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Having seen a great demo and presentation this week about the new VirtualBox 1.6 release, I have been enjoying trying out the various combinations to see which ones I like more. Today I tried out the Solaris version of VirtualBox on my OpenSolaris 2008.05 laptop. My laptop is a Sony VAIO, a Centrino Pro processor based system. [...]
I painfully discovered the past two days that the Cannes Film Festival experience is as much a 'Film' experience as it is a 'French' one. So if you come here, prepare for taxi drivers who try to scam you charmingly, pickpockets who steal your wallet before you have time to buy a 'cafe' and train strikes which [...]
Recently we came across an interesting question on the Manageability forum on password getting rejected while trying to connect to an AMT system using a web browser or Intel AMT DTK tools. We asked the customer to double check his password; confirm that his password follows the guidelines for AMT ME passwords, reset his CMOS [...]
Ah, Friday, my favorite day for watching a few videos at work. I've been monitoring how many developers are watching all of the segments of the video series we've posted on the Take Five site. It is natural that not everyone will make it to the end, but I'm wondering if there is anything we could do better. First, [...]
My XML journeys took me to JavaOne last week. I am a people watcher, and I have always found it fastening to observe the herd mentality at larger conferences like JavaOne. The queues for the keynotes, the rush to lunch, and don’t get me started on people eagerly standing in line for some logo laden [...]
Does Intel AMT block remote desktop traffic? Not a chance. Then “why am I not able to remote desktop to and from my Dell Optiplex 755 system after installing all the drivers? I was able to remote desktop to and from this system to any other system on the network before installing the drivers”. We [...]
One of the nice things about OpenSolaris 2008.05 is that it is delivered as a bootable LiveCD. This means that you can try out the OS easily on your computer and see if it will work without risking the OS you are running on it now. Once you decide that all of the [...]
Microsoft has recently made available Windows XP Service Pack 3 for download. The latest service pack can also be installed through Windows Update as well as through an available .iso image which can then be burned to CD or DVD. An overview of the service pack can be downloaded from here.
VirtualBox is a great desktop virtualization solution. It's free for personal use / evaluation, runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris or OpenSolaris, and supports a huge number of guest OS's. The user interface is really well tuned for a simple desktop user, and as UI's go, I think it has some really good context-aware help. I [...]
As many of you may know, there are two ways of contacting Intel AMT: The remote network interface and the local LMS/HECI interface. These interfaces are very different; the remote interface that is available thru the wired and sometimes wireless Ethernet and is rich with features while the local Intel AMT interface is very limited. [...]