> -----Original Message----- > From: Dinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Yay Vista! > > On 8/5/07, Jim Davis wrote: > .... > > MS is really leveraging the VHD format: they're delivering beta/trail > > software (such as Office 2007) as virtual machines for example. > They've > > When they started doing that with the tests, I was impressed. > I was playing with trixbox the other day- I love the whole image bit!
It is really cool - one of MS's biggest crosses to bear is the variation in hardware. Using the VPC images they can all but guarantee a standardized level of reliability for all the testers by maintaining full control over the environment. Better yet it's essentially zero impact on your test PC - once you're done testing discard the image. Done and done. > Heh! I was talking to some people the other day, explaining how > sometimes > it's faster to ship hard drives across the country in trucks... Exactly! We have to do, annually, a full disaster recovery test (fail over to our DR environment for a day, then fail back). One of the steps is to Courier a hard drive from Boston (where the database is) to upstate NY (where the fail over site is). We actually start a network transfer at the same time: whichever gets their first is used. This is a large database (information on about 11 million customers) but we're also not a small company: these are big, redundant network pipes we're talking about. It still takes about 5 hours to transfer the data... and about five hours to drive a hard drive there by truck. > I love it all, man. I'm a techie. Love it love it love it. I also > aim for honesty- I'm with you. I look at everything - it's too bad that nearly everything I look at is a "side" in a fanatical battle! I like my Windows PC. I like my Linux PC. If they were just a little freakin' cheaper I'd have a Mac as well. I like my PS3 and my XBox and even my Wii! I like my PSP and my Gamboy! I like my Chevy and my Honda! I like my Oreos and my Hydrox! Here you go. No "love" but it sums up the main points pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg&mode=related&search= > I know there's that whole subjective nature of reality bit- and thus, > well, - :-P You definitely can't quantify taste... but you can quantify external drive transfer speeds. ;^) > Anyways, sorry if I came off harsh or anything. I'm not a rabid > supporter- > I am however, impressed with the direction the company has gone, and > find > the whole progression interesting and well, entertaining. You didn't come off harsh at all. Don't get me wrong - I wasn't so much responding to you as restating my original message. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239568 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
