355617
submission
skristir writes:
I have a couple of old clunker boxes on which I run Windows NT and Windows XP. They are around because I have s/w and data on them that I still need. Having upgraded to a reasonably powerful Linux (Ubuntu) machine, I was hoping that I could create virtual machine images from the hard disk and then de-commission the old hardware.
I do have the original install disks, but I am not interested in re-installing all the s/w on a virtual machine. What would be the point of that?!
Can anyone suggest how one would go about converting existing s/w on a hard disk into a virtual machine image?
I looked at Xen and Virtual Box but not enough information is available. VMWare wants my money but I still don't know if it can do what I want....
269095
submission
163623
story
Acer500 writes
"The One Laptop Per Child project became a reality Thursday in Uruguay, as the 160 children of school number 24 in the humble town of Cardal received their XO computers. The learning tools came directly from the hands of president Tabaré Vazquez. It has become a matter of national pride that Uruguay is the first country to realize the project's goal. The target is that by 2009, every school-age child in Uruguay will have one, and an initial 15 million dollars have already been allocated to the project.
From the newspaper articles: 'The happiness of having a PC in their hands, some of them for the first time, had the kids in ecstasy, which didn't wait to turn on their computers, introduce their personal information (required the first time they're turned on), choose the screen colors, and start experimenting with them. What initially made them more enthusiastic was the possibility of taking photographs and filming each others with the included webcams.'" More information below.
163677
submission
An anonymous reader writes:
About a month ago, Lighttpd version 1.4.15 was officially released with two important security patches (1, 2). Debian was initially quick to pick up on this version, in fact they did so more than 35 days ago for their work-in-progress "unstable" project. But the official stable distribution of Debian is STILL vulnerable. A bug report tagged "remote root" has been left unanswered for more than a week.