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Nevada embraces driverless cars, issues autonomous vehicle licenses

09 May 2012 Digital Dave

autonomous vehicle nevadaDriverless cars? Anyone else see a problem with this?

Nevada -- a gambler's paradise where shotgun weddings run rampant and brothels are legal in half the state -- has added yet another unique attraction under its belt: autonomous vehicles. Nevada is the first state to issue driverless vehicle licenses on public roadways and the first state to officially welcome such vehicles, although existing in rules in some states haven't seemed to explicitly prohibit automated vessels.

Although Nevada appears to be the most zealous state in terms of embracing cars without drivers, there are a number of restrictions which will keep a human (possibly two) in those cars at all times. Just a couple of months ago, the state was the first in the U.S. to pass a set of regulations for the operation of autonomous vehicles. Those regulations seem to spell out the need for two people inside the vehicle -- one person to take manual control when necessary and another person to monitor the course plotted by the computer system.

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VMware address critical issues in Workstation, Player, ESXi and ESX

09 May 2012 Digital Dave

vmware-logoDamn... and I just spent 15 minutes installing the new version. 

VMware has published a security advisory that addresses critical security flaws in the company's Workstation, Player, Fusion, ESXi and ESX products. There are five flaws detailed in the advisory.

ESX 3.5 to 4.1 and ESXi 3.5 to 5.0 are affected by a host memory overwrite vulnerability in the handling of RPC commands and data pointers that means a guest user could crash a VMX process. VMware notes that the issue can be worked around by configuring virtual machines that use less than 4GB of memory. The workaround though is not an effective remedy for a similar issue with RPC and function pointers. Both issues could be exploited without root/administrator access. 

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Microsoft Tad

20 April 2012 Last Updated on 20 April 2012 Digital Dave

This is actually several ads put together to get your business away from VMware when it comes to the virtualization role.

Microsoft has come up with a 70's gentleman, named Tad, who seems to represent everyone else outside of Microsoft's virtualization platform.

I'm not really sure how they came up with this but it's funny and if you know anything about virtualization you should check out the ads. I just love the fact they found all these clothes and cars and everything else from the 70s!

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Microsoft Releases Betas of Two MDOP Virtualization Tools

05 April 2012 Digital Dave

robotsYa know, some of you might be interested in this.

Microsoft on Wednesday released the beta versions of two virtualization tools that will become part of its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite.

The first beta, User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) for Windows 7 or Windows 8, will be new to MDOP. UE-V is designed for IT pros to facilitate support for users who access multiple devices by delivering the same experience and the same application settings across those devices, according to Karri Alexion-Tiernan, director of product management for desktop virtualization.

UE-V is also designed to quickly deliver the same desktop experience to users who must switch to another machine after their main device gets lost or goes down. IT pros don't have to reconfigure settings for specific devices, and UE-V works with both rich desktops and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) desktops.

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Episode 70 - Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx

14 February 2012 Digital Dave

If you want to learn more about just what makes Windows Azure a true competor to VMware, then this is a video for you.

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, we are very sad to bid Steve Marx farewell as he looks for new challenges outside of Microsoft. Fortunately, we're able to share some of his best moments on the Cloud Cover show and review some of the best demos he's built over the years. (here is the link to the entire article)

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