2009 November archive at Robert Pogson

Archive for November, 2009

Chrome This and That

Published by Robert Pogson November 20th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

I was amazed to see a strongly negative report on the Chrome OS from Google on LinuxWorld. TFA is bogus. Thin clients are 10% of PCs now and netbooks are catching up quickly. There is a huge space where a fast light OS that is web-centric would be right at home. Some people just do not embrace change and diversity in IT, just like the dinosaurs. The authour took the trouble to trot out a lot of smelly red herrings like device compatibility and a need for local apps (which increase costs and reduce performance for no reasonable benefit) which have not been important for years now. We stream everything here. Where do these guys come from? Why don’t they go away and let us enjoy IT in peace?

Google is a household word. People have loved it from the beginning. It is growing. Anything with a Google brand will move fast especially if it is good for the purposes of the young mobile folks. Using both local apps and a browser is very inefficient. The sooner we can do everything with the browser, the better. That will be about 2010 by my reckoning.

- Robert Pogson

The Grinch Steals Christmas

Published by Robert Pogson November 20th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

M$, our favourite corporation, is going to steal Christmas from thousands of small businesses who use its payroll service. Believe it or not, M$ has announced that they will not update the service any longer so end-of-year pay may have to be moved to another service. With “partners” like this, who needs enemies?

see “Microsoft scraps payroll service just before Xmas
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Want to jump on their cloud?

This looks like the end-days of monopoly. M$ can no longer afford to give much away as profits shrink on the client division.

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.