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- OccupySF BOFH runs protest network on pedal power
- Quigley defends FTTP to parliamentary committee, again
- AMD 'unleashes' unlocked FX processor family
- Flashback trojan targeting OS X shuns virtual machines
- Ubuntu One client now available for Windows
- Galleon chief Rajaratnam gets 11 years in the slammer
- Citrix buys cloudy storage biz ShareFile
- Microsoft whips Apple with global Xbox TV deals
- Fretting Googler retracts anti-Google+ rant
- RIM: 'Faulty switch took out faulty-switch-proof network'
- Dennis Ritchie: The C man who booted Unix
- Future wars will be over water not fuel, warns Intel sage
- Ubuntu Server 11.10 leaps onto OpenStack clouds
- NHS orgs not keen on UK gov's mega-intranet
- Spotify 'sold soul' to boy king Zuckerberg
- Social net sites do wonders for crooks, spooks and bosses
- An ode to rent-a-nerds and cable monkeys
- Nokia's NFC-stocked Symbian smartphone surfaces
- Revamp the network to cope with explosion in mobile kit
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
- One in 10 Brits leaves web passwords in their will
- IBM's unified V7000 will hook up with just about anything
- Down but not out: Flash in an HTML5 world
- Did a Seagate sales bloke just say 5TB drives are coming?
- The keys to security compliances
- Cloud file tech finds Big Blue one in bed with it
- Chinese whisper of low-cost Kindle confounding iPad
- Where am I going tomorrow? My 'leccy car charger wants to know
- Valve chief says Apple will own your living room
- City slickers get another 5 years of free Wi-Fi
- Dutch ISP calls the cops after Spamhaus blacklists it
- C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead
- Pampernaut love-rat space shuttle pilot prangs plane
- iMoney Accounting
- BlackBerry stumbles to feet, full of apologies
- Busting net neutrality may amount to spying, says EU
- Avere punches up file access with 2 more accelerators
- Peer-to-peer update makes ZeuS botnets harder to take down
- Amazon Kindle 4
- Apple wins for now: no Galaxy 10.1 in Oz
- Googler squeals: 'We don't get platforms'
- AOL demos the human-free datacenter
- Seattle superhero arrested for assault
- Cloud hub an Australian opportunity: report
| OccupySF BOFH runs protest network on pedal power Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:32 PM PDT Protest IT staff running ultimate bare-bones systemSince the end of September, a small – but growing – group of protestors has set up camp outside the Federal Reserve Bank building on San Francisco's Market Street to demonstrate against corporate greed, government inaction, and the squeezing of the middle and lower classes.… |
| Quigley defends FTTP to parliamentary committee, again Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:04 PM PDT Oz network delays recoverable says CEONBN Co CEO Mike Quigley and federal opposition communications spokesperson Malcolm Turnbull have spent another half-hour or so sparring over whether or not FTTN should be deployed as an interim step towards the National Broadband Network's fibre-to-the-premises policy target.… |
| AMD 'unleashes' unlocked FX processor family Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:10 PM PDT Overclockers, rejoice. The rest of us, not so muchAMD has released its long-expected AMD FX processor line, and – as also expected – they're shipping them unlocked, thus warming the cockles of overclockers' hearts. Early testing, however, reveals others' cockles to be somewhat chilly.… |
| Flashback trojan targeting OS X shuns virtual machines Posted: 13 Oct 2011 11:43 AM PDT Mac malware grows upUnderscoring the growing sophistication of Mac-based malware, a trojan preying on OS X users has adopted several stealth techniques since it was discovered last month.… |
| Ubuntu One client now available for Windows Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:24 AM PDT Open source sync service comes to RedmondCanonical has moved its Ubuntu One file-synchronization service for Windows out of beta, with the new build of the operating system.… |
| Galleon chief Rajaratnam gets 11 years in the slammer Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:20 AM PDT Tech insider trading doesn't payRaj Rajaratnam, the former heard of the former Galleon hedge fund that was the epicenter of several insider trading rings that came to light two years ago , was sentenced in New York today to 11 years in prison for his kingpin role.… |
| Citrix buys cloudy storage biz ShareFile Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:02 AM PDT Follow |
| Microsoft whips Apple with global Xbox TV deals Posted: 13 Oct 2011 09:17 AM PDT Gaming network taps up broadcastersIf the Xbox Live network was a cable operator it would be the largest such operator in the world, with 35 million customers, which is why Microsoft is turning the Xbox into an over-the-top TV delivery device – something it has dreamed of ever since it first made the Xbox one of its IPTV Mediaroom set-tops.… |
| Fretting Googler retracts anti-Google+ rant Posted: 13 Oct 2011 08:44 AM PDT Please don't fire me!A Google engineer who accidentally published a long rant about the failings of Google+ has since issued an apologetic make-up piece, explaining why he has taken the piece down, how kind Google are for not immediately firing him and that really Steve Yegge is a lowly oompa-loompa who knows nothing and to whom nobody should pay any attention, least of all the media who have been lapping up his 4,700-word rant in a frenzied blood lust.… |
| RIM: 'Faulty switch took out faulty-switch-proof network' Posted: 13 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT Sleepy BlackBerry bosses to wait for postmortem ...Blackberry bosses held a short press conference at 10am EST (15.00 GMT) today to calm investors, answer media questions and shed (a little bit) more light on the faulty switch that caused the three-day service outages across the UK, Europe, Africa and Latin America.… |
| Dennis Ritchie: The C man who booted Unix Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:46 AM PDT strcat(obit, "Quiet revolutionary");Obituary It was 1968 and students and workers were on the march, protesting against the Vietnam War, with the western world seemingly teetering on the brink of revolution.… |
| Future wars will be over water not fuel, warns Intel sage Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:32 AM PDT Keyring-size PCs, web healthcare and more foreseenERIC If you think you've seen the thinnest, smallest form factors computers can go into, Intel CTO of Datacentre and Connected Systems Group and senior fellow Steve Pawlowski reckons you're dead wrong.… |
| Ubuntu Server 11.10 leaps onto OpenStack clouds Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT A dreamy dwarf leopard for microserversRight on time, the Ubuntu Server 11.10 operating system has tiptoed out onto the intertubes and wants to play with your workloads.… |
| NHS orgs not keen on UK gov's mega-intranet Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:33 AM PDT The other PSN also makes people nervousNHS organisations in England are showing a reluctance to consider future use of the Public Service Network (PSN), according to officials and a supplier taking part in its early implementation.… |
| Spotify 'sold soul' to boy king Zuckerberg Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:02 AM PDT Faustian dealComment I can't quite recall serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson ever running a big, successful, profit-making internet business – and his latest radio venture seriously misjudges both the medium and the market. But as a pundit, he occasionally airs views that others are too timid to articulate. Robertson takes aim at digital music companies "selling their souls" to Facebook, and lands at least one arrow on the bullseye.… |
| Social net sites do wonders for crooks, spooks and bosses Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:44 AM PDT 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'RSA Europe Social networks make obtaining sensitive background information on people as a prelude to stealing their identities – and running attacks on corporations – easier than ever before.… |
| An ode to rent-a-nerds and cable monkeys Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:32 AM PDT Love 'em or hate 'em, we'd be screwed without themSysadmin blog Writing an article for El Reg takes between two hours and several weeks of research. Different articles have different origins. I usually have some techie-type problems occurring that could make for an interesting article, but every so often I get a bug about something and dive into a pile of off-topic research.… |
| Nokia's NFC-stocked Symbian smartphone surfaces Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:28 AM PDT Belle me laterNokia has brightened up its Symbian range with the introduction of a NFC smartphone that shouldn't put much of a dent in your wallet.… |
| Revamp the network to cope with explosion in mobile kit Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:16 AM PDT Coping with end-point number growth and altered traffic flowsExpert Clinic Three experts; three different views; that's what you get when the three look at the impact of the substantial rise in the number of mobile devices accessing the network. All these devices send traffic across the network and much if it hits servers and causes storage transactions. Ethernet set up as a fabric can help here. But it has to be upgraded so that its architectural traffic flow assumptions, the number of addresses, its security, bandwidth and management don't become problems… |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:12 AM PDT Wings and roundaboutsReview "For good or for ill, air mastery is the supreme expression of military power," said Churchill, "and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."… |
| One in 10 Brits leaves web passwords in their will Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 AM PDT You will inherit your parents' iTunes accountsYour gran could pass on her iTunes password along with the family silver as a survey suggests that 11 per cent of Brits have either put internet passwords into their wills or plan to do so.… |
| IBM's unified V7000 will hook up with just about anything Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:44 AM PDT NAS heads and file access added to cloudy boxIBM has added SONAS-style NAS heads to create a Storwize V7000 Unified storage array that complements, it says, both SONAS and its NetApp-sourced N-Series filers.… |
| Down but not out: Flash in an HTML5 world Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:32 AM PDT Adobe hedges bets with NitobiAnyone hoping to pronounce Flash dead as Adobe transitions to the brave new HTML 5 world will have been disappointed, based on the company's MAX Conference last week.… |
| Did a Seagate sales bloke just say 5TB drives are coming? Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT Talks up big disks within three months in web vidHas a Seagate Middle East sales guy just let slip that 5TB drives will be here in three months?… |
| The keys to security compliances Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Not at the expense of user and IT productivityLive Today Social networks, local admins, unlatched software, missing USBs: the causes of security problems in your business are often not just the big stuff that tries to get inside the firewall, it's the little problems that are already on the inside.… |
| Cloud file tech finds Big Blue one in bed with it Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:46 AM PDT Excited cries of joy at NirvanixIBM is OEMing Nirvanix cloud file storage technology, and catapulting Nirvanix into the front ranks of cloud storage service providers.… |
| Chinese whisper of low-cost Kindle confounding iPad Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:37 AM PDT Smaller model too?Given that many a fanboy's assumption that Apple would announce a new-design iPhone earlier this month derived from claims made to market analysts by sources within Chinese component makers, you should probably treat the following with some scepticism.… |
| Where am I going tomorrow? My 'leccy car charger wants to know Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:31 AM PDT Pumping the right amount of juice for your journeyERIC There's a definite green tinge to Intel's European Research and Innovation Conference (ERIC) this year, with a cash-saving electric car charger being touted alongside energy management ideas.… |
| Valve chief says Apple will own your living room Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:25 AM PDT iConsole on the cards?Valve Software chief Gabe Newell reckons Apple will soon become a major player in the console biz by launching a product that will own the living room.… |
| City slickers get another 5 years of free Wi-Fi Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:13 AM PDT In 15 minute chunks, in a tiny piece of London ...The City of London has extended its deal with The Cloud for blanket Wi-Fi coverage, including the offer of 15 minutes of free access intended to lure surfers into paying £2 for a day pass.… |
| Dutch ISP calls the cops after Spamhaus blacklists it Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:01 AM PDT Had to unfriend TPB chums to get unblockedDutch ISP A2B Internet has filed a complaint with the police after it claimed to have been "blackmailed" by London-based anti-spam outfit Spamhaus.… |
| C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:39 AM PDT printf("Rest in peace, Dennis\n"); exit(0);C programming language inventor Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died.… |
| Pampernaut love-rat space shuttle pilot prangs plane Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:21 AM PDT Passengers unhurt in Alaskan Cessna crashFormer space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein, famous for being the man at the centre of the romantic rivalry between troubled astronaut Lisa Nowak and air force officer Colleen Shipman - which led to the astonishing nappies, mace and car-park fracas sensation of 2007 - has suffered a mishap at the controls of a small floatplane in Alaska, according to reports.… |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Keep track of your cashiOS App of the Week It must be a sign of the times, but I'm definitely seeing more personal finance apps coming my way recently.… |
| BlackBerry stumbles to feet, full of apologies Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:44 AM PDT RIM promises not to repeat BlackBerry crumbleBlackBerry services are up again, though still processing a considerable backlog of traffic, but now we have a CEO's statement promising the company will try harder in future.… |
| Busting net neutrality may amount to spying, says EU Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:19 AM PDT Eurocrat warns of 'massive, real-time inspection of comms'New EU laws on net neutrality may be necessary to stop internet service providers (ISPs) from infringing individuals' data protection and privacy rights, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has said.… |
| Avere punches up file access with 2 more accelerators Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:01 AM PDT Get those filers moving fasterSuffering from slow file access speeds? Avere has introduced two faster and more scalable filer accelerators.… |
| Peer-to-peer update makes ZeuS botnets harder to take down Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:01 PM PDT Not your father's zombie networkA new strain of the ZeuS crimeware toolkit comes with a peer-to-peer design that lets infected machines bypass centralized servers when receiving updates and marching orders from operators, a researcher said.… |
| Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT The library in your pocket?Review Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet was always going to grab the headlines when the retailer revamped its e-book reader line-up last month. But for many book buffs, its low-cost E Ink devices were more interesting.… |
| Apple wins for now: no Galaxy 10.1 in Oz Posted: 12 Oct 2011 06:25 PM PDT Apple 1, Samsung 0 as injunction grantedSamsung's Galaxy 10.1 has been blocked in another jurisdiction, with the Federal Court of Australia granting an interim injunction against the sale of the device down under.… |
| Googler squeals: 'We don't get platforms' Posted: 12 Oct 2011 06:09 PM PDT A candid rant for the agesThe dangers of social platforms have been illustrated yet again, when one of the Mountain View Chocolate Factory's Oompa-Loompas made public a long and detailed rant against his employer on Google+.… |
| AOL demos the human-free datacenter Posted: 12 Oct 2011 06:05 PM PDT 100% lights out facility eliminates the BOFH costAOL has been operating a trial datacenter that runs without any on-site staff since the start of the month, and reports that the system is resilient and cuts costs.… |
| Seattle superhero arrested for assault Posted: 12 Oct 2011 04:53 PM PDT Costumed saddo pummeled outside city nightclubA Seattle self-styled "superhero" has been arrested on four counts of assault after intervening in a fight early on Sunday morning.… |
| Cloud hub an Australian opportunity: report Posted: 12 Oct 2011 04:30 PM PDT MacTel, Fujitsu, vendors set up OzHubData "residence" in cloud computing is again in the spotlight, with Macqurie Telecom, Fujitsu ANZ, InfoPlex and VMWare joining together to create the OzHub alliance.… |
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