memory reported less than installed

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:08 -0500, Bill Walton wrote:
> Hi Mario,
> 
> Mario Xerxes Castelán Castro wrote:
> 
> > PD 2: Only for curiosity, why you install 10 GB of memory ?
> 
> I'm planning to try VMware Workstation.  They've got the ability, they say,
> to "create virtual network environments that include client, server and
> database virtual machines."  I'm hoping it'll let me do a couple of things
> without spending the time / money to set up a real networked environment.
> I'd like to experiment with deployment recipes for Rails apps.  And I'd like
> to experiment with and compare the performance/stability/ease of config/etc.
> of mod_rails vs. mongrel clusters.  Same with JRuby and MRI.

Yep, VMware Workstation lets you set up virtual private networks.  I
prototyped an LDAP deployment on my notebook with an LDAP client and an
LDAP server.  Works well.
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