Care for Mandriva 2007?

I noticed that Mandriva 2007 is out now. Unbelievably, I miss it's announcement. Anyway here is the quick link to Mandriva 2007 free edition download pages. I will download it soonest possible and testing it on my notebook.

Just to share my experiences, I've supervised the set up of my school's computer lab which preinstall with windows 98 (yes, I now what you saying) and installing Mandriva 2006 Free Edition as dual-booting (with blessing from my previous principal, Hjh Wan Noriah Wan Musa). Unfortunately, it's a mixed satisfaction, as my schools pc although Pentium 4 1.5, RAM is only 128mb which by standard is just minimal requirement. So I have to switch to PCLinuxOS 0.92 and part of the lab using Edubuntu 6.06. for malaysian teacher who have an interest with this kind of experiment at your school, you may contact me via this blog to share my experience. It's kind of easy to do it, as long as you don't violate Windows licensing.

In my case, I suggest the school to try linux (any distro in this matter) to provide the teacher and student the ability to use new technology. The shortcoming of windows 98se is lack support of usb drive, but we can't afford to upgrade to WindowsXP (lack of money and having to upgrade the hardware as well). In short, my school accept my suggestion to experimenting with linux distro. Frankly I believe it is a quick success as student didn't notice any diffences amount the linux the use now with windows they used to use. They even feeling happy as the can use their 256mb thumbdrive!

I jump to joy!

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available NOW

Just sharing this news, IE7 is out now since 18th October 2006. Among interesting features are tabs (like firefox), and more secure than before. For those interested in reading more about it, you can go to respective blog entries here. I myself still use both IE6 and Firefox but I prefer Firefox the most due to its tab features and popup block. I merely use IE6 to enable me logon to my tmnet account which is fussy about other browser (hint: maybe they intended to do that).

I guess, it's everybody freedom to try. It's free but still proprietory for licensed os user. After reading you can download here, Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP/64 & Server 2003 (about 15 MB).

VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY FOR FREE (as in free lunch)

I just visited microsoft website and quite surprise by their offerings.
Before I go any further, let me tell you about my experience. I am quite familiar with virtualization concept for quite a while back in 2002. I've been tinkering with VirtualPC and VMWare workstation (the later is the one that i use most). Ever since microsoft tookover connectix, microsoft have marketed VPC as the own brand, microsoft virtulpc 2004, and it's been quite expensive. Unfortunately, microsoft have decided NOT to offer for WindowsXP Home Edition user, and that makes me migrated to vmware workstation by becoming one of their tester.

Anyway, 2005 i believe is a year where vmware decided to offer virtualization for free by offering a vmware player for download. Not only that, it support windowsxp home edition (the one that preloaded with my notebook) which is a bless for me. NOW just recently, microsoft has announced that their virtual pc 2004 SP1 is now available for download without any charges/fee.

I believe, it's a smart move to compete with vmware and due to the existence of new, enhance, powerful, TOTALLY FREE, virtualization technology offering named XEN virtualization.

What's is the purpose of virtualization. Well you can setup a new 'virtual' pc inside you own OS (called host os) like any distribution of linux as a guest host. (I use vmware to familiarize myself with ubuntu, and learning how to setup a network within linux and windows) . Oh you can also installed windows 3.1x, windows 98 or latest windows, provided you have separate license. VirtualPC is cost-free but GUEST PC is NOT. You need a proper license for that. Never mind, just let linux occupy you virtualpc (but not supported directly).

I can't make you understand just by typing here. Why don't you just google this keyword 'free virtualization' you will get the right info.

Portable Applications Getting A Momentum with U3

Sekadar nak kongsi makumat berkenaan pendekatan terkini menyediakan atau melancarkan perisian. Tanpa perlu instal seperti kebiasaan, anda hanya perlu memuatturun, unzip dan terus boleh gunakannya samaada dari harddisk, usb drive ataupun yang terkini dari CDROM! Nak tau lebih lanjut, sebagai permulaan layari dulu http://www.portableapps.com. Lepas tu carilah maklumat lanjut melalui google atau yahoo dengan kata kunci portable application. Ok.
Oh ya, kalau nak beli usbdrive, eloklah rasanya anda membeli yang ada logo U3. Baca pasal U3 di http://www.u3.com. mana-mana usbdrive yang ada logo U3 akan mempunyai beberapa perisian portable (mudahalih) untuk digunakan di mana-mana komputer (boleh pinjam komputer orang lain) dan melancarkan perisian kegemaran anda tanpa perlu instal ke dalam harddisk mereka. Diramalkan ia akan menjadi satu fenomena baru dalam penjualan usb drive dan mungkin memberi kesan kepada penjualan notebook. Mana tau. Oktober 2006 (bulan ni) merupakan pelancaran U3. Ok.