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John Kouraklis

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  1. 7 minutes ago, Rollo62 said:

    Also you have to consider CPU and hardware, which probably doesn'T match the new host.
    For example the Macos image requires special "Apple compatibe" CPU (which means no AMD at all), this can break your compatibility,

    but that not an VmWare issue.

    There's a patch for this. See here: https://www.cybernog.com/2018/10/MacOS-Mojave-VMware.html

    7 minutes ago, Rollo62 said:

    VM guest is like copy and paste (by the way copying 40GB copying on a fast SSD can be < 1 min, ony my older systems might take 10-15min).

    40GB? This must be a VM with the OS only. My VMs easily reach 250GBs

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  2. 52 minutes ago, Rollo62 said:

    Macos is really behind Windows IMHO in so many ways (sorry only my opinion as a long trained Windows user).

     

    Would be interested to hear your reasoning. I left Apple a while ago and I think their OS is very simplistic to match the tech needs and when things go wrong (because it is unix based system) it is hard to get help.

     

    On a positive note, integration between devices is a smooth as it gets for obvious reasons 


  3. 55 minutes ago, Bill Meyer said:

    Now I grant that Apple has doe some very good design work, but when I consider a laptop, I see before me an expensive toy.

    We're not in '90s anymore. There are many beautiful and powerful laptops out there. The competition is high

     

    Apple seems not to get this at all


  4. Although I moved away from Apple a couple of years ago, it still makes reliable but overpriced machines.

     

    It's the elitism and the active crusade to pin you down in their ecosystem that played a good part in leaving them.

     

    And not to mention, their world view: for Apple the whole universe is an iphone


  5. 1 hour ago, Bill Meyer said:

    I sometimes use VM-Ware, and my main complaint with it is the plethora of files it creates. VBox is much simpler to manage. That said, I have not done any critical comparison for performance, but with our very large and slow-building project here, the build times reported by those on VM-ware correlate closely to those we see on VBox. One reason I prefer VBox is that the video driver in VBox has always seemed to be a better design. When I tried VM-ware years ago, the finite choices in resolution offered at that time were purely unacceptable.

    There were some issues with screen resolution but v.15 I am using behaves correctly. They have also fixed the scaling issues with 4K/non-4K monitors they had in v.14


  6. I use Delphi in VMWare for nearly 5 years. In general, I am very happy with the speed but TBH I haven't used it in natural machine. I've got packages, tools, libraries VS, Android Studio all in one machine and I am able to work nicely. 

     

    From my experience, what matters when you run a VM is the setup of the VM of course but also what is happening in the host computer. 

    • Memory: the more allocated to the VM the better but not more than that...there is a point where your host will start crawling and the VM will become sluggish if the host does not have enough memory
    • SSD and avail space: SSD for obvious reasons and AVAIL SPACE...from what I have seen, you need lots of space with VMWare. I mean for a VM that has a 200GB hard drive, you may need 300GB in the host computer and maybe more if you keep auto protect and other snapshots. Even deleting snapshots you need 20-40GB free on your host drive
    • Restating the host computer: I've noticed that many times, VMWare does not clean and release the previously used space to the host computer. You may, for example, have 20GB avail after deleting a snapshot and when you restart the host you get 45GB
    • Antivirus, Windows Update, Microsoft Store and all the other services (eg. svhost) in the host computer. This environment needs to be very pure (and mine is not)...but there are limits even to the level of this kind of purity you can achieve
    • Backup software on host: There was a time when my VMs were getting very very slow without any reason and after months I discovered that there was a backup services running in the background. It was copying the whole VM to the backup disks and this was making the VM unworkable. Later I found out that there is VMWare API for backup and some nice specialised software that allows the VM to work smoothly (eg. the free Vimalin)
    • Netflix:classic_dry:: if you have that bad habit to play a documentary in one screen while you are doing some light work in your VM in the second monitor, then you are hurting the performance of the VM. On my laptop, the Netflix app is a performance killer (regardless of the VM). Thankfully, I got rid of that bad habit

    I have, also, configured windows to use the NVIDIA graphics card with VMWare instead of the integrated graphics. Not really sure whether it makes a real difference though.

    And, I have completely disabled Windows Store in the VM. Actually, I have damaged the installation and I am sure it will bite me back at some point:classic_sad:

     

    Don't forget, also, to run CCleaner or something similar quite often in both the host and the VMs

     

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  7. 4 hours ago, Darian Miller said:

    Who wants to work for management that doesn't listen to logic? 

    Noone; but sadly common sense and logic are what modern managers miss big time.

     

    4 hours ago, Darian Miller said:

    Better for your career to leave...  You can put up with losing some battles, but to stay and watch them gut the place would be extremely difficult. 

    Yes, if you are in Silicon Valley and in your twenties...:classic_blush:


  8. All these years, I keep reading about all the cuts in R&D and how this has affected the quality of the products etc., etc.

     

    These things happen in business every day. What matters, and this is something we do not consider, is how the situation and the consequences are being managed, by whom and, given these changes, how capable these people are in reshaping the business.

     

    So, my point is how has the management team (product, quality, devops,...-add managers here-) adjusted to the cuts in R&D? Have they set the right priorities FOR THE BUSINESS? Have they changed their modus operandi to adjust to the limited developers? Maybe changes to the team structure, reporting paths, decision making paths, etc.

     

    Obviously, we do not know the answers to all this as they are internal matters but we can judge from the results.

     

    I have the feeling (and I may be unfair to a point) that the management style is the same over the last 20 years. You can see the same consistent views spanning across decades in interviews of some people. And, you can see the same complaints from customers over the years.  

     

    You can't keep doing the same thing again and again and expect different results...  

     

    In short, the tip of the problem is not the R&D--it's the people (not the lack of them) and the culture of the organisation

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