I just realised that Grahams model ends up working very well for me:
2GB Desktop with 2*120GB disks = 7 Seat 307 SW
1.5GB TC1100 Tablet PC = Ford Fiesta – this will have to go, not at all the image to go with the Tablet 🙂
Treo 600 = Push bike
Nokia 6310i = Scooter
Here is a great discussion about device form factors by Graham. I particularly liked the summary:
I am not sure what sort of car driver I am, using Graham’s Model, as I have a variety of different devices to suit the need, perhaps I am just one of those people who has a big garage, or in the UK a long drive (we fill our garages with junk)! In fact I have a Peugeot 307SW 7 seater (4 kids) and a Ford Fiesta.
In this post I talked about my approach to time management. Graham has this great story on his site that illustrates the same approach but much more eloquently!
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He asked the students if the jar was full.They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly, and the pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full; they agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “yes.”
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor, as …
In this post I talked about my approach to time management. Graham has this great story on his site that illustrates the same approach but much more eloquently!
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He asked the students if the jar was full.They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly, and the pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full; they agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “yes.”
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor, as …
It may be an old machine, but it is still in many ways a near perfect design. I have listed before the problems I had with my original TC1100, and why I changed my mind, but at the end of the day fixing the problems would introduce new weaknesses. jk of jkOnTheRun documents his decision process.
so I have ordered the HP tc1100. The tc1100 has a 10.4″ screen and only weighs 3.1 pounds without the keyboard attached which I really like. This is the closest device to my dream mini-Tablet in both size and function. The tc1100 is a true hybrid Tablet with a keyboard that can be attached or detached at will so it will be the best solution for the way that I work.
In this article Nicholas Carr describes the “End of Corporate Computing” and justifies as follows:
Three technological advances are enabling this change: virtualization, grid computing and Web services. Virtualization erases the differences between proprietary computing platforms, enabling applications designed to run on one operating system to be deployed elsewhere. Grid computing allows large numbers of hardware components, such as servers or disk drives, to effectively act as a single device, pooling their capacity and allocating it automatically to different jobs. Web services standardize the interfaces between applications, turning them into modules that can be assembled and disassembled easily.
I don’t see it this way at all for the following reasons:
This is a great post that summarises the debate, make sure you follow the linked articles
Probably not, in the context of IT Identity Management:
“To Trust Someone is Good; To Not Trust Someone is Even Better”
For more on the topic, go to Kim’s Identity Blog
X1 Technologies on Friday started shipping a version of its X1 Desktop Search software that supports Lotus Notes, the first time that the local and network search product has deigned to deal with IBM’s messaging product. I installed it but Notes does not appear in the list of Email systems to index, so I will have to investigate 🙁
This article describes numerous uses for RSS that go beyond the ubiquitous blog. It’s an interesting read, especially because it confines itself to implemented uses, rather than the hundreds of uses we can envision. On a related note I noticed this quote in an article by CRN:
Microsoft partisans imagine a day when business users get realtime pings on their Office desktop software whenever their ERP systems detect inventories below a certain level. Beneath the covers, that simple-looking alert will rely on a confluence of technologies, including Office desktop applications, Microsoft’s planned “Maestro” realtime reporting server and a back-end SharePoint Portal/Excel Server combination.
Decidedly “RSS like” capability although probably not using RSS as the format. The same article goes on to describe some of the conditional alerting that would be enabled by Excel Server:
“You’d set up an Excel model on the desktop, export it to the server, bind it to a [database] or, via Maestro, to an application source,” he said. “The model runs constantly on the server, feeding updated dashboard data via new Office 12 tools or a [business intelligence] tool. Or [it can] send you an e-mail or an instant-messaging or a VoIP call.” Microsoft, …