Posted on Aug 16th, 2008
Virtualization aside, thin clients have been a buzzword since 2006. Everyone remembers the dummy terminal and mainframe setups. Everyone remembers the rise of commodity PC hardware and the price wars of the late 90s. So why, in a day when basic business workstations cost $400, would anyone be interested in resurrecting the dummy terminal? Especially [...]
Posted on Aug 15th, 2008
Late Monday evening, users of VMware’s ESX server virtualization technology discovered a problem. Apparently, VMware developers left “time bomb” code from development in a stable release version of their software. If a user rebooted, powered down, or suspended a machine (ie, for maintenance) after 11:59 PM Monday, it would not come back up. On Tuesday [...]
Posted on Aug 11th, 2008
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