I’ve been trying to work through the key questions that need to be answered about VDI by anyone comparing it to the obvious alternatives, these being: A laptop A physical desktop A client side virtual machine, copied or streamed to the PC A web application portal A server hosted desktop...
I’m at Citrix iForum in Edinburgh today, the conference starts tomorrow and lasts for two days. There are a couple of CSC people giving talks. I’m not speaking but I will definitely be listening. I’ve got a few objectives from the next two days: I want to get a general...
As a keen user of multiple displays – Excel really frustrates me, with its inability to open multiple windows on different displays. I found a hack that involved manually resizing the Excel main/parent window so that it spanned multiple displays and manually dragging Excel child windows onto other displays, which...
There’s a flurry of articles today about email overload, and I read a few prompted by a tweet from ChiefTech. I fancied a break so I thought I would jot down my strategies for dealing with Email, which right now mean I DON’T suffer from Email overload. Setting the scene:...
Out of the box I had a few issues with my Thinkpad X60T running Vista: After a morning working by the beach the wireless network was often disabled when I plugged in at home, I needed to do a “Diagnose and repair” to re-enable it After a not so useful...
Over the Christmas holiday I boarded out the loft and insulated the rafters. We now have a great space up in the loft, but unfortunately it’s already full with all the stuff we’ve accumulated. I’ve got to the point now where I really hate “stuff”. About 10 years ago we...
I’m currently working on our Mobile working strategy and by chance I happened to be reading Hominids which has a wonderful description of a mobile Companion device and sensors. The concept of use was pretty inspirational and reminded me of the even more futuristic vision of “Jane” in the Ender...
Everyone knows I love multiple monitors, I have 3 * 19″ all the same model and type and all cheap ones that are just fine for my simple needs (ie not Gaming). Here are a few things I’ve learned in the 3 years I’ve used them: A laptop – single...
Check out the wiki and help spread the word about “The Enterprise RSS Day of Action”. This seems like a great way to create some buzz around the concept of Enterprise RSS, gather some useful information and get people together. The wiki has more details, but this is a key...
I’ve been experimenting with desktop video conferencing for years, but my enthusiasm never persists for more than a few days because the experience is just too unpredictable. Sometimes it’s a image quality issue, sometimes it’s firewalls, right now it’s unstable drivers and poor lip synch. It’s not far away though,...