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How To Buy A New Notebook

Hannes Carl Meyer — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:36:26 +0000

Three years ago, I bought myself a Samsung X20 notebook – just because of its hilarious screen resolution of 1,400 by 1,050 pixels. With slightly changes in terms of RAM (up to 2GB) and a new hard disk after 2 years it was a great companion. But today, working with 2 operating systems (windows for business, ubuntu for development) is really putting pressure on the good ol’ x20.

But which notebook is best for both targets, business and software development? Macbook? Thinkpad?

Requirements:

Linux compatible
Big screen resultion (starting by 12xx by 1xxx)
Solid case
Long battery operation

If you have any preferences or good experiences please contact me!

Enterprise Search 2008 Wrap-Up

Hannes Carl Meyer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:23:30 +0000

Breakfast Links 07.01.2009

* Enterprise Search 2008 Wrap-Up

Lynda Moulton (The Gilbane Group) with a short summary on Enterprise Search in the year 2008. Including business developments at the big players (Microsoft and FAST, IBM and OmniFind), search/text mining technologies and a lot of interesting company names in the field of Enterprise Search and beyond.

* New Stuff in Lucene and Solr

Solr insider Grant Ingersoll about the development of new hot stuff for Apache Solr. I’m really excited about the SpatialSearch feature which provides some kind of geo search (there was also an introduction of local search by Chris Hostetter at ApacheCon 2008 here).

Back From Holidays

Hannes Carl Meyer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:30:16 +0000

Hello World! I just got back from my xmas holidays today!

In case I’m not going to freeze to death tonight (just heard from -15 celsius for tonight) you’ll see me back to blogging tommorrow with the good ol’ breakfast… ehh daily (!) links.

Cloudera – An Apache Hadoop Business Case

Hannes Carl Meyer — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:20:06 +0000

Breakfast Links 16.10.2008

* Cloudera – Redhat of Cloud Computing?

Cloudera, a startup from San Francisco starts to offer business support for Apache Hadoop related projects in terms of consulting, configuring and – important - running. Check also the post on BS about Cloudera.

* VideoSurf Is Now Live

* Searching For Small Businesses, Coming Up Frustrated

Neat article on how to find small businesses in search engines and generally on the web. Since I’m coming from a small village in germany too I feel the same.

* BarCamp Berlin 3, Topics

2 days left to go…

Why Enterprise Search Is Sinking

Hannes Carl Meyer — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:07:51 +0000

Breakfast Links 30.09.2008

* Article about enterprise search marketing from Stephen Arnold on his experiences on a lately visited trade show.

* Interesting article about the future on search by Susan Feldman

Hadoop Cluster Live-CD

Hannes Carl Meyer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:10:51 +0000

Breakfast Links 08.09.2008

OpenSolaris community launched live-cd with Hadoop Cluster
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/livehadoop/Downloads/

Article about Text Processing performance
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/09/06/text-processing-why-servers-choke/ (Beyond Search)
Response from Grant Ingersoll: http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/09/07/text-processing-why-servers-choke-beyond-search/

New Google Patent: Personalized Searching
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/09/07/personalized-network-searching/

Back from sailing trip

Hannes Carl Meyer — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:29:52 +0000

I just got back from my obligatory summer sailing trip. Except the great sunny day yesterday we we’re really missing the sun this year! The wind was totally fine and contstantly between 5 to 7.

Somewhere between Bagenkop and Fehmarn

Our Jeannaeu Melody called "Jaule II" in Bagenkop DK

Last day between Neustadt and Travemünde, pretty sunny!

Holiday

Hannes Carl Meyer — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:23:02 +0000

Today I’m going on a short sailing trip on the baltic sea. I’m going to return on Sept. 1st!

You can follow my trip on Twitter in case my Blackberry works also in Denmark.

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Audi A4 2.0 TDI

Hannes Carl Meyer — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:33:08 +0000

I fininished my first week working in my new company (MÜLLER&SIMON – creative group) 90km away from home. And I have to say, the invest in my used Audi A4 2.0 TDI built 2004 is really paying off. With 140 hp, the automatic multitronic and cruise control it takes me between 4.8 to 5.4 ltr Diesel for 100km! That makes over 1.200km per tankful. Awesome!

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Eh… Hello… World!

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