Comments on: Would you check your laptop?

By: site admin

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By: Cahill

Cahill — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:01:05 +0000

Yup…definitely tapped a vein here…

There’s an article in the newsletter from Sitepoint today (geek coder site) with the interesting title of “Is AJAX the Future of Desktop Software?” (Sorry can’t find a real link on their site) That really could take us back to the days of client/server.

The holy grail at some of the more influential newspapers for several years has been to remove as much proprietary software as they can from the desktop. Have 90% of the staff working in web environments, so that when a machine goes down, you just pull another out of a closet, get it on the network and the writer/adtaker is back to work. I can think of two that have made huge strides and may get there someday.

Esteban – Google’s lawyers will be contacting you shortly for mentioning the Google Web OS, and hence violating any number of their patents/trademarks. All hail Google!

By: Sandy Kendall

Sandy Kendall — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:03:18 +0000

Hi David,
Your former colleague at CIO magazine Tom Wailgum posted some tips on what to do in the case of a laptop ban in his blog Fully Mobile. It’s led to another branch of this meme–i.e., would you check your laptop…or what else might you do? With a couple of impractical digressions, but hey. Thought I’d link these conversations. His post is at:
http://blogs.cio.com/node/410.

Safe travels to you and all your devices…

By: Esteban

Esteban — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:00:03 +0000

For starters I WOULDN’T. I’d rather be left with no PC (which for someone like me is as bad as having to face a croud naked). On my previous trip to raleigh-new york I decided to send my camera in my luggage, it somehow got “lost”, stolen, probably in miami (the airline couldn’t care less, thank you very much). I would like that same thing happening to my computer.

Web OS sounds like a good thing happening… google are you listening? Of course I’d be rather unwilling to leave any “sensitive” information on an open web but would be OK with leaving it in an OS standing in an intranet. Then again we have the performance issue, just trying to syncronyze my notes with some 30mb mails is like facing a torture chamber… I can hardly imagine trying to syncronyze a several-gig OS…

The idea of a swapable drive (either external or internal) for Notebooks sounds quite right. Lenovo are you listening? Something like the sort of principle we already use for migrating workstations, but ready for a daily (weekly?) basis use, and ready to go and return.