Another interesting article by The Guardian: Historians face a “black hole” of lost material unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records, the head of the British Library has warned. Just as families store digital photos on computers which might never be passed on to their descendants, so Britain’s cultural heritage [...]
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Singapore Prescribes Shorter Showers, Less Meat to Fight Slump – “Singapore is asking its citizens, the world’s third-wealthiest adjusted for purchasing power, to be prudent as analysts predict the worst economic slump in the nation’s 43-year history. In speeches, pamphlets and ads, the government is advising people to switch to cheaper frozen meats, take shorter [...]
Virtual machines, by definition, exist as files inside a physical computer. They live on the file system just like any other movie clips or text documents do, except VM’s happen to be self-contained machines of their own. As such, managing virtual machines is both remarkably similar and fundamentally different to managing physical machines. While Part [...]
Part 1 covered the preparatory steps and considerations for provisioning Windows virtual machines. Now let’s look at some of the best practices for keeping VM’s in good shape once they have been created and deployed. You may notice that what’s discussed here is very much applicable to maintaining Windows machines in general, not just virtual [...]
In continuation of my earlier post regarding setting up a SharePoint lab with virtual machines, here I have put together a collection of awareness notes and best practices for dealing with virtual machines in general. When I say “in general,” I refer to the personal, experimental, or small-business setup for developers, engineers, and consultants who [...]
It’s now January 2009, and a statement like: The price of crude oil hits an all-time high of US$140 a barrel before it falls dramatically down to around US$40 by the end of the year. …would have been a hell of a new year prediction for this time last year. I am neither qualified nor [...]
New year predictions carry more excitement than new year resolutions. When it comes to technology, here are my takes, listed in no particular order: Blu-ray succumbs to a decade-old technology called… DVD. In January 2008, HD-DVD, one of the two contending next-generation disc storage media formats, lost the war against Blu-ray. But the time it [...]
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In the spirit of catching up with “technology”: Windows 7: The next shrink-wrapped version of the Windows operating system currently in early beta, available to tech communities with high expectations Windows Vista: The current shrink-wrapped version of the Windows operating system, no longer in active marketing Windows Azure: Another next version of the Windows operating [...]
I believe that many of the people who work with Microsoft products and technologies had hoped that the next Windows operating system be truly next-generation, something substantially if not radically different than the bloated Vista. While that may indeed be the big picture being drawn by Microsoft, it won’t eventuate any time soon, not with [...]