by ezs | Jun 15, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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Another in a series on Vista.
I blogged in April about the hardware baseline for Vista – I pointed out that the minimum specs were pretty steep:
- general knowledge worker – Pentium 4 class machine, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, 1Gbit ethernet, accelerated graphics capability
- power worker – Pentium 4 class machine; dual core and 64 bit ideal, 2GB RAM, 100GB HDD, 1Gbit ethernet, accelerated graphics capability
This garnered a comment from Wolfie2k6:
I have it running very nicely, thank you – with all bells and whistles – on a box that cost me less than $500. Thats including a set of high end Altec Lansing speakers.
Wake up folks – hardware is CHEAP.
I still contend that the minimum hardware is way more than $500 – and that was validated this week with the release of the hardware specs for Windows Vista Premium – one of the SKUs likely to be deployed by corporate customers:
The following are requirements for Windows Vista Premium logo-compliant PC and will be mandated by June 1st, 2007:
- Must have H.264 hardware decoding
- Must have HDCP
- Must support multi-monitor support
- Must have HD audio
- Must have HD audio jack presence detection
- Must have Serial ATA 2.5
- Must have minimum of 50MB NV cache on hybrid HD’s with at least 8MB/sec write 16MB/sec read (for mobile only)
- Must support booting from USB flash drives
- Must have Windows Vista Green Button on all remotes
- Must have Green Driver Quality Rating (DQR)
DailyTech has the full skinny.
Written at: Ottawa, Canada
by ezs | Jun 14, 2006 | blogging, coolblogs, evilzenscientist, Novell Open Audio, podcast, Uncategorized, ZENworks
I blogged on Novell Cool Blogs about doing an interview at Novell Open Audio.
The email invitation looked a little like this:
From: openaudio openaudio
To: openaudio openaudio; Martin Buckley; Michael Douglas Pearson; Ted Haeger
Date: 14/Jun/06
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Subject: ZENworks 7 SP1
Place: Podcast Studio, 8th floor behind the mens room
Prep and Interview
The Novell Open Audio Crew
www.novell.com/openaudio
(more…)
by ezs | Jun 14, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Novell, Novell Open Audio, Uncategorized, ZENworks
This was answered on a Novell Open Audio question:
So one other thing I was asked – what about ZENworks Success Stories.
Well – there is a Success Story database http://www.novell.com/success – and here is a huge list of public successes using ZENworks.
You probably want to copy and paste that url into your favourites.
by ezs | Jun 14, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, wordpress
WordPress 2.0.3 was released a short time ago – I upgraded with no problems.
Looks like there were some new issues introduced – meaning that WordPress 2.0.4 has been added to the roadmap.
by ezs | Jun 14, 2006 | Novell Open Audio, Uncategorized, ZENworks
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I’ll be interviewed by Ted Haeger and Erin Quill tomorrow for Novell Open Audio.
I opened the question list up on Cool Blogs last week – and I’ve got about half a dozen things to cover specifically from the readers of Cool Blogs.
One other request that came in directly to my inbox – ezs@novell.com – is to ‘go behind the scenes’ at Open Audio. I’ll certainly have my camera and I’ll get some pictures and stories uploaded tomorrow evening. I’ll also have some really crunchy Doritos to pass around..
Written at: Draper, UT
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