Re: Server

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Command-E would have been easier !

When I first tried a 'Mac, it was lent to me for the weekend &
delivered
without any instruct-ons at all - I cursed because I couldn't find the
on/off button.   Eventually & pressed a key on the keyboard & I was
away
('dead easy after that, because it's very forgiving & consistent, so
learning works fast & disasters are few) ... the point being it is
event
driven & software managed ... ie: the user decides what he wants &
it
arranges it & looks after all the details & housekeeping ... hence
no
direct-action buttons etc ...

How slow are things under VM ... Classic on the 'Mac was awful (OS9
running on/in OSX, to ease the transition for people) ...

Chris



Andy Laurence wrote:

> Chris Hunter <mailto:cjhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It would be really handy to be able to run several systems at
> > once ...
> > in our case I'm always switching between OS6.5 & OS7.5, and
OS8.6 or
> > OS9.2 & OS10.4 & (one day) 'XP according to the software
&
> > machine I'm trying to use ... swaps mostly do take well under
> > a minute, but it would be better if it was less than a second !
> >
> > (don't mention Classic, which I found to be just a joke !)
>
> I don't know anything about Macs.  I've stayed away since I first
tried
> one.  I was trying to eject a CD from it, but couldn't work out how. 
I
> tried pressing the button, and looked through dozens of menus.  I
> finally found a menu item somewhere that ejected the CD.  I later
found
> out that you can eject a CD by dragging it into the trash.  As for
> virtualisation, the best product I've used is VMWare ESX.  That
requires
> a very specific hardware to run, as it's an OS in its own right. 
VMWare
> GSX runs on a host OS, be it Linux or Windows.  I'm a big fan, as it
> allows me to run concurrent servers on one piece of hardware at home.
> This means that I can silo applications onto different servers, so a
> dodgy upgrade to a xAPplication doesn't bring down my mail server, or
a
> dodgy script on my web site doesn't stop my heating working!  In an
> enterprise situation, VMotion allows you to move virtual servers
across
> multiple physical servers in seconds.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>



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