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This week I bought myself a FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170. I threw out my Quattrovox and hooked up my fax, ISDN phones and analog phones to the FRITZ!Box. Normally I don’t read the manual but this time I had to look some things up before I got everything working ;-). From now on all my outside calls are routed over the internet using the sip server over at Voipcheap.com. I don’t have to pay any outside telephone calls to the KPN (the largest Dutch telecom company) anymore. Now I’m talking over the Internet with Voice over IP -- without turning on your PC, and without changing my phone number. And FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN also puts my PCs on the Internet at ADSL speed -- over Ethernet, USB or wireless LAN -- always with firewall protection, and with wireless encryption activated out of the box. When you are going to configure a FRITZ!Box the first thing you should do is put it in expert mode. Don’t forget to create a dialing rule for all the numbers that start with a 0. Happy phoning!

For some reason, it seems that most VMware users shrug NFS off as only being good enough to store ISO files. Many wouldn't dare run production (or in some cases, even development) environments on anything other than FC or iSCSI. Unfortunately, Thomas Bishop feels that many are missing out. You can read the full article at Scale The Mind.

Besides the fact that the performance is a bit slow (Jive is still working on it) the new VMware Technology Network looks great. If you are familiar with VMware Technology Network (VMTN), you will see all of the functions you have come to know, plus a number of new functions like personal blogs for all community members, collaborative wiki documents, wysiwyg editing of discussions and wiki documents, tagging of all content, improved search, and replying to threads via email. These features are meant to increase the benefits you get from participating in the community. You really should take the quick tour.

Just days after the VMworld 2007 event a lot of company’s released new versions on their software. Alessandro Perilli over at virtualization.info made a nice roundup.

VMware Workstation 6.0.1
Dunes VS-O Lifecycle 1.0
OpenVZ for Linux kernel 2.6.22
PlateSpin PowerRecon 3.1
Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite 5.9
CiRBA Data Center Intelligence 4.4
Surgient VMLA 5.3
Parallels Desktop 3.0 Feature Update

VMware announced that it has filed a 10-Q for the second quarter of 2007 with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).  A summary of the company’s second quarter financial information was disclosed earlier this year in the company’s S-1 registration statement.  The 10-Q, which includes detailed information for the quarter ending June 30, 2007, is available online.

I hope you have enjoyed VMworld 2007. This year's event featured more than 10,800 attendees and 147 sponsors and exhibitors this year, compared to 7,000 attendees and 82 sponsors and exhibitors last year. There were also more than 250 breakout sessions and 100 hands-on labs to participate in, making VMworld 2007 the most exciting and interactive conference devoted to virtualization. But it’s not over yet. VMworld.com now extends the success of the VMworld conference to an online virtualization destination open to anyone to learn and share what they know about virtualization. VMworld.com is an independent virtualization resource available 24x7. While not a replacement for the unique face-to-face networking opportunity of the conference, you can now get access to valuable information and conference sessions, talk with vendors, get tips and tricks from other virtualization users, and hear the latest virtualization buzz every day online. Access the latest resources and information you need to make informed decisions about implementing virtualization.