Re: [tlug] Xen Master [C&C warning]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

CL writes:

 > Yeah, I don't think I'm a dummy, either, but the guys who put
 > together the Xen Wiki write in the same "organized" way those cats
 > on You Tube chase after laser pointer dots, running around trying
 > to catch the shiny and ignoring the lines on the floor.

Surely you don't believe that the fact that "wikiwiki" sounds like a
wheel that hasn't gotten any grease (or other TLC) in a year is an
accident?

4 or 5 years back there was a list of academic papers that discribed
how things worked in a way that a person with technical background but
not a specialist would understand.  Let me go look around later.

 > M$ has become one of the new needy, exchanging your agreement to
 > let them do more background data collection on your activities for
 > access to features.

*sigh* Well, we knew it was coming as soon as they started sniffing
around the Internet 15 years ago.  Fortunately they went straight for
our wallets and nobody was having any of that.  Ie, they missed
anticipating the value of Big Data too.  But now they *have* figured
out Big Data and they have what might be a stranglehold on the most
flexible sensor for business data there is.

 > The knowledge pool for workarounds isn't growing as fast as it has
 > with other rollouts and I am not the only one concerned by the fact
 > that backward compatibility of proven solutions seems to be
 > severely compromised

That's not a happy thought.  It might kill MS, which probably would be
a change for the better, but they're still so rich that there will be
a *lot* of "collateral damage" first.

 > So ... my questions about changing virtualization options.

OK, I guess you really do want to look at Xen, and right now.

 > >   > 3.  How to set up a guest / convert a .vdi.
 > >   > 4.  How to make the contents of the guest seamlessly integrate as a
 > >   > separate desktop within my Debian host environment.
 > >
 > > No, you don't want to do that ...
 > Actually, you can pretty much make a Windows guest a clickable desktop 

Let me be clear, I wasn't referring to the guest.  I'm sure you know a
lot more about configuring and securing that than I do.  What I meant
was you don't want a "Debian environment" on the host.  If you can
tell it's Debian, you've probably got too much installed. :-)

 > that is secure enough for non-Top Secret (or non-higher) data exchange 
 > just using standard, off-the-shelf hardening tools. It's the more secure 
 > stuff that causes problems ... and more and more information is being 
 > rated more secure, which is also contributing to more non-accounting PCs 
 > being ordered without WIN installed.

But not at Nenkin-Kikou it would seem. :-(  Aaargh!

 > > ∲ (L dx + M dy) = ∬(∂M/∂x - ∂L/∂y) dx dy

 > Really?  This is your best shot?  Page 14 of the Goldman-Sachs "100 Ways 
 > to Amuse a First-Year Trader" book?  How derivative.

Actually, I had to get it from "Green's Theorem" on Wikipedia.

 > > er ... sorry, just thinking out loud in my native language. ;-)

 > Guamanian?

Naw, Grothendieck topology.

 > But, it's Windows 10. It's new. it's shiny and middle managers will
 > demand to be upgraded on 25 July.

Sad.  Makes me glad I'm a starving academic.