Author Archives: Per Henrik Lausten

New laptop from Zepto with Intel Santa Rosa technology

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I have just ordered a brand new laptop for private use from the Danish laptop manufacturer Zepto. I decided on the Zepto Znote 6625WD that uses the latest chip set from Intel known as Santa Rosa. I configured the laptop to have the following specifications:

  • Chipset: Intel Centrino Duo (Mobile Intel PM965 Express)
  • CPU: 2.20 GHz Intel Core2 Duo T7500 800MHz
  • Memory: 2048MB (2×1024) DDR2 667/PC5300 SODIMM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT
  • Display: 15,4″ WSXGA+ 1680×1050
  • LAN: Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 54Mbit
  • HD: 120GB 7200rpm SATA Harddisk Hitachi
  • OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate

I look forward to see how it compares to my work laptop: a standard Thinkpad T60. I expect that the Zepto Znote 6625WD will really outperform the T60.

This will also be my first time using Windows Vista for more than just installing a release candidate version in VMware 🙂

Update: this also means that I won’t be switching to an Apple Macbook Pro this time unlike others. I seriously considered trying a Mac but in the end decided to go for the Zepto and Vista.

Join Impact 2007 in Second Life

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If you are unable to attend the Impact 2007 event in real life you can join the event today in Second Life. You can see and hear Steve Mills kick off the IBM SOA and WebSphere event live from Orlando, Florida – and also attend the keynotes from Robert LeBlanc, Tom Rosamilia and Sandy Carter. It takes place in Second Life today from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET.

Joost invites

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I was recently invited to try out Joost and was excited to experience this new way of watching TV on the internet.

If you are interested in an invite to try out Joost then let me know your email address. I am sure that there’s a limit on the number of invites that I can send so I will favor bloggers already known by me.

Update October 2, 2007: Joost is now publicly available.

Lotus Notes 8 Beta reception in Second Life

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IBM is hosting a reception to celebrate the launch of Lotus Notes 8 Beta. The reception takes place in Second Life on May 2nd, 2007 at 9 AM EST and 9 PM EST in the Lotusphere region on IBM 9.

From the invite: “The Notes 8 Beta reception gives you a live virtual forum to meet birds-of-a-feather, Lotus Business Partners, and customers. Come tell us about what you think of Notes 8 and what you plan to do with it.”

Perhaps we will meet? I am Per Laurasia in Second Life.

[Via Mary Beth Raven and Steve Castledine]

Lotus Notes/Domino Best Practices

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As already mentioned by Craig Lordan on the developerWorks Lotus team blog and again mentioned by Ed Brill, but still worth repeating, a series of best practices on Lotus Notes and Domino has been published for “Notes/Domino administrators, Notes/Domino application designers and IT managers with intermediate to advanced Domino experience who wish to better leverage Domino Best Practices within their environment“.

The best practices include:

The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0

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Sandy Carter has written a book on SOA entitled The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0. The book offers best practices on SOA deployments based on interviews with people from companies that have been through successful SOA projects.

The book introduces a new term “flex-pon-sive”:

Flex-pon-sive* companies respond with lightning speed and agility to rapidly changing business needs. Flex-pon-sive* companies are focused on processes that are enabled for change through IT.