Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

Weee… this rocks! I’ve been waiting for IBM to do a Tablet PC for a very long time. Not that my Toshiba M200 isn’t great, but IBM sure does make some nice laptops

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/04/fcc_pics_of_the.html

’nuff said.

[Via Don Box]

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This Thursday I attended a lecture by Karsten Thygesen on Mail servers. Karsten is CTO of Netic, and very involved in SunSITE now dotSRC.
Anyway, the lecture was very good, and he was very interesting to listen too. This is demonstrated by the fact that the lecture took around 3 hours, and very few students left (a pretty saddening scale to judge lectures on, but nevertheless usefull and terribly accurate).

Currently I’m thinking about how to consolidate the servers I administer, and Netic has crossed my mind a few times. Mainly because their server park is 100 meters from where I live, which makes it darn easy to get physical access. From my initial inquiries Netic was pretty expensive compared to other companies, so they weren’t on my top list. However, after talking with Karsten, ideas emerged that’ll spend the next week thinking more about.
But bottom line: If Karsten will manage my servers, I think I’ll sleep easier. He is very professional, very proficient, and a nice guy. That kind is rare.

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A fellow student pointed me to stock.xchng, a site were you can download a ton of professional digital photographs for free, and free to use. Great stuff! Tip passed along.

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Yesterday I listened to a show from ITConversations by Geoffrey Moore called Orchestrating the Stack, in which he deals with the business case for the different vendors that supply the stuff we use at various levels of the stack. The stack consists of hardware, databases, applications, etc. He talks about what the different gorillas (market leaders) of different levels use as their business strategy, and talks about how to get into the market if your not a gorilla (the advice is to bet on vertical markets).
Anyway it’s a good talk, so download it, and get smarter

A funny side note regards EMC a company supplying data storage solutions, which Moore talks about. Apparently their basic world view is that it’s all about the data, and since the deliver data storage their home free. Well, yesterday I read in a JyllandsPosten (a danish newspaper) that EMC had published some stuff about how the current way of storing data wasn’t sufficient and how companies and people were getting more and more focused on keeping data. Fits nicely with the opinions expressed in the show, and illustrates that Moore’s talk is still relevant some 1 year later.

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This essay reflects upon why Microsoft is winning its battles. It is very good! And was released on my birthday

[Via: Michael Kogeler]

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So, yesterday I installed VMWare Workstation that’s just been released in a final 5th version. After I got it up and running I tried to install FreeBSD in it, and it just worked. On top of that it was fast, much faster than the equivalent Virtual PC from Microsoft. Virtual PC uses 100% of my CPU when the VM is running, with VMWare it scaled depending on the load of the VM. Much nicer, and much snappier.

So I was pretty happy, and had planned that I would fiddle around with FreeBSD and jails today. No such luck! As I booted up my laptop, I quickly noticed that the machine had no network connectiviety at all. The entire network sub system was just smashed! I’ve experienced this before with the Cisco VPN Client used on Campus. The problem seems to be that some applications such as Cisco VPN and VMWare extends the network layer in Windows XP (attributed by the fact that new devices appear in Network Connections), and this simply clashes with SP2. But not with a normal XP slipstreamed with SP2, only with a XP that has been installed with SP2 later on (such as my laptop).

But boy, does it suck!

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Following a Ruby newsgroup led me to this blog post dealing with the small difficulties in going from Java to Ruby. It explains some of the idioms used in Ruby that are different than the common way of Java code writing.

Recommended!

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Cool! Lately I’ve been considering buying a Mac Mini to check out the other side – we’ll see how it goes

For all of you Mac Mini devotees out there, Apple has released a
detailed Developer Note on that little box. It’s a good read and it
will tell you a lot about Mac achitecture. Check it out here:

Introduction to Mac mini Developer Note
This developer note gives a technical description
of the Mac mini. The note provides information about the computer’s
internal design, input-output features, and expansion capabilities.

[Via Microsoft Communities: Recent Blog Posts]

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Considering what David H. Hansson wrote on his blog, maybe getting a mac isn’t such a bad idea. At least the performance seems to get better all the time, as the following quote reveals:

Now it’s time for another considerable boost with Tiger (*). My new 1.67ghz Powerbook is getting +50% on CPU and threading and +25% on the UI. That’s just nice. You get more features, newer apps, cuter eye candy, and everything is smoother.

[Via Loud Thinking]

(*): The Tiger in question is the new Mac OS 10.4 coming out on April 29th.

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