Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

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You try to create a quiesced snapshot of your Windows 11 virtual machine, but the operation fails because the VMware Snapshot Provider service is completely absent from the services list. This ...

A new PowerShell-based Hyper-V health tool goes beyond replication status to estimate whether a VM is actually ready for a successful failover.

Windows 11 provides a rich GUI, but it also supports various command line interfaces (CLIs) through a modern Terminal app.

ThreatsDay Bulletin covers this week’s cyber threats, from phishing and ransomware to exposed AI systems, sandbox flaws, and ...

Tom Fenton explains how local AI fits into the broader private AI discussion for VMware environments, distinguishing enterprise-scale private AI deployments from smaller local AI setups running on ...

We installed WSL Containers on Windows 11, built a custom container from scratch, tested it, and checked what still needs ...

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that runs each user session or AI agent in its own ...

You can use the GetBIOS PowerShell module to retrieve settings from various BIOS manufacturers on either a local or remote computer. This post will show you how to access computer BIOS settings using ...

Generative AI and chatbots have taken over internet search whether you like it or not, since they’re embedded into every ...