It's quite nice to see more and more things switching to torrents..

There's a DVD that a well respected individual made on the subject of bodybuilding - Over 11 hours of material. I can only imagine how much time he actually spent on it.

It was first only put up on a single website and youtube for download/streaming (he isn't charging anything for it). After finding out about this, I immediately threw it up on piratebay (with his permission) using DHT and an open bittorent tracker. It's a Win Win. Way more reliable to distribute (hash checking), downloads can easily resume, and his site uses boatloads less bandwidth.

There's not really a more efficient/faster way than P2P to deploy material.

Why do they need to virtualize it? Linux has better methods of "virtualizing" with a lot less overhead. OpenVZ and LXC being two.

From the way it sounds, it runs like a desktop hypervisor - so it's a hardware layer virtualization.

OpenVZ and LXC run like Solaris Containers and FreeBSD Jails.. OS level virtualization. They're still isolated, but they share the same kernel, so a second kernel doesn't need to run - saving resources and CPU time.

Why does VMWare need to make it more complicated than it really needs to be?

Isn't that kind of what Skype did with EBay?

Almost forgot..

Here's the info page on OpenSolaris

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+brandz/linux_2_6

You can follow pretty closely - ignoring the guide about creating your own image since you'll be using an openvz image. The rest is relevant. .. Just remember they're removing lx support in the newest versions =(

Also I think the /etc/resolv.conf file doesn't exist after setting up the zone.. So you'll need to create one to do anything practical online.

lx2.6 (Linux kernel 2.6 support) is considered experimental. It runs fine for me and a couple others that I know, but cannot say if it will work for you. There are certain things that WILL NOT work. Your best bet is to just try it.

Mind you these zones I run aren't heavily utilized, but I do know hash checking torrents doesn't give the CPU a break. It's nice seeing each process in a zone show up in my main OpenSolaris "top" process tree.

Check out this forum: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=466361&tstart=0 read "jwhitby3"'s post on using the openvz image.

The posts are from early October, and b131 wasn't even out then. jwhitby3 is reportedly using 2009.06.. So build 111b or so.

First login, you'll need to use zlogin -S to change the root pass. After that, it should run beautifully... Just probably not a good idea to run it in a true production environment.

False.

I used a simple image file from openvz I believe. There was NO tampering needed to get this working. Simply pointing the zoneadm installer to use the tar.gz file. Sure it's not a "REAL" install, but it's by no means "undocumented tampering"

I've actually been running a full rtorrent with web interface (XML-RPC) without ANY hiccup for over the last year.

This was first running on snv118, but now I'm running snv134. My friend was running his similar setup on snv118 as well. Not sure why that was a report for rm not working, because I'm quite sure if it was as foobar'd as you claim, NOTHING would work. I have had barely any issues except what I list below.

I have ANOTHER 2.6 brandZ running a full mysql database, while another runs X-forwarding and shell access.

I actually had WINE running one at one point for utorrent, but there were some issues with some libraries, so dns wouldn't work only for utorrent.

I returned SC2 for this very reason.

My nephew can't play MY COPY with his own account. He's required to buy his own copy even if I'm not using my copy.

Fuck that.

Sorry guy, I figured this post is more important than the Mod Point I gave you.

This is exactly the reason why I returned SC2 to Blizzard.

Between being unable to create multiple accounts (for even single player!) - so my nephew and other family members can play, to being unable to resell the fucking game (unless, according to the EULA, it's required by a COURT ORDER to do so), to requiring internet to LOGIN to even play single player!! - None of this stuff is written on the box.

They sent me a prepaid envelope to do this. But I live in Canada and they sent me a US stamp that is useless to me - saying I need to pay for shipping now, wtf! Sorry guys, you've permanently lost a customer.

On a second note.. I believe hardware (well with Apple at least) is going this way too. My friend did a factory reset on the iPhone he gave me, but it states I'm required to hook it up to iTunes in order to set it up. I'm all of a sudden at the mercy of Apple to use a piece of hardware I LEGALLY OWN - or is that now a license to use this hardware?

My friend can't stand his HTC that runs Windows Mobile. Half the time he's ready to throw it across the room.

When I told him I was thinking about the HTC Desire, he nearly shit a brick.

If a phone sucks, I find people will still blame the brand of the phone rather than the OS.

Reminds me of this XKCD comic.

http://xkcd.com/763/

I believe they are referring to OpenSolaris.

The last release was 2009.06 - which was well over a year ago now.

Last year I had someone at the the Sierra Club having their mail being forwarded to me. The guy's name was identical to mine.
I replied to it saying I must be getting their emails, but I guess it wasn't important.

I got confidential email after confidential email. Even emails that "Sally was not impressed with the way you guys left the kitchen today". So I had some fun replying to some of their emails.

It took them a few months before anyone finally fixed it - or the guy finally realized that his email wasn't (firstname)(lastname)@gmail.com

The problem is with the way people think.. "It's always someone else's fault" is a quote that a lot of people live by.

Not sleeping or having very poor sleeping habits result in earlier death and/or a deprived quality of life.

I'd say it's a much better investment than Facebook... But that's just me.