today i attempted to use darik’s boot and nuke bootable ISO on two 1998-1999ish dell dimensions (pentium 3 era). DBAN would display “error reading sectors” or it would be unable to discover any attached disks. the solution to this problem was to download an older release of DBAN such as verson 1.0.7. source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/forums/forum/208932/topic/3784755

i was just looking at some averages today and on average our virtual machines consume 250MHz of CPU usage and 4.7GB of RAM each. if this holds true then you could effectively have 96 VMs per 24GHz of available CPU resources. however, you’ll only get about 41 VMs worth per 192GBs of RAM. so probably […]