Daily Archive: May 17, 2006

The SameTime 7.5 experience

This is exactly the sort of post I want to see from IBM.  A pretty thorough description of the features of Sametime with some good comments on how they enhance the user experience.  What’s wrong with it though – its not a blog post, so there are no comment –  come...

Ed Brill on the Microsoft FUD campaign again

I don’t really like the endless Microsoft bashing that comes out of IBM, not because it’s not justified – it is – but because I want to hear about why IBM products are great,  and I want to hear that from passionate users and to a large extent I don’t...

More on file systems, how I work now

I now work on the Internet, which means that the only networked file systems I have access to are on my home network.  I still use them extensively for file storage but I no longer have a simple way to share the files with others, either was work in progress...

Is the file server dead?

Graham thinks the file server is dead,  I’m not totally convinced – here’s why before anyone starts complaining,  the following lists are not intended to be complete, only illustrative,  please add additional items via comments if you are so motivated. pretty much every application supports storing it’s file based data...

Keeping it simple

I love technology,  but increasingly I find myself trying to find simple solutions and I find myself in good company.  Several friends have gone back to paper notebooks,  some are using index cards or simple Excel spreadsheets to manage their tasks.  Here are a few of the things I have...