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Submission + - VMware Fusion 2 Beta 2 Released (vmware.com)

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Jon Schwenn

on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @10:09PM

Jon Schwenn writes: "VMware's Fusion 2 Beta 1 has been out for awhile. Besides basic improvements and improved graphic acceleration fusion now has the ability to run an OSX server as a virtual machine. Supporting 4-way SMP and 8GB of RAM in a virtual machine, users could run multiple OSX virtual machines off one Apple Xserve. With changes to the Apples EULA legally allows leopard OSX server to be virtualized on Apple hardware with valid licenses. The full feature list can be found on the Fusion Beta Site."

Comment Re:Already Done it;s called Amazon S3 (Score 2, Interesting) 155

by yoduh on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @12:06PM (#21492975) Attached to: Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data Online

While I love S3, its not for the common person. If Google used an S3-style system as a good backbone and added a few very usable features it would be an improvement. I like the power of writing my own scripts and controlling what I send to S3, but I'd like to have more power to see what is in my buckets. I can do list command, but I'd like to know sizes and dates and to be able to query that information easily. Even just view it in a web control panel just to grab a small file from it.

Submission + - DRM and who's a closed system

Submitted by

MacLeeMan

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @03:19PM

MacLeeMan writes: "So the claim is that Apple's DRM is somehow wrong because you need to buy from the iTunes store via the iTunes application (available free for Windows and Mac) and then play it on an iPod or jump through a hoop or two (supported by the free iTunes application) to get your download to play on anything other than a iPod. Why is it that I'm not hearing jack SH*% about Microsoft's DRM that forced me to run Windows Media Player under the Windows OS to even view a Microsoft DRM protected video that my daughter's school uses in her home school classes and prohibits me from doing anything other than view it? The videos on this CD/DVD are NOT VIEWABLE BY ANYTHING OTHER THAN MICROSOFT MEDIA PLAYER RUNNING UNDER MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS. So instead of "being forced to download and use a free application", I am forced to buy a license to the Windows OS and either run it on an Intel box or under emulation...for a cost of more than $100. Microsoft's recommended viewer for Mac (Flip4Mac) cannot play Microsoft DRM files. Microsoft has cancelled support for its MediaPlayer for Mac and "has no plans to support DRM on Macs" http://www.flip4mac.com/knowledge/kb_0056.htm Why haven't the "champions for consumers" taken Micro$oft to task on this rape of our rights??????? If Apple is S-O-O-O Evil in it's DRM.....what the hell is Microsoft??"

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