We all owe plenty to the mainframe age’s pioneers
The IT runs strong in my family.…
Elementary, my dear penguin: It’s the second beta of Freya
Never mind the bugs… love the skin Ubuntu’s in
Review Elementary Linux has released the second beta of the imminent Freya release of its OS.…
$533 MEEELLION – the cost of Apple’s iTunes patent infringement
Smartflash reportedly happy with the verdict. Pope, Catholic
Apple has been ordered to pay nearly half a billion dollars to Texas-based patent licensing company Smartflash after a jury found that Cupertino’s iTunes music service had violated three patents.…
W3C recommends Pointer Events standard – but it’s a touchy subject. Right, Apple?
Is Cupertino now the web standard bearer?
Comment The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the Pointer Events standard as a recommendation, but its future is in doubt as Apple and Google are refusing to implement it.…
Arista, Puppet Labs share the DevOps love
Make your switches part of DevOps
Puppet Labs has added support for Arista kit to its automation suite.…
Google opens ‘Inbox’ heir-to-email trial to biz users
Wave goodbye to email as you knew it
The last time Google tried to “reinvent the way you get things done”, the term it uses to describe its heir-to-email app “Inbox”, it wiped out with the solving-a-problem-people-didn’t-know-they-had “Wave” service.…
Porn on Blogger – Google takes stiff action
You’ve got a month to clean yourself up unless you want to play with creepy friends
Google has let it be known that as of 23 March, access to raunchy and pornographic blogs hosted on Blogger will be restricted.…
‘Utterly unusable’ MS Word dumped by SciFi author Charles Stross
LibreOffice on MacOSX is now Laundry Files man’s preferred change-tracking tool
British SciFi author Charles Stross once had the protagonist of his Laundry Files series, sysadmin/demon-hunter Bob Howard, narrate his day by saying “I’m sitting in my office, shivering over a cooling cup of coffee and reading The Register when my door opens without warning …”*.…
Now with Grunt and Gulp: Cross-platform ASP.NET in new Visual Studio 2015 preview
Microsoft’s new mantra: Code in Windows, run anywhere
Microsoft has released a new preview of Visual Studio 2015, which is shaping up to be a major release. Community Tech Preview 6 includes cross-platform tools for its ASP.NET web application framework.…
Snowden’s favourite Linux – Tails – rushes sec-fix version to market
Sweeping up the dead bugs
Tails, the secure live-boot Linux made famous by Edward Snowden, has had a major revision release to Version 1.3.…