What did you end up buying? I remember your thread about getting a lambo or a ferrari...

 

No need to dual boot my friend. Just download vmware server from vmware - it's free. Then you install it and you create a virtual windows box within your linux system. Whenever you want it just fire it up, it's just another window on your desktop at that point. You can snapshot it too - so if you get a virus just roll it back to the snapshot and go.

 

We've been thinking about doing that at work. I set up an internal sharepoint site that's now getting a HEAVY amount of traffic, and these ********* that need designer rights are constantly destroying the site. Restoring it is a pain in the ***. Restoring a snapshot would make it so much easier. I'd also be able to use 1 box to set up 2 servers and have a sandbox Any disadvantages to running VMWare on a large server that gets pounded all day?

 

Damn this looks fun.
http://www.break.com/usercontent/200...skiing-1588974

 

Hello all

I just finished at work, now im off to UPS to ship a sprocket to romania. then heading home to smoke a blunt in my smoking room, and bang out the old lady

 

I take it your mom is gone??

 

thank ******* god

 

I just emailed her a link to this page.

 

Depends on what you mean by getting pounded. If it's a database server of course you wouldn't want to run vmware and guests on it too. I have quite a few boxes I dedicate to running vmware on. Some have 4 quad core amd 64 bit procs with 64 Gb of RAM with the disk space presented from the SAN. Some are lower end dual procs with 8 GB of RAM just running 3-4 vm's. But yes restoring to snapshot points is great. i couldn't imagine running a datacenter/IT operations without vmware - it also maximizes resources and reduces costs.

 

i'm almost to the point where i don't really care if you did this or not....i'm not quite there....almost, almost

 

that sounds gangsta. okay so now i gotta just figure out why its running so slow. maybe its the computer. i never really use my spare pc and i dont think it has as much ram so maybe it always ran slow I guess I'll see when I reformat this pc. Time to back **** up and then reformat and download vmware Thanks

 

Worst comes to worst ram is dirt cheap now.

 

in the early 90s i used to sell ram for so much money. you guys know what a SIPP is? hint - its 2 generations before a DIMM

 

Hahaha nice. It's crazy how cheap electronics in general cost. **** you can build a really nice pc for under $500 where a pc in the 90s with comparable parts for it's time would have cost you 1500+

 

Ive never bought a pc, and ive had hundreds lol. closest thing ive ever bought was a usb wireless b/g/n/whater thingy, because i couldt find one at work.

 

Haha. I always built mine. It's ridiculous the mark up Dell hp etc charges when you can get the same exact parts and put it together for hundreds cheaper, especially back then.

 

Holding off till spring.

 

i thought of you the other night when i scored 2 flat screen monitors for 20 bucks...

 

so apparently I hang out with a bunch of thieves.......good people!!

 

Every day im hustlin ev every day im hustlin