These Things Matter to Me
Monday, November 12, 2007
By popular demand! Oracle announces deprecated virtualization product.
How much you want to bet that web-based Oracle VM management tool requires Java? I really want to be wrong about this, but I gotta play the odds. Less certain, but also likely: "works better in IE."
Not that I want Oracle VM, their new confusingly Xen-based, partially open source, only-virtualization-environment they'll officially support Oracle on, to be really be good anyway. I actually laughed when I listened to this keynote at Oracle OpenWorld today:
Like all Xen-based stuff, Oracle VM will only support Windows guests if you have hardware virtualization. Unlike most Xen-based stuff, they're only supporting RHEL3, RHEL4 and RHEL5 Linux, and the wildly popular Oracle Enterprise Linux (if there's any left!).
Not that I want Oracle VM, their new confusingly Xen-based, partially open source, only-virtualization-environment they'll officially support Oracle on, to be really be good anyway. I actually laughed when I listened to this keynote at Oracle OpenWorld today:
Virtualization is hot... people have been asking us... Oracle, what are you going to do with virtualization?Yeah, kinda like how people keep asking, "Hey Coolio, when's your next album coming out?" Like how they do on opposite day!
Like all Xen-based stuff, Oracle VM will only support Windows guests if you have hardware virtualization. Unlike most Xen-based stuff, they're only supporting RHEL3, RHEL4 and RHEL5 Linux, and the wildly popular Oracle Enterprise Linux (if there's any left!).
Labels: enterprise, enterprisey, javalasses, Oracle, virtualization, xen
Monday, May 07, 2007
Separated at birth
Just loved.
Looking into my Apache logs tonight, I noticed for the first time, a bunch of Solaris users.
And hey! Requests/ refers from sun.com? For five seconds I got excited by the possibility that somebody from Sun was linking to me. It's no secret I dig Jonathan Schwartz and and many Sun activities. (But at the same time, I don't dig Sun's Java. )
So it was with heavy heart that I realized nobody from Sun was linking to me. They were just embeddeding a gif I have of Tim Oreilly and including it in their blog post. It seems that Tim O'Reilly with a beard reminds some people of actor Dennis Hopper. And this comparison was posted by a JavaOne attendee, which was then aggregated on the JavaOne blog page.
After consultation with an ethicist, I considered my options. Edit the graphic so that my URL would display? No, too stalkerazzi/tmz.com. Change it to a goatse? No, too crass. And besides, the blogger seems really nice, and has a good blog about grid stuff. And his embedding the graphic doesn't really hurt me. But I had to do just a lil something. So I made a little Javalasses joke on the image, and reuploaded the file.
I hope they keep the graphic up, though. We need more Tim O'Reilly. separated at birth memes! (I also heart Tim.)
PS. Javalasses.
Just loved.
Looking into my Apache logs tonight, I noticed for the first time, a bunch of Solaris users.
And hey! Requests/ refers from sun.com? For five seconds I got excited by the possibility that somebody from Sun was linking to me. It's no secret I dig Jonathan Schwartz and and many Sun activities. (But at the same time, I don't dig Sun's Java. )
So it was with heavy heart that I realized nobody from Sun was linking to me. They were just embeddeding a gif I have of Tim Oreilly and including it in their blog post. It seems that Tim O'Reilly with a beard reminds some people of actor Dennis Hopper. And this comparison was posted by a JavaOne attendee, which was then aggregated on the JavaOne blog page.
After consultation with an ethicist, I considered my options. Edit the graphic so that my URL would display? No, too stalkerazzi/tmz.com. Change it to a goatse? No, too crass. And besides, the blogger seems really nice, and has a good blog about grid stuff. And his embedding the graphic doesn't really hurt me. But I had to do just a lil something. So I made a little Javalasses joke on the image, and reuploaded the file.
I hope they keep the graphic up, though. We need more Tim O'Reilly. separated at birth memes! (I also heart Tim.)
PS. Javalasses.
