bobdole369
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I'm currently folding for one of my favorite forums - [H]ardocp. After the December challenge (race to xmas) via WCG in which I promised to fold for the [H]orde, I no longer have an obligation. We are trying to reach top ten in that race. I've got 3 machines. Would Hak.5 like to fold for the [H]orde? I'm always willing to help, or is there more help needed for Hak.5?
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I'll play
My name is dole, a.k.a bobdole369
Favourite games: Mario Kart, Gran Turismo 4, sim city 4, various flight sims. Occasional HL2 or similar.
Favourite OS: CP/M? Commodore Basic? Win7 works fairly well, CentOS is the most productive one I'm using, Server 2003/2008 for the office, and WinXP as clients.
Favourite console: Wii
Nationality: Mostly polish, White American
Accent: Been told midwest american, but my current GF (native floridian) doesn't hear it.
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Race: Night Elf
Height: 5'9"
Status: Engaged
Build: 120kg
Favourite band: Metal - thrash, hardcore, death, anything really fuggin hard
Favourite book: The Stand or "Prometheus Rising"
Favourite author: King
Favourite movie: Natural Born Killers
Favourite director: Spielberg of all people.
Favourite TV Show: Currently Lost
Favourite actor: I'm not a fag
Favourite actress: Zooey
Favourite Pinup: Slave Leia
Favourite Comedian: Carlin
Other hobbies: Learning, Photography, Coffee and Tea, Reading, Cooking, hardware hacks, electronics, Amateur Radio
Car: PT Cruiser
Occupation: IT admin/Technical Operations (geek to send in when the shit hits the fan)
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Arduino is the ossim.
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The PC I did this on is a c2d 1.8ghz - 2GB RAM
So is there anything "wrong" with using ESXi for 2 or 4 virtualized desktops? It does seem to get the job done. From what I understand doing this is totally free besides the already owned WInXP licenses running on the machine.
Is there any other bare metal software that might do this better? I decided to try ESXi because I simply didn't have the horsepower or cash reserves to do a dedicated terminal server. And I'm not looking for application stuff, but just intranet browsing and pdf reading, ocasional data entry into a client side of a database.
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Episode 6x15
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I totally want a zipit. Maybe my fiancee’ will listen to me and buy me one.
It is NOT available at Target retail stores (at least not anymore if it ever was). It IS available on the website. And it states that its available online only. I checked 4 Targets here in my area including 2 supertargets. No dice.
I have a bitchin’ app for it too. I want to use it as a front-end – media selector (sort of remote) for my vehicle based entertainment system. I would probably end up using something like a keyboard based entry where I’d build an iPod style control panel into the dash and mount the screen somewhere near the dashboard.
It’s the perfect size and for that price I almost can’t pass it up. Sure I could use a regular-ass 7″ TFT like everybody else in mp3car.com but what fun is that?
I saw on other sites the possibility of a JTAG or even a full fledged 232 serial port (even ttl would be fine). Any thoughts on that? If so I could easily get OBD-2 data from my car and display that on the device as well. If it can’t handle the crunching like I suspect it can’t – I have a PC that can, and it could be the display device. (VNC or SSH x session over wifi in the ride).
Also I do a LOT of serial comms as my day-to-day job is IT manager, as well as “technical operations” – which means big freaking geek – send this guy when nobody else can figure it out. We do monitoring and control systems aboard oceangoing vessels – typically 80-300FT in length. I spend a LOT of time talking to machines with a laptop over serial ports (think Modbus, CANbus, proprietary stuff, Caterpillar/MTU/Detroit Diesel engines and generators, power panels, distribution panels, HVAC, fire systems, etc). So a serial port on a machine THIS size would be a godsend. Shoot even using it as the display end of a VNC session while a real laptop was physically connected over wifi.
I was MORE than shocked to see startx work!!!!!
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Yeaaaah, sort of the whole reason I'm mucking about here is the lack of funds to dedicate servers. I'm really just looking to combine things into less space and heat. As for the remote desktop thing - well there is no money for a dedicated terminal services server - so I'm left to figure out how to minimize cost.
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OMG the poor fish!
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and you need to look at VMWare VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).
I kinda figured as much. I'm essentially brand new to the virtualization world and I'm trying to figure out how I could best utilize ESXi in my enterprise.
As it is now - actual physical machines:
domain controller - AMD opteron 180 - 3x 750GB drives (raid 5) - functions as DC/secondary backup/DNS/WINS/file server for financials/quickbooks
File Server - P4 3.2ghz - 4GB DDR-400 - 5x 320GB drives (raid 5) - + (2 x 37GB raptors in raid0) - serves files, couple SQL databases - primary backup to external drive
Application Server - C2D 2.4ghz - 4GB DDR2-667 - 5x 74GB raptor drives (raid 5) + (2 x 37GB raptors in raid0) - more SQL databases, firebird DB, custom DB program, .NET app, DNS/WINS
former RA server - used to run RRAS and a couple front ends of the .NET apps and the custom DB program. Its basically deprecated and only hosts the AV application (symantec AV)
print server - deprecated win2k3 server only hosting printer shares. Its really just taking up space.
phone server - Using a USB device, connects to 4 skype accounts and provides 4 phone lines.
My initial thought is to concatenate the print/phone/RA server with the DC on ESXi with 2 actual win2k3 servers. That brings me from 4 physical to 1 physical with 4 virtual ones. But thinking some more, I could easily have the phone server and the print server and the AV app on one virtual, leaving the DC to its own virtual machine.
Thoughts?
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I've built my first ESXi box, and I have 2 winxpsp3 desktops running.
I'm thinking of perhaps using these as a remote desktop server of sorts. I could serve a couple of these desktops to remote users. Some Cisco-fu would allow me to skip the desktop that is in use and connect to the next available one.
But does anyone have real experience with what is needed?
The PC I did this on is a c2d 1.8ghz - 2GB RAM. The desktops have 256MB and 12GB disks. THe HD is a dedicated raptor (original) 10k 74GB drive.
I know that isn't enough RAM or CPU, but how about the disk? With 1 and the rare occasion 2 users logged in, will that be enough?
Also what kind of license is ESXi? Is this even permitted by vmware?
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It should automatically start once it reaches the Grub menu, so long as you dont hit any keys.
I got the same thing. I got dumped to a command prompt.
startx (enter)
and shortly I had a menu with lots of fun looking stuff.
Any cheatsheet to what everything does? I found lots of fun doing DNS and network probes.
Darren is in the hospital
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Sounds like stones, kidney or otherwise to me based on the description of the stoned video. I'm no doctorb tho. So was he in toronto or still near the hakhouse?