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I love lifehacker.com.  I always find usefull posts like this one below.

http://lifehacker.com/5057484/remove-u3-to-speed-up-your-flash-drive

This is very useful for us Linux users.  It’s so annoying to plug a u3 drive into a linux o/s.  Anyhow download the utility and clean up your U3 enabled usb thumb drive here:  http://www.u3.com/uninstall/default.aspx

Lots is going on this week at VMworld 2007. I watched a video at the AMD booth of a server being upgraded from dual proc dual core to dual proc quad cores featuring their new “Barcelona” F series cpu. The only change required is a bios upgrade which they actually replaced with a new physical bios chip. They stated in the video that no additional power, cooling or hardware is required for the upgrade. The upgrade made a significant change in system performance. FMI for quad core opterons…

I’m seeing a lot more companies adapting a de-duplication technology to their product. Netapp and Data Domain are a couple of vendors that I spoke to about this. Data Domain was interesting to me because they supply you with an entry level HW appliance with redundant disk storage at RAID 6. The cost is about $17k for their entry level appliance. The appliance comes with 2.5 raw tb of space which is the equivalent to 25tb of actual vm files because of the capabilities of de-duplication. Pretty incredible.

Ubuntu is visiting VMworld again. They’ve released a version of ubuntu that’s slimmed down for usage with virtual appliances and virtual machines. The product is called Jeos (pronounced juice).

Tonight is the VMworld 2007 Party…

M$ to buy Citrix?

The article highlights a couple of important topics. “Citrix executives are said to have considered an acquisition of VMware four years ago, but were frightened off by fears that such a move would antagonize Microsoft materially.” The analysts are thinking MS will buy Citrix, which would be huge since Micro$oft’s virtualization of longhorn hasn’t really taken off as they promised at Vmworld 2006.