Not to be a troll, but this is sort of like the argument I always hear about the cameras the gubment puts up at intersections and along roads. If you're not breaking the law, no need to worry about these cameras, right?
You'll probably get a visit from the Anti-Terrorist Strike Force, also known as Team America, or the Department of Homeland Security for your 'terroristic threat' to blow up a nuclear power plant. Don't you know the gubment reads/.?;)
This is all because politicians, much like gorillas, do love getting pubic lice from Bill Gates, if you know what I mean.. wait... or is that the other way around?
I guess I wonder what exactly you should demand out of Charter when a person emails them complaining about something like this. I noticed this page yesterday when I typed a domain name wrong. I was like 'WTF?', but I don't guess I know exactly how to respond to them.
But it's cool to play as the Nazi's in some of those WWII FPS games? Or it's ok to play GTA and kill cops and hookers? Most people don't object loudly to these games because we're relatively desensitized to this type of violence, but when it hits so close to home, something we all read about or saw on the television, then the games is WRONG! I don't know what the game is about so I can't say whether or not it's a game that should be condemned like this. I think it is impressive that someone is pushing an envelope of this nature with the government in the position it's in. How many other people would have the balls to do something like this? I can only imagine the sort of email they get about this game. We do still live in a free country, right?
It's very very hard to turn off too!/sarcasm Granted, you can look at this either way, is it good to have that off by default and not auto-update or would you leave it on by default so it saturates your pipe.
Your choice is between having a secure, patched browser and a slow internet connection for the however many minutes it takes to download the patch; or to have an unpatched, unsecure browser and all access to all the bandwidth. The one thing I can say for it, it might not have been a bad idea for it to at least prompt the user before the download of the update, but you can turn that on pretty easily.
Let me preface this comment with this first. I use VMware ESX server for all my virtualization. This may not all hold true for Xen or Virtual Server.
Most comments on here are about downloading a Virtual Machine at 7AM. I'm not sure what this is all about. With using VMware ESX server, there is no downloading of virtual machines. All the VM's are stored on the ESX hosts, you access them through a client, in our case Virtual Center. You can actually install a different client on everyone elses computers if you want, but Virtual Center allows you to setup security so a user can only access their VM. There should be NO downloading of VM's.
We're seriously looking into a solution using ESX server or even the new VI 3.0, which is basically just ESX server 3.0 with a few other things bundled in, to do Virtual Desktops next year. There is actually a seminar put on by Wyse and VMware and a local business partner in St. Louis, MO in a week and a half discussing Virtual Desktops using ESX server. You might check out VMware's website to see if they're going to be doing this type of seminar in your area, I know they had it in a variet of cities around the US. If you're not in the US then you're probably out of luck.
One thing I heard recently was about a company around here using ESX server in order to get to a more virtualized desktop. They were setting up a VM and then putting the machine in redo mode. This basically creates a log file and doesn't change files on the virtual machine. All changes are saved to this redo log file. This file can be committed to the virtual machine when you power it off or it can be discarded. They were creating 10 redo logs for each virtual machine, so basically they were allowing 10 users to access one virtual machine, do all the work they wanted and not affect the VM itself. If you want a user to start with a fresh 'desktop' each time they login, discard any changes to the redo logs when you power the VM off and be done with it. This seems like a very interesting solution, and one I think the seminar will discuss further.
I just hoped onto the website to see how many cities they were doing the seminar in, it looks like about 20 or so cities, even some in Canada. Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, and across a lot of the US. I saw several in TX. I'm going to post the link here for the seminar, I hope it works right.
Also, running in redo mode, snapshots typically can eat up a LOT of space very quickly because it saves the entire delta of everything that goes on, file deletes, changes, everything.
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Not to be a troll, but this is sort of like the argument I always hear about the cameras the gubment puts up at intersections and along roads. If you're not breaking the law, no need to worry about these cameras, right?
... Just sayin...
haha.. now for telling THAT story, you're really going to be investigated.. have fun with the FBI.
You'll probably get a visit from the Anti-Terrorist Strike Force, also known as Team America, or the Department of Homeland Security for your 'terroristic threat' to blow up a nuclear power plant. Don't you know the gubment reads /.? ;)
It's always a good idea to put out a survey about the quality of your survey. Or so I've found.
I heard that there was a dorm room level and engineering building level in the latest GTA game!
The princess is hot!
This is all because politicians, much like gorillas, do love getting pubic lice from Bill Gates, if you know what I mean.. wait... or is that the other way around?
I guess I wonder what exactly you should demand out of Charter when a person emails them complaining about something like this. I noticed this page yesterday when I typed a domain name wrong. I was like 'WTF?', but I don't guess I know exactly how to respond to them.
So now does Google block the entire country of Belgium in order to make sure they don't allow them to read cached material? If so, I say 'HA!'
That's why I'm waiting for SP2!!!! See how uber-smart I am..
And this thread is the exact reason why I will never have kids.. I'm sure they're all the devil!
But it's cool to play as the Nazi's in some of those WWII FPS games? Or it's ok to play GTA and kill cops and hookers? Most people don't object loudly to these games because we're relatively desensitized to this type of violence, but when it hits so close to home, something we all read about or saw on the television, then the games is WRONG! I don't know what the game is about so I can't say whether or not it's a game that should be condemned like this. I think it is impressive that someone is pushing an envelope of this nature with the government in the position it's in. How many other people would have the balls to do something like this? I can only imagine the sort of email they get about this game. We do still live in a free country, right?
maybe? ;)
Yeah! OH NO!! Tools->Options->Advanced->Update tab
/sarcasm Granted, you can look at this either way, is it good to have that off by default and not auto-update or would you leave it on by default so it saturates your pipe.
It's very very hard to turn off too!
Your choice is between having a secure, patched browser and a slow internet connection for the however many minutes it takes to download the patch; or to have an unpatched, unsecure browser and all access to all the bandwidth. The one thing I can say for it, it might not have been a bad idea for it to at least prompt the user before the download of the update, but you can turn that on pretty easily.
Let me preface this comment with this first. I use VMware ESX server for all my virtualization. This may not all hold true for Xen or Virtual Server.
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Most comments on here are about downloading a Virtual Machine at 7AM. I'm not sure what this is all about. With using VMware ESX server, there is no downloading of virtual machines. All the VM's are stored on the ESX hosts, you access them through a client, in our case Virtual Center. You can actually install a different client on everyone elses computers if you want, but Virtual Center allows you to setup security so a user can only access their VM. There should be NO downloading of VM's.
We're seriously looking into a solution using ESX server or even the new VI 3.0, which is basically just ESX server 3.0 with a few other things bundled in, to do Virtual Desktops next year. There is actually a seminar put on by Wyse and VMware and a local business partner in St. Louis, MO in a week and a half discussing Virtual Desktops using ESX server. You might check out VMware's website to see if they're going to be doing this type of seminar in your area, I know they had it in a variet of cities around the US. If you're not in the US then you're probably out of luck.
One thing I heard recently was about a company around here using ESX server in order to get to a more virtualized desktop. They were setting up a VM and then putting the machine in redo mode. This basically creates a log file and doesn't change files on the virtual machine. All changes are saved to this redo log file. This file can be committed to the virtual machine when you power it off or it can be discarded. They were creating 10 redo logs for each virtual machine, so basically they were allowing 10 users to access one virtual machine, do all the work they wanted and not affect the VM itself. If you want a user to start with a fresh 'desktop' each time they login, discard any changes to the redo logs when you power the VM off and be done with it. This seems like a very interesting solution, and one I think the seminar will discuss further.
I just hoped onto the website to see how many cities they were doing the seminar in, it looks like about 20 or so cities, even some in Canada. Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, and across a lot of the US. I saw several in TX. I'm going to post the link here for the seminar, I hope it works right.
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Hope this helps!
Jerel
Also, running in redo mode, snapshots typically can eat up a LOT of space very quickly because it saves the entire delta of everything that goes on, file deletes, changes, everything.