Eric Lundquist

This is my list, not based on anything more than my guess: 1. Samsung Ultra-thin Notebook X420. This is the shape (and weight) of Windows 7 notebooks to come. Here’s the Crave report. 2. LG Borderless TVs. Pretty cool, Think of a big screen, flat panel with no border. It looks like a single pane […]

The 10 Labors of the IT Professional by Eric Lundquist ‘Whats my password?’ This is usually asked via a phone call around 3 a.m. Despite all the investment in IT, recovering lost passwords is still the major help desk activity. ‘I think someone stole my password and hacked into the system.’ This is usually followed […]

10 Must-Have Attributes of a Next-Gen IT Manager by Eric Lundquist A Conductor, Not a Violin Soloist The next-gen manager acquires resources both externally and internally. He (or she) will meld those resources into a modern IT infrastructure. Radar Operator The next-gen manager will build a technology tracking system peering ahead 12 to 18 months […]

Here’s the background. A hacker apparently was able to access the Google account of a Twitter employee. Twitter uses Google Docs as a method to create and share information. The hacker apparently got at the docs and sent them to TechCrunch, which decided to publish much of the information. The entire event sent the Web […]

1. Permanence. This may sound strange, but the ability to read documents 20 years in the future should be a requirement. I recently went to England where at a museum my ancient-languages-enabled son was able to decipher the words from the oldest fragment (125 A.D.) of the New Testament. I’m not sure I would be […]

Five Reasons Why Google Chrome Operating System Is a Big Deal 1. Hello! It is an operating system. And the vendor that controls the operating system controls the application stack and can win the hearts and minds of developers by giving them a way to make money for their code pounding. 2. The Chrome operating […]

Ten Enterprise Apps That Dont Yet Exist—but Will Be a Big Deal in 5 Years by Eric Lundquist Social Netalyzer Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are just starting to get traction in the enterprise. But soon they will be integral to the way companies communicate internally and with the outside world. The problem is those applications […]

I’ve been running Ubuntu 9.04 for about a month now on an IBM ThinkPad. I consider myself technically proficient, but I’m certainly not one of those all-night code pounders. So, with those caveats, here is what I like and don’t like about open-software Ubuntu, as well as where there’s some room for improvement. Five Things […]

“What about that Bing program from Microsoft?” is the question of the week from people I speak with both in person and virtually. They want to know: Is the interface easier (than one line?), are the results better, and is Google really running as scared as The New York Post claims? In answer to those […]