I absolutely agree. Most of the time I just want to remain silent and hope, that like in the past, there's enough moderates for life to go on normally, but in these times of social networks and activism, it seems it's just yelling all over and if smart ones remain silent, they will just get their point through. Which, perhaps is what's happening now at both extremes, like you wrote earlier.

It's really interesting to follow comments from people coming from both sides of the spectrum. Especially on social media,where there are always two truths to every event. Of course, the bias is there, pulling the truth even more to the extreme. It's also present in the mainstream media, where the so called liberal left is in the bit of an advantage. Regarding the BLM protests, we got quite a bit of coverage in the EU, showing protests hardly described as non violent and we all could also follow, what happened in the depoliced areas... What we should keep in mind though is the fact, that all the political tactics and precedents can come around and turn against us. Be it vigilante video surveilance, partisanship impeachments, court packing etc....

We're Vmware shop for three years now and plan on staying that way for at least three more. WIth our current hardware (IBM, DS8100, Bladecenters...) and location (Europe, Eastern) this is only good option considering we need 24/7 reliability. In the past three years we had no issues whatsoever and any other solution comes very close to Vmware in terms of cost. So... we look at others, but have no reason to move.

You're absolutely right. Not many escapes from Earth, last I checked...

But that's great. The governments need to control the general population, not the terrorists. If they wanted, they could remove the causes for "terrorism" all over the world. But then what? Who will buy new weapons? Where will new targets for hostile takeover emerge or come from? From my perspective, they need terrorists to terrorize the general population and thus asure the continuation of certain forces.

What does it look like? The Sims with a cruel twist? Hey, maybe they'll release The Sims add-on... Or nr.4 will be called The SLims... No disrespect to the suffering, though. It just came to me.

You don't have to go far to encounter such stupidity. Slovenia, for example. A friend of mine, who studied law, was required to buy books in amount of 400 and up. Every school year or semester. That's crazy, but many schools require students to buy textbooks. Usually written by the same professors who later require them. I went to Computer and ELectronics college and we also had to buy all the books. THe only good thng about this system is you can ask the author of the book in person, if there 's something in it, that you don't understand :/

Internet has advanced so much in our lives it has actually become part of it. If someone is unable to notice it, it's probably because his/her account is on Myspace ;) The sooner we adapt to that, the better. For someone to post such status, while also being a cop is crazy. I wouldn't want to meet that guy in the street.

Hehe, I know :)

Yeah? ;) I still have the same Windows XP I did when I met my girlfriend almost six years ago. Now, that could mean many things... Yes, I had lots of sex since then. I also partied a lot. But it wasn't all just fun and games. Oh wait, it was. I use this Windows for gaming. Which is probably one of the rest best reasons to use it. But it works fine. The difference probably is in the way you treat it. I am an administrator in a medium sized company and I'm in charge of a complete lifecycle of approximately 500 PC's. All XP or W2K. I have intimate knowledge of Windows (and my girlfriend, but let's leave that) and know, what I can do, not to break it. Since I use Linux for everything else, I am just fine.

Absolutelly right. We just have to wait and see. Unfortunatelly in the meantime, we'll have VMware. They are pricey and milking their customers, but they also deliver their goods.

It certainly is stable and enterprise ready. But, what is enterprise? Some, like Amazon made good use of it. Some didn't and are now worse off. And in our case, we can't yet, because we can't allow downtime on certain services. With Virtual Infrastructure 4 there will be new Fault tolerance feature included, which will allow the virtual machine to run on more hosts, and when one fails, the other takes over seamlessly. Without downtime.

It was the same with us. We could go for Xen and Novell, but when I talked to my superior, who is a cool guy he asked me, how comfortable would I feel, when something went south and entire company was offline. In such context, Vmware offerings look much better. Altough I have good experience with Novell support, I know that Vmware offers a better one for their products.

Both are quite easy to deploy and Xen performs faster than ESX, but I never want to even think about running non-clustered virtualization solution. In this aspect does Vmware come in front. My bosses argued that the solution I select must have some level of official support and my free time is too valuable to spend saving 40 to 60 production virtual servers from crashing due to package update. I went to a Citrix presentation, where they showed us features of their Enterprise solutions. I must say that it worked flawlessly and I liked it, altough I am OSS fan. But final cost of Citrix solution is almost the same as Vmwares, if not higher. I was also considering using SLES10 Xen and Zenworks Datacenter management tools, which provide a high degree of availability, but in the end, when technical and financial aspects of every possible solution were compared, Vmware was clearly the solution we had to accept to achieve our goals. For next three years, we're commited to Vmware, but closely watching Xen. I hope I'll get to run it in a datacenter one day :) THe sooner the better.

Have you used Xen in enterprise environment? Well, I did a pilot project last year and Xen is nowhere near there. Maybe Citrix XenSource, but not Xen.