I was a bit a cynical when I read this article about OpenDNS. But you know what? It WORKS! Go and set your DNS name servers now! https://www.opendns.com/start
I have been using machine virtualization for many years now an I have got to say since the relative affordability of powerful CPUs and Hardware, performance is now very acceptable, even on my Tablet PC! Suddenly after the IPO of VMWare everyone wants in on the action! So far the big players are VMWare, Microsoft, Parallels, Oracle (new) and several Open Source versions. For me I have been flip flopping between VMWare and Microsoft. If I had a Mac I would probably be looking at VMWare Fusion and Parallels. So I just wanted to share some of my thoughts on performance when it comes to machine virtualization. There are a few areas that you need to be concerned with 32bit or 64bit Host Operating System Multiple CPUs Lots of RAM (Most new consumer boards support up to 8GB) Fast hard disks 7.2K to 10K or RAID 0, 1, 0+1 External drive enclosures Backup If I had a choice I would probably dedicate a machine to host all my virtual machines but I would be wasting a machine and also...
I don't know how many times this has happened to me but no more ... slmgr has a 120 day limit but there is a registry key that will allow you to do this up to one year...Google is your friend.
The iPhone is a pretty good device when it comes to reading web pages and such. One of the missing features with the web paradigm is that you need to be always connected to get content or access those web based application that is being developed with the iPhone UI. I have found myself surfing the net in more situations where I would have not before, for example I might be checking the news during breakfast where as before I would read the newspaper. Since the device is less intrusive than bringing a laptop to the table it makes it so more convenient. So on to the good stuff. Lets say you have a PDF or document that you would like to have off-line. Since the iPhone doesn't let you sync files to the flash and access them via some file browser you have to cheat. Basically all you have to do is email the document to yourself . Now the trick. You will need to synchronize the email with your iPhone (I am using IMAP and Exchange). Since the iPhone by default only syncs the first 50 emails...