This article provides on overview of the new features in Visual Basic 2005 including, My Visual Basic, IntelliSense, Edit and Continue, AutoCorrect, Just My Code, Windows Forms enhancements, and more.

Xen is a relatively new technology to enable several virtual machines (domU) to run on one computer. The purpose of this article is to determine what operating system (NetBSD or Linux) should be selected as domain 0 (dom0) operating system to get the best performance when running several CPU and disk intensive virtual machines at the same time.

I have written (and continue to write) an application called Desktop Manager for OS X. It provides virtual desktops to those refugees from Unix like myself :). Recently it became apparent that it would no longer work under Apple's forthcoming Tiger release of OS X. This proved a little bit of a problem for me since I have no copy of Tiger to test with and don't wish to risk Apple's wrath by obtaining a less-than-legitimate copy. Instead I have relied on a network of people I correspond with via my blog to tell me when things break. It also means I have to attempt to reverse engineer something I don't have in front of me. I am indebted to these people and would like to thank them for their hard work.

Despite his fondness for Windows, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company will make it easier for businesses to manage a wide variety of machines--including those running Linux.

OpenVPN, the versatile multi-platform SSL VPN has reached the 2.0 milestone. The new release features many improvements, most noteably it allows multiple clients to connect to a single OpenVPN server process over a single TCP or UDP port.

Expert Zone reports: "Syllable 0.5.6 has been released. "The full changelog can be found below, but the major highlights of this release are improved Audio/Video support, support for CD writing with Cdrtools 2.1, enhanced POSIX compliance, a large list of kernel enhancements including basic ACPI support and a major new version of the GNU C library."