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Unter anderem folgende Features: - Cross OS application file integration with Parallels SmartSelect - Coherence 2.0, including shared folders and UI enhancements - Expanded support for USB 2.0 devices - Shared printers for cross OS printing - Significant enhancements in performance and audio quality - Bulletproof your VMs with SnapShots Download: http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/ Ausführlicher Changelog: "What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac includes the following new features and feature improvements: • Coherence 2.0 - Run your Windows and Mac OS X applications in single integrated environment o Inversed Shared Folders - Mount your Windows file system and access its files and folders directly from Mac OS X o Security levels - Select security level using security slider in virtual machie configuration. Choose desired balance between virtual machine isolation and guest Windows and Mac OS X integration according your needs. o SmartSelect - Open your documents in Mac OS X or Windows using any available Mac OS X or Windows application Auto registration - On first start of any Windows application this application is made default for opening document types which have no default Mac OS X application Windows binary integration - Run Windows binaries from directly Mac OS X Editable documents associations - Right click on running Windows application in Dock and edit list of associated documents types. Associate each document type with running Windows application or with original Mac OS X application Open With Integration - Right-click your document in Mac OS X or Windows and choose any available Mac OS X or Windows application from the Open With list Double-click Integration - Double-click your document in Mac OS X or Windows to open it in the default Mac OS X or Windows application. For example: Double-click a document in Mac Finder to open it in Windows Word or Excel Double-click a picture or PDF in Windows Explorer to open it with Mac Preview Double click any EXE program in Mac Finder to start it in Windows Double-click a DMG file in Windows Explorer to mount it in Mac OS X Shared Default Browser/FTP/Mail - Click a web/ftp link in Windows to open it with Mac OS Safari; click a mailto link in Mac OS X to open it with Windows Outlook Reset Windows Applications - Browse to Applications menu and click "Reset Windows applications" button to remove all applications stubs and clean all file associations with Windows o Flexible Dock Integration - Choose integration level for Windows applications in the Dock from Never, Always and Only in Coherence o Windows Start menu Integration - Click the Parallels icon in the Dock to show the Windows Start menu • Accelerated 3D graphics - Enjoy 3D applications and 3D games running at almost native speed o OpenGL support - Run OpenGL applications and OpenGL games at native speed in the Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista guest operating systems o Limited DirectX 8.1 support - Run DirectX applications and DirectX games at native speed in the Windows XP/2003/Vista guest operating systems. • Snapshots - Save the running virtual machine state and revert back to it at any time o Multiple Snapshots - Create multiple snapshots o Visual Snapshots Manager - Manage and navigate your snapshots tree using comprehensive visual tool • Undo disks - Make you virtual machine read-only and clear all changes at the end of session • Splitted disks - Split virtual disks into 2G chunks (it allows to store virtual disk on FAT32 filesystem) • Shared printers - Print directly from Windows to any Mac OS X installed printer • Vista Boot Camp support - Run Windows Vista installed on Boot Camp partition within virtual machine • Windows 2008 (beta) experimental support - Run Windows 2008 Server beta within virtual machine • Improved Hypervisor - Enjoy better security, stability and isolation between virtual machines and Mac OS X • Improved Memory Manager - Allocate only required virtual memory on hard disk and save up to 1,5G disk space per virtual machine • Parallels Tools for guest Linux - Enjoy better integration between guest Linux and Mac OS X o Mouse Synchronization - Seemlessly move mouse pointer between Linux and Mac OS X o Change Screen Resolution - Resize guest Linux resolution according to virtual machine window size • New Toolbar Icons - Switch between three pre-defined toolbar icon sets or add your own icon set to Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/Iconsets/ • Improved Parallels Transporter - Use firewire cable for easy migration o Vista Support - Migrate your Vista PC or third-party Vista VM into Parallels virtual machine o Entire VM Migration - Migrate entire VMware or Microsoft virtual machine into Parallels virtual machine o Firewire Support - Migrate PC into Parallels virtual machine via firewire cable • Parallels Explorer - Browse your virtual machines images directly from Mac OS X when Parallels Desktop is not running, copy, move and delete files and folders on virtual disks • Parallels Virtual Appliances - Download pre-built virtual machines from Parallels Virtual Appliances Library • Other changes o Paused virtual machine could be continued by mouse click on its window o Resource allocation policy between virtual machine and Mac OS X can be chosen in new virtual machine assitant o Legacy Image Tool removed from installation package Bugfixes in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac The list of most important fixes: • High CPU usage when some USB devices are connected to the VM • High CPU usage by sound input device enabled in VM • High CPU usage by Paused VM • GDI resources leak in ParallelsToolsCenter.exe • BSOD 07B after repairing Windows in Boot Camp • Slow Boot Camp partition unmounting • Slow real CD/DVD unmounting • Ubuntu 7.04 guest OS installation fixes • Two minutes delay when mounting CD-ROM in Ubuntu 7.04 guest OS • Windows XP SP0 and Windows XP SP1 guest OS stability fixes • Coherence on 23" and 30" monitors problem fixed - now up to 64 MB of video RAM is avaliable • Parallels Tools uninstallation fixed for Windows NT, Windows 98 and Windows 95 • Windows 95 and Windows 98 guest OSes causing 100% CPU load problem fixed • Linspire/Freespire 5.1 guest OS installation fixes • USB devices autoconnect behavior changed - now it shouldn't connect HID devices (mice, keyboards...) • Windows XP in Boot Camp constantly reinstalling Windows update issue fixed In addition, lots of other bugs were fixed and improvements were implemented. Compatible 3D Applications and Games The following 3D applications and games are known to be compatible with Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac 3D hardware virtualization: • Autodesk AutoCAD 2008 (mouse synchronization should be off to achieve better experience) • AeroFly Pro Deluxe • AVID SoftImage XSI 5.11 • RhinoCeros 4 • SketchUp Pro 6 • SolidWorks 2007 • Alien Arena 2007 (OpenGL) • Baldur's Gate 2 (Direct3D) • Call of Duty (OpenGL) • Counter Strike 1.6 (OpenGL/Direct3D) • Descent 3 (OpenGL) • Doom 3 (OpenGL) • Duke Nukem Manhattan Project (OpenGL) • Dungeon Siege 2 (Direct3D) • Far Cry (OpenGL) • GORE - Ultimate Soldier (OpenGL) • Half Life (OpenGL/Direct3D) • Hitman Codename 47 (OpenGL) • Hitman Silent Assasin (OpenGL) • Hitman Contracts (OpenGL) • Max Payne (Direct3D) • Max Payne 2 (Direct3D) • Neverball (OpenGL) • Prey (OpenGL) • Quake 1 GL (OpenGL) • Quake 2 (OpenGL) • Quake 3 Arena (OpenGL) • Return to Castle Wolfenstein (OpenGL) • Scorched 3D (OpenGL) • Serious Sam The First Encounter (OpenGL) • Serious Sam The Second Encounter (OpenGL) • SiN (OpenGL) • Tribes (OpenGL) • Unreal Tournament 2004 (OpenGL) • Warcraft 3 (OpenGL) • Worms 3D (OpenGL) "

Penny hat ihr vorhandenes Blog von MySQL auf Postgres migriert und die Vorgehensweise dokumentiert. Das ist natürlich ein sehr spezieller Fall, lässt sich aber meiner Meinung nach, auch gut auf andere MySQL-to-Postgres Migrationen anwenden. Mit ihrer Erlaubnis poste ich hier mal ihre Vorgehensweise:

"1. dump the mysql database with some special magic options. I'm not
sure about the encoding part of all this, I assumed the mysql database
was unicode but may have been wrong.

mysqldump --skip-comments \

--complete-insert --default-character-set=UTF8 \

--no-create-info --skip-add-locks --skip-opt \

--compatible=postgresql \

$yourdbname > mysql-pg-compat.sql

2. create a temporary postgres database to work in

createdb -O $someuser -E UTF8 s9ytemp

3. point a test s9y installation at that new database you created and
run through the installation process to get it to install all your schema.

4. make sure at this point you also install all the plugins you want

5. the s9y installation process does put data into those tables, so get
pg_dump to create you just the schema part:

pg_dump -Fc -f pg-schema.sql s9ytemp

6. drop and recreate your temporary postgres database

dropdb s9ytemp
- repeat step 2.

7. restore the schema you just created into your new temp database

pg_restore -s -v -Fc -d s9ytemp pg-schema.sql

8. start munging some stuff in the mysql dump
8a. add transactions around it
echo "BEGIN;" > mysql-pg-compat-tx.sql
cat mysql-pg-compat.sql >> mysql-pg-compat.sql
echo "COMMIT;" >> mysql-pg-compat-tx.sql

8b. fix up weird table name sensitivity issue

cat mysql-pg-compat-tx.sql | perl -pe 's/pluginPath/pluginpath/g' >
mysql-pg-compat-tx-fixed.sql

(you could do this in place with perl -pi -e 's/pluginPath/pluginpath/g'
mysql-pg-compat-tx.sql too.

9. Restore the data from the mysql dump into the postgres database
psql -f mysql-pg-compat-tx(-fixed).sql -d s9ytemp

Watch the output.. as soon as you see errors, ctrl-c it and check the
error & fix it. Repeat all necessary steps until this completes with no
errors

This took me about 6 goes to get right, at which point I found a few
instances of 4, and 8b. You might find others This is why 8a is
important

10. Fix up the sequences

Create a file called fixsequencesgen.sql containing:

SELECT

'SELECT setval(' ||

quote_literal(relname) ||

', (SELECT MAX(id) FROM ' ||



substring(relname from 1 for octet_length(relname) - 7) ||

'), true);'

FROM

pg_class

WHERE

relkind = 'S' AND

relname like '%_id_seq' AND

relnamespace IN (

SELECT

oid

FROM

pg_namespace

WHERE

nspname NOT LIKE 'pg_%' AND

nspname != 'information_schema'

)

and then do:

psql -d s9ytemp -f fixsequencesgen.sql -o fixsequencestemp.sql

cat fixsequencestemp.sql | grep SELECT > fixsequences.sql

(again, you could do this in place)

open up fixsequences.sql and change these lines:

- SELECT setval('s9yauthors_authorid_seq', (SELECT MAX(id) FROM
s9yauthors_autho), true);
- SELECT setval('s9ycategory_categoryid_seq', (SELECT MAX(id) FROM
s9ycategory_categor), true);
+ SELECT setval('s9yauthors_authorid_seq', (SELECT MAX(authorid) FROM
s9yauthors), true);
+ SELECT setval('s9ycategory_categoryid_seq', (SELECT MAX(categoryid)
FROM s9ycategory), true);


This is because the above script I stole from another project mysql ->
pg migration I did (moodle) which always uses 'id' as the field name for
the primary key. It could probably be smarter, but changing the two
lines works fine too.

Apply that file to the database:

psql -d s9ytemp -f fixsequences.sql


11. Do a pgdump of your new s9y postgres database:

pg_dump -Fc s9ytemp > s9y.pgdump

12. Copy it to your production server, and do

createdb -E UTF8 $yours9ydbuser s9y
pg_restore -Fc -d s9y s9y.pgdump

13. Switch over your production s9y to use postgres (by editing
serendipity_config_local.inc.php)

14. Done! Go and have something strong to drink!


Other miscellaneous things I found:

- - I couldn't get the spamblocklog table to create itself .. I ended up
commenting out the if ($versioncomparison) { line above the CREATE TABLE
part in the plugin ...

- - Running postgres 8.1 on the computer I was working on and then trying
to restore into a 7.4 production postgres was an unhappy experience that
I don't recommend. I didn't realise this until I got to step 12

In case that happens, try 11 and 12 like:

pg_dump -Fp s9ytemp (rather than Fc) and then you can just do psql -d
s9y < s9y.pgdump"

Ich habe mich in letzter Zeit etwas nach Frameworks für die Applikationsentwicklung in PHP umgesehen. Hintergrund ist die anstehende Entwicklung einer etwas grösseren Anwendung. Das Framework sollte den MVC-Pattern umsetzen, eventuell Hilfestellungen bei Routine-Tasks geben, aktuell sein (weiterentwickelt werden) und vor allem sollte die verfügbare Dokumentation umfangreich sein.

Nach kurzer Zeit musste ich feststellen, dass die Auswahl sehr gross und unübersichtlich ist. Bisher habe ich mich nicht entschieden. Vielleicht hat der eine odere andere Leser Erfahrungen mit einem dieser Frameworks und möchte sie mit mir teilen? Ausserdem mag ich mit diesem Überblick die Leute unterstützen, die vor einer Ähnlichen Entscheidung stehen.

Es handelt sich hierbei wirklich nur um einen Überblick und keine Bewertung. Es werden die mir bekannten Frameworks mit der Beschreibung von ihrer Webseite verlinkt.

Gestern wurde die Version 4.2 von der Verschlüsselungssoftware TrueCrypt veröffentlicht. Der Changelog findet sich hier.

Die Highlights der neuen Version:

Ability to create a ‘dynamic’ container whose physical size (actual disk space used) grows as new data is added to it. (Dynamic containers are pre-allocated NTFS sparse files).

New Mount Option: 'system'. It is possible to place paging (swap) files on a TrueCrypt volume that is mounted with this option enabled. Thus, it is possible to use TrueCrypt to on-the-fly encrypt a paging file.

It is now possible to mount a single TrueCrypt volume from multiple operating systems at once (for example, a volume shared over network), provided that the volume is mounted as read-only under each system

Command line argument buffer is now wiped upon exit

Seit gestern gibt es eine neue Version des Portscan-/Fingerprinting-/Host-Discovery-Tools. Die Änderungen von Version 4.0 werden ausführlichst hier beschrieben. Für den Gebrauch unter Windows XP äusserst interessant ist vor allem der Fix für SP2, um wieder mit RAW-Packets arbeiten zu können.

Download gibts auf dieser Seite

Ich habe hier noch ein gutes Dutzend Einladungen für das Beta-Programm des neuen Microsoft Windows Live Messengers 8.0 zu vergeben. Wer Interesse hat, soll bitte einen Kommentar mit seiner E-Mail-Adresse hinterlassen.

Update (26.01.2006): Die Einladungen sind alle vergeben. Sobald es wieder neue gibt, wird es hier bekannt gegeben.

Von PearPC wurde gestern eine neue Version 0.4.0 veröffentlicht.

It took a while but here is finally the long awaited 0.4.0 release. This is the first release with G4 support by Daniel Foesch (you have to enable it in your config). Other feature include support for native CD-ROMs (no need for images) and endianess safety (i.e. you can run PearPC on big-endian systems).

version 0.4 (released 20. December 2005):
- CPU: stfiwx implemented
- config: "ppc_start_fullscreen" for starting in fullscreen mode
- POSIX: allow bridging of tun device
- use FISTTP instruction on SSE3 aware processors
- merged native_cd branch from Alexander Stockinger
- endianess fixes
- warn that the generic CPU is slow
- better detection of HFS+ volumes
- support for DVD-Drives
- correctly check for NASM
- Work-around for graphic errors in Mac OS X 10.1
- POSIX/Linux: fall back to 1 GHz if /proc/cpuinfo doesn't provide cpu frequency
- 3c90x emulation fixed
- some PROM fixed for yaboot
- alteration of x86asm interface to be more programmer friendly
- use transparent cursors instead of altering cursor visibility (hack for using PearPC
with remote desktop)
- DVD emulation implemented. Fixes problems with Tiger installation
- Updated the read_effective_* commands to be faster !!! REGRESSED !!!
- fixed lvalue casts (compiles now with gcc 4.x)
- booting from disks with bootfile about 4 GiB limit fixed