This is a handy tool. Make a VirtualBox seem like a server...

http://www.unixmen.com/remotebox-graphical-client-manage-virtualbox-vms-remotely/

What about using a reburbed server. Low cost but you get more memory and drive options than an embedded platform, serial is commonly included and it is already rack mountable.

This is a very cool option. I can see a lot of companies really appreciating that.

InfoWorld discusses how Too Much Security Can Cost You Customers.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/487675-xkcd-phone

Truly funny. The screaming is the best part.

I wonder if Microsoft is aware of this yet.

Microsoft made some major changes to OneDrive last week and failed to make these changes clear to their customers. Now the user community is less than happy with the results.

Cheers. This is a great place. Lots of fun, friendly people but a very good IT group - very focused. I've only been here a month but am really enjoying it.

@coliver said:

I didn't know BSD couldn't run KVM (or Xen) thanks for that information.

KVM isn't a "thing" but is an aspect of Linux. KVM is just part of the Linux kernel, not an add on.

Xen is separate from Linux and can use FreeBSD as it's Dom0 but this is flaky and unsupported. It's not important at all to do that so no one focuses on it and no BSD distro includes it as it has no real value. So Xen is tied to Linux just out of defacto use. Nothing in Xen is directly tied to Linux and you are free to use NetBSD, FreeBSD or even Solaris in the Dom0 but anything other than Linux isn't considered production ready and no vendor will support it.

@technobabble said:

@Minion-Queen did you see the part about merging the two technologies? Oy...I liked that they were separate.

They really need to do that. Having two products that people cannot differentiate is a major problem.

Yes but.... She has no soul. And she's no Amy Pond.

@thanksaj said:

Type 1 requires separate hardware to play with. Type 2 can be used by anyone with pretty much any OS. Also, is Hyper-V included in the consumer edition (non-Pro or Enterprise) of Windows 8/8.1?

HyperV is included in all non-RT versions of Windows. And does not require separate hardware if used that way. Acts like Windows 8.x is still the local desktop. You can't tell that it is virtual except for the drop in performance.

The latest release of the PC-BSD project, PC-BSD 10.1, has released. Lots of new updates.

I feel a related Three Amigos meme coming along too.

Not impressive. At least the FTC managed to catch them.

UbuntuServerGuide has an overview of the new release of Zentyal Server 4.0. Zentyal is the Windows server replacement with built in support for Active Directory and Exchange protocols.

I remember when everything was Roman and Helvetica.

Check out their status page for today (the 19th.)
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history

Red Hat already uses Gluster as the basis of its commercial storage product. Now Suse has announced that there upcoming Suse Storage Server will be based on CEPH.

Blinking was terrible. It really made websites unusable.