Networking

Zune HD

I don’t like the iTouch, only because its Mac, I don’t hide the fact that I don’t like Machintosh… but can Microsoft’s Zune HD beat the iPod? Probably not… yes it has OLED(organic light-emitting diode), yes it has IE6.5 Mobile, and yes it has HD Radio, and yes it has WIFI but that’s about it… check out the review here….

CloudPrint from HP, for the BlackBerry

Well here is what I was talking about, CloudPrint is an HP designed solution that allows any blackberry user the ability to print to any printer without a driver, it will be available to BIS and BES customers, as long as they have WIFI or a data plan.

Read the full story at Eweek.com

I was pretty sure i was going to get a Palm Pre, but, since I was able to try out a Curve 8900, its speed, and useability… well lets just say I may pick one up…

Wifi on US Airlines

When I read this I was pretty excited, can you imagine being on an 8 hour flight and being able to stream radio over ShoutCast? Watch YouTube Videos? Stream your favorite TV Shows via Hulu? Well soon you won’t have to… read the insert below from Time.com

“Now, however, it looks as though our days of being sealed into airborne vaults—disconnected, inaccessible and unaccountable—really are numbered. As carriers pour many more millions into in-flight entertainment systems, as was clear recently at Toronto’s World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) conference, U.S. airlines are embracing new air-to-ground and satellite systems to offer wi-fi service on commercial flights as early as next spring. So far this year, the FAA has already received 42 applications to install the systems on new aircraft, as many as during all of last year.”

This is great news for Americans, or Canadians on connecting flights through the USA. No Canadian Airlines, that I know of, have put in requests for this technology. The cost is about 10$ per flight, or for frequent flyers, and I mean frequent, you can also buy day passes.

Check out the full story, its a great read.

‘Psybot’ worm infects home routers.

Linksys and Netgear routers are the most highly infected, first being spotted infecting Netcomm NB5 modem/routers in Austrailia.

The most recent “worm” “version 18″ targets a wide variety of devices, and contains the shellcode of over 25 different Linksys models and 10 Netgear models, including 15 other various cable and DSL modems.

Things you’ll notice in your router config is that ports 22, 23, and 80 will be blocked. If you do notice this, hard reset the router and reset the admin password. Since its mostley brute force that is used, make the password case sensitive and include numbers and symbols if you like.

Get the full story here

Palm Pre : iPhone Killer?

I saw some videos on the Palm Pre and I am so far impressed.

Some of the things I noticed were the smooth animations of all the menus, the support of universal cut/copy/paste, which is a HUGE feature that the iPhone doesn’t have, multi-touch, is supported which looks and works well. It also supports wireless charging… imaging that not having to PLUG your phone in every night, you just lay it on the charging station. There are so many more features that I found a list online and here it is… 

• High-speed wireless (EV-DO Rev. A or HSDPA, depending on version)

• 802.11b / g WiFi with WPA, WPA2, 801.1x authentication

• 3.1-inch 24-bit color 480 x 320 display

• Dedicated gesture area below display

• Slide-out portrait QWERTY keyboard (banana slider)

• Integrated IM, MMS, and SMS messaging

• Email: Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Direct Push Technology POP3/IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc). So it does push exchange email, but the rest is not push.

• Built-in GPS

• Bluetooth 2.1 EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support

• High-performance browser

• 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field

• 3.5mm headphone jack

• 8GB of internal storage (~7.4GB user available)

• USB mass storage support

• Phone as laptop modem - Bluetooth tethering

• MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

• Proximity sensor for detecting when phone is near face

• Light sensor to automatically dim display

• Audio Formats: MPS, AAC, AAC , AMR, QCELP, WAV Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 Image Formats: GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP

• Ringer mute switch

• Removable rechargeable battery

• Width: 59.5mm (2.3 inches) Height: 100.5mm (3.9 inches) Thickness: 16.95mm (0.67 inches)

• Weight: 135 grams (4.76 ounces)

The official page has a nice teaser video check it out here

NVIDIA Ion Platform means HD for Notebooks

They call it a Pico-ATX which measure in at a whopping 10 cm x 7.2 cm!

The reference motherboard is very simple; you’ve got an Intel Atom CPU and a GeForce 9400M next to each other, a single SATA connector and a DDR3 SO-DIMM slot on the other side of the board. And this little thing is powerful enough to play HD video (8 - 25Mbps H.264) the CPU has been measured at 27% utilization while doing so. Ion also has full support for 8-channel LPCM over HDMI.

Built into the board is USB 2.0 ports, a dual-link DVI connector, an HDMI Connector, a SATA 3G connector, and a DDR3 SO-DIMM connection.

Nvidia also says that a GeForce 9400 paired with the Atom Processor will net 10 times the graphics and video transcoding, Fulll HD Video Decode and Display, and is half the size but same battery life. The reference board is Vista Premium and Windows 7 Ready.

For more interesting details check this out.

VMFS and Block Sizes

Well i ran into this error today (4:30 am CST, don’t ask me why I am up right now!) “File too large” when trying to create a virtual machine with a 30GB drive and a 300GB drive. I tracked it down to the fact that the block size on my second LUN is 1MB which gives a max file size of 256GB. I will have to change the block size to 2MB which will let me create 512GB files, unfortunately I need to move a couple VMs off there to do so, I will just end up utilizing vmotion to move the VMs then reformat the LUN using a 2MB block size, then vmotion back. Sounds like fun! Well it isn’t, but its an interesting learning experience. Don’t make the same mistake, and you wont have to deal with this issue yourself.

The table below is the Block size in correspondence with the max file size

1MB Block Size: Maximum filesize = 256GB
2MB Block Size: Maximum filesize = 512GB
4MB Block Size: Maximum filesize = 1024GB
8MB Block Size: Maximum filesize = 2048GB

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“MSTSC /console” Where did you go?

I just noticed this in the last few days, I guess its because of the fact that I waited so long to update to SP1, but it seems that with Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP SP3, and Server 2008 the /console switch is no longer available…

Running mstsc /? will give you the following screen

As you can see the “/console” switch is gone, and I am running Vista Ultimate SP1. The only way to connect to the console now and ONLY on systems NOT running Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2008 or later installed is to use the “/admin” switch.

Anyways, check this out for more info.

Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2 Beta

I just read from a TechNet email, Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 are out, and its a single update file for both! How you say? Well basically because Windows Vista and Server 2008 share the same code base. You need to already be running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008 to install. The update is supposed to add new features like support for Bluetooth 2.1, native Blu-Ray media recording, “Windows Connect Now (WCN)“, ex-FAT file system, and windows search 4.0 integration. The list is not complete but it gives you a taste of whats to come. If you feel adventurous then download the update here

I don’t install Service Packs until they are out of beta phase and have been out for at least a few months, if you are like me and would like to block the service pack updates download the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool

The tool works on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (valid through March, 2008), Windows XP Service Pack 3 (valid for 12 months following general availability), and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (valid for 12 months following general availability)

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HP iLo doesn’t Connect - Java Error

The specific error im talking about is this one…

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