n the aftermath of the FBI reporting that North Korea was behind the Sony hack attack, is it any surprise that North Korea’s limited Internet has been kayoed? I don’t think so.
December 22, 2014
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December 16, 2014
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At Microsoft, quality seems to be job none
I actually had been feeling optimistic about Windows 10. No, really. You can look it up. I mean, I didn’t think Windows 10 was the greatest thing since the advent of the Internet, but it did strike me as a solid replacement for the lamentable Windows 8.
But that was before I got a notice that if I wanted to update my Windows 10 Technical Preview by applying one of December’s security updates, I would have to uninstall Office. What the …
Making matters even weirder, this security update was to fix 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11.
Can someone tell me how that makes sense? Anyone?
December 11, 2014
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In gadget we trust
“Windows rules!”
“If it’s not a Mac, it’s not worth jack!”
“There is one true operating system, Linux, and Linus Torvalds is its prophet!”
Those of us who hang around tech circles have heard sentiments like these. And we’ve seen the defenders of one OS rise up in flame wars against the acolytes of the competition. Wars of words have erupted between Mac and Windows users, Android and iPhone supporters and, seemingly since the dawn of silicon, EMACS and vi programmers. They usually carry a whiff of nearly religious zealotry.
Sometimes these conversations can be fun to engage in or just listen in on. All too often, though, they turn mean, and civility evaporates. And occasionally they turn even uglier.
December 11, 2014
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Cloud computing: It’s not just a bunch of servers
Some things never change. Some people never learn.
I’m getting tired of this. How many times do I have to explain that cloud computing is not the same thing as just having a bunch of servers or virtual servers?
Yes, I know at a superficial level a traditional data center looks a lot like a cloud data center – but so what? Do you think a Mac looks and feels like a Linux server just because their chips are identical!?
OK, let’s go over the basics one more time.
November 10, 2014
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Say hi to Windows 8.2 — er, 10
Windows 8 is quite possibly the worst desktop operating system that Microsoft ever released. Since Windows 8 is going up against such all-time flop-a-doodles as Vista and Windows ME, that’s saying something.
And it’s not just me saying that. The marketplace agrees. Look at NetMarketShare’s October 2014 operating system market share numbers. Windows 8 and 8.1 had a combined share of 16.8%. How bad is that? Bad enough to lag behind the long officially dead and buried Windows XP, even after it suffered an unexplainable drop of 6.7% in one month.
Two years into the Windows 8 debacle, what could Microsoft do? Rush out a replacement. And try to distance it from Windows 8 as much as possible by calling it Windows 10 rather than the sequentially logical Windows 9. But when you actually use it, what it feels like is Windows 8.2.
November 6, 2014
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OpenStack: Distribution or service?
PARIS — OpenStack, the open-source, private-cloud answer to Amazon Web Services and other public clouds, is growing fast. You don’t have to take my word for it. Just ask BMW, GoDaddy, Wells-Fargo, Time-Warner Cable, or any of the other 46 percent of OpenStack companies that have moved it into production.
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