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Incase anyone has missed me let me fill you in on where and what I have been doing for the past few weeks.  Sometime in October I got an itch to buy a Harley Davidson V-Rod. After about a week or so of looking at them, I was sitting on the toilet and it dawned on me that I was being an idiot. I should be looking into buy a home, not a 16 thousand dollar bicycle. A girl I work with happens to be married to a realtor so we started talking and the search was on.

I was being pretty picky I guess but I was only looking for a two bedroom, or more, two bath, two car garage home on a quiet street. Out of the handful of homes that I saw two really stood out but one had the backyard aga. . .

WOW! Congratulations Sal. Owning a home is a milestone in the "American Dream". It always comes with certain pitfalls (as in when something breaks you pay instead of the landlord) but there is nothing sweater than hanging in your very own crib.

David

I know we have some bikes in the crowd here so thought I'd post this up. I had never heard of Deal's Gap or The Tail of the Dragon but from what I have heard since, it is infamous especially amongst bikers.

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

The link I wanted to post up is the next one. Be warned you will need broadband and Quicktime. If you have speakers get them on and crank it. The sound track is not that great but a little over halfway through you hear a guy blow by and at the end of the flic you hear our rider whine the f*ker down and up when he gets short changed by a couple of slow riders. Slow is relative since by the end of the clip the camera drops enough to see the speed-o. Check out the parseing speed when he grabs the parse.

http://homepage.mac.com/terry_m/iMovieTheater6.html

I thought this was cool.

David

The pens come with a tie down. You can see one on the top photos of the Fujitsu. The other units are loaners so the pen ties are not present.

As it turns out the docs were turned on by the IBM X41. They have been using a couple of Fujitsu T4010's like the first unit I snapped photos of. Their major complaint is the weight with the dual batt configuration. The IBM X41 is thinner, lighter and much easier in the hand. They all hate the red "nipple" track ball thing but feel that they can over come that. Looks like we are buying a couple 3-4 to play with more in depth. The next step is to figure out if we can hook the fingerprint readers into a "Biometric Server" set-up so that all authenication can be achieve through active directory. We can store authentication locally on the machines but we want roaming profiles and the ability to log into any and all units through a centralized server.

One thing that is slick is the ability to manage the wireless connection with IBM software vs. allowing Windows (which just gets way wonky sometimes). With IBM management we can set up profiles for specific connections. If you are in a certain node location we can change the default printer to reflect one that is nearest to you etc. Run scripts the whole kit and cabbodle. Way cool stuff I have never played with before.

David

The house guest made it home tonight with me and he brought a friend.


The one on the left is the IBM ThinkPad X41 and his friend on the right is the Fujitsu T1510D. I placed a pack of smokes in front so you can get some perspective. That's a 12.1 active digitizer screen on the IBM and a 8.9 parseive digitizer screen on the Fujitsu. Here's a shot of them in tablet mode.


The parseive screen is not what I want in a tablet but they can't get active digitizer in that size yet. Notice on the smaller Fujitsu they ditched the track pad and went with the nipple to save space.

David

One other thing I noticed when I ran the IBM X41 through it's paces on Friday is the radio reception is a lot better on the IBM vs. the Fujitsu. I can't pick up the "Board Room" node with the Fujitsu while sitting at my desk (down two floors and through a hell of a lot of concrete and steel, the server room is between me and the node). The IBM was able to "see" the node at one bar but was unable to connect. If I get up from my desk and walk to the door it picks up an IP and connects, something the Fujitsu can't do until I walk past the server room and enter the stairwell.

David

Post up some pictures of that thiing. So it picked up all your handwriting then? or did you have to edit some?

The house guest was highjacked by the boss. He took it to a meeting at the end of the day and I wasn't sticking around for him to return. Oh well ...

It picked up the handwriting well. I am getting good at it anyway so I rarely have to do edits. After you use the hand writing for a while you get to know what you can and can not get away with. The battery life was a VERY sweet 5+ hours during my initial test.

David

A convertable laptop. I have it in tablet mode using the pen and hand writing recognition.  I get it as a house guest this weekend to test the network stuff on the home network. So far I have to say I like this unit better than the Fujitsu Lifebook.

The weight is sweet and is very slim. The only thing I dislike about IBM laptops is they use the red nipple instead of a "track pad".  I'll post up other thouqhts as I use it more.

 David

OPML feed! Sweet ... This setup has the best and the latest.

David