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Haiku Alpha 1 Released
Sep 21st
I’ve written many times about the media operating system from the ’90s, BeOS, and it’s open-source project that continues code base development, Haiku. On September 14 Haiku Inc released the first alpha of the Haiku OS in a very open-source-y press release (to paraphrase the press release) “take a look at what we’ve done, it’s not done yet, but the more people use it, the more it will be developed and debugged”. I’ve been playing with this for a few days and am actually writing this post using the BeZilla/BonEcho browser on Haiku. It’s interesting. [release note] More >
New Xserve Announced Yesterday
Apr 8th
Until yesterday when Apple announced a new Xserve I had both forgot Apple made the Xserve and that they’re still being produced.
But, these new Xserves do have amazing specs:
- 1 or 2 2.26GHz+ Nahalem processors (the newest generation, also in the Mac Pro)
- 8 MB L3 cache per processor
- tri-channel memory controller (on-die)
- Hyper-threading te4chnology (that means up-to 16 virtual cores!!!!!!)
- ‘Turbo Boost’ technology which dynamically powers off other cores when not in use to boost clock speeds of other cores
- Full 64-bit support
- SSE4 SIMD
- Support for more effecient/faster virtualization technologies
- Up-to 32GB of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory *as of Mac OS X Server 10.5, hardware is capable of more
- Up-to 3 TB of hot-pluggable storage
- Build-to-order with 128GB solid state drives as an option
- 2 PCI-e 2.0 ports
- 2 independent Gigabit networking ports
- 2 750 watt power supplies (for redundancy)
- Depending on model-Up to Quad-channel fiber channel 4GB connection(s)
- …and of course, this is rack-mountable
with:
wow…
Starting at $3499 CAD
Upcoming VMWare Webcast on New Advanced Technology: Register today
Apr 7th
On April 21 VMWare’s CEO will be discussing a new product or technology. Register for the online webcast here.
Screentoaster.com: VMWare Test
Dec 4th
I performed a test on my Vista laptop, C2D 2GHz, 2GB Ram, NVidia 8400 using VMWare Workstation and Screentoaster.com.
I thought the best way to test the efficientcy of the imp[lementation of Screentoaster.com’s screen recorder, I would boot a VMWare machine. This is a very intensive task, and during the recording I did find my computer a bit sluggish, Vista reverted to basic non-Aero display mode, and expectedly took longer than average to boot the virtual machine. Here is the video output.
Sun xVM VirtualBox – by Macworld
Aug 30th
This is an episode of the Macworld (magazine) video podcast. This podcast cover’s Sun’s new addition to the Mac virtualization game-competing with VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop for Mac. The best part is that VirtualBox is free! Here is Macworld’s Video review.
