Cool VMWare utility

Found this while browsing the VMWare site the other day. The VMWare Diskmount utility that lets you mount your VMWare virtual disk files as drive letters under your Windows host. Support virtual disks from VMware Workstation 4, VMware GSX Server 2.5.1 and 3 and VMware ESX Server 2. This is very cool. Means you can access the contents of the virtual disks directly from your host machine rather than having to fire up the VM and either map drives or drag-n-drop the files you want. Especially useful for ESX, where you can’t drag-n-drop from the Remote Console to the local machine or vice versa.

More info

Oooooooh, Google takes on the world!…..

ZDnet have an article on how Google are looking to employ someone to negotiate “dark fibre” contracts “as part of development of a global backbone network”.

Wow! Google wants to be a telco!

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PocketBlog

Coming to you live via PocketBlog…

Very amusing

Darryl posted this rather amusing link on his blog. Check it out http://www.olene.net/linux.html

MSN Spaces

Microsoft does it again!

Seems Microsoft is jumping on the blogging bandwagon. They’ve created a new thing called MSN Spaces. It’s a personle website, come blog, come online photo gallery, etc. Seems to be pretty customisable from the quick look I had the other day, but you’re limited to the themes that are provided (and most of them are pretty cheesey – typical MS stuff).

It’s free to join, just login with your passport and away you go. You are limited to 10MB of storage (like a Hotmail account). You can also limit the visibility of your space to be public, or only visible to people on your Messenger Allow list. Interesting, but not particularly useful from my point of view.

One nice feature is you can configure your Space to allow posting from your mobile device via email. Not a new feature as far as blogs go (Blogger can do this), but useful none the less. (Personally I much prefer the PocketBlog client that uses the Blogger api, but that’s just me). You can syndicate your Space’s blog (as you would expect) using RSS 2.0 and your blog can have categories to classify your blog posts (nice).

The big downside for Spaces is the fact you can’t customise the theme, or upload your own. You are stuck with the MS looking site. Yuk! Ah well, looks like I’ll be staying with Blogger for a while (even without categories).

Check out more here and here’s my test Space if you’re interested.

Some more on the new Shuttle XPC

Here’s some more goss on the new set-top Shuttle XPC box. Seems it’s called the Sonoma. It’s a Pentium M processor with PCI-X slots and apparently supports CableCard. Very cool (if we can ever get CableCard support in NZ I’ll be the first to get one)!

This is one cool looking box!

AnandTech have some more details on the specs and some more pics.

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Now that’s what I’m after!

How cool is this?! A new set-top format Media Center XPC from Shuttle. Don’t know any of the specs as yet, but the pics look cool!

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