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Mac Versus PC: Are Macs REALLY better? Print E-mail
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Monday, 17 November 2008
Undoubtedly, most everyone has been in one way, shape, form or fashion touched by Apple's Mac versus PC advertising campaign. Typically, the ads feature the PC as a clumsy nerd who likes to take cheap shots at the suave Mac. (In a touch of irony, it's really Apple taking cheap shots at Microsoft…think about that.)
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Wordpress or Joomla...Which way do I go? Print E-mail
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Friday, 07 November 2008
I must admit, I'm somewhat of a Joomla junky. Most of the sites I do (including this one) end up using Joomla as the back end. But is Joomla for everyone?  The one thing I really like about Wordpress is its simplicity. A friend of mine asked me to compare Joomla to Wordpress. I said it was somewhat analogous to the Mac vs PC.
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An iPhonish PC.... Print E-mail
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Saturday, 25 October 2008
I thought this was a pretty thing. HP has come out with a slimline desktop that integrates an iPhone like touchscreen with a Windows Vista PC. Not only does is look cool, the functionality is cool too. Watch this demo video...
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Export Yahoo to Thunderbird or Other Mail Clients Print E-mail
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Friday, 08 August 2008
Yahoo mail is great, but the time has come for me to switch email accounts. I have been using Yahoo mail for about 11 years now, and I really like it-a clean interface, lots of storage, awesome spam filtering-these to mention a few. While I like Yahoo mail a lot, once you start using it, you are pretty much locked into it. Usually with email, there is a way to transfer email from one program to another including messages and addresses.
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VMWare vs VirtualBox Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008

I decided to do a little comparing and contrasting between VMWare and Virtualbox. VirtualBox and VMWare are both virtualization programs that allow a “host” operating system to run a “guest” operating system on “virtual” hardware. There are many different paradigms on how to virtualize hardware. The most fundamental way is to actually emulate hardware, but this makes the guest operating system incredibly slow and it is uses a lot of system resources on the host operating system. Another way is for the virtual host to provide a virtual hardware layer for the guest operating system then, interpret and pass the commands to the host operating system. This way, the host is not actually emulating a hardware clock, system bus, or peripherals. Supposedly, this method is not platform independent as the host OS relies on specific hardware such as an x86 platform , but the x86 platform is virtually ubiquitous to computing, so this is rarely if ever a problem

Here is my Host (Linux) running a guest OS (Windows):

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WMware and VirtualBox use the second paradigm discussed. They therefore are very similar in performance, setup and otherwise. I tested both of them on a couple of points to see which was advantages. Here’s what I came up with.

Category

VMWare

VirtualBox

Winner

Download

From WMWare’s site, about 40 MB’s

From Sun Microsystems, about 23 MB

VirtualBox

Source

Proprietary (Closed) source

Both Proprietary Version and Open Source Version

VirtualBox

Speed

Great Speed

Great Speed

Tie

Installation

Easy in Windows…Little trickier in Linux.

Easy for Linux and Windows

VirtualBox

License

Arg! Free, but somewhat tricky to obtain a license. The website was not really clear on how to do this.

Free Open Source Edition (OSE) and does not require any sort of registration.

VirtualBox

Bulk

Heavy System Requirements, Installs many virtual hardware drivers in Windows

Uses Kernel Module in Linux, has helper daemons to provide network communications. Installs virtual hardware in Windows and Linux if the user wants to do bridging

VirtualBox

Interface

Easy to Use

Easy to Use

Tie

OS Support

Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, DOS, etc. No major problems installing or otherwise running OS’s. I used it to test some Linux firewalls, and it seemed a little slow on those.

Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, DOS. Windows XP upgraded to SP3 BSOD’ed, however a clean install with SP3 worked fine.

Supposedly, VirtualBox is suppose to have broader support for operating systems. But for all practical purposes, they are about the same. I’d say it’s a tie.

Uninstall

Easy in Windows and Linux

Easy in Windows and Linux

Tie

VirtualBox seems to be the better of the two, but the advantages of VirtualBox have nothing to do with functionality or performance. Pound for pound, these two products are about the same. They implement the same virtualization paradigm have a very similar interface, and both work surprisingly well on a number of platforms.

I was a strong proponent of VMWare until I took VirtualBox for a spin. But I primarily use virtualization for testing, and nothing more. I pretty much set up a test bed, use it for a while, then blow it away after testing. If one already has production virtual hosts on one or the other, it would be difficult to port the hosts to another system. I suppose, if anything, be consistent on which ever you use.

 
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