US Air Force Forced to Play – by Sony
My new HTC Incredible phone has a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor in it. That’s faster than laptop computers were just a few years ago. That, and reading the US Air Force story (you have to wait for that a little longer…) reminded me of an interesting conversation with Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu two years ago: Given [...]
Red Hat Takes Another Step Towards Cloud Computing
Redhat, the poster child of open source and maker of most popular Linux distribution in the enterprise market, took another step into the cloudy future. Redhat recently released version 5.5 of their popular Enterprise Linux distribution. They followed it up with an announcement focused mainly on the hybrid nature of the enterprise cloud adoption in [...]
Making Linux Relevant In Desktop With SaaS
Linux has been trying hard to crack the desktop market for long. Being an open source evangelist, I do admit that it didn’t gain much traction in the desktop era dominated by Microsoft. There are many reasons for this including Unpolished UI Lack of support for some of the consumer devices like webcam, printer, etc. [...]
Yes it is possible to resource starve a Cloud Computer
Over the weekend, my cloud computing infrastructure survived a major hacking attack. Here is what happened and what it took to recover it. This weekend my servers out in the cloud space fended off a major hacking attack across two of the systems that I have given the public access to use them. The attack [...]
Why I need a tablet and so do my students
With all the hype over do we or do we not need a tablet computer, I keep on thinking of my students and where I want to take educational technology in the next 10 years. While I am in a fortunate position to “change the world” when it comes to education, I am also in [...]
Another Face of Microsoft Leaves – this time via a Firing
I am a diehard Microsoft Fan boy – even though I own an Apple and Linux boxes and use AWS for most of my infrastructure needs at work and at play, Microsoft still is an important part of my normal work day. But with the release of Don Dodge (who I have met at a [...]
Error Logs and Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Now that my two cloud servers have been up and running long enough for scanners, hackers and other folks to find them. What is interesting is seeing what kind of hacker activity the two cloud servers are seeing, and how they are standing up to being exposed on the internet. A bit [...]
Building a Streaming Video in the Cloud using Apple’s Darwin Server
We are in the process of building out our own streaming video server at the school, and tinkered around with Darwin from Apple for a bit. While it ended up not being the product we are going to stick with because it needs a completely different link structure than http, and it is difficult to [...]
Android is Like Linux: Excites Geeks, Not End Users
There has been some good discussion around Android recently and Daring Fireball blog has some very good points on the opportunity Android has in the market. I 100% agree with him that the iPhone needs competition. Unfortunately, the competition doesn’t look very good so far. While John Gruber makes a case where competition could exist [...]
Google Chrome OS: Pre-Announcement in Classic Microsoft-style
Image via Wikipedia There’s hardly anything to add to the actual announcement- the whole world is talking about it, and I don’t just mean TechMeme entirely taken over: when Reuters, The New York Times and just about all mainstream media reports it, you know there’s something big – but is it nuclear? We’ll have to [...]
Adding to the ChromeOS Deluge…
The last thing I want to do is add to a meme – here at CloudAve we pride ourselves on having a modicum of insight and not just regurgitating press releases. Krish’s post this evening is a case in point – while most of the world is jumping up and down with excitement about the [...]
Confessions of a Gen X-er – Screen Size Matters
It pains me to say it but I’m a Gen X-er – admittedly I’m towards the younger end of Gen X but I’m there nonetheless. As such I’m no doubt seen as prehistoric, decrepit and pretty much due for the scrap heap. Despite all of this I’m fairly certain I’ve got a couple of years [...]
Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying Market
The proliferation of affordable netbooks is good for everyone – consumers, that is. Computer manufacturers loath it (high volume, low margin business) and so does Microsoft: they can’t exactly sell $100+ worth of software on a $200 machine. So they come up with all sorts of evil plans. First there was the Windows 7 plan: [...]
Microsoft’s About-Face on Windows 7: Three-App Limit on Netbooks (Perhaps) Removed
A few months ago I predicted Microsoft would be facing lawsuits due to the 3-app limitation of Windows 7 Starter Edition, or more precisely due to less than full disclosure on sales of netbooks crippled by Win7. The Wall Street Journal did not go as far as lawsuits, but it called it a big gamble: [...]
Open Source and Cloud Computing Series: Canonical – An Open Source Company Embracing The Clouds
Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is positioning itself to be a big player in the Cloud based era. They are plotting their move towards Clouds simultaneously through many different routes, from marrying Ubuntu desktop and server editions to Cloud to offering storage as a service to SaaS based management services. In this edition of [...]
