Posts by Marc McAllister 12 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Aug 2007
"And don't give me the "torrents have legal uses" bullshit. We all know what torrents are used for, and we all know it's illegal." Too scared to post non-AC? I'll have you know I use torrents to download Linux DVD iso's and that it 100% legal. Fedora actually put links to the torrents on their site. Don't tar all torrent users with the same brush, please.
There is a Linux project called Moonlight, it's an open source implementation of Silverlight:
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
I am also a heavy Linux user and no product of the MS/Novell unholy mating is coming anywhere near my boxes.
Not that I ever intend to use Silvershite, even though I am by profession a MS-based web developer.. Flash is/was bad enough back in the late 90s for some truly awful websites that took ages to load on a dial-up connection.
Considering it's only Twatty Rose from the original GnR I fail to see the connection really - okay he swindled the name from the rest of the band but it's just NOT going to be the same without Slash and Co. Rose won't see a penny of my money and I bet many others feel the same.
Snakebite 'n Black? That was only for the girls when I was younger (not spotty though).. proper Snakebites or Newcastle Brown Ale was the order of the day followed by copious JD ;)
Paris 'cause she could probably put together a better band.
As good as Emmerdale Farm was (when there were cows, sheep in t'top field etc) I fail to see what El Reg is doing reporting this? I mean, next thing I know my wife will be reading this site to get her Eastenders fix..
Paris 'cause I'm sure she's an animal lover.
All these elderly bashers, have they forgotten that were it not for the elderly who fought (and died) for us to keep Britain afloat we would be a different and a lot worse nation now?
I for one am happy to pay my taxes in honour and recognition of what our elder members of society sacrificed in order to make a future for us.
Okay, I'm not sticking up for anyone here - I am a Linux man myself but there's no way the company I work for would switch lock, stock and barrel to Linux over their MS contract.. there's no-one to officially support Linux and most of our stuff is built in .Net.
It's not as simple as "Xen/KVM are cheaper", the rest of the package needs looking at - TBH I'd LOVE to swap to RHEL/CentOS 100% but it isn't going to happen :( Till then, we'll be on MS for most of our servers..
"In the end I found that virtualisation didn't give any advantage over a physical layout where we managed multiple applications by dynamically restricting the resources available to the app.
In then end virtualisation seems to be just another fad for the majority of sites I work at, but quite useful for one or two."
Matt, I can see what you are saying but take our dev environment for example. For one particular project we need at least six servers just for dev and our server room is full to bursting - the air-con and power supply wouldn't handle that many new boxes. All six servers are now VM'ed and housed on an ESX box, with room to add plenty more and the cooling/power requirements are a fraction of what the physical boxes would have taken.
For "the right time, the right place" it can be a god send (also for ease of backing up) but it does seem that companies are just thinking "right, let's stick ALL those old NT servers onto one box".. it isn't a quick fix. I think people will get wise to it eventually and use it for the correct purpose.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
