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You may remember my April adventures with a beta of Microsoft’s “Windows Home Server” (AKA: WHS). WHS is a neat little consumer product. I think it also has some applicability in the NGO-SOHO space. It’s perfect, for example, for a nonprofit with fewer than ten or so people in need of automated backup and some easily expanded shared file storage.
Since that foray into Betatown, MS released a new WHS version, the so-called “RC1″ or “release candidate 1″ edition — just a little bit closer to an actual commercial release. Just between you and me, I don’t pretend to follow Microsoft’s various mystical and mysterious machinations as it (slowly) walks a product to market. RC1, or Beta 3, or CTP, they’re all beta’s to me. It means you can’t buy it, yet. It also means install at your own risk. A beta, by any other name, is still likely to break your heart, eat your hard drive, and maybe shred your collection of precious Godzilla DVD rips. Continue reading Dancing with Abby Normal…
There was a recent posting on the Information Systems Manager’s forum that has me dredging up the past. There, the question was posed as to the value of blogs – more specifically do they lead or follow, or are they relevant at all. Should one read ‘em or ignore ‘em?
The author of the note postulated that, aside from politics and technology, they tended to be reactions to either traditional media, to other web sites, or just so much tripe about relatively inconsequential things like the babies of hyphenated or concatenated movie stars.
At first blush, I kind of agreed – after all most are pretty much regurgitated thoughts about stuff and junk found elsewhere on the web, a few notable examples aside. This got me thinking about two things: first, the birth of so-called “citizen journalism” and second, how the media universe has changed over the last few years. Continue reading Dross, Gloss and Brilliance…
I didn’t set out to spend my pre-Fourth of July weekend playing with Microsoft’s “Server 2008 Beta 3,” but that’s how it ended up anyway. I’d been travelling too much recently, so it was nice to spend some time at home, curled up with a warm keyboard and a cold LCD screen. My goal was simple — to take a quick look at something called RemoteApps. It’s a new “Terminal Server” feature in Microsoft’s next server OS, codename “Longhorn” (AKA Server 2008). I wanted to see if it could work its magic with one particular (and crucial for me) application called Gifts. If there was to be trouble, it would be with Gifts.
RemoteApps, by the way, was supposed to “way cool”— letting you “publish” (via a terminal session wrapper) a stand-alone application. Done right, it supposedly would look to the end-user as if the software program were running directly on their PC. In all actuality, it would really be running, remotely, on a terminal server, in the next room, the next building, the next county, or half-way across the world. This would solve some niggling issues I have with the current version of Terminal Server. Continue reading Feline Sleepwear (silk but wrinkled)
While there are lots of consumer-level products to manage digital images, photographs and the like, institutional options, it seems, are not that plentiful. Moreover, those options that do exist tend to cost a pretty penny. I don’t mean Adobe “Album” and Picassa. They’re wonderful products; I use Picassa myself. It’s great for an individual, [...]
Call me irascible. When RSS started showing up on this or that, I wasn’t all that thrilled. I was skeptical. Moreover, it reminded of PointCast,” circa 1995. With some shame [looking at my feet and blushing], I admit that I liked PointCast.
I say that with one caveat: PointCast, you see, was designed, inherently, [...]
I’ve always been vaguely uncomfortable with folksonomies. There is something about the concept that just doesn’t sit right with me. Every time I hear people wax on about them, I fidget in my seat; I feel kind of itchy and unsettled at the same time. Perhaps it’s my latent, leftover librarian-like nature.
It [...]
So, with all this talk about logic puzzles, the voice of the people, and the value of various types of communications, I decided to do a little homework. After all, I publicly committed heresy. And, while several people (privately) agreed with me, and others suggested that we get to make our voice heard every [...]
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