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Welcome to Mike Nealey's systems page

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Michael L. Nealey. Welcome to my Systems page. I work with a large number of computer hardware and software systems in both my professional and personal life. I'm going to try and document some of these systems here. I've broken the site into two parts, hardware. I've also included pointers to some great reference sites available on the Internet. If you know of an interesting link to any hardware or software information on the systems covered by this web page, please let me know. Buying an old Sun FAQ.

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: February 2013

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. People performance - key measurement points. I've not included the process of setting and measuring against objectives in this article. Objectives are very contextual with the work at hand and will change frequently. You can list high level objectives and measures at the start of a review process and/or weave them in as examples in each area (particularly #1). Objectives are the vehicl...The follo...

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: September 2011

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. IPhoto and durable photo management. When managing your digital photos, there are three things you really should do:. Make backups of your backups of your backups. These are your photos, don't mess about here - make backups regularly and store one of your backups someplace remote. In 1999 when I bought my HP Photosmart C30. Over the years I would try whatever photo management software came with ne...

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: April 2011

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. From laptop to iPad. A few weeks ago I decided to leave my Mac OS X laptop in the rucksack for a few days and just use an iPad for everyday use as a test of the iPad's viability for typical daily use. The work included some airplane travel and a visit to a remote office. I also had an external Bluetooth keyboard with me in case I had to do a lot of heads-down writing. Flipping between local countr...

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: March 2011

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. Tightening the Definition of SaaS and Cloud. I've recently been exposed to two vendors offering "cloud" and " SaaS. Options to replace two in-house legacy enterprise/corporate (not customer facing production) systems. In this process, I connected some mental dots that there are really a few flavors of SaaS, and the distinction is quite important with respect to enterprise architecture. As the two ...

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: p2p File Sharing - a Dropbox Killer?

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. P2p File Sharing - a Dropbox Killer? I've been a big fan of Dropbox since it came out, even with the security ups and downs along the way. They offer plenty of storage for free and it Just Works. However, two recent announcements have got me thinking about how a competitor might go after Dropbox and other similar (mostly inferior! Products like Box.Net, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Drive. BitTorr...

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: Replacing Big SaaS - How to cut the Google, Apple, Dropbox, Microsoft, ... cords

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. Replacing Big SaaS - How to cut the Google, Apple, Dropbox, Microsoft, . cords. This article is an overview of how to accomplish replacing the important Big SaaS, it is not a detailed step-by-step with every command listed. I reference a number of other web pages and tutorials to help with the harder parts. Here is a basic overview of the substitutions:. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, . Lastly, ...

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: August 2013

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. Replacing Big SaaS - How to cut the Google, Apple, Dropbox, Microsoft, . cords. This article is an overview of how to accomplish replacing the important Big SaaS, it is not a detailed step-by-step with every command listed. I reference a number of other web pages and tutorials to help with the harder parts. Here is a basic overview of the substitutions:. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, . Lastly, ...

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transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos: Nipping at Dropbox's heels

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Transmissions from a free roaming agent of kaos. At the epicenter of technology, the Internet, and gambling. Nipping at Dropbox's heels. There is a real resurgence of cloud storage taking place since Dropbox first launched some years ago and quickly rose above (and for the most part crushed) its competition at the time. I'm going to highlight what I thought was going on earlier in the year, what's happened since then, and then highlight two new services. I also looked at BitTorrent Sync. So that's how th...