Saturday, November 13, 2004

NeXTSTEP To Mac OS X [Slashdot:] 2:50:33 PM    comment []

Lighthammer Software's composite application toolkit. Last week I recorded a screen video with Rick Bullotta, who's the CTO of Lighthammer Software. He'd seen my Gmail column, and wanted to show me how he and his team are weaving HTML, XML, JavaScript, and Java applets to support data visualization and services-oriented application development in the manufacturing domain. ... [Jon's Radio] 12:50:46 PM    comment []

OneNote and a new way to improve meetings. I recently had the opportunity to try out a new way to manage and a record a meeting using my Tablet and OneNote, here is how it went:   First I created a main page for the meeting, where I recorded the location, attendees, objectives etc The I created sub pages with all of the material that I had been sent about the meeting, embedded as background images, (drag and drop word documents onto OneNote and it provides this as an option).  I was then able to quickly jump to these and mark them up if I needed to Then I created a sub page to keep my hand written notes Finally, I plugged in a $10 microphone on an 8’ lead, put it in the middle of the room, and recorded the whole meeting. As the recording proceeded, I made short handwritten notes when key points were made.  The key thing is that I did not try to take thorough notes, just jot down a memory clue that I could use later. Because I did not take extensive notes, I could remain focussed on the discussion, which is a major benefit On the way home (I travelled in the by Train in the first class “quiet zone”, which by the way is really cheap if you book 7 or 14 days in advance) I listened to the whole meeting again and made more thorough notes, jotted down action points etc. The great thing was I could pause the replay of the meeting at any time if I wanted to make some detailed note, or to think something through.   Now maybe you don’t always have the luxury of sitting in first class (although second class probably makes headphones even more attractiveJ) and replaying the meeting. (for important meetings it maybe a very useful technique to remember). However, the fact that you have a full record of the meeting and all those memory clues that let you jump straight to the point in the audio record where the key point was being discussed is a major innovation.   In case you are interested, the 2.5 hour meeting was only about 8MB in size!  The only downside to the whole thing – I realised just how often I say “you know” in conversation!!   I have yet to try the same idea with video. [Adventures in home working] 12:48:22 PM    comment []

An Encrypted File System on a USB Thumbdrive (FreeBSD). In this article you will learn how to set up FreeBSD to use a USB thumbdrive, how to configure and use the Cryptographic File System (CFS), and then for the FreeBSD 5.X users, how to use the brand new Geom Based Disk Encryption system (gbde). [OSNews] 12:46:55 PM    comment []

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