intelligent CAPTCHAs overdue - part 1

First: the blind and vision impaired have no business inflicting their requirements on a technology designed to present information visually. They need to adapt to reality and not visa versa.

Swirly text deciphering does not intelligence test.

What is the resultant color when that of a strawberry and banana are combined? Orange.

That’s a better CAPTCHA.. applied worldly knowledge.

A more entertaining version has no directions, no cue for robots, though easily defeated by OCR, but only if widespread and only if implemented the same way. Apply deformations as desired.

“not email: slendermexstuffed@o.gemail.co.uk.im”

Where all the letters are blue except “not l er x ed o. e .uk.i” Implies only to use the blue information “email: sendmestuff@gmail.com”. More colors could be used leaving email blue.

What is the sum of the third prime number and the fifth? 14

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XP SP2 faster than Vista SP1 - vista fanbois will not be happy

No test required to tell you vista 32bit performance sucks. 32bit vista needs more ram than architecture can address

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myoelectric text entry (keyboard)

timeline, products, and sparking ideas..

fun phrases

Surface electromyography

United States Patent 4964411
Evoked EMG signal processing, Issued on October 23, 1990

A method of separating dispersive and synchronous time varying myoelectric signals

The Finger-Joint Gesture Wearable Keypad (1999)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/goldstein99fingerjoint.html

Survey of virtual keyboards
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/532022.html

FingeRing

thumbcode

DSI datotech: mutli-point touchpad

VKB projection

VKey

How to operate a PC without using the hands (2005): HaMCoS
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1090785.1090828

Today:  SenseBoard

http://www.senseboard.com/

Alternatively: DataHand keyboard (defunct)

natural keyboard = Klockenberg, 1926?

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low cost alternative to cowon Q5W + GPS - MTWO Technologies GPS-288 - FLAC xvid TV-out SDRAM 2gigs

MTWO Technologies GPS-288

2.8-inch Multimedia Player with GPS Navigation Function

http://m-two.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008811374324/pdtl/Portable-GPS/1004679615/Portable-GPS.htm

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Plays videos and the beloved FLAC… TV-out, secondary to GPS

Key Specifications/Special Features:

• GPS navigation, music player, video player, photo viewer, FM radio, voice recording, E-book and gaming all-in-one
• Embedded Linux system (version 2.6.14)
• Actions ATT2200 processor (MIPS + DSP, 180MHz)
• Screen: 2.8-inch TFT LCD, QVGA 320 x 240, 260K colors, touch screen
• Storage: build-in NAND flash, up to 1GB, external SD/MMC card up to 2GB
• Music format: WMA, DRM WMA, ASF, OGG, APE, FLAC, WAV, AUDIBLE
• Supports ID3 LRC
• Equalizer: seven mode, SRS WOW, SRS WOW HD, user mode
• Recording: FM recording, MIC recording. Format: WAV, ACT
• Photo viewer: support JPEG, BMP, GIF format
• Video format: XviD, AMVB, WMV
• Video out: TV out
• USB OTG
• FM radio and FM recording
• Support actions DRM
• Build-in stereo speaker
• System:
  • CPU: Actions ATT2200 processor (MIPS + DSP, 180MHz)
  • SDRAM: 64MB
  • NAND flash: 64MB (up to 1GB)
  • OS: embedded Linux system (version 2.6.14)
• Functions:
  • Channels: 20
  • Position: less than 10m
  • Velocity: 0.1m/seconds
  • Time: 0.01 seconds to GPS time
  • TTFF (open sky)
  • Reacquisition: 0.1 seconds, average
  • Hot start: 8 seconds, average
  • Warm start: 29 seconds, average
  • Cold start: 42 seconds, average
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Opting out of Omniture’s 192.168.112.2o7.net, the easy way

If you don’t want to use hosts to block Adobe’s use of Omniture’s 192.168.112.2o7.net then OpenDNS to the rescue

sign up for an account https://www.opendns.com/start/

claim your IPA

mash settings

domain blocking

enter: 192.168.112.2o7.net

configure your workstation or router: https://www.opendns.com/start

The straight dope

Our nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

yay

this method works for XP, OSX, OS9, linux, whatever

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have you ever seen a g.ho.st ?

http://g.ho.st

now you have.. and seeing is seeing

Imagine the possibilities of remote desktop with 3gigs of space for music.. or something else

FTP uploads to desktop integration.. email.. widgets.. and proxy surfing oh my… office “productivity” and otherly

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Red Drive File Transfer Extension - freeware download

http://s3.massmirror.com/760f4fd29a1c051b089e1754ce3d36dc.html

available from http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/

free client that supports FTP/S, SFTP and WebDAV protocols as a Windows Explorer shell extension: maps those services to a drive letter

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multi ergo audientes ex discipulis eius dixerunt durus est hic sermo quis potest eum audire

operamini non cibum qui perit sed qui permanet in vitam aeternam quem Filius hominis vobis dabit hunc enim Pater signavit Deus
dixerunt ergo ad eum quid faciemus ut operemur opera Dei
respondit Iesus et dixit eis hoc est opus Dei ut credatis in eum quem misit ille
dixerunt ergo ei quod ergo tu facis signum ut videamus et credamus tibi quid operaris
patres nostri manna manducaverunt in deserto sicut scriptum est panem de caelo dedit eis manducare
dixit ergo eis Iesus amen amen dico vobis non Moses dedit vobis panem de caelo sed Pater meus dat vobis panem de caelo verum
panis enim Dei est qui descendit de caelo et dat vitam mundo
dixerunt ergo ad eum Domine semper da nobis panem hunc
dixit autem eis Iesus ego sum panis vitae qui veniet ad me non esuriet et qui credit in me non sitiet umquam
sed dixi vobis quia et vidistis me et non creditis
omne quod dat mihi Pater ad me veniet et eum qui venit ad me non eiciam foras
quia descendi de caelo non ut faciam voluntatem meam sed voluntatem eius qui misit me
haec est autem voluntas eius qui misit me Patris ut omne quod dedit mihi non perdam ex eo sed resuscitem illum novissimo die
haec est enim voluntas Patris mei qui misit me ut omnis qui videt Filium et credit in eum habeat vitam aeternam et resuscitabo ego eum in novissimo die
murmurabant ergo Iudaei de illo quia dixisset ego sum panis qui de caelo descendi
et dicebant nonne hic est Iesus filius Ioseph cuius nos novimus patrem et matrem quomodo ergo dicit hic quia de caelo descendi
respondit ergo Iesus et dixit eis nolite murmurare in invicem
nemo potest venire ad me nisi Pater qui misit me traxerit eum et ego resuscitabo eum novissimo die
est scriptum in prophetis et erunt omnes docibiles Dei omnis qui audivit a Patre et didicit venit ad me
non quia Patrem vidit quisquam nisi is qui est a Deo hic vidit Patrem
amen amen dico vobis qui credit in me habet vitam aeternam
ego sum panis vitae
patres vestri manducaverunt in deserto manna et mortui sunt
hic est panis de caelo descendens ut si quis ex ipso manducaverit non moriatur
ego sum panis vivus qui de caelo descendi
si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane vivet in aeternum et panis quem ego dabo caro mea est pro mundi vita
litigabant ergo Iudaei ad invicem dicentes quomodo potest hic nobis carnem suam dare ad manducandum
dixit ergo eis Iesus amen amen dico vobis nisi manducaveritis carnem Filii hominis et biberitis eius sanguinem non habetis vitam in vobis
qui manducat meam carnem et bibit meum sanguinem habet vitam aeternam et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die
caro enim mea vere est cibus et sanguis meus vere est potus
qui manducat meam carnem et bibit meum sanguinem in me manet et ego in illo
sicut misit me vivens Pater et ego vivo propter Patrem et qui manducat me et ipse vivet propter me
hic est panis qui de caelo descendit non sicut manducaverunt patres vestri manna et mortui sunt qui manducat hunc panem vivet in aeternum
haec dixit in synagoga docens in Capharnaum
multi ergo audientes ex discipulis eius dixerunt durus est hic sermo quis potest eum audire
sciens autem Iesus apud semet ipsum quia murmurarent de hoc discipuli eius dixit eis hoc vos scandalizat
si ergo videritis Filium hominis ascendentem ubi erat prius
spiritus est qui vivificat caro non prodest quicquam verba quae ego locutus sum vobis spiritus et vita sunt
sed sunt quidam ex vobis qui non credunt sciebat enim ab initio Iesus qui essent credentes et quis traditurus esset eum
et dicebat propterea dixi vobis quia nemo potest venire ad me nisi fuerit ei datum a Patre meo
ex hoc multi discipulorum eius abierunt retro et iam non cum illo ambulabant
dixit ergo Iesus ad duodecim numquid et vos vultis abire
respondit ergo ei Simon Petrus Domine ad quem ibimus verba vitae aeternae habes

trust us with all your phone numbers, all your email addresses, all your passwords, all your pincodes… and collect all your inbound communication in one convenient google-monitored-and-indefinately-cached location! ooooh sign me up.. not

GrandCentral sounded like a Ring-One telco service onlinified…

“recently acquired by google”

wow… what a surprise?

hunt for the ideal SATA/EIDE to USB2 gizmo (not an enclosure)

I already own a Vantec CB-ISATAU2 … but it appears to be a first or second generation edition of this three type device to USB idea. It’s working fine with my Seagate 320 SATA. Curiously its the only one to require power be fed to the gizmo to power 2.5″ ide drives.
This time I’m going to buy the MASSCOOL ADT-UPS003-S. The only thing its missing is a power switch… I think that’s easily remedied

not hardwired == device not hardwired to USB
those not showing 2amp 12v are 1.5amp 12v

Rosewill RCW-608 is the only one boasting Sata II, but remember we’re connecting via USB2 here. Sadly I couldn’t find a similar class of devices that used Firewire400 (or 800) instead of USB2. Some of us know Firewire provides better continuous speed than USB2.
bytecc BT-300 (hardwired,no switch, 4pin molex feeds device, sata power/data ports on device)
http://www.byteccusa.com/product/adapter/BT-300/BT-300.htm

Rosewill RCW-608 (sata II, power switch, brick-Y: 4pin molex && Sata, only sata data port on device)
http://www.rosewill.com/product/product.aspx?productId=903

* MASSCOOL ADT-UPS003-S (2amp 12v, not hardwired, no switch, ATAPI, simul: SATA + 2.5″ IDE, 4pin molex feeds device, sata power/data ports on device)
http://www.fannerusa.com/masscool/Product.aspx?ID=296

Sabrent USB-DSC5 (2amp 12v, hardwired, 4pin->sata.power simul: SATA + 2.5″ IDE … looks like gen1.5 of vantec, only sata data port on device)
http://www.sabrent.com/products/specs/usb-dsc5.htm

Sytche SCUPS 1000 (2amp 12v, not hardwired, switch, ATAPI, NO 2.5″ IDE, simul: SATA + 3.5″ IDE/ATAPI, 4pin molex feeds device, sata power/data ports on device)
http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc/013/scupc1000.html

This information is provided as a resource for myself… if you find it useful then your day became a little better… you’re welcome

taskmaster.. no escape

%windir%\system32\ntsd.exe -hd -c “qd” taskmgr

get ‘em da boot

%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 20 -c “unesacapable forced reboot by Himself”

other full dns with free subdomains

sitesolutions.com

yi.org

afraid.org

mx.ns w/o cn: fnds.net

mobile phone laptop cars? AlphaCOM rolling over in grave

AlphaCOM, pioneers of mobile PCMCIA cards, rolls eyes over “new” mobile phone company’s laptop cards.  It was cool at 1997 COMDEX.  19.2k with LOTS of compression?  Remember when I suggested bonding multiple cards TEN YEARS AGO?  Bonding isn’t new, but its time has come again.  Most laptops have two PCMCIA slots.  2x broadband > 1x broadband

But $49 is better than the $600 I spent four years ago testing cards from VerizonEvil Wireless and AT&T.  I had a less unpleasant experience tethering my laptop to my moto.

AMD is better than Intel?

riiiiight… where are the AMD chips on this page:

http://www.top500.org/list/2006/11/100  (top 500 supercomputer sites)

please let me help you sell me stuff more effectively

what I received for trying (vainly) to fix (for free) a horribly broken marketing department at Lost Enterprises:

[insert free can of lost coupon scan here]

x6

GPS in mobile phones only “on” when 911 dialed (in 80s called cell phones) ?

Bovine Feces!  I find the battery in my moto e815 lasts longer when I disable the GPS “feature” in one of the hidden menus.  Now if it was only “on” when I dialed 911, and I haven’t yet dialed 911 from my phone why does the battery last longer with the feature only “on” when 911 is dialed is disabled?

are you ready to receive a speeding ticket courtesy GPS in your mobile phone?

will I have to store my mobile phone in a tiny Faraday jacket until I’m ready to dial?

its almost as creepy as Gmail

(stop refering to mobile phones as cell phones)

getting basic auth to work on godaddy shared webhosting — fun with .htaccess and .htpasswd

one cannot enable basic auth on the root of a godaddy shared hosting account.

GoDud uses some horrifically annoying caching proxy so you might drive yourself near madness tinkering with content and permissions trying to get basic auth working.  Wait about 24 hours and what didn’t work when you initially uploaded will mysteriously function without a hitch the next day.

For ’security’ reasons GoDud refuses to release version information about their servers and the respective software packages on the webhost.  Isn’t security through obscurity grand?

** sometimes ** this works:

AFTER uploading content to the directory you wish to protect, and AFTER you’ve configured basic auth, THEN create a new subdirectory and mass-move all the files into it.  Browse to the content in the sub-directory.. voila! you’re now prompted for authentication.

oooh fun!

“Can I move the files up a level now?”

Sure, but basic auth will not-work again.

If I were paying a monthly fee for this shared hosting I’d be vexed beyond description.  GoDaddy is fine for hosting: content for direct download.  GoDaddy is NOT fine for most php application or much of anything else.

MyToneDB.DB rumor? no fact

no! money down!!

seriously.. its how I convinced the e815 to show files I dropped into the local file system…. and it can work for you two… search up my months old article for the specifics of the interaction of the two db files in the phone root… hack-adding in mp3s requires its removal… it is regenerated if missing..

of course there’s a caveat but you can read about that again on your own

I wager the same is true for the V3C… so I’ll be testing that myself from a WMware XP Pro WS later this week…. no, not mine… experimenting is funly

also read this

http://forum2.mobile-review.com//showthread.php?t=25215

I swear I thought of it this morning first.. or digg is reading my mind… and they almost perfectly implemented my sticky diggs

What’s digg missing?  Sticky diggs.

I thought of it this morning in the shower.  But I was too lazy to bug them in the morning.  Lo and behold there’s something very close today: “My #1″.

Sure, I have a nearly eerie power to sway but I didn’t think it worked across vast distances on people I’ve never meant.  I must be getting more powerful.

mwahahaha

Community Intrusion Prevention System — collaborative malware thwarting

Digg: http://digg.com/software/Community_Intrusion_Prevention_System_collaborative_malware_thwarting

spam : DCC :: malware : prevx

Unlike DCC, prevx is easy enough for the slightly above average user to use.

http://prevx.com/

cheese eating surrender monkeys — save money on military spend on internet infrastructure

Très
Haut Débit

“VERY high speed internet”

2.5 GBps down
1.2 GBps up

http://treshautdebit.francetelecom.com/dap/controller/index.php?fwdAction=show&fwdSubject=Faq&faq=faq_net#debit

beta signup page
http://treshautdebit.francetelecom.com/dap/controller/index.php

rumor has it that free internet service speeds will rise to 28Mbps

Microsoft Windows Live QnA Beta fine print protects against disparaging microsoft products or recommending superior, non-microsoft software

An answer on Live QnA had better not contain a product recomendation over and above a similar Microsoft product:

4. How You May Not Use the Service.

In using the service, you may not:

·        
use the service in a way that harms us or our affiliates,
resellers, distributors, and/or vendors (collectively, the “Microsoft parties”),
or any customer of a Microsoft party;

Woo… and we can resell this free service (c’mon, think like Microsoft)

7. If You Pay Microsoft.

7.1 Charges. 
This section 7 applies in all situations in which you directly pay us.  If you
pay a company other than us for the service, then the charges and billing terms
are as stated by the other company. Even if you do not pay for the service, you
may still incur charges incidental to using the service; for example, charges
for Internet access, mobile text messaging, or other data transmission. 

Just be wary of silent, push upgrades

We may automatically
download upgrades to the software to your computer to update, enhance and
further develop the service.

Your effort will be rewarded with points but

Promotion Points may expire
at any time

ads?  yes

13.
Requirements For Placing
Advertisements.

You may be able to place
advertisements in or through the service.  We have no obligation to display any
part of the advertising content.

hey, and I have no obligation to allow advertising content to be downloaded let alone rendered.

Sooo…. QnA will contain malware?  There’s no clear assertion that is does not

Potentially Unwanted
Software

If you
remove or disable “spyware,” “adware” and other potentially unwanted software
(“potentially unwanted software”), it may cause other software on your computer
to stop working, and it may cause you to breach a license to use other software
on your computer

How to signup for Windows Live QnA Beta
http://qna.live.com/RegisterUser.aspx

http://ideas.live.com/s_code.js

http://msninviteprod.112.2O7.net/b/ss/msninviteprod/1/H.1--NS/0

EMO PC on the horizon? emotionally abusive friends plus EMO PC = EmORtification

suffer emotionally abusive friends?  Soon you might be abused by hardware

http://digitaljournal.com/news/index.php?articleID=4786

Defective By Design: eliminate DRM by the power of the people (who spend the money on gizmos)

http://defectivebydesign.org/

I won’t buy ANY hardware with embedded DRM… unless I can remove- or
circumvent it. Thanks, but I don’t want a nanny state. Even China is
slowly being moved away from that mentality.

plagiarism.google.com — google scholar? not very scholarly

http://plagiarism.google.com/

http://scholar.google.com/

profiting from rank plagiarism!

fair use proxy device : Circuit City kiosk to rip DVD content to portable format … MPAA RIAA plan to whine about individual liberty

Its fair use if I rip my DVD to PSP format, or my audio CD to FLAC to play on an iPod with rockbox firmware…. why is it illegal for a third party to provide this service to me  ONE TO ONE as a proxy (agent)?  Its not.  Let’s watch the burn.  (see also:  real estate agent, power of attorney, etc)

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060804-7420.html

Hopefully this’ll revive the custom audio CD kiosks

oh and if its good enough for google then its good enough for Circuit City

Google routinely profits from rampant violation of Intellectual Property.  NO fair use there:
http://scholar.google.com/

Scholar?  Why isn’t it  plagiarism.google.com  ?

not only is vista not “more secure” it CANNOT access the required memory requirements ( Subverting Vista Kernel For Fun And Profit )

/PAE is hardly a solution.  Until hardware catches up with memory requirements of Vista I see little point to rushing in especially as the bloat doesn’t carry increased security (decreased insecurity).  Sadly many soho portable mp3 players can address more ram than soho PCs.
HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia » Joanna Rutkowska (Senior Security …

hint:  malware continues to be the IT cash cow

oh look… other people are now saying “malware injection”  mwahahaha
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3624861

yet another way to help google index your mind: writely

http://www.writely.com/

you write it, you share it, they keep it indexed FOREVER.  yay google {read as: yay beer}

“… just a little piece of my soul”

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players — see how badly iPod firmware sucks

http://rockbox.org/
http://rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FeatureComparison#Apple

if you must buy an iPod you REALLY MUST use rockbox firmware…. otherwise you’re a TOTAL cretin.

get the FLAC support you deserve!

download Gigabyte I-Ram: XP booting video

this is how I expected my $4000 laptop to function.  silly me.

http://rapidshare.de/files/25657988/Gigabyte-I-Ram_xp_boot_speed_–_never_buy_a_toshitba_notebook.avi.html

only $1100 for 16gig HyperOS hyperdrive IV … throttled to ATA133 … PATA nonsense

sadly still only NATIVE PATA.  Why WASTE money on Bridged SATA??  Build a HUGE throughput device and then throttle it to death with ATA133. 

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/products.htm#hyperosHDIIproduct

XP installs on a HyperDrive IV in around 2 minutes, rather than the 40
minutes that it takes to install on a Hard Disk. It fires up Windows XP
in 2 seconds from the splash screen to the desktop with nForce4 Mobos.
So it is “instant on” and has an “instant
desktop”.

OmniPeek personal free … not so great for wlan

http://www.omnipeek.com/omnipeek_personal.php

- 50 points for requiring defunct w-w-w-dot host

Summary	Powerful, free, real-time network analyzer with visual expert and packet visualizer toolsets
Pros	• Free • On-the-fly filter creation and switching • Visually stunning
Cons	• Limited support options • Multiple NICs not supported • XP Professional SP2 • Microsoft .NET Framework 2

Wireshark, by comparison, has an informative and busy support forum.

+ OmniPeek: frame decoding during capture, in real-time

Sticking with this visual approach that is at the heart of OmniPeek
Personal, the ‘Expert Peer Map’ happily displays all communicating
network nodes as an organic vertically-oriented ellipse.

- OmniPeek Personal does not however support either AES or WPA2 decryption

- Nor is there any visibility of control and management traffic, or RF Monitoring capability for channel scanning or hopping.

- It also requires the installation of a special NDIS driver for a supported network driver in order to capture wireless packets.

look I’m not the only genius who thinks google wi-fi “product” is evil

Google not only wants to track your online habits, the company also wants to track your physical location (for profit, of course). What’s next, implantable RFID tags? It really wouldn’t surprise me…

http://blog.boycottgoogleads.com/

I did buy a router from them for $25… but then I loaded dd-WRT on it.  More repeaters is more fun.

beyond tomorrow should really be called Beyond Yesterday: Jet Board or power ski NOT NEW

Please!

I went with some people to a trade show where one of the guys in my group bought a Jet Board… SEVERAL YEARS AGO for about $35,000.   New?  NO.  This is even more annoying than the Revisionist History channel or the Technology History channel (G4)

Jet Board
Power Ski
Power Board

same thing… similarly NOT NEW

surf board with jet ski plant… fun but BIG ANNOYING issues

But wait there’s more…. They have ZERO dealers at many of the most popular surf locations outside of hawaii!  HELLO?? 

how to speed up windows xp shutdown painlessly

phase 1: install user profile hive cleanup service
phase 2: reboot
phase 3: profit.. laugh meniacally

if you don’t yet have at LEAST one gig of ram now is a good time to upgrade!

What does it take to engender a Silicon Valley-style start-up culture?

duh:  liberty

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060628/tc_usatoday/techstartupsdontgrowontreesoutsideusa

Bill Gates to walk away from full time Microsoft role

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jun06/06-15CorpNewsPR.mspx

Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill
Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the
company to spend more time on his global health and education work at
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company announced a
two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and
orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities, and said that
after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company’s
chairman and an advisor on key development projects.

Is it really charity to give from your surplus?

CoBlitz - faster downloads

http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/coblitz/

ReactOS

http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/download.html

ReactOS 0.29 is a Free Software ground-up implementation of a Microsoft
Windows® XP compatible operating system. Please bear in mind that
ReactOS is still in alpha stage and is not recommended for everyday use.

Virtual Appliances

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/

A virtual appliance is a fully pre-installed and pre-configured
application and operating system environment that runs on any standard
x86 desktop or server in a self-contained, isolated environment known
as a virtual machine. Virtual appliances provide an evolutionary step
in the software distribution model. Read More…

This
site is a resource dedicated to Virtual Appliance Computing. Inside you
will find virtual appliances from VMware partners and from VMTN
community members. You will also find more information on the benefits
of the virtual appliance approach and how to get started in building
your own virtual appliance with VMware products like VMware Workstation.