Recently our organization purchased for a senior management one of the latest and priciest notebook in town, a Lenovo X300 ThinkPad priced at about USD 2,900 (July 2008).最近，我們組織購買了高級管理人員最近的一次和昂貴的筆記本電腦在城裡， 聯想的ThinkPad X300售價約為2900美元（ 2008年7月） 。

The notebook at that time was not available in stock on many outlets since we called numerous notebook shops to enquire about its availability.筆記本當時不具備股票的許多店鋪，因為我們所謂的許多筆記本電腦的商店詢問其可用性。 In the end, we contacted Lenovo directly and was forwarded to a distributor who told us that we had to wait for at least 2 weeks in order to get hold of the notebook.最後，我們與聯想集團直接和轉交給分銷商誰告訴我們，我們不得不等待至少2週，以便掌握的筆記本電腦。 Since the decision was already made to purchase this unit, we ordered the notebook and it did indeed reached us in 2 weeks time.既然已經決定購買了這個單位，我們訂購的筆記本電腦，它確實達到我們在2週時間。

The initial comments we’ve got from people who looked and felt at it for the first time:最初的評論我們必須從人民誰期待，並認為它第一次：

• It doesn’t look good.它並不看好。
• Wow, it’s damn light.哇，這該死的光。
• The notebook bag seems heavier that the notebook itself.筆記本包似乎更重的筆記本電腦本身。
• It doesn’t really looks like it’s worth about USD 2,900.它並不真的看起來像它價值約2900美元。 Oh well..噢以及.. maybe it’s whats inside that matters most.也許是什麼內部才是最重要的。
• Wow, this notebook is worth more than my 7 year old car!哇，這筆記本電腦的價值超過我7歲一輛車！

Once the notebook arrived, I never thought I needed to do anything to it and just passed the notebook the the senior management staff.一旦抵達筆記本電腦，我從來沒有想過我需要做什麼，並剛剛通過筆記本電腦的高級管理人員。

A few weeks later, I was requested by the senior management staff to assist in transfering Microsoft Outlook emails and data from the old notebook to the new X300 ThinkPad with Windows Vista Business installed.幾週後，我所要求的高級管理人員，以協助轉移Microsoft Outlook中的電子郵件和數據從舊筆記本電腦的新的ThinkPad X300與Windows Vista企業安裝。 During this time, I had to activate the wireless connection on the X300 in order to connect to the Internet.在這段時間裡，我不得不啟用無線連接的X300 ，以連接到Internet 。 Upon successfully setting up the wireless connection, I managed to connect to the Internet for a few minutes before the whole machine just freezed.經成功地建立了無線連接，我連接到互聯網了幾分鐘前整個機器僅凍結。 Moving the mouse didn’t work.移動鼠標沒有奏效。 Pressing Ctrl + Alt+ Del didn’t work as well.再按下Ctrl + Alt + Del鍵沒有工作。 In the end, it just hang and freezed and all I could do was hard reboot by holding on to the Power On button for a long time.最後，它只是掛，並凍結所有我所能做的就是努力重新舉行以電源按鈕，很長一段時間。 Continue Reading »My Lenovo X300 ThinkPad Notebook experience繼續閱讀»我聯想X300 ThinkPad筆記本電腦的經驗

By 通過 Loraine Lawson 洛蘭勞森

CIO involvement with SOA is a bit of a chicken/egg quandary. CIO的參與SOA是有點雞/蛋的窘境。 Are SOA implementations failing because CIOs don’t get involved?是實施SOA的CIO沒有因為不介入？ Or are CIOs smart not to get involved with a failing trend?或者是聰明的CIO們不要參與了失敗的趨勢？ It’s tricky to tell who failed first.這是棘手的，以知道是誰第一次失敗。

To be perfectly honest, if I were a CIO and I’d drug my feet on SOA, I’d be pretty darned pleased with myself this week - particularly after reading “ Are You Being Played in the SOA Game Plan?”是完全誠實的，如果我是一名CIO ，我希望我的腳藥物對SOA的，我會很高興darned我這個星期-特別是在讀“ 你中正在發揮S OA的比賽計劃？ ”

PCWorld.com ran the piece on Monday, and it’sa great headline. PCWorld.com的一塊跑週一，這是一個偉大的標題。 But I read it with reservations, because I know there’s nothing more thrilling for a journalist than to reveal that someone’s getting played.不過，我看有保留，因為我知道沒有什麼更激動人心的一名記者，而不是表明，有人得到發揮。 If journalists are biased - and, really, everyone has several biases - then this is the big one for reporters.如果記者有偏見-和，真的，每個人都有一些偏見-那麼這是一個大的記者。 They live for exposing people, places and things.他們的生活揭露人民，地方和東西。

During my tech journalism tenure, I’ve learned that most technology trends do, indeed, follow that infamous Gartner hype cycle - and ultimately, they emerge from it somewhat successful.我在高科技的新聞任期內，我已經學會，大多數技術發展趨勢確實是臭名昭著的後續Gartner的炒作週期-最終，他們擺脫它一定成功。 So, I’ve grown just as suspicious of the “Wow, it’sa rip-off” articles as I have the “Wow, it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread” headlines.所以，我剛才已經成長為可疑的“哇，這是撕裂小康”的文章，我有“哇，這是最大的事情，因為切片麵包”的頭條。 Continue Reading »Shift in SOA Marketing Could Mean Cost Savings For You繼續閱讀»轉變， SOA的市場營銷可能意味著節省成本為您

As a manager of a team, do you sometimes wonder if your staffs or subordinates are actually working on the right tasks, or are even working at all?作為一個經理人團隊，你有時想如果您的員工或下屬的實際工作任務的權利，甚至是在所有的工作？

Some may be just surfing the web for irrelevant materials while some may be wasting time chatting with friends via instant messengers.有些人可能只是在網上衝浪的相關材料，而有些人可能是在浪費時間與朋友交談通過即時信息。

Did you know that on average, an employee loses about 81 minutes of productivity to web based distractions such as engaging in social networking site and chatting online on a daily basis.您是否知道，平均而言，一名僱員失去約81分鐘的生產力，基於網絡的干擾，如從事社交網站和網上聊天，每天。

If your organization is suffering from unproductive and distracted employees, there are two options .如果您的組織正遭受非生產性和分散的員工，有兩個選擇。

Option 1 : Pull out the Internet plug 選項1 ：拔出插頭互聯網

OR奧勒崗

Option 2 : Implement a workplace activity management and monitoring software 選項2 ：實現一個工作場所活動的管理和監控軟件 Continue Reading »Workplace activity management and monitoring software繼續閱讀»工作場所活動的管理和監控軟件

After nearly a month of research, I finally found a solution to a colleage’s IT problem as discussed in this post -經過近一個月的研究，我終於找到了解決這一 colleage的IT問題作為討論的這個職位- How to backup outlook and run it from a USB如何備份世界觀和運行它從一個USB

With this solution, yes, you can run outlook directly from your external drive .隨著這一解決方案，是啊，您可以運行前景直接從您的外部驅動器。 Firstly let me define what external drives could be:首先請允許我界定什麼是外部驅動器可以是：

• External hard disk外置硬盤
• Ipod發燒友
• USB drive USB驅動器
• Basically any device which allows you to store digital content基本上任何設備 ，讓您存儲數字內容

The possible applications that you can run on the external drive:可能的應用，可以運行的外部驅動器：

• Games運動會
• Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook中
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)微軟Office （ Word ， Excel和簡報）
• Adobe Apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat) Adobe公司應用服務（包括Photoshop ， Illustrator ，的Acrobat ）
• You favorite browser with all setttings saved including your favourite bookmarks你喜歡的瀏覽器與所有setttings保存，包括你喜歡的書籤
• Basically any applications which you can installed on your machine can be installed in the external drive.基本上任何應用程序可以安裝在您的機器可以安裝在外部驅動器。

With this solution, the following scenarios are possible:這一解決方案， 下列情況下是可能的：

• Your Ipod can act as a PC as well.你的iPod可以作為個人電腦上。 Just install all your applications in it and plug it on any machine for the applications to work.只要安裝所有的應用程序中，並插入任何機器上的應用工作。
• Do a software demo without showing it from your laptop.做一個軟件演示沒有表現出它從你的筆記本電腦。 Just install the software in the external drive, plug it into the client’s machine and present from there.只要安裝軟件的外部驅動器，把它插入到客戶端的機器，目前來自於此。
• Backup files together with the application required the run the files.備份文件與應用程序運行需要的文件。 During urgent times, having access to the file itself is useless without the application to run it.在緊迫的時間，有機會獲得該文件本身是無用的，但申請執行。 With this solution you can be assured of accessing not just the file, but the information contained in it as well.這一解決方案，您可以放心使用而不僅僅是文件，但其中包含的信息以及。

So to cut the long story… what is the solution?因此，削減長的故事...是什麼辦法呢？ Continue Reading »How to run any applications on an external drive繼續閱讀»如何運行任何應用程序的外部驅動器