I have to agree with the parent. I had used VMWare server for a few years and had always had strange issues crop up.... Ease of use really sucked when they went to the web interface (although it was a great Idea, it just didn't always work.) USB support in vmware was barely usable (sometimes the vm would just lock up.)

I moved over to virtualbox and everything just seems to work. Dead simple install and use.

It already exists, it's called ZFS on solaris boxxen. Each block uses ECC, it can correct itself on each read, and generally can indicate a failing disk. This truly is the filesystem every other one is playing catchup with.

That's what I don't get, why is it everyone gives DOOM the credit for first, first-person shooter... but Wolf3D was up and running way before.... grrrrr... having been there is frustrating sometimes... maybe we're just trying to forget how much we liked to kill nazi's

I honestly wish we had a teacher like that in our district... Although you may have detractors, you would also have supporters....

This is actually very awesome as we have slowly made use of mice/rat brain cells as computing devices. This adds a whole new level, Just imagine a self-repairing/expanding computer... hmmmm maybe that's not such a good idea.

I have the camel book, and many other texts of that vain. The only reason.... that they are NOT on my computer. I would have no need for the physical book if it were in electronic, searchable, bookmarkable format. This is why I buy books.... because that's the ONLY way to get a guide of that quality.

btw, I do NOT own an book on php, simply because the online documentation and examples are very good (including the user submitted comments.)

Saying that the only choices are wading though "junk" or buying a book is a just not true. There is no intrinsic value to the paper. The value is from the information. Just because they don't publish the info online does not mean that the paper version of the information is more valuable the an electronic copy.

I do an aweful lot of consulting for small businesses. And I use Kaspersky Business Space security.

nod32 and kaspersky have similar performance impact (much less than most... including symantec and mcafee) and similar success rates at catching viruses (again, much better than symantec and mcafee)

Both nod32 and kaspersky have administrative consoles that manage the network via a server (think policies, update distribution.)

Why do I generally recommend kaspersky.... it's a couple hundred dollars cheaper....

One little hint. If you run a linux server, most admin servers run only on windows (using msde sql server junk.) Not a big deal if you just load up vmware/xen/whatever. A small windows partition solves this problem without jumping though huge hoops.

Oh, and the stay-away froms....... avg, ca (never catches stuff), symantec (tends to hose up the system) .... this is just from a tech that has fixed a couple hundred computers with those installed.

<quote>And can we please club that idea that a browser, JavaScript and a bit of fairy-dust can fully replace any local application regardless of specific implications out of people's heads?</quote>

I don't see any reason why DOM,Java,Flash, and Javascript cannot replace 98% of applications. The obvious exceptions are games and video processing. But when we add java and Flash to the mix, there is very little that cannot be done web-acessable and cross-platform.

yeah, keep telling me how stable vista is as my dual-boot system in vista crashes twice daily and when booted into RHEL 5 has never even had a hiccup. Oh blame it on bad hardware or a driver or whatever you want, but in the end vista crashes more than xp ever did for me. And Linux well... it just keeps working.

I know I know bad karma... but after a crash or two a day, you get pretty mad (when you know it shouldn't be like that.)

<quote><p>3. Not as feature rich.
Response: Do you actually use those weirdo features in MS word? Have you used Firefox lately? Linux almost installs on everything including my fridge! Does Windows?</p></quote>

Sounds like it's time to upgrade your fridge.... Embedded linux is very common. :)