Posts by HMTK

Airbus: We'll cancel crap A400M unless we get more £££

subsidized defense industries

For all intents and purposes the US subsidizes it's defense industry just as much as the EU countries do. Ask a company like Boeing...

The main problem we have is too little Europe, not too much. With a stronger EU we could show those colonials who's REALLY boss!

Speculation takes flight over 5th generation Velociraptor

what OS?

Still using DOS 6.22?

Where is virtualisation taking you?

Why not for production machines?

Virtualization provides all kinds of benefits and it will - of course - depend on your specific situation. IMO on of the main benefits is making the (guest) OS independent from the hardware it runs on. The physical machine dies and cannot easily be repaired? No problem, just take a completely different server and run it there without much hassle. Things like resource scheduling, power management, high availability and fault tolerance may be important in your choice of virtual or physical. In some cases it may be necessary to combine both, YMMV.

One of the big negatives is that people think they can simply keep on adding servers left and right, creating a management and licensing nightmare.

RAF's new military airlifter finally lumbers into the air

More Europe!

This shows we need a more integrated Europe where national politics play far less of a role. Away with the various national defense industries and work on a real European scale. For that matter, away with the national military as well. The Yanks enjoy massive advantages because of the scale they work at while the European countries are merely small fry.