So you would like an easy approach to delegate service administration for your servers, well that is easily done with PanelDaemon.
You install IIS and then PanelDaemon on your server, now you can create users/groups that can remotely manage services on your server (start, stop and restart etc).. You can upon user/group creation decide which services a user should be able to manage and thus not necessarily give control to all services.
It’s cool, it works and it’s free 🙂 Just the way we like it..
Get it hereUpdate Dec 3rd 2009;
Now available in Denmark with ION chipset
http://www.shg.dk/2193828
According to a press release by Lenovo, their upcoming IdeaPad S12 will be the first Netbook to utilise NVIDIA’s Ion chipset. The Ion platform has also made an appearance in Acer’s AspireRevo nettop and is the first computer to feature it.
The Ion chipset will among other allow for; Playing HD movies, a HDMI connector, lower CPU utilization = lower battery consumption and perhaps light gaming ability.
Specifications:
- Display: 12.1 WXGA (1280 X 800) LED 200 nit, 250g
- Processor: Intel Atom N270
- Graphics: Intel integrated GMA 950, Nvidia ION
- Memory: Up to 1GB DDR2 533 MHz
- Hard Drive: Up to 160 GB SATA (160, 250, 320)
- Battery Life: 3 hours with 3-cell, 6 hours with 6-cell
- Weight: 1.4kg with 3 cell, 1.55kg with 6 cell
- Dimensions: 292 X 216 X 22-28.9mm
- Connectivity: 10/100m Ethernet, Broadcom 578M,
Intel WiFi Link 5150 1X2 AGN, Intel WiFi Link 5100 1X2 AGN, - Non-Intel wireless b/g, Non-Intel wireless b/g/n, Bluetooth
- Other: 3 USB, 1 Expresscard slot (Intel and VIA platforms), 4-in-1 card reader, VGA, RJA45, HDMI
- Software: XP Home SP3 (32 bit)
It sounds like a real nice pice of work.. Perhaps a replacement for my old IBM Thinkpad X31.
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UPDATE!
Lenovo S12 released, but without the Nvidia ION graphics processor, a later version released around the time of Win 7 will have the ION processor added. Bummer 🙁
http://blog.laptopmag.com/lenovo-holds-off-on-ion-until-windows-7-and-so-does-samsung
So I was at this seminar and was introduced to MS Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7, and sure enough it all looked cool. So I decided that the old P4 I had in a corner would become a new test server for the free HyperV 2008R2 server (note all the betas can be downloaded and used freely)..
And sure enough it supported 64bit, so I fired it up and began installing the HyperV 2008 R2 server (the free one without the GUI).. It took a couple of attempts (the NIC somehow was not very co-operable) but then it was up and running.
As you can see they have even added a nice little “Dos” menu, so you can configure the darn thing..
Well so far so good, after configuring it and installing the HyperV management tools on my Vista Workstation, I went on and configured the HyperV settings on the Win 2008 R2 server and then finally I created a new Virtual PC – a Windows 7 (yeah why not)..
However my feeling of success was short lived, once I clicked on the “Start” button for my newly created Win7 virtual pc I got an error message telling me that the virtual pc could not be started because the HyperV service was not running.. Now there was NO error messages anywhere, so I was reluctant to believe this, but a bit of Googling let to a suspicion, and then to a visit at www.grc.com where I downloaded “securable.exe” a small freeware utility that will test your chipset.
See, just because you have a P4 that support 64bit that does not mean that it will support HyperV, hence time wasted 😐 Everyone know this!? No!?! Well neither did I, or rather I vaguely recall having heard something to that effect, but hey when it would install and run 64bit then I thought everything was dandy.. It’s not though, it’s just not… The same problem is btw true for Windows 7, the new Virtual XP you can install and use on top of it, it only works if your chipset support “Hardware Virtualization” – sigh…)…
So if you want to check out the new servers, be sure to download “securable.exe” and check for support for Vitalization before you start. That said and warned, then the HyperV 2008R2 server looked great and fairly easy to configure, I may once it’s released from beta move my VMWare2 server to this platform instead (my current server DO support “Hardware Virtualization”, thank god for small wonders).
So lesson learned, check the specs before you begin..
BUUUUUT, it would have been nice with a Warning or a Caution from the installer “Your chipset does not support HyperV”, now how hard could that have been? Installing the HyperV 2008 R2 server really makes no sense if you do not plan on running virtual machines (which is impossible without the Hardware vitalization)..