August 20, 2013
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Groklaw, one of the most influential intellectual property law news and analysis sites, has closed its doors. Its creator, chief writer and editor Pamela “PJ” Jones, decided to shut down Groklaw because of the threat of email surveillance.
August 20, 2013
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After using Chromebooks from their beginnings, I decided to put my Chromebook Pixel, the Porsche of the Chromebook line, to the ultimate test. I used it as my only computer at a major technology tradeshow: OScon.
Take a Chromebook instead of an Apple to your teacher. More >
August 18, 2013
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Who writes Linux? Is it:
1) Linus Torvalds and a waddle of penguins.
2) Graduate students and hackers living in their parents’ basements.
3) Programmers working for major companies including Red Hat, IBM, and Microsoft.
The answer is… number 3!
August 16, 2013
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It’s a computing truism that when it comes to delivering the fastest possible speeds with high-performance computing (HPC), you must use native computing instead of virtualization. Recent studies have shown that, in some configurations, VMware’s vSphere can actually deliver faster performance than native computing.
Yes, virtualization is faster (sometimes) than native hardware. More >
August 15, 2013
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According to global analyst firm Ovum the cloud poses both real problems and opportunities for identity and access management (IAM). They can say that again!
August 15, 2013
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The New York Times (NYT) website was down on August 14 for over three hours. According to the NYT, the site going down during one of he busiest times of the news day was the result of a failure during regular maintenance rather than a hacker attack.