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  Safari 4 really is that fast

  06.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I took the ‘new’ Safari 4 out for a test spin today, and although I have absolutely no factual test data the page rendering was indeed as fast as promised. All in all Safari is a very clean and sleek browser and does handle all I can throw at it with ease (like big Flash [...]

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  Ten steps to a killer app

  03.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Guido Jansen has written an interesting post on the (European) Open Source Network blog, entitled Ten Steps To a Killer App, a User Point-of-View. It’s not a technical treatise for coders but rather a good overview on everyting aside from the coding: how to make actually choosing, installing and using an app as easy as possible [...]

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  VMware MVP runs multiple OSes on one phone

  02.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Oh yes…you read that right: this video shows a demo of a Nokia N800 running VMware’s MVP (Mobile Virtualisation Platform), a hypervisor which virtualises the phone hardware, basically allowing you to run most any mobile device OS or more than one at once. In this demo the phone is running Windows CE and Android at [...]

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  Cisco Nexus 1000V – a true switch for Vmware

  02.25.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The Cisco Nexus 1000V has been available for a while but I just realised I hadn’t raved about it yet, so here goes: it’s quite possibly one of the best examples of ‘technology A meets technology B and creates a beautiful baby’ I’ve seen in the past year. The ‘normal’ Cisco Nexus series of switches [...]

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  Debian Lenny is here – and the upgrade is quite painless

  02.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Debian version 5, Lenny to its friends, was released into its stable distribution this week. And as I expected this latest offspring is as stable and friendly as before. Upgrading is easy, basically just edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list, replace every reference to ‘etch’ with ‘lenny’, and run the normal apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This [...]

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  Network performance on VMware

  12.08.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  For the past month or so I’ve been working on a problem a client has with his VMware farm(s). They’re using Vizioncore vReplicator to replicate VMs from their production farm (containing three VMware ESX 3.5 servers connected to an HP EVA fibre SAN) to their backup facility (two VMware ESX 3.5 servers with a similar [...]

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