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Last year, contributions from mobile companies accounted for just 4.4 percent of the Linux kernel, according to the Linux Foundation’s annual survey of Linux contributions. Now, it’s more like 11 percent. "The older I grow, the more I value pawns."
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Microsoft and Nokia are undoubtedly still two of the biggest names in the technology space today. Neither are strangers to innovation, with Microsoft having pioneered Windows 95, which became the most widely used operating system in the world; and Nokia once ruling the global handset business, with a market share that was 50% bigger than its nearest rival. (phone) Developers! (phone) Developers! (phone) Developers!
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Django patches denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by large passcodes. Let's keep them under 4K characters, people.
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What a vulnerability. That is kind of funny and kind of scary at the same time.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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After questions from a security researcher, Dropbox says that it opens links in uploaded documents in conjunction with the preview feature. Dropbox also trying to address DDoS concerns. "Be seeing you"
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""While this could theoretically be used for DDoS, we haven't seen any such behavior. However, just to be extra cautious we've temporarily disabled external resource loading while we explore alternatives.""
Translation: "Sh*t! Didn't think of that! Run away! Run awaaaaaaaayyyyy!" 
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Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve declared that proprietary software and closed platforms are gaming's past, its future is open and on Linux. Because of all those great Linux video drivers?
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they been saying linux is the future for a long time
and redhat is not one of the most profitable software vendors
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Is that like saying 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 will be the year of Linux on the desktop?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The words "cutting edge" may be crisp and definite, slicing through air like a knife in a bar fight. But few things strike fear in the minds of enterprise IT like the claim that a new product is built by a team working on the "cutting edge" of technology. And they said I was mad for attempting those experiments back at the Institute!
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The increase speaks to Amazon's ability to turn analog sales into digital dollars. Apparently there is more than one person with two turntables (and a microphone)
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One word: hipsters
Technically, digital is far superior in sound quality without question. But for some genres it's much harder to do the complete mastering of a record digitally.
Especially when you have a high density mix of analogy instruments and people 'expect' a certain flavor of sound that is hard to emulate when you have a near-infinite amount of possibilities.
The secret is the natural compression that occurs when pressing a record; it's the loss of information that makes it sound 'better'. This isn't actually true, but music is about feelings not rationality; the subconscious associations people make when they hear a certain sound.
Recording studios still often use tape compression to reach a similar effect when mastering an album for CD or digital distribution. Basically, they stream the finished album from their Macintosh to record on tape and then re-record it back to the computer.
The success of the latest Daft Punk album is a testament of how, for most people, certain flavors of sound are more enjoyable than others.
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The cloud storage company wants to replace the standard of enterprise software with apps that promise a faster viewing, sharing and communication experience. Yeah. Uhm. Good luck with that.
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September makes 3 months in a row that Microsoft has issued buggy patches, 3 of which had to be pulled from distribution. Perhaps Microsoft has too many products to have one patch cycle. "One things fixed, another falls apart"
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It doesn't matter if you're building the next hot iPhone app or tweaking an in-house ERP system. If you don't want to be roadkill, fundamental changes need to be made. "It's good to be king"
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The differences between iOS 6 and iOS7 are both subtle and obvious. Think Different, differently
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Quantum computing is in the cloud, and you don't need a degree in advanced physics to run your own programs. For the first time, anyone with a web browser will soon be able to log in and run basic algorithms on a quantum chip hooked up to the internet. It may (or may not) support programming in C#
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I've always wondered why companies such as Cray don't offer online computer-time services.
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To deliver the cloud effectively, you have to know how it works together with legacy systems and IT fundamentals "Bless your soul, you've got you're head in the clouds. You made a fool out of you."
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Microsoft and Nokia need each other more than you'd expect. While Nokia was testing Android in a variety of different ways, Microsoft was busy experimenting with a Surface Phone. "Trust everyone, but always cut the cards" (and buy them before the deal the wrong hand)
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The new release, Java Update 40 [3], implements changes announced by Oracle earlier this year [4]. They include allowing network administrators to create a DRS (Deployment Rule Set) that defines which version of Java an app should use. Such definitions could allow critical internal apps to use older versions of Java, while forcing external apps -- those more likely to carry infections that exploit flaws in older editions -- to use the latest version. I'm thinking Java's got bigger problems to worry about
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You no longer have to install the SkyDrive app separately as it is now built into the OS. Windows 8.1 makes a concerted effort to force you to use SkyDrive. Sink all your data
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Yet another fail for M$.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi passwords worldwide. Seeing as how most of them are "default", it's not surprising
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