Yaffle's Corner - Comments

Neil S. Briscoe: What's a Yaffle?

nospam@example.com (Neil S. Briscoe) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:52:25 +0200

Certainly I do - and the organ mice. But thats not why I named this domain, and this blog, thus.

Neil: What's a Yaffle?

nospam@example.com (Neil) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:40:48 +0200

Not a fan of Bagpuss then?

Don't you remember Proffesor Yaffle - "A carved wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker". Wiser than the average owl

Neil Briscoe: Virtualisation: Not a means of shorting on the hardware

nospam@example.com (Neil Briscoe) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:04:08 +0200

Hi Paul

Long time no speak.

Recently we (thats the corporate we) added multiple international servers - we needed to do this due to the global locations of our customers.

One server (the one in Singapore) is a VM rather than a bare metal server. Fortunately, the ISP (who happens to be British) has a clue, and their rules are the same.

Blat me a mail on the reply address - high time we caught up.

Regards
Neil

TallPaul: How many administrators does a system need?

nospam@example.com (TallPaul) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:10:34 +0200

Thermonuclear device delivered from a low earth orbit - it's the only language they understand.

TallPaul: Virtualisation: Not a means of shorting on the hardware

nospam@example.com (TallPaul) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:07:26 +0200

Yeah, you can virtualise the machine but virtualising the RAM is a Bad Plan(TM). We run a couple of VM servers and our ISP is very explicit that they provide enough RAM on the host machine so that every VM has enough physical memory.