New System

Over the past year I've changed my computing habits. I've gotten away from using a full workstation pc and migrated to a more mobile computing life style. I'm looking to purchase a new laptop and a couple of the finalist are:

The Alienware Area-51 m15x

The Dell XPS M1730

Or the Apple MacBook Pro

I'm leaning heavily towards the Alienware but I need to do a little more research to see if it will be fully compatible with Ubuntu.

What you need, without the nonsense

While surfing the web I stumbled across Glom.

With Glom you can design database systems - the database and the user interface.

* Glom has high-level features such as relationships, lookups, related fields, related records, calculated fields, drop-down choices, searching, reports, users and groups.

* Glom keeps things simple. It has Numeric, Text, Date, Time, Boolean, and Image field types.

* Glom systems require almost no programming, but you may use Python for calculated fields or buttons.

* Each Glom system can be translated for multiple languages and countries.

The design is loosely based on FileMaker Pro, but with a separate database server. Its simple framework should be enough to implement most database applications. Without Glom these systems normally consist of lots of repetitive, unmaintainable code.

Glom uses the PostgreSQL database backend but it can not edit databases that it did not create, because it uses only a simple subset of Postgres functionality.

Cool Laptop Mod

Well kinda.

While looking for something to help prevent my laptop lid from getting

scratched up I stumbled across...

http://www.schtickers.com/

for $20 you can order custom laptop lid designs. I ordered two.... =P

one for...

Power Ubuntu

and another for...

Don't Panic

Ubuntu LTSP Environment

At work we are looking into migrating to a Thin Client environment. With hopes of using our Citrix, Terminal Server, VMWare ESX, and possibly a VMWare VDI environments. One of our goals is to reuse existing hardware converting them into thin clients. I've looked at a couple vendors for the Thin Client conversion, 2x (http://2x.com/) the one with the most promise but not without issues. We are demoing 2x but we've not been able to get the ThinClient to work with our Citrix Farms. production or dev.

I've started to look at building and Ubuntu based LTSP environment under ESX. I'll post my progress as I go along.

Google Docs Offline Access Rollout Starting Today

Google Docs Offline Access Rollout Starting Today

Very cool! Yet another nail in the coffin for Micro$oft. Starting today Google will be allowing offline access to Google Docs via the Google Gears browser plugin.

Google Docs Offline

"C" is for Coffee which is good enough for me.

I don't know how they do it but there is nothing like freshly ground Starbucks pot of coffee in the morning.