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VMware Fusion 2 Beta

07.May.08 | 3 Comments

I noticed yesterday that VMware Fusion 2 Beta was announced. Now, I’m not a Mac user so this isn’t really all that exciting for me — but I am curious about one point of the announcement:
VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 integrates importation of Parallels Desktop and Virtual PC for Mac virtual machines.
Some might recall a [...]

andLinux Quick Look

22.Feb.08 | 5 Comments

This will be a very quick look since I can’t get it to properly run, but conceptually I think andLinux could be pretty sweet. What is it?
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X [...]

VMware Server FTW!

22.Feb.08 | Leave a Comment

(yeah, virtualization is still on my mind)
I resurrected an “old” database server this week. It’s rocking a pair of hyper-threaded Xeon (3.0 Ghz), 4 GB and 6×300 GB drives (and a spiffy RAID controller) in a 2U case. Dusted it off and dropped a fresh install of Win2k3 and now it is my primary VMware [...]

VMware as the Base

17.Feb.08 | 12 Comments

I have this quasi-goofy idea that I’ve been mulling over all weekend. See, I’m just about out of hardware so things will be getting awkward since I like to work with many different OS’s for varying purposes. If I installed all the stuff I look at in my main desktop it wouldn’t last all that [...]

VMware Server 2.0 beta - First Look

04.Feb.08 | 2 Comments

I’ve been re-reading Hacking Exposed Web Applications, 2nd Ed. the past few days. Trying to get my mind back into the “hacker” mentality before I check over some of our recently developed web apps at work. Like ‘em or hate ‘em, I’ve found the “Exposed” series of books to be great primers (or refreshers, depending [...]

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