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Google Vault : pour retrouver des données critiques en cas de litiges. Google équipe ses datacenters directement en Chine. Pour se doter de datacenters de pointe, Google ne se fournit plus chez Cisco ou Dell mais directement chez leurs intégrateurs chinois.

Google équipe ses datacenters directement en Chine

Ses concurrents font de même, imprimant à ce marché, dans le plus grand secret, une bascule des USA vers l’Asie. Selon une révélation du site du magazine américain Wired, ce sont des dizaines de milliers de serveurs et de commutateurs réseaux que le Californien achèterait directement en Asie, chez l’intégrateur de notebooks taïwanais Quanta par exemple. Microsoft : 17e plus large contributeur du noyau Linux - Informatique - Bureautique.

L'éditeur de Windows fait son entrée dans le classement des plus gros contributeurs de Linux.

Microsoft : 17e plus large contributeur du noyau Linux - Informatique - Bureautique

Contribuer au code du noyau Linux permet à son outil de virtualisation Hyper-V d'être compatible avec l'OS libre. Or, cette compatibilité est désormais incontournable sur le marché de la virtualisation et du Cloud Computing. Pour la première fois, Microsoft est présent dans la liste officielle des 20 plus gros contributeurs au noyau Linux. Change the Windows 7 Login Screen Background Image. When you login to your Windows 7 computer (assuming you haven’t used something like this tutorial to turn on automatic login), you’ll generally see a login window with a background looking something like this.

Change the Windows 7 Login Screen Background Image

It’s fine; there’s nothing wrong with it. But sometimes a change is good so in this article we’ll show you how to change the background image behind the login screen to anything you want. The first step is to open up the Start Menu by clicking the orb in the lower left corner of the screen. Now, in the Start Menu search box, type regedit, to open up the Registry Editor. When the Registry Editor appears in the Start Menu, click the Enter key to launch it. Now, right-click on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder, and choose the Find option. The search window will appear so perform a search for OEMBackground. Note: it’s possible that OEMBackground doesn’t exist on your system; if this is the case, adding a new DWORD value with the name of OEMBackground will fix things.

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Android. 10 Unusual Things I Didn’t Know About Google (also: the worst venture capital decision in history) Altucher Confidential. I made the worst decision in venture capital history in late 2000. I was a partner at a venture firm called 212 Ventures. What? You never heard of it? We had $100 million from Investcorp, $5 million from CS First Boston, $5 milion from First Union (which became Wachovia) and $5 million from UBS. I had a few partners but I won’t soil their names with this story. It was either late 2000 or early 2001 when one of the associates (and my future business partner) Dan Kelly approached me with an opportunity.

Dan came into my office where I was playing the classic 80s arcade game “Defender”. “Wait? “They make some kind of software for search engines. I stopped playing. Dan went back and made something up. That’s because we had a lot of money invested in huge opportuniti es like this one. Well, Oingo somehow managed to raise some money and stay afloat. Sometimes I’m not very bright. - Family. . - Backrub . (screen short of the first version of Backrub) Is Google Turning Us Into Cyborgs Altucher Confidential. Posted by James Altucher [Latest search on Google that took someone to my blog: "free children.sex.com"] I’m missing something from my life.

Is Google Turning Us Into Cyborgs Altucher Confidential

Keep the "Linux" out of it Please. Android and Ubuntu are arguably the two largest Linux success stories to date.

Keep the "Linux" out of it Please

Ubuntu with its soaring success over other Linux-based desktop solutions and Android with its seemingly single handed domination of the mobile market. What makes these two distributions so successful? Anyone who owns a company or sells a product will tell you - you can have the best product in the world and no one would use it if you don't have the right advertising to back it up. Now, semantics and marketing are not the only reasons these distros have been so successful, they are genuinely good products, but there is no doubting that good PR doesn't hurt. This brings me to an interesting question: Six Signs Android really isn't Linux. Many people argue that Android has put Linux into the hands of millions of users.

Six Signs Android really isn't Linux

While there is no doubting that Android has been a raging success, I would argue that Google has put Android into the hands of millions of people - not Linux. Mac/PC. Et si Google était ... une plateforme !? The State of Linux on ARM. Linux was designed to be a platform with freedom in mind.

The State of Linux on ARM

This freedom created in the computer industry something all humans should have - the power of choice. ARM is often touted as one of Linux's largest successes. Thanks to Google's Android platform it is true that a penguin powers at least half of the world's mobile devices today. Is this a bit of a hollow victory though? How to fix any computer. Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Windows' Boot Time.

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