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How to create a private cloud in your laptop
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posted by Giuseppe Maxia on Fri 19 Nov 2010 14:19 UTC
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(edit) virtualization, cloud, laptop, QA
Everybody is moving to cloud architectures, although not all agree on what cloud computing is. In my limited understanding, and for the purpose of my work, cloud computing is a quick and versatile availability of virtual machines.
Now, if my purpose was deploying these machines, a private cloud in one host (namely, my laptop) would not make sense. But to create a flexible testing environment, it works very well.
Users of virtual machines software such as VMWare or VirtualBox may ask what's new here. You can create many virtual machines and use them within the same host.
True, but creating a new virtual machine in one minute without duplication of resources is not so easy. This is what this article


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Suse 11: So far, so good
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posted by Philip Antoniades on Fri 20 Jun 2008 21:31 UTC
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(edit) Open Source, Linux, suse, open, laptop, source

After 4 good releases, Ubuntu let me down with 8.04. Maybe it was the timing - I upgraded my laptop as part of restoring it from a hard drive crash a few weeks ago - but isn't a brand new disk a good time to change your OS version? 


 On the upside, Hardy was the first OS I've installed where I opted to keep the default wallpaper (the bird is purty). And I'm pretty sure suspend (nVidia driver and all) was working better than previously, which is always good news. 


But I no longer had use of the VGA port for cloned or extended desktop, and I was unable to find a solution. That's a dealbreaker for anyone who needs to do frequent presentations (or, for that matter, uses their laptop as a primary workstation and has a > 15" monitor).


Worse, vpnc was, at best, squirrelly. I do quite a lot over VPN, and we still have two of them (Sun




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Suse 11: So far, so good
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posted by Philip Antoniades on Fri 20 Jun 2008 14:31 UTC
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(edit) Open Source, Linux, suse, open, laptop, source

After 4 good releases, Ubuntu let me down with 8.04. Maybe it was the timing - I upgraded my laptop as part of restoring it from a hard drive crash a few weeks ago - but isn't a brand new disk a good time to change your OS version? 


 On the upside, Hardy was the first OS I've installed where I opted to keep the default wallpaper (the bird is purty). And I'm pretty sure suspend (nVidia driver and all) was working better than previously, which is always good news. 


But I no longer had use of the VGA port for cloned or extended desktop, and I was unable to find a solution. That's a dealbreaker for anyone who needs to do frequent presentations (or, for that matter, uses their laptop as a primary workstation and has a > 15" monitor).


Worse, vpnc was, at best, squirrelly. I do quite a lot over VPN, and we still have two of them (Sun




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Suse 11: So far, so good
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posted by Philip Antoniades on Fri 20 Jun 2008 14:31 UTC
Tags:
(edit) Open Source, Linux, suse, open, laptop, source

After 4 good releases, Ubuntu let me down with 8.04. Maybe it was the timing - I upgraded my laptop as part of restoring it from a hard drive crash a few weeks ago - but isn't a brand new disk a good time to change your OS version? 


 On the upside, Hardy was the first OS I've installed where I opted to keep the default wallpaper (the bird is purty). And I'm pretty sure suspend (nVidia driver and all) was working better than previously, which is always good news. 


But I no longer had use of the VGA port for cloned or extended desktop, and I was unable to find a solution. That's a dealbreaker for anyone who needs to do frequent presentations (or, for that matter, uses their laptop as a primary workstation and has a > 15" monitor).


Worse, vpnc was, at best, squirrelly. I do quite a lot over VPN, and we still have two of them




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A neat thing at the MySQL Con
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posted by Mark Atwood on Thu 26 Apr 2007 17:13 UTC
Tags:
(edit) Geek, mysqlcon2007, laptop, mysqlcon
The MySQL Con has done something amazingly intellegent. Taped down to the floors in all the session rooms and meetings rooms, there are power strips. No matter where you sit, there is a powerstrip within a couple of meters. So instead of spending time looking for power outlets and having clumps of people gathered around the few outlets around the walls, you can sit where you want, and take notes and do research while listening and speaking.

This is something that all other tech conferences would do well to emulate.
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