I Don't Have Enough Computers
You might think I do, but really I don't. I need one more. My video importing computer died, and I sent off to get the hard drive fixed. But I'm thinking I might stick that in the bedroom, move my shuttle to the living room, and build another one for video encoding.
I just need a processor and a tower. The rest I had from RMA's, spare parts, upgrade leftover's, etc.
Today I've been working on setting up two servers I have set up in the guest room. So far I'm just doing a primary and secondary AD/DNS server. I'll probably mess with some other stuff as well.
I've got an Enterprise version of Windows Server 2008, and there's some neat things I want to try.
For instance:
Windows Update Server
Windows Installation server - you can install Vista over the network
IIS
Application server
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When I hear about all the crap you 'need' and buy, it makes me want to hurt people. You need to learn to use Vitual PC/Server instead of buying so much damn hardware.
I could certainly defend each and every computer I have, but I feel no need to. They all have their own purposes, and are all located in different rooms. I like building computers and new technology, and I don't have to apologize for that. It's like telling someone who plays tennis for a living they should never buy a new racquet because the old one is "good enough."
On top of that, people give me old computers all the time. Most of the parts I have were salvaged from other machines I got for free, or re-conditioned completely.
As to virtualization, it sucks. I'm not going to make a virtual machine to import and encode home movies. It would be incredibly slow and ridiculous. I'm going to do some virtualization on my servers, but they are only single-core and I doubt the experience will be that great.
Whenever I've used virtualization it has always seemed to sluggish and not worth it to me.
I have to agree with THE lliott on this one. I have a Mac Pro that runs Parallels with a few random OS's and although its fun to use it does tend to be quite slow. And this is using 2 dual core processors with 6 gigs of ram.
Virtual Machines are nice if you don't need to do anything too hardware intensive, but most people that need to run a second OS on the same computer do so for more than just to check their e-mail.
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