{"id":11481,"date":"2010-03-04T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:36:43","slug":"traveling-without-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11481\/traveling-without-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Without Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Homegain Nation early this week. \u00a0It was a fantastic time, giving me the opportunity to meet many great people I&#8217;ve known online for years. \u00a0I decided to run a little experiment and bring my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11430\">Ubuntu laptop<\/a>, while leaving my windoze machine at home. \u00a0So&#8230;Ubuntu performed extremely well, but MLS vendors performed very poorly. \u00a0I was not able to get the following web apps to work properly on ubuntu:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MLXChange (obviously)<\/li>\n<li>Docusign<\/li>\n<li>Zipformonline<\/li>\n<li>QuickbooksOnline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I planned to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/products\/free\/4.1\/index.html\">VNC <\/a>to access MLXChange from my windoze desktop I keep running (which does crash, and I then call Ali to restart so that I can access it,) but I was pretty shocked that the other 3 vendors aren&#8217;t truly cross browser compatible. \u00a0So, for now, Ubuntu is my great &#8220;around town&#8221; OS, but it looks like I&#8217;ll have to use my windoze machine on road trips (until I get a mac.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Homegain Nation early this week. \u00a0It was a fantastic time, giving me the opportunity to meet many great people I&#8217;ve known online for years. \u00a0I decided to run a little experiment and bring my Ubuntu laptop, while leaving my windoze machine at home. \u00a0So&#8230;Ubuntu performed extremely well, but MLS vendors performed very poorly. 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