Archive for May, 2009
Virtual Machine’s are not the answer to everything
Friday, May 15th, 2009I love Virtual Machines. Consolidating servers, saving space, saving electricity, saving emissions, saving the world. There are dozens of virtualisation products at the server end of the market. SuSE and Novell have one, there’s the venerable VMWare ESX, Microsoft Virtual PC, HP and Dell even ship servers with VMWare ESXi HyperVisor installed on a flash [...]
The hip bone has millions of transistors in it
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Health practitioners learn anatomy; IT practitioners learn computer architecture This was part of the opening line that my Computer Systems lecturer began with. Too many times people don’t understand the problems they’re having, or experiencing. They may see the symptoms, but can’t actually work out what is the cause of them. Back when I worked [...]