Comments for A Conservative Techie http://jjesse.wordpress.com Thoughts from a Conservative point of view in regards to technology Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:16:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Thoughts on the Jaunty Jackalope by Canonical announces the name of Ubuntu 9.04 « I’m Just an Avatar http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/thoughts-on-the-jaunty-jackalope/#comment-431 Canonical announces the name of Ubuntu 9.04 « I’m Just an Avatar Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:16:28 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/thoughts-on-the-jaunty-jackalope/#comment-431 [...] can view responses from the Ubuntu community on Planet Ubuntu posts from Martin Albisetti, Jonathan Jesse, Stephan Hermann (who has a great picture of a Wolpertinger from Wikipedia) and Luis de [...] [...] can view responses from the Ubuntu community on Planet Ubuntu posts from Martin Albisetti, Jonathan Jesse, Stephan Hermann (who has a great picture of a Wolpertinger from Wikipedia) and Luis de [...]

]]> Comment on Best VM software for my needs by abassouk http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/best-vm-software-for-my-needs/#comment-430 abassouk Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:29:18 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/best-vm-software-for-my-needs/#comment-430 Have you tried VirtualBox? The current version even allows accelerated graphics in Windows guests. It has local graphical console access, it also has RDP access to a guests framebuffer. In my experience it's also a bit more lightweight than VMWare. Have you tried VirtualBox? The current version even allows accelerated graphics in Windows guests. It has local graphical console access, it also has RDP access to a guests framebuffer. In my experience it’s also a bit more lightweight than VMWare.

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]]> Comment on Graphical Hypervisor or Virtual Machines?? by brousch http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-428 brousch Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:21:13 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-428 If you don't need much from the host OS, you could run VirtualBox on top of WinXP or Xubuntu. You can probably get away with 256MB - 378MB of RAM if you keep things simple. If you need to use the host OS most of the time, there's no way around needing gobs of RAM. VirtualBox is still a free option here. When you consider a hypervisor host, make sure you look at its wifi capabilities. Doing that level of virtualization on a laptop is likely to encounter driver problems. If you don’t need much from the host OS, you could run VirtualBox on top of WinXP or Xubuntu. You can probably get away with 256MB – 378MB of RAM if you keep things simple.

If you need to use the host OS most of the time, there’s no way around needing gobs of RAM. VirtualBox is still a free option here.

When you consider a hypervisor host, make sure you look at its wifi capabilities. Doing that level of virtualization on a laptop is likely to encounter driver problems.

]]> Comment on Graphical Hypervisor or Virtual Machines?? by Jonathan http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-427 Jonathan Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:09:42 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-427 @nanochromaddict: Conservative in lifestyle and worldview @nanochromaddict:

Conservative in lifestyle and worldview

]]> Comment on Graphical Hypervisor or Virtual Machines?? by Jonathan http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-426 Jonathan Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:09:10 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-426 Wow thanks for the comments. @GAIC yes you are right in what I am looking forward. Bummer that something like what I'm looking doesn't exist. The problem with moving to Ubuntu/Kubuntu is I use a lot of MS products on my day to day work and would have to almost always have a VM running? Need to think more on this Wow thanks for the comments. @GAIC yes you are right in what I am looking forward. Bummer that something like what I’m looking doesn’t exist.

The problem with moving to Ubuntu/Kubuntu is I use a lot of MS products on my day to day work and would have to almost always have a VM running?

Need to think more on this

]]> Comment on Zondervan Publishing Company Sued over Bible and Homosexuality by cfranc http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/zondervan-publishing-company-sued-over-bible-and-homosexuality/#comment-425 cfranc Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:03:01 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/zondervan-publishing-company-sued-over-bible-and-homosexuality/#comment-425 Should a publisher be held accountable for the content of their publications? It's a bit of a tricky question. In full generality they should not. For instance, one might wish to have books containing dangerous ideas, such as "Mein Kampf", published for historical reasons. Let's question for a second why one might wish to publish the non-standard translation of the Bible you discuss above. It seems that the sole purpose of this translation choice is to emphasize that in any faith which accepts it as their text, sodomy and homosexuality are one and the same, and they are a sin. I personally count this as a dangerous idea. Perhaps it belongs in books to document a currently held belief, one which I hope will soon be as laughable as the ideas contained in "Mein Kampf". I don't think that any such text should be used to teach a congregation. Should the publisher be held accountable? The Church? The individual Pastor? I don't know, but I don't feel that bad about Zondervan losing some revenue. Should a publisher be held accountable for the content of their publications? It’s a bit of a tricky question. In full generality they should not. For instance, one might wish to have books containing dangerous ideas, such as “Mein Kampf”, published for historical reasons. Let’s question for a second why one might wish to publish the non-standard translation of the Bible you discuss above.

It seems that the sole purpose of this translation choice is to emphasize that in any faith which accepts it as their text, sodomy and homosexuality are one and the same, and they are a sin. I personally count this as a dangerous idea. Perhaps it belongs in books to document a currently held belief, one which I hope will soon be as laughable as the ideas contained in “Mein Kampf”. I don’t think that any such text should be used to teach a congregation. Should the publisher be held accountable? The Church? The individual Pastor? I don’t know, but I don’t feel that bad about Zondervan losing some revenue.

]]> Comment on Graphical Hypervisor or Virtual Machines?? by John Delcalzo http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-424 John Delcalzo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:38:46 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-424 It doesn't exist yet... as far as I know. If you find it though, let me know. For me Windows 7 64-bit with VMware Workstation 7 seems to give the best performance for all of my virtual machines on my laptop. I run up to 3-6 VMs at a time and am able to divide my 8 GBs of RAM rather effectively with decent performance in the worst case scenarios. It doesn’t exist yet… as far as I know. If you find it though, let me know.

For me Windows 7 64-bit with VMware Workstation 7 seems to give the best performance for all of my virtual machines on my laptop. I run up to 3-6 VMs at a time and am able to divide my 8 GBs of RAM rather effectively with decent performance in the worst case scenarios.

]]> Comment on Graphical Hypervisor or Virtual Machines?? by nanochromaddict http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-423 nanochromaddict Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:40:01 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-423 Wow your site if pretty much above my head! Well, I may not be a "techie" but I'm an ultra-conservative future graphic artist! :) Only thing, looks like you're on a PC and I'm on a .... wah-oh .... MACBOOK! When you say 'conservative' are you meaning as in lifestyle/worldview, etc? Because I'll say, if you are, it IS definitely difficult being that way. Especially for me as I'm venturing as a loner into the art world. haha Wow your site if pretty much above my head! Well, I may not be a “techie” but I’m an ultra-conservative future graphic artist! :) Only thing, looks like you’re on a PC and I’m on a …. wah-oh …. MACBOOK!

When you say ‘conservative’ are you meaning as in lifestyle/worldview, etc? Because I’ll say, if you are, it IS definitely difficult being that way. Especially for me as I’m venturing as a loner into the art world. haha

]]> Comment on Graphical Hypervisor or Virtual Machines?? by G-A-C http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-422 G-A-C Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:15:48 +0000 http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/graphical-hypervisor-or-virtual-machines/#comment-422 No, nothing already exists. XenServer and ESXi don't allow you any kind of "local console" access to VMs, the console just allows you to control the hypervisor. It sounds like the ideal solution for you may be something like TinyXP or a very stripped out version of CentOS/Ubuntu as a low-resource host, which then runs your more fully-featured VMs (including the Windows Client you mentioned above) for the actual computing. That way you maintain the portability and convenience of having a laptop as it's still usable if you don't have another machine handy for SSH/RDP which you'd need if you ran ESXi or XenServer on your laptop. No, nothing already exists. XenServer and ESXi don’t allow you any kind of “local console” access to VMs, the console just allows you to control the hypervisor.

It sounds like the ideal solution for you may be something like TinyXP or a very stripped out version of CentOS/Ubuntu as a low-resource host, which then runs your more fully-featured VMs (including the Windows Client you mentioned above) for the actual computing. That way you maintain the portability and convenience of having a laptop as it’s still usable if you don’t have another machine handy for SSH/RDP which you’d need if you ran ESXi or XenServer on your laptop.

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