I have a Galaxy Note (phone) and find it great as a carry everywhere device for making quick notes. I find it much easier to use the S-Pen to jot things down and the pen also makes it easy to scribble notes/diagrams against PDFs, photos and screenshots. If I was heading back to lectures, I would be looking at the Galaxy Note 10.1 (coming soon) as an alternative to plain pen and paper. Any sort of netbook/laptop is not an option for me - I find a keyboard slows me down and I like the ability to insert arrows and circle/highlight text etc.
It's Windows, not Ubuntu. Last time I had a "reinstall windows" problem, it took me 2 weeks to get all the software installed and configured again. I can't just tick off what I want and hit Apply.
I recently used CloneZilla to re-image a 20GB C:\ partition - took less than half an hour. Of course, that required a little foresight (to partition the drive and clone the windows partition).
One other improvement I'd add:
- Never, ever, ever use an alarm to remind me the batteries are low when I'm asleep
The most annoying phone feature ever, and it's been standard on any phone I've ever had.
Anyone seriously considering which document format to standardise on isn't going to form a decision just because of an ISO standard
Yes, they will. Being ISO compliant helps you get customers. Big customers.
Yeah, I haven't been on the vendor side of the fence for a while and hadn't considered it from a vendor point of view. However, there is a difference between being e.g. ISO9001 compliant and choosing one ISO document standard (such as OOXML) over another ISO standard (such as ODF).
Anyway, isn't it the customer that would be choosing to standardise on a document format rather than a vendor?
M$ is going after its own customers, not the ODF user base. What incentive does an Office user have to upgrade from a perfectly good document format (that you can share with almost anyone) to a format that no one else can use? Well, now, because the new format is a standard, whereas the old doc standard is not. Microsoft's biggest competitor is Microsoft, and the ISO standard is just a way to keep milking the MSOffice teat.
What's the big deal anyway? Anyone seriously considering which document format to standardise on isn't going to form a decision just because of an ISO standard. If only MS products support the "standard" then it doesn't really count for much. IT departments that are aware of the ISO standard would (I hope) be considering the technology on its technical merits and how it works for them and their systems.
I tried out OpenBravo POS yesterday and quite liked it. It is Java based, and can use HSQLDB, MySQL, PostGreSQL or Oracle as the database. The interface looks straightforward and easy to use, and you can connect up a barcode scanner and cash drawer.
I like it because it has the ability to upload sales and download inventory from a central location. I think it is supposed to connect to OpenBravo ERP, but it uses web services to do this so it should be easy to connect it up to something custom built. My requirements are different though: My wife has a business with two small shops, and a third one on the way. We want to download inventory data from a central location and upload sales back to synchronise with the accounting system. This means that the accounting can be done offsite - a vast improvement from the current set-up.
I have to agree with what other posters have said - make sure an open source or custom solution is what you really want. The accounting software your boss uses might have a POS add-on that meets your needs - the integration with the accounting system would be a real bonus.
Also, make sure that the solution is well tested - the POS is a critical part of the business and it is a real pain when it goes down. (It happened to me the week before Xmas, which goes to show how universal Sods Law is).
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I have a Galaxy Note (phone) and find it great as a carry everywhere device for making quick notes. I find it much easier to use the S-Pen to jot things down and the pen also makes it easy to scribble notes/diagrams against PDFs, photos and screenshots. If I was heading back to lectures, I would be looking at the Galaxy Note 10.1 (coming soon) as an alternative to plain pen and paper. Any sort of netbook/laptop is not an option for me - I find a keyboard slows me down and I like the ability to insert arrows and circle/highlight text etc.
It's Windows, not Ubuntu. Last time I had a "reinstall windows" problem, it took me 2 weeks to get all the software installed and configured again. I can't just tick off what I want and hit Apply.
I recently used CloneZilla to re-image a 20GB C:\ partition - took less than half an hour. Of course, that required a little foresight (to partition the drive and clone the windows partition).
"long after its original audience has disappeared"
I'm part of the original audience, you insensitive clod!
One other improvement I'd add:
- Never, ever, ever use an alarm to remind me the batteries are low when I'm asleep
The most annoying phone feature ever, and it's been standard on any phone I've ever had.
Yeah, I haven't been on the vendor side of the fence for a while and hadn't considered it from a vendor point of view. However, there is a difference between being e.g. ISO9001 compliant and choosing one ISO document standard (such as OOXML) over another ISO standard (such as ODF).
Anyway, isn't it the customer that would be choosing to standardise on a document format rather than a vendor?
M$ is going after its own customers, not the ODF user base. What incentive does an Office user have to upgrade from a perfectly good document format (that you can share with almost anyone) to a format that no one else can use? Well, now, because the new format is a standard, whereas the old doc standard is not. Microsoft's biggest competitor is Microsoft, and the ISO standard is just a way to keep milking the MSOffice teat.
What's the big deal anyway? Anyone seriously considering which document format to standardise on isn't going to form a decision just because of an ISO standard. If only MS products support the "standard" then it doesn't really count for much. IT departments that are aware of the ISO standard would (I hope) be considering the technology on its technical merits and how it works for them and their systems.
I tried out OpenBravo POS yesterday and quite liked it. It is Java based, and can use HSQLDB, MySQL, PostGreSQL or Oracle as the database. The interface looks straightforward and easy to use, and you can connect up a barcode scanner and cash drawer.
I like it because it has the ability to upload sales and download inventory from a central location. I think it is supposed to connect to OpenBravo ERP, but it uses web services to do this so it should be easy to connect it up to something custom built. My requirements are different though: My wife has a business with two small shops, and a third one on the way. We want to download inventory data from a central location and upload sales back to synchronise with the accounting system. This means that the accounting can be done offsite - a vast improvement from the current set-up.
I have to agree with what other posters have said - make sure an open source or custom solution is what you really want. The accounting software your boss uses might have a POS add-on that meets your needs - the integration with the accounting system would be a real bonus.
Also, make sure that the solution is well tested - the POS is a critical part of the business and it is a real pain when it goes down. (It happened to me the week before Xmas, which goes to show how universal Sods Law is).