I haven't had a chance to sit down and play with Lion Server yet, but the reviews I've read so far (including this one) do not impress me. Hopefully some features will get added back due to customer complaints. If the bit where you need two different admin apps to configure all the services is true, that's completely asinine. They had it right in Snow Leopard Server, where the Server Preferences app was aimed at non-geeks, but if you knew what you were doing you could do what you needed to from within Server Admin.

~Philly

people should know that tonido works cross platform on the desktop and servers of course. I think this would be maybe more helpful if they wanted to load it on a home box. I was thinking I'd create a home server with the open source Amahi software on an ubuntu or fedora setup, and load the tonido plugin extension into Amahi.... by plugin I mean the software addon not the actual plug device.

I'm thinking Tonido is the best for this right now. I'll tell you why. Because like dropbox you can access your files remotely. It has a backup app plugin, so the syncing would take care there.

And for photos, which dropbox handles really well, Tonido also handles. It creates interactive photo gallery by auto-creation of thumbnails and a javascript based slideshow viewer. Includes ability to download full res, as well as a zip of the directory.

You can assign users to view and be able to download, to enable the sharing. It's pretty simple.

Now, if you had the right host, like a VPS, maybe you could load tonido, so it's an always on dropbox that you own. I dig it. I need to use it more. Unfortunately from work, I can't access my home box even with tonido because my work's network blocks acess to the port that tonido uses, like port 10000 something... you can look it up. But there's an iphone, android app.

I could say more. I need to blog about this probably just to reach out to a few others. I've purchased the pro plugins for it, because they were good, but if I had a tonido plug it would come with those.

Actually, Skynet originally went online August 4, 1997. It became self-aware at 2:14AM Eastern time on August 29, 1997, and the attempt to shut it down resulted in Judgment Day. Anybody not wearing 2,000,000 sunblock had a really bad day.

~Philly

Why not just buy an actual C64 setup on eBay for a fraction of the price of this thing? There are always a few on there and some of them come with a large selection of game disks. ~Philly

Yeah, well, Microsoft had years to make Windows Mobile not be a complete piece of shit, and they just couldn't be bothered to try until the iPhone showed up and Apple started eating their lunch in the mobile space and publicly embarrassing them. I've been using company-issued WM phones since 2006, and the experience has been uniformly terrible-- to the degree that I no longer trust my company phone when I'm on call, and have the calls sent to my personal phone (which, yes, is an iPhone).

It's a little too late for Microsoft to be telling me, "But, baby, I can change!" and expect me to believe it and/or be interested in giving them another chance. I suspect many others feel similarly.

~Philly

"Apple finally made the break between OS 9 and OS X. If MS attempted such a break, their business customers would revolt."

Except, they sort of did with Windows 7, and they solved it the same way Apple did-- an XP compatibility environment.

Technically, there's not much stopping them from doing it for real-- throwing out all the 20 year-old, backward-compatible cruft and making a fresh start from the ground up, while providing a VM for legacy applications. Virtualization technology has improved by leaps and bounds over what was available when Apple transitioned from 9 to X. Hell, since 2006 I can (with the help of VMware or Parallels) run Windows apps on my -Mac- and have it be damn near seamless, there's no reason Microsoft couldn't do the same thing.

~Philly

They've been flogging tablets for 10 years. They keep doing the same stupid shit over and over again, which is trying to stuff desktop Windows into a smaller form factor for which it is too bloated and battery-hungry, with a UI for which it was not designed nor suited, and try to use "it's the Windows you already know!" bit as a selling point. Even if they do rework a version of the Windows UI to be more touch-friendly, the second you launch an app (which will most likely NOT be touch-friendly, because it was designed for "the [desktop] Windows you already know!") you're right back to hurting for a mouse/stylus and keyboard.

Seriously, what the hell has Microsoft been doing? It's been a year since the iPad was announced, and the best thing they have to battle it is still a PowerPoint deck of FUD? Yeah, good luck with that, Steve. By the time you have a horse to put in the race, the race will be over. iPads have been making their way into corporations and meeting with wide approval. Apps are being written for them. They are going to be nice and entrenched by the time any possibly-viable competing product comes off the assembly line, and then Microsoft will learn what it's like to be on the bad side of corporate technology inertia.

I have to get away from the LCD screen for part of the day and this is a good option for me. I have the OLPC so I'm very familiar with it's screen look and how it differs from other LCDs. So this is the right tablet for me. What they have is 2.2. with libraries from 2.3. Don't know if that means VOIP included. But whatever. I'm not all that concerned about that at the moment.They also said they are skipping 2.3 for Honeycomb. That's a good idea. Why go to the next mobile phone OS when the tablet OS is on the horizon and you already have part of 2.3 in your system? Xoom looks awesome. I may buy that one too. Definitely recommending it. BUT let's not forget that the Xoom could easily be a bastardized version of Honeycomb too, if it's locked to a carrier. It is also a "must watch" until I know how others like it.

There is a dedicated market for it "Genesis" and once Honeycomb hits you'll get the Android market. The market is just an .apk anyway. The reason there's not Android Market right now is that tablet apps aren't on the market. So YMMV with those apps. Honestly with a full browser, most of the apps I use on mobile I don't need if I have a full browser. Exception being maybe Astrid, Shazam and maybe a few more that have special notifications fancy features or non-web uses. Depends on the user.