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VMWare Server 2.0 Beta
Vmware has announced the beta of their virtualization product. I haven’t tried out the newest version yet but I use Vmware Server on an almost daily basis for testing with different operating systems. I have several distros of linux installed as well as different server environments.
Features:
- Web-based management interface: A new Web-based user interface provides a simple, flexible, intuitive and productive way for you to manage your virtual machines.
- Expanded operating system support: VMware Server now supports Windows Vista Business Edition and Ultimate Edition (guest only), Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server Beta 3), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Ubuntu 7.1, among others.
- Greater scalability: Take full advantage of high-end hardware with support for up to 8GB of RAM per virtual machine, up to two virtual SMP (vSMP) processors and up to 64 virtual machines per host.
- 64-bit guest operating system support: Run high-performance operating systems in virtual machines with support for Intel EM64T VT-enabled processors and AMD64 processors with segmentation support.
- Support for VIX API 1.2: This feature provides a programming interface for automating virtual machine and guest operations.
- Support for Virtual Machine Interface (VMI): This feature enables transparent paravirtualization, in which a single binary version of the operating system can run either on native hardware or in paravirtualized mode.
- Support for USB 2.0 devices: Transfer data at faster data rates from USB 2.0 devices.
I’ve Moved Sites
Well not really moved just shortened my url. If you spot any problems with the site please feel free to leave a comment or contact me in my forums. I’ll be doing alot of testing making sure the transition went smoothly. Currently I have the old website redirecting directly here.
Scamers Get Scammed
I think this is hilarious.
A group of scammers called Mr Brain provide different phising, scamming tools to would be scammers. The reason the groups scripts are so popular are their ease of implementation, some can be done in as little as a minute. So the little script kiddies can just fill in a few details in the script config file and they think their done. The icing on the cake is these very scammers are themselves being scammed. The scripts also have some other code that is encrpyted that sends all the information gathered, back to the Mr Brain group. So these poor startup scammers just can’t get a break as the big guys already drained all the accounts.
Source: Netcraft
Google Gdrive
While Google has been ever increasing it’s Gmail capacity, Microsoft overtook them with their upgrade to their Live email services brand. But Google is looking to one up Microsoft this time. Google is getting ready to launch their G drive as some call it, a free online storage space. Although Microsoft already launched a service like this called Skydrive, it only has a 500MB capacity. No word on Google’s capacity has been released but it will surely be in the gigabyte range for their free accounts, with more storage available for purchase. The service should be available by next year.