Category Archives: Computing

Government CloudStore

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Andrew

The Government launched their G-Cloud CloudStore for Cloud procurement of Cloud services on Sunday. The outlook is … cloudy. I applaud the increase in transparency that could be derived from listing vendors in a single searchable public online catalogue. But … Continue reading →

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Predictive Text, part 2

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Andrew

Not even a month after my predictions for the year, and the first of them has failed. I said: No IPO for Facebook: This could go either way. My bet is it will be very late 2012 or early 2013 … Continue reading →

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Backlight

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Andrew

If you use a computer for any amount of time, you may find some backlighting for your computer screen is beneficial. I couldn’t find any medical research that says one way or another whether it’s a good thing or not, … Continue reading →

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Media and storage of the future

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Andrew

I just lost a hard disk. No big deal. My somewhat complicated home media setup is this: I have a Samsung TV plugged in to a first generation AppleTV. The AppleTV is connected to the network via wired ethernet to … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Sunday

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day two: Sunday. Barebox Reason for attending this talk: to understand more of the technical details behind fast boot of Linux devices, which will be an important factor … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Saturday

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day one: Saturday. FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, an annual free event hosted in Brussels and entirely organised and run by volunteers. … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2010

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Andrew

Although I’ve been a regular at FOSDEM for a few years now, I’ve been rather poor in ensuring my notes got onto this blog. In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2010. The Free and Open … Continue reading →

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Predictive Text

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Andrew

Cringely has a bunch of predictions for 2012. They all feel wrong, for one reason or another. Let’s run through them. A new CEO for Apple: No. Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs: No. Shareholders don’t understand Amazon and will … Continue reading →

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Google ♥ Mozilla

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Andrew

Gruber considers the relationship between Mozilla and Google really weird. MG Siegler suggests that it’s in part due to a bidding war, and in part because of anti-trust concerns based on a tweet from David Ulevitch. I’m sure both those hypotheses are true, … Continue reading →

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Macbook Pro SSD saga, part three

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Andrew

So previously my Macbook Pro stopped booting and got stuck at the grey boot screen. Then after a week at Apple for repair, they called me to tell me the SSD was stopping the Macbook Pro from booting. Yesterday I … Continue reading →

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