So would this be something like OpenStack or CloudStack? Or are those just a management/obfuscation layer?

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller I've read a blog post recently about booting XenServer boxes via PXE boot and a bootstrap script (not sure if I am using that term correctly). They would then automatically join a farm and provision or transfer machines depending on load.

I will take a look around to see if I can't find it.

Is that using MaaS or some other setup?

Also I've never heard of MaaS before interesting concept, it seems like something that larger companies would be using for their infrastructure.

Here it is but it is PXE installation and not booting... I will try and find the one I am thinking of but it may not exist.

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/XenServer/Install/PXE

@scottalanmiller Hmm, the closest thing I can find was an OpenStack blog post about PXE installation... not what I was thinking though. It must have been awhile ago when I was getting into it.

@scottalanmiller I've read a blog post recently about booting XenServer boxes via PXE boot and a bootstrap script (not sure if I am using that term correctly). They would then automatically join a farm and provision or transfer machines depending on load.

I will take a look around to see if I can't find it.

Sounds like a cool project. I don't have any experience with it... just installed XenServer to a local disk when I did it for my home lab.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@Minion-Queen said:

I wouldn't have an issue with a videogaming community. I have people that might be able to do that for us

That would make sense. And videogaming is not one word.

It is now, this is how words are created. Half the words in Shakespeare were not words until he made them.

I wouldn't exactly consider Danielle the next Shakespeare...

I don't think Shakespeare's peers considered him the next whatever they had before that either.

If I recall from English class many of his peers thought he was a bit of a buffoon who wrote cheesy plays without deep meaning or context. Although the royalty loved him so...

A video game community would be fun... although some of the type of people dedicated communities attract are not the most friendly.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

If I think that a movie is good, I generally prefer 3+ hours. Just that I rarely find a good movie. It's why I often like good television shows - the lower format allows for deeper material. You have time to invest in the characters, in the world. Same reason that I love good video games. In general I think that they are a stronger storytelling format than are movies.

Speaking of which, I've started playing Fable. I'm not overly impressed.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I always found that series to be over-hyped.

How many of them did you play?

I played through most of the first one, but the story just didn't hook me like it did others. I know my brother and his wife loved the series I just couldn't start enjoying it for some reason. I didn't touch the second one... maybe I should go back and try again when I have time.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

If I think that a movie is good, I generally prefer 3+ hours. Just that I rarely find a good movie. It's why I often like good television shows - the lower format allows for deeper material. You have time to invest in the characters, in the world. Same reason that I love good video games. In general I think that they are a stronger storytelling format than are movies.

Speaking of which, I've started playing Fable. I'm not overly impressed.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I always found that series to be over-hyped.

@Dominica said:

Awwww @ajstringham thinks I'm special

Okay, I admit that I wanted to make sure that the wiki wasn't going to be a ton of extra work for me. Sometimes @scottalanmiller has these ideas and proposes them with "and it will be great experience for you to work on this" so hence my perpetual caution whenever Scott has a brilliant new idea.

Out of curiosity, and if it is personal ignore my question, but what do you guys use the wiki to manage? Bill and expenses? Scheduling? Just trying to get an idea of how we could use this tool in our house.

@ajstringham My favorite comment; "Spiderman is my favorite mutant."

@scottalanmiller Ah thanks. I remember them being at a job fair in Rochester two years ago and had a nice conversation with one of their recruiters. They were looking more for programmers then Sys Admins though.

Finally caught up on ML from this weekend... you guys/gals were busy.

@scottalanmiller Are they still acting as a service and consulting company? I seem to remember that being their big deal a couple of years ago.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@ajstringham Also somehow they are turning a small novel into a trilogy. I regrettably haven't watched any of The Hobbit movies yet but I just find it strange that a fairly short book could be fluffed up to three movies.

Yes, it feels seriously slow. There is way too much movie for far too little storyline. One long movie would have been perfect.

Each LOTR movie is 3.5 hours with like half an hour of credits! It's nuts!

They actually dropped a lot of the story, or subplots rather, from the LOTR trilogy that made the books readable. They also picked up on them strangely throughout part of the movies without the foreshadowing that was in the books.

@ajstringham Also somehow they are turning a small novel into a trilogy. I regrettably haven't watched any of The Hobbit movies yet but I just find it strange that a fairly short book could be fluffed up to three movies.

@ajstringham Right, it follows Bilbo Baggins (Frodo's Uncle) through his journey with a band of dwarfs.

@scottalanmiller Ah go it.

@scottalanmiller Didn't they recently sell their x86 server base to Lenovo?

@thegillion Ah got it thanks.