It has been almost 1.5 years since I wrote my originalarticle. While I’m still cheap (read: always try to get the best deals out there) but other things have changed — especially in the built-in support of virtualization on some Linux distributions.
My new (used) server
So this time, I got my server Sun Fire v40z off [...]

I have HP TX1499US that I purchased off Home Depot a while back. I thought it was a very good deal for a tablet PC, with touch screen, with smaller screen (12.1"), with the stuff it comes with. One thing that I’m not really excited about is the OS it came with: Windows Vista. I [...]

Virtualization is one of the area I’m really an enthusiast. I’ve tried many solutions from Bosh on iMac G4 and PearPC on my Windows to VMWare and VirtualBox and at last to Xen. In fact, Miroshell’s sever is hosted on a Xen instance. I’ve also tried many emulators for game console like Nintendo 64, Sony [...]