We're Vmware shop for three years now and plan on staying that way for at least three more. WIth our current hardware (IBM, DS8100, Bladecenters...) and location (Europe, Eastern) this is only good option considering we need 24/7 reliability.
In the past three years we had no issues whatsoever and any other solution comes very close to Vmware in terms of cost. So... we look at others, but have no reason to move.
But that's great. The governments need to control the general population, not the terrorists.
If they wanted, they could remove the causes for "terrorism" all over the world. But then what? Who will buy new weapons? Where will new targets for hostile takeover emerge or come from? From my perspective, they need terrorists to terrorize the general population and thus asure the continuation of certain forces.
What does it look like?
The Sims with a cruel twist? Hey, maybe they'll release The Sims add-on... Or nr.4 will be called The SLims...
No disrespect to the suffering, though. It just came to me.
You don't have to go far to encounter such stupidity. Slovenia, for example. A friend of mine, who studied law, was required to buy books in amount of 400 and up. Every school year or semester. That's crazy, but many schools require students to buy textbooks. Usually written by the same professors who later require them. I went to Computer and ELectronics college and we also had to buy all the books. THe only good thng about this system is you can ask the author of the book in person, if there 's something in it, that you don't understand:/
Internet has advanced so much in our lives it has actually become part of it. If someone is unable to notice it, it's probably because his/her account is on Myspace;)
The sooner we adapt to that, the better. For someone to post such status, while also being a cop is crazy. I wouldn't want to meet that guy in the street.
Yeah?;)
I still have the same Windows XP I did when I met my girlfriend almost six years ago. Now, that could mean many things...
Yes, I had lots of sex since then. I also partied a lot. But it wasn't all just fun and games. Oh wait, it was.
I use this Windows for gaming. Which is probably one of the rest best reasons to use it. But it works fine. The difference probably is in the way you treat it. I am an administrator in a medium sized company and I'm in charge of a complete lifecycle of approximately 500 PC's. All XP or W2K. I have intimate knowledge of Windows (and my girlfriend, but let's leave that) and know, what I can do, not to break it. Since I use Linux for everything else, I am just fine.
Absolutelly right. We just have to wait and see. Unfortunatelly in the meantime, we'll have VMware. They are pricey and milking their customers, but they also deliver their goods.
It certainly is stable and enterprise ready. But, what is enterprise? Some, like Amazon made good use of it. Some didn't and are now worse off. And in our case, we can't yet, because we can't allow downtime on certain services. With Virtual Infrastructure 4 there will be new Fault tolerance feature included, which will allow the virtual machine to run on more hosts, and when one fails, the other takes over seamlessly. Without downtime.
It was the same with us. We could go for Xen and Novell, but when I talked to my superior, who is a cool guy he asked me, how comfortable would I feel, when something went south and entire company was offline. In such context, Vmware offerings look much better. Altough I have good experience with Novell support, I know that Vmware offers a better one for their products.
Both are quite easy to deploy and Xen performs faster than ESX, but I never want to even think about running non-clustered virtualization solution. In this aspect does Vmware come in front. My bosses argued that the solution I select must have some level of official support and my free time is too valuable to spend saving 40 to 60 production virtual servers from crashing due to package update. I went to a Citrix presentation, where they showed us features of their Enterprise solutions. I must say that it worked flawlessly and I liked it, altough I am OSS fan. But final cost of Citrix solution is almost the same as Vmwares, if not higher. I was also considering using SLES10 Xen and Zenworks Datacenter management tools, which provide a high degree of availability, but in the end, when technical and financial aspects of every possible solution were compared, Vmware was clearly the solution we had to accept to achieve our goals. For next three years, we're commited to Vmware, but closely watching Xen. I hope I'll get to run it in a datacenter one day:) THe sooner the better.
I currently eat almost no sugars. Almost means, that I have a dessert once or twice a month. My fat intake is limited only by choice of fats I use for cooking. Otherwise I eat mostly meat, vegetables and whole grain cereals. No carbohydrates like pasta, potatoes, flour etc. But it's different for each person. In my case I found out that I have a problem with pancreas. That causes me to store fat more efficiently...:(
Have you ever heard about Michel Montignac? If you're interested in nutrition, read some of his books and you'll see what I'm talking about. I tried loosing weight a couple of times, but it appeared strange, that I wasn't successful, altough I live an active life. Then I read his book and changed my entire diet according to his recommendations. I lost 50 pounds in a year and improved all the stats (blood sugar level, cholesterol etc.). Eventually, it's funny that it's not the fact, but sugars, that are mostly responsible for current situation in the West.
Great part of the fault is on the society. Just take a wider look at USA since WW2. It's all about consumerism. That's what's really killing Americans, not "terrerists". Companies with strong political influence and monetary backing are creating their own truth and American government is letting them do it. Corn producers are more protected than Siberian tigers and great whites. How come that? Everybody knows corn is only good for animals and fuels. Read into corn syrup and its history a little, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's not the fatasses who profit of it. They just live their life as taught by the media.
Please read more on those programs and you'll see they are flawed and just a money-hole. NY Times had a great series of articles last year about diabetes rise in the US. In there, I was shocked to find out, that Medic*** covered amputations of limbs due to diabetes, but not preventive counseling. The counseling program cost several hundred dollars for part of New York, while a single amputation costs 40 grand. The counseling programs are dying out, because amputation business is more lucrative for hospitals. Besides, most health insurers (not just the federal programs) cover only half of necessary equipment for blood sugar monitoring etc.
Please also check the necessary paperwork for Medic*** coverage and you'll see why it's inefficient.
Please check the state of your medical care and you will get depressed. Which I think, also isn't covered by public health services...
The situation leading to WWI was as you described. Germany wanted a better position in the world, considering its massive potential, but old colonial forces were unabated in their positions. German arrogance is something to consider, especially through the eyes of today. I think both Russia and US show a fair amount of arrogance. As did Mikhail Sakhashvili and the Georgians. The ignored all warnings and thought, that entire NATO will jump in to save their foolish asses. They simply didn't consider all their options and misread the signs from Bush administration (for over half a year?!)
Hitler couldn't have risen to power with his oratory skill alone. Every time a right winged politican, especially nationalist rises to power, it's due to the situation of people in that country. Oratory skills are a must for any politican when he's trying to seize power. As far as nationalism is concerned, Germans dealt with it in 1945, other countries still have not. Just look at the brits, the french, the swiss and others. That's just form the top of my head.
The democracy you're talking about and the economic expansion of borders historically means: coups, revolutions, sponsored by CIA, unlawful privatisations, the rise of multinationals and the fall of little man. I'm not exactly sure, where you live and how you look at your surroundings, but I wouldn't want to wake one day into a society, where authority looks at every step I make, busts my door because they want to intimidate me from protesting, reading my mail and wiretapping my calls, to see if I'm a possible terrorist and forcing me with government sponsored news, straight from the mouth of special advisers. And I wasn't talking about Russia. In Russia, the situation is what it is- not really good for democracy. At least their rulers aren't talking about democracy and human values, while invading another country and killing civilians indiscriminately.
I read all your comments in this thread and I can understand you. But please, before you go around talking about oppression, look at the reasons for WWI and WWII. First time it was unjust divide of colonies, the second time it was the economic destruction of Germany with war damages and industry restrictions. This hard situation, coupled with worldwide economic crisis could give rise to nationalistic characters, like Adolf Hitler and the like. Saying, that only Hitler was responsible for WWII is crazy. I'm not defending him, just saying to look at the reasons for him being there, doing what he did.
What we see these days is globalization galore, where undeveloped (by western standards) countries are up for grabs. Money is talking more than ever and global markets make it possible to invest where previously only local money was.
Mostly american capital is penetrating everywhere, bringing with it Democracy.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119399588/HTMLSTART
No wonder powerful countries try to use some leverage. Don't try to blind yourselves, America still considers Russia an unfriendly state and wants Russia's influence to diminish, using subversive political maneuvering. As far as I'm concerned, that's aggression, no matter how it looks.
As far as the murder of webmaster is concerned, it remains to be seen, what really happened. In every case, somebody will object to findings. It's a nature of mankind.
I'm not really sure if this would work. I tried similar stuff with EU customs and it didn't work with them. USA is still in a state of war, so I wouldn't even try it with them. But then again I don't intend to go there any time soon...
Very true. It's funny to make fun of rednecks, but when it comes to tragedy, they are still people. Unless they really make the disaster bigger, than it should be, due to their actions.
Compared to real off road vehicles, they are. For serious driving, try older offroads, like Landcruiser, Patrol, UAZ, Land Rover or maybe even Mercedes G. I can't imagine paying for something, that's full of plastic.
I think nobody here will deny that military care during active duty is one of the finest. But once you leave service, you are worse off than other civilians without medical history. If you compare figures for homelessnes, poverty, suicide rates you'll see that veterans are underprivileged in the very society that used to praise them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/22suicide.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
This is a NY Times article talking about suicide prevention, that is still in natal phase as far as efficiency is concerned. I'm afraid you have to login to read, but if you perform a web search, you'll find a lot of references. Also, there is a class action lawsuit out there, that has to do with lack of care for veterans. It's mentioned in the article, but there should be plenty references elsewhere, too. I've been following american wars closely and military is quite eager to heal physical wounds, that are visible and grueling. Your parent post was dead on, when it mentioned mental disorders. Those are the most dangerous and not taken care of sufficiently.
Nice fan you are. I know many others like you, fans of AMD, but currently running Core Duos, since they are cheap. I believe those fans are called "savvy consumers". I am a fan of AMD and I run their chips even in these times. Why? Because I consider myself a man of principles. Because I don't care about a couple dozen â in exchange for my principles. Because I don't need that extra power, that Core Duo provides.
Your information is correct. But you forgot to mention the difference between car bombs in urban areas, which were reported in advance (although sometimes questionable police response made matters worse: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20011209/ai_n13963053http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/mi5-and-omagh-the-bomb-to-end-all-bombs ) and the actual attacks on British colonial forces, which were meant to hurt them. I see the war in N Ireland as a classic war for independence with all modern "appendages". Unfortunately it's not over yet and Irish people are still under foreign rule.
Before you go yapping about and accusing me of supporting "terrorists" think about your own country. Wherever you are. Almost every country had its war for independence. The only question is when and how successful was it against its colonial masters. Overlords, if you will.
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We're Vmware shop for three years now and plan on staying that way for at least three more. WIth our current hardware (IBM, DS8100, Bladecenters...) and location (Europe, Eastern) this is only good option considering we need 24/7 reliability. In the past three years we had no issues whatsoever and any other solution comes very close to Vmware in terms of cost. So... we look at others, but have no reason to move.
You're absolutely right. Not many escapes from Earth, last I checked...
But that's great. The governments need to control the general population, not the terrorists. If they wanted, they could remove the causes for "terrorism" all over the world. But then what? Who will buy new weapons? Where will new targets for hostile takeover emerge or come from? From my perspective, they need terrorists to terrorize the general population and thus asure the continuation of certain forces.
What does it look like? The Sims with a cruel twist? Hey, maybe they'll release The Sims add-on... Or nr.4 will be called The SLims... No disrespect to the suffering, though. It just came to me.
You don't have to go far to encounter such stupidity. Slovenia, for example. A friend of mine, who studied law, was required to buy books in amount of 400 and up. Every school year or semester. That's crazy, but many schools require students to buy textbooks. Usually written by the same professors who later require them. I went to Computer and ELectronics college and we also had to buy all the books. THe only good thng about this system is you can ask the author of the book in person, if there 's something in it, that you don't understand :/
Internet has advanced so much in our lives it has actually become part of it. If someone is unable to notice it, it's probably because his/her account is on Myspace ;)
The sooner we adapt to that, the better. For someone to post such status, while also being a cop is crazy. I wouldn't want to meet that guy in the street.
Hehe, I know :)
Yeah? ;)
I still have the same Windows XP I did when I met my girlfriend almost six years ago. Now, that could mean many things...
Yes, I had lots of sex since then. I also partied a lot. But it wasn't all just fun and games. Oh wait, it was.
I use this Windows for gaming. Which is probably one of the rest best reasons to use it. But it works fine. The difference probably is in the way you treat it. I am an administrator in a medium sized company and I'm in charge of a complete lifecycle of approximately 500 PC's. All XP or W2K. I have intimate knowledge of Windows (and my girlfriend, but let's leave that) and know, what I can do, not to break it. Since I use Linux for everything else, I am just fine.
Absolutelly right. We just have to wait and see. Unfortunatelly in the meantime, we'll have VMware. They are pricey and milking their customers, but they also deliver their goods.
It certainly is stable and enterprise ready. But, what is enterprise? Some, like Amazon made good use of it. Some didn't and are now worse off. And in our case, we can't yet, because we can't allow downtime on certain services. With Virtual Infrastructure 4 there will be new Fault tolerance feature included, which will allow the virtual machine to run on more hosts, and when one fails, the other takes over seamlessly. Without downtime.
It was the same with us. We could go for Xen and Novell, but when I talked to my superior, who is a cool guy he asked me, how comfortable would I feel, when something went south and entire company was offline. In such context, Vmware offerings look much better. Altough I have good experience with Novell support, I know that Vmware offers a better one for their products.
Both are quite easy to deploy and Xen performs faster than ESX, but I never want to even think about running non-clustered virtualization solution. In this aspect does Vmware come in front. My bosses argued that the solution I select must have some level of official support and my free time is too valuable to spend saving 40 to 60 production virtual servers from crashing due to package update. I went to a Citrix presentation, where they showed us features of their Enterprise solutions. I must say that it worked flawlessly and I liked it, altough I am OSS fan. But final cost of Citrix solution is almost the same as Vmwares, if not higher. I was also considering using SLES10 Xen and Zenworks Datacenter management tools, which provide a high degree of availability, but in the end, when technical and financial aspects of every possible solution were compared, Vmware was clearly the solution we had to accept to achieve our goals. For next three years, we're commited to Vmware, but closely watching Xen. I hope I'll get to run it in a datacenter one day :) THe sooner the better.
Have you used Xen in enterprise environment? Well, I did a pilot project last year and Xen is nowhere near there. Maybe Citrix XenSource, but not Xen.
I currently eat almost no sugars. Almost means, that I have a dessert once or twice a month. My fat intake is limited only by choice of fats I use for cooking. Otherwise I eat mostly meat, vegetables and whole grain cereals. No carbohydrates like pasta, potatoes, flour etc. But it's different for each person. In my case I found out that I have a problem with pancreas. That causes me to store fat more efficiently... :(
Have you ever heard about Michel Montignac? If you're interested in nutrition, read some of his books and you'll see what I'm talking about. I tried loosing weight a couple of times, but it appeared strange, that I wasn't successful, altough I live an active life. Then I read his book and changed my entire diet according to his recommendations. I lost 50 pounds in a year and improved all the stats (blood sugar level, cholesterol etc.). Eventually, it's funny that it's not the fact, but sugars, that are mostly responsible for current situation in the West.
Great part of the fault is on the society. Just take a wider look at USA since WW2. It's all about consumerism. That's what's really killing Americans, not "terrerists". Companies with strong political influence and monetary backing are creating their own truth and American government is letting them do it. Corn producers are more protected than Siberian tigers and great whites. How come that? Everybody knows corn is only good for animals and fuels. Read into corn syrup and its history a little, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's not the fatasses who profit of it. They just live their life as taught by the media.
Please read more on those programs and you'll see they are flawed and just a money-hole. NY Times had a great series of articles last year about diabetes rise in the US. In there, I was shocked to find out, that Medic*** covered amputations of limbs due to diabetes, but not preventive counseling. The counseling program cost several hundred dollars for part of New York, while a single amputation costs 40 grand. The counseling programs are dying out, because amputation business is more lucrative for hospitals. Besides, most health insurers (not just the federal programs) cover only half of necessary equipment for blood sugar monitoring etc. Please also check the necessary paperwork for Medic*** coverage and you'll see why it's inefficient. Please check the state of your medical care and you will get depressed. Which I think, also isn't covered by public health services...
The situation leading to WWI was as you described. Germany wanted a better position in the world, considering its massive potential, but old colonial forces were unabated in their positions. German arrogance is something to consider, especially through the eyes of today. I think both Russia and US show a fair amount of arrogance. As did Mikhail Sakhashvili and the Georgians. The ignored all warnings and thought, that entire NATO will jump in to save their foolish asses. They simply didn't consider all their options and misread the signs from Bush administration (for over half a year?!)
Hitler couldn't have risen to power with his oratory skill alone. Every time a right winged politican, especially nationalist rises to power, it's due to the situation of people in that country. Oratory skills are a must for any politican when he's trying to seize power. As far as nationalism is concerned, Germans dealt with it in 1945, other countries still have not. Just look at the brits, the french, the swiss and others. That's just form the top of my head.
The democracy you're talking about and the economic expansion of borders historically means: coups, revolutions, sponsored by CIA, unlawful privatisations, the rise of multinationals and the fall of little man. I'm not exactly sure, where you live and how you look at your surroundings, but I wouldn't want to wake one day into a society, where authority looks at every step I make, busts my door because they want to intimidate me from protesting, reading my mail and wiretapping my calls, to see if I'm a possible terrorist and forcing me with government sponsored news, straight from the mouth of special advisers. And I wasn't talking about Russia. In Russia, the situation is what it is- not really good for democracy. At least their rulers aren't talking about democracy and human values, while invading another country and killing civilians indiscriminately.
I read all your comments in this thread and I can understand you. But please, before you go around talking about oppression, look at the reasons for WWI and WWII. First time it was unjust divide of colonies, the second time it was the economic destruction of Germany with war damages and industry restrictions. This hard situation, coupled with worldwide economic crisis could give rise to nationalistic characters, like Adolf Hitler and the like. Saying, that only Hitler was responsible for WWII is crazy. I'm not defending him, just saying to look at the reasons for him being there, doing what he did. What we see these days is globalization galore, where undeveloped (by western standards) countries are up for grabs. Money is talking more than ever and global markets make it possible to invest where previously only local money was. Mostly american capital is penetrating everywhere, bringing with it Democracy. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119399588/HTMLSTART No wonder powerful countries try to use some leverage. Don't try to blind yourselves, America still considers Russia an unfriendly state and wants Russia's influence to diminish, using subversive political maneuvering. As far as I'm concerned, that's aggression, no matter how it looks. As far as the murder of webmaster is concerned, it remains to be seen, what really happened. In every case, somebody will object to findings. It's a nature of mankind.
I'm not really sure if this would work. I tried similar stuff with EU customs and it didn't work with them. USA is still in a state of war, so I wouldn't even try it with them. But then again I don't intend to go there any time soon...
Very true. It's funny to make fun of rednecks, but when it comes to tragedy, they are still people. Unless they really make the disaster bigger, than it should be, due to their actions.
Compared to real off road vehicles, they are. For serious driving, try older offroads, like Landcruiser, Patrol, UAZ, Land Rover or maybe even Mercedes G. I can't imagine paying for something, that's full of plastic.
I think nobody here will deny that military care during active duty is one of the finest. But once you leave service, you are worse off than other civilians without medical history. If you compare figures for homelessnes, poverty, suicide rates you'll see that veterans are underprivileged in the very society that used to praise them. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/22suicide.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin This is a NY Times article talking about suicide prevention, that is still in natal phase as far as efficiency is concerned. I'm afraid you have to login to read, but if you perform a web search, you'll find a lot of references. Also, there is a class action lawsuit out there, that has to do with lack of care for veterans. It's mentioned in the article, but there should be plenty references elsewhere, too. I've been following american wars closely and military is quite eager to heal physical wounds, that are visible and grueling. Your parent post was dead on, when it mentioned mental disorders. Those are the most dangerous and not taken care of sufficiently.
Nice fan you are. I know many others like you, fans of AMD, but currently running Core Duos, since they are cheap. I believe those fans are called "savvy consumers". I am a fan of AMD and I run their chips even in these times. Why? Because I consider myself a man of principles. Because I don't care about a couple dozen â in exchange for my principles. Because I don't need that extra power, that Core Duo provides.
Your information is correct. But you forgot to mention the difference between car bombs in urban areas, which were reported in advance (although sometimes questionable police response made matters worse: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20011209/ai_n13963053 http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/mi5-and-omagh-the-bomb-to-end-all-bombs ) and the actual attacks on British colonial forces, which were meant to hurt them. I see the war in N Ireland as a classic war for independence with all modern "appendages". Unfortunately it's not over yet and Irish people are still under foreign rule. Before you go yapping about and accusing me of supporting "terrorists" think about your own country. Wherever you are. Almost every country had its war for independence. The only question is when and how successful was it against its colonial masters. Overlords, if you will.