You are correct.
If you read the article closely, you will notice it is not about the productions systems, but the testing systems of the Quality Assurance Division.
It makes sense to use VM's for Q & A just for flexibility. If your production storage is about a few hunderd PB, 100 TB for testing seems obvious. When you run production on the scale of eBay, Doing Q & A work on just a server or 2 doesn't work out.
I suspect they need 4000 VM's for Q & A, for more than just simulating the production system. For instance they are likely to test on multiple EBay instances for multiple projects or versions of their own software. They might also need a lot of systems to test data replication. And of course they need to simulate a lot of simultaneous clients for performance and reliability test, you need systems for that too. When Q & A work is done on that scale you need to collect, store, and analyze huge amounts of testing data.
Of course when this works out fine, eventually the production storage will likely be equipped with SSD technology as well.
Applications limited to 2GB of RAM forever? No thanks.
WTH are you talking about?! 2^32 = 4,294,967,296
Half of it is reserved for the kernel and the other half is reserved for user applications.
Both are limited to 2 GiB on 32-bit Windows.
I bet 90% of them have just changed the default route back anyway.
The Grandparent does not talk about changing the default route, but about forcing all trafic, including local traffic which does not use the default route, through the VPN. The VPN client forces this at lower level than IP.
Yes I, this is evil. A better solution is to use Remote Desktop Service through SSL or similar. This way the local webbrowser at home never connect to the business netwerk. However the exploit is stil posible if you use your laptop at home and at work. (Or visit the unsafe websites with your work computer.
Why not call it the permanent disk
... ?
Another, less commonly, used word in English is fixed disk, meaning non removeable, or permanent, disk.
My desktop is completely empty. All icons are removed by disabling the show desktop icons option in the desktop context menu. I believe putting icons on the desktop is useless when you have many windows open on top of it. Sure you can use the show desktop command, but after opening a new window using this command again does not restore the other windows.
I use folders in my email program for keeping track of things to do.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.