Quietly working away
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I've been with a client in Rotterdam for almost two weeks (and a few days left before an overnight in London then home Thursday or Friday). The fact that I'm gone for two weeks is unique when it doesn't involve a conference. You could say I'm "taking one for the team", as I travelled against my surgeon's recommendation for a long trip, got help with bags everywhere, and am sitting in an office chair 12-15 hours a day including the weekend. It's an implementation and upgrade assignment in clustered environments, of course right over the US DST weekend, so even if I didn't need them the pain drugs do help.
I've managed to maintain rapid contact via my BlackBerry 8700 and BES back at the office, with a few nice enhancements. My recent find after trying the no-cost route was to purchase Shark Modem for $44.97 USD, turning the BB into a fairly low-speed but serviceable modem for my laptop at the remote office. I'm running replication perhaps somewhere near a 56k speed, and due to buffers either in BB or the software it fails to bring over large attachments.
However, I have managed to get it running with Notes so I can replicate most mail, post this blog entry, etc. I've configured IE and Firefox, and tried a few others with limited success. Sametime won't connect, and Skype is a lost cause due to the hub/superhub issue. As the BlackBerry OS supports only 5 concurrent connections, as soon as you connect to Skype other people take up all your connections! Turkeys.
So hey, I'm running the public Notes 8 Beta 2. Stability and some UI cues seem to have been improved between the Extended Beta 1 version and this one. I'm only a few hours into it, but it seems more stable and does what I want it to with less complaining. The Home screen, which was OK before, seems to have a nasty graphic issue, but the Getting Started screen is nicer than before. It's not quite there supporting my double-right click habit. The names of the IBM Productivity Tools have changed to Lotus Documents, Lotus Presentations, and Lotus Spreadsheets, dropping the name "Editor" from the end. That's OK, I kinda knew I'd be able to edit things with them. I had the opportunity to create a Document with the prior beta...enjoyed the native PDF creation but experienced a weird bug in tables. Have to see if that's still there and report it if so.
In coming days I'm going to certainly have news (big news) about Quickr 8.0, CU, and a few other current events. Stay with me, I'll try to blog a bit more.
I've been with a client in Rotterdam for almost two weeks (and a few days left before an overnight in London then home Thursday or Friday). The fact that I'm gone for two weeks is unique when it doesn't involve a conference. You could say I'm "taking one for the team", as I travelled against my surgeon's recommendation for a long trip, got help with bags everywhere, and am sitting in an office chair 12-15 hours a day including the weekend. It's an implementation and upgrade assignment in clustered environments, of course right over the US DST weekend, so even if I didn't need them the pain drugs do help.
I've managed to maintain rapid contact via my BlackBerry 8700 and BES back at the office, with a few nice enhancements. My recent find after trying the no-cost route was to purchase Shark Modem for $44.97 USD, turning the BB into a fairly low-speed but serviceable modem for my laptop at the remote office. I'm running replication perhaps somewhere near a 56k speed, and due to buffers either in BB or the software it fails to bring over large attachments.
However, I have managed to get it running with Notes so I can replicate most mail, post this blog entry, etc. I've configured IE and Firefox, and tried a few others with limited success. Sametime won't connect, and Skype is a lost cause due to the hub/superhub issue. As the BlackBerry OS supports only 5 concurrent connections, as soon as you connect to Skype other people take up all your connections! Turkeys.
So hey, I'm running the public Notes 8 Beta 2. Stability and some UI cues seem to have been improved between the Extended Beta 1 version and this one. I'm only a few hours into it, but it seems more stable and does what I want it to with less complaining. The Home screen, which was OK before, seems to have a nasty graphic issue, but the Getting Started screen is nicer than before. It's not quite there supporting my double-right click habit. The names of the IBM Productivity Tools have changed to Lotus Documents, Lotus Presentations, and Lotus Spreadsheets, dropping the name "Editor" from the end. That's OK, I kinda knew I'd be able to edit things with them. I had the opportunity to create a Document with the prior beta...enjoyed the native PDF creation but experienced a weird bug in tables. Have to see if that's still there and report it if so.
In coming days I'm going to certainly have news (big news) about Quickr 8.0, CU, and a few other current events. Stay with me, I'll try to blog a bit more.
Comments
Agree about the public Beta. It is really good ( for a beta). More "small little features" that one can imagine.
Intresting thing You are hinting with about Quickr... thrilling ...
have a nice stay in Europe!
Posted by Mats Jansson At 07:22:38 PM On 03/19/2007 | - Website - |