Use Chrome and Chromium Side-By-Side for Easy Profile Management [Chrome]

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Whether you have multiple users or just want different setups for work and play, multiple browser profiles are handy. Instead of going through the trouble to set them up, though, reader cbstryker recommends just using Chrome and Chromium side-by-side instead. More »

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PadPivot – From lap to desk, the ultimate iPad and tablet stand

PadPivot appears to be well on its way to becoming another success story from the project funding site KickStarter. The PadPivot is a universal tablet, iPad, eBook reader stand that has been designed to go from your lap (actually, your leg) to a table top. It even folds for easy storage. The two designers put the PadPivot on KickStarter to get funding of $10,000 for tooling expenses and the money was earned within 3 days. The original request of 10K has already been surpassed and is up to almost 50K! The designers plan to have the PadPivot available by April. Check out the video on either linked site to see what this stand can do. It looks like a winner. You can pre-order yours for $25.

Originally appeared on The Gadgeteer

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Spy Shots: BMW 1 Series frolics in the snow

Spy Shots: BMW 1 Series frolics in the snow: "
Filed under: Spy Photos, Hatchback, BMW

BMW 1 Series spy shots - Click above for high-res image gallery

The BMW 1 Series may have undergone a very slight refresh for the 2012 model year, but it appears that engineers are already hard at work for the next-generation of BMW's current entry-level machine. Here, we see a five-door hatchback version out testing in the snow-laden cold, complete with a set of chains on its rear tires.



Though it appears that the size of the 1 Series hasn't changed much, we can see that the front fascia has been slightly redesigned, probably taking on a shape more akin to what's been done to the larger 5 Series sedan. This prototype is still pretty heavily camouflaged, so it's hard to tell exactly what design tweaks are in store.



As for what's under the hood, your guess is as good as ours. However, BMW's latest commitment to four-cylinder turbocharged engines leads us to believe that the base car will have four-pot power, while the top-end 135i will still likely use the turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six that we currently enjoy.

Gallery: Spy Shots: BMW 1 Series

[Source: CarPix]

Spy Shots: BMW 1 Series frolics in the snow originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Winmount

Winmountis a powerful windows utility which is dedicated to managing files and disks impressively and conveniently. It’s a compression tool, also a virtual disk tool ( Mount RAR ZIP MOU and CD DVD HDD images as virtual disk/folder ). The most characteristic feature is virtualizing compressed archives. That is mounting compressed archives to a virtual disk or a virtual folder without decompression, all actions are taken in a virtual path, protect hard disk, save space.

Supported formats: MOU, RAR, ZIP, 7Z, CAB, ARJ, ISO, GZ, BZ2, TAR, WIM, ISO, BIN, BWT, MDS/MDF, NRG, IMG, ISZ, CUE, CCD, APE, FLAC, WV, VHD, VDI, VMDK.

Compress and Decompress
* Compress ZIP/7Z/ISO/MOU ( support spliting to volumes );
* Decompress ( smart extract ) , browse, modify and convert RAR/ZIP/7Z/ISO/MOU/CAB/ARJ/GZ/BZ2/TAR/WIM;
* Add/read comment and magic page.
Virtualize compressed archive
- Mount archive as virtual disk
* Mount RAR/ZIP/MOU to virtual disk;
* Feature: no decompression, all actions are taken in a virtual path, protect hard disk, save space.

Virtualize compressed archive
- Mount archive as virtual folder
* Quick mount ZIP/MOU/WIM to current folder;
* 1: Maintain Windows operation mode.
* 2: Mount in a instant without decompression.

Mount CD/DVD images
* Mount CD: APE/FLAC/WV;
* Mount DVD: ISO/CUE/BIN/CCD
/BWT/IMG /ISZ/MDS/MDF/NRG;
* Make ISO from physical or virtual CD/DVD ROM.
Mount HDD images
* Mount VHD(Virtual PC), VDI(Virtual Box), VMDK(VMWare);
* 1: Open without virtual machine system.
* 2: Have read-only and write-back mode.

MOU-new compression format
* A new compression standard that developed by WinMount.
* 1: Highly and fastly compressed.
* 2: Completely free.
WMT-new HDD format
* A new storage HDD format that developed by WinMount.
* 1: Can be encrypted.
* 2: Have read-only and write-back mode.

Others
* Mount microsoft WIM | Mount folder;
* Creat blank disk,data will not be saved, the same as RAM-disk;
* Creat blank disk,data can be saved as WMT;
* Advanced: Command lines
Download:
http://hotfile.com/dl/96811983/aa6c7f1/nd-warez.info.WinMount.v3.5.0114.Incl.Keygen-Lz0.rar.html

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AMD Best Practices Series

The Virtual Balancing Act – how many virtual machines are too many?

A lot has been written recently on the number of virtual machines (VMs) that can (or should) optimally and safely run on a single physical server. While there are many differing opinions, most agree on the basic principles. The customers I talk to tell me they attempt to balance performance, utilization and risk in determining what is “optimal”.

We all want to get the most out of our hardware investment, and server consolidation through virtualization plays an important role in meeting, and in many ways exceeding, this goal. But determining just how many VMs can be supported on a particular hardware platform without impacting the performance needs of end user applications can be a tricky task. We have to take into consideration the needs of the differing workloads sharing the same physical resources, including CPU, Memory or I/O bandwidth.

Virtualization can place a high demand on the server’s CPU, memory, cache and I/O bandwidth. To improve just how those resources are used and shared in a virtual environment – in some cases taking the burden off managing those resources in software – AMD has implemented several CPU extensions with our AMDVirtualization™ technology. In addition, the added number of cores, now up to 12 cores per socket with our AMDOpteron™ 6100 Series processor, the additional memory capacity and memory channels, and faster Hyper Transport Links (think HT3) have all helped to increase VM density, or the number of virtual machines that can be on a single physical server.

Based on a very unscientific, random poll I’ve been taking at various trade shows, user group meetings and customer visits, it appears that most administrators attempt to stay within 50 – 65% capacity of their physical servers as long as they are meeting their performance requirements. This seems very realistic to me and a far cry better than the 3-8% utilization rates we were getting prior to implementing a virtualization solution.

At the same time, they tell me they are still reluctant to overload a physical server with a large number of VMs even if the capacity is available. What happens if a hardware failure is encountered? More VMs would be unavailable, more applications would be unavailable, more users would be affected and it would take longer to move those VMs to an available physical server and get everything up and running again. Therein lays the virtual balancing act. We still have to plan for a suitable time to recover in case of an unplanned outage.

Cores and Memory

Another important aspect when considering how many VMs to run is memory. How much memory do you need per core or per VM? It’s my understanding that some experts recommend 2-4GB of memory per core, while others recommend that amount per VM depending on the type of workload. We know from experience that the more cores and memory we have for our virtual environments, the more capacity and better performance we can achieve.

And we can’t forget about I/O. There are new features and technologies being introduced to ensure better throughput and performance for those workloads with heavy I/O characteristics. Stay tuned here for more on that topic soon.

Resources

There are several tools and technical resources available that can help give you a better idea of what your configuration should look like. VMware offers a product calledVMware vCenter CapacityIQwhich plugs into vCenter Server and provides capacity management for both datacenter and desktop environments. Microsoft offers itsAssessment and Planning Toolkitwhich provides server virtualization scenarios to assist in planning for server consolidation with Microsoft Hyper-V.

HP, Dell and a variety of others offer services that utilize these same tools and various other resources that can also be effective, in addition to providing you an independent evaluation of your needs.

Back to our original question: how many is too many? According to a2008 study by SearchVirtualization.com, 62% of the respondents were running 10 or fewer virtual machines per host and 5% were running more than 25 VMs per host. I’m sure these numbers have increased over the last year or more, but by how much?

What criteria do you use to optimize your environment? How many VMs are you running today and how many do you consider ideal?

Tim Mueting is a Product Marketing Manager at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.

Original Post: http://blogs.amd.com

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