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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows Server 2008 RC 1 I began my Windows Server 2008 RC 1 tests by installing the product on a VMware ESX Server-hosted VM (virtual machine), but the lack of a network adapter driver for my VM sent me back to a physical machine to continue my tests. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Stratus ftServer 6200 One of the ways that the Stratus VTM (Virtual Technician Module) remote manager keeps in touch is by sending status e-mails. As you can see, this can result in a lot of e-mail. The e-mail shown, sent to my personal account, arrived during a period of less eWEEK Labs […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 The interface of the latest version of Visual Studio is virtually identical to its predecessor’s, with a similar looking Start Page as the default load option. Want to know what’s new in Microsoft’s newest IDE (integrated development environment)? Navigat eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 […]

eWEEK Labs Evaluation: Snap Server 730i The Snap Server 730i is an iSCSI SAN (storage-area network) contained in a 1U (1.75-inch) chassis. Behind the front bezel are four hot-swappable SATA (Serial ATA) drives totaling 3 terabytes. In the version I tested, one drive was a hot spare and three we eWEEK Labs Evaluation: Snap Server […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard As with previous OS X releases, upgrading was as simple as popping in the new DVD, restarting and next, next, nexting my way through the installer application. I was annoyed, however, when Leopard required me to register anew after installation. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X […]

eWEEK Labs Walkthrough: FileMaker 9 Professional FileMaker 9 requires product activation, but its easy to deactivate the software for installation on a separate machine. eWEEK Labs Walkthrough: FileMaker 9 Professional – Quick Start FileMaker 9 sports a quick start dialog that points users toward a variety of template database projects. eWEEK Labs Walkthrough: FileMaker 9 […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: OpenOffice.org 2.3 Users can now export documents created in Writer to the MediaWiki format. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: OpenOffice.org 2.3 – Multilingual The addition of 14 more languages brings OpenOffices total number of languages supported to nearly 130. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: OpenOffice.org 2.3 – Explosive Information Improvements made to the software suites Chart […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta The service pack we tested tipped the scales at 687MB and required a generous 7GB of free space (or 12GB for the x64 version) on the Vista machine to be patched. eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta – Prerelease EULA No Windows setup […]

eWEEK Labs Tests Windows Server 2008 Virtualization While the so-called community technology preview version of Microsofts new hypervisor rides with Windows Server 2008 RC0, the new Microsoft virtualization bits arent, strictly speaking, part of RC0. The upshot of this is that I had to install a couple o eWEEK Labs Tests Windows Server 2008 Virtualization […]

IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing I took the Lotus Symphony beta for a spin on both Windows and Linux machines. No word yet on an OS X version, but considering that Eclipse (on which Symphonys UI is based) runs on OS X, a Mac port cant be too far away. IBMs Lotus […]