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  • Retired Techie Predicitons for 2026

    Disclaimer

    Here are some of my predictions for 2026. As before for 2025, there is nothing scientific or statistical about any of them. These are just my opinion, so feel free to disagree with them. I should also point out that these are things that interest or concern me.

    Also, as before, some of you may not like the way I phrase things. But then again I have never been know for being politically correct. So, as before, be forewarned, and go elsewhere if you are the easily offended type.

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  • Virtual Box Vs Vert Manager and the Talking Heads

    Introduction

    Greetings one and all. Today I want to discuss Oracles Virtual Box vs the other guy, specifically Vert-Manager. If one listens to the many talking heads out there, myself included, Virtual Box tends to get slammed quite a bit in comparison to vert-manager. And this generally concerns one parameter, speed

    When it comes down to load times, I am not saying that the criticism is undeserved. What I am saying is that it is only one aspect of a hypervisor, the one that is easiest to understand, quantify, and everyone likes to looks at. However, speed is not the sole criteria one should be judging their hypervisor by, as I recently found out while working on another video. This may be a niche issue.

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