Seconded. I am not a conference pro, maybe 1-2 per year, so I could be wrong. You will probably get the pen and paper for 'free.'
Just a thought or two.
Everyone that needs to justify owning an iPad/organizer can try to use it for keeping notes but it is a major distraction.
Before recording you should ask permission?
Take pictures of the notes if you don't want to deal with the paper.
I also use BackupPC for about 300 desktops and servers. Mostly just desktops. It has made me look good several times over the past seven years. At most sites we back up the entire drive, windows folder and all.
The servers get disk-disk-tape with a full tape archive every weekend. Databases and critical files with robocopy. Tape with IBM TL2000 LTO tape libraries. Tapes go off site. Disk-Disk is at least one building away.
I could spend an hour explaining the various home and work backups that I have in use right now but don't have the time. So will just toss in my 'me to' for BackupPC.
There are lots of reasons to get the iPad. There are more reasons to go with a Droid. But it depends what you want to do and you only listed one requirement.
Personally I have tried it all, being the IT man here I am expected to make recommendations. I also make all the purchasing decisions for 300 users.
If you want to do work get a laptop. The Thinkpad X120e is excellent. If you go to meetings (no real computer type work) and are a consumer, get an iPad. If you need to do work get a Windows7 computer like the X120e. I don't see a fit for a droid tablet yet. I have the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the HTC Evo 4G. The Evo is better, but larger. Also have to carry a spare battery for the Evo. Currently I carry the Galaxy S2. I use the iPad for flying, as in weekend warrior pilot, and at home as a consumer. I use the X120e for work at home and business. I use the Galaxy S2 as a phone and multi media device for music, video, and still camera.
The asker explicitly excludes cloud solutions. It's depressing that people have recommended various cloud solutions nonetheless. Apart from not being answers to the question, these solutions are totally awful for large quantities of data. Amazon S3 may be nearly free if you want to store a few gigabytes, but if you want to store a few terabytes you are going to pay through the nose, and all the other service providers are the same. 2Tb would cost $234 per month just for storage, transfer cost not included. For the price of two weeks of S3 storage you can buy a 2Tb external disk. For the price of upload, download and a month's storage, you can buy four or five such disks and have as much redundancy as any normal person could ever need.
What will be depressing is when you loose all of your stuff. It will happen. I wouldn't want to suggest paying a hosting service for risk of depressing you further. So I will leave everyone else with this story.
Last week someone I know watched the house across the street burn down. According to the story the fire started at 3am with a lightning strike. There was a big hole blown in the roof by the strike. My friend tells me that the couple had time to get out with the dog. They lost everything but their lives.
If they had put up their important files, photos etc on a hosted site they could get back on their feet much more quickly.
In the past I have spent thousands on everything from a full blown Netfinity server with raid5 to a big pile of 3.5" disks. Sure you can get a 1TB USB drive, back up your stuff and put it in the fire safe. But it is expensive in time, hardware, and electricity.
I pay (insert company) $20 bucks a year to host my important stuff, use (a different company) for nightly automated backups, and the rest in on the local hard drive. I am not recommending any particular solution. If you don't have an off site backup that is current you might as well not bother.
Last time I posted and mentioned that Slashdot was going down hill my karma took a hit. So what the hell. Here is the said story.
Since I lost my original TXH1138 account and wasn't allowed to have it back, I guess someone figured out the significance and didn't want to upset George, I have seen things drop to the lowest common denominator. I don't have an axe to grind here and am not holding a grudge. It is a legitimate gripe. The slashdot is so far behind the curve that I would rather spend my effort on Spiceworks and Reddit helping people.
Of course I am old and you should all stay the hell off my lawn etc. If anyone has a replacement for this site please do tell. I will read at -1.
You are correct Dan. Is that SSN-667? Anyhow we spent most of the nineties going from centralized to distributed computing. Mainframe/Cloud downtime can cost thousands per hour. So now some marketing people want us to centralize again. This is nutz! Distributed is the way to go. When the SHTF people can still work and that is what matters.
The primary problem in Maryland is power. There is not enough generation/transmission available. So the big data centers are being built where free cooling and cheap power can be found.
I noticed this morning that the weekend list of scams and break-in attempts on our network was almost NIL. This explains some of that reduction. Thanks Captain Anchor dropper!
Seems like the local IT would rise up in opposition. I would not expect the school IT to take much of a political stand for fear of job security. But just on the technical merits alone I could make a case that everything with a moving electron is a potential source of harm to humans.
Looks like a hit piece from Slashdotters that are loosing the techies to the Reddies. Slashdot rarely has an interesting discussion about tech and when it does there are many politico non-techs. The poor moderation just makes it less tolerable.
I have been in IT for 30 working years. I want to talk/read tech and maybe have some politics thrown into the mix. I have spent much more time commenting and voting on Reddit in three months than I have the past 14 years on Slashdot.
Obviously you are a dweeb. I would guess that there are plenty of FBI and Justice Department case files on Google. When you want to 'go after' someone it is a good practice to get a bunch of 'bad stuff' on them and then use it when the time is right. See J. Edgar Hoover
2001 Projected started just after 911....
2009 The FBI is years behind and millions over budget
2010 The FBI is $100 million over budget on the... only half of the project's four-phase development had been completed
2011 The FBI's upgrade of its computerized case file system has hit another snag
Back in the old days this was called protectionism. The weaklings of business protect themselves with laws that punish everyone else, especially the competition. These people are typically bullies that cannot make it on their own. There product is defective but not so much that they fail outright. So they hire a Chris Dodd and get a few laws passed.
Right now free speech is at risk. These bullies will not be deterred. Eternal vigilance is required.
My data comes from thin air, just like facts from hollywood. BTW it was really $96M not $96B
Techdirt had the story but they are... um.... off line at the moment.
One of our morning talk show hosts -- who's about as conservative as they come -- devoted most of his program to SOPA and PIPA this morming. As a result, a lot of people who'd never heard of it are now very annoyed and are expressing their displeasure toward their Congress Critters.
And the Congress critters are making meaningless noises of sympathy because it's good PR. But tomorrow, they'll be back to business as usual because Congress knows full well that when folks head to the polls in November, they'll (aided by decades of gerrymandering) send the same rascals right back to Capitol Hill.
I'm actually feeling pretty encouraged this morning. It has been a while since I felt that way.
That's because you, like so many, delude yourself into thinking that this kind of one-off stunt has accomplished anything. It'll be back to business as usual for you (the generic you, not the poster to whom I'm replying) tomorrow too. You'll go back to your stupid forwards and banners and "post this to your [status|signature line]" in the false belief that a few talking heads pretending for the moment to agree to with you means you've actually accomplished something. But, as I said above, in November, in aggregate, you'll just vote for the same rascals and go back to whining when they (predictably to anyone with an IQ over room temperature) behave as they always have.
This should be the top post today. I might add that in most districts, example Lamar Smith's TX21, the primary is the election. November is just a formality. GO VOTE.
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Everyone that needs to justify owning an iPad/organizer can try to use it for keeping notes but it is a major distraction.
Before recording you should ask permission?
Take pictures of the notes if you don't want to deal with the paper.
I also use BackupPC for about 300 desktops and servers. Mostly just desktops. It has made me look good several times over the past seven years. At most sites we back up the entire drive, windows folder and all. The servers get disk-disk-tape with a full tape archive every weekend. Databases and critical files with robocopy. Tape with IBM TL2000 LTO tape libraries. Tapes go off site. Disk-Disk is at least one building away. I could spend an hour explaining the various home and work backups that I have in use right now but don't have the time. So will just toss in my 'me to' for BackupPC.
Not true. The LTO tape will outlast the heads on most drives. Read the IBM whitepaper on the 3580 drives. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp3580.pdf
Personally I have tried it all, being the IT man here I am expected to make recommendations. I also make all the purchasing decisions for 300 users.
If you want to do work get a laptop. The Thinkpad X120e is excellent. If you go to meetings (no real computer type work) and are a consumer, get an iPad. If you need to do work get a Windows7 computer like the X120e. I don't see a fit for a droid tablet yet. I have the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the HTC Evo 4G. The Evo is better, but larger. Also have to carry a spare battery for the Evo. Currently I carry the Galaxy S2. I use the iPad for flying, as in weekend warrior pilot, and at home as a consumer. I use the X120e for work at home and business. I use the Galaxy S2 as a phone and multi media device for music, video, and still camera.
The asker explicitly excludes cloud solutions. It's depressing that people have recommended various cloud solutions nonetheless. Apart from not being answers to the question, these solutions are totally awful for large quantities of data. Amazon S3 may be nearly free if you want to store a few gigabytes, but if you want to store a few terabytes you are going to pay through the nose, and all the other service providers are the same. 2Tb would cost $234 per month just for storage, transfer cost not included. For the price of two weeks of S3 storage you can buy a 2Tb external disk. For the price of upload, download and a month's storage, you can buy four or five such disks and have as much redundancy as any normal person could ever need.
What will be depressing is when you loose all of your stuff. It will happen. I wouldn't want to suggest paying a hosting service for risk of depressing you further. So I will leave everyone else with this story.
Last week someone I know watched the house across the street burn down. According to the story the fire started at 3am with a lightning strike. There was a big hole blown in the roof by the strike. My friend tells me that the couple had time to get out with the dog. They lost everything but their lives.
If they had put up their important files, photos etc on a hosted site they could get back on their feet much more quickly.
In the past I have spent thousands on everything from a full blown Netfinity server with raid5 to a big pile of 3.5" disks. Sure you can get a 1TB USB drive, back up your stuff and put it in the fire safe. But it is expensive in time, hardware, and electricity.
I pay (insert company) $20 bucks a year to host my important stuff, use (a different company) for nightly automated backups, and the rest in on the local hard drive. I am not recommending any particular solution. If you don't have an off site backup that is current you might as well not bother.
Since I lost my original TXH1138 account and wasn't allowed to have it back, I guess someone figured out the significance and didn't want to upset George, I have seen things drop to the lowest common denominator. I don't have an axe to grind here and am not holding a grudge. It is a legitimate gripe. The slashdot is so far behind the curve that I would rather spend my effort on Spiceworks and Reddit helping people.
Of course I am old and you should all stay the hell off my lawn etc. If anyone has a replacement for this site please do tell. I will read at -1.
You are correct Dan. Is that SSN-667? Anyhow we spent most of the nineties going from centralized to distributed computing. Mainframe/Cloud downtime can cost thousands per hour. So now some marketing people want us to centralize again. This is nutz! Distributed is the way to go. When the SHTF people can still work and that is what matters.
The primary problem in Maryland is power. There is not enough generation/transmission available. So the big data centers are being built where free cooling and cheap power can be found.
I noticed this morning that the weekend list of scams and break-in attempts on our network was almost NIL. This explains some of that reduction. Thanks Captain Anchor dropper!
For the low price of 19.95 I will let them do anything they want on the Internet.
Seems like the local IT would rise up in opposition. I would not expect the school IT to take much of a political stand for fear of job security. But just on the technical merits alone I could make a case that everything with a moving electron is a potential source of harm to humans.
If you ask me, these computers are all giving us cancer too... of course, the corporatist plutocrats don't want you to know that.
Back to pencils and paper in the classroom, if it were up to me...
I think the old style chalk board is very bad for the lungs. Has the dust from cleaning erasers and general use caused lung problems? You know it has.
Take the microwaves out of the teacher's lounges.
This would also eliminate a potential source of interference. Less things for IT to go chasing around.
Looks like a hit piece from Slashdotters that are loosing the techies to the Reddies. Slashdot rarely has an interesting discussion about tech and when it does there are many politico non-techs. The poor moderation just makes it less tolerable.
I have been in IT for 30 working years. I want to talk/read tech and maybe have some politics thrown into the mix. I have spent much more time commenting and voting on Reddit in three months than I have the past 14 years on Slashdot.
Probably will involve TPS Cover sheets.
When all you know how to use is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Obviously you are a dweeb. I would guess that there are plenty of FBI and Justice Department case files on Google. When you want to 'go after' someone it is a good practice to get a bunch of 'bad stuff' on them and then use it when the time is right. See J. Edgar Hoover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File
2001 Projected started just after 911. ...
2009 The FBI is years behind and millions over budget ... only half of the project's four-phase development had been completed
2010 The FBI is $100 million over budget on the
2011 The FBI's upgrade of its computerized case file system has hit another snag
This is Obamaism creeping into everything you do; Thanks Hawaii.
Did Lamar Smith get mad about his SOPA/RIAA censorhip bill? I can hear him saying to the justice department "chopper, sick balls."
Back in the old days this was called protectionism. The weaklings of business protect themselves with laws that punish everyone else, especially the competition. These people are typically bullies that cannot make it on their own. There product is defective but not so much that they fail outright. So they hire a Chris Dodd and get a few laws passed. Right now free speech is at risk. These bullies will not be deterred. Eternal vigilance is required.
How about the IRS. If the Fed is going full force against silicone valley they certainly want the IRS.
Are they still running Qmail?
My data comes from thin air, just like facts from hollywood. BTW it was really $96M not $96B Techdirt had the story but they are ... um.... off line at the moment.
And the Congress critters are making meaningless noises of sympathy because it's good PR. But tomorrow, they'll be back to business as usual because Congress knows full well that when folks head to the polls in November, they'll (aided by decades of gerrymandering) send the same rascals right back to Capitol Hill.
That's because you, like so many, delude yourself into thinking that this kind of one-off stunt has accomplished anything. It'll be back to business as usual for you (the generic you, not the poster to whom I'm replying) tomorrow too. You'll go back to your stupid forwards and banners and "post this to your [status|signature line]" in the false belief that a few talking heads pretending for the moment to agree to with you means you've actually accomplished something. But, as I said above, in November, in aggregate, you'll just vote for the same rascals and go back to whining when they (predictably to anyone with an IQ over room temperature) behave as they always have.
This should be the top post today. I might add that in most districts, example Lamar Smith's TX21, the primary is the election. November is just a formality. GO VOTE.