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jobstconsulting — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:45:10 +0000

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jobstconsulting — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:40:51 +0000

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Here’s an interesting article about the latest phones on Jobst Consulting http://tinyurl.com/y95tkfr

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jobstconsulting — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:51:13 +0000

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Review of the four most desired phones for Christmas

jobstconsulting — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:26:49 +0000

Our review of the four most desired phones for Christmas:

Nokia N900

Nokia-N900

Fastest of all four in this lineup, however it has no 3G support. 32GB of memory, expandable to 48GB- so storage will never be an issue here.
It’s got a nice quality camera (photo and video).
Currently it also has a limited number of applications.

Pros:

Debian Linux based smart phone with lots of memory (32GB expandable to 48GB).
Very intuitive, so no Linux knowledge is perfectly alright, though if you are a Linux user (or even better, a Linux power user), the sky is the limit.
Processing power is awesome, if you tend to run a lot of applications at once (camera, web browser, email, notes etc), this will not be a problem!
Beautiful high resolution display

Cons:

Not a whole lot of extra applications available yet (compared to
iPhone, Droid etc.), however if you’re a knowledgeable Linux user, you can get some of the Linux apps {for PCs} to work on this phone- making it very resourceful).
Although it comes with 38GB of memory, only 2GB are allocated
towards applications (again, if you’re into Linux this shouldn’t be a problem as you can resize)

Nokia N97

nokia-n97

Second only to the N900 only because of processor speed and
interface (camera, memory etc are the same). It DOES support 3g on AT&T and it’s able to share multimedia files.
Very nice camera, like the N900, and web browsing capabilities.
Being that it’s a slower processor than the N900, it can be slow at times. Users report that the video calling throughout Europe is
very impressive, definitely a good traveling buddy.

pros:

Very nice resolution.
Like N900, has quality camera lens
HD 720 video recording
Full QWERTY keyboard
3G, Wi-fi, Bluetooth and GPS

Cons:

Responsive with nothing else running, but does not multitask like
N900. Note- this is NOT a multitasking phone.
Clunky touch interface (have to touch the screen harder than other
models on the market, which could cause buyer’s remorse)
Outdated (Symbian) Operating System
Although it comes loaded with apps and features, you have 15 days
of Adobe and Office before you have to pay for licenses (which IMHO
is a shocker when you consider the initial cost of the phone)

HTC Touch Pro 2

Sleek, beautiful looking phone. Designed to fit perfectly in your hand with a larger 3.8 inch hi-res display
for far greater viewing area, this phone is quite impressive!

Pros:

Advanced, responsive touch experience optimized for one handed use
Sleek, large sreen
5MP camera
Windows Mobile 6.1 (can flash to 6.5)
Long battery life

Cons:

Windows Mobile (can be bulky performance wise)

Motorola Droid

motorola-droid

The much hyped Droid phone packs a good delivery of features, despite the pointed/box-shaped look.
The 3.7″ display surpasses the iPhone’s and its resolution is full and rich with very impressive graphics.
Performance is adequate, but it’s not a super-phone either. For the price it’s certainly the most bang for the buck (especially if you’re stuck in a contract).

Pros:

Call quality is great
Gorgeous screen
5MP camera with LED flash
Non-plastic casing, much faster processor (unlike the G1)

Cons:

“Flat” keyboard
Camera known to be a little slow
Wifi chip not as good as other models
Touch-screen a bit too sensitive

For more information, check out this side-by-side comparison:

http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/cell-phones/compare/?name1=Motorola+Droid&name2=HTC+Touch+Pro2&name3=Nokia+N900&name4=Nokia+N97&compare=Compare

Peter Jobst Impressed with Fedora 11

jobstconsulting — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:20:16 +0000

I recently deployed a Fedora 11 server and found that Red Hat keeps on doing themselves up upon each release. I love the new EXT4 support and and planning on benchmarking some speed tests in the future. Stay tuned…. oooohhh ahhh
The installer (Anaconda) continues on with its simple GUI interface and they have added options for downloading updates from the installer. I tried it the first time around but found that is was so slow to download updates and I couldn’t continue on with the installation until they finished. So since I was in a crunch for time I decided to stop the installation and start over and skip the download updates.
Once the server was up I found it had every utility I needed to get the system configured and locked down enough to put on the network securely. I was able to download samba, proftp, and other servers simply through yum.
After that came the mounting of our large storage array. I was hoping to go larger but I ran into a limitation on EXT4 that limits the partition to 16 TB. So oh well I have to live with 16 TB instead of 18. I can use that extra space for virtual drives. The formatting with EXT4 was the same process as EXT3. Very straight forward.
So now came the time to get everything up 2 date. Ahh but we don’t use up2date any longer. Now we us yum. Yum is Linux’s anal retentive twin to Microsoft’s Windows Update so it took a looong time to get all the updates downloaded and installed. I’ve got to find a fast repository for Fedora 11 because it took 8 hours for all the updates up get installed.
But I rebooted in the end and all was well.
Much more fun to come out of this server. I feel Red Hat has done an excellent job.
That’s my personal experience

Not Your Father’s Old “Thumb Drive” – USB Technology Today and Tomorrow

jobstconsulting — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:18:47 +0000

Initially, the USB drive device or thumb drive was a simple way to copy files from one computer to another. They would be something you would pick up at trade shows that where branded and had the company’s product catalog on it. Now, if you search the internet for USB drives you will find thousands of sites offering USB’s in millions of different forms and molds. You will also see companies that are utilizing this media in various business models and markets world wide. (www.aderra.net) With the increase in available capacity, you can now have movies, music, documents and utilities all on a portable drive that fits your pocket or looks like Yoda. (www.cfgear.com ) The CD and DVD physical media are quickly being eliminated as the reusable, portable and sometimes fashionable USB devices are taking over. I recently had a technical problem that required a USB.
Can a USB device be a boot device? Could it be possible? Yes it is. We were recently contacted by a client who had a laptop that he locked himself out of by incorrectly typing the password Over and Over and Over. He didn’t know the administrator password. Of course this laptop didn’t have a floppy or a CD/DVD drive. All of the new laptop mini’s only have USB drives. We tried everything we could think of to get logged in. We came across a company called Password-reset (http://www.password-reset.com/index.php ). I quickly found that they had a Bootable USB version of their software. I followed the simple instructions to create the bootable content, format the USB and copy the updated content to the USB drive. Using the bootable USB and this software I had the password reset and logged back in quickly.
Pretty slick.

Windows 7 RC Evaluation on Dell Precision Laptop

jobstconsulting — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:18:07 +0000

It’s been almost two years since I started running Windows Vista 32bit Business on my Dell Precision Laptop with 2 GB Ram, 2.2 Ghz Intel Centrino processor, with a 128 MB graphic card. When I purchase this laptop I figured it would be a stellar, fast, and enjoyable laptop, but with it running Windows Vista I have just been disappointed and extremely frustrated. I really wondered why Microsoft would release an operating system that is so bloated, buggy, slow and a step backwards from their ever so popular Windows XP Pro.

I really wanted to see what the future for Microsoft is holding and I wanted a peak of what Windows 7 is all about. So I formatted and installed Microsoft’s Windows 7 RC 64bit onto my Dell Laptop. The process was relatively simple (minus the fact that I had to format in order to install the 64 bit version). I downloaded the Windows 7 RC from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/download.aspx which comes as a DVD ISO, burned it to a DVD and booted into the install.

The installation went fast and I could already tell that Microsoft has done their home work on this version. The installation went smooth and my laptop was up and running within and hour. It took a couple more hours to install the updates, I installed some basic applications and then viola, I had a new beautiful Windows 7 Laptop.

The biggest improvement that I have found are in the Aero translucent desktop, the speed of booting and going to sleep, the smoothness of the operating system, and its fast fast fast. While both Vista and Windows 7 share the same kernel Windows 7 is vastly superior.
As an IT professional I rely on Microsoft to perform well on corporate network and up until now I could only recommend Windows XP Pro to my clients. I am extremely excited about the future and my continued partnership with Microsoft. They really got the message that people would not stand for a product like Windows Vista.

So soon Vista will fade into Tech history as another Windows ME and Windows 7 will finally allow us to all move forward. I am very interested in the deployment of Windows 2008 Server with Windows 7 clients as this is going to be a knock out combination.

Windows 7 Released

jobstconsulting — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:16:15 +0000

Microsoft announced its release of Windows 7 recently and with the interesting new features you can see how it has got people talking. With the failures of their past operating system, most everyone is optimistic, hoping for a new more stable option. It seems at first look that Windows 7 will overpower its predecessor with ease.

the system requirements are the same as windows vista, so people who are using vista already will be able to easily upgrade without having to worry about buying extra hardware to accommodate.

if you would like to know more, or download windows 7 RC (release candidate), please take a look at the official site http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx.

Windows 7 boasts many new features from a more user friendly interface to better management of all of your hardware, like cameras, printers, MP3 players, and more.

Less annoying pop-ups than its predecessor makes normal everyday use a lot simpler and the “jump list” makes recent documents easy to find.

Take a look at the video below for a preview of some of the interesting features that are available for computers with touch screen capabilities.