Posts by Shaun 2 94 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
Why is it going to take a month to get your Daedric armour? Complete the Dawnstar Museum quest to get 4 respawning daedrics (therefore daedra hearts) every 7 days, and some respawning ebony. Nip over to Gloombound mine and get enough ebony to craft a full set of armour and most of the weapons. Wait 30 days and the mine replenishes, and you can make some more.......
A month - Pah - I did it in a day, and that included making 500+ iron daggers to level up my smithing :)
Still happily running 25 Netware 6.5 servers over here. We tried OES last year for Zen11, but will be sticking with Zen7 on 6.5 for our production environment for a bit longer.
6.5 virtualises beautifully on VMWare, as mentioned is rock solid, and I doubt we'll ever stop using it while I'm still here.
I would like to have a play with Directory Services to make the client logins more transparent. I think we'll wait for OES11.
I'm the network admin for a school. We're currently happily running 70-100 VDIs (depending on the time of day), and will be going full scale up to 600 next summer.
For us, storage was the biggest pain. We tried running our trial VDI's alongside our servers, and quickly ran out of IO. We splashed some cash on two new SANs with a TB of Cache and Dedupe, and are happily outperforming our fat clients. Login times are now ~ 1 minute as opposed to 2 mins+.
For VDI get your numbers right. There's a good tool called Quest VDI Assessment. Run that on as many desktops as you can, and it will tell you your average and peak disk IO, memory and CPU. After that it's just a case of doing your sums, planning for some failover and buying some new toys.
We're now looking at Samsung PCoIP thin clients. So far very good, and have just watched the Matrix full screen streamed from one of our virtual servers.
If I want to play with Linux, I'll do it on a PC - You can pick one up for a lot less than the cost of a PS3.
If I want to play online games in a hack free environment, then the PS3 was pretty much the only option. I stopped playing CoD back in November - Not because of the press about aimbots etc, but because GT5 was released. Now I've almost got to platinum on that, I'm glad that Sony has finally had the balls to take the only sensible action.
I can however, see this getting a lot messier before it gets finally resolved.......................
@AC - You're thinking of VMware Server - ESXi is a proper bare metal hypervisor, so no windows installation is required. You do need a windows workstation to install the vsphere client so you can manage the thing, but that can always be virtualized once you're up and running :)
ESXi is great at home - good way of reusing some old hardware. Not quite sure why anyone would want patch and asset management at home.......
SMB's may want it, but I think a WSUS server would probably be a better investment (especially if it's virtualized), and asset management for most SMB's can be done manually...........
It's a PC - Unless you've bought something tiny to fit under the telly, it's going to have room, power and ports for multiple drives. Why would you buy a 120GB SSD/Spinny disk, when you could get a nice SSD to boot from and a 2TB drive for storage.......
Hell - you could get yourself a nice 8 port Areca SAS card with a gig of cache, 4 SSD's and 4 SAS drives, and be a very happy bunny - But few people are that silly................. :)
Eggs in one basket - Simple - You get 6 new servers with 24x7 4 hour response warranties, ideally with predictive failure so that the engineer is on site before you know there's a problem, and you make sure you have enough capacity in the system to cope with a server being down to work on...........
You want an enterprise level VDI solution without spending any money - You've highlighted a load of "Problems" which have already been solved with existing software.
The money from the overpriced software and new servers for that matter comes from the long term savings. Our VDI deployment starts this September. From then, the 90K we currently spend every year on replacing 20% of our desktops goes towards the VDI project. After 3-5 years most of that money will go elsewhere, leaving us enough to replace/add servers as needed and buy the odd thin client.
Look at the long term gains, and it's a fairly easy sell.
Simple answer to all of the highlighted "problems" - VShpere Enterprise with the View Premier Addon. That gives you HA+VMotion for your host reliability worries, DRS+DPM for load balancing and out of hours power saving, and View Composer so you only need to run the number of VDI's you need..................
Oh - and turn off power saving on your VDI's and tell them to reboot after a BSOD.
As far as 6 shiney new servers vs all your old kit - Per CPU license costs do help justify buying the shiney new servers............
I think you'll find that the Qur'an says that Muslims shouldn't depict Mohammed. It's not a rule that applies to non-Muslims.
People will always look for something to be offended by. I'm pretty sure that most of the people who complained about this, only complained because a news story incorrectly reported that they should be offended about it...........
This isn't a dig at Islam - All religions attract nutjobs. But it would be nice to see some Muslim leaders on the news saying "Who cares - if people want to try and #### us off by doing silly drawings, then that says more about them than us........"
I'm off to eat a bacon sandwich, and hope a religious nutjob doesn't take offense........
I've had an XFX 5970 Black edition on order for a month now - The availability date keeps moving.
Currently looking at the 16th December for delivery - will just have to wait and see.
Looking forward to ditching my two 9800 GX2's which draw close to 300W each at idle!
Sounds win-win to me - it's green, and it has the potential to kill/injure a few of those #*$%£## bikers who seem to think it's their god given right to overtake at 90 on the inside and swear at anyone who dares pull in on them even when they were quite clearly indicating..............
Anyway :)
Interesting idea of a two wheel drive bike - would certainly make cornering more interesting :)
I signed up to a new Vodafone contract last week, and got myself the Samsung Jet. I got the to throw in the Pink Tocco Lite for the missus, and I got some major brownie points for it :)
If it had 3G it would have been perfect - I can understand why they ditched wifi, but 3G really cripples a lot of the phone's features.
It handles calls well, the interface is intuative, reasonably quick and stable, and the qwerty keyboard option is very good - Even for my fat thumbs.
Overall, it is a good cheap phone - It's just a shame that it was clearly designed well by a decent engineer before having 3G and WiFi removed by an accountant..........
For £40 you can get a 320GB 2.5" drive from Dabs/Scan/Misco/Aria/Amazon etc...................
Hell - There's a Samsung 500GB 2.5" drive for ~£55.
Sony needs to stop messing around, and put a decent capacity drive in the PS3 for a reasonable amount of money. In the mean time, buy the cheapest model you can find and upgrade yourself - it's only a couple of screws............
Paris - cos she could cope with a couple of screws................................ Sorry
I download movies from interweb - if I like em, I buy em (Wjhich is about 90% of them as I check IMDB reviews before downloading).
And I'm buying most of them on BluRay now - you can get most newish movies from Amazon, Play or Tesco online for under a tenner.
I'm eagerly awaiting an angry letter accusing me of piracy so I can send them a photo of my wall of DVD's and BluRays.....................
Mine's the one with the pocket full on alen keys after building more Swedish DVD racks...............
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