Comments on: With Some Help From the Cloud, My 30-Minute PC Switch

By: Mas Notas del Radio « El Rincón del Ornitorrinco

Mas Notas del Radio « El Rincón del Ornitorrinco — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:12:03 +0000

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By: Me

Me — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:26:19 +0000

I have about 20 years in IT and am an Enterprise Architect at a very well known technology company. I know Windows quite well through all of its various version including 7. I still have to hold my nose using Widows of any sort. Everything about it is mediocre whether it is desktop or server OS. Of course I use macs at home and fortunately my company and many others are now allowing the option of Macs since so many technical people prefer them. I’m not talking about desktop support people who owe their jobs to fixing all the usual Windows problems but high level IT architects who don’t have to settle for less than the best hardware and software.

By: Hello Again, Windows. Hello.

Hello Again, Windows. Hello. — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:45:10 +0000

[...] a cue from Om, I’m going to make a little switcheroo from the Mac to Windows. Unlike Om, who’s only going to run Windows on Fridays and Saturdays, I think I’ll make it more of a full-time venture — at least for a little while. [...]

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Quotable: On Staying in Sync with Change | Tech-monkey.info Blogs — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:10:26 +0000

[...] important to see the world as others do, not just the early adopters. It’s one reason why like Om I felt compelled to use multiple platforms. [...]

By: yoyo

yoyo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:06:43 +0000

why didn’t you just use fusion?

http://vmware.com/products/fusion/

By: CCs

CCs — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:54:11 +0000

Cloud profile: http://www.jolicloud.com , Chrome OS and many other initiatives.

Trust: currently you trust the banks with your money, the hospitals with your life. Maybe in the future we will have trusted data banks.
Cloud providers do have backup, unlike most of the users I know of.

By: CCs

CCs — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:41:28 +0000

Likely you will need two security applications: anti-spyware and anti-virus.

1. Spyware: Now Windows Defender is better than Ad-Aware
2. Virus: Avast is a bit better than AVG

Because of company policy I did use for years Symantec anti-virus (slow) and McAfee (awful), but I would go with Avast if I have the choice.

Disclaimer: none. I’m average Windows user Joe.

By: Artruro Jayson

Artruro Jayson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:27:31 +0000

I’ve said it before, the only cloud that will exist after any attempts to usurp and repackage personal computing, file sharing and networking will be the one floating in the sky that the cloud marketeers will be on their backs watching. Anyone who thinks that we will all be putting our files on a cloud or using the clouds software collectively is living on one. If they haven’t figured this out by now then they are seeing the cloud for something it is not, like maybe a floating penguin?

Leave the cloud to Lenovo. They can have it. Leave computing actuality to computers and their users.

By: Artruro Jayson

Artruro Jayson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:13:43 +0000

The only cloud that will exist after any attempts to usurp and repackage personal computing, file sharing and networking will be the one floating in the sky that the cloud marketeers will be on their backs watching. Anyone who thinks that we will all be putting our files on a cloud or using the clouds software collectively is living on one. If they haven’t figured this out by now then they are seeing the cloud for something it is not, like maybe a floating penguin?

Leave the cloud to Lenovo. They can have it. Leave computing actuality to computers and their users.

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draftMedia (draftmedia) 's status on Monday, 13-Jul-09 02:55:43 UTC - Identi.ca — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:55:50 +0000

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By: pwb

pwb — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:54:27 +0000

Postbox is cool and better than Thunderbird but I still prefer Mac Mail (200,000 emails on Gmail IMAP).

By: pwb

pwb — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:29:32 +0000

There are a lot of Bay Area companies gong with Google Docs alone. It can be done. Except for heavy spread-sheeting, Google Docs works very well.

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:22:47 +0000

Didn’t Google already announce this, I believe it is called Chrome OS or something along the likes of it :) Of course it’ll be Google centric but if people don’t think this operating system will store everything in the cloud then I think they are missing the point. Docs will be stored in Google Docs, Pictures in Picasa, and Music in Gdrive?

By: pwb

pwb — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:19:32 +0000

Vista has a very basic networking problem that a lot of people are having trouble with. We still don’t know how to fix it. We have fresh PCs with a network that otherwise works fine.

http://www.google.com/search?q=vista+%22local+access%22

The XP and 7 experiences are vastly better than Vista.

By: Aaron deMello

Aaron deMello — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:15:49 +0000

Om, check out Postbox. I use it for IMAP access to our mail stored on Google Apps. Works perfectly and is far superior to the dog that is Apple’s Mail.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:23:51 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with Windows Firewall. If one’s just gonna approach this whole exercise keeping a Fanboi level angst at anything MS related than it’ll be pointless.

Even though I’m a VLC fan I think you should give WMP12 a whirl. .Checkout Windows Media Center especially if you’ve got a tuner or an extender like the 360 .

As far A/V goes I find Avast and Avira to be the best free solutions on Windows 7. They hardly effect boot time and aren’t as notification prone.