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Great News from VMWare (via Wubble):

Today, as part of our VMworld 2005 festivities, we announced our VMware Player. This is a freely downloadable tool that, as you might guess, plays virtual machines.

This could really lower the barrier for people who want to try linux. An immediate example is the special Browser Appliance virtual machine that’s based on Ubuntu Hoary featuring Firefox; great way to spread the word about Linux, and the wonderful distribution that is Ubuntu.

Another great consequence is many vendors realesed pre-built virtual machines of their software stack, available on the Virtual Machine Center; a wonderful example is SpikeSource Core, an interoperable combination of open source components, this greatly simplifies software packaging, distribution, and deployment.

I forsee also a nice costs cut for those labs using VMWare to provide Linux and Windows on the same computer.

(off topic: posted using flock, more on this later).

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While I was playing with a remix of flickr photos turned in memory game www.pimpampum.net/memry ,

I ran in a photo of St Paul’s taken from the Tate Gallery, that took me back to my recent visit to London. I clicked on the photo only to discover that was the photo taken from a friend of mine, just uploaded to flickr (which I didn’t know).

This also get me into some reflections about the remixable web and sincronicity. In this experience the web has worked as an extension of my mind, not only as a passive store of data, but also as an active associative thoughts trigger (maybe not the most sound expression), It generated a connection where none before existed, and this connection is going from the web to my mind. This is not the most straightforward example of what Jung called synchronicity but it is a quite puzzling example of what the possibility of remix and freely associate the data brings to the web. Prof. David Gelernter said “first we must build machines which allucinate to be possible building machines that think” (the quotation is not exact althought the meaning - as far as I comprehended - is conserved), maybe we have just got in the way.

Fun (and puzzling)!