This is specifically marketed towards VMWare users who require ALOT of ram. Rather than incurring high disk IO in the guest operating system, some random writes can be offset to RAM thus resulting in a faster responding Virtual Machine while minimizing disk I/O.

Exchange Server is one such example. There’s a great amount of disk I/O and on top of that, Exchange is a notorious memory hog.

Alternatively, one may use existing usb flash drives. however the lifespan on writes on flash ram is alot shorter forcing one to replace flash sticks as often as one would replace a flashlight battery.

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Some of the expected features (I thought) would have been:

Webcam (if not 2 for potential 3D)
Why no webcam? I was even expecting 2. Wouldn’t it be great if this thing could be used for augmented reality?

Cellular voice phone capabililities
When paired with a bluetooth headset, you essentially have yourself a phone. I doubt that will make for a useful phone.. but at least it’s an option.

USB port
noticable lack of peripheral support unless it was an apple product. They clamped down on software and hardware. Worth noting though, with an adapter, you get usb port to use a webcam, however I don’t believe you get to plug ANY usb devices. This is basically an iphone OS after all.

Full Webbrowser
like the iphone, the browser in this is nice and slick to scroll around. However flash is absent, and DHTML and Javascript support isn’t complete. It’s enough to view most websites, but leaves me wanting a desktop OS with a browser of my choosing with all the bells and whistles.

Not a Tablet
No pen input. Therefore no handwriting. Buttons and inputting will be somewhat large similar to existing iphone UI.

So who is it for?
Really it’s just made for the print media businesses. They wanted a device that they can sell subscriptions of their content without direct competition from websites. Certainly with the crippled browsing capabilities and locked down approach to apps and subscription approach to content in itunes clearly works to limit the consumer of choice. The demoed subscription content looks virtually identical to a typical website one would see from the mobile safari if flash and video capabilities were available. Should this device captivate a large enough audience. We should see alot more iphone/ipad friendly websites.

I saw superman in 3D which was a lame attempt at doing this very thing. having only parts of the movie in 3D. And what’s worst is that the 3D effect was basically 2D live action animated objects superimposed onto each other. In effect, you get what you see from Paper Mario. or something similar to a 3D birthday popup card. Lame indeed. To the movie execs, please do not encourage this. Star Wars in true 3D would be great. But I would wait another 10 years if they would perfect it.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

Timing:
netbooks a plenty. windows 7 and Snow Leopard showing it’s bulkiness. What a better way prolong using your existing hardware than to run a leaner OS. Apple has shut the door on atom users hackintoshing, and windows 7 doesn’t offer significant performance over windows xp (in atom with intel 940 chipsets). Chrome OS (maybe even android) is what people are eagerly waiting for. Those that don’t know or don’t care will be easy converts once the OS is available.

Easy to Try:
Like Linux with LiveCD and windows PE (Preinstallation Enviornment), it’ll be easy to transition people first by having an OS that can boot from CD/thumbdrive.

Web Applications:
MS seems to know this for quite sometime that retail software may be at an end and that charge by service model could be what is in store next. Windows Office Live is their incarnation of just that. Not for everyone, but if businesses started using Chrome OS, they wouldn’t essentially be out of Word or Excel because they could run the web instance. Google Docs is an alternative, but I remain admit that the business world still revolves around transferring Word and Excel documents, like it or not.
Apple has MobileMe. If they retooled iWork to work as a web application, perhaps they can compete.

What Others Did Wrong:
MS released Windows CE/Windows Mobile. That also acted as a thin client with modest ability to do terminal services. Most importantly Terminal Services Remote App. This could have easily been promoted more and it’s features enhanced to compete in the Chrome OS space. However, Windows CE really needs a visual overhaul (windows mobile also. A rant I will defer later). And ideally more (.net) applications. About the only people using WinCE now is assembly line pc’s with robotics or restaurants running POS.
Apple, with their Snow Leopard/OSX proves that not only MS can really mess up when it comes to software. I love Apple hardware, but when it comes to them and software, it really disappoints me. Although underlying os is a flavor of linux, depending on library files on compiling from source other than the most common applications seems to be a pain. Apple will go through updates and remove/alter my library file dependencies because they don’t match.  with an Apple created program, it is a simple matter of dragging in to install, dragging out to (and into trash) to uninstall. Well that only works if it’s basic applications. try to do that with a database app and see how well that works.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/live-from-googles-chrome-os-project-announcement/

SELECT @todaysdate = CAST(YEAR(GETDATE()) as varchar)
+ RIGHT(’00′ + CAST(MONTH(GETDATE()) as varchar), 2)
+ RIGHT(’00′ + CAST(DAY(DATEADD(DAY, -1, GETDATE())) as varchar), 2);

SELECT @backupdatabase = ‘mydatabasename’;
SELECT @backuplocation = ‘F:\’ + @backupdatabase + ‘.’ + @todaysdate + ‘.BAK’;
BACKUP DATABASE @backupdatabase TO DISK = @backuplocation WITH  NOFORMAT, NOINIT,  NAME = N’Full Database Backup’, SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10;

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

There are strings attached to this process. you’ll need a thumb-drive and the process will require you to transfer the files from thumb-drive back to your computer unless you’re comfortable playing off the thumb-drive and not tight on space. I do this to archive The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live. I’ll post later on how you can use wmv to stream to your Windows Mobile phone through the internet.

Step 1 Prepare drive
format the drive and decompress the following file into your thumb-drive. It is the files that were created from my Mobile Phone when synced with WMP. They contain the re-sized resolution and compression necessary to compress a 1.5 gig 1 hour lowest quality SD recording into a WM6 Resolution compatible WMV file approx 150megs. reasonable loss of quality for me, however if you wish to have better resolution, you may need to modify the files or grab a zune hd profile sync of WMP.
File:
WMP Sync XML Information (from htc touch paired with Win7)

Step 2 Sync
stick in thumbdrive, open WMP, remove previous sync partnership and then create one again. At this time you can specify what tv shows you want synced, by default windows media player will attempt to add everything, music, tv, video, the works. I just have 3 last episodes of Conan, SNL, and Falon. Sync should now be working

Step 3 Archiving
Now that videos are transferred, it’s time to do some cleanup. copy the files from your thumb-drive over to your hard-drive ideally from a folder that MCE can see. Recorded TV is probably not best place to put it because that folder is technically only for WTV files and you can’t be sure if files will be cleared up to save space. avoid deleting recordings from the thumb-drive, WMP will try to transfer missing videos upon next sync. Instead, delete tv recordings from MCE or in the recorded tv folder.

That’s it. All this is done without the aid of third party software. Not ideal, but it does work. I’ve investigated on possible ways to fake a shared folder as if it was a usb removable storage. However, so far, I was unable to locate one. It is unfortunate that WMP and MCE doesn’t offer an way to trans-code the file without introducing a secondary device to sync with.

Hope this helps someone out there.