I have spoken before about the new rage of "little PCs" that are beginning to enter the market in a bigger more sophisticated way. There is one set of computers that I am looking at for several projects that will require the utmost conservation of space. These units are pretty cool in the fact that you can get P4, P3, Fanless and an expansion slot configuration. I have looked into several models that they have and one that really has intrigued me is the LPC-301 model. This model contains a P3 with onboard LAN, USB, Firewire, Audio, Serial, Video. The niftiest little feature is the solid state hard drive which is optional. Here is a taste of what they are about. The Flash Disk Drives are solid-state devices that replicate a standard IDE or SCSI Disk Drive. Since they have no moving parts they can withstand extreme shock, vibration, temperature and harsh environmental conditions while not compromising on data integrity. That is right out of the marketing material and there is more good stuff on their site. One particular application that I am looking at for these is the new "book rooms" at Galloway. Space will really be at a premium and if somehow I can get these units into play I will be able to save quite a bit of workspace that will be needed for what else, books. Check them out they are really neat. I was talking with Gary K. this week and I mentioned to him that there used to be a PC that was sold a few years ago that was deemed an "industrial strength PC/notebook". Neither one of us could remember what it was called but it finally came to me. It was a Grid Computer and it was very distinctive in that it had an amber display. In fact, before green became the color of choice for monochrome monitors amber was very popular. I sold a great deal of those amber Amdek monitors in the beginning years of our business. Anyway this Little PCs remind me of those Grid units.
Started reviewing and reading a months worth of blog info and I came across some more nice support work from Microsoft. It is a blog front end of some sort and one of the tracks it lead me down was the Windows Exchange Community Center. There is a ton of information to be gleaned from this site. There is a newsgroup section as well as a way to meet and leave words with some of the Microsoft MVPs. That in itself is very nice. They have also started a Community Kitchen at MSDN and that will provide Microsoft.com web sites with dynamic, scooped content feeds that are RSS-enabled. This site also bears some review. If you get a chance you can find many, many blogs off the Computers and Technology section off Yahoo.Com. Just select the technology weblogs selection and be prepared to be there for awhile, there is just so much to read.
On a final note, we have had really lousy success with our blog at Charter this month and we will be giving it one more shot this month. It is going on a full fledged web server running a copy of Windows 2003 Web edition. I hope for everyone's sake that this system stays up and remains stable for the most part. There are four very important blogs running on this system and we need to get this back in good shape for the start of the school year. Jim, just keep the faith. Till next time.
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