I’ve been in consulting for 15 years – with a brief stop-over in IT-land. And I used to go through computer bags like candy. But for the last ten years I’ve used the same computer bag. It’s been on flight after flight. It’s been banged against doors, dropped off of tables, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Computing'
The best computer bag ever
September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing, Consulting
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What do new PC’s cost?
July 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Computing, Mac
According to new sales figures from NPD, the average selling price (ASP) of a new PC is $515.
When it comes to PCs, the cut-throat competition in the industry has resulted in a race to the bottom. The netbook segment was the final nail.
The PC vendors very much want to sell the higher margin machines but [...]
Apple-Dell Price Comparison
June 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing, Mac
After Apple’s new laptop announcement I was curious about the price difference between Apple and Dell. I mostly ignored the Windows vs. OS/X value proposition but equated OS/X Leopard with Vista Home Premium (not basic).
Many of the comparisons I’ve seen try to put dollar figures on intangibles like the value of the iLife suite against [...]
Held Back
December 9th, 2008 · View Comments · Computing
Microsoft’s biggest problem today is they are overwhelmed with the complexity of their software and hampered by their ancient code and old tools.
This is a quote from Keith Curtis, a former developer at Microsoft. And it matches my own perceptions.
I was asked, semi-jokingly, by a co-worker why I hated Microsoft. I told him [...]
Open Source Fanatics
November 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Computing
Open Source still has that element to it that makes corporations and enterprises be leery toward it. Open Source companies have worked very hard to combat this attitude – painting it as a better alternative for a myriad of reasons. But the truth is that the fanatics that scare the business do exist. [...]
Functional Business Programming
November 11th, 2008 · View Comments · Computing
There’s a lot of buzz around F#, an experimental, functional programming language from Microsoft. That buzz extends to C#. The current iteration (3.0) has some functional programming support and the next iteration (4.0) will extend that further.
I don’t see it. I’ve worked with a lot of programming teams. I’ve done Prolog [...]
C# Everywhere
October 6th, 2008 · View Comments · Computing
In Linux-land there are two semi-competing approaches to the technology on the desktop. By desktop I mean windowing manager, login manager, windowing toolkit, the file explorer, etc. Those two projects are Gnome and KDE. KDE was beating the crap out of Gnome for a while but they decided to rewrite their entire [...]
