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We have announced a new version of Virtualbox. 2.1 contains some new features and bugfixes. You will find the following add-ons in it:

• Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts
• Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental)
• Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements
• Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL
• Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers
• Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots
• New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support
• New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)

You will find the changelog at here. The binaries are available at the usual location.

This isn´t something i expected to read in regard of Desktop Computing:

Sun shows Microsoft how it's done -Time Slider is what Vista's Previous Versions should have been.

At last: The PCWorld writes, what almost everybody thinks: IE is the biggest security threat in 2007. Well, i would add ... in 2006, in 2005, in 2003, in 2002 .....

Why the heck everybody beliefs, that it´s sufficient to build a descent graphical interface to build a so called "Mac OS X" killer or even an Vista-Killer like Rich ... As long you get told "you have to echo this sequence into that file in the /proc file system for suspend/resume" and you have to twiddle here and to twiddle there even to get the basic stuff running, Linux isn´t anywhere near of being a desktop operating system outside the restricted environment of corporate desktops. At maximum it´s a smaller variant of the favorite operating system of some server jockeys.

Usability is more than a rotating cube with desktops. This is a sugar icing on the cake, but in the case of the desktop usage for Joe Sixpack the there misses something important: a finished cake under the icing. And to be honest, in the past years i didn´t saw Linux catching up. Today it´s perhaps there, where MacOS X was at 10.0, you can use it, but your environment learns a swearword every minute So, as long OS/X will be developed by Apple and Microsoft makes a bad rip off of all the good feature every 5 years or so, i don´t see a Linux distro as an killer for anything for the next time.

How to consolidate an massive amount of Windows Systems on Sun Fire X4500 with potential for more density with more memory? Look here. An non marketing bullshit sucess story about someone who put 450 windows systems with VMware ESX, SunRays and 5 Sun Fire X4600:

The entire sollution sits in two racks, we will scale to 450 DTU's, and we are in the process of installing a system to support another 1200 dtu's with this configuration. The limitation of the ESX Server is not CPU, but memory

Netzwerkgrundlagen anhand Windows lernen zu wollen ist doch wie seine ersten sexuellen Erfahrungen mit einer Prostituierten zu sammlen: Die Leidenschaft fehlt, das wirklich Wichtige lernt man dabei nicht, und die Chance sich einen Schädling einzufangen ist hoch.
(via der Bloggerette ihr Weblog)

ICBMs have no in-flight self destruct mechanism for a reason. The mechanism could be activated by the enemy and thus renders the weapon useless. May be this example fits not perfectly, but it shows the problem you have with self-destruct mechanisms. A similar mechanism will be integrated into the WGA subsystem of Windows in upcoming updates as reported by Bruce Schneiers weblog.

I don´t want even think about a worm that deactivates millions of Windows licences throughout the world at the same day because of an exploit in this functions. This would the end of enduser computing as we know it

Mittlerweile ist das Benutzen von Computern zu einer Grundfähigkeit geworden. Mein Vater nutzt Computer schon seit Ewigkeiten, meine kleine Schwester fängt gerade an, den Rechner in ihre Tagesgestaltung einzubauen. Das ganze hat nur einen grossen Nachteil: Die Fähigkeit, Probleme mit Windows zu beseitigen, hat leider nicht im gleichen Maße zugenommen.