Category: cix

  • Wikis for quality manual projects?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Wikis are great tools for documentation projects. Especially if the people creating the documents are dispersed geographically. However, I am embarking on a project to write a quality manual for the CIX data centre (Cork’s first fully redundant data centre). Part of the process in creating a quality manual is that the various sections within…

  • Busy couple of days

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have a busy couple of days ahead – expect light posting. – today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings – I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish – tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night – Friday I have an…

  • Online presentation software review

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    Tom Raftery
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    There is plenty of talk around the online Word processor space and the online Spreadsheet space but you don’t hear as much about the online Presentation space (think online PowerPoint). This is one plank currently missing from Google’s online Office offering. The other CIX guys and I have a need to create a presentation and,…

  • Cork's Data Centre – CIX

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have long bemoaned the lack of a real data centre in Cork. Having worked for several web application companies in the past, I know the value of having a professional data centre local to you. Sure, most server management can be done remotely, but there is no substitute for that nice warm feeling you…