Old server - Caffeine machine
Old server - Caffeine machine
Mac Virtual Machine Update Runs Vista
Enhancements to Parallels Desktop for Mac include support for the recently released multi-processor Mac Pro tower equipped with 3.5GB of RAM, as well as for the developer build of Mac OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard.
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22.9.2006 27 Vista SP1 Copies Running Simultaneously on the Same Machine
Microsoft never contested the fact that Windows Vista's hardware requirements qualified the latest Windows client as resource hungry, but at the same time, the company did point out that, given the right system, the platform would deliver quite a performance.
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9.6.2008 New Micrsoft Virtual Machine Additions available for Windows Vista CTP releases
New Virtual Machine Additions are up for the Windows Vista CTP releases. These new Additions (13.709) have performance optimizations for Windows Vista Beta 2 (Build 5384), Windows Vista Beta 2 June Refresh (Build 5465) and Windows Vista Beta 2 July Refresh (Build 5472).
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27.7.2006 Free XP Virtual Machine image for IE6 web development
Different versions of Internet Explorer are unable to run side-by-side on a single Windows machine without patching various files.
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2.12.2006 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but dont have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006Google Caffeine: A Detailed Test of the New Google
Did you hear?
Googles launching a new, upgraded version of its search
engine soon. And just as important, the search giant released the developers preview of it today. Google promises that the new search tool
(codename Caffeine) will improve the speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness of Google search.
While the developer version
is a pre-beta release, its completely usable. Thus, weve decided to put the new Google search through the ringer. We took the developer version for a
spin and compared it to not only the current version of Google Search, but to Bing as well...
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11.08.2009Vista SP1 RTM up to 86% faster
Is Vista SP1 really the shot in the arm your Vista system needs? We've spent many hours strapped to our benchmarking system in a caffeine and
pizza fueled haze to uncover these very interesting results. In some areas, such as network file copying, Vista SP1 is
dramatically faster -- up to 86%.
Our scenario was a home
user running Vista Home Premium on a fast, low-latency network with decent PC hardware. All file copy tests were initiated from the main machine. Each
system used the latest available vendor (non-Microsoft) drivers and the November release of DirectX. No modifications were made to the operating
system, so as to represent as closely as possible the configuration of an OEM machine.
We asked Microsoft why this was and they provided a
very detailed technical explanation.
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05.03.2008Virtual Machine Snapshots with Hyper-V
Robert Larson: Snapshots are a new feature of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Snapshots are a point in time version of a virtual machine..what does that
mean you ask? It means that you can be running a virtual machine, take a snapshot and at any point you can select a previous snapshot and revert back
to that point in time.
You end up with the virtual machine in the EXACT configuration that it was when you took the
snapshotand I mean exact.memory, virtual hardware, processes, state, etc. So you can have a running virtual machine, take a snapshot, change the
virtual hardware configuration, format the disk and install a different OS, it does not matter, when you apply the previous snapshot it looks exactly
like it did when you took the snapshot.
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27.04.2008Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0 helps organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft System Center
Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system updates. The tool provides a way to keep offline
virtual machines up-to-date so that bringing a virtual machine online does not introduce vulnerabilities into the organizations IT infrastructure.
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool combines the Windows Workflow programming model with the Windows PowerShell™ interface
to bring groups of virtual machines online just long enough for them to receive updates from either System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or
Windows Server Update Services. As soon as the virtual machines are up-to-date, the tool returns them to the offline state in the Virtual Machine
Manager library.
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25.11.2008Could Crypto Resolve the Voting Machine Controversy?
Last month, a group of
Princeton University
researchers discovered how
easy it was to inject
malicious software into a
Diebold voting machine,
enabling it to flip votes
between candidates. This
isn't a new problem. You'd
think the solution might be
better cryptography, but just
what constitutes
"better?"..
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04.10.2006How To: Get Windows 7 Aero in a Virtual Machine
This week, Microsoft made the XP Mode RC available to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate users. Most Virtual Machine emulating software
has not offered support for Aero previously, including Microsoft's own Virtual PC 2007. Now, thanks to the powerful set of "Integration
Components" in Windows 7 Virtual PC and the enhanced, updated version of Remote Desktop in 7, we can now have the full Aero Glass experience in
Windows 7 Virtual Machines, provided the host can handle Aero, and has it enabled. Here's how to get it: This assumes you already have Windows
7 installed on your PC in Virtual PC. Step 1: Enable Aero on your host machine.
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07.08.2009High Bids for WWII Enigma
Machine
eBay has long been a purveyor
of the unusual and the unique,
but it's not often an
authentic piece of tech
history captures as much
attention as the Enigma 3
portable cipher machine that
has racked up bids of almost
16,000 euros. The Enigma
device was used extensively by
Nazi Germany during World War
II...
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31.03.2006Microsoft to Open Access to Viridian Virtualization API
In a move to demonstrate its recent drive toward openness was not being done to appease the European Commission, Microsoft this afternoon announced it
is adding the API for hypercalls - the ability for a host machine to communicate directly with a virtual machine - to the list of technologies
covered by its Open Specification Promise...
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24.10.2007System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 - Evaluation Software
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a comprehensive solution optimized for the management of Microsoft Windows Server operating
systems running in the virtualized data center.
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) enables easy and fast consolidation of physical
machines onto virtual machine infrastructure and rapid provisioning of virtual workloads. VMM enables increased physical server utilization,
centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and certified end users.
When used together with the rest of the System Center family of products. VMM provides the best solution for leveraging existing IT administrative
skills and processes for managing the virtual and physical environment.
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14.09.2007Deploying IPsec Server and Domain Isolation using Windows Server 2008 Group Policy
Network Access Protection is a new technology included with Windows Server 2008 that allows you to control what machines are allowed to connect to
other machines on your network. Network Access Protection (or NAP) enables you to set system health policies that must be met before a machine is
allowed network access. If the machines meet the requirements in the network access policies, then they are allowed on the network. If not, then the
machine may be disallowed from connecting to any machine on the network, or you might configure policies that allow the machine to connect to
remediation server that allow the machine to remediate and try to connect to the network again after remediation is successful.
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09.10.2008VMware Releases New Converter Tool
VMware on Monday released a
beta version of VMware
Converter 3, a tool that takes
a physical computer system and
transforms it into a virtual
machine image to be used with
the company's products. The
new release combines two
previously separate tools:
VMware P2V Assistant and
Virtual Machine Importer...
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02.10.2006TechEd 2007: Keynote Demos of Virtual Machines, New OBAs, Silverlight
In a demonstration of System
Center Virtual Machine
Manager, Microsoft product
manager Jeff Woolsey showed
how in Windows Server 2008, a
VMware virtual machine could
be converted to a
"Viridian" VM using a
single PowerShell
"command-let"
( cmdlet ) that can be
scripted...
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05.06.2007Acer eyes future desktop systems, including game machine
Over the next year, Taiwan-based notebook PC maker Acer will start to produce desktop units under the Acer brand...and a senior Acer official told
BetaNews yesterday that a PC-based game machine is one of the ideas being bandied about...
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13.03.2008Vista SP1 up to 86% faster
Is Vista SP1 really the shot in the arm your Vista system needs? We've spent many hours strapped to our benchmarking system in a caffeine and pizza
fuelled haze to uncover these very interesting results.
We tested Vista:
- as it comes out of the box (RTM --
or "release to manufacturing")
- as it comes out of the box, with all Windows Update patches applied ("RTM patched)
- with
the final SP1 service pack applied
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05.03.2008How AMD Snuck Into The Intel Developer Forum
Intel's semi-annual conference for hardware and software developers is generally an AMD-free affair. But at this week's Intel Developer Forum in San
Francisco, Advanced Micro Devices managed to sneak in -- or at least, its ATI division did.
Here's how it happened. War Machine,
a subsidiary of Brea, Calif.-based white box builder Golden Star Technology, makes custom gaming systems built exclusively on Intel processors and
Nvidia video platforms. But for IDF, Intel asked War Machine to build its display systems on the chip leader's own video chipset, according to War
Machine director Pete Norwich.
The trouble was, the system builder found that the Nvidia video card it normally uses in its PCs
wasn't playing well with Intel's chipset. So, in a one-time solution strictly for IDF, War Machine wound up putting in an ATI video card instead...
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19.09.2007Is a time machine possible?
A bit off topic but
interesting
nevertheless...
Amos Ori, a
professor at Israel's
Technion, has published a
paper in Physical
Review outlining a model
of a theoretical time machine.
Conceivably, these ideas could
one day help humans travel
back in time.
The concept revolves
around controlling the
curvature of space and time.
Einstein's theory of
relatively states that the
space/time continuum can be
flat, but it can also be
curved by gravitational
fields. Ori is investigating
whether the laws of gravity
will permit curving space and
time in such a way as to make
travel possible.
"The machine is
spacetime itself," he stated
in a prepared statement.
"Today, if we were to create
a time machine, an area with a
warp like this in space that
would enable time lines to
close on themselves, it might
enable future generations to
return to visit our time.
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08.08.2007Dell users face heavy premium for Vista
Dells customers are paying a
heavy premium for personal
computers running Microsofts
Vista, according to data
compiled by Techworld.
Last weeks
LinuxWorld event saw a number
of open source desktop
announcements, including Dell
announcing it was selling its
first Linux-based PCs outside
the US, with the Ubuntu-based
Inspiron 530n desktop, and the
Inspiron 6400n notebook now
available in the UK, France
and Germany.
This step has enabled a
comparison of the typical cost
of a machine running Vista,
compared with the same machine
running an open source
operating system such as
Ubuntu.
The Dell Inspiron 530(n)
desktop comes with an Intel
Dual Core E2140 (1.6GHz)
processor, plus 512Mb of RAM,
a 160Gb hard drive, and a 19
inch panel. When the Inspiron
530 desktop is used as the
benchmark machine, Dell
customers were found to be
paying on average an 18%
premium in the UK for a
machine running Vista,
compared to the same speced
machine running Ubuntu. In the
United States, Dell users are
paying a 20% premium to use
Vista on the same specified
machine.
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13.08.2007Remotely restarting Windows XP
If you are using Remote Desktop quite a lot, you may need to restart your XP machine remotely, but there is no option to restart or shutdown the
machine. The only options available are Log Off and Disconnect.
To restart or to reboot XP machines remotely, use 'shutdown'
command from the command console.
Run cmd.exe, and type 'shutdown -r -t 0' to restart the machine.
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24.11.2007VirtualBox 3.0.0 Beta 1
VirtualBox is an application installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional operating systems can be loaded and
run, each with its own virtual environment. For example, several Linux distributions can be hosted on a single machine running Windows XP; likewise,
XP and Vista can run on a machine running Linux, and so on. There is a free for personal or evaluation use proprietary version and a GNU General
Public License (GPL) version. FeaturesModularity Virtual machine descriptions in XML Guest Additions for Windows and Linux Shared folders
Virtual USB Controllers Remote Desktop Protocol USB over RDP Download: VirtualBox 3.0.0 Beta 1 View: Changelog
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18.06.2009Windows Home Server on a virtual machine
jaybaz WebLog: Here at Microsoft, when we talk about Windows Home Server, one
of the things that comes up pretty often is a question about hosting WHS in a virtual machine under Virtual Server. Most often people want this
because they already have one always-on machine (a doman controller, a media center PC, etc.), and they don't want another.
In
discussing the problem, a few key bits of advice have come up, and I thought it would be a good idea to write them down here.
One
of the key problems appears when you consider using the WHS to back up the host. It can certainly be done, but when the host goes down, restoring it
is a catch 22.
Dedicate whole drives
Take whole drives & put only one file on each - the .VHD. Make it as
large as possible.
Use external drives
Make all of WHS's drives external. Consider putting them all in a
single enclosure for convenience. eSATA w/ port multipliers may be a good choice.
Have a 2nd physical machine ready
It should already have Virtual Server or Virtual PC installed. A laptop is fine. Make sure it has appropriate ports for the WHS drives.
Recovery strategy
When the regular host goes down:
- Unplug the WHS drives
- Carry them to the 2nd host, and plug in
- Boot the WHS virtual machine. (You may need to create a new VM with the existing
.VHD files.)
- Restore the primary host
- Unplug the WHS drives
- Carry them back to the primary host, and plug
in
- Boot the WHS virtual machine
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