Microsoft "Surface"

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/18928656
MSNBC is reporting today the latest and sounds like last major project for Bill Gates. Think of a touch screen that is super-sized combined with a watcom tablet. At least that's what I think of it. It looks pretty cool!

Hmmm, of course, as a coffee table you'd have to be careful when you put your feet up, or put a cup of hot coffee on it... then again, maybe it'll tell you the temperature of the coffee or when it is low (by weight maybe) and trigger the pot to start brewing some more hot coffee... oh the possibilities.

It's a sad day.

Well, It's a sad day today. I knew this day was coming soon. But, my Beta fish, Phydeaux, died last night. I could tell something wasn't right. For the past few days, he wasn't eating well, and was just floating around the surface.

He was a good little fish: red, with bright fins. I'll miss him.

Cool features of VMWare Workstation 6

Well, my friend found a really cool feature of VMWare workstation 6. It has a built in VNC server. So leaving the VM up and running, you can head home, and using a VNC viewer, you can now connect up to the VM and start working.

That will be a nice feature to use, so whether I'm at home or on vacation, if I have internet and a VNC viewer, I can still get to my desktop and keep working. I'm not sure what flavor they use, but it would be nice if they allowed for blanking the monitor and mouse like UltraVNC does.

Next Version of Sql Server: Katmai

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx
It looks as though Microsoft just announced their next version of Sql Server, code name Katmai.

From their site:

SQL Server code name "Katmai," the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights.

VMWare announces new version

VMWare just released version 6 of workstation and version 2 of player:

http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/

Currently, I have their free server running all of my development VMs on a nice external hard drive. That makes life really easy for bringing your work home... which might not always be a good thing.

It even works on Vista. I had a co-worker just get a new machine with vista 64 on it, and it works great.