April 3, 2015
by sjvn01
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Enough is enough. Apple’s iOS 8 mobile operating system came out in mid-September. Since then, the company has delivered seven — count ’em, seven — patch releases, and iOS 8 still doesn’t work that well. Argh!
iOS 8.3 should be out real soon now, we’re told. I’d like to think it will fix all of my iOS 8 troubles, but I know better. I’ve been fooled before, and I don’t want to be fooled again.
April 2, 2015
by sjvn01
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Nebula, one of the first OpenStack hardware resellers and integrators, closed its doors April 1st. And, no, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke.
Nebula, OpenStack cloud vendor, just shut down with no notice. More>
April 1, 2015
by sjvn01
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You may think of Ubuntu as a desktop Linux, and it is, but it’s also the most popular Linux on Amazon EC2 cloud and very popular on most other cloud platforms. So it only makes good sense that Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, has partnered with Chef, one of the most popular DevOps companies.
April 1, 2015
by sjvn01
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When it comes to computer foul-ups, there are so, so many to choose from. Why, just in the last 12 months, we had a major internet security hole, Heartbleed, that hit pretty much every “secure” web server on the planet. That was followed by Shellshock, which had the potential to be even worse.
But, hey, did any of those almost cause World War III? Blackout the power for tens of millions? Smack the stock market around for a 22.6 percent loss? Knock out 10 percent of the internet? I think not!
No, for the real bad ones, we need to go back a few years.
April 1, 2015
by sjvn01
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If you think all you need to do to solve all your IT problems is to add a cloud, think again.
Cargo cults sounds like an urban legend, but they’re not. There really were South Pacific tribes that believed if they simply made fake airplanes, real airplanes would appear bearing radios, TVs, trucks and everything else they ever desired. These cargo cults flourished after World War II. After all, these people had seen thousands of Americans, with endless goods, appear out of nowhere bearing riches beyond their imagination. Then they disappeared. The people reasoned that if they made planes too and acted like Americans, the spirits would surely bless them with material goods too. They were wrong.
You may think these people were foolish. Before you cast stones you might want to look at your own IT house.
March 31, 2015
by sjvn01
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ZDNet readers and American web users agree. Google Chrome is their favorite web browser. While 34.7 percent of the US public prefers Chrome, a near identical 35 percent of ZDNet readers also use Google’s desktop web browser.