Hack the Planet in Exile

• 2009-08-27

  VMware’s position on hypervisor footprints, patching, vulnerabilities and whatever else Microsoft wants to throw into a blog post.

  Mark Wilson: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (aka “me too!”) Better performance than XenServer at a lower price than vSphere sounds like innovation to me; it just isn’t technical innovation. Touting the performance of passthrough devices is sleazy marketing, given that the point of virtualization is to share resources.

  Kostadis Roussos: Shed a tier with NetApp PAM II: The SSD tier. I don’t think I want to know what 512 GB of NetApp flash costs.

  The Nokia N900 has “raw computer power”. Is that like cell phone sushi?

  Nick Bostrom: Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge.

  tptacek: “Your arguments against copyright are so solid that they appear to change with each comment you make.” Heh.