I was recently at a VM User’s Group (VMUG) meeting and heard mention of using Google to isolate searches to one website.  I assumed this was possible, but I hadn’t looked into it.  For instance, VMware’s website search is not as good as using Google to search the VMware website.  To focus Google’s search to one specific website, type the following in the Google search:

searchstring site: sitetosearch.domain

example:

esxcfg-vmknic site:vmware.com

Since I like to try new things related to IT, I thought I would try out one of Mozilla’s latest projects, the Minefield internet browser.  In the past year I have tried Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox, Internet Explorer 8 (IE), and Google’s Chrome.  My current favorites are Firefox and IE.  Unfortunately my employer is not a big fan of trying the latest version of Firefox even though I’m only using it on my desktop, I’m not deploying it to other desktops, and I’m using it knowing that I am responsible for supporting it.  In fact, our desktop people officially only support IE 6.

Sorry for the tangent…

For a pre-beta (alpha) of an internet browser, I am greatly impressed with how stable the Minefield browser is.  I realize that Minefield has a look and feel very similar to Firefox, but for me, there is something to be said for trying something new and being amazed when it works and how fast it is.

To obtain the latest (nightly) build of the Minefield browser, visit:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

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For a bit of nostalgia, I was trying to remember some of the first internet browsers that I used while working at computer labs in college and decided to take a look at the following webpage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

The university computer lab that I occasionally worked in (1991-1993) was fortunate to have several NeXT workstations with the WorldWideWeb browser and later the Mosaic browser installed.  In 1993-1995 while still in college I occasionally worked at a computer lab that had a few OS/2 Warp workstations with the IBM WebExplorer installed, but most of my time was spent at a Windows/Mac computer lab, where we used the following browsers: EINet’s WinWeb, NCSA’s Mosaic, EINet’s MacWeb, Minuet, Netscape Navigator, MacWWW, and Lynx.

I am always getting asked lots of questions on what VMware is and exactly what it does.  Until now I did not have a single video or article that explained almost everything that could be done by VMware.  During one of the Vmware Virtualization Forums one of the presentations was recorded.  Below is the video from Richard Garsthagen presentation “VMware Vision and Future Direction” which was done at the Swedish Virtualization Forum.  I highly recommend watching the video if you are new to virtualizaiton and even if you have been around it for a long period of time.  I think everybody will walk away learing something new from this video.  Please let me know what you think.