Corporate blogs are not common in Norway. In
fact, we believe we are one of the first large companies to launch our own blog.

We are looking forward to following the
success of the other Dell blogs, and the other means of communication such as IdeaStorm and Dell Forums. In Dell Norway, we
sincerely believe a corporate blog is an excellent way to strengthen the
dialogue between ourselves and our stakeholders, first and foremost our
customers.

DellDirekte is obviously designed for
customers who prefer to communicate with Dell in Norwegian, although Danes and
Swedes will also most likely be able to understand the content. The blog will
focus on Dell’s operations in Norway, but will also feature translated content
from the English version of Direct2Dell that is worldwide in nature.

We look forward to hearing from all
stakeholders in Norway, and invite everyone familiar with the Norwegian
language to share comments, content ideas and feedback with the DellDirekte
team.

MSN Money has a fascinating report on the reaction to Apple’s unveiling of the iPhone at January’s Macworld. If any event could be said to trigger a groundswell of grassroots reporting, it was the iPhone. In fact, the iPhone certainly set new records in that regard with a huge response of rich media–podcasts, photos, videos, hands-on reports and more.

According to the MSN article, the iPhone was mentioned by more blogs for the next 10 days than either McDonald’s or George W. Bush. Wikipedia had an iPhone entry within minutes of Jobs’ keynote speech. Nifty article, well worth a read.

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It goes without question that Steve Jobs can teach a few things to anyone who needs help with their presentation skills. Watching his on-stage performance can offer a wealth of ideas and tips for the keynote-impaired, but now, so can viewing his notes. AtariST, aka a co-founder of Spymac.com, has posted two images he managed to snap of Steve’s on-stage notes, offering a glimpse into why the big J is able to delivery so much shock and awe during his keynotes.

How that book is produced is anyone’s guess, though one commenter at Spymac mentioned it could be the work of iPhoto. Has anyone else seen something like this made from iPhoto’s book printing service?

[via digg]

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In all cases, please allow up to 10 business days (two weeks) for us to process your order and get back to you.

No purchase: you will receive e-mail order confirmations when your order is processed.

• XPS 700 customers who opt for the hardware kit at no charge
• XPS 700 customers who choose on-site installation service at no charge

 Orders with payment: you will receive order details from the Dell representative who contacts you to process you order.

• XPS 710 customers who purchase a hardware kit
• XPS 710 customers who purchase the on-site install
• XPS 700 customers who purchase the discounted quad-core QX6700 processor 

Tuesday at 1:30 PM Pacific Time, Dr. Kevin Kettler, Dell’s Chief Technology Officer, will deliver a Keynote address on Virtualization, both in the data center and in emerging use on the desktop. Kevin will incorporate points on the top two topics when voting on IdeaStorm closed Friday last week: Future of Linux on the Desktop and Linux for Virtualization on the Desktop  Thanks to all of you in the Linux Community who participated in the vote. We appreciate your support.

If you’ll be at LinuxWorld and would like to meet some of the Dell engineers, Cole Crawford, John Hull, and I will compete in the always-entertaining Golden Penguin Bowl against Michael Grace, Rackable; Donald Becker, CTO of Penguin; and Tim Lee, CEO of Pogo Linux, Tuesday at 4:30 PM.

In addition, we hope you’ll join us for one of our 4 conference sessions:

Tuesday 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

• ST3: Updating Software for Hardware: BIOS,Firmware and Driver Change Management by Matt Domsch, Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO.

Tuesday 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

• O3: Advantages of Standards-Based Management for Data Center Optimization by Winston Bumpus, President, Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).

Wednesday 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

• D5: The Corporate Linux Desktop—Fact, Fad or Fantasy by Cole Crawford, IT Strategist, Dell, Inc.

Thursday 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

• A9: Simplifying DC Management through Virtualization Techniques by Matt Domsch and Cole Crawford.

If you want to touch-and-feel some Dell hardware, you’ll have plenty of opportunities.  Starting in the registration area, you’ll use Dell Latitude D620 notebooks when you pick up your badges.  Then on the exhibition floor, drop by the Dell booth showcasing Power and Cooling, see our story around Simplifying IT, and register for our daily giveaway of an Inspiron 1420N notebook.

Alongside the Dell booth is the Linux on the Desktop area, where you can experience Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell/SuSE Linux, and other Linux software on 18 Dell Latitude D620 laptops.  Then, over in the Next Generation Data Center exhibit hall, you’ll see more on the Dell | Liebert Energy Smart Solutions for optimizing energy use in the data center.

We hope to see you there!

I’ve never been a big fan of Mad TV (and I didn’t really care for their iPad spoof – not because it was offensive, just because it wasn’t funny), but a friend just sent me this clip from YouTube and I’ll admit to being amused by it. The impression of Steve Jobs, as portrayed by Michael McDonald (not of Doobie Brothers fame), is not really very good, but I think the overall sentiment behind the skit is on the mark.

Is Steve Jobs an iWitch? You be the judge.

Thanks, DD!

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yum remove setroubleshoot

it will ask you yes/no to remove just put y for yes and reboot afterwards and you can check system monitor after the reboot and your usage should be normal and in the proccess tab the word sealert should be gone. Im sure this same fix will work on fedora and redhat as well since they so closely related

At long last, my Macworld interview with Guy Kawasaki, for which you told us what to ask, is ready to go. Sitting down in the same room with The Guy[TM] during the week of Macworld 07 was quite the experience, and we had a good time chatting about the iPhone, where Apple is going as a company and more.

There’s a catch with this podcast, however. Since many TUAW readers have expressed their interest in shorter podcasts, I chopped our interview down to just over 16 minutes. This means I have roughly an hour or so of chatting with Guy which I think is still interesting stuff. So, we decided to put a vote to you readers: after listening to what I put together here, do you want to hear the rest of the interview with Guy? We kept on chatting about the rest of the industry, why no one’s buying software, evangelism and its place in business today… the guy really knows his stuff. If you’re interested, leave a comment to let us know, and I’ll publish a part 2.

But for now, enjoy TUAW Podcast #19 which weighs in at just over 15MB and 16 minutes. You can snag it from this direct link, our iTunes Store Podcast directory or our own podcast RSS feed. Enjoy.

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Some Mac websites might say, ‘Macworld 2007? That’s old news, grandpa!’ Not TUAW, though, because we are devoted to getting as many videos that feature yours truly onto the internet as possible. After some production delays we can finally share with you our brief chat with the guys behind ETCHamac, whom we have covered here at TUAW a few times before.

Here is the iPod ready version, so feel free to avoid the Netscape player if you like.

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