Monday, June 20, 2011

Cisco distracted by reorg

Et tu, Adobe? Dropping Adobe AIR support for desktop Linux | Best Practices for Making Source Code Available Under the GPL

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Cisco distracted by reorg
First, it was distracted by entering too many new markets. Now it's distracted by exiting them. Read More


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Et tu, Adobe? Dropping Adobe AIR support for desktop Linux
Folks can quibble about the market share of the Linux desktop, but Adobe has read the tea leaves and said it's not interested in pursuing desktop Linux with Adobe AIR. But things look good for Android. Read More

Best Practices for Making Source Code Available Under the GPL
When you release code under the GNU General Public License (GPL), you undertake a specific set of obligations. Many of these obligations, such as providing a copyright notice and a copy of the GPL version you are using, are relatively simple. However, the obligation to provide source code with the object code is more complex. Read More


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What happens if you catch a hacker and must deal with the FBI?
After writing an article about a Department of Justice report, stating the FBI focuses on catching kiddie porn perps and many agents lack the know-how to work on national security issues, I was contacted by a man who says he's worked with the FBI to catch hackers. You might be surprised at how hard it can be for an IT professional to work with the FBI on a hacker case. Read More

How important are unit tests?
A lot of the unit testing that gets done doesn't get done right. Now, what I mean by that isn't that devs don't know how to test their own functionality (though that's really the subject of another post), it's that they don't know how to perform the test itself properly. Read More


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The 2011 Wi-Fi "Cheat Sheet"
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Open Source is Dominant In The Cloud
A new survey by some open source cloud companies released today shows exactly how prevalent and dominant open source is in cloud computing. Read More

Cisco and routing: Who says you can't go home?
The last few weeks Cisco has been pressing their pitch that a network composed of a single vendor's network (Cisco's) is best for users. To me it looks like they are having to work very hard to come up with examples of happy users with nothing but Cisco. Read More



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