Windows 7 to contain “XP Mode”

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

LogoWindows 7 Professional and Ultimate is stated to having an XP mode where applications that only run in XP can be installed in a virtualized XP environment and linked to the Windows 7 desktop. Microsoft is including this feature to hopefully ease businesses into upgrading with the assurance that the critical business apps will still run. This is one of the big reason Vista still hasn’t been adopted by businesses. This feature should be in the upcoming April 30th Release Candidate.

Source: The Register

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Ubuntu & Kubuntu 9.04 Released

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

ubuntulogo Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04 aka Jaunty Jackalope is now ready for download. As always the downloads will also be available in torrents are well, it’ll just take a couple of days to get it seeded. Note – an interesting feature of the Ubuntu family is called Wubi it allows anyone to install and uninstall Ubuntu from within Windows just like any other program.

Ubuntu

The biggest new features of Ubuntu are:

  • GNOME 2.26
  • X.Org server 1.6
  • Boot performance – Dramatically improved boot times, as low as 25 seconds on some machines.
  • Linux kernel 2.6.28
  • Ext4 filesystem support

Kubuntu

For the KDE fans Kubuntu is also available today and here are the newest features for it. Download it here.

  • KDE 4.2
  • Quassel IRC client
  • Amarok 2.0.2 for your music needs
  • KTorrent 3.2
  • Digikam 0.10.0
  • Qt 4.5
  • Intel Atom Support for netbook support
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Happy Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

earth Today is Earth day. There are many things that can be done today and everyday to help our future generations enjoy our Earth as we have. Visit the Earth Day Network to find out what you can do to help.

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VMware Launches It’s Cloud OS – vSphere 4

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

cloud vSphere DiagramVMware announced it’s newest product dubbed vSphere 4. What does vSphere do you ask well, it allows a small business to tap seamlessly into much more processing power via commercial cloud computing service such as Amazon’s EC2. Or it allows large business with multiple data centers to consolidate resources together seamlessly. vSphere is a collection of some of VMware previous tools such as ESX and HA and some new ones like vStorage VMFS a clustered file system and vNetwork Distributed Switch for virutalized networks. These and other products make up the vSphere suite and available in different versions with more or less features depending on the business’ needs.

Sources:
eWeek
VMware vSphere
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Expandable Comment Replies – Plugin Review

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

Expandable Comment Replies
As you may have noticed in the comments section I now have a nice link that shows and hides the replies to a comment. I think this helps keep a discussion on track while still letting those that are curious to explore. I can really see it helping on my theme support page as it has the most comments and it will now separate each issue nicely into it’s own meta-discussion I guess you could call it. You can see the author of this plugin and I discussing some of the functionality here. Drop by and give her plugin a try.

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