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I wasn't questioning virtualbox, just the hosting OS, particularly windows as the host as there are bottlenecks introduced talking to the real hardware
(for instance it's lousy wrogly layered network interface and the way it introduces inefficiencies when a better class disk management is layered upon it in that: for instance NTFS kills the optimizations that for instance ext4 attempts ... the reverse is not true as vm's on linux hosts allow a more direct access to the disk so no fighting of optimizations...)
in short: yes vm on windows is workable, but vm's on *nix are inherently better (speed and resource usage particularly at higher loads). on windows hosts simple stuff is fine, heavy/peak load applications not so much, so you should be right.
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Fundamentally Windows is not an RTOS, so trying to run one in a VM on Windows wont give you the same performance of course, no one would expect that.
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I suggest you skip 17.xx then. It's already been abandoned, and NO package will update without some manual mucking around with suprepository config files.
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two bottles of gin
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Sounds great to me.
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Oh right. I meant "Only two bottles".
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Orbital - Belfast[^]
A few months ago (has it been months already!?) @David-ONeil replied with an Orbital song to a SOTW thread.
It reminded me of this song, which used to be one of my favorites, but which I had forgotten over the years.
Last week I decided to give Orbital another listen and it's amazing.
Their music is great, but Belfast is still their best (so I may have repeated it a couple of times)
So enjoy this early 90's electronic masterpiece
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Nice, that one goes straight to my Spotify playlist
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To get my synapses back after that chthonic burble-bath, I had to use a strong palette cleanser: [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: To get my synapses back after that chthonic burble-bath Have you been listening to the track I posted? If this sounds like a "chthonic burble-bath" to you your ears may be broken, seriously.
BillWoodruff wrote: I had to use a strong palette cleanser: [^] Yep, your ears are definitely broken...
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Sander Rossel wrote: Have you been listening to the track I posted I cannot use the term "listening" to describe assault on my ears by random waves of modulating air-pressure emitted by black-smoker fumaroles at the bottom of the great trench in Hell named "Noise."
Such mephitic emanations are, however, useful as a purgative remedy for psychic constipation if taken in a five-second dose, then followed by a restorative/palliative sonic douche perhaps in the Vivaldi flavor.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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So now that you've used all those superlatives on a song that's labeled as CHILL OUT I wonder how you would describe a song such as Gorgoroth - Destroyer[^] which is actually made to sound like random waves of modulating air-pressure emitted by black-smoker fumaroles at the bottom of the great trench in Hell named "Noise."
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Sander Rossel wrote: used all those superlatives Them are pejoratives.
Next time I'm constipated, or feel a need for self-abuse, I'll check-out Gogototh
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The bloke on the next desk to me uses a pocket calculator to add up lists of numbers that are contained in an Excel spreadsheet.
I've tried telling him about the calculating abilities built into Excel but he won't listen and continues to use the pocket calculator (He says I've got this calculator I bought in 1990 so I'm going to continue to use it!).
Now he's complaining that the batteries in the pocket calculator are running out...
Oh well at least its Friday.
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Reminds me of this Upgrade tools... No time for that[^]
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
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I have this guy sitting next to me blabbering some stuff about Excel features when I have a perfectly functioning calculator.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Problems![^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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No sh*t. I work for a company where all of the technical managers are former mechanical engineers. Every document is an Excel spreadsheet, or a spreadsheet embedded in a PowerPoint presentation they pilfered from a marketing yabbo.
It's spelled W-o-r-d you morons.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sounds like he is a prime target to be replaced by somebody younger and more tech savvy.
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musefan wrote: Sounds like he is a prime target to be replaced by somebody younger and more tech savvy. "Tech savvy" and "Excel"?
I would tend toward refuting the use of those two terms as if they are in any way connected.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Excel is OK for what it does, but they do insist on using spreadsheets for database functions shared over multiple users here and then complaining when it doesn't work properly.
Typically the complaint is that somebody has the spreadsheet file open and somebody else can't add a new item.
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Yes, but bear in mind the first option they'd go for to replace Excel.
As a long-term Access sufferer, I'd be hard pressed to decide which is worse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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