jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Nov 12 14:30:07 CST 2011
Fedora just hung showing the pretty submarine. It can't shutdown, power down only. Won't release the virtual cd so that I can install the tools. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 11/12/2011 2:26 PM, jwcolby wrote: > I am downloading 4 different distros. Every one claims to just fire up and go. We shall see. Of > course getting MariaDb to go after that is one more thing to make happen. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 11/12/2011 1:35 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: >> I'm afraid that I can't help you in this endeavour, John. It seems that >> Oracle VirtualBox doesn't have the ability to inhale VMs from other sources >> (I could be wrong, but if so, haven't yet figured out how to do it.) What I >> do instead (in VirtualBox) is create a new VM, loading a CD with the >> downloaded OS, and after that, VirtualBox takes care of everything: mounts >> the OS, installs it as a VM, allocates the default space with Grow, etc.) >> >> Allegedly there is a way to use MS VM images, but I haven't got that far yet >> >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:47 AM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: >> >>> Arthur, >>> >>> Do you have a Linux distro that runs in a Hyper-V vm. Yea I know Hyper-V >>> is MS but I made a switch to Hyper-V and it would be very disruptive to >>> switch back. But I would like to get a vm up and running so I could play >>> in MariaDB. >>> >>> Are there encapsulated VMs that I can just download and start as VMs in >>> Hyper-V? I tried to get two different DISTROs running and failed both >>> times. >>> >>> >>> John W. Colby >>> Colby Consulting >>> >>> Reality is what refuses to go away >>> when you do not believe in it >>> >>> On 11/12/2011 11:11 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: >>> >>>> I have moved to MySQL for medium-to-large DBs and to SQLite for small DBs. >>>> See ya, BillG and SteveB. I'm gone, reluctantly so, since I have spent the >>>> last dozen or so years mastering MS-SQL, which I now realize was a >>>> complete >>>> waste of time and energy. From now on, I'm going open-source solutions, >>>> and >>>> I'm about to bolt from the whole Windows "solution" in favour of Ubuntu >>>> and|or Mint (a fork from Ubuntu). Currently I run both these OSs as VMs >>>> inside Oracle/Sun VirtualBox. but I am about to flip the whole system so >>>> the basic boot is into Ubuntu and any Windows/Access sessions will be >>>> dealt >>>> with in a VM. >>>> >>>> So long, Steve and Bill. It's been a slice, but I'm done with you guys. >>>> You >>>> don't make life better; you only make it more expensive. And as a >>>> semi-retired person, expenses matter significantly.I just calculated >>>> December and realized that at the end of the day (after rent, hydro, net >>>> connection etc.) I have a whopping $15 left for the whole month of >>>> December. Wow. Party hearty. >>>> >>>> Not that I'm complaining. Were it not for our alleged socialist >>>> government, >>>> I wouldn't receive so much as a dime; so I count myself in the set of >>>> Lucky >>>> MoFus. >>>> >>>> Arthur >>>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Mark Simms<marksimms at verizon.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> John - I think it's a poor strategy on Microsoft's part. >>>>> IMHO: They should position themselves price-wise BETWEEN the >>>>> ever-so-expensive Oracle and the ever-so-cheap MySQL. >>>>> Instead, they appear to be moving towards trying to compete with >>>>> Oracle... >>>>> This is so "Balmer-like". >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: accessd-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com>[mailto: >>>>>> accessd- >>>>>> bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:27 AM >>>>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; Sqlserver-Dba >>>>>> Subject: [AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY more >>>>>> expensive >>>>>> >>>>>> http://sqlserverperformance.**wordpress.com/2011/11/10/sql-** >>>>>> server-2012-<http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/sql-server-2012-> >>>>>> licensing-and-hardware-**considerations/ >>>>>> >>>>>> The full retail license cost per physical core is $6874.00 for SQL >>>>>> Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. >>>>>> >>>>>> I cannot imagine that there will not be a huge backlash about this from >>>>>> clients and massive >>>>>> switching to MySQL and the likes. >>>>>> >>>>>> I know that I will never purchase SQL Server 2010. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> John W. 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