În cadrul VMworld (septembrie, 2009) VMware şi HP au anunţat o soluţie care va permite clienţilor să administreze infrastructurile fizică şi virtuală prin intermediul consolei VMware vCenter. HP Insight Control pentru VMware vCenter Server, primul produs integrat de acest gen, va creşte considerabil eficienţa administratorului.

Clienţii devin tot mai exigenţi în ce priveşte o integrare mai strânsă între mediile virtuale şi cele fizice, pentru a simplifica experienţa utilizatorului final şi pentru a oferi un control mai riguros asupra infrastructurii. HP Insight Control pentru VMware Server va permite administratorilor să gestioneze mai eficient şi mai uşor atât componentele fizice, cât şi cele virtuale ale infrastructurii lor virtualizate. Clienţii pot eficientiza monitorizarea de zi cu zi şi sarcinile de gestionare, astfel permiţând personalului IT să se concentreze asupra proiectelor strategice privind dezvoltarea tehnologiilor adaptate la nevoile crescânde de afaceri.

HP Insight Control pentru VMware vCenter Server le va permite clienţilor:

• Reducerea automată a problemelor de server: personalul IT poate obţine o perspectivă mai adâncă asupra infrastructurii sale fizice de la HP prin intermediul consolei vCenter. În cazul în care instrumentele HP detectă potenţiale eşecuri, către consola vCenter este transmisă o alarmă, prin care serverul este trecut in regim de întreţinere în timp ce VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), o componentă a VMware vSphere 4, în mod automat transferă  volumul de lucru virtualizat spre un host „sănătos”. În plus, cu scopul de a asigura un uptime pentru mediile virtuale, HP Insight Control este o soluţie puternica pentru a ajuta la gestionarea serverelor fizice. Folosind HP Insight Control la administrarea infrastructurii fizice, downtime-ul serverului poate fi redus cu până la 77%.

• Creşterea eficienţei personalului IT: cu HP Insight Control administratorii vor avea acces la informaţiile de care au nevoie pentru a rezolva rapid problemele apărute. Acest fapt elimină necesitatea de a comuta între console, pentru a identifica problemele de hardware care pot avea impact asupra disponibilităţii aplicaţiilor. Clienţii care folosesc HP Insight Control pentru a gestiona infrastructura fizică a HP ProLiant şi HP BladeSystem au fost capabili să crească raportul server-administrator cu până la 98%.

• Administrarea infrastructurii la distanţă: Clienţii vor putea să gestioneze de la distanţă serverele virtualizate prin VMware şi să elimine deficienţele în HP ProLiant şi sistemele blade, folosind HP Integrated Lights Out Advanced nemijlocit de pe consola vCenter Server.

• Reducerea costurilor de energie: măsurarea inteligentă a capacităţii şi control prin VMware Distributed Power Management (PDM) şi HP Insight Control, combinate cu hardware-ul HP cu un consum eficient de energie va ajuta clienţii să reducă costurile de alimentare şi gradul de emanare a carbonului. Cu HP Insight Control, clienţii pot tripla capacitatea centrelor sale de date, fără a schimba nivelul de consum al electricităţii.

„Noi deja ne-am bucurat de mare succes cu VMware în procesul de consolidare a infrastructurii în baza HP ProLiant şi serverelor blade, iar acum punem accent pe posibilitatea de a optimiza gestionarea acestui mediu”, spune Joel Fuller, arhitectul tehnic din cadrul companiei Kroll Ontrack, companie de consultanţă, specializată în dezvoltarea serviciilor bazate pe tehnologii, software şi consultanţă. „HP Insight Control pentru VMware vCenter Server va veni în ajutorul echipei noastre să răspundă operativ la cerinţele crescânde faţă de calitatea deservirii, eliminând în acelaşi timp necesitatea de a investi cea mai mare parte a timpului de lucru pentru rezolvarea sarcinilor de rutină.”

Sursa: www.eco.md

THE ART OF OUTSOURCING

By

VIKRAM KARVE

Short Fiction – One of my favourite fiction short stories…

One leisurely morning, while I am loafing on Main Street, in Pune, I meet an old friend of mine.

“Hi!” I say.

“Hi,” he says, “where to?”

“Aimless loitering,” I say, “And you?”

“I’m going to work.”

“Work? This early? I thought your shift starts in the evening, or late at night. You work at a call center don’t you?”

“Not now. I quit. I’m on my own now.”

“On your own? What do you do?”

“LPO.”

“LPO? What’s that?”

“Life Process Outsourcing.”

“Life Process Outsourcing? Never heard of it!”

“You’ve heard of Business Process Outsourcing haven’t you?”

“BPO? Outsourcing non-core business activities and functions?”

“Precisely. LPO is similar to BPO. There it’s Business Processes that are outsourced, here it’s Life Processes.”

“Life Processes? Outsourced?”

“Why don’t you come along with me? I’ll show you.”

Soon we are in his office. It looks like a mini call center.

A young attractive girl welcomes us. “Meet Rita, my Manager,” my friend says, and introduces us.

Rita looks distraught, and says to my friend, “I’m not feeling well. Must be viral fever.”

“No problem. My friend here will stand in.”

“What? I don’t have a clue about all this LPO thing!” I protest.

“There’s nothing like learning on the job! Rita will show you.”

“It’s simple,” Rita says, in a hurry. “See the console. You just press the appropriate switch and route the call to the appropriate person or agency.”

And with these words Rita disappears. It’s the shortest induction training I have ever had in my life.

And so I plunge into the world of Life Process Outsourcing; or LPO as they call it.

It’s all very simple.

Everyone is busy. Working people don’t seem to have time these days, but they have lots of money; especially those double income couples, IT nerds, MBA hot shots, finance wizards; just about everybody running desperately in the modern rat race.

So what do they do? Simple. They ‘outsource’!

‘Non-core Life Activities’, for which you neither have the inclination or the time – you just outsource them; so you can maximize your work-time to rake in the money and make a fast climb up the ladder of success.

A ring, a flash on the console infront of me and I take my first LPO call.

“My daughter’s puked in her school. They want someone to pick her up and take her home. I’m busy in a shoot and just can’t leave,” a creative ad agency type with a husky voice says.

“Why don’t you tell your husband?” I suggest.

“Are you crazy or something? I’m a single mother.”

“Sorry ma’am. I didn’t know. My sympathies and condolences.”

“Condolences? Who’s this? Is this LPO?”

“Yes ma’am,” I say, press the button marked ‘children’ and transfer the call, hoping I have made the right choice. Maybe I should have pressed ‘doctor’.

Nothing happens for the next few moments. I breathe a sigh of relief.

A yuppie wants his grandmother to be taken to a movie. I press the ‘movies’ button. ‘Movies’ transfers the call back, “Hey, this is for movie tickets; try ‘escort services’. He wants the old hag escorted to the movies.”

‘Escort Services’ are in high demand. These guys and girls, slogging in their offices minting money, want escort services for their kith and kin for various non-core family processes like shopping, movies, eating out, sight seeing, marriages, funerals, all types of functions; even going to art galleries, book fairs, exhibitions, zoos, museums or even a walk in the nearby garden.

A father wants someone to read bedtime stories to his small son while he works late. A busy couple wants proxy stand-in ‘parents’ at the school PTA meeting. An investment banker rings up from Singapore; he wants his mother to be taken to pray in a temple at a certain time on a specific day.

Someone wants his kids to be taken for a swim, brunch, a play and browsing books and music.

A sweet-voiced IT project manager wants someone to motivate and pep-talk her husband, who’s been recently sacked, and is cribbing away at home demoralized. He desperately needs someone to talk to, unburden himself, but the wife is busy – she neither has the time nor the inclination to take a few days off to boost the morale of her depressed husband when there are deadlines to be met at work and so much is at stake.

The things they want outsourced range from the mundane to the bizarre; life processes that one earlier enjoyed and took pride in doing or did as one’s sacred duty are considered ‘non-core life activities’ now-a-days by these highfalutin people.

At the end of the day I feel illuminated on this novel concept of Life Process Outsourcing, and I am about to leave, when suddenly a call comes in.

“LPO?” a man asks softly.

“Yes, this is LPO. May I help you?” I say.

“I’m speaking from Frankfurt Airport. I really don’t know if I can ask this?” he says nervously.

“Please go ahead and feel free to ask anything you desire, Sir. We do everything.”

“Everything?”

“Yes, Sir. Anything and everything!” I say.

“I don’t know how to say this. This is the first time I’m asking. You see, I am working 24/7 on an important project for the last few months. I’m globetrotting abroad and can’t make it there. Can you please arrange for someone suitable to take my wife out to the New Year’s Eve Dance?”

I am taken aback but quickly recover, “Yes, Sir.”

“Please send someone really good, an excellent dancer, and make sure she enjoys and has a good time. She loves dancing and I just haven’t had the time.”

“Of course, Sir.”

“And I told you – I’ve been away abroad for quite some time now and I’ve got to stay out here till I complete the project.”

“I know. Work takes top priority.”

“My wife. She’s been lonely. She desperately needs some love. Do you have someone with a loving and caring nature who can give her some love? I just don’t have the time. You understand what I’m saying, don’t you?”

I let the words sink in. This is one call I am not going to transfer. “Please give me the details, Sir,” I say softly into the mike.

As I walk towards my destination with a spring in my step, I feel truly enlightened.

Till this moment, I never knew that ‘love’ was a ‘non-core’ ‘life-process’ worthy of outsourcing.

Long Live LPO!

Life Process Outsourcing!

Love Process Outsourcing!

Call it what you like, but I’m sure you’ve got the essence of outsourcing.

VIKRAM KARVE

Copyright © Vikram Karve 2009

Vikram Karve has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/karve

Appetite for a Stroll

http://books.sulekha.com/book/appetite-for-a-stroll/default.htm

vikramkarve@sify.com

THE ART OF OUTSOURCING

By

VIKRAM KARVE

Short Fiction – One of my favourite fiction short stories…

One leisurely morning, while I am loafing on Main Street, in Pune, I meet an old friend of mine.

“Hi!” I say.

“Hi,” he says, “where to?”

“Aimless loitering,” I say, “And you?”

“I’m going to work.”

“Work? This early? I thought your shift starts in the evening, or late at night. You work at a call center don’t you?”

“Not now. I quit. I’m on my own now.”

“On your own? What do you do?”

“LPO.”

“LPO? What’s that?”

“Life Process Outsourcing.”

“Life Process Outsourcing? Never heard of it!”

“You’ve heard of Business Process Outsourcing haven’t you?”

“BPO? Outsourcing non-core business activities and functions?”

“Precisely. LPO is similar to BPO. There it’s Business Processes that are outsourced, here it’s Life Processes.”

“Life Processes? Outsourced?”

“Why don’t you come along with me? I’ll show you.”

Soon we are in his office. It looks like a mini call center.

A young attractive girl welcomes us. “Meet Rita, my Manager,” my friend says, and introduces us.

Rita looks distraught, and says to my friend, “I’m not feeling well. Must be viral fever.”

“No problem. My friend here will stand in.”

“What? I don’t have a clue about all this LPO thing!” I protest.

“There’s nothing like learning on the job! Rita will show you.”

“It’s simple,” Rita says, in a hurry. “See the console. You just press the appropriate switch and route the call to the appropriate person or agency.”

And with these words Rita disappears. It’s the shortest induction training I have ever had in my life.

And so I plunge into the world of Life Process Outsourcing; or LPO as they call it.

It’s all very simple.

Everyone is busy. Working people don’t seem to have time these days, but they have lots of money; especially those double income couples, IT nerds, MBA hot shots, finance wizards; just about everybody running desperately in the modern rat race.

So what do they do? Simple. They ‘outsource’!

‘Non-core Life Activities’, for which you neither have the inclination or the time – you just outsource them; so you can maximize your work-time to rake in the money and make a fast climb up the ladder of success.

A ring, a flash on the console infront of me and I take my first LPO call.

“My daughter’s puked in her school. They want someone to pick her up and take her home. I’m busy in a shoot and just can’t leave,” a creative ad agency type with a husky voice says.

“Why don’t you tell your husband?” I suggest.

“Are you crazy or something? I’m a single mother.”

“Sorry ma’am. I didn’t know. My sympathies and condolences.”

“Condolences? Who’s this? Is this LPO?”

“Yes ma’am,” I say, press the button marked ‘children’ and transfer the call, hoping I have made the right choice. Maybe I should have pressed ‘doctor’.

Nothing happens for the next few moments. I breathe a sigh of relief.

A yuppie wants his grandmother to be taken to a movie. I press the ‘movies’ button. ‘Movies’ transfers the call back, “Hey, this is for movie tickets; try ‘escort services’. He wants the old hag escorted to the movies.”

‘Escort Services’ are in high demand. These guys and girls, slogging in their offices minting money, want escort services for their kith and kin for various non-core family processes like shopping, movies, eating out, sight seeing, marriages, funerals, all types of functions; even going to art galleries, book fairs, exhibitions, zoos, museums or even a walk in the nearby garden.

A father wants someone to read bedtime stories to his small son while he works late. A busy couple wants proxy stand-in ‘parents’ at the school PTA meeting. An investment banker rings up from Singapore; he wants his mother to be taken to pray in a temple at a certain time on a specific day.

Someone wants his kids to be taken for a swim, brunch, a play and browsing books and music.

A sweet-voiced IT project manager wants someone to motivate and pep-talk her husband, who’s been recently sacked, and is cribbing away at home demoralized. He desperately needs someone to talk to, unburden himself, but the wife is busy – she neither has the time nor the inclination to take a few days off to boost the morale of her depressed husband when there are deadlines to be met at work and so much is at stake.

The things they want outsourced range from the mundane to the bizarre; life processes that one earlier enjoyed and took pride in doing or did as one’s sacred duty are considered ‘non-core life activities’ now-a-days by these highfalutin people.

At the end of the day I feel illuminated on this novel concept of Life Process Outsourcing, and I am about to leave, when suddenly a call comes in.

“LPO?” a man asks softly.

“Yes, this is LPO. May I help you?” I say.

“I’m speaking from Frankfurt Airport. I really don’t know if I can ask this?” he says nervously.

“Please go ahead and feel free to ask anything you desire, Sir. We do everything.”

“Everything?”

“Yes, Sir. Anything and everything!” I say.

“I don’t know how to say this. This is the first time I’m asking. You see, I am working 24/7 on an important project for the last few months. I’m globetrotting abroad and can’t make it there. Can you please arrange for someone suitable to take my wife out to the New Year’s Eve Dance?”

I am taken aback but quickly recover, “Yes, Sir.”

“Please send someone really good, an excellent dancer, and make sure she enjoys and has a good time. She loves dancing and I just haven’t had the time.”

“Of course, Sir.”

“And I told you – I’ve been away abroad for quite some time now and I’ve got to stay out here till I complete the project.”

“I know. Work takes top priority.”

“My wife. She’s been lonely. She desperately needs some love. Do you have someone with a loving and caring nature who can give her some love? I just don’t have the time. You understand what I’m saying, don’t you?”

I let the words sink in. This is one call I am not going to transfer. “Please give me the details, Sir,” I say softly into the mike.

As I walk towards my destination with a spring in my step, I feel truly enlightened.

Till this moment, I never knew that ‘love’ was a ‘non-core’ ‘life-process’ worthy of outsourcing.

Long Live LPO!

Life Process Outsourcing!

Love Process Outsourcing!

Call it what you like, but I’m sure you’ve got the essence of outsourcing.

VIKRAM KARVE

Copyright © Vikram Karve 2009

Vikram Karve has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/karve

Appetite for a Stroll

http://books.sulekha.com/book/appetite-for-a-stroll/default.htm

vikramkarve@sify.com

Yooo this is funny as hell…..they put this together quite well I might add!
They used all of Chris Brown & Rhiana songs to put this together. FUNNY AS HELL!

Winer: [Twitter] account was suspended because tweets were primarily links and not personal updates; http://j.mp/6id6UJ

It is very sunny today. Temperature is about 58F, nice to play tennis.

Central Columbus Java User Group

Genre: Horror

Year of Publication: 1986

I have just created my VirtualBox Virtual Machine to hosting Google Chrome OS. I’m so busy during these days, and I only tryed it at last for 10 minutes.

If you are interested to try it, get the image from GDGT… After this step, you must install VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems; create your personal virtual machine to emulate a Linux Ubuntu Operating System.

After that, you only have to select your Google Chrome OS image (that you’ve just downloaded from GDGT) and start your Virtual Machine.

You should log in with your GMail Account, or if there are network problems and you see this advice: Network not connected and offline login fail, you must log in with USERNAME: chronos PASSWORD: password or left blank.

These are the screenshots:

You can notice on the north-right side of the second screen the battery level indicator. By the way, I will try it deeply in the next months.

Happy Sunday to you all…

Stii cum se spune, cine se aseamana se aduna. De aceea ajungem la tipare umane si de aceea anticipam si judecam fara sa dam atentie prea multa.

La ultimul loc de munca pe care mi l-am gasit, pentru ca sunt [denumita asa pt ca lumea nu imi retine numele mai niciodata] “fata de la site”, a trebuit sa am o intrevedere cu baiatul de la IT, evidamente.

Baiatul de la IT arata exact asa cum mi-l imaginasem, pentru ca in fiecare departament de IT exista cel putin unul pe acest calapod.

- inalt

- slab

- cu parul lung prins clasic la spate si cu eterna carare pe mijloc

- ochelari cu rama subtire (fashionable IT dude)

- maini cu degete lungi, si evident de pe degetele mijlocii lipseau clasicele bataturi pe care le avem cu totii inca din scoala primara cand scriam cu stilouri verzi si le strangeam grav de tot intre degete sa ne iasa literele cum trebuie.

- o camasa in patratele mici bagata in blugi cu talie inalta prinsi cu o curea antica si de demult. pe cat de inalti blugii pe atat de scurti jos cat sa nu acopere nici un pic din sosetele varate in adidasii nr. 44…

Mi l-am adus aminte si pe baiatul de la IT din NewsIn, care mi se pare ca nu circula cu metroul sau cu RATB-ul pentru ca era atat de slab incat il ducea vantul oriunde. Si pe coordonatorul de la IT de acolo care in ultimele luni petrecute in redactie isi luase un ordin de restrictie pentru mine because I always had smthn to fix.Mi l-am adus aminte si pe baiatul de la IT din prima redactie in care am muncit in anul I de facultate… care indiferent ce il intrebai raspundea : Nu, nu se poate. Nu am timp.

Si toti aveau inca o trasatura in comun, desi biroul lor era la 3 minute distanta…. comunicarea cu ei  se realiza DOAR via e-mail. “Da-mi un mail cu ce problema ai si rezolv eu. Nu, nu mai veni pana aici, e inutil… da-mi un mail”

El otro día me quedé fascinado por una serie de vídeos que sacaron (como no) en Youtube, que tratan sobre como ciertas películas y series deberían haber acabado… Son vídeos muy cortitos, pero llenos de humor, y que desde aquí os recomiendo a todos.

Se trata de cortos de animacion que no cuesta mucho hacer, por lo que, al necesitar de poco esfuerzo, se puede tener mas tiempo para dar rienda suelta a la imaginación y sacarnos una sonrisa de vez en cuando.

Se llama How Should It Have Ended, o HISHE, no hay mucho mas que decir, solo poner un par de vídeos, para mi los mejores, y recomendaros que no os la perdáis.

Spiderman

Terminator

y por ultimo, aquí tenéis el indice de todos los vídeos de la primera temporada, de momento la única.

NoteFlight – Music notation software
Issuu – Make beautiful online publications in a snap from powerpoint presentations
Ricci Adams’ – Music theory tutorials and lessons
Sound Cloud – online music file sharing and drop boxes
Chord Calculator
Morton Subotnick’s – Creating Music
Scale Finder
Classics for Kids – free online music examples, lesson plans and handouts
Myna – the first web 2.0 software that seems based on GarageBand. Not quite there yet but interesting. I hope they keep working on it.
Avery – the makers of Myna above and several other helpful apps.
Wufoo – Wufoo is an online HTML form builder that helps you create contact forms, web surveys and invitations so you can collect information, registrations and payments without writing a single line of code.
Dipity - Make extremely cool online timelines, very eloquent.
New York Philharmonic – Kids Zone
The Sound Lounge by PBS
ClassTools – great collection of online software designed for the elementry classroom
Vimeo – post your video
PBS.org
PBS play the Gamelan
Kompoz – compose with your friends and colleagues online
Hobnox – audio tool
Online Metronome
Animoto
-Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing. Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.
VuVox – Make creations online
* Use COLLAGE to quickly produce dynamic interactive panoramas with hot-spots.
* Use STUDIO to build a personalized media presentation… and, place it in your COLLAGE.
* Use EXPRESS to build presentations with dynamic content from RSS feeds and online albums.
* Tap into CUT-OUT Express to use your photos as frames for slideshows.
San Francisco Kids
Weebly -
What can I do with Weebly?
* Create a free website & blog
* Easy drag and drop interface
* No technical skills required
* Dozens of professional designs
* Free domain hosting

And be sure to check out a wonderful blog @ Free Tech for Teachers

Google Books Downloader adalah suatu Software Open Source yang dikerjakan oleh CodePlex (Open Source Community) yang berfungsi untuk mendownload buku-buku yang ada di dalam books.google.com. Google Books yang saya gunakan ini yang versi “Beta 0.6.9 Build 33532″ Cara menggunakannya pun cukup simple kita hanya perlu memasukan alamat buku yang ingin kita Download. Untuk lebih memahami lagi bagaimana menggunakan Google books Downloader ini ikuti langkah-langkah berikut :

1. Install Net. 3.5

Sebelum Anda meng-install Google Books Downloader Anda harus memastikan terlebih dahulu jika dikomputer Anda telah terpasang .Net Framework 3.5. Google Books Downloader membutuhkan .Net Framework versi 3.5 atau diatasnya (service Pack 1) untuk dapat digunakan. Dan Sampai tulisan ini dibuat belum ada lagi versi yang lebih tinggi dari itu. Jika belum punya silahkan download di sini :

1. .Net Framework 3.5 (Bootstrapper)

2. .Net Framework 3.5 (Full Package)

2. Instal Google Books Downloader

Jika proses installasi .Net telah sukses, langkah selanjutnya adalah melakukan instalasi untuk program utama yang sedang kita bahas Google Books Downloader. Proses Instalasi Seperti biasa tinggal ikuti perintah langkah-langkahnya. Atau next-next terus saja . Jika belum memiliki Google Books Downloader silahkan download disini :

Google Books Downloader (installer-softpedia.com)

3. Download Buku

Setelah semua proses instalasi selesai, kita pun sampai pada proses puncak (hehehe ). Buka sub Menu Add Book yang ada didalam menu file. Kemudian Masukan Alamat URL buku yang akan didownload.

klik untuk memperbesar

klik untuk memperbesar

Setelah itu masukan copy link yang tadi lalu pilih search terlebih dahulu untuk mencari server downloadnya, bisa Anda pilih servernya atau dikosongkan juga tidak apa-apa, tapi tetap harus melakukan pencarian terlebih dahulu. Setelah selesai proses pencarian lalu pilih Queue. Langkah terakhir klik kanan pada alamt buku yang telah dimasukan lalu pilih start.

klik untuk memperbesar

Tunggu sampai Proses selesai lalu save file yang tadi telah selesai di download. Oh iya, harus ekstra sabar karena proses downloadnya cukup lama. Mungkin ini juga salah satu kelemahan Google Books Downloader

Saya baru tahu ternyata Google punya juga yang namanya perpustakaan buku Google atau Google Books.  Yups, benar-benar menakjubkan perkembangan dari Paman Google ini selain posisi terbaiknya yang belum bisa tergoyahkan sebagai “The Most Used Search Engine” sudah membuat saya terkagum-kagum lagi dengan kehadiran Google Books ini. Google Books adalah tempat dimana kita bisa me-review isi buku yang akan kita beli terlebih dahulu. Hal ini sama seperti jika Kita pergi ke toko buku seperti Gramedia, ketika akan membelinya pasti kita mencari sampel buku yang tidak tersegel untuk dibaca terlebih dahulu. Jangan khawatir, kita bisa membaca isi buku di Google Books ini secara keseluruhan tanpa ada pembatasan membaca isinya . Dan Google Books ini sendiri telah memiliki Publish License dari penerbitnya masing-masing untuk mempublikasikan buku ini. Alamat lengkap Google books sendiri bisa Anda kunjungi di books.google.com atau books.google.co.id untuk domain di Indonesia.

Jika Anda sudah yakin ingin membeli buku-buku yang Anda baca, Anda bisa langsung membelinya melalui situs-situs penjualan online seperti Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com,Borders.com, dan lainya yang telah disediakan di Sidebar kanan didalam Google Books. Tapi sayangnya tidak semua buku dapat dibaca secara langsung,  ada beberapa buku yang tidak dapat di Preview tergantung dari penerbit bukunya.  Tapi jika Anda sedang dalam keadaan krisis keuangan namun ingin memilkinya dalam bentuk  e-books Anda dapat menggunakan Google Books Downloader. Apa itu Google Books Downloader? silahkan baca disni.

Demikian Semoga Bermanfaat.

Thanks to all those that shared their ideas, views, knowledge, and interest in using technology in the classroom. I hope you found some new ideas and are now more able to move forward with your own education in technology development. I was about to put together a list of my favorite Web 2.0 software and went to a fellow teachers site where I knew there was a posting I wanted to include. I discovered he had already posted his list which included many of my favorite so I decided to post a list of helpful sites of lists instead. If there is something specific that isn’t listed here that you heard me talk about and wanted to follow up on, please drop me a note. If you are looking for music related software that I either mentioned or demonstrated see the first list below or find a connection on my website at www.yismusic.net or here on this blog.

Things to try in class. Mentioned at BTG or BarCamp
- Go here are some of them
- WebQuest lesson planning, an interesting and fun way to get through large quantities of material
- Software tutorials on Media Software
- Music Tech Tutorials
- Music Theory Connections

Here are 10 articles to get you started with your investigation. Of course you can start here at Music Tech For Teachers.

1. Free Technology for Teachers

2. CindyDannerKuhn

3. Dallas “The Technology Component”

4. Frank “Creativity, Technology and Authentic Assessment”

5. iLearn – The education magazine for mac users

6. Linking Learning to Technology

7. Compiled List of Web 2.0 resources

8. “Technology for the Classroom”

9. “Cool Tech Tools for Teachers”

10. “Following the Thread” - How an English teacher started with technology

Für vernünftige wissenschaftliche Arbeiten wie Theseses oder Reports gehört es sich, dass

• das Deckblatt gar nicht
• der Vorspann (Vorwort, Einleitung, Inhaltsverzeichnis) mit römischen
• und der Hauptteil mit arabischen

Ziffern gekennzeichnet wird.

Nachdem es ja schon eine Herausforderung ist, die erste Seite unnummeriert zu hinterlassen, hier eine kleine Anleitung, wie man diese unterschiedlichen Nummerierungen in Office hinbekommt.

Erwartet bitte keine Klick-Anleitung. Ich traue Euch zu, die entsprechenden Buttons selbst zu finden. ^^

Voraussetzung für beide Anleitungen ist natürlich, dass ihr eine Fußzeile habt, in der Ihr schon Seitenzahlen eingefügt habt.

PDF ist übrigens grundsätzlich in der Lage, mit römischen Seitennummern umzugehen! Würde man dann also an Seite 33 springen, würde man im PDF Leseprogramm dann an Seite 33 des Hauptteils landen. Man könnte auch auf Seite IV springen.

Beide Office Programme sind aber nicht in der Lage, die Seitennummerierung richtig in PDF zu exportieren. Möchte man auch das nutzen, müsste man schon mit LaTeX arbeiten. =)

Open Office

Unter OpenOffice muss man konsequenterweise mit Stilen arbeiten. Stile sind dazu da, um Text, Abschnitte oder ganze Seiten sinnvoll zu formatieren und semantisch auszuzeichnen, zum Beispiel als Überschrift (Stile sollte man so viel wie möglich verwenden!).

Man legt sich also einen neuen Seitenstil an, dessen Nummerierung man auf römische Ziffern festlegt. Den Stil wendet man dann erst einmal auf alle Seiten an.

Um bestimmte Seiten anders zu formatieren, muss man im ersten Absatz der Seiten festlegen, dass ab sofort ein neuer Seitenstil verwendet werden soll. Der Absatz muss zudem mit einem Seitenumbruch beginnen.

In den Eigenschaften des ersten Absatzes des Hauptteils legt man also fest, dass ab sofort der Seitenstil Standard verwendet werden soll, und dass die Nummerierung von vorne beginnen soll.

Für den ersten Absatz des Vorspanns müsst ihr auch die Nummerierung von vorne beginnen.

Wenn ihr das Ergebnis sehen wollt, müsst Ihr Euch eine Druckvorschau geben lassen. OpenOffice zeigt Euch nämlich lieber gar keine Seitennummern, als falsche, wie das Microsoft Office tut.

Nicht erschrecken, wenn auf einmal eine leere Seite nach dem Deckblatt erscheint. Linke Seiten müssen immer ungerade Seitennummern haben.

Office 2007

In Microsoft Word lässt sich eine unterschiedliche Nummerierung mit so genannten Abschnitten erreichen. Nachdem wir zwei unterschiedliche Nummerierungen wünschen, benötigen wir zwei Abschnitte.

Abschnitte lassen sich im Ribbon Seitenlayout erstellen. Dabei wird allerdings kein Bereich markiert, wie man das jetzt vielleicht erwarten würde. Man kann nur Abschnittstrenner einfügen.

Also: Man navigiert auf die letzte Seite des ersten Abschnittes — also des Vorspanns — und fügt am Ende dieser Seite einen Abschnittstrenner ein.

Anschließend kann man die Seitennummerierung im Ribbon Einfügen so konfigurieren, dass römische Ziffern benutzt werden. Im selben Dialog kann man auch das Häkchen sezten, dass die erste Seite gar nicht nummeriert werden soll.

Jetzt müsst ihr noch einstellen, dass die Seitennummerierung im nächsten Abschnitt von vorne beginnt. Dazu navigiert ihr auf die erste Seite des zweiten Abschnittes, und ruft wieder den Dialog zum Formatieren der Nummerierung auf. Da setzt ihr einfach das Häkchen „Nummerierung neu beginnen“.

Quellen:

• OpenOffice.org Wiki
• Brown University Wiki

Digital Signage is the technology for those displays hanging out from the walls that we’re starting to see in every building, and which are useful to display announcements or ads.

There have been a number of people who have contacted me about dynpres, my solution to free scalable Digital Signage which I also released as GPL. But one day a team from University of Seville contacted me to let me know that they were developing a new software called Oculus, based on the same ideas as Dynpres but extending the functionality and usability in a great degree.

This has been one of these pleasurable things of engaging in free software projects, solving others’ problems and knowing that your code or ideas are being extended and that the model really works is really great.

If you need a Free Digital Signage solution you may want to have a look at the Oculus project, as opposed to my barebones solution editing bash and LaTeX.