VMware ESXi Goes Free — Hmmm…

VMware announced today that ESXi is now free.

Virtualize processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines with VMware ESXi, an enterprise-class hypervisor with a thin 32 MB footprint for added security and reliability.

My current (also free) VMware Server machine at work is running Windows Server 2003 x64. You can bet it has a

Continue reading VMware ESXi Goes Free — Hmmm…



Lost Afternoon

Lost most of the afternoon today wrestling with the deployment of one of our web applications. Some new “client-specific” code had been developed in our dev environment and it was now time to move it out to QA (quality assurance) and then, hopefully, production.

The dev environment web server is still running Windows 2000 Server.

Continue reading Lost Afternoon

Servers and Drives

A client ordered themselves a Dell server and dropped it off today to have me set it up as their new domain controller and as their development box for our application(s) at their site. Nice little PowerEdge unit that seems beefy ’nuff to do the job.

One major bummer though. It was ordered with a pair

Continue reading Servers and Drives

Dangit Microsoft…

Well, a successful day is one in which we learn something, right? Today I learned things. Ooooh boy, did I learn things.

Here’s a snippet from my tweets that sums it up (read the bottom one first):

I honestly wish today wasn’t quite so successful.

What happened? I tried to kill two birds with one stone:

Replace the Windows

Continue reading Dangit Microsoft…

Vista VPN / Firefox / More

A grab bag of follow-ups and tidbits for today.

Firefox Update — Made Mine Happier

Last week I was belly-aching about Firefox and other browsers. After writing that post I uninstalled both versions of Firefox that I had installed: beta and 2.0.x.

I then visited:

boot drive:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data

and blew away the Mozilla folder (Firefox is the only

Continue reading Vista VPN / Firefox / More