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On 9/30/2010 3:45 PM, Kesick, Nicholas Charles wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";
color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It seems you know very little
about Windows Server operations, and who’s to say
Microsoft would come in
and change all of the underlying OSes? <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">I wouldn’t recommend runing LINUX with Opensim on
anything
less than 4GB (production), and Windows Server Core is a
very robust and light
system, of which I would still run on 4GB. Server Core
weighs less on my server
than Fedora or Ubuntu Server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">But consider first, the advantage of connection
speeds that
would be available to Second Life with Microsoft as the
owner. Right now
Linden Labs has been building server centers and their fiber
“LL Net”.
Now Micorosft walks in. Here’s 400x the server power with
datacenters in
many states, and 10000x the bandwidth around the world.
Tada! Lag time between
client and server gone, especially with international users.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">Microsoft also has the assets to help the
education sector,
which has been having more and more trouble staying with
Second Life because of
a lack of support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">So, don’t just write it off because of the OS.
Remember
the other assets they have, like internet connections and
good management
skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";
color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">- Nicholas Kesick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";
color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Now at </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kesickn09@students.ecu.edu"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";">kesickn09@students.ecu.edu</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">!</span><br>
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Oh, I do, and I shall. I managed a Windows Server 2003-based Active
Directory network for the City, and then had my own Win Serv 2003
Active Directory network at home while first setting up my
application hosting service. Despite having a hardware firewall and
allowing automatic updates, I had to clear out worms every 3 weeks
and was on the edge of buying more RAM. I have since switched to
Linux-based hosting and have never looked back.<br>
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And I have successfully run OpenSim on three 1GB RAM Pentium 4 @
3.0GHz. I ran two regions each, yes, but sacrificing quantity for
quality is a lot cheaper than shelling out for new servers.<br>
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