Monthly Archives: August 2009

links for 2009-08-05

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Michael Koby

Welcome to xen.org, home of the Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization. (tags: technology linux software opensource virtualization virtualmachine)

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Where Are My Windows Virtual Desktops?

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Michael Koby

I was just thinking about the fact that most window managers on Linux have had virtual desktops for as long as I can remember. Apple released something similar in a recent OSX version. Most cell phones have multiple “screens” (see Android and iPhone) for organizing your apps and views. Heck, even some recent Nokia smartphones have a “work” and “home” screens. But why on earth has Microsoft not implemented similar functionality into Windows? We’re coming up on the release of Windows 7 and we are still without features other operating systems have had for well over a decade. Microsoft, where are my virtual desktops on Windows? Continue reading →

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Google’s Chrome Broswer on Linux

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Michael Koby

The past few weeks I’ve been making a real effort to use Google’s Chrome broswer on all my computers. On my work laptop, which runs Windows, it has been a mostly pleasent experience. The browser is fast, responsive, and it seems to handle most sites that I visit quite well. I decided to install the Chrome on my home PC, which runs Linux (Ubuntu 9.04). The experience there has not been so great. Continue reading →