As you probably are already aware, I received a couple of 4GB 200pin DDR2 SoDIMMs from Kingston for testing with my ThinkPad T61p. Almost immediately I received requests to borrow those SoDIMMs so they could be tested with another machines. Phat chance...( read more)

20 hours ago · External News · blogcastrepository.com/blogs/external_news/default.aspx by TechNet Blogs 1 reference

I just spent the first week of Summer vacation practising the Swedish national sport of home renovation. It seems that everyone is doing that all the time nowadays - it might be that I have reached the age of family raising where that becomes important, or it might be that it is a general trend that ...

22 hours ago · Observations from Uppsala · jakob.engbloms.se by Jakob 1 reference

Some quick thoughts on the state of desktop virtualization tools… Background If you’ve been checking out my RAC articles, you’ll have probably noticed I’m a bit of a VMware fan. I originally used VMware Workstation, but switched to the free VMware Server when it was released in 2006. I don’t have mu ...

1 day ago · Blog Aggregator - Amardeep ... · amardeepsidhu.com/aggregator by Tim...

Installing VMware Tools on openSUSE 10.3 Virtual machine (without installing additional packages) Note: This installation installs the base code to establish VMware Tools communication with VirtualCenter. To enable the complete feature set the gcc, binutils, make, and kernel source packages must be ...

1 day ago · VM /ETC · vmetc.com by Rich 15 references

Bonjour apprentis Citrixien, Après l’article sur l’installation d’un XenServer 4.1, je mets en ligne l’installation de la XenCenter. C’est une interface simple qui ne nécessite pas de base de donnée, etc… En Effet, les configurations des serveurs sont directement stockées sur les XenServeur eux-même ...

1 day ago · TesCitrixOuPas · tescitrixoupas.net by tescitrixoupas 1 reference

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) makes it easy for you to perform assessments for the following key scenarios: Identify computers capable of running Windows Vista. Identify servers capable of running Windows Server 2008. Identify computers...( read more)

1 day ago · External News · blogcastrepository.com/blogs/external_news/default.aspx by TechNet Blogs 1 reference

A few weeks ago at TechEd North America, Kevin Remde, IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft, got together with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit team (Jay Sauls and myself) to discuss the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 program and...( read more)

1 day ago · External News · blogcastrepository.com/blogs/external_news/default.aspx by TechNet Blogs 1 reference

What? Why VMware is better than Citrix Xen or Microsoft Hyper-V? Personally, I’m using VMware ESX 3 and VMware ESX 3.5 and I have evaluated Microsoft Hyper-V. But I have never try Citrix XenServer yet and I found VMware blog said why VMware is better here. “The architecture for Citrix XenServer and ...

2 days ago · Planet Lowyat · planetlowyat.com/blog by Planet Lowyat 3 references

Only a short time ago, virtualization management simply meant controlling virtual sprawl. Times have changed, though, as enterprises are quickly realizing that full management encompasses everything from the server to the desktop. Still, many of the leading management systems lack some of the basic ...

2 days ago · Data Center Central · itbusinessedge.com/blogs/dcc by Arthur Cole 23 references

There are a variety of interesting announcements that have been floating about. Probably the most talked about is Firefox 3 - it set a world record for the most software downloads in a single day - over 8 million downloads. Wow! FreeBSD already has a build of Firefox 3. When will we see a build of F ...

2 days ago · UNIX Administratosphere · administratosphere.wordpress.com by ddouthitt 9 references