and the lawyer got rich. Society as a whole suffered and the parasite got fat. That's a problem.
*Maybe lawyers should launch a class-action lawsuit on behalf of women against all the men they've ever, ummm, "dated"?
Programming languages are designed to be readable (except perl;)
Blasphemy, heathen! What part of...:
#!/usr/bin/perl
not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor
s x x length uc ord and print chr
ord for qw q join use sub tied qx
xor eval xor print qq q q xor int
eval lc q m cos and print chr ord
for qw y abs ne open tied hex exp
ref y m xor scalar srand print qq
q q xor int eval lc qq y sqrt cos
and print chr ord for qw x printf
each return local x y or print qq
s s and eval q s undef or oct xor
time xor ref print chr int ord lc
foreach qw y hex alarm chdir kill
exec return y s gt sin sort split
Law is one of three professions that requires post school testing and certification (medicine, accounting, and law).
Really? Only three? Are you sure about that? Because before I could become a flight instructor (and after ten years, I still don't have the creds to be an airline pilot, but that is due more to my personal motivation and goals than elapsed time since I started working on my pilot's certifications), I had to take eight different tests, and each step along the way led to a new certification. I imagine there are other professions that require testing and certification, as well.
That *did* occur to me as I was typing the comment:) Regarding web mail...the ISP where I used to work offers web mail, but refuses to implement HTTPS on the web server (don't remember why, offhand - it was 5 years ago), so yeah I've seen that. It irked me then and still irks me now because they *still* haven't implemented it, sigh.
*GREAT* plan Then, when I lose my wallet -- since credit cards have the URLs for my banks' web sites on them *AND* I have thoughtfully included a list of my passwords, I not only lose all the money in my wallet, I also lose all the money in my bank accounts, too (or at least, I lose all the money in the bank accounts of the credit/debit cards I was carrying in my wallet at the time).
Seriously? I've released some of my music with a CC license. While I did elect to use the CC-NC-SA license (non-commercial, share alike), that information was clearly displayed everywhere my music was posted. I haven't conducted a random sample to see how much CC-licensed commercial-allowed music is out there, but at least IME, it was easy to tell if it was NC or not.
I'll lay my karma on the line: It wasn't funny, and it was unnecessarily mean-spirited. Yes, this is the Internet; yes, mean-spiritedness is way too common here; no, if that's going to get your feelings hurt, you probably *shouldn't* post here. Nevertheless, it *would* be nice to see personal attacks for the purpose of a laugh replaced with just a little civility. </dream-mode>
Don't worry about it. Your English is much better than the French of most people on this site. Furthermore, if you pay much attention, you'll notice that at least a quarter* of all replies on this site are from grammar/spelling/other nazi's slamming other native speakers for some infraction of the rules of English language, whether real or imagined.
* That's a W.A.G. -- "wild guess" -- that I completely made up for the sake of a point rather than technical accuracy. "[Citation Needed]" posts need not reply.
Governments limit the number of babies a woman can have. Once she reaches that limit, she's sterilized.
And you really think that's a good idea? Good ${DIETY}, man...did you think through the ramifications? It would be mayhem, chaos...Abortionists and Catholics demonstrating arm in arm for the SAME CAUSE!!!
From TFS: "...a thousand-meter cable and a 5,000-mile sail..." [emphasis mine]
I am not familiar with orbits in the 1,000 meter range...in fact, I've flown airplanes at 1,000 meters, and I don't recall having dodged any satellites while at that altitude.
I figured it out a little later, and posted a reply to someone else's reply to my post. You were right; my understanding of parabolas needed to be refreshed:)
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I'd probably second choice VMWare Server, which is also free and works equally well.
To each their own, but I'd definitely go with VirtualBox over anything VMWare offers for multiple reasons -- and Server is an especially poor fit, as I'll describe momentarily. I've used VB as well as VMWare ESX, VMWare Workstation and the current (free as in beer) VMWare Server, and have never been particularly fond of VMWare. VMWare Workstation broke every time I updated the Linux host (Gentoo, which admittedly may have been part of the problem), frequently requiring some elaborate hacks to get it working again (like custom bash/Perl wrappers to start and stop the stupid thing). VMWare ESX was a PITA to update -- it was essentially a reinstall -- but did actually work quite well once it was installed. VMWare Server is just...clunky. I can't get the server consoles to work reliably on anything other than IE (shudder), and can't get it to work *at all* on Chrome or Safari. Furthermore, Server was designed for exactly that: running servers. If you want to run a desktop as OP stated, it's really not a good fit. You'll either need to set up VNC/Remote Desktop to access the virtual workstation or use the finicky remote console through a web browser (ugh...).
VirtualBox, on the other hand, is simple to install, simple to update, simple to use, reliable, and gives you a desktop to work in so you don't have to use RDP, VNC or an ActiveX/Java control through a web browser to access your virtual machine.
Well said, and it's not just you. That's the kind of person I want to be, too.
I think perhaps you are being a bit of a bleeding heart. When someone steals a bicycle, instead of just lopping off an appendage, I think we should slowly lop off body parts -- starting with things like fingers, toes and ears -- then slowly work our way inwards. After several hours of successively mutilating the thief -- and for the first offense, I might add; why wait for multiple offenses? -- they eventually die of shock, blood loss, or the loss of a vital organ. That will provide some real incentive not to steal, and there will be one less thief in the world, too! EVERYBODY wins! </sarc>
Dude, you took a grain of truth and in your anger at the thief who stole your daughter's bicycle, twisted it into a complete mockery of what you claim to stand for. Yes, what happens to a victim is never fair. No, they never chose to become a victim. Therefore, ideally, they should be compensated for their loss, plus interest. However, there are two problems with your point of view. First, life isn't fair. Get over it. Most people figure this out in kindergarten, and move on. Your daughter didn't deserve to have her bicycle stolen. My wife and I didn't deserve to have a trusted friend and employee steal $18,000 from my wife's business, but it happened anyway. Excrement occurs, <shrug>. I can spend the rest of my life pissed about how we were wronged, or I can pick up the pieces and keep moving on. I'd rather move on. Second, by seeking vengeance upon the thief that far outweighs the wrong that was done to your daughter, you are creating a *second* victim. Will that really make anything better? Will that take away any of the harm that was done to your daughter when the bike was stolen? "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Keep in mind that *ALL OF US* at some time or another have wronged someone else. I just thank God that others have had mercy on me when I've screwed up, and consequently, I've tried to have extend that same grace to those who have wronged me.
You have to admit, the punishments were effective.
If you actually read the Old Testament -- not just skim a few parts like most people do -- you'll find that the punishments weren't really as bad as people often assume. Yes, there were a lot of harsh consequences spelled out in Torah...but there were a lot of remediations available, too. Check out the requirements to make restitution in Exodus 22: "If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep." (v. 1), "If the stolen animal is found alive in [the thief's] possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double." (v. 4), "If a man gives his neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if he is caught, must pay back double." (v. 7). I could go on, but you get the idea: if you wrong someone else, you must pay them back for the inconvenience with enough interest to provide incentive not to do that again, but it's hardly the "lop off an appendage or two" that Archangel Michael (/. user, not THE Archangel Michael, lol) seems to favor.
It does. I use connectbot to SSH to servers and such at work from my Android. However, it was an app I had to download from the Market; it wasn't included by default. Also, the web browser supports HTTPS (SSL), and that is by default.
Especially when you see how nice Ubuntu is (for n00b types, anyway) on a netbook that costs half as much or less...
I run Ubuntu on my Dell Mini 9 and I'm not exactly a n00b. I'm a Linux sys admin at a telco, and have been for about nine years, now. Why Ubuntu? Because I got fed up fighting with the Intel WiFi drivers every time I ran "emerge --update world" on my Gentoo-based laptop years ago. Wireless just worked in Ubuntu, even with the stupid, proprietary Broadcom card in my Mini 9. Okay, technically I had to tell it to use the non-free driver first, but *then* it worked, even after running "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" several times since then.
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I have run FreeBSD -- I even got a custom kernel running on a hacked Whistle Interjet about six or seven years ago, and it's still happily serving up DNS on my home network. That was a fun project, but on a portable computer, I'd rather just run Ubuntu. For me, a laptop or netbook is a means to an end, so the less time I have to spend getting everything to work correctly, the more time I can spend actually getting work done...and therefore, the more time I can spend arguing with complete strangers here on
Meh. USB CD/DVD drives are very, very common. I wouldn't be too worried if it came with a recovery CD or DVD, even if it didn't include the drive.
Dang it...sed "s/doing for recreation/going for recreation/"
Maybe that "Preview" button is there for a reason.
None of which negates GPP's point: laptops and netbooks are *tools*. No one in his right mind uses a jackhammer to chisel a hole in a door frame for the deadbolt to slide into. Likewise, no one in his right mind uses a hammer and chisel to remove a quarter mile of old asphalt before laying a new road.
Maybe *you* don't get to go any place where you will be carrying a computer in a backpack for an extended period of time, but that doesn't mean NO ONE ever does. For that matter, not everyone who has a need for a tough, lightweight, ultra-portable computer is doing for recreation. The company I work for provides voice and data services over a roughly million square mile area in some of the most remote parts of the U.S. The only access to some of these areas is by airplane, snow machine and 4-wheeler. I have a company-issued MacBook Pro ($$$), but when I go to those areas, I take my $400 Dell Mini (also company-issued) because it's the right tool for the job.
That happens, regardless of OS (except maybe Mac, but that's only because they strictly limit the hardware that OS-X runs on...). I've had the same problem with drivers that you described when installing Windows on various machines -- my wife's old XP desktop a few years ago, the Win2K3 server I built recently (and that required a freaking *FLOPPY DRIVE* to install 3rd party RAID drivers, sigh...). Sometimes Windows has the right driver built in, sometimes Linux does.
I was once offered a chance at a class-action lawsuit because the maker of my computer monitor advertised a 15-inch screen. The lawyer took exception to the way the manufacture measured the screen, and launched a class-action lawsuit for false advertising. Did the manufacturer's method of measuring the screen size *really* harm me? No. I bought the monitor because it was the nicest one I could afford at the time; I really couldn't have cared less if it was 15 inches or 14.85 inches. I was happy with the size* of the screen. So in the end, this manufacturer's profits were down a few million dollars (which probably meant someone -- probably several someones, in fact) got laid off or R&D got cut or something, people who were perfectly happy with their products before the lawyer found the 0.15-inch discrepancy made less than $5 each off the lawsuit, and the lawyer got rich. Society as a whole suffered and the parasite got fat. That's a problem.
*Maybe lawyers should launch a class-action lawsuit on behalf of women against all the men they've ever, ummm, "dated"?
All of them?
Programming languages are designed to be readable (except perl ;)
Blasphemy, heathen! What part of...:
...don't you understand?!?!?
#!/usr/bin/perl
not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor
s x x length uc ord and print chr
ord for qw q join use sub tied qx
xor eval xor print qq q q xor int
eval lc q m cos and print chr ord
for qw y abs ne open tied hex exp
ref y m xor scalar srand print qq
q q xor int eval lc qq y sqrt cos
and print chr ord for qw x printf
each return local x y or print qq
s s and eval q s undef or oct xor
time xor ref print chr int ord lc
foreach qw y hex alarm chdir kill
exec return y s gt sin sort split
Law is one of three professions that requires post school testing and certification (medicine, accounting, and law).
Really? Only three? Are you sure about that? Because before I could become a flight instructor (and after ten years, I still don't have the creds to be an airline pilot, but that is due more to my personal motivation and goals than elapsed time since I started working on my pilot's certifications), I had to take eight different tests, and each step along the way led to a new certification. I imagine there are other professions that require testing and certification, as well.
That *did* occur to me as I was typing the comment :) Regarding web mail...the ISP where I used to work offers web mail, but refuses to implement HTTPS on the web server (don't remember why, offhand - it was 5 years ago), so yeah I've seen that. It irked me then and still irks me now because they *still* haven't implemented it, sigh.
*GREAT* plan Then, when I lose my wallet -- since credit cards have the URLs for my banks' web sites on them *AND* I have thoughtfully included a list of my passwords, I not only lose all the money in my wallet, I also lose all the money in my bank accounts, too (or at least, I lose all the money in the bank accounts of the credit/debit cards I was carrying in my wallet at the time).
Yeah, I never have bothered to set up HTTPS for my SSH tunnel back to my home computer :)
Please tell me NELL is firewalled from 4-chan 8*
Seriously? I've released some of my music with a CC license. While I did elect to use the CC-NC-SA license (non-commercial, share alike), that information was clearly displayed everywhere my music was posted. I haven't conducted a random sample to see how much CC-licensed commercial-allowed music is out there, but at least IME, it was easy to tell if it was NC or not.
I'll lay my karma on the line: It wasn't funny, and it was unnecessarily mean-spirited. Yes, this is the Internet; yes, mean-spiritedness is way too common here; no, if that's going to get your feelings hurt, you probably *shouldn't* post here. Nevertheless, it *would* be nice to see personal attacks for the purpose of a laugh replaced with just a little civility. </dream-mode>
Don't worry about it. Your English is much better than the French of most people on this site. Furthermore, if you pay much attention, you'll notice that at least a quarter* of all replies on this site are from grammar/spelling/other nazi's slamming other native speakers for some infraction of the rules of English language, whether real or imagined.
* That's a W.A.G. -- "wild guess" -- that I completely made up for the sake of a point rather than technical accuracy. "[Citation Needed]" posts need not reply.
...and all of the other socks that were lost in the dryer.
Governments limit the number of babies a woman can have. Once she reaches that limit, she's sterilized.
And you really think that's a good idea? Good ${DIETY}, man...did you think through the ramifications? It would be mayhem, chaos...Abortionists and Catholics demonstrating arm in arm for the SAME CAUSE !!!
From TFS: "...a thousand-meter cable and a 5,000-mile sail..." [emphasis mine]
I am not familiar with orbits in the 1,000 meter range...in fact, I've flown airplanes at 1,000 meters, and I don't recall having dodged any satellites while at that altitude.
I figured it out a little later, and posted a reply to someone else's reply to my post. You were right; my understanding of parabolas needed to be refreshed :)