LOL. Agreed, that is probably not your typical usage of VMware. You made it sound like you couldn't even get it up and running. Not sure why you wouldn't be able to do those things with VMware though. Another discussion for another day I suppose.;-)
I originally thought VMWare would be great. I tried, as did a few other Linux gurus, to get VMWare working properly in our scenario. We all found it to be an abomination. True, we were using the "free" stuff, but I don't trust any company that offers a broken product for free and then tries to pull a bait and switch. I respect your like of VMWare, but please don't misinform people. It does not just work.
OTOH VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition) works flawlessly for me out of the box (i.e. repository), though I concede that it might not just work for others.
I'm sorry, they were obviously not "Linux Gurus" if you couldn't get VMware to work. I am not a "Linux Guru" and I got it to work after a few hours of fiddling around. I did have some issues around getting the proper dev-kernel stuff (or something like that, but can't remember exact details now), but a "Linux Guru" should have been able to figure that out in about 5 minutes...
It's amazing how popular a product their Workstation version is if it just "does not" work as you claim.
Out of curiosity, what does one use to manage ESXi if you're not willing to shell out for VMWare Infrastructure? Does it have a web GUI management setup like VMWare Server?
VMWare Infrastructure Client. It's missing a lot of the fun features like live migration, but you can work around it using SSH most of the time.
Umm, there is no shell to log into for ESXi. You have you use the RCLI (remote CLI) or the Virtual Infrastructure Client.
I guess it goes back to my original comment - was Lincoln a "great" president? Based on your post, probably not (or was that just the "Copperhead Democrats" and not the majority of the general populous that despised him?), although the majority of people today would probably say yes.
Perhaps he should have stepped down and not taken office. For the better good of the country of course. He obviously knew the states would secede if he won the election. Maybe he didn't have the best interest of the country at heart after all.
It would be terribly interesting to know what the populous of the time truly thought about Lincoln and his actions. As many others have stated already on this topic, history is viewed with rose colored glasses. 150 years from now Bush Jr will probably look much better in the history books than he does with the media today.
The guy who managed to end slavery, preserve the Union, AND assist in ushering in modern medical techniques on the battlefield a log-splitting bumpkin? Yeah, sure.
He was probably our greatest American president ever.
Devil's Advocate here...
Preserve the Union, greatest president ever? Isn't it a state's right to secede? He was also the only president to allow a civil war on his shift. Ending slavery happened to be a side effect of the war. Doesn't sound like such a a great presidency to me.
Agreed. I hate the fact that my 93 year old grandfather still uses that term (he grew up in middle Georgia), but as you said it was more of a descriptive term and not an insult. At some point it used to be acceptable to use the term "colored" as well. Not sure when all that changed. Now only black people can call each other the "N" word. Boggles the mind...
As for drivers, you should be fine. They aren't changing the driver model for Win7, so Vista drivers will work with it.
I beg to differ unless something is intentionally borked with the Win 7 beta. I can't get half my Vista drivers to work with my Asus laptop. I've tried 32 bit, 64 bit and Vista compatibility mode to no avail. I am not the only one having the driver issues according to the forums I've looked through.
I was pleasantly surprised on how many devices were supported just from the install disc however. I guess I will have to wait a little bit longer to fully convert to Win 7.
At least in the Atlanta area the IT job market seems as strong as ever.
I think the IT slashes from the early 2000s was actually a good thing for us still in the industry today. Companies who severely downsized their IT Depts have realized over the last few years what a mistake that was. I think finding an IT job now is probably easier than it has ever been in nearly a decade. Granted my skillset and network has increased significantly over the last 5 years, but I have friends that have recently gotten new jobs and each had a minimum of 3 offers to choose from. Maybe they were lucky, but I think that is pretty amazing to see during a recession.
Making a 64 bit only version wouldn't push people to switch, it would make many maintain the old OS instead of buying the new. You must realise that many people (myself included) still has CPUs which only support 32 bit.
Umm. If you only have a 32 bit capable CPU, would you really want to run Vista? I guess that makes your CPU 4-6 years old at least? Personally I would not want to run Vista on anything older than 2 years old and 3GB+ of RAM minimum.
It's because Spaniards speak "proper" Spanish, or Castilian, and feel that any other variation is a bastardization of their language. I've gotten into numerous arguments with my wife (who is from Spain) over this silliness. It's like someone from England stating that American, Australian, Irish, etc English is not truly English either.
You must also realize that most Spaniards typically do not consider themselves Hispanic or Latin, but European.
I'm surprised someone hasn't come with a hypervisor (ala VMWare ESX) specific for home systems. Run everything in a VM, including your games, browsers, mail clients, etc. Everything has their own unique memory space that cannot affect the other systems running.
I'd deal with the inconvenience of a boot disk or something similar if it netted me ~15% better performance by dropping the OS out of the picture.
I haven't looked into these guys a whole lot, but ran across them a while back and it might be somewhat up your alley....
http://www.simplec.com/index.html
It is my understanding the will be working closely with VMWare, particularly around their NEXUS stuff and possibly having a specific Cisco/VMware cert.
I am guessing it will take a good 12-18 months before they get any serious penetration in the server market.
or ask someone to extract or create a cpio archive without manpages *gg. heck, even with man i doubt much people still know how to use that. granted, tar is more accessible and has made cpio somewhat obsolete when it comes to archiving.
but i still use cpio when migrating data across mountpoints and i need the files to look exactly the same (user, timestamp, link aso):
find . |cpio -paumd $targetdir
so simple, so sexy;)
You might want to check out Hellas. Sci-fi RPG with a Classical Greek twist. No levels, epic storyline, custom worlds. Uses the Omni System (from Talislanta).
You are either from Europe, Japan or don't own a cell phone in the US. I've had a plan with every single major carrier in the US and you have no choice but to yell into your cellphone the reception is just that bad. With that in mind I avoid having drawn out conversations in public places on my cell but there are idiots who don't. I've lost count of how many times I've been on the train on my way to work and heard something like this:
------
I've seen people continuing conversations at the top of their voices like this for an hour and a half train ride.
I've owned a cell phone since 1996, worked a number of years for Nextel in the late 90s, my wife currently works for ATT and I have probably used over 2 dozen cell phones/PDAs from all the carriers as well (although mostly Nextel/Cingular/ATT).
Our experiences have been very different apparently. Reception is not a volume issue, it's a clarity issue and speaking louder/yelling is not going to help the conversation. I think it is human nature to raise your voice when their is poor reception. It is similar to someone speaking English slower and louder to person that speaks broken English (well, the slower part might help, but louder is irrelevant).
I find myself speaking loudly as well and when I make an conscious effort to speak at a normal volume level, I've never had the caller on the other end tell me they could not hear me. I've found this to be true on any type of phone, blue tooth, headset or earpiece.
I don't see what the big deal is. People talking on a cell phone is hardly any different than two people talking to each other on the plane. Except you only get (have) to hear one side of the conversation.
If you don't want to hear it, then get ear plugs, plug in your iPod, or just not listen. I mean, seriously, you don't hear people complaining about cell phones at restaurants, yet it is the same concept.
When did flying become a "quiet zone"?
I think it would be a non-issue if people talking on cell phones would use a normal level of volume to speak. It becomes a problem when people are practically yelling on the phone and can be heard three rows down the airplane. Most normal face to face conversations on an airplane are barely audible b/c of the background noise on the plane.
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LOL. Agreed, that is probably not your typical usage of VMware. You made it sound like you couldn't even get it up and running. Not sure why you wouldn't be able to do those things with VMware though. Another discussion for another day I suppose. ;-)
I actually meant to say their VMware Server version, not Workstation. I have, however, installed both versions on Linux FWIW.
I originally thought VMWare would be great. I tried, as did a few other Linux gurus, to get VMWare working properly in our scenario. We all found it to be an abomination. True, we were using the "free" stuff, but I don't trust any company that offers a broken product for free and then tries to pull a bait and switch. I respect your like of VMWare, but please don't misinform people. It does not just work. OTOH VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition) works flawlessly for me out of the box (i.e. repository), though I concede that it might not just work for others.
I'm sorry, they were obviously not "Linux Gurus" if you couldn't get VMware to work. I am not a "Linux Guru" and I got it to work after a few hours of fiddling around. I did have some issues around getting the proper dev-kernel stuff (or something like that, but can't remember exact details now), but a "Linux Guru" should have been able to figure that out in about 5 minutes...
It's amazing how popular a product their Workstation version is if it just "does not" work as you claim.
Out of curiosity, what does one use to manage ESXi if you're not willing to shell out for VMWare Infrastructure? Does it have a web GUI management setup like VMWare Server?
VMWare Infrastructure Client. It's missing a lot of the fun features like live migration, but you can work around it using SSH most of the time.
Umm, there is no shell to log into for ESXi. You have you use the RCLI (remote CLI) or the Virtual Infrastructure Client.
Does that include the system drive or just the data drives?
I guess it goes back to my original comment - was Lincoln a "great" president? Based on your post, probably not (or was that just the "Copperhead Democrats" and not the majority of the general populous that despised him?), although the majority of people today would probably say yes.
Perhaps he should have stepped down and not taken office. For the better good of the country of course. He obviously knew the states would secede if he won the election. Maybe he didn't have the best interest of the country at heart after all.
It would be terribly interesting to know what the populous of the time truly thought about Lincoln and his actions. As many others have stated already on this topic, history is viewed with rose colored glasses. 150 years from now Bush Jr will probably look much better in the history books than he does with the media today.
The guy who managed to end slavery, preserve the Union, AND assist in ushering in modern medical techniques on the battlefield a log-splitting bumpkin? Yeah, sure. He was probably our greatest American president ever.
Devil's Advocate here...
Preserve the Union, greatest president ever? Isn't it a state's right to secede? He was also the only president to allow a civil war on his shift. Ending slavery happened to be a side effect of the war. Doesn't sound like such a a great presidency to me.
Agreed. I hate the fact that my 93 year old grandfather still uses that term (he grew up in middle Georgia), but as you said it was more of a descriptive term and not an insult. At some point it used to be acceptable to use the term "colored" as well. Not sure when all that changed. Now only black people can call each other the "N" word. Boggles the mind...
As for drivers, you should be fine. They aren't changing the driver model for Win7, so Vista drivers will work with it.
I beg to differ unless something is intentionally borked with the Win 7 beta. I can't get half my Vista drivers to work with my Asus laptop. I've tried 32 bit, 64 bit and Vista compatibility mode to no avail. I am not the only one having the driver issues according to the forums I've looked through.
I was pleasantly surprised on how many devices were supported just from the install disc however. I guess I will have to wait a little bit longer to fully convert to Win 7.
These guys are an example of what you are talking about. https://www.miocard.com/
At least in the Atlanta area the IT job market seems as strong as ever.
I think the IT slashes from the early 2000s was actually a good thing for us still in the industry today. Companies who severely downsized their IT Depts have realized over the last few years what a mistake that was. I think finding an IT job now is probably easier than it has ever been in nearly a decade. Granted my skillset and network has increased significantly over the last 5 years, but I have friends that have recently gotten new jobs and each had a minimum of 3 offers to choose from. Maybe they were lucky, but I think that is pretty amazing to see during a recession.
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Fail.
Making a 64 bit only version wouldn't push people to switch, it would make many maintain the old OS instead of buying the new. You must realise that many people (myself included) still has CPUs which only support 32 bit.
Umm. If you only have a 32 bit capable CPU, would you really want to run Vista? I guess that makes your CPU 4-6 years old at least? Personally I would not want to run Vista on anything older than 2 years old and 3GB+ of RAM minimum.
You must also realize that most Spaniards typically do not consider themselves Hispanic or Latin, but European.
I would love an option like that. Origin did something similar for Ultima VII to overcome memory limitations of DOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_VII#Technical_issues
I'm surprised someone hasn't come with a hypervisor (ala VMWare ESX) specific for home systems. Run everything in a VM, including your games, browsers, mail clients, etc. Everything has their own unique memory space that cannot affect the other systems running.
I'd deal with the inconvenience of a boot disk or something similar if it netted me ~15% better performance by dropping the OS out of the picture.
I haven't looked into these guys a whole lot, but ran across them a while back and it might be somewhat up your alley.... http://www.simplec.com/index.html
It is my understanding the will be working closely with VMWare, particularly around their NEXUS stuff and possibly having a specific Cisco/VMware cert. I am guessing it will take a good 12-18 months before they get any serious penetration in the server market.
Browser locked up and inadvertently modded "flamebait." Posting to clear it out...
or ask someone to extract or create a cpio archive without manpages *gg. heck, even with man i doubt much people still know how to use that. granted, tar is more accessible and has made cpio somewhat obsolete when it comes to archiving. but i still use cpio when migrating data across mountpoints and i need the files to look exactly the same (user, timestamp, link aso): find . |cpio -paumd $targetdir so simple, so sexy ;)
Wow, speaking of cpio...
/dir ; find . | cpio -oBdmuc | remsh ip_addr "cd /dir ; cpio -iBdmuc"
cd
Back in our HPUX 10.20 days. Particularly useful for copying data between test/dev/production Oracle DB systems and keeping everything IDENTICAL.
Yes, the Mobygames lists DOS version, but the CGA glory isn't exactly the best release.
Grab a c64 emulator and play the full color version, as shown from the game box screen shots.
You might want to check out Hellas. Sci-fi RPG with a Classical Greek twist. No levels, epic storyline, custom worlds. Uses the Omni System (from Talislanta).
http://www.hellasrpg.com/
Wow. That sounds a lot like Imperator - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator
Hehe. Cheers!
You are either from Europe, Japan or don't own a cell phone in the US. I've had a plan with every single major carrier in the US and you have no choice but to yell into your cellphone the reception is just that bad. With that in mind I avoid having drawn out conversations in public places on my cell but there are idiots who don't. I've lost count of how many times I've been on the train on my way to work and heard something like this: ------ I've seen people continuing conversations at the top of their voices like this for an hour and a half train ride.
I've owned a cell phone since 1996, worked a number of years for Nextel in the late 90s, my wife currently works for ATT and I have probably used over 2 dozen cell phones/PDAs from all the carriers as well (although mostly Nextel/Cingular/ATT).
Our experiences have been very different apparently. Reception is not a volume issue, it's a clarity issue and speaking louder/yelling is not going to help the conversation. I think it is human nature to raise your voice when their is poor reception. It is similar to someone speaking English slower and louder to person that speaks broken English (well, the slower part might help, but louder is irrelevant).
I find myself speaking loudly as well and when I make an conscious effort to speak at a normal volume level, I've never had the caller on the other end tell me they could not hear me. I've found this to be true on any type of phone, blue tooth, headset or earpiece.
I don't see what the big deal is. People talking on a cell phone is hardly any different than two people talking to each other on the plane. Except you only get (have) to hear one side of the conversation.
If you don't want to hear it, then get ear plugs, plug in your iPod, or just not listen. I mean, seriously, you don't hear people complaining about cell phones at restaurants, yet it is the same concept.
When did flying become a "quiet zone"?
I think it would be a non-issue if people talking on cell phones would use a normal level of volume to speak. It becomes a problem when people are practically yelling on the phone and can be heard three rows down the airplane. Most normal face to face conversations on an airplane are barely audible b/c of the background noise on the plane.