Posts by John Doe 6

For Windows guest - KVM or XEN and which distro for host?

If it is for "Serious server operation"...

...you should get ESXi (which is free when you don't use vcenter) and run everything from there, You'll need vsphere client (runs only on Windows) but that's all.

Virtualization on top of some other OS is not for REAL serious operation, only bare metal hypervisors delivers. I'am runnin 7 OpenSuSE based servers and an Win 7 (for admin) on an old HP Proliant DL385 (Dual Core Opteron) for fun... oh yes, I run VMware vsphere for profit too. If you only run on 1 server you don't need the cool features anyway.

Android, Chromebooks storm channel as Windows PC sales go flat

So "The Year of Linux on the Desktop"...

...has finally arrived ?

...after "The year of Linux on the phone" and "The year of Linux in the TV-set" and "The year of Linux in the fridge".

I want to play with VMs

I run...

VMware ESXi 5.1 on an old Proliant DL385 (2x Dual Core Opteron 2.4 GHz, 16Gb RAM, 6x 73 Gb U320 disks on SmartArray) and a QNAP TS459U NAS as storage.

I do not have a vCenter server (because that is what you pay for now) so I can only do manual off-line cloning and can't make snapshots.

I run 6 ~ 8 Linux servers on this and it works very well (and is FREE).

Microsoft is "free" for use when you have license for the appropriate Windows Server and there are restrictions on how many Windows machines you may run on it (2 Windows VMs on a standard W2K8 Server).

'It's a joke!' ... Bill Gates slams Mark Zuckerberg's web-for-the-poor dream

Well... B.G. don't want Internet to the poor...

...because the poor will not be buying his company's software, they will run on either Android, Chrome or some other Linux.

A steam punk VDU ?

dot matrix display...

...like the yellow ones used on buses but with more lines, could be powered either by compressed air, steam, hydraulic or mechanical.

The correct name is "flip-disc display" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc_display

Snowden journo's boyfriend 'had crypto key for thumb-drive files written down' - cops

It really doesn't matter...

...does it ?

Those "secrets" were no longer secrets, because mr. Snowden intended to make them public when he copied them at NSA...

Win a top of the range Ultrabook with HP and The Register

Yes, cool...

...but does it run Linux ?

Beam me up? Not in the life of this universe

Yes we know...

...someone invented data compression for the same reason... 70% of the human body is water it could be compressed quite much. We would need lossless compression algorithm and some error correction but thats all folks. The Dream Lives on.

Hotshots' hotchpotch hotspots: Office Wi-Fi is a great big botch

But how do uou plan ?

Users per AP or area covered by AP or minimum kbps per user ?

I've got 11 AP's to 60 users (incl. one on the staircase and one in the basement).

Chrome and Firefox are planet-wreckers, IE cuddles dolphins

Awsome, now we only need...

...a version for OS X and another for Linux.

Have your users managed to force iOS devices on you?

Nope...

We (the IT dept.) has forced iOS devices on every employee in the company...

...and almost everybody (except a couple of Apple haters) are very happy about it.

But we are not a MS only dungeon.

Ubuntu? Fedora? Mint? Debian? We'll find you the right Linux to swallow

Re: Another example of why Linux fails to gain market share

Androids problem is that it is not directly compatible with any other Linux, it is the "Windows RT" of the Linux world. We do love Android but it is not the tablet Linux we all would like to have.

Ubuntu is not the leader, the leaders are RedHat, SuSE and Debian everything else is a derivative of one of those.

No we do not want to promote Ubuntu because Ubuntu is not the best solution for anything, it is not even the best UI experience.

Re: Who remembers ...

...thus he will end up with the Windoze of the Linux world.

BYOD: A bigger headache for IT bosses than Windows Metro?

Little correction

Is "BYOD: a bigger headache for IT bosses than Windows Metro?".

Should be: "BYOD: a bigger headache for IT bosses of Windows-only environments".

Survey: Win8 only HALF as popular as Win7 among IT bosses

Quite understandable.

Microsoft centric IT bosses hoped that Windows 7 will be a new XP (10 year safe run).

They have not accepted the fact that there never again will be another 10 year version of Windows.

Japan still in love with the fax

In the rest of the world...

...Fax is still most popular way of sending legally binding documents, just try to ask a bank how they communicate with businesses not on the SWIFT... the answer is: by fax.

125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students' laps

Re: Going down

OLPC is a success maybe not as a product but as a concept and TFA is a really good example of this.

Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation

The HARDWARE is the problem

As I see it the PC hardware is simply not suited for virtualization, we need Intel-based heavyweight servers which are NOT necessary DOS/Windows compatible. We need hardware supporting much more throughput than DOS/Windows compatible servers can provide. I may be wrong... but again... I may me right.

Entering a storage jail

In other news...

BullShitAlliance has just reported a whopping 30% increase in downloads of pirated films in UK. Me wonder why?

Windows on the Desktop? There's a group policy for that

GPO etc.

Group Policies are a solution for a problem that existed in Windows: the need to run with administrative rights. Now they are (mis)used for anything just because they are there.

What sealed Nokia's fate?

One word

Elop. He is just on a mission for Ballmer to save Microsofts mobile platform. Thats what happened to Nokia.

No Jobs, Schmidt deleted: Microsoft can't fail, can it?

First man fired for buying Microsoft

A municipality in Sweden has recently fired a man for re-buying Microsoft licenses...

The days of "No one gets fired for buying Microsoft" are finally over.

Microsoft patent victor targets Apple, Cisco...

Epic Fail

IPsec probably covers all those patents and predates them by 5 years...

...and is developed by two US government organizations: NIST and NSA.

New attack bypasses virtually all AV protection

Excuse me, but isn't it a OS problem ?

In my eyes it is an OS problem, not an AV problem.

Adobe man to Apple: 'Go screw yourself'

World calling Adobe !

When will we see Photoshop for Linux ??

Until then you may go screw yourself !!

Kit attacks Microsoft keyboards (and a whole lot more)

OT...

"...like ROT13 on Fidonet, mailing lists, etc."

Does ROT13 work on more developed languages (languages using more than 26 letters) than english ?

Microsoft fluffs Feds with secure cloud

Microsoft and Secure ?

Why does Microsoft and Secure in the same sentence trigger a "does not compute"-flag in my brain ?

Discounts damage for Microsoft Windows 7 PC boost?

Real world called...

I've been recently asked by one of our employees if I can get him something better than that Windows-crap he got now on his current work laptop...

...he is now running OpenSuSE. It is really only a platform for running Citrix client but so was his Windows.

I'm in a very good situation where I can give people almost anything I like as long as they can do their work. There are no real corporate policy telling me that we use Windows.

Morale from this short story is... if Windows wasn't bundled there wouldn't be only 1% Linux... there wouuld be probably 10%.

Channel 4 raises Bing word-extinction alarm

Only one in four ??

Then you don't know what you're looking for.

I'm getting what I'm looking for 7 out of 10 times on Google, and that's not porn I'm looking for (when you are looking for porn, then you are only getting 1 of 4).

Microsoft and Intel port Silverlight to Linux

Never!!!

I will never install anything from Microsoft on my Linux workstation unless it is open source... I don't trust those bastards.

Peugeot to offer in-car Wi-Fi in 2010

Real nerds got WiFi in their cars...

...we just install a UMTS WiFi router under the rear seat.

Word nemesis: Microsoft deliberately 'destroyed' our business

Didn't we see similiar behaviour...

...in the Stacker case many years ago.

Microsoft says US is top malware target

That's right Microsoft...

...and it is because of your poorly designed OS and your idea that running as admin is safe.