Graham seems to quite like the Origami, but I am not so sure. I already have a Tablet, I never have the keyboard attached and it slips easily into any bag that I own. I really don’t see a smaller form factor device working for me, unless its a phone,...
Today I needed to find out details of my motherboard, I came across Belarc Advisor, really excellent! It provides details of hardware, software, patch levels and much more, the feature I really liked was it tells me the Microsoft licence keys I used to install the SW, which is really...
I tried early versions of Google Earth, but they didn’t work on Windows 2003 Server, which ruled it out for me, it works now though, absolutely amazing. It has great coverage of my home town!
I am always using remote desktop to connect to various machines around the house as well as virtual machines and it always annoys me that when I disconnect from the console. I came across a solution today that leaves the console logged in!! All you need to do is disconnect...
I use my Tablet PC for about 2 hours a day, it’s quite important to me. Hardware 1.1 GHz processor 1.5 GB memory 40 MB hard disks, one backs up to the other every night using a robocopy script, the scripts also does a backup of the SQL server databases. 100Mb wired network...
I use my desktop PC for about 4 hours a day, it’s very important to me. You can see a picture of it in this post, here are the details of how I have it setup. Hardware Dual Core processor 4 GB memory 2 * 2500MB hard disks, one backs up to the other...
I have invested a lot of time and effort in my work environment. I work from home and spend around 5 hours a day working in the office, and about 1 hour reading in my reading room. To break things up I also spend a lot of time out walking...
I am frequently asked what software I use so I have decided to maintain a number of posts that describe my working environment. I will describe it in layers, so it’s easier to understand and hopefully maintain. You can find the maintained posts in the folder My work environment. The first...
I am personally still working through beta issues with Windows Vista and really don’t have the hardware to do it justice, so my summary opinion right now is “I see some potential, but lots of change and no very clear benefit”. However that opinion may well change as we get...
I get very encouraged when I hear IT people worrying about the way people actually work, and even more so when they realise that the IT industry has not taken this issue seriously enough. IT people too often think in terms of features and not in terms of real-world business...