Re: [FRIAM] Air

2010-02-01 Thread Roger Critchlow
A Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet is my principle computer, on the desktop or on the road, running Ubuntu primarily or Windows if required. A G1 serves as a WWAN modem and as a portable computer on many trips. A Chumby as a home alarm clock, though it may be reitired in favor of the phone. The Thinkpad

Re: [FRIAM] Air

2010-02-01 Thread Scott R. Powell
FWIW I have an Air, a MacBook Pro laptop and an iPhone, I synch them wirelessly via MobileMe. I always have the iPhone with me and the Air perhaps 25% of the time. The MacBoo Pro is filling in, quite admirably, for a recently deceased G5 tower. When I travel on business, I take the Air and the sepa

Re: [FRIAM] Air

2010-02-01 Thread Douglas Roberts
Kubuntu 9.10 desktop + largish file server at the home office. Kubuntu 9.10 on the Dell Lattitude laptop for travel. I sync up my one work directory which includes all the Thunderbird active & archived mail. I'll be getting a 10.1" netbook that will be running UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) before m

Re: [FRIAM] Air

2010-02-01 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
No sync required: I just have division of purpose. But then I only have an XP laptop and a MacOSX laptop. Thanks Robert PS never had an Air. R On 2/1/10 12:07 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussi

Re: [FRIAM] Air

2010-02-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 10-02-01 11:07 AM: > Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility? For light work, I use the G1, which has e-mail, chat, ssh, camera, pdf reader, etc. For medium work, I use a dell inspiron running ubuntu, which has a "smaller"/"slave" version of everyt

Re: [FRIAM] Air

2010-02-01 Thread Russ Abbott
A laptop which serves as both a home computer (with a docking station) and a travel computer (for real travel). An office computer. These are kept in synch (manually) via web-accessible files. The web files are the true storage. Other than that, it's just an iPhone for email. Unless I'm traveling a

Re: [FRIAM] Air

2010-02-01 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I mentioned the MacBook air. Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it like? Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really

[FRIAM] Air

2010-01-30 Thread Owen Densmore
In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I mentioned the MacBook air. Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it like? Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for exa

[FRIAM] Air Conditioning Contractors

2008-06-18 Thread Owen Densmore
[ Just for Santa Fe folks .. and Off Topic! ] Does anyone know a good Air Conditioning company here in Santa Fe? We need to put in some cooling into at least one room but don't have a local company we're familiar with. -- Owen ===