The Portable Consultant

ECM infrastructure architecture… and unrelated matters.

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Ubuntu shortcomings

by @ Friday, October 15th, 2010. Filed under Emerging, Grumbles, New Paradigms, Open Source, Reviews

After The Portable Consultant wrote the preceding piece on his Kubuntu frustrations, he came across a couple of postings by O’Reilly’s Caitlyn Martin that he found he had to agree with. Having worked with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu for several revisions now the shortcomings of these fine open source products are all the more frustrating [...]

Wikipedia cuts through Windows Home Server sales jargon

by @ Wednesday, August 20th, 2008. Filed under New Paradigms, Reviews

The Portable Consultant now finds himself the owner of no less than five Microsoft Windows systems, including two laptops. Even taking into account the eventual conversion of some of the older systems to Linux, there will likely remain three or so. To make a long story short, I’ve been interested in Windows Home Server since [...]

ThePortableConsultant’s increasing portablility

by @ Friday, June 6th, 2008. Filed under Emerging, Multimedia, Open Source, Reviews

The Portable Consultant has noticed that the few posts he once did about the Lexar Lightning and its portable USB applications are the most popular hits on his blog site, almost all of which come via Google. So it is with great shame that I must confess to being remiss in not informing both my [...]

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