stevie_350z

No hints on the tyres? I know they have maximums on there which you won't want to go anywhere near, but they might have something else on there... see what these guys come up with

Ah, so yes I am a PM, but for services. I also have marketing in my title but after seeing Bill Hicks I'm scared of associating with that crowd (they are pretty bad too!)

LOL, could be a Buick! I've driven a few cars over here, all of them toss. A dodge "thingie" - lilac, and as I was approaching the lights thinking "who the hell would buy one of..." up pulls a young lad in the same car, but his is pimped up - wheels, bling bling, the lot. I just turned up the Led Zep and looked the other way... Drove a mazda 6, probably best of lot, well at least once I realised how to raise the steering wheel cos it was so low I looked like I was having a good fumble on the move... Then a chrysler sebring sedan with 16miles on clock - sounded like a diesel, but just a crap petrol. v plastic. At least I haven't had to drive one of those god awful SUVs - hate them. Roll on March when I'm back behind the wheel of Black Beauty!

Who me? Aye, we do lots of US / UK gov work. Ridiculously huge contracts, but got to get ridiculous income tax / national insurance give away back somehow Come to the Reading meet and we can talk shop all night! PS. Assume PM = Project Manager, not Product Manager? I'm kinda like a product manager but for services not software... so I make @*!# up, then sell it and deliver it - that's the general jist anywayz

Get your butt down there, Steve! I'll be driving all the way from Staines / or Frimley up the M4! Can't wait to get back in the Z... it's been two long months!

You are still a geek yeah because i know what answers not to put!! Damnit! You still going to the Reading meet? I told my girlfriend to come but she said shed feel a bit out of place cos she thinks its a guys thing, do guys not normally bring their misses? She loves cars ? Yo - there's normally lots of chicks there (why else do you think we stand outside in December?) 133

Have you met our resident bouncer/boxer yet? Captint? Vilkommen!

I cover world wide, all verticals. Damn, please don't accuse me of marketing... I only saw Bill Hicks having a go at marketing the other day on youtube It seems that the geeks amongst us have heard of VMware, but the non-geeks haven't. That fits, but we expect it to change sometime soon Thanks for the answers, chaps!

Have you pre-allocated the virtual disk? If you haven't, it will keep asking for extensions to the underlying OS and slow things down. When you create the virtual disk for the VM, make sure its all preallocated.

yeah I had heard about that. Will be interesting to see performance results against running nativly. Only if that's the most important thing to you... as you said, the vast majority of customers don't use their current throughput / capacity so their move to VMware is not affected by any performance issues. Those big, performant systems are in our scope now that we can run bigger VMs (e.g. 4vCPU)... if only Intel and AMD would get a move on with their hardware virtualization esp. for MMU... In fact, for P2Vs of old servers those buggers fly like crazy on the new hardware that VMware runs on (imagine that old NT4 system running on a PII, now its running on an AMD Opteron NUMA quad core accessing its data over a SAN... and it hasn't got a clue that is happening!) VMware have created a new benchmark you might be interested called VMmark. Here's a link to it on VMTN - our QA / performance team are awesome and they quadruple check everything the kernal / monitor guys do. http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/ If you need any help, mate, just PM me - I work in Practice Development so I have my fingers stuck into all sorts

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What do you run on that machine today? SQL server? Not many apps can take advantage of that... that's what VMware is betting on - Moore's Law. With quad core, quad socket servers becoming standard soon VMware will be needed to divide up the processing power for apps. Little known fact (outside VMware): out of the billions of CPU utilisation records we have collected globally, the average figure is 6%. We usually see it at 3.5-5% when onsite. Multiply that by a few hundred servers, sucking in power and blowing out heat and that's a lot of waste!

The best will be VMware Fusion when its available later this year. You can go out and buy Parallels now (from SWsoft) which will get you by for now if you need something today. Just be warned that if you choose parallels over VMware then you'll be missing out on some sexy stuff! Check this out (3D windows games running on Mac, thanks to VMware Fusion - Parallels can't do this). http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2007/02/cl ... _the_.html

Sweet... what do you think of the IPO then... not often a company goes from private -> bought -> IPO

I'll stick with my current model ta very much. It's fast enough for me and looks the dogs nuts!

I know there are quite a few geeks on here... I work for a company called VMware that is currently one of the fastest software companies ever - in line with Oracle and Microsoft - yet a lot of folks haven't heard of us - hence the reason for this post. If you have heard of VMware, in what context? Apart from our plans for world domination, which includes the destruction of Microsoft , we do all kinds of stuff... checkout http://www.vmware.com. If you have not heard of us, we provide software that lets you run virtual machines - ie. more than one "M$ Windows" on the same piece of tin. In fact, you can run (on the same machine, at the same time, with no problems) - windows, linux, netware, solaris. And now we let you run Windows on Apple (codenamed Fusion) - with great 3D support (checkout youtube for a demo). Yours nosily, Steve

I was just doing my expenses the other day, and I have a Walgreens receipt that says at the top: "Hello, my name is MING and I was very pleased to be your server today!". LMAO

I hope Hanel comes along - he's been "eerily' quiet... hope he's not sulking about the Six Nations results...

sl114 (Louis) Andy stevie_350z I'll finally be back in blighty!

Dealer replaced my CV joints + wheel bearings - 4 hour job for them, they haven't done it before... my Dad took it in while I'm away, so it'll be March before I see my baby again

I'm going for the 2nd time this year, and here's my advice: just enjoy it, relax and take it easy. You don't have to bomb it round the track - there are lots of slower cars than yours - and lots of faster ones. You can drive round the 'ring without being a dickhead psycho insane'in'da'membrane. People do it with their families in the car, along with buses and trucks. If you love cars and the whole social atmos, go on a public holiday weekend (like I am, end of May) where the spectating, gossiping, womanizing and drinking put the driving in its place. If you are a track phreak who wants to burn up the ring, go another time. So, once you know what you want to do on the ring - enjoy the exp. vs. track meister - then you can choose your time. The drive over, the few nights away from the wife with a bunch of petrol heads, the drive to/from the ring, the drive round the ring, the journey home - it's all priceless. So whatever you want to do, a trip to the Ring is for you, cos you can do what u like. You will see some awesome cars there - Dodge Viper, Porsche GT3 RS, Lambo, Ferrari, Micra ..

Welcome, CS, are you based dahn sahth? You could join the SE-Mafia

It's a no brainer, sell the car, take the opportunity.

sl114 Ian (as long as Im not working) Sarnie TheMinel H5 Chesterfield Andy Beavis stevie_350z I'll be back from California AT LAST!