Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
I’ve reinstalled my PC. Down to four partitions – the Acer recovery partition (the BIOS insists on it, won’t boot otherwise), 32GB for / (ext4), 4GB of swap and the rest for /home. Yep, no Windows. Except I now have two Windows installs… (more…)
Tags: Java, Kin, Lotus, Microsoft, ORACLE, Sun, Vista, VMWare, windows, Windows Vista
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
What on earth is wrong with the corporate world? People are buying other companies they should stay away from, believe me. Take Oracle and Sun. Oracle bought Sun to get their hands on Java, and to turn themselves into an IBM-style one stop shop. Fail. James Gosling has left, many of the key Sun Players have left, and all they’ve got left is some blue colours and some open source software. And Oracle really don’t understand open source. If they did, they wouldn’t be charging for the OpenOffice plugin…
And there’s more. Hp wants to buy Palm. (more…)
Tags: acquisition, Apple, BenQ, business, DEC, Digital, HP, IBM, Java, merger, Microsoft, Motorola, OpenOffice, OpenView, ORACLE, Palm, SGS Thomson, Siemens, Sun, VIA
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Just a quick one – if you haven’t seen this yet, Swati Bansal over at ITSpice has an excellent article – 19 Most Effective Open Source Tools For Developers. Great roundup if you haven’t seen it already…
Tags: blogs, open source
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
I’ve just read this piece on eWeek about ten mistakes Google is already making with Chrome OS. Some I agreed with, some I disagree with, but I felt stroungly enough to post my answers here… I advise you to read the eWeek article first, otherwise none of this will make any sense… (more…)
Tags: Chrome, Chrome OS, eWeek, Google, News
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Google have launched a new service, called Google Public DNS. DNS, for those that don’t know, is the system that translates a domain name – such as www.esotechnica.co.uk – into the actual address that the computer connects to its services: such as retrieving a web page like this one, retrieving (or sending) your email, downloading a file, or just checking what time it is.
But before I talk about what Google Public DNS is and does, it’s worth reminding ourself what life was like before DNS… (more…)
Tags: ARPANet, DNS, Google, Google Public DNS, Paul Mockapetris, SRI-NIC
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