Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]

I've used VMWare Server 2.0 Beta for about three solid hours now... Things I like. Virtual Hardware v. 7 with USB 2.0 support. Tomcat based VM monitoring, is pretty responsive. Does NOT request or attempt to "require" IIS. The Server interface, while different, remains similar.Technical -- I've loaded VMWare-Server beta on two separate Windows XP host systems (I have an Ubuntu as well, but I've had problems in the past loading both "...

17 Jul 2008 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Flamingo Hand

This came from one of those e-mails that people send around. It was a collection of "hand art". One that I'm sure has an online source somewhere, and if I find it, I'll link to that ... but, I thought this was interesting enough, so .. check it out.

16 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Twitter by Proxy

So, I'm done with twitview. Twitview uses the web server (vollink.com) to pull my twitter data feed. Once pulled, I turn links into links. The twittering view at the right side of this blog now uses twitview, as does the open-social app that I wrote for my iGoogle. I also added twitview to my main homepage. Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....

13 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook

I've added Google Apps to my domain. I had already started handing pieces of my domain to Google when I started letting them host my blog. At the same time, I'm starting to take pieces back. More on that later... I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....

12 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink