I think you should be producing at least a weekly series. Call the Letterman show. This sounds like something they could use.

Your right about the base system being OSX, 10.4 to be specific (you can tell by the menu bar @ the top). It has to be an Intel Mac too, VMware only runs on MacIntel's (PPC Macs can run windows, but it's fairly slow and there's not enough graphics support to play halo, and they use VMware's Unity for his main Windows workstation). There's a total of 5 virtual machines running (counted the tabs in VMware). Looks like XP with Luna turned off, most likely for performance. The video monitoring for the server room is probably built into the camera consolidator and network accessable. The KVM connections to the server can't be a VNC session because it wouldn't be persistent through the shutdown, reboot (shows the VGA glithcing when the power resets), BIOS, kernel panic, and finally, the OS load, like shown. That means its an IPkvm installed in the rack. With as many virtual machines and apps as he had running, his machine probably has between 4 - 8 GBs of RAM too. Oh, and all MacIntel's have gigabit ethernet, too.

Hope that answers your questions,

Dragon

I just used the same application. Amazing little network sniffer. Works good with NMap. It's called Look@Lan (lookatlan)

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I work for USA’s biggest bank and some of us from various departments spent a number of hours today pissing ourselves laughing watching this video. This video is soooo close to the real world we experience that I believed it was real (just a typical day for us techies) and believe me, we talk to people in other departments who run critical applications and they have the same mental/technical I.T. level as this sales guy. In the name of saving money, they hire people who do not even know what a ‘ps –ef ‘ means who have to upgrade Unix systems. And for the machine room, when you enter some of these which are the size of football fields, it’s almost impossible to hear anything down a mobile phone (if you can get a signal). This one time, many years ago, I went in to a machine room to reboot a Compaq server in a large cab. They said “reboot the beige one”. Ok, there were 5 racked beige 1U servers so I did them all and one was an exchange server which did not come back up…. I called support and told them I tripped over a power cable… Like you can trip over a power cable in a rack :0 taught me not to try and ball shit my way out).

Keep up the good work, this is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life… It even tops Jay and Silent BoB Strike back.