@Dan Scrolling through a 10-page PDF contract using a thin client connected to a terminal server over a 3-megabit connection with 10ms latency is painful.
@pfo yeah, I'm pretty sure it does. IIRC the kernel keeps track of processing time in Ticks (1/1000s in Linux by default)... And Top just does the math to figure out something reasonable to display to the user.
I can't take the added disk latency of passing through a hypervisor. I don't need a hypervisor sucking up RAM my DBMS could be using. The whole machine is going to be dedicated to the DBMS anyway. Previous horrible experiences with virtualized DB servers in production. Recommendations of a bunch of DBAs I trust.
@pfo Much as I love virtualisation, its benefits aren't always required. If you're happy with local storage, portability isn't major and you don't need high availability then all you're doing is adding cost, complexity and a potential performance hit
DB performance can be CPU constrained too and I agree that if you have a warehousing system that needs to push 500K IOPS and needs 64 cores to finish a run during the night, yes you wouldn't go virtual.
For example, a typical setup for us might be 16 XenApp HP Blades. No need for SAN storage whatsoever, you have high availability by the virtue of there being 16 and the hardware is identical so it's just as easy to image really.
Doesn't matter that the DB only gets hit every few days - if the performance is in the toilet because it has to hit swap space for its 5GB multi-table join I'm still gonna get whiny phone calls
virtualization works fine with DAS, if your application can handle that. My dev environment is 100% virtual and for development/testing it's fine. I wouldn't deploy it under production load though, even if I bumped the hardware 4x it wouldn't handle the load
and that's mostly an artifact of sharing storage and RAM with the DB servers, which demand a lot from both subsystems
Three of my clients have bad VMWare storage situations... one on Equallogic with 14 disks in a single RAID 5. Others on NetApp with no real cache or SSD tiers... Another about to buy a low-end EMC..
@pfo you can allocate all you want, there's a limit to how much RAM you can physically put into a server, and when the production database needs 24G that doesn't leave much for anyone else :)
@pfo which reduces to "The DB waits or someone else waits" -- there's only so much storage bandwidth, and if the DB has priority the other machine gets dinged.
you can spread the load across multiple ESX hosts, but now we're getting really expensive compared to just buying two physical boxes with fast disk and gobs of RAM
all that said I'll probably virtualize my app servers in the next hardware upgrade cycle - They're lightweight and there's no point to running a bunch of 1U boxes when I can just buy 2 3U boxes with enough disk/RAM
@voretaq7 Some of their products are less polished and less idiot proof than I'd prefer. For instance I've ruined a IPMI card trying to update the firmware... No idea what happened, might have been a bad card in the first place, but there's no recovering from a "bad flash" or diagnostics to tell you what happened either.
"Starting with the opening gag with Siri doing stand-up comedy and continuing through to Apple’s new maps and Siri’s new features, there was an unmistakeable “Fuck you, Google” undertone to the whole keynote. Apple is forcing Google out of iOS. Even the Facebook integration feels like a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” alliance."
interesting how the giants of the industry changes over the years. wonder what it looks like in another 10 year
i think google is making a big mistake with google+
same argument i make with switching from iphone to android / windows 7 - i'm so invested in ios (music, apps, etc... money wise) to leave is to start over with most of those purchases
all my friends / family - photos, etc... are all on facebook - unless theres a damn good reason to leave, google+ is just another website
even that kickstarter project diaspora - cool idea - try convincing people to move
most people couldn't care about facebook's crappy privacy polices
and really, does it matter? its either use it or dont. whos the bigger devil is the question - google or facebook
time / money spent on r&d - no big deal - their rolling in cash; saving face / reputation - wave failed; g+ is struggling to take hold; google tv isn't doing well
gmail is a beutiful product in my opinion - i rely on it for personal side work communications
docs is "ok" but it still comes off to me as a souped up wysiwyg editor
google goggles (the HUD thingy their building) looks cool if they attach to my oakleys - no way in hell it'll come to iphone though
id concentrate efforts on google tv - as much as i'm an apple fan - who ever gives me alacarte programming to the TV first gets my money and right now - microsoft with xbox is killing everyone. drop the gold subscription fee and people will flock to it (more than gamers)
@Mario Don't hold your breath on AppleTV or GoogleTV becoming an entertainment panacea anytime soon. The media holders are bitter old men who are losing touch with the market (if not reality), but still have a strangle hold on content.
that could be apple's ace in the hole so to speak. jobs was and cook is very good at negotiations. cut out the cable provider and go right to the studio
why try to sign hbo when you can go right to studio x
fios just sent a letter their raising the price of set top boxes $2 / month
no big deal, but an expense none the less
thei'll learn eventually. those of us with the means to "obtain" content will. i listen to alot of house / club music - if its not available on itunes, i'll get it elsewhere. if its on itunes, usually i have no problem paying for it.
i began to pay for more software once it was on the mac appstore than before - it was easy, in 1 place, i didnt have to goto 20 different websites to download software when i got my new mac. 1 stop shop for content.
Aye. I listen mostly to KEXP. Lot of that stuff is self-published. Fantastic new stuff but tough to get through the regular channels, but thankfully iTunes is good about carrying those small-time labels.
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in the beginning of the year, i was having so much coffee during the day, i'd get chest and back pains right around my heart. like 8 to 10 cups a day, half starbucks, half tim hortons
@Iain The two images in the thread are a bit broken. That one clips too much, the other one isn't great either. I meant to work on a good version last night.
@Zoredache It's likely an idiom of their language, like doubling the "please" to "please kindly". I'd compare it to French and Spanish traditionally adding two words to negate a verb...
@ChrisS in general, shape handling is much harder than it needs to be - you can't specify (easily) that a shape should be so far from another shape, or easily grab a bunch of shapes and say "make these all 1mm apart" or "combine edges"
I find myself editing the XML directly to get what I want out of inkscape far too often
Of all the things in this world that I would like to kill, "yes, no" would rank fairly low on the list. Fairly being somewhere in the 10 significant hex digits address range.
@Hyppy I think it's more noticeable because spanish (and other romance languages) encode the subject in the verb conjugation so there's often no separate "I" between the negative response and the negated verb (don't know)
Here is a project that I started in Inkscape and ended up writing an XML emitter for: flickr.com/photos/ryjones/7111989621 taking a couple hundred names and statuses and creating badges
getting inkscape to flow the text correctly was Simply Not Happening
also, yarr, win 8 VMs hosted on a server, attached from my laptop using VMWare's client, slow both the VM and my laptop to a crawl. Attaching via RDC is A-OK. Reinstalling VMWare drivers is no help.
thats funny, cause my wife works for a type foundry. shes always pointing out fonts used in print and when she gets back to the office, checks to see if they paid for it and sues if they didnt
@voretaq7 I can't tell "modem" from "modern" without stopping to look closely
@ChrisS :) the other flaw in rendering is most noticeable on letters that join themselves - the laser registration was very slightly off due to a slipping drive cable, so the lines miss each other by ~.05-.10 mm
I see all those offset laser cuts as daggers to my heart
@voretaq7 Well, it would warm YOUR little heart. The state of the docs for CUPS is miserable. lpoptions purports to be able to change printer setting from the CLI, but you actually have to use lpadmin to change quite a few of them.
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