Posted by kylistah on January 21, 2008
Microsoft reverses itself again on Vista virtualization. Flip-flopping in an election year, sure… but not from your software vendor.
Nonetheless,
Microsoft has changed its mind again, saying it will allow users to run
Vista Home Basic and
Vista Home Premium as guest operating systems on a virtual machine. Now, this is good news for
Mac users who want to run the latest Windows version without having to pay a fortune, sell their soul, and give up their first born. Until now,
Mac users and others wanting to run
Vista virtually have had to do all of these above. OK, maybe not
all of the above…
Microsoft had let it be known to reporters in June of 2007 that it was going to expand Vista’s virtualization options, but then for reasons that were never made clear, it reversed itself and never announced such a move.In any case, Monday’s move will certainly be welcomed by enthusiasts, Mac users, and virtualization software vendors such as Parallels.
Microsoft has made some interesting announcements recently. Read the full article here.
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Posted by kylistah on January 21, 2008
Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP has always had the ability to combine politics and technology. In the 1980’s, Zimmermann was a software engineer by day and pulling a double work load as a military police analyst for the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. By doing this, he saw the need to develop e-mail software encryption as a means to protect human rights efforts both overseas and at home.
In 1991 he created PGP and published it free on the Internet.
His latest project is Zfone which provides secure telephony on the Internet:
Zfone is a new secure VoIP phone software product which lets you make encrypted phone calls over the Internet. Its principal designer is Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, the most widely used email encryption software in the world. Zfone uses a new protocol called ZRTP, which has a better architecture than the other approaches to secure VoIP.
* Doesn’t depend on signaling protocols, PKI, or any servers at all. Key negotiations are purely peer-to-peer through the media stream
* Inter-operates with any SIP/RTP phone, auto-detects if encryption is supported by other endpoint
* Available as a “plugin” for existing soft VoIP clients, effectively converting them into secure phones
* Available as an SDK for developers to integrate into their VoIP applications
* Submitted to IETF as a proposal for a public standard, and source code is published
Read more on this here. There is also a good read in VON Magazine.
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