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I’ve been playing around with two cool virtualization technologies. One is on my almost brand spanking new Windows Server 2008 box. This box is a AMD64 dual core 6000+ with 6g of memory. It runs most stuff very robustly and VMware Server and/or Hyper-V are no exception. Unfortunately, on Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64 I can [...]

Its the weekend so perhaps its blog-time. Seems that I only write these days on the weekends. I started writing some stuff last night about a slashdot story on Linux and where it would be in 3 years; but I stopped. I’ve been using Linux one way or another for about 10 years now. At [...]

Sunday in Singapore. I gave some thought to doing things versus doing nothing and I came down in favor of relaxing today. Its not like next week I am going to do a triathlon or anything. I’m just lazy and inclined to be lazy. I had a great day yesterday hanging at the pool, doing [...]

I seem to wake up a bit earlier and then I wake up a few times each night. Attribute to Jet Leg remnants. Last night I slept relatively well yet its 530am here now and I’m raring to go. Not bad. Just different. My trip is cutting short by a week or so and I’ll [...]

I am reading a article with Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu about criticism regarding the release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I’ve thought about this for awhile after using 8.04 and being somewhat dismayed with how difficult it actually was to get Firefox 2 working with plugins after doing a Hardy Heron install. The plugin architecture appears [...]

This has come up a few times in discussions for some reason. Someone will start talking about some movie like Juno and tell me how great it was. Honestly, I never saw it; but not seeing it I could not see how it could become more than Sean Penn’s Into The Wild. Why? Well, my [...]

There was this old saying in the military when I was there, “lead, follow, or get the Hell out of the way”. I bet you all know people you work with, who have management responsibility, who could become prime movers that seem to walk on eggshells. They’re afraid to do and their afraid not to [...]

What a relief. Perhaps its just me but does iTunes really suck? Does it suck on MACs too? I bet it really does; but its a coolness and status thing for them. After all, they run that cool BSD’ish OS for a reason. To spend more money on the OS? Is it a silo [...]

Some software out there (free, shareware, or commercial) just makes the difference; give you an edge, lets you communicate, see, or share. I’d like award a few companies or open source projects my first and only awards of Good Edge Software ™. So here goes:
VMware - what a novel concept! Boot one OS inside [...]

I read the news about Tim Russert with a degree of sadness. But I also want to make this point and perhaps I’ve blogged it before. I base this on a friend that I lost in 2006 while at Levanta, personal reflection, 2 years of a never-ending well checks, and my own beliefs at this [...]