Category: News
VMWare’s Open Virtual Machine Tools
Nice! VMWare recently released an open source version of its very popular virtual machine tools. It’s currently housed on Sourceforge, known as Open Virtual Machine Tools. The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user…
Seven interesting computer facts
Here are seven “did you know” interesting computer facts (info consolidated from the CIO website): 1. What’s the closest computer to the North Pole? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Webcam #1, A NetCam XL, made by StarDot Technologies. 2. What’s the farthest computer from Earth? NASA’s Voyager satellite computes at the edge…
Apple’s upcoming iPod touch
Gadgets, gadgets; don’t you love ’em? Apple (read: Steve Jobs) has apparently made official the new, upcoming iPod, labeled iPod touch. It practically looks and works like an iPhone except for the phone features, e.g., “flick through your photos”, “slide to unlock,” etc., although the lower “main” icons seem to be on top of a…
Apple cuts 8GB iPhone price
9/7/07 9:52 AM Update: Apple Gives $100 Store Credit to iPhone Customers For the iPhone fans out there, the 8 GB is now – get this…$399 from $599. The 4 GB, on the other hand is now $299, which Apple will be taking off the market (buy it while supplies last). This sucks for the…
AMD or Intel
Most people I know favor AMD processors over Intel. I myself have tried both and like AMD more – other than the Intel Core Duo on my Mac, which I’m very happy with. =0) I’m posting an excerpt that I read on The Register regarding AMD’s less power-hungry processor (over Intel): Computer performance consulting firm…
Vista Service Pack 1 details
Microsoft today released details about the upcoming first service pack (SP1) for Vista. They say it features security upgrades, improved performance, and support for emerging (read: new) hardware and standards. It doesn’t look like it will be released to the general public yet, but only to a moderate sized audience. They say it will be…