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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The latest fashions
Look at that dude. He got a MacBook Air!
You can barely see it, she got a iPod Nano.
(photo via Funtasticus)
Look at that dude. He got a MacBook Air!You can barely see it, she got a iPod Nano.
(photo via Funtasticus)
Labels: apple, consumerism, design, industrial design, manufacturing, street style
Monday, November 12, 2007
First post-Leopard VMware Fusion release is out, plus new tool: VMware Importer for moving Windows VM's from Parallels to VMware Fusion
Just saw a tweet from VMware Fusion developer Ben Gertzfield:
Then there's VMware Importer, a new, beta tool for converting your Parallels guests to VMware (Fusion) guests. The docs say it works with Windows guests (Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista), and that because enough info about your (virtual) hardware will change during the conversion process (just in terms of identifiers I assume, not actual profile), you'll probably need to reactivate you Windows license upon conversion.
While we're talking about Macs, VMware Fusion, and Ben Gertzfield, I might as well link to a pretty cool (video) Google TechTalk Ben gave about VMware Fusion. It's about an hour, and the first 10 minutes are the standard talking points VMware gives about "it's about apps," etc, etc. But at about minute 11 it gets very interesting as Ben talks about how VMware approached certain Mac-specific problems.
Just saw a tweet from VMware Fusion developer Ben Gertzfield:VMware Fusion 1.1 and VMware Importer (Parallels to VMware) beta are out!Looking over the release dates, it looks like this is the first post-Leopard release of VMware Fusion, so if you have Leopard, you especially want to grab this.
Then there's VMware Importer, a new, beta tool for converting your Parallels guests to VMware (Fusion) guests. The docs say it works with Windows guests (Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista), and that because enough info about your (virtual) hardware will change during the conversion process (just in terms of identifiers I assume, not actual profile), you'll probably need to reactivate you Windows license upon conversion.
While we're talking about Macs, VMware Fusion, and Ben Gertzfield, I might as well link to a pretty cool (video) Google TechTalk Ben gave about VMware Fusion. It's about an hour, and the first 10 minutes are the standard talking points VMware gives about "it's about apps," etc, etc. But at about minute 11 it gets very interesting as Ben talks about how VMware approached certain Mac-specific problems.
Labels: apple, fusion, google techtalk, importer, mac, parallels, video, virtualization, virtualization ben gertzfield, vmware, vmware fusion, vmware importer
Monday, June 25, 2007
blah blah blah iPhone. The empty ring of the word "enterprise," and why business IT needs to understand consumer products.
LOLz to Anil Dash, who tweeted:
What's the FUD? That IT departments should not embrace the iPhone. According to who? Well, according to a Gartner Report in ComputerWorld Malaysia (I'm just saying),
In the consumer space, every overheated battery, every slow javascript behavior gets catalogued and squawked about upon arrival. In the consumer space, a single customer can cancel and account or return a product in a day, without fear of violating a 3 million dollar contract, leaving vendors highly incentivized to minimize horror stories. Of course, there are consumer horror stories, but consumers can speak about them freely, while enterprise organizations are paralyzed in a variety of ways from sharing their experiences.
So why again, are we afraid of products that aren't "ready for the enterprise?" I'm afraid of the enterprise ones!
Related:
"To people in line for iPhone: people lined up for Windows 95, too, which was equally popular and revolutionary. In 2019 you'll understand."Now, don't you dare run off and think the point of this post is to mock the iPhone. I'm here to defend it. As a consumer, I'm uninterested the iPhone at this moment (that was Anil's point), but as usual, I'm writing in defense of logic and reason. And the iPhone FUD going around now is ten times more ridiculous than the iPhone hype (though seriously campers, y'all crazy). And so here I am, attempting to temper the FUD, and ignoring the hype.
What's the FUD? That IT departments should not embrace the iPhone. According to who? Well, according to a Gartner Report in ComputerWorld Malaysia (I'm just saying),
“We’re telling IT executives to not support it because Apple has no intentions of supporting (iPhone use in) the enterprise,” Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney says."Uh oh! It sounds like the iPhone is not... (wait for it). Ready for the enterprise. Well, then, can we give it an award? Can businesses buy them by the barrel? Because in my experience supporting the enterprise, products and tools that are "made for the enterprise" can be as ill-defined and ill-suited for business purposes as anything else out there. And in the past few years, the most useful tools and services appeared first in the consumer space before being integrated into enterprise products. The enterprise can not be assumed to be the place where quality and reliability appear first. It's the place where entitlement and shoddiness get away with murder for years, in the shadows of years-long commitments, contracts and decision-making cycles. The enterprise is where concerns about sharing too much about internal business processes keep problems about information technology tools hidden from view.
In the consumer space, every overheated battery, every slow javascript behavior gets catalogued and squawked about upon arrival. In the consumer space, a single customer can cancel and account or return a product in a day, without fear of violating a 3 million dollar contract, leaving vendors highly incentivized to minimize horror stories. Of course, there are consumer horror stories, but consumers can speak about them freely, while enterprise organizations are paralyzed in a variety of ways from sharing their experiences.
So why again, are we afraid of products that aren't "ready for the enterprise?" I'm afraid of the enterprise ones!
Related:
- John Gruber + Daring Fireball's Exchange Exchange (shuts down the whole iPhone security concern. don't even try to go there)
- The rise and fall of the 'enterprise' class distinction
Labels: anil dash, apple, consumer, enterprise, enterprisey, iphone, mobile
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
JayZ vs. Nas; VMware vs. Parallels. VMware answers Parallels Coherence with Unity. Mac virtualization gets competitive
(No they didn't. No they did not just use C&C Music Factory in this video. They did. )
Aside from the ridic soundtrack, this video is compelling.
Yes, VMware Fusion is already available for free (in Beta). But this video shows features not currently available in the beta that you can download right now. Most notable is that VMware Fusion has responded to and one-upped Parallels Desktop's ability to have each Windows application be its own little window in OS X, rather than have one "parent" window host all guest applications.
Parallels calls this "coherence." VMware Fusion calls this "unity." They're pretty much the same, except that VMware Fusion can have each window appear individually in OS X's Expose feature, something Parallels does not.
That said, Parallels is fully released, and VMware Fusion is not. And the unity feature doesn't exist in the beta that's out. Add to that the fact that VMware hasn't announced how much/ if it will charge for VMware Fusion (its features are positioned between the free VMware Player, and $189 VMware Workstation).
Related: Comments from the Digg people.
(No they didn't. No they did not just use C&C Music Factory in this video. They did. )
Aside from the ridic soundtrack, this video is compelling.
Yes, VMware Fusion is already available for free (in Beta). But this video shows features not currently available in the beta that you can download right now. Most notable is that VMware Fusion has responded to and one-upped Parallels Desktop's ability to have each Windows application be its own little window in OS X, rather than have one "parent" window host all guest applications.
Parallels calls this "coherence." VMware Fusion calls this "unity." They're pretty much the same, except that VMware Fusion can have each window appear individually in OS X's Expose feature, something Parallels does not.
That said, Parallels is fully released, and VMware Fusion is not. And the unity feature doesn't exist in the beta that's out. Add to that the fact that VMware hasn't announced how much/ if it will charge for VMware Fusion (its features are positioned between the free VMware Player, and $189 VMware Workstation).
Related: Comments from the Digg people.
Labels: apple, comeback, expose, fusion, IT, mac, parallels, rivalry, sysadmin, system administrator, unity, video, virtualization, vmware, windows, x76, youtube
Monday, December 04, 2006
Parallels to VMware: It's On!
But last Friday Parallels released a new feature that is pretty compelling, and raises the bar for the concept of "abstraction." Rather than having a parent window that hosts all of the guest OS's windows, there is a "coherence mode" option that has each window of the guest OS appear as an individual window in the host OS, making itSO the experience of using an application in the either guest OS or host OS, is pretty darn similar. Certain keyboard commands and drag and drop is supported between the two environments. The video above demonstrates this better than all these words. Check it out!
(demo video via video blogger Michael Verdi and blip.tv)
Wowza... So... Parallels for Mac OS X has been out a for a bit. But it's previously been best described as "...like VMware Workstation for a Mac." In other words, cool, but nothing beyond VMware, and if VMware actually had a product out for OS X, then you'd probably grab that.But last Friday Parallels released a new feature that is pretty compelling, and raises the bar for the concept of "abstraction." Rather than having a parent window that hosts all of the guest OS's windows, there is a "coherence mode" option that has each window of the guest OS appear as an individual window in the host OS, making itSO the experience of using an application in the either guest OS or host OS, is pretty darn similar. Certain keyboard commands and drag and drop is supported between the two environments. The video above demonstrates this better than all these words. Check it out!
Labels: apple, consumer, fusion, information technology, IT, mac, microsoft, os x, parallels, software, sysadmin, virtualization, vmware
Thursday, November 30, 2006
VMware Fusion video! (More) virtualization for Mac OS X is close.
VMworld, virtualization software company VMware's big conference was a few weeks ago.
Among the stuff presented was VMware Fusion. Even though it's not the first virtualization product for Mac OS X , it's definitely the one people have been most excited about.
I'll let the video do the talkin'.
Among the stuff presented was VMware Fusion. Even though it's not the first virtualization product for Mac OS X , it's definitely the one people have been most excited about.
I'll let the video do the talkin'.
Labels: apple, consumer, fusion, mac, os x, software, sysadmin, virtualization, vmware
