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Using Citrix XenServer to Virtualize Windows Servers with XenSource

Setting up new Dell OctoCore Server with two four-core Intel Xeon processors.

Asus N10J-A2 Netbook

Asus N10J-A2 Netbook Specs:

• Processor: Intel's Atom 1.60GHz
• OS: Microsoft's Vista Business edition
• HD: 320GB hard drive
• 802.11 n Wireless Networking
• NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
• RAM: 2GB DDR II
• Express Gate
• 1.3 MP Integrated Webcam
• Fingerprint Reader
• Altec Lansing Speakers
• Express Card Slot/34
• USB 2.0 Port
• Gigabit Ethernet Ports
• Bluetooth Wireless Technology
• HDMI Port
• 6 Cell Lithium-ion Battery
• Asus Bag included
• 10.2-inch WSVGA Display
• 1024 x 600 Resolution
  

Asus eeePC windows XP boot time comparasion from the internal SSD and a 4GB SDHC (Sandisk class2). Synced from the end of the bootdisk selection menu.

Asus eeePC boot time comparasion from the internal SSD and a 4GB SDHC

How to make Windows XP run faster

This video tutorial have at the time 5 start sating from the 1,023 ratings on youtube. If you run windows XP you should see this video to make Windows run much faster.

One part of this video tutorial shows you how to disable services and startup items you don't need and enhance system performance.

The autor recommends to download TweakUI: Tweak UI is another useful tweaking software made by microsoft. Open it in C:\windows\system32\tweakui.exe

SQL Server 2005 - How to get a list of Databases and DB Files.

This is a how to video that shows you how to get a list of Databases and DB Files using SQL Server 2005. Hope this can help you :-)

SQL Server 2005 - How to get a list of Databases and DB Files video.

Maximize SQL Server Performance with SQL Tuning Video will help you to understand Microsoft tuning techniques. It teachs tips and tricks for making queries perform better, and how to use tools to tune SQL.

Maximize SQL Server Performance with SQL Tuning Video

This video is a SQL Server 2005 installation tutorial. It will show how to install SQL Server 2005 Express and the SQL Server Management Studio. Good webhosting companies should have this kind of stuff for SQL hosting :-)

SQL Server 2005 installation tutorial video

This is a curious video that shows PlayStation 3 running Windows XP from linux!
Windows XP runs in an emulation mode from linux kernel on PlayStation 3 :-)

PlayStation 3 running Windows XP video:

This video shows you how to run Fedora Core 5 on the Playstation 3. Enjoy :-)

Fedora Core 5 on the Playstation 3 Video

Dell Precision M6400

You use hard software on your laptop and are tired to get slow response?

Precision Line from Dell have the solution, the new Dell M6400

Dell M6400
Screen: 17' with LED Technology and 1920 by 1200 px resolution
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Core Extrem
RAM: 16 GB expansible to 1TB
Hard Drive: 2X 500GB Hard Disk - Raid 0 configures
Graphic Card: NVIDEA QUADRO FX 3700; (1GB memory)

This is a good choice (if you have money) to a sysadmin who needs great hardware specs on a latop.

Dell Precision M6400

This video shows you how to build and install or uninstall an application from source using NetBSD package management system: "pkgsrc"

What is pkgsrc?
pkgsrc (NetBSD Packages Collection) is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems.
It contains over 7300 packages and is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms.

How to use pkgsrc video:

How to Hide Files inside image files - This video shows how to Hide Files inside JPEG files. It can be used in Windows XP and Windows Vista.

This video tutorial will show how to use a bash script to install your own Counter Strike Server in Ubuntu Linux.

Setup CSS server in Ubuntu Linux Video:

This video will show you How to trace an IP or URL address to their starting location using Windows command functions.

How to trace an IP to their starting location video:

How to make a webserver using XAMPP Video
XAMPP is a easy to install program that you can use to turn your computer (running windows) into a web server (apache based). This video also shows to you a step to step installation guide for XAMPP

How to use FunFx (Ruby-based testing framework for Flex) video tutorial will show you how to use FunFX, a free, open-source, and Ruby-based automated testing framework for Adobe Flex applications. You can also learn with this video how to drive a Flex application through a web browser (video by rubyforge.org)

This is a small video from "The Screen Savers" showing some tips using atp-get commands on debian.


Linux Tips - Click here for more amazing videos

This video will show you how to run an operating system (Linux for example, dos, windows etc.) under Windows. You can of course run Windows Vista under your current system instead of Linux. Virtual system makes it good to test diffirent operating systems safely and easily.

How to - Run Linux Under Windows Video:

Run Linux Under WIndows Tutorial - Watch a funny movie here

This videos teachs a simple way to protect important files within their linux server, you can hidden directories.

Linux Hidden Directories Video:

Prevent Hackers Using Linux Hidden Directories - The top video clips of the week are here