4sysops – For Windows Administrators – The feature complete Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2008, sometimes you read SCVMM 2008) is available for some days now. Microsoft’s new management tool for centralized deployment and management for Virtual Server 2005, Server 2008 Hyper-V and VMware ESX can be downloaded via Microsoft Connect. Today I had a quick look at it. [...] read more
Operating SystemsBlah, Blah! Technology – In June, Apples market share for Mac OS X hit 7.94 percent, according to Net Applications. At its current growth rate of 0.18 percent per month, this means that the Mac should hit 8 percent of the global desktop operating system market by the end of July… read more
Sizlopedia – Some days ago the first alpha version of the upcoming version of Ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was announced by Canonical.
Softpedia has got some good screens of this new version some of which I would like to share with all Linux lovers.
Technically we won’t be getting many new features in Ubuntu 8.10 except for [...] read more
Security Thoughts – Ive been thinking about this for a while but this blog post by Pascal Meunier pretty much sums up my feelings about Virtualisation.Back in the 90s when the Internet was new-ish and just becoming important all the machines running it were Unix boxes. (Maybe not all, but most). And a 386 would typically run DNS, sendmail, telnet (shell accounts), ftp and apache. All on [...] read more
