Monthly Archive: December 2009

Dec 20

Done Digging Digsby

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Over a year and a half ago I announced that I was “digging Digsby” the multi-protocol instant messaging application. What wasn’t to love? It handled most instant messaging networks, Twitter, Facebook (added later) notifications and chat, along with some pretty solid email notification features as well. Oh, and all your settings are managed separately so …

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Dec 16

Recycling an Old Server with Openfiler

A month or so ago I retired my old VMware Server hardware when I brought the new ESXi server online. Since then it had been sitting in the rack, dark and dusty. A shameful thing to do with over a terabyte of storage, right? Sure, the server specs aren’t cutting edge (dual hyper-threaded 3.0 Xeons) …

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Dec 02

VMware Player is more than a Player

I’ve mentioned VMware Player here a lot in the past and always with the caveat that while it is great to run virtual machines, it can’t create them (without hacks). After all, the name is “Player” right? That all changed when version 3 of Player was released last month. Here’s section of the Player “home” …

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