No, not with swearing, but by controlling the release cycle
Linus Torvalds released issued Linux 3.17 rc-2 on Monday.…
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Sin COS to tan Windows? Chinese operating system to debut in autumn – report
Development alliance working on desktop, mobe software
A home-grown “China operating system” (COS) to challenge rivals such as Microsoft, Google and Apple could be available as soon as October 2014, the country’s state-run Xinhua News Agency has said.…
Apple promises to lift Curse of the Drained iPhone 5 Battery
Have you tried turning it off and…? Never mind, here’s a replacement
Apple has started a free battery replacement scheme for fanbois whose iPhone 5s were cursed with premature power drainage.…
Google kicks PowerPoint in the fondleslab
Slideware side blow to Apple, too
Google has launched a new iOS app for Apple’s iThings that takes aim at Microsoft’s Office for the iPad and a swipe at Apple’s productivity software.…
VMware puts VDI in the woodchipper
Project Fargo and CloudVolumes shred VDI storage requirements
VMWorld 2014 VMware has outlined a new way to do desktop virtualisation (VDI) that aims to greatly reduce the amount of storage required to deliver desktops from the data centre.…
Google ghostly graphics haunt Image search
‘Technical issue’ sees NBA star, car crash pic, in search for pancakes
A slam dunking NBA star and a fatal car crash isn’t normally what you’d expect to find when Googling for puppies, but it is exactly what users have received overnight due to some unknown perversion of Google Images.…
Why has the web gone to hell? Market chaos and HUMAN NATURE
Tim Berners-Lee isn’t happy, but we should be
Worstall on Wednesday It’s possible to have a certain sympathy for Sir Tim Berners-Lee as he looks at what people have done to his glorious world wide web.…
Brit Sci-Fi author Alastair Reynolds says MS Word ‘drives me to distraction’
Wordsmith gripes about ‘another sh*t feature’
In August last year, one-time-sysadmin and now SciFi author Charles Stross declared Microsoft Word ”a tyrant of the imagination” and bemoaned its use in the publishing world.…
This is how I set about making a fortune with my own startup
Would you leave your well-paid job to chase your dream?
Doing my own ‘ting I’m not a brilliant businessman, nor a star academic, nor a rocking developer, but I’m reasonable at a couple of those things and currently have a well-paid contract in the City (i.e. banking) where I have spent most of the last 20 years in a variety of BigCos.…
GitHub.io killed the distro star: Why are people so bored with the top Linux makers?
Raise your hand if you’re interested – liar!
LinuxCon 2014 Matthew Miller is a little concerned. As the new project leader for the Fedora Linux distribution, he thinks Fedora 20 is great and Fedora 21, when it ships, will be the best release ever. But he worries that to everyone else, Fedora – and Linux distros in general – are getting a little, well … boring.…