How God is managing the 2011 rapture All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2014 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2014 Matthew Inman. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP
Keep the "Linux" out of it Please Android and Ubuntu are arguably the two largest Linux success stories to date. 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. What does Ubuntu's advertising have in common with Android's advertising? Neither of them make any mention of that frightening word "Linux". Is the Linux brand poisoned? Canonical and Google certainly seem to think so. ~Jeff Hoogland
If you do this in an email, I hate you All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2014 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2014 Matthew Inman. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP Six Signs Android really isn't Linux Many people argue that Android has put Linux into the hands of millions of users. 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. The following are my reasons for claiming such: 1.) Android's kernel is a Fork Thats right, Android doesn't run on a mainline Linux kernel any longer. 2.) I did a post late last year titled "Keep the 'Linux' out of it Please", which asked whether using Linux in your brand name is deadly. 3.) Be it a game like Plants vs Zombies that Linux users are forced to run via Wine or a product such as Netflix streaming that does not run on Linux machines at all - there are lots of companies that refuse to support the penguin yet still produce Android applications. 4.) Android has piles of applications that are written for it. 5.) There are plenty of vendors that sell systems pre-installed with Linux (such as BluSphere). 6.) ~Jeff Hoogland
The State of Linux on ARM Linux was designed to be a platform with freedom in mind. 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? Even with Android being as rampant as it is, if you have been by my blog here before you know I am not a fan of it. It appears I am not alone in my line on thinking here. "Google has complied with the requirements of the GNU General Public Licence for Linux, but the Apache licence on the rest of Android does not require source release. I said earlier Linux is all about choice though - so there have to be other mobile choices right? Some thirteen months later it appears that the Meego project is waning in supporters though. So where does that leave Linux on ARM? ~Jeff Hoogland
Et si Google était ... une plateforme !? L’analyse d’un ingénieur de chez Google dans laquelle il démolit Google+ a fuité sur … Google+ ! Au-delà de la critique, Steve Yegge insiste sur un aspect qui ferait grandement défaut à Google : une culture « plateforme ». Essayons de fouiller un peu l’argumentation pour nous faire une idée. Après le fameux Peanut Butter Manifesto de Yahoo! Crédit photo. Il y critique l’incapacité de Google de raisonner sur le long terme en termes de plateforme (Platforms are all about long-term thinking) plutôt que de produits (The problem is that we’re a Product Company through and through). We don’t get Platforms, and we don’t get Accessibility. Selon lui, Google ne sait pas réaliser ni ne comprend ce qu’est une plateforme, et Google+ est le premier exemple de cette absence de culture « plateforme » : That one last thing that Google doesn’t do well is Platforms. Chez Google, d’abord nous tentons d’anticiper ce que les gens veulent, et après nous le leur donnons. Larry appréciera
Google Vault : pour retrouver des données critiques en cas de litiges Google propose une extension à sa suite bureautique pour entreprises : Google Apps for Business. Baptisée "Vault", elle permet d'archiver automatiquement tous les messages échangés via Gmail et sa messagerie instantanée intégrée. Objectif : pouvoir facilement retrouver des informations critiques, exploitables en cas de litiges juridiques. Google complète sa gamme d'outils pour les entreprises avec Google Apps Vault. "Les entreprises de toutes tailles ont besoin d'être préparées à l'inattendu. Vault se veut ainsi une solution abordable de "eDiscovery", pratique qui consiste à effectuer des recherches de pièces juridiques dans les archives numériques d'une entreprise. Le principe de Vault est de prendre les devants en archivant proactivement les informations. Contacté par L'Usine Nouvelle, Google France n'a pas été en mesure de nous fournir plus d'informations sur ce nouvel outil dans l'immédiat. Plus de 4 millions de clients pour Google Apps for Business
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. 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. Se passer de Cisco et des autres Selon Wired, comme ses concurrents Amazon, Facebook ou Microsoft, le Californien conçoit depuis longtemps ses propres équipements afin de répondre avec ses datacenters à des besoins que personne d’autre n’avait exprimés avant (large bande passante, adaptabilité, etc.). L’infrastructure, nerf de la guerre Comme l’explique l’article, pour les acteurs du cloud, l’infrastructure est le nerf de la guerre.
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. 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. L'entreprise de Redmond occupe ainsi la 17e place du dernier classement annuel de la Linux Foundation, organisation dédiée à la "montée en puissance" de l'OS libre. Depuis la version 2.6.36 du noyau Linux, Microsoft a contribué à 688 modifications, soit environ 1% de celles acceptées par la Fondation. Cette contribution ne date d'ailleurs pas d'aujourd'hui. Une "ouverture purement stratégique", selon les défenseurs des logiciels libres Un avis partagé par l'April, organisation française de promotion et de défense du logiciel libre.
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. My life feels empty. If I only had..If I could only get…If I only knew…and if I can’t get it all then… The human body and mind are insufficient, are too small, to satisfy that incompleteness. We only search when we are unsatisfied, incomplete, missing. (Google and the Internet brings us one step towards being like the above Cylons from Battlestar Galactica) I watch my stats for my blog religiously in realtime. Just now, someone from Mountain View (ironically, home of Google, Inc.) using a Nokia phone, searched “free children.sex.com”. He ended up at this post: Perhaps the photo of a young Mitt Romney is enough to make the leap into the category searched. (the original name of “Google” was “Backrub”. What else is missing in our lives? The next search I got: Let’s guess: his parents want him to apply to Harvard. The very next search, one minute later:
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) - Patents . - Stanford . - Extinction .
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. 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.