Comments on: Geek Central http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/01/04/geek_central.html Technology, Blogging, Food, Travel, Poker and More Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:45:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: reinhard http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/01/04/geek_central.html/comment-page-1#comment-111 reinhard Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:32:31 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=38#comment-111 most of your servers are with amd-cpu. Are the working stable for long time? No problems with the vanīs?

]]> By: Joe Grossberg http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/01/04/geek_central.html/comment-page-1#comment-110 Joe Grossberg Sun, 05 Jan 2003 22:59:14 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=38#comment-110 A word to the wise -- I haven't used VMWare in years, but be careful with Partition Magic 7.0. I used it *correctly*, and my partition (RH 7.3/WinXP) got corrupted a few days later. I had to wipe my hard drive and reinstall from CD. It was an unpleasant experience, though not as time-consuming as I feared. Incidentally, the first question out of the Dell Customer Support lady's mouth, once I read the error message to her, was "Have you installed Partition Magic 7.0 or [some other product I forget]?", so it's presumably not an uncommon problem. VMWare might be safer, but with that many computers -- don't forget to back uOften. Hopefully you've got a ZIP drive/tape backup on that rack somewhere. :) Joe P.S. That looks like it's just begging for your cats to climb all over it. A word to the wise — I haven’t used VMWare in years, but be careful with Partition Magic 7.0. I used it *correctly*, and my partition (RH 7.3/WinXP) got corrupted a few days later. I had to wipe my hard drive and reinstall from CD. It was an unpleasant experience, though not as time-consuming as I feared.

Incidentally, the first question out of the Dell Customer Support lady’s mouth, once I read the error message to her, was “Have you installed Partition Magic 7.0 or [some other product I forget]?”, so it’s presumably not an uncommon problem.

VMWare might be safer, but with that many computers — don’t forget to back uOften. Hopefully you’ve got a ZIP drive/tape backup on that rack somewhere. :)

Joe

P.S. That looks like it’s just begging for your cats to climb all over it.

]]> By: john http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/01/04/geek_central.html/comment-page-1#comment-109 john Sun, 05 Jan 2003 18:53:13 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=38#comment-109 We use VMWare at work but it hadn't occured to me to look into a home license - I just may do that! Although it really is amazing how cheap it is to build a computer right now, the last couple I bought I got for about $225 which was for case, floppy, cd, motherboard, cpu and memory. Throw in a few old hard drives and attach to existing peripherals and away you go. We use VMWare at work but it hadn’t occured to me to look into a home license – I just may do that! Although it really is amazing how cheap it is to build a computer right now, the last couple I bought I got for about $225 which was for case, floppy, cd, motherboard, cpu and memory. Throw in a few old hard drives and attach to existing peripherals and away you go.

]]> By: Tammy http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/01/04/geek_central.html/comment-page-1#comment-108 Tammy Sun, 05 Jan 2003 00:15:56 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=38#comment-108 Hmmmm....very interesting...Maybe you could do what Henry said, or you could build yourself a unit. Shouldn't be that hard. I dont even know the first thing about building anything and here I am giving out advice ( go figure!!!) he he he :) Hmmmm….very interesting…Maybe you could do what Henry said, or you could build yourself a unit. Shouldn’t be that hard. I dont even know the first thing about building anything and here I am giving out advice ( go figure!!!) he he he :)

]]> By: Henry http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/01/04/geek_central.html/comment-page-1#comment-107 Henry Sat, 04 Jan 2003 23:41:56 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=38#comment-107 Why not go nuts and purchase VMWare's Workstation product, creating 2-3 virtual machines on each box? I've got my home machine running three Windows 2000 virtual machines on top of a Debian Linux box (Athlon XP 2200, 512 MB RAM, 60GB IDE HD). Why not go nuts and purchase VMWare’s Workstation product, creating 2-3 virtual machines on each box? I’ve got my home machine running three Windows 2000 virtual machines on top of a Debian Linux box (Athlon XP 2200, 512 MB RAM, 60GB IDE HD).

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