Archive for April, 2008

So long as it is black

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black” Henry Ford wrote in his autobiography.

PeerAware knowledge software is much the same from this release on. Finally PeerAware runs on all Windows desktop operating systems from Windows 2000 to the latest versions of Vista. Of course it runs better on the later versions, basically due to support for service discovery. If you do run it on windows 2000 you will have to update internet explorer to version 6, but once you do it will work just fine.

For strange reasons SSDP and UPnP Host Device services are disabled on windows server operating systems, but PeerAware will work without problems even so. But if you do enable these services, computers running PeerAware on nearby computers will discover workspaces running on the servers and display these in the local network list.

In general it is recommended to run PeerAware on Windows server if you regularly have more than a few hundred people working in the same workspace, as network connections are not limited on these versions of windows, and performance is better. Also, in general you will want a workspace to be on all the time so it makes more sense to run it on a server. Both Windows server 2003 and 2008 work perfectly with PeerAware, just install and configure like you would on a desktop machine.

You can get beta 10 from the download page.

Tags: ,
Posted in PeerAware | No Comments »

Search summit Norway 08

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Tomorrow I will participate in search summit Norway 08. It is Norway’s largest conference on search technology and business. Hopefully I will learn a lot of new things related to search technologies, and most likely this will find it’s way into PeerAware in one form or another. In parallel there is a conference on topic maps which could have been interesting in combination with the shared whiteboard, but at present I believe I have enough to do with getting to a 1.0 release to justify another integration project.

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »