May 6, 2013
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Unlike my recent spoof story about a Linux-powered Iron Man suit you could build at home, this story isn’t science fiction. NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space Station (ISS) in favor of Linux and the first humanoid robot in space, R2, really is powered by Linux.
May 5, 2013
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Debian Linux doesn’t get all the attention it once did, but as the foundation for other, more popular Linux distributions, such as Mint and Ubuntu, the release of a new major Debian version, 7.0, aka Wheezy, is still a big deal in Linux development circles.
May 4, 2013
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Even before Tony Stark, billionaire technology genius, revealed that he was Iron Man in 2008, others were trying to build augmented fighting suits. Now that Stark has shown that Iron Man technology was within the reach of homebrew builders, work has started on the first open-source augmented fighting suits.
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April 24, 2013
by sjvn01
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I get so, so tired of this. I write anything about any kind of cloud technology and I get these knee-jerk letters that say the cloud is just marketing garbage and it’s really just 1) client/server; 2) a data-center and/or 3) not worth thinking about. Please! Get a clue!
You can keep thinking like that if you like, but you know what? While many companies do indeed just paste the word “cloud” on what they’re trying to sell you, the cloud really does have a clear definition — thank you, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — and the cloud is not just the same old stuff with a new wrapper.
If you keep thinking that, if you keep refusing to learn about cloud technologies, if you keep refusing to consider adopting them, you are not going to stay employed in IT for much longer.
April 22, 2013
by sjvn01
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If your company mistrusts the security of the cloud, it might want to take a look at what The Company is doing.
“The Company” is a term that insiders have long used to refer to the CIA. Is there any organization that takes security more seriously? Perhaps, but probably not within the Fortune 500. And yet the CIA appears to be moving to the cloud.
Seriously. According to FCW, a publication that tracks the intersection of government and technology, the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with Amazon that may be worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Specifically, Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure.
What? You expected the CIA to put its secrets on the Amazon EC2? I don’t think so!
April 21, 2013
by sjvn01
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Netflix, the popular video-streaming service that takes up a third of all Internet traffic during peak traffic hours, isn’t just the single largest Internet traffic service. Netflix, without doubt, is also the largest pure cloud service.