First of all, Roku has said that over the next couple of weeks they’ll be rolling out the new firmware update for the Netflix Player. The biggest new feature is the fact that it now supports HD video, more specifically at 720p. If you can’t wait for Roku to just add your box to the [...]
Maybe I just took for granted that ESXi 3.5 wouldn’t work at all with IDE disks. So much so, I went out and bought a 250GB SATA disk just for the expressed purpose of hosting my VMs on ESXi at home.
Apparently I was wrong. This weekend I moved my VM Host from one computer to another, [...]
I ordered the Netflix Player by Roku a week or so ago and it finally came in last friday. My inital impression is pretty positive. It’s tiny - much smaller than even what you’d expect from seeing it online. The setup is beyond easy - just plug it in to your TV and home network (wireless [...]
As a followup to my prior post on VMWare ESXi being free now, I’ve taken the plunge and changed over my home servers from VMWare Server 1.0 to ESX 3.5i. The biggest thought was for performance and just something new to play with.
The first step was to see if I could get it installed on [...]
I’ve been using VMWare in a production environment for a couple of years now, and using VMWare just for testing since around 2003. Nearly 100% of my experience has been in Microsoft environments. The respect for linux has always been there - it is just hard to swallow your pride and start from scratch, relearning [...]
