Best posts made by Reid Cooper

Even while the PC market slipped by 1.7% overall, ZDNet reports that Chromebook sales increased by 67% in the same time period and Apple Mac shipments are doing well.

That gets done by people on Spiceworks pretty often. I prefer to take backups, though.

That picture is so large those devices seem like they might be..... life-sized?

Softpedia reports on a spat between ownCloud and Canonical (Ubuntu) about hosting ownCloud files on the Ubuntu repos. The official repos for all of ownCloud on Linux are hosted at Suse. The real issue is that Ubuntu does not maintain the repos and things hosted there can be outdated and insecure. Ubuntu is not like Red Hat and Suse where there is careful oversight and security review. This was an unofficial and unmaintained repo that served no apparent purpose but was putting Ubuntu users at risk if they simply trusted Ubuntu's repos rather than going to ownCloud's own.

You see this behavior a lot more in non-profits. I assume that this has to do with the lack of management training that is had there. People with MBAs or extensive experience are expensive. When a non-profit cuts corners that often means cutting corners in the places that would save them money, like management that understands money. So the result is losing money all over the place and no one realizing it or caring.

InfoWorld looks at the history and evolution of the Raspberry Pi computer.

This article is awesome. It started off as a plea for financial support for the man behind the security that protects the world's email, GPG. But the story turned into a positive one almost immediately and Werner Kock is now funded to keep working on GPG indefinitely and protecting things like journalists around the world.

InfoWorld on How Lollipop Reinvents Android.

DNS itself is only resolution and has nothing to do with the routing or switching of traffic. Resolution traffic would exit the device to hit the DNS server, but the communications itself would behave normally however it would behave if you were manually using IP addresses directly.

The server market is changing, as it always does. HP remains the leader with IBM some distance behind it in second place. Dell is nipping at IBM's heels. But all big name server makers are losing ground to the white box ODM market which is taking big chunks out of the market, primarily as they are popular in the cloud computing space. Cisco has done well but remains with only 6.2 percent of the market making them, still, an "also ran."

All of the serious players are shrinking but IBM was the one really taking a beating as they shed their commodity server business and their chip business and their remaining Power systems completely fail in the marketplace as essentially no new customers exist for them while existing customers migrate off of those platforms in droves.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2855753/servers/hp-slips-ibm-stumbles-white-boxes-rise-server-market.html

http://freeyourdata.org/

Free Your Data has started a petition to push the EU to approve the European Data Sovereignty Act which would require any site with more than a million recurring users to provide those users with all of their associated data, free of charge.

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TGIF. Ready for the weekend.

You can put this one super high on my "must have cool gadgets" list. Brewie is a 20 liter (5.2 gallons) beer brewing system with RFID, touchscreen and access from mobile devices. At $1499 this really is a cheap device considering the size, complexity and amount of work that it does for you. Brewing at home is somewhat complex and this takes the complexity out of the system making it easy for anyone to make beer themselves at home.

The system is powered by a single core ARM A8 processor and runs on Linux.

http://linuxgizmos.com/files/brewie_kitchen-sm.jpg

http://linuxgizmos.com/files/brewie_brewie-sm.jpg

http://linuxgizmos.com/files/brewie_ui-sm.jpg

http://linuxgizmos.com/files/brewie_process-sm.jpg

Seems like the nature of Interning is that you don't need to do very much prep for it.

Follow this link to nowhere: http://www.bloomberg.com/asdfkasdfkadfks

This one is a big scary, everything you do in your home could be recorded and sent off to a "third party" of unknown identity. This takes invasion of privacy concerns to a new level.

Samsung is Listening.

There is a lot of people talking about Unitrends Free with you guys sitting in the break out session! When they say that the free offer is for up to 1TB, does that mean 1TB of "backup" storage or 1TB of total storage.

If I have a full terabyte to backup, would I only be able to store one copy or would I get to backup many of copies that varied over time? How do I plan for overhead?