I was recently reading an article from LXer, entitled ‘Linux alternatives for the iPad – and the future of netbooks, tablets and smartbooks’. The author hypes up Linux on tablet devices, concluding that 2010 is the year of Linux on the tablet, most of which will be Android flavored. He attempts to put down the [...]
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPad, linux, Microsoft, OS, tablet
UPDATE: I was digging through my archives, and thought I’d repost this for general interest’s sake. Let me start off by laying out what I believe are the three tiers of cloud computing. I believe that cloud computing consists of hosted services (IBM), hosted applications (VMWare, Citrix), and hosted storage/data. This contrasts with internal services [...]
I’ve seen a number of folks excited about the possibility of getting Windows 7 on a tablet device, whether it be through Citrix on the iPad or natively on a PC tablet such as the ExoPC. I personally have no such desire. Windows 7 simply wasn’t designed for the sole purpose of touchscreen computing. The [...]
There have been a number of ‘unconfirmed’ rumours floating around in the last few days about Windows 8 being 128 bit. While certainly an exciting thought, the likelihood of it being true is almost nil. Windows 8 being 128 compatible is like Windows XP Professional x64 being 64 bit. While it ‘worked’ to an extent, [...]
Tags: IA-128, IA-64, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, x64
As you’re aware, the latest buzz this week has been about Google announcing a ‘web OS’. In short, the Google Chrome OS is the User Interface for a stripped down, speedy Linux Kernel. What I found interesting however, was the lack of publicity that Microsoft’s ‘announcement’ the day before gained. The day before Google announced [...]
Tags: Chrome, Chrome OS, Gazelle, Google, HTML5, Microsoft, OS, web
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been doing some intranet work for a trucking company. This project is swiftly transforming from a basic maintenance/refresh to a complete switch to a Content Management System. I had a sit-down with the HR team (who are the driving force behind this) last week, and another one [...]
Update: I’ve gotten an insane amount of hits for “you do not have sufficient access to your computer to connect to the selected printer”, “windows cannot connect to the printer 000006be”, and “hp printer You do not have sufficient access”. (start reading at the 3rd paragraph if you want to jump straight to the details [...]
Tags: Microsoft, Print, Server, Troubleshooting
Sorry for the delay in posting. It’s been a hectic week. We ran into a few issues this past week while applying our Windows XP image to the new T400 laptops. When the computers were turned on, all the USB ports worked except one. And Windows kept complaining about a PCI driver not being installed, [...]
In June we deployed Outlook/Exchange 2007 to our organization. We received a call a few days later from someone asking about the Calendar Details print view. When she printed the Calendar Details view, it printed the date, but failed to print the weekday. She was used to having the weekdays printed with Lotus Notes. We [...]
After my post this morning about the new Windows Vista Deployment & Administration guide, I thought perhaps I should post a list of some of the resources I’ve used over the past year in my own experience with the Vista Deployment. Beside each name and link, I’ve written a brief summary of what I used [...]
Tags: Deployment, Microsoft, Vista, Windows
I was speaking with our consultant today, and he asked for my input and suggestions for our AD restructure. Here are some of the things on my wishlist: Let’s use GPP* to assign printers according to the department an individual belongs to. Obviously this requires some sort of departmental grouping of OU’s. Let’s use GPP [...]
Tags: Active Directory, AD, Microsoft, Restructure
As we all know, information about Windows 7 Milestone 3 was recently leaked. Before we delve into Windows 7, lets first talk about Windows Vista. What went wrong with Windows Vista? Why did it meet with so much negative publicity, both before and after release? I propose that these be the reasons:
I’ve finally got the deployment process all worked out at OHA for the time being. I set WDS up (in native mode) on one of our servers. One of the first things I did was take our existing XP SP2 images, deploy them to our hardware, run the updates, and then capture those images (WIM [...]