So the Great Product Launch of 2010 happened and it’s going to keep reviewers and vendors busy for some time. Here are some of my first experiences: The SharePoint Server 2010 installation media (ISO) has a prerequisite installer that installs all the prerequisite software components before installing SharePoint itself. The funny thing is, the installation [...]
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Smartphones are selling like hotcakes and in a couple of years time from now virtually all mobile phones will be smartphones at least throughout the developed world. It seems odd, then, that the various smartphones and Mac OS X don’t seem to get along very well with each other. When it comes to synchronising stuff [...]
When I said “as a corporate customer of Microsoft products, the probability of me installing Windows 7 on a physical machine any time soon is infinitesimally small” less than a week ago, I spoke too soon. That’s because, err, I am now running Windows 7 on my ThinkPad T61 laptop at work. This is my [...]
Is the time for biscuit, I mean, time for a new shiny netbook finally upon us? September and October will be new operating systems galore with the debut of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It seems mass shrink-wrapping has already begun on all three of them. I [...]
As with many other jobs, implementing or maintaining SharePoint requires an exceptional degree of attention to detail because, well, stuff happens. If an error occurs or a mistake is made inside a testing or staging environment before things go to production, it’s a good lesson. If that lesson is captured, documented, and learned, it becomes [...]
I enjoy watching Apple’s Get-a-Mac ads. This particular clip titled “Legal Copy” is my latest favourite. Too bad they don’t release one every week. I enjoy watching those ads not only because they are funny, witty, and creative, but because they all state the fact in amazingly funny, witty, creative ways. Factuality and creativity do [...]
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? (Rodney King on television pleading for peace, 1 May, 1992) Windows versus Mac OS X. Microsoft versus Apple. The Great Tech Divide is still prevalent in 2009 and the latest Microsoft ad campaign has once again ignited the fiery debate among geeks. [...]
Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP, also known as LAMP, is probably the most cost-effective way of running big and small Internet applications, including this blog. I once mentioned I also have a “staging” blog, an exact replica of the live one, configured on my MacBook. Now that’s MAMP, i.e. Mac OS X instead [...]
Should you, I, or the average consumer buy a new computer in 2009? I’d say hold off on it. That is not just because of the rising prices of imported goods, particularly electronics; there are seismic shifts taking place in the world of computer hardware manufacturers and software developers right now. At the centre of [...]
I had been waiting months for this: I finally made time to try out the public beta (build 7000) of Windows 7 that I obtained through a source at work a few weeks back. It’s good till the end of July 2009. But indications are that this will be a short-lived test-drive; the Release Candidate [...]