Security problems solved the old-fashioned way…
A Japanese local government has come up with a rather unusual solution to the problem of Windows XP migration – keep the venerable OS but disconnect the remaining PCs running it from the internet.…
Would you trust crowd-sourced maps? Skobbler releases satnav app
Paid navigation via opinion of world+dog
Privacy-conscious Apple fanbois worried about The Man tracking their every move can now buy – and update – an offline mapping app from open-source mapping biz Skobbler.…
Apple designer Sir Jony Ive holding up iOS 7 development: Report
Will knight of the round tablet pull it off by WWDC?
Visionary designer Sir Jonathan Ive’s perfectionism could be holding back the development of the latest version of the software used on iPads and iPhones, according to a recent report.…
Research explodes myth that older programmers are obsolete
Old dogs can learn new tricks, if they’re allowed to
There’s a prevailing ethos among IT hirers that younger is better when it comes to programmers, but a study by academics in North Carolina suggests that employers might be missing a trick by not hiring the grizzled veterans of the coding world.…
Taxi app Uber’s $1bn uber price tag: CEO speaks out
Bigwig puts record straight
Travis Kalanick, the chief of taxi service app Uber, has denied that his company is about to open a new funding round that would value it at over a billion dollars.…
Is the IT industry short on Cobolers? This could be your lucky day
Sometimes a CV needs a few fossils
Let’s make one thing clear: your previous jobs are not the reason why you were hired. You were hired for having skills that bosses need.…
Not cool, Adobe: Give the Ninite guys a job, not the middle finger
Top toolmaker told to stop installing crapware-free Flash
Sysadmin blog Adobe wants the ability to easily roll out Flash updates removed from Ninite, the sysadmin Swiss army knife. I’m going to explain why this is a terrible thing.…
Linux kernel 3.9 lands
Power management, new processors, SSD caching and more
Linus Torvalds has unleashed version 3.9 of the Linux kernel.…
MongoDB gets incremental restores … for a price
10Gen cranks monetization handle to lift MongoDB into the cloud
MongoDB steward 10Gen is trying to squeeze money out of heavy users of the open source NoSQL database, and has set aside almost a petabyte of raw storage to deal with initial demand for a new backup-and-restore service.…
Is this the first ever web page? If not, CERN would like to know
Eggheads recreate what could be the original website
Boffinry nerve-centre CERN has attempted to recreate the very first website to mark 20 years since the official launch of the World Wide Web.…
