February 6, 2014
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Standards-making is like sausage making. You need it, but it’s ugly. Yet the standards process is the necessary evil behind every technology we rely on. On August 6, 1890, William Kemmler became a victim of an early technology standards war. … Continue reading
October 17, 2013
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Businesses have taken to OpenStack, the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, like ducks to water. Major companies such as PayPal, Intel, and WikiMedia, the group behind Wikipedia, are using OpenStack in their clouds. On October 17, OpenStack’s Havana, the eighth release … Continue reading
October 15, 2013
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The big file-sharing leap came with Samba 4. That release brought Linux an Active Directory (AD) domain controller. With that version, Samba gained the ability to share files with both old and new Windows systems by bringing its support up … Continue reading
October 2, 2013
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Everyone needs cloud-savvy administrators, but there aren’t enough to go around. Worse still, if someone does come to you and they say they know OpenStack like the back of their hand, how do you know they do? Or, flipping it … Continue reading
September 26, 2013
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For years, WebKit was easily the most popular Web-browser rendering engine. It was the foundation for no fewer than three of the most popular Web browsers: Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Then, Google forked WebKit with Blink, and now it’s not … Continue reading
September 25, 2013
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When I did a story recently about in-demand open source jobs, I wasn’t surprised to hear from Dice that the job market was hot, hot, hot for OpenStack (for Big Data, Hadoop in particular) and for the LAMP stack (Linux, … Continue reading