Month: May 2005

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Technology Thoughts

MacOS 10.4 Tiger first thoughts

MacOS 10.4 Tiger

Installed Tiger on my dual processor G5 at the weekend, fast simple upgrade from panther, took an hour or so including the time to create the “Spotlight” database. In many ways this is the key to the new OS – searching for a document really does work as you would hope, in fact within an hour I had stopped using the finder and just searched for stuff rather than navigating through disk volumes and folders.

My Powerbook will remain on Panther until Cisco can produce a new version of their VPN client however !!

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GIS Thoughts

Spot the vendor ?

Conference hotel

I have just returned from the Informed Solutions international conference held this year in Estepona, Spain. I presented an overview of the Ordnance Survey and a stab at the dynamics of the future Geodata market.

This was my first time at this conference and I must admit I was rather impressed by the format, a few industry figures, a few of Informed customers and a large proportion of Informed Solutions staff spent a couple of days discussing GI strategy, enabling technologies, organisational issues and successful case studies. What I think stood out was the lack of “hard sell” and the spirt of openess that resulted, I got the feeling that everybody there, was there, with the expectation to learn something!

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.