Security Thoughts – Ive been thinking about this for a while but this blog post by Pascal Meunier pretty much sums up my feelings about Virtualisation.Back in the 90s when the Internet was new-ish and just becoming important all the machines running it were Unix boxes. (Maybe not all, but most). And a 386 would typically run DNS, sendmail, telnet (shell accounts), ftp and apache. All on [...] read more

Free Software Magazine – Have you ever felt that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that your code is error-free and complies with the latest standards? In terms of programming skill, web authors are too-often seen as the bottom of the barrel (you will notice I didn’t call them ‘web programmers’) due to the apparent forgiveness and limitations of the platform. However, they are required to cover a large array of programming expertise and, even worse, they must ensure that their code runs the same on [...] read more

GoMo News – Two articles from moconews this morning. Both on topics that might be interesting to our readers, but I don’t specifically write upon. Twitter funding and Google says Android is not delayed.

Tricia Duryee writes: Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Android platform is probably on time—that is, if you define “during the second-half of this year” as the very [...] read more