Monday, November 29, 2010

Document Holder – How to do it yourself #movember

 

One of the Tech Writers where I am currently doing a gig is doing Movember and has been “Selling” things for donations. This one got my attention today so if you use it donate. Instructions at the bottom of the “Task Card”

Keep up the good work Bob

This doco holder is quick and easy to make.

It is a lot stronger than most other types and you can confidently put a full 2-ring binder on it.

All you need is a paper box with lid, a craft knife (box cutter) and tape. 

The Executive model needs a large fold-back clip.

 

 

Take off the lid and use it as template to
mark where to cut on the first side.

 

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Use the cut-off scrap as a guide to
cut the second side.

 

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Make two cuts on the lid, and fold it back, as shown.

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Fit lid over the base and tape it on.

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Tape on the lid.

Some people prefer staples as they are environmentally friendlier.

 

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Executive model

Put a sheet of A4 paper on the holder.
Mark the top of the paper.

 

Cut away a chunk of cardboard above the A4 sheet

 

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Attach clip.

 

Sit back and smile   J

 

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Remember to donate (pay for this taskcard) to Bob T’s Movember effort.

Pay online on-line with credit card or PayPal account at 
      
http://au.movember.com/mospace/1139044/ 

 

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Games Meh but XBox Kinect in every Board Room #messaging

I’m no big gamer I just don’t have the time so when I do set aside enough time it tends to be something like a retro game of Age of Empires or Diablo so XBOX has not been a big focus for me.Well except for the version 1.0 I have with XBMC loaded.
I have been focusing on how my customers might get value from messaging systems that extend what they already do and the Tandberg Systems they have been putting in are kind of sweet. Well not really the Tandberg kit more the 60” plasmas (3D, SD & USB plus divx)
Imagine my surprise when I saw …
In a move that surprised practically everyone, though, Microsoft also said that users of Lync (and Office 365) will be able to videoconference with home users of XBox game machines through Kinect, a new camera peripheral that tracks users' movements in a room using infrared (IR) wireless.
Now I wonder if we need to gateway this through XBox Live or if we can directly integrate with an in house Lync 2010 System?
Microsoft will also add the shared videoconferencing capabilities for Kinect through a software update.
Corporate Lync customers can ditch their old PBX and phone systems to run Lync entirely on one or more servers. Alternatively, they can hold on to these legacy systems and interface them to Lync through gateways
Here’s to hoping that the firmware updates allow us to point to our own system if they do I can see big potential.
Plus so interesting XMAS parties in future.

Source Betanews.com

Monday, November 8, 2010

This plan is lunarcy - Security - Technology

When I moved some of the content from a previous blog I move the stuff I wanted to keep and archived the rest to some PDFs.

The other day I got the idea to revisit and update some of them so on days when I’m light on for thoughts I might put some of these together.

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Ooooops not a good start so far.

Found the guys who were running this program over at http://lifeboat.com/ex/programs and although I was worried that Moon based DR might not be going forward as a priority there are lots of other Programs current and planned that could provide blog fodder for quite some time.

Wow I might have to create a category as some of this seems off the wall but nice to think about…

BTW the original Article was written by

Nate Cochrane

@natecochrane Sydney, NSW, Australia
Editor in chief @CRN_au, @iTnews_au, @SCMagazineAU; AU's 1st online journo; Deal or no Deal's biggest prize winner; AU's biggest cash prize game show winner
This plan is lunarcy - Security - Technology

Now I thought my customers had big expectations for their offsite requirements. Check this out.

IF YOU think your organisation is savvy because it has an offsite data warehouse, spare a thought for William Burrows' plan to store life's blueprints - on the moon.

The journalism professor and former New York Times' space reporter's dream to back up the world's DNA to a site on the lunar surface would read like science fiction if it wasn't for the fact that the general idea is supported by the likes of Stephen Hawking, five Scandinavian prime ministers and a British group compiling a genetic
database of endangered species.

Mr Burrows devised the disaster plan with Robert Shapiro, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in biochemistry at New York University, in the 1999 book A Lunar Sanctuary. From there, they formed the Alliance to Rescue Civilisation (http://arc-space.org), which has attracted scientists and thinkers.

So that would be quite some DR project, how do we keep the DR Site up to date? What are our RPO and RTO? I'm thinking the replication across the wide area might be a little behind during
high rate of change situations.

Source: This plan is lunarcy - Security - Technologyhttp://smh.com.au

Posted: Sep 15 2006, 10:48 PM by David Mackie