MN Cup 2009
I apologize for the lack of posts lately, but we’ve got a lot of stuff going on at Echobit these days. I’ve spent most of my time researching and experimenting with the cool new product we’re cooking up at the moment. At this point I can’t really talk too much about it, but expect much more information later this fall.
We entered the MN Cup 2009 earlier this year. It’s a competition for startup companies and their breakthrough ideas. The semifinalists were announced last week and we made it into the next round. We’re extremely excited to be one of the 49 companies that were selected from over a 1000 submissions.
More information to follow as we progress through the competition.
Improving my Remote Desktop Experience
I’ve been traveling quite a bit lately and I’ve found it particularly convenient to simply remote into my machine at the office and do all my work through Terminal Services (or are we supposed to be calling it Remote Desktop Services now?). This allows me to access the virtual machines and the servers located at the office without major latency. If you’ve ever tried using VMware Server Console through a VPN connection, you know what I’m talking about.
I always listen to music when working. At work, that’s not a problem since I’ve got all my music stored on my work computer. However, when on the road all my music is stored on my laptop. This becomes a problem since my laptop’s music player cannot be accessed without first minimizing the fullscreen remote desktop window.