Originally posted by Astrophel

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I'm happy because as soon as my mother mails me a copy of my GED (I'm having her hold the original so I don't lose it), I'll be a substitute teacher.

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Originally posted by Ryan

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I get so annoyed looking at the specs of computers on American websites and seeing you get so much more for the same price. A PC that costs a grand in dollars there would probably cost me about 800 to a grand in pounds here.

My question is this: Does anyone know any American sites that accept payment from and will ship to England? I know postage of such things will be expensive, but I'm sure there'd still be a huge saving in comparison.

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Originally posted by The Enquirer

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By Charlie Demerjian: Thursday, 06 November 2008, 4:31 PM

AMD AND REDHAT have just done the so called impossible, and demonstrated VM live migration across CPU architectures. Not only that, they have demonstrated it across CPU vendors, potentially commoditising server processors. Eeek!

The concept is simple, click a button, and your VM moves from one machine to the next. The execution for similar architectures has been done for ages, AMD can do it from E-Step Opterons to a promise of Magny Cours. Intel is a little more restrictive, but they can do it between iCore iNumber iNumberals as iwell.

The trick up till now has been to do the same thing between servers from different CPU vendors, it is the holy grail of virtualisation. Please note, there are about 37 holy grails of virtualisation at the moment, so this does not signal the end of days, just that the holy grail clock in Times Square dropped to 36.

If you look at the video here,you will see that they did it. Live migration while streaming HD video isn't all that bad a trick mind you, but doing it between a Barcelona, Shanghai and Intel box is. 36 more of these, and we will be in great shape.

How did they do it? No one is talking exactly, but since it has Redhat involvement, you can be pretty sure that they are using KVM, their in house hypervisor. Since this is an early tech demo, it is likely using parts pilfered from a bunch of open technology sources, but isn't that what open source is about? Good of the whole, not the few?

In any case, don't look for this to be a product at the local megamart any time soon, it is early. That said, the gauntlet has been thrown down, and we expect everyone with a decent hypervisor to be showing this off soon, and products with it baked in are sure to follow in 2009. Welcome to intertube speed progress

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Originally posted by Ryan

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I didn't disable anything myself. It just installed that way. The installer was cut down from DVD size to CD size, a bunch of registry tweaks are applied on install, some other stuff disabled... It all worked absolutely fine for me.

It was still shit for games though considering my now pretty low end PC.

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Originally posted by Rogue

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Just got back from the Bay Area. I don't wanna go to work today. *Pout*

Trip was good, mostly. I put WAY too much on the credit card.

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Originally posted by Xeoman

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Holy Spartan! Welcome back.

The bird looks familiar, from something? Like an album cover?

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Originally posted by Xeoman

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It's really good. Looks like it's straight out of a Judas Priest cover, maybe that's just me though haha.

You should bring back everyone to the board!

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