The tech industry in slow period…

Um…I’m using two Xserves for almost nothing mac-specific, but they plug into Active Directory so easily that it made integrating Unix features onto our network dead simple?

I can show you some screenshots if you like, but it’s not terribly exciting, unless you’re a network geek, and get excited by Cacti and Nagios.

“When a blogger code of conduct is at the top of Techmeme with hundreds of comments you know something is wrong.”

How is this surprising or problematic? It’s completely predictable and reflective of TechMeme’s usual content, blogging masturbation.

Lack of news? Roll your own! That’s what I’m off doing.
~ Gerald, Tulsa

(and John… fine use of those XServes bud! AFP548′s to you!)

“What has you excited about tech? Is it Vista?”

Yeah, I’m delirious about Vista.
I’m excited about how innovative it is and how I’m do things I never thought I could do any other way. It runs beatifully on my TabletPC, another item I’m super excited about that’s catching on fire out there. I love my brown Zune and once I get me a big hunking Media Center I might just die and go to heaven.

And I’m really really stoked about all the things Ozzie has done so far. I can’t wait for his next innovation. I wish he’d blog about it so I can get my daily dose. The immediate problem for me now is, I don’t know whether to watch the last episode of “24″ or my SharePoint directory.

Help me.

Tech-related?

I’m trying to figure out the best approach for me and my family to move to Alaska.

I’ve been in IT now for almost 10 years and I’m ready to escape the cars, too many people, and high taxes.

Alaska has low property tax, no state tax, no sales tax, and everone in the family gets an annual slice of the permanent fund, on average about 1,500 per person in the family per year. There’s my property tax paid for.

Any thoughts anyone can throw at me on my idea.

I’m looking at Anchorage, Juneau, and the Fairbanks area.

Wreck: you should talk with Don Kiely. He lives in Fairbanks and is a geek, er, talented developer (he spoke at several of our conferences in the 1990s and always did a great job). He likes living up there very much and is always inviting people to come up and see the land. http://www.sqljunkies.com/weblog/donkiely/ is his blog.

I’m running folding@home and my PS3 has 8 work units done.

On PS3 the world improves you.

I’m also anxiously awaiting the PS3 secondlife thing. It looks so much better than the original 2nd life.

I’m toying around with StickyWindows, which you got a link to earlier on…

It’s changing the way I use OS X radically (instead of all that expose-action, I see my windows swoosh to the edge of the screen automatically), so it’s getting me all excited.

Or is it because it’s darn pink allover?

The most interesting things I see in Tech are not around information technology. They are either environmental technology, like magnifying the force of windmills to generate energy, or biodiesel; or they are in medical devices, such as remote monitoring of patients with chronic conditions (using Cell phones). There are some really fascinating applications out there if you go a little beyond pure IT.

For Wreck: Our friend Pat Borjon moved back to Alaska and has been very happy there. Good job, great wife, 1.5 kids…borjonx@gmail.com and tell him I sent you.

Google Mini. This device is causing a revolution, and so far it has had a very quiet start.

Eamil me for details Scoble!

Other great tech: Command and Conquer 3 released recently.

PodCamp NYC was attended by hundreds of people who are NOT involved in the Tech industry.

Something is happening here…..

I don’t know how much it’s improving the “world”, but I’m looking at switching our family line of PCs to Apple so that my kids can more easily create their own videos and slide shows.

- KMT

Open Source, all the way. Linux seems to be approaching idiot-proof status. Much like Firefox woke up MS in the browser market, desktop Linux could mean radically better Operating systems from both Apple and MS.

I’m trying to build a “online community center, with a strong emphasis on the arts.” Yay for new startups!

I use Windows, Linux, Unix, and Macs between home and work.

I’m tired of Windows security issues. I dislike having to worry about viruses and spyware.

I’m tired of being a Unix guy at work, but I love it when I get to work with the several hundered Macs my employer has.

I’m currently using Linux at home, but despite the fact I’m a savvy Linux user and have been since about ’99, I spend far too much time dickering with wireless setups, getting my digital camera to work, etc., in Linux.

For the sake of time with my family, I’m seriously considering just dropping the money on a new MacBook for myself and giving my kid my Linux notebook with Edubuntu on it for the sake of the learning and games.

It’s time I really got on the ease-of-use bandwagon.

Scoble, didn’t you recently buy a Mac for yourself? What do you think? Do you find yourself using it more than Windows? What about waiting for the new Macs and Leopard?

I’m using my Mac 100% of the time now. I love it. There are still a few things that are better in Windows (window resizing, for one). Parallels rocks. Absolutely rocks.

In the day job, I’m developing an application in Windows Forms that will help large ships protect the environment. Which is about all I can say about it until we launch the beta. It may not be as sexy as Web 2.0, but it’s sure as hell important (and entertaining) work.

In the day job, I’m developing an application in Windows Forms that will help large ships protect the environment. Which is about all I can say about it until we launch the beta. It may not be as sexy as Web 2.0, but it’s sure as hell important (and entertaining) work.

I’m pretty much done with my Windows-to-Mac transition. I’m a Mac user now – except my company is on Windows, and they issued me a Windows laptop, which I need for Lotus Notes. So I use Remote Desktop to access Windows. But only for Notes.

I’m also wrapping up an article on Things To Do In Second Life, because I’m tired of iggerant people saying there’s nothing to do in SL.

Here’s a great website for slow day in tech:
http://urltea.com/441

look for the unexpected use of a flash. Not Flash, but a flash.

I am anxiously awaiting my Slicehost Slice. They have a wait list (pretty popular) and I can’t wait to play around on my new Slice. Ubuntu it will be (I think) running a new rails app.

I am excited about browser based virtual worlds, not just from the project that I work on but from all sorts of groups like Pelican Crossing (Blink3D) and Three Rings (Whirled).

The spaces range from light weight, quick loading 3D views which merge with 2D web content in webish ways (think flash widgets on Flickr, not full page horrors) to more immersive worlds which just happen to arrive in your browser.

@11 – interesting you mention the Google Mini. We’ve been looking at buying one of those for one of our websites.

“What are you doing with tech to improve the world?”

I may not be changing the world but I participate in Yahoo Answers (http://www.answers.yahoo.com), I usually spend my time in the relationships trying to contribute to someone else’s situation and give them my input so they can come up with a good solution. I also spend a lot of time in the Fitness and health sections trying to help people who are sincere about losing weight and weight training.

Other than that I am not doing much online except reading RSS feeds and some light browsing for my new dSLR (I am currently on dialup due to living very far into the boonies in Northern Ontario).

Keep up the great work Mr. Scoble. I know the recent weeks have been tough on you publicly with the situation that happened (I always make sure you read your feeds), I hope you are able to get back to the Scoble of old without all the internet drama.

Regards.