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marco

I, personally, would enjoy an episode dedicated to Mac as you mentioned. I am a fairly new Mac user and don’t always have the time to go out and research the best software to use as Windows replacements, especially for blackhat/whitehat hacking, net analytics, etc. I hope you were serious about that idea and not just making a fleeting comment!

Keep it up!

Happy New Year !
* Cheers *

VirtualBox is easier to use than any of the VMware products, IME. Try this first for a single PC environment. VirtualBox is free for “personal use” – basically, if not supported by your IT department. Sun is the support org.

Xen has lower overhead and doesn’t require rebuilding the kernel constantly – not fun if you have 2-20k servers to manage. We run all our enterprise apps on 2 physical servers, each with 6 Xen VMs. Xen is FLOSS.

In an enterprise, VMware is king primarily due to commercial management software and running Windows server. If you look at the pricing – VMware is far from cheap.

I love the show! Even us “old guys” (over 20 years in IT/development/systems arch) can learn something new. Less Windows, more UNIX/Linux, please!

another thing you could cover which im just getting into and would have found it handy to have known more is vps managment for servers, i was recommended hypervm but decided to look around for a GPL variant and found Proxmox (both use openVZ containers). it seems allright an if uve got a dedicated box it sure save mucking up ur root host distro and having to pay all the time to have the server farm ops fix it back up…

plus you can test out other os’s and web apps without risking ur “production” setup.

now i know uve covered VM b4 but VPS are different, the have a much lower overhead and are perfect for the web.

ps – you should use the word linux in your show atleast once every episode or u just aint cutting the leet cheese my friends ! ;p

Hayden.
Austraila.

Anyway, like I said, it’s a balance. I know you guys want a good mix and though we’re not always going to get it absolutely right we’ll strive to bring you the perfect amount of produced content along with the off the cuff tech ramblings you’ve come to expect from a bunch of IT ninjas trapped inside a technodorm enslaved by IPTV overlords and evil servers forced to share our insight on networking, hacking, gaming and all around technolust on a weekly basis.

Note: I may have embellished a bit

What really comes to my mind with these posts is diggnation…. It used to be a kickass show with fun-fun drunkeness, fun, AND information. Now it’s basically about their own personal crap, and whatever kevin rose felt like submitting to digg. They dont even talk about anything any origionals of the show want to hear about (this also includes me. i started watching when they came out with ep. 2).

I like all your rants and ravings about odd and abstract things. You all get off topic but you always let us know what it’s about and why. You include the audience into the topic so-to-speak. And to top it off, none of you sound fake (my biggest ass itch about diggnation)

And even though people say techzilla’s format is better, im sorry but that show really REALLY sucks now because it gives a project, and then grabs your hand and walks you through it as if you have no knowledge whatsoever about anything they do, almost as if they were trying to teach a grandma to do a project. To top it all off, they get so off topic that half the time lately they dont remember where they were in the informational chat, and everything is ‘behind the scenes’ stuff that are completely isolated and irrelevant from the audience.

So in short…. SKrEw all of you who think the show should change and YAY to the people like me… n stuff.

:p

ps: the stickers are great

The unfortunate part is that I like the information that you guys provide. I am well-versed on the end-user environment, but not the behind the scenes stuff of servers, etc. Your show provides me with the technolust that I can’t get in other places. I just feel that Name’s post is correct. While this was a holiday show of sorts, it just seems drawn out and not enough bang for the buck. Although Shannon is new to the whole production, her banter conversations don’t have much “value added.” Sorry, Snubs.

I like your segments. Please keep doing them. I just think that with some more practice, you can make appropriate segues without adding 5 minutes chunks to your bottom line. The banter around the ads are causes me to fast forward through them and miss them completely. I can’t say that you or Revision 3 want that to happen? I can usually get through the ads without fast-forwarding as long as they move quickly. Lately, it is easy to FF through the banter and the ad at the same time.

This post is meant to be constructive criticism. I’m not one of those whiners and I know that I can leave Hak5. I just hope that you see it as the suggestions that it is and not just a complaining post.