What does it mean for Oracle to buy Sun and Virtual Iron? A play for the Cloud
Last summer I signed up for a developer account with 3Tera in their AppLogic Cloud environment to begin testing it as a a place to move our current managed hosting environment. During that same time, we met with Oracle to discuss licensing Oracle in the 3Tera AppLogic cloud. The guys we spoke with could only think in terms of physical cores for their licensing model. At the end of the conversation, after an hour of extreme frustration, I issued them a very strongly worded challenge to go back to Oracle and figure out a licensing model for virtualization and the cloud or Oracle is going to be left in the dust.
How the Apple iPhone helped me make some new friends
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Tinkering at Home Continued
The last time I posted about my home setup, I spoke about Virtual Iron. I went out and purchased a 4GB USB thumb drive and downloaded the Virtual Iron Standalone Edition and set up the USB drive to install. And then it occured to me....Virtual Iron is great, but the server I was planning on installing on was the same server that I wanted to use for my media server and my asterisk server. So unless I had another server lying around to display my media, this wasn't going to work.
So I decided to reload my server with Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) and install boxee. I then installed vmware server and set up my asterisk virtual machine with the saved vm from my previous server install and within a half hour or so my phone system was back up and running and I was playing with boxee.
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Apple iPhone Days Four through Thirty-Two
So the first thing you'll notice about my Apple iPhone journey is that having the iPhone hasn't made me a consistent blogger. This really isn't the fault of the iPhone, however. Since I have an entire month to cover, the coverage will undoubtedly be wide rather than deep. But I will do my best not to disappoint. Ubuntu-iPhone integration
Apple iPhone Day Three
So I'm a little bit late getting to my Day Three update, but I don't want anyone to miss out on the adventure so here it goes... When I last put my phone to bed on Saturday night, I left a couple of tasks in the queue for Sunday. They were:
Apple iPhone Day Two
I have had the iPhone for one day. I have activated the iPhone, upgraded it to version 2.2, set up my email, calendar and contacts and loaded it with my favorite podcasts. Next on my agenda is to "jailbreak" the iPhone. By doing this I will:
1. Gain access to an even larger body of iPhone applications 2. Be able to manage the files and backup the iPhone using SSH 3. Eliminate the need for iTunes or Microsoft Windows in order to manage the files on the iPhone
Apple iPhone Day One
So it is day one of my Apple iPhone adventure. Next I opened the back of my HTC 8525 and removed the battery, exposing the AT&T sim card. I then removed the sim card from my current phone and inserted it into the iPhone.
Then I plugged the iPhone into my laptop using the USB cable and turned on the iPhone. It is now time to activate the iPhone. In order to accomplish this, I need to use iTunes. So I fired up my Windows XP vmware virtual machine and ensure that the usb connection to the iPhone is enabled in the vm.