VMLimited….

What about people who want to leverage the ‘cloud’ for ancient/legacy systems..?  No doubt I’d imagine there would even be a call for that kind of thing.  I mean hell I still run Exchange 5.5 at home, are there other people/companies that would want to continue running their old software, but instead of doing it a home, run it in a real data center?

Anyways, I’m looking forward to Proxmox / VE 2.0, they’ve even dropped a beta.

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 RIP

I guess it really comes as no surprise, his declining heath has been anything but a secret.  Like him or hate him, he shaped the industry into what it is today, and of course gave us the NeXT, saved apple, and forced developers both hardware & software to bend to his vision.

 

 

iPhone on sprint!

Or more so that is what I heard, as I cannot see anything…

Then a few more minutes of banging the refresh key…

Wow a SMP phone.  It is crazy how much computing power you can carry around in your hand!  I guess the cool thing about the iPhone 4s will be the whole ability to talk to it.  What is weird is that although all the processing for this is on the internet, they wont make the function available for the regular iPhone 4.  But this is such an Apple maneuver.

Facebook tracks users through the ‘like’ buttons…

ouch, apparently even if you logout, you’ll still be tracked by sites that have the ‘like’ button…

Well that just sounds creepy so I’ll remove them from my site.  I don’t think there was all that many people mentioning this blog on facebook outside of some brief ‘save officer spock‘ thing but at the same point I don’t want to participate in some larger big brother thing.

I just hope G+ doesn’t do anything like that (haha!)

HP 12c

Old guy with old tech

Personally I’ve never been into calculators.  Oh sure they are ‘fun’ typing in 80087335 and other vital things, but what I always wanted was a real hand held computer.

Yes the HP graphing calculators could be programmed but really, it’s 2011 and the fact that the market is largely unchanged is just freaking criminal.

Then enter the new / old HP 12c.  This is interesting as it isn’t some ancient 1980s era junky calculator but rather an ARM embedded processor emulating the old software.  And of course that means that this baby is 100x faster than the old 1980’s model.  Well that is refreshing since the last time I looked at a calculator it was frustratingly slow today as it was then.

What is more so interesting is the price, $80 for the financial version and $100 for the engineering version.

But I digress what I’d rather have is something like the old OQO, a hand held PC that can run any real software.

What is interesting to me is a small resurgence in old machines repackaged, and of course resold to their original nostalgic market.

What I’d really be interested in is some DEC VT-100 terminal that comes with its own VAX-11/780 emulator… It’d be a midrange system in a terminal form factor!  But I don’t see HP doing that anytime soon.  In the meantime I guess I can always score a Commodore 64.

Beats by DrDre

A typical 'beats' user trying to look smarmy.

First of all let me say I’m sick of the spam I’m getting for this crap.  Second of all ‘Dr Dre’ isn’t even a physician.  Instead he just hires wankers in the media to hock his overpriced headphones.

Really who buys audio equipment from someone who tries to pass themselves off as a physician, who doesn’t know the first thing about the inner workings of the ear?

What makes it even better is the paring of such audiophile nonsense with star power, in the hopes of bigger and better sales.

Justin Beiber Approved!

I mean really, who on earth would buy this crap?

This must be brought to you by the same people that make the ‘super SATA cables’ that magically improved the playback of MP3’s. Sheesh.

It really comes as no surprise that these “high end wankophile” electronics are manufactured by none other than…

Monster. What a surprise!

Indeed it just goes to show that some old ‘stars’ from the 80’s will whore themselves out to no end for whatever shitty ‘audiphile’ product, because a dollar is a dollar, meanwhile in the rush for some bucks they team up with Beiber. lol.

 The only thing missing here is beats for Dre’s wallet, and of course the insane in the brain special edition to anyone who buys anything from Monster.

So there you go, I’ve reviewed your shitty product “dr” Dre, now leave me the fuck alone!

ownCloud

So I was reading through a friends blog (wintellect!) and I came across this page about ownCloud…  Well I thought this was very interesting as I’ve pulled a lot of my external email mess inside (on my own Exchange 5.5 server on MS Virtual Server 2005!) .. So I like this whole idea.

I’ve got this VPS that has a few extra gigs of space, and it’d be SUPER convenient to map some drives for backups, or even back it up by copying some files..  It’s a simple AMP program setup, so I had it up and running in a few seconds.  The ‘hard’ part was mapping the drive from Vista.  Naturally it came down to reading the instructions, namely:

  1. in Services, enable the Webclient service (might be enabled already)
  2. in the Registry, change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters\BasicAuthLevel from 1 to 2
  3. go to My Computer → Mount Network Drive
And that is about the size of it.

Emulation vs Simulation

I saw this creep up on a mailing list, and it never really occurred to me that there really was a difference.  But there is.  Anyways a simulation is done 100% in software with no hardware assist.  While emulation has some kind of hardware component (Originally it was microcode on the IBM 709 to run IBM 704 programs).

So there you have it, programs like SIMH, Qemu are simulators, while programs like KVM-Qemu and VMWare are emulators.

Hope that clears that up.