Improved management features, integrated virtualization and a new Internet Information Server. The server version of Windows Vista offers a number of newoptions. Clicking on this link brings the administrator directly to the options available for this service. Below the main page there are some additional options tailored specifically to the currently selected server role. Thus, in our example, we find additional options for disk management as well as share and storage management. ...

• -A Look At Windows Server 2008

The host and the prefix options we've seen before. The LIBS options is specific to this package. Investigation of the configure script showed an option, LIBS, that could be used to add extra libraries to the link. The other newoption, ac_cv_func_setpgrp_void is also a bit of a hack....

iPod Nano and Classic Review: The Brand New Retro. iPod Nano Classic. We could allow ourselves to speak of a semi-revision of the iPod interface in the new models. On the left, we find the traditional iPod menu, showing options on a white background. There is also a newoption available while playing a file: the possibility to activate shuffle mode. This new interface seems very interesting to us, aesthetic and practical....

Improved management features, integrated virtualization and a new Internet Information Server. The server version of Windows Vista offers a number of newoptions. Optional settings regarding performance or behaviour, for example the boot device order, the number of processors the virtual computer should have, and the maximum workload of the machine, are also available. Since the virtual machines are primarily used in server environments, there are separate configuration options telling the VMs what to do when the host system starts up or shuts down....

• -A Look At Windows Server 2008

It arrived later than expected, but it is also better than expected: Check out Samsung’s new hard drive family, the Spinpoint F1, which takes the pole position. Samsung joins the terabyte circle with its new HD103UJ; Western Digital follows up with a Green Power RAID Edition drive. The availability of terabyte hard drives at well below £250 is not only important for corporate customers that need to create large-capacity storage with a minimum drive count, it also opens up newoptions for end users: a 1 TB drive is large enough to hold all of our personal data for the next few years, at least for the very vast majority of us. Finally, larger hard drives will also contribute to further price drops of mainstream capacities such as 400 and 500 GB. Not only is Samsung’s new Spinpoint F1 a valuable addition to the existing terabyte drive offerings....