I just created a Twitter account. I’ve been seeing a lot of articles about it lately so I decided to finally give it a try. I’m still not sure whether I’m gonna keep using it, but so far I’m liking it a lot. Very simple and easy to use and it looks like it will be a good complement to my blog.

The first thing that actually came to mind when I signed up for …

We just got back from the Citrix virtualization seminar in Washington D.C. The seminar was very informative with live demos of their products. They pretty much covered all their virtualization products and how they work together: XenApp (application virtualization), XenDesktop (desktop virtualization), and XenServer (server virtualization). They also had three of their customers come in to share their experiences with Citrix virtualization technologies.

Now for the free stuff. Attendees received a small bag (man purse?), …

Our team is attending this event next week in Washington D.C. Click here to register. It’s free!

Score with Virtualization

Date: 2/24/2009
Time: 9:00 am EDT – 3:00 pm EDT
Location:
555 12th St NW
Washington, DC
Hosted by: Citrix Systems Inc.
Venue: ESPN Zone

Agenda

9:00am Registration, breakfast and partner networking
9:30am Opening remarks
10:00am Virtualization Today
10:30am Dynamic Demos
12:30pm Lunch with roundtable discussions
1:30pm Customer panel with moderator intro and Q&A
2:30pm …

Synopsis: The remote service supports the use of weak SSL ciphers. Description : The remote host supports the use of SSL ciphers that offer either weak encryption or no encryption at all. See also : http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html Solution: Reconfigure the affected application if possible to avoid use of weak ciphers. Risk Factor: Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.0 (CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) Plugin output : Here is the list of weak SSL ciphers supported by the remote server …

Warning: Changing the number of virtual processors after the guest OS is installed may make your virtual machine unstable.

You’ve probably seen this message before while working with VMware, especially if you’ve done physical to virtual migrations.

As a best practice, it is recommended to always start with only 1 vCPU when creating virtual machines and only increase the number of vCPUs if you think it’s necessary and if the virtual machine is actually running …