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Top 10 blogs that VMware administrators must read
1) http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/
• Mike Laverick’s RTFM Education blog is a great source for learning more about VMware. His free guides that he writes on a variety of material are a great source for learning more about VMware and going beyond the manual.
2) http://blog.scottlowe.org/
• Scott Lowe blogs on many technical areas that administrators will find extremely useful. Scott has a wealth of knowledge and experience and his posts are always worth reading.
3) http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/
• One of Tech Target’s blogs that encompasses all virtualization platforms. In addition to Tech Target’s staff there are several regular contributors including: Rick Vanover, Eric Siebert and Andrew Kutz.
4) http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/
• Another Tech Target blog that focuses solely on VMware related topics. In addition to Tech Target’s staff there are several regular contributors including: Rick Vanover, Eric Siebert and Andrew Kutz.
5) http://vmetc.com/
• Richard Brambley’s blog has many good tips and news items for all virtualization products but with more focus on VMware. Many of his posts also detail his experiences working with VMware and are quite helpful.
6) http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/
• Eric Sloof is a VCI located in the Netherlands that has been blogging on Vmware for many years. His posts are always informative and are another great source for tips and news on VMware related topics.
7) http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354
• CIO magazine’s Virtualization Advisor blog has posts from Edward Haletky, Kevin Fogarty and Laurianne McLaughlin. This blog covers all virtualization products and also benefits from Edward’s VMware knowledge and experience especially in the security field.
http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/virtualization/index.html
• You gotta love the Hoff, Christofer Hoff’s blog focuses on virtualization security. Hoff doesn’t pull any punches and is not afraid to say what’s on his mind when tackling sensitive security topics. His often witty and shrewd blog posts reflect his intimate knowledge and experience with security related topics.
9) http://www.yellow-bricks.com/
• Duncan Epping’s relatively new blog on VMware topics is another great source for technical tips and information. Duncan recently accepted a job working for VMware and we look forward to more great posts from him.
10) http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/ and http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/
• Two great blogs that are part of VMware’s official collection of blogs by VMware staff. The Virtual Reality blog was created to fight mis-information that is often reported when comparing other virtualization products with VMware. The performance blog (Vroom) is dedicated to covering performance-related topics and is a great source of technical information.

Top 10 news and information websites that VMware administrators must visit
1) http://www.virtualization.info/
• This popular website covers the entire virtualization industry and is a great source for all the latest news. Alessandro often reports major news scoops before anyone else and is the place to go to find out all the news, speculation and rumors in the industry.
2) http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/
• Tech Target’s website that was launched to focus solely on VMware related topics. This website has many great feature articles, tips, white papers, news, webcasts and other information.
3) http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/
• Another Tech Target website that covers all virtualization products. This website has many great feature articles, tips, white papers, news, webcasts and other information.
4) http://virtualization.sys-con.com/
• A great source for news, blogs, interviews, webcasts and white papers for the entire virtualization industry.
5) http://www.virtual-strategy.com/
• This online magazine has many great feature articles, podcasts, columns, news and many other resources that provide some great information on all virtualization products.
6) http://www.dabcc.com/
• Another great source for virtualization news, articles, columns, podcasts and blogs. This website is updated quite frequently each day with many new articles and posts.
7) http://virtualization.com/
• This website is a good resource for all the latest news in the virtualization industry. It also features many good interviews and articles on virtualization.
http://virtualizationadmin.com/
• A new website that was recently launched that is geared towards virtualization administrators. This website features many great tips, articles and blog posts from many contributor’s including David Davis and has a lot of great technical information.
9) http://virtualizationreview.com/
• This website has a lot of great content on virtualization including columns, tips, news, feature articles and blogs from Keith Ward and Tom Valovic.
10) http://vmblog.com/
• David Marshall’s website that covers all the latest virtualization news in the industry. Another website that is updated quite frequently each day with many new items.
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rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. The rdesktop supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0.

The rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

I have an Ubuntu Hardy x64 running on my Dell desktop and another Dell laptop running Windows XP Professional with screen resolution 1152 x 1024.

How to launch rdesktop on Ubuntu Hardy?
Click Applications -> click Internet -> click Terminal Server Client(tsclient).

Enter computer name or IP address, select RDP protocol, enter username & password, and click open. Basically you should be able to connect to your remote desktop computer or server.

If you click on Display, and click use specified screen size, then you should be able to see default Specified Screen Size as below:
640 x 480
800 x 600
1024 x 768
1152 x 864
1280 x 960
1400 x 1250

What happen if I need to have different screen size? Don’t worry! You can use a command line
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Do you having a problem accessing http://www.malaysiakini OR http://www1.malaysiakini.com/, I would suggest you try http://malaysiakini.takizo.com/.

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If you’re Nuffnang members, I’m sure you’ll received Nuffnang newsletter about Happy-O-Meter as below:

Dear Nuffnangers,

We people at Nuffnang never sit still on our chairs, always thinking of ways to make advertising more exciting for our advertisers; and you, our bloggers.

Courtesy of the nice people at Happy, we’re proud to introduce the new Happy-O-Meter, which allows you to display how happy or unhappy you are. Not only does it display your current mood, but also displays a historical average of your moods, thus allowing people to find out if you’re a happy or sad person. Time to roll in the Happy faces.!

With the Happy O Meter, you can also update your status message to tell people why you’re feeling that way. Be it a simple shout out on how great your day is, or a little message to someone special who would be visiting your blog.

You can also change the colours of the Happy O Meter to suit your blog’s theme.

To use the Happy-O-Meter, just login into your Nuffnang account and head on to http://www.nuffnang.com.my/blogger/happy-o-meter.

Cheers!

One day later, I have received another email from Nuffnang:

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Look at my VMware ESX Server CPU Resources.

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As you can see from graph above, my VMware ESX Server running for more than 85% - 97% of CPU resources.

Basically I have 2 VMware ESX 3.5 running on top of Dell R900, Intel Xeon E7330 @2.4 Ghz processor and 128 RAM on each server.  The CPU hungry incident happen when I did a vMotion about 40 VM guests from ESX 1 to another ESX 2 server for VMware ESX host patches update. Thanks god! My VM guest are still running without any issue and this is mixed of PRODUCTION and DEVELOPMENT servers.

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