May 2005 Archives
My schedule for next week: Oslo - Vianen - Hannover - Dortmund - Frankfurt - Stuttgart.
If you live close to any of these places, you might meet me ---a phone call increases your chances. If you live further away, you might not hear/read from me for a while.
Know your rights!
With over seven years of blogging experience and after three years working in the international department of a POS software company, it is only logical to create a POS weblog. The point of sale world has a lot in common with normal PCs, but there are some differences. Old hardware ---black and white terminals--- goes hand--in--hand with the latest technologies ---RFID---, which make it a very interesting niche market.
Ten minutes clicking around in cPanel and Movable Type, and POS blog was born! On this site I will publish news about Point Of Sale (POS) hardware and software and everything related to it. Please have a look at it, and let me know what you think about it.
Most computers have two input devices: a mouse and a keyboard. The mouse is mainly used to navigate in the GUI, while the keyboard is used to enter data. Both input devices need some training to get used to --- I still picture my father picking up the mouse from the table and moving it through the air.
Experienced mouse users are ably to move the pointer from one side of the screen to the other side to click on a tiny button within a fraction of a second, which is becoming increasingly difficult as the screen resolutions get bigger. Besides moving and aiming the pointer, they know how to use the three buttons and the scroll wheel at the right moment. Advanced mouse users sometimes use mouse--gesture enabled applications to perform even more functions with the mouse.
Experienced keyboard users are able to reach high key rates using all ten fingers. Besides high speed data entry, they also use the CTRL and ALT keys to navigate through applications.
Microsoft finally found out that it is not wise to use years as version numbers. Their latest server software called Windows 2003 Server sounds very old in 2005.
This week microsoft announced two new products which follow up on a year--version: Microsoft Mobile 5.0, and Microsoft Office 12.
This is the feedmap for Lleida. I feel very lonely :-(
They managed to locate my feed surprisingly precise!
Yes! I managed to get my phone configured, so now I am finally a member of the 'moblog crew'. You can expect more pictures from now on.
The trick was to define another GPRS connection, using another APN name. Does anybody know what this APN is?
[Update 2005.05.03]: APN stands for Access Point Name, which is the name of the destination network.
