Inside the mind of a young IT Professional
If you’ve downloaded a .chm file, but on opening it, can’t see anything, I have a solution for you 
I’m curious about this. How does a company come to settle on a specific brand or specification of laptop - or any PC for that matter?
Lately, I’ve gone for Dells, as they make it nice and easy. I can call or email my account manager, give him a base unit reference from their website, ask for a number of changes (”I want a spare power adapter, an x res screen and a y size HD instead”) and they do it all for me, and, more often than not, get me a quote within an hour.
So far, I’ve found it hard to find that flexibility and convenience. Unless I’m missing something/someone…
Everyone: What brand machines does your current company use?
IT Pros: Which brand(s) do you buy for your company PCs, and more importantly, why?
It seems Microsoft is still employing that pesky 8 year old.
Yesterday, we released a beta version of the Mac driver for DisplayLink-enabled products. The guys working on this have done a fantastic job in a very, very short time and should be commended for their efforts. Sadly, due to the closed nature of OS X we’ve been unable to get the performance as we’d like it.
As the Beta page says:
DisplayLink is committed to making a Mac release that is just as good – if not better – than our Windows Vista release, including full support for OpenGL 3D acceleration. Unfortunately the Mac OS X operating system is a closed system, and unlike Windows XP and Windows Vista, it is difficult to make significant improvements without the direct support of Apple. If you would like to see improved support for DisplayLink USB devices from Apple, please let them know through the Apple Feedback form for Mac OS X.
Hopefully Apple will be able to help us out with some of the issues we’ve been having
So I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 the other night. Nothing’s really changed on the front end, but the new backend is great - sure it looks nice, but more importantly, it’s very intuitive and far easier to use. And the icing on the cake was that most of the plugins I use already support 2.5, which is nice.
I think I’m in lurve 
Phil is an IT Professional working at DisplayLink in Cambridge, England. He generally blogs about useful solutions that he comes across in his work/play.
