I was wondering for one just what all you needed the keyboard to do? Why not just the Logitech MediaPad? It would seem as many have mentioned a normal wireless keyboard would work or as many others have suggested a PocketPC even with a keypad option. As far as BlueTooth compliancy, as far as I know and other that a PocketPC with Bluetooth capability, the Microsoft and the Logitech are the only Bluetooth Keyboards around, at least in normal channels. There is another thought you could check out TDK's site at http://www.tdksystems.com/index.asp where they have a product that you might consider custom integrating that is called "blu2i" which is supposed to allow virtually any product, existing or in development, to be enhanced with wireless connectivity. If nothing else they may be able to tell you what keyboard company if any is looking to integrate or is in current developement with thier product.
I was one of the original developers for Magneto Optic for MaxOptics and Pinnacle Micro Systems approx 20 years ago. I still have media recorded back then on truly rewritable optical media that is 100% flawless to this day. And all this is on Plastic Media. I never did understand why magneto optic didn't catch on more. The Glass Media units I'm sure would go to 100+ years and were tested in Europe for the telephone and data companys 20 years ago, and the last I heard they still hadn't seen a single cartridge with glass media go bad.
Well several people may have mentioned this, I didn't read all 400 and something posts. But if your running windows, limiting what your parents can install is fairly easy and if they are real novices you could always put children like desktops on that lock them really down including a parent controlled web filtering program. I use one for my parents and my children as well, of course with different age appropriate applications and web site access's of course, but it definitely does the job. Edmark used to make a good one, don't know if they still do or not? I think it was called KidDesk Internet Safe.
Hmmm, maybe they should of had some image backups made with CDP's SnapBack or SnapBack enabled product and just handed the FBI the tapes and told them to go restore them and search them themselves. That would have shut them up for thier hastiness and would have allowed the provider to keep his equipment and stayed running.
Finally I'm starting to see some justice! I have 18 years experience but have been out of work due to all the outsourcing and dumping of jobs overseas for the last 10 months. Nothing has ticked me off more than seeing so called private schools like ECPI and others advertising in the paper for IT and Cert courses. They advertise like there is a shortage for jobs, that they cant fill them fast enough... when all they have done is dumped untrained memorizers on the market and created a glut of available personnel. And if a business or HR department doesn't know better, the fancy paper gets these really untrained workers the jobs at cheap salaries (because they have to pay those 30K college course fees) I wish they all would shut down and go back to just being Testing centers like back in the Drake days... or am I showing my age again.
Don't want to start a malicious rumor or anything but a meeting like your describing sounds like to me after 20 years experience is that a massive downsizing or even total outsourcing is in the works... NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU!!. They are just feeling things out and seeing how they need to proceed so that no data or other network espionage takes place. I wouldn't be surprised if you see a IT Audit take place so that they can obtain all the detailed network documentation, passwords, etc. Elliot Davis Consultants for IT Outsourcing love to get in doors this way. I speak from experience. Be Paranoid, be very afraid... you should be in this day and age. Nobody is safe, no matter what your qualifications or experience. Companies don't care about there people at all anymore. It's all about the bottom line. If you want to say anything, stay positive and talk about some method of saving the department or company money without sacrifing productivity or gains. Other than that. LISTEN don't Talk!
It Serves Symantec right.. too bad for them. If they are successful in getting it to work they will see their virus product become the most unpopular instead of one of the most popular. What Symantec doesn't realize is that Peter Norton made the product great... back when it was Norton Antivirus he actually would release his product to the Pirate BBS's for the hackerz to beat up on.. we were his QA. Not to mention that we made him famous. Seems awful strange that all these companies forget what made them great, not to mention rich.. the pirates and warez groups. Even Billy Gates pirated, phone phreaked and other such activities.. that's how this whole business got started.
I can't believe that the american people have not become enough computer literate yet to realize that a megabyte is 1048576 bytes.. Come on guys even memory is based on math and is not exact... 64 megs is 65... what are you going to do, sue all the memory manufacturers... give me a break!
Geeks among us, what is the quickest way to get someone to do something? Tell them NOT to do it, the man is pure genius unlike the Fox executives that have cancelled other excellent shows. What the heck do they know!?
Did someone check their information? The cost is only $99.00 and only with the fancy maintenance plans does it approach the stated $600.00 price tag. Did I miss something or am I just going crazy?!
Your missing the whole point guys. They are trying desperately now to keep the name Windows. Why? Because of thier legal wrangling attempts to keep anyone else from using anything close like "Lindows". Not to mention.NET is another common used word that they would then be challenged on... why have two fights...just keep one. If they weren't using Windows anymore.. a judge might ask what the big deal was with someone else using something close. Get it?
I was just going to comment on your $500.00 price tag for a 10 Meg hard drive of the days of old... but someone else beat me to it but on a Big Hardware platform. When you actually talk about the PC business..when I started back in the Osbourne and Kaypro PC days when the first 10 Meg hard drive came out it was $5995. I still have the old magazines with these old ads. And us DSDD Floppy people thought that there was no way we could ever use 10 Megs.. Now look at us!!
Hey I have been in this business for 20 years. Wordstar and even PFS Professional Write are better Simplistic Word Processors for the masses than Word or WordPerfect will ever be!! They were meant to just KISS it. Keeping it simple meant everybody could use it to perform basic wordprocessing. I think the Navy should keep using it... bet you they don't have Word Macro viruses and Microsoft upgrades and security holes every time they turn around.
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I was wondering for one just what all you needed the keyboard to do? Why not just the Logitech MediaPad? It would seem as many have mentioned a normal wireless keyboard would work or as many others have suggested a PocketPC even with a keypad option. As far as BlueTooth compliancy, as far as I know and other that a PocketPC with Bluetooth capability, the Microsoft and the Logitech are the only Bluetooth Keyboards around, at least in normal channels. There is another thought you could check out TDK's site at http://www.tdksystems.com/index.asp where they have a product that you might consider custom integrating that is called "blu2i" which is supposed to allow virtually any product, existing or in development, to be enhanced with wireless connectivity. If nothing else they may be able to tell you what keyboard company if any is looking to integrate or is in current developement with thier product.
I was one of the original developers for Magneto Optic for MaxOptics and Pinnacle Micro Systems approx 20 years ago. I still have media recorded back then on truly rewritable optical media that is 100% flawless to this day. And all this is on Plastic Media. I never did understand why magneto optic didn't catch on more. The Glass Media units I'm sure would go to 100+ years and were tested in Europe for the telephone and data companys 20 years ago, and the last I heard they still hadn't seen a single cartridge with glass media go bad.
Well several people may have mentioned this, I didn't read all 400 and something posts. But if your running windows, limiting what your parents can install is fairly easy and if they are real novices you could always put children like desktops on that lock them really down including a parent controlled web filtering program. I use one for my parents and my children as well, of course with different age appropriate applications and web site access's of course, but it definitely does the job. Edmark used to make a good one, don't know if they still do or not? I think it was called KidDesk Internet Safe.
Hmmm, maybe they should of had some image backups made with CDP's SnapBack or SnapBack enabled product and just handed the FBI the tapes and told them to go restore them and search them themselves. That would have shut them up for thier hastiness and would have allowed the provider to keep his equipment and stayed running.
Finally I'm starting to see some justice! I have 18 years experience but have been out of work due to all the outsourcing and dumping of jobs overseas for the last 10 months. Nothing has ticked me off more than seeing so called private schools like ECPI and others advertising in the paper for IT and Cert courses. They advertise like there is a shortage for jobs, that they cant fill them fast enough... when all they have done is dumped untrained memorizers on the market and created a glut of available personnel. And if a business or HR department doesn't know better, the fancy paper gets these really untrained workers the jobs at cheap salaries (because they have to pay those 30K college course fees) I wish they all would shut down and go back to just being Testing centers like back in the Drake days... or am I showing my age again.
Don't want to start a malicious rumor or anything but a meeting like your describing sounds like to me after 20 years experience is that a massive downsizing or even total outsourcing is in the works... NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU!!. They are just feeling things out and seeing how they need to proceed so that no data or other network espionage takes place. I wouldn't be surprised if you see a IT Audit take place so that they can obtain all the detailed network documentation, passwords, etc. Elliot Davis Consultants for IT Outsourcing love to get in doors this way. I speak from experience. Be Paranoid, be very afraid... you should be in this day and age. Nobody is safe, no matter what your qualifications or experience. Companies don't care about there people at all anymore. It's all about the bottom line. If you want to say anything, stay positive and talk about some method of saving the department or company money without sacrifing productivity or gains. Other than that. LISTEN don't Talk!
It Serves Symantec right.. too bad for them. If they are successful in getting it to work they will see their virus product become the most unpopular instead of one of the most popular. What Symantec doesn't realize is that Peter Norton made the product great... back when it was Norton Antivirus he actually would release his product to the Pirate BBS's for the hackerz to beat up on.. we were his QA. Not to mention that we made him famous. Seems awful strange that all these companies forget what made them great, not to mention rich.. the pirates and warez groups. Even Billy Gates pirated, phone phreaked and other such activities.. that's how this whole business got started.
I can't believe that the american people have not become enough computer literate yet to realize that a megabyte is 1048576 bytes.. Come on guys even memory is based on math and is not exact... 64 megs is 65... what are you going to do, sue all the memory manufacturers... give me a break!
Geeks among us, what is the quickest way to get someone to do something? Tell them NOT to do it, the man is pure genius unlike the Fox executives that have cancelled other excellent shows. What the heck do they know!?
Did someone check their information? The cost is only $99.00 and only with the fancy maintenance plans does it approach the stated $600.00 price tag. Did I miss something or am I just going crazy?!
Your missing the whole point guys. They are trying desperately now to keep the name Windows. Why? Because of thier legal wrangling attempts to keep anyone else from using anything close like "Lindows". Not to mention .NET is another common used word that they would then be challenged on... why have two fights...just keep one. If they weren't using Windows anymore.. a judge might ask what the big deal was with someone else using something close. Get it?
I was just going to comment on your $500.00 price tag for a 10 Meg hard drive of the days of old... but someone else beat me to it but on a Big Hardware platform. When you actually talk about the PC business..when I started back in the Osbourne and Kaypro PC days when the first 10 Meg hard drive came out it was $5995. I still have the old magazines with these old ads. And us DSDD Floppy people thought that there was no way we could ever use 10 Megs.. Now look at us!!
Hey I have been in this business for 20 years. Wordstar and even PFS Professional Write are better Simplistic Word Processors for the masses than Word or WordPerfect will ever be!! They were meant to just KISS it. Keeping it simple meant everybody could use it to perform basic wordprocessing. I think the Navy should keep using it... bet you they don't have Word Macro viruses and Microsoft upgrades and security holes every time they turn around.