Improvements in Hydra...
Thanks to Mr Hammersley, I'm currently playing with version 1.1.1 of everyone's favourite collaborative editing tool Hydra. The big change? There's now a built in live-updating HTML preview facility. Some of the implications are fairly obvious - you can now easily collaborate on the writing of web pages in all their glory. Less obvious is the fact that you can now collaboratively write notes in HTML - which could make the composition of semantically well-constructed collaborative writing that can be easily web-published easier than ever... I'm fascinated...
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I know how you feel about having to use a PC at work...but I don't feel sorry for you, because I'm in the same boat. I haven't even touched a PC in almost a year, save for fixing my grandmother's when her "email broke", but now that I've been interning at 20th Century Fox, I've had to use a PC everyday for two months. I'm just now getting used to clicking the close button using the right hand side instead of the left.
→ Posted by: Mike at July 23, 2003 5:28 PM
If the reason you must use a PC at work is to access the corporate Exchange server, there are many alternate solutions.
I first suggest checking to see if there is web access to email. Many corp Exchange servers are configured to be accessible via http.
Second, install the Microsoft Remote Desktop client onto your iBook, then RDC into your PC workstation. It's suitably fast over a LAN, and even running fullscreen it can be minimized/hidden like any other app.
Third, procure a copy of VirtualPC, install Win98 on it, and use Outlook to retrieve your mail.
Last, and most advanced: if you're truly hardcore, install Fink, install the Ximian Evolution package. (I haven't actually gotten this to work, and if you do, I'll be much impressed).
→ Posted by: Unxmaal at July 24, 2003 7:50 AM