Comments on: Zonbu now available http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zonbuhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-191 zonbu Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:24:45 +0000 http://edte.ch/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/#comment-191 will buy it will buy it

]]> By: zonbuhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-190 zonbu Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:24:16 +0000 http://edte.ch/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/#comment-190 cool cool

]]> By: Doug Belshawhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Doug Belshaw Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:24:19 +0000 http://edte.ch/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/#comment-189 What I like is the fact that everything runs from Amazon S3 storage. I'm using this for home backups now and it's trivially cheap. It comes as part of the package with Zonbu and, as it's powered by Amazon, you can be fairly certain you're never going to lose your data. Plus, you can access it from anywhere! :D What I like is the fact that everything runs from Amazon S3 storage. I'm using this for home backups now and it's trivially cheap. It comes as part of the package with Zonbu and, as it's powered by Amazon, you can be fairly certain you're never going to lose your data. Plus, you can access it from anywhere! :D

]]> By: Emmahttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Emma Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:31:33 +0000 http://edte.ch/2007/08/02/zonbu-now-available/#comment-188 I think I'd rather have one of the $100 (one laptop per child) laptops to play with ... From what i can see, though, neither will allow you to install extra software, which I'd find a little annoying. Wonder if you can run software from a USB stick on both/either... (I've only ever tried it on Windows based machines, not Linux based ones, but it's a useful way of ensuring that you have your essential software with you - always assuming you can install it on the USB drive!) I think I’d rather have one of the $100 (one laptop per child) laptops to play with …

From what i can see, though, neither will allow you to install extra software, which I’d find a little annoying. Wonder if you can run software from a USB stick on both/either… (I’ve only ever tried it on Windows based machines, not Linux based ones, but it’s a useful way of ensuring that you have your essential software with you – always assuming you can install it on the USB drive!)

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