Virtual Machines on CD VMWare

VMware Ready to Run CDs Packed Working Linux Virtual Machines Onto Discs Handed Out at Linux World 2000

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Virtual Machines on CD VMWare
Viewer David from Virginia Beach mailed Michael MJD a pair of forgotten promotional CDs he picked up at Linux World 2000, and those discs still hold complete, ready-to-boot virtual machines of Red Hat Linux 6.1 and SuSE Linux. VMware handed them out as marketing pieces that let Windows users try popular Linux distributions without hunting down ISOs or partitioning a hard drive. Each disc carries VMware 1.0.1 for Windows NT and Windows 2000 plus the Linux host version, a short readme, and a compressed virtual disk image already configured with a working guest OS.

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BBC Towards Tomorrow 1967 Humans Robots Co-Exist

BBC’s Towards Tomorrow Asked in 1967 Whether Humans and Robots Could Share One Culture Before the Line Between Them Vanished

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BBC Towards Tomorrow 1967 Humans Robots Co-Exist
Opening a BBC ‘Towards Tomorrow’ special first shown on December 28, 1967 is a warning that mankind may already be obsolete. Population growth, pollution and a planet slipping out of human control could finish the job even without nuclear war. Intelligent machines might have to take Earth off our hands, the narration says, if only to keep life going after we have made a mess of it.

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Pokemon Sleep NOT A HOTEL Poke Ball Hokkaido Japan

NOT A HOTEL Builds a Giant Sleepable Poké Ball on Tomakomai’s Lakeshore

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Pokemon Sleep NOT A HOTEL Poke Ball Hokkaido Japan
NOT A HOTEL and Pokémon Sleep have set a glossy red and white sphere on a wooded lakeshore in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, about an hour south of Sapporo, and opened it for a short run of overnight stays. The guest room is a three meter sphere, close to ten feet across, formed from two molded acrylic hemispheres so the finished object reads as a life size Poké Ball sitting among trees with lake water just beyond the glass. Promotional nights run in brief windows from October 8 through 18, 2026, timed to the franchise’s 30th year and the third anniversary of the Pokémon Sleep app.

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ETIKEZ D90E Inkless Travel Printer Thermal

Full Pages From a Slim Bar, Courtesy of the ETIKEZ D90E Inkless Travel Printer

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ETIKEZ D90E Inkless Travel Printer Thermal
Most compact printers still trap you on receipt rolls or force a desk machine into a suitcase. ETIKEZ sized the D90E, priced at $64.59 (was $80), like a thick ruler that spans a letter page: about 10.4 inches wide, 2.3 inches deep, and 1.3 inches tall, so a sheet of 8.5 by 11 thermal paper feeds straight through a body that slides into a backpack or briefcase. Listings put the printer itself near a pound, and the kit adds a soft travel case plus a short stack of starter sheets. Heat does the work. No cartridges, toner, or ribbons sit in the bag, and the only consumable is coated thermal paper made for this machine. Ordinary copy paper will not print.

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