Apple’s iBooks2’s reinvented textbooks really are something. They’re gorgeous, they’re fast, they’re real-time interactive with up to date information and they’ll only cost $14.99 or less. But, to use them, you’ll need an iPad–minimum list price: $499. Can you afford that for your kids? Can your school board? I could, but I’ve been lucky enough [...]
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The poor get poorer and the rich get richer with Apple’s iPad-based textbooks
January 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Apple · Applications · Business · Ebook · Education · Infrastructure · Tablet
NGINX: The Faster Web Server Alternative
January 20th, 2012 · Comments Off
Picking a Web server used to be easy. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS); if you didn’t, you used Apache. No fuss. No muss. Now, though, you have more Web server choices, and far more decisions to make. One of the leading alternatives, the open-source NGINX, is now the [...]
Tags: Business · Development · Infrastructure · Internet · LAMP · Network · Open Source · Web Services
How Anonymous took down the DoJ, RIAA, MPAA and Universal Music Websites
January 20th, 2012 · Comments Off
When the U.S. Department of Justice working in conjunction with New Zealand’s law enforcement agencies took down the popular file-storage and sharing site Megaupload and arrested its executives, they never counted on the Internet-based hacker and protest group, Anonymous, attacking the Department of Justice (DoJ), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of [...]
Tags: Business · Legal · Network · Network Services · Security · Web browser · Web Services
All IPv6 Internet, All the time
January 17th, 2012 · Comments Off
Network administrators have long known that we’re running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, adoption has remained slow. Until now, now many of the major ISPs, network vendors, and Web sites have publicly committed to supporting IPv6 later this year. In a promising sign of things getting better for IPv6, [...]
Tags: Business · Internet · Network · Network Services · TCP/IP
Who, besides Wikipedia, is going dark and why
January 17th, 2012 · Comments Off
There is nothing wrong with your Internet. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. The reason you won’t be able to use Wikipedia, Reddit, or numerous other Web sites on January 18th is that these Web sites have decided to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Here’s my [...]
Tags: Business · Internet · Legal · Management · Network · Web Services