Month: May 2007

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Clone Hard Drives For Free!

Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you can massively clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Unlike G4U (Ghost for Unix) or G4L (Ghost for Linux),
Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This
increases the clone effiency. At the NCHC’s Classroom C, Clonezilla was
used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took about 50 minutes to
clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via unicasting and
only about 10 minutes via multicasting!

Clonezilla

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Microsoft Betas Window Sharing Tool

Microsoft is beta testing a new tool called SharedView that enables colleagues to share documents or demonstrate an application over a network or the Internet. Up to 15 people can join a SharedView session, although only one application can be shared at a time – not a full desktop.
WebEx and other services don’t need to be scared just yet, however, as the service does not offer true collaboration – individuals must request control from the person who initiated the session. Users can still participate without control as each has a special pointer that can be used to highlight and discuss areas of the screen. SharedView requires Internet Explorer and a Windows Live ID.

BetaNews | Microsoft Testing Screen Sharing Tool

Sounds pretty useful when combined with IM or teleconference to demo a new program or do a quick howto. I’ll be checking it out.

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Windows To Go, on a Thumb Drive

Microsoft is teaming up with peripherals manufacturer SanDisk in an effort to develop smart USB devices that will allow users to carry their complete personal computing environment on a device as small as a thumb drive, Microsoft announced Friday.Under the plan, Microsoft will develop software that will let users store their applications and data on small, Flash memory-based devices that connect to their computers’ Universal Serial Bus. SanDisk will design and manufacture compatible hardware.The first products from the collaboration will be available in mid-2008, Microsoft said.

Microsoft, SanDisk Venture Promises Apps On A Thumb Drive — Windows USB — InformationWeek

 

 

 

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Use Knoppix To Testdrive Virtualization

Using a specially equipped Knoppix Linux 5.5.1 bootable CD, companies looking to see how server virtualization might fit into their IT plans can now run OpenVZ virtualization software instead of having to install and configure the full program.The test drive using Knoppix, which runs an entire Linux distribution from a CD, is a first for OpenVZ, said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ open-source project.The OpenVZ/Knoppix CD software, now available for free download, provides a complete version of the software for testing and evaluation, Kolyshkin said. "It’s just another way to try OpenVZ."

Knoppix offers OpenVZ virtualization test drive

Sounds lika a great idea to get your feet wet in virtualization world.