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Monthly archives for September, 2009
Offline and productive!
Gina Trapani, smart as usual, at Harvard Business outlines some increases in productivity that could be achieved in case of an email outage (full article at http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/trapani/2009/09/turn-an-email-outage-into-a-pr.html).
My former boss taught me a lesson very important for me.
If you work on a computer, with everything “digital”, sometimes you “do” and you think (quite) at same time. This is not necessarily the most productive way to work.
Sometimes, especially when you need to express thoughts, concepts and ideas, is better to close PC, grab some sheets of paper and start writing down. Only after go back to PC and put everything in your favorite tool.
So I add one thing to Gina’s list: in case of email outage or (in an extended way, of no technology available), get back to your thinking and start working for a while without having the rush of making your work “digitally available” in minutes.
This post as a comment also at http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/trapani/2009/09/turn-an-email-outage-into-a-pr.html
Cure and prevention
28.35 grams of prevention are worth 0.45359 kilograms of cure.
Anonymous
Windows 7 and time warp
Dan Nosowitz at Gizmodo writes an article telling that for a Microsoft engineer data, upgrading with many applications and mid ranged hardware to Windows 7 could take up to 21 hours (full article at http://gizmodo.com/5358025/worst-case-scenario-windows-7-upgrade-can-take-21-hours). Same thing does Emil Protalinski at Ars Technica (full article at http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-upgrade-to-windows-7-can-take-up-to-a-day.ars).
In my opinion is, again, the demonstration that sometimes software (and especially OSes) are thought and engineered without consciousness of user capabilities.
Ok 650Gb of datas are a lot of bytes, but space counted in Terabytes is not a so remote idea.
Ok is a worst case scenario, but also in high end scenario hardware we are talking of a range form 8 to 10 hours.
Maybe people could like to migrate to Windows 7, but maybe they cannot afford all the time and money needed.
How far seem to me those time where a complete OS stood in 16-20 or 48kb (no mistake, kilo not giga or tera… 
).
This post as a comment also at http://gizmodo.com/5358025/worst-case-scenario-windows-7-upgrade-can-take-21-hours and at http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-upgrade-to-windows-7-can-take-up-to-a-day.ars?comments=2&comment_id=125007341041
Moving here my quotes passion
Hi everybody.
Since I like quotes and my other blog suffers my lack of time, I decided to move here my quotes publishing.
Enjoy.
The meaning of one size fits all
“One size fits all”: Doesn’t fit anyone.
Anonymous
Microsoft and open source
Ryan Paul at Ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/authors/ryan-paul/) writes an article on Microsoft decision to start “[...] the CodePlex Foundation, a nonprofit organization tasked with getting commercial software vendors to invest time on open source development. It has $1 million in seed money and some questions about how neutral it will be.” (full article at http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/new-microsoft-backed-open-source-foundation-faces-questions.ars).
I think that Microsoft move, though could help the development of open sourced software (because of money and influence that Microsoft can put in), could not be neutral for a couple of reasons:
- because Microsoft has built his own success and money on proprietary software
- because no one gives anything for nothing: i think that with “open source” being more widely spread then evere, Microsoft is thinking of acquiring weight in this community by putting people at work under his protection.
Let’s see what happens 
This post also as a comment at http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/new-microsoft-backed-open-source-foundation-faces-questions.ars?comments=1&comment_id=991002341041
The meaning of no maintenance
“No maintenance”: Impossible to fix.
Anonymous
The meaning of new
“New”: Different color from previous model.
Anonymous
Investors vs Yahoo CEO
Matt Hartley at Lockergnome comes again over the fact anticipated by Ron Schenone a few days ago of Yahoo CEO selling stocks, while company (and investors) loose money (full article at http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2009/09/07/yahoo-investors-lose-while-bartz-wins/).
As I said before, is quite sad to see those that should be at the helm of the boat running as mices when boat sinks.
I thought that those time where ended with the financial crisis of which we hopefully are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel.
I’m wondering why this is not considered as market disruption.
This post as a comment at http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2009/09/07/yahoo-investors-lose-while-bartz-wins/#comment-154938
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