Take a look at Ubersmith. It's designed for quite a few use cases and is pretty much a complete CRM for ISPs/Telcos/Colo facilities/etc with integration into just about everything.

Yeah, some of the players that have stuck around seem to think that the way people do things in comp are the only way to do things, and have completely lost sight of the fact that it's a game that's meant to be fun first and foremost.

I'll just leave this here:

http://www.tribesnext.com/
http://www.goonhaven.org/

We still play. Our pub (Goon Haven) has between 10-20 players on at any given time. Even have ladder matches going on pretty regularly!

Probably because you haven't used it and the person who modded you has. Diablo 3 at 1920x1200, maxed out, getting 60 FPS in a VM is certainly working 'very well'.

Where have you been for the past 3 or 4 years? 3D acceleration works very well in VMWare Workstation/Fusion and Parallels Desktop.

In my admittedly anecdotal experience Diablo 3 runs better in a Parallels Win 7 VM on my MBP than it does natively in OSX. Of course, that's a rare exception because of how poorly optimized D3 is on OSX. Typically with other games I see about 80-85% of the native (dual boot Win7, specifically) framerate when running in Parallels.

Of course, if you're using something like VirtualBox or QEMU, yeah, expect total crap performance. However, VMWare and Parallels devote a lot of time to 3D acceleration and it's very usable in their products.

Hila hila plant is what they call it over in Hawaii. It folds up into itself on contact, and it has thorns. It's classified as an invasive weed, and it lays low to the ground. Those suckers hurt when you step on them, as due to their structure the thorns actually get thrust upwards when the plant folds. Species is called mimosa pudica. Couldn't tell you if the story's true, but the plant certainly is there and isn't native to the area.

Nope, no astroturf here, just a happy network admin. :)

Juniper is seriously that awesome. They put a ton of thought into their stuff, and it makes my life that much easier.

Too bad I can't mod "+1 Fuck Yes." Juniper rocks.

It's amazing how content you are with ignorance. I'll just go ahead and add you to my "Never met a smart Australian in my life" list and leave it at that.

Ok. Let me lay this out for you, since you're apparently a dunce who can't use google.

How live migration works:
1. Snapshot system memory, live, while the system is running.
2. Transmit snapshot to shared storage.
3. After transmit, load snapshot into RAM on second host.
4. Suspend VM.
5. Send deltas of RAM, to bring second host up to date.
6. Resume VM.
7. Gratuitously ARP out so the switches know where the machine is.

The guest is never shut down. It is never aware it has even been suspended. As far as it, and clients are aware, it just experienced additional network latency for about 1/10th of a second between 4 and 6. During that time, its entire state was transferred to different physical hardware. Now, in many cases, this requires identical, or similar CPUs, but that's trivial.

It's not that complex, and if you were willing to do a bit of research, you'd avoid making yourself look like a total dunce.

I like how you assume I'm a Microsoft shill just because I know what Hyper-V is. You see, I do manage datacenters for a living. My virtualization, however, is entirely XenServer, so, hey, again on the assumptions? See, your problem is that you talk authoritatively on subjects you openly admit you know nothing about.

In a matter of about 1/10th of a second, you can suspend a VM, migrate its state to another host, resume it, gratuitously arp, and thanks to the fault-tolerant design of TCP, things just continue working. If you knew anything at all about networking you'd understand this.

Instead of being a dumbass and saying "Not possible, no way!" why don't you go install XenServer on two boxes, pool them, and see it for yourself? Or, how about simply not opening your mouth on a subject you yourself admit you know nothing about?

Oh hey, look, let me Google this one for you too:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Hyper-V

See, this is part of Windows Server, which you install on your own hardware, just like XenServer, or VMware, or well, any other operating system. It's not a hosted platform that you can't control that runs somewhere else.

While I have you here, I really would like to know two things:
1. What the fuck are you smoking?
2. Can I have some? Must be some good shit.

Uhhhhh?

To put it very clearly: No. They're not flipping from one guest to another. The same guest, moving from one physical piece of hardware to another, without any interruption at all. Why this is mind boggling to you is beyond me - it's fairly simple, actually, once you realize that we have shared storage (y'know, logical volumes you can access from more than one machine - is that equally incredible?) and very fast network links...

Since you're so lazy: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=live+migration