Posted in google on Aug 5th, 2010
When Google wave launched (May of last year) it was one of the most incredibly hyped products to hit the technology scene in years. That hype started when Vic Gundotra (Google VP of Engineering) showcased the new platform at the Google IO conference. Despite Google’s best efforts however to pull in user / dev adoption of the platform, it never really took off.
Posted in Microsoft on Feb 14th, 2010
If your a systems Admin and you want to evaluate Windows 7 before you begin rolling it out to your customers, Microsoft has made it easy for you by providing pre-configured VHD files (virtual hard disk) already setup and ready for import into Microsoft’s new Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server Platform / Hypervisor. The Windows 7 VM Image has a 90 day evaluation time bomb but, that should be plenty of time to play around and get prepare with your GPO’s and other testing with your BUIT apps. Let’s take a look.
Posted in Microsoft on Dec 24th, 2009
Windows Live SkyDrive has 25 GB of free online storage space. In order to make great use of that space you need an easy way to access it. Using a free application called Gladinet, you can easily map SkyDrive to a drive letter on your computer to allow you to browse it as if it was physically attached.
Posted in Freeware, Release Alert, Virtual Server on Aug 28th, 2009
Today Microsoft released their Free Virtual Server Hypervisor Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 1.0 (not sure what’s up with the 1.0) and made it available for download on the Microsoft Download Center. The release candidate was released…
Posted in Geek Stuff on Aug 24th, 2009
Just came across a free offer from Microsoft Press. Looks like they are trying to get out the word it seems. Today the App-V Team Blog announced Microsoft will be giving away a…
Posted in Virtual Server, groovyRelease on May 5th, 2009
Today Microsoft released the Release Candidate for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Full speed ahead it seems at Microsoft. Microsoft is trying to narrow the gap with VMWare with the R2 release of Hyper-V Server but they still have a long way to go… …
Recently I lost the internal network card on my home desktop. Good news is I had a spare Wireless card! Bad news… the box is my groovyPost test box where I run several VM’s using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.
After searching through several…
Posted in Virtual Server on Feb 5th, 2009
Recently in our groovy Community Forum, goLfie (one of our groovy readers) asked a Question about Computer Component Advice. Over time the discussion turned to questions about building a Virtual Server. …
Posted in Geek Stuff on Nov 16th, 2008
It’s amazing to me how popular “texting” or Text Messaging has become over the last few years. Additionally, what’s even more amazing to me is the fact that a new language and possibly even a new culture appears to have spawned from this…
Posted in Freeware, Virtual Server, Windows Server, groovyRelease on Oct 2nd, 2008
Last month I attended the Get Virtual Now event Microsoft hosted. Bob Muglia announced they were working on and would be releases within 30 days a Free Standalone HyperVisor called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.
I was very happy to discover…