Microsoft released a free software called “Mouse Without Borders” which allows you running multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse like Synergy. But the “Mouse Without Borders” brings a lot of cool features and an easy setup.
Looks like those DigiTimes sources were right: the ASUS Eee Keyboard will officially launch in North America and Europe in October. And while CEO Jerry Shen is keeping quiet on pricing, the original $400 to $500 estimates should hold-up. The Commodore 64-esque keyboard PC originally announced at CES in January features an integrated 5-inch display, 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of memory, either 16GB or 32GB of SSD storage, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Blutooth, HDMI and wireless UWB HDMI. And given the October launch, we’re expecting this thing to run Windows 7 unlike the XP prototypes we’ve seen so far. Maybe Moblin too, if you want to save a nickle.
Back in my final year at uni I threw togeather a nice little RAID storage server using one of them Adaptec rebranded 2610SA Dell cards, 6 x 500GB SATA hard disks into a RAID 5 Array, which up untill now has proved fantastic for my home run media. That box is currently a multifunction server, provinding web hosting for internal websites, 3 Virtual Machines (running through VMWare Server), a VoIP Asterisk server running several internal and external extensions for myself and several family members and friends as well as being the primary storage for 3 Vista Media Center machines scattered around the house.
Well, the time has finally arrived where ill be leaving this nest, a new job has arrived and will involve me moving down to Exeter within the next few weeks or month, so it came time to re-asses a few architecture items, first of which was this server. Obviously it cant be in two places at once and both my new location and here need it, so their was only one choice (well, im lying there a little, but this is the one i wanted to do, cus its cool lol)…
Time for a new Server hehe !
Specifications;
Suffice to say, its a little bit of an upgrade to the old machine, which has been lagging a little for some time now (mostly due to the weight of the virtual machines pulling it down). At the current time this machine has been built into an old cheap case I had sitting in the garage, but next month ill be ordering a 20 or 24 bay rackmount storage server (like this one) and transfering the bits across, look out for some good pics of the finished article soon…
For the immediate future this server is going to have another 4 1TB drives added, creating an addition 2.7TB array, which will either be used for addition storage, or most likely a mirror for the time being. But with the purchase of the new chassis ill be looking to get an additional Adaptec RAID card capable of running the additional 12 disk bays on the chassis, most likely one of the adaptec 51245 cards with Intelegant Power Manangement, this card has the capability to power the additional 12 bays within the machine and one external SSF-8087 connector to power the JBOB boxes such as this one which can be stand alone outside the main chassis.
A BETA version of the upcoming Microsoft antivirus software (codenamed Morro) will be soon available through the Microsoft website.
MS employees have been testing the software over teh last few months n an effort to determine if this package is a suitable replacement for the Windows Live OneCare package which was due for replacement last November (which was charged at an annual cost of £59).
Microsoft are promoting this effort as a serious attempt to encourage more home users to consider the threats of internet security and protection against the threats which are becoming more predominant on the web.
"Our goal with OneCare was to get more customers more protected, and I don’t think we were able to do that to the extent that we would have liked," said Amy Barzdukas, a senior director of product management with Microsoft. "As we look around the world now, the countries where PC growth is most rapid, in emerging markets such as Brazil and India and China, the malware threat is even greater."
Obviously this new package, which incorporate the OneCare antimalware engine will not be packaged into the operating system (cant say thats a surprise, sure a few AV businesses would of had they lawyers on speed dial if that had been the case). Although Microsoft have not released a solid release date for this package, they have indicated that this will be very soon…
Additionally, it has been stated that this is a consumer product only, supporting Windows 7, Vista SP2 and XP SP3), and will not be available for server based machines (sorry chaps, no cheap software for you hehe)
Well, another WWDC over and out (is it just me or does that name conjour up images of Hulk Hogan smashing iMacs over someones head in a cage match… okay its just me then :)
well, all things being equal, i cant say i really cared about much that was announced at the WWDC, new macbooks (their just faster, whoop), built in SD card slot (sorry, but i prefer the ExpressCard slot, had some options what i could stick in there, extra firewire, external graphics, Memory card reader, my finger, etc)…
The biggest shout out in my opinion had to goto the official notice of Snow Leopard, looking really nice for a quick release, with its built in exchange support (watch out Windows 7, not even you do that lol, and its your software hehe), and full 64-bit architecture we might finally see a apple kicking into the business workspace for real (cus lets face it, Microsoft entourage is a piece of sh*t… memory sucking sh*t)… and at the price of Snow Leopard, it might even be worth ordering a nice shiney disk instead of the casual download (words of anti-piracy advise for all you nasty pirates out there ;)
and not onto my new pet peeve, iPhone 3G ‘s’… yup, this little puppy is kinda annoying, for all the nice features of the new iPhone, lets throw some consideration towards those poor iPhone 3G users (ME) who have just been told that they can have copy and paste, and a rotating keyboard, but if they want the nice new ‘cool’ feature of voice control (which i used to use quite a bit on my old Sony K800i) then i gotta start looking to the bank balence again…. Apple are inevitably gonna say the same thing they did with the gesture pad on the macBooks, ‘its a hardware based chip doing it’, WHY… if my touchpad understands they im giving it the old two fingers, surley it can understand how im moving them, do it in software you shmuc’s, we got RAM and processor cycles lying around doing squat, your telling me we cant spare a couple of hundered to monitor what im doing with my touchpad…
And the same really goes for this new iPhone voice control, i GUARENTEE that within 3 months of the 3.0 iPhone launch, some developer will of made an iPhone app (available within CYDIA) which will allow iPhone 3G users to do exactly that (the same as my MMS app which is doing exactly what apple cant do, for the mere few pounds it cost me)… id bet money on that, it might not look as pretty, or have some apple monkey on stage talking about it, but it will do the job, it will most likely be free and will prob be much more customizable !
Sorry Apple, I have a MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iPhone 3G and you still consistantly dissapoint me at times, stop trying to reinvent the wheel, if another business who has been doing this for years (Nokia, Sony, Siemens, etc) have features such as MMS, Copy and Paste, good cameras then why was has it taken you this long to think they might be worth incorporating… Rule of development for revolutionary product [Everone elses good ideas] + [Your brilliant ideas] + [Industry standary technology (3G, MMS, Copy/Paste, Camera, Flash, Long Battery)] = YOUR NEW PRODUCT… Apples way of doing things [Our brilliant ideas] = somewhat lacking product !
Well, thats enough ranting, only to add one last thing, has anyone else noticed that the estimated battery life on the new iPhone 3GS is virtually identical to the old one, whats the bet that this one is gonna be just as crap on battery (aka, JuiceBox requirement) or they actually got it right this time… personally i think with the new higher power processor were all still gonna be looking to get some solar pannels stuck on the roof of our cars…
Over and Out….
P.S taking bets now that the tom tom is more expensive than the phone lol… and i love the ‘enhanced GPS’, that is a classic statement… read between the lines ‘tom tom said our GPS was shit, so they made their own’ lol
UPDATE : Looks like their is already an app out there (http://www.adelavoice.com/voicedialer/) so lets just give a shout out to apple for still not letting backgroud apps do the work they wanna charge us more for !
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