How to Support Your IT Innovators: I just can’t help making connections between this Harvard Buinsess article and this piece from The Chief Happiness Officer: How NOT to lead geeks.
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Following my installation tutorial, I have read more on it. I will summarize my findings there.
Pros and Cons
Windows Home Server has the following cons and pros to me:
Pros:
- PC backup (still has to be externalized afterwards, your WHS can’t be your single point of failure.
- Media Storage with expandable capacity
- Extensions & Add-ins
Cons:
- I am sure you can build your own configuration but the license remains OEM (99$). That’s the only one I could find on amazon. What about the support ? The installation was not straightforward on a VM.
- Open source solutions are available. They require more integration but are competitive.
Links
Jolicloud is a linux based distribution targeted to netbooks. It does abstraction of technical details and provides added value thanks to a cloud : backup, social features, additional software, etc. Easy to install, I gave it a try on my virtual platform of choice and did a tutorial (Installing Jolicloud on VMware Workstation, really basic) as VMware Worsktation was not officialy supported. I highly recommend you to do the same, with Virtualbox if you don’t have VMware Workstation or with a the live test drive (with no installation required).
More on Jolicloud:
Turn Your iPhone or iPod Touch Into a Multi-Room Wireless Music Remote
VLC + VLC Remote Control + Airfoil would do the same and would apply to video as well but delays of Airtunes process and transit have to be taken into consideration (estimated to 2.4 s not constant). Justeport is a free alternative but VLC has to be able to stream into that format (looks to support RAW audio).
Must read : Tim Ferri’s ChangeThis: The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload & Triple Productivity in 24 Hours. Fan of ChangeThis, I missed that one but this (old 2007 2007 is not old, it is just relative) post from Tim Ferriss’ Fourhourworkweek reminded me, via another mustread Zenhabits. Yeah, Internet is complex and full of name dropping, shame.
Following my spam issues and to switch to a platform that I follow and have used before, I installed dotclear 2 on this hosting, with the hope to be able to import posts and contents from there. Experience and comparison “after the jump”.
I was looking for the # times this year for “real” Cisco Visio Stencils. So for later usage:
- Official Cisco Visio Stencils, all products : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_visio_icon_list.html
- Network Topology (ie. Marketing) Icons : http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac50/ac47/2.html. I was looking for theses ones and they more difficul to find (less references in Google). The PowerPoint files includes icons and graphic guidelines, always inspiration full when one is lacking of inspiration but looking to look professional (who said boring?).
Talking about visio, I discovered Visio Guy, it is worth a click (this post’s illustration comes from this site, please make sure to read this article btw).
Mainly focused on Cisco, this blog has some pointers to visio related resources.
Nothing to add. Geektechnique.org has for years been an inspiration source for a mix of audio, video and computers experiments and all gems. I have included a list of them with online and offline version.
