Upgraded! 320 GB in a MacBook Pro!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 25. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
I know I’m not the first to do this, but it does make me chuckle to have upgraded a brand new machine less than a week after buying it. That’s right, my brand new MacBook Pro now has 4 GB of RAM and a massive 320 GB of disk space. If you’re thinking of upgrading your [...]
How to Keep an IOGear KVM from Dimming Your Mac’s Screen
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Terabyte home on 19. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
Just a quick tip tonight about something that’s been nagging me. I love my IOGear MiniView Micro GCS632U KVM, but I’ve had a weird problem since hooking it up to my new MacBook Pro. See, the IOGear uses a double press on the Scroll Lock key to switch views. But every time I type this while [...]
Command and Control: The Clash of Keyboards
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Terabyte home on 17. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
The lowly computer keyboard is so ubiquitous that it can seem unchanging, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is one of the most important components of any system, and has survived all assaults by new technologies from the mouse to the pen to the microphone, yet its evolution is marked by legacy [...]
Storage Virtualization: What Is It Good For?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 17. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
Even though storage virtualization technologies have been on the market for 20 years or more, and numerous companies have tried to sell it as a product in its own right for at least half that long, many are still unsure of what to do with the technology. A great new piece by Dave Raffo, News [...]
Big Little Disks Are On The Way
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 16. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
The relentless march of hard drive capacity is about to reach its next cantonment as 500 GB 2.5″ drives begin to arrive this month. These little half-terabyte wonders will continue the downward pressure on price and challenge flash-based drives just as they stake their claim in the main stream of the market.
Switch Day 1: This Mac is Hot!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 14. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
So the Mac has joined my replacement work Dell – two new computers in two days! Here are my first thoughts on the hardware:
This post is part of my series focused on switching from PC to Mac.
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Switch! or How the Mac (Finally) Won Me Over
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Terabyte home on 12. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
It’s official, I am a switcher. A splitter. An ex-Windows user (at home, at least). Today I bought my first Mac since the SE that still haunts our basement storage room in its cute gray carrying bag. Come Friday, I will be an official Mac user!
How did it come to this? It’s not really Microsoft’s [...]
Download Storage Decisions Presentations
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 09. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
Whether you were at the show or missed it, most of the presentations from Storage Decisions in Chicago are now available for download. These can be a great resource for internal communication and strategy – share the insights from the show to help make a case for change!
Most of the sessions were worthwhile, but I’d [...]
Justifying Email Archiving
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 09. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
Now that my TechTarget Virtual Seminar on email archiving is finished, I wanted to share the questions and answers from the session here. You will eventually be able to catch a recorded version of the presentation on TechTarget’s searchexchange.com site, and I’ll post when it’s out.
Interestingly, most questions revolved around justifying the purchase of email [...]
Amazon MP3 Friday 5
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
I know this will sound like an ad, but please don’t take it that way. I love Amazon’s selection of MP3 downloads – they’re DRM-free and uniformly cheaper than iTunes. And the company has a download app that integrates nicely with iTunes (unlike the eternally-borken Emusic manager).
I was surprised this morning with an email from [...]
