Like most hard-core geeks I have a network of PCs running all the time. A friend of mine got bit by the electricity-saving bug and one thing he discovered was that it was costing about $20/month to run his small network. So how can you cut down on electricity without tearing down your network? Virtual PCs! My plan is to rebuild my workstation with 64-bit Windows server and load it up with RAM. It'll be my Primary Domain Controller, DNS server, and SMTP server. I'm then going to run VMWare and host an image of my current XP setup. Another host will contain Vista, and another host will run a Linux image. Having one machine act as 4 computers shouldn't be too tough for it because it has two processors and since the base OS will be 64-bit with 8GB of RAM I'm hoping performance will not be bad. The reason I'm going with VMWare instead of Virtual PC is because VPC doesn't support USB and I absolutely will need my XP image to be able to use USB.
I'll write another entry in the near future once I've made the migration and can successfully power down 3 computers yet have them running on only 1 computer.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Trash Mobile
Now come on people, is it that hard to throw out trash every once in a while? The car was filled with trash except for the driver's seat. The driver apparently like 4Bucks, aka Starbucks, because there must have been atleast 20 cups of Starbucks on the passenger side.
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