Opinion

Criticize Stallman and suffer the wrath of the internet

Richard M. Stallman, or RMS, has once again stirred the Linux community, this time with his criticism of Ubuntu. He was quickly criticized, but as the pattern goes, his critics soon found themselves apologizing.

Joke Twitter account will tickle Seinfeld fans

‘What if Seinfeld was still on the air?’

Can HYOD Replace BYOD?

Employer-owned devices can provide more security, but will we take them?

Weighing Cisco’s prospects for 2013

Now that Cisco CEO John Chambers wants it to become a player in software and services, it's time to consider how it might fare in its new approach.

A $3,000 ATM skimmer … or a $3,000 scam?

Smart money is on the latter, though few will sympathize with these victims

Apple TV faces significant barriers to mainstream adoption, even for Apple

Unless Apple TV becomes more open, similar to Android, it will not disrupt the TV market the way the iPhone did the smartphone market.

Tags take Struts beyond the basics

Looking back at our 2012 predictions

13 Things that a Unix sysadmin will never do

A Tale of Two Antennas

The lowly antenna – perhaps the most important but also most ignored part of the radio value chain – is benefitting from a huge amount of innovation in this space, and those benefits will accrue ultimately to us users. Here are two examples.

‘Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8’

And the review by an MIT computer scientist only gets worse from there.

Apple After Jobs, with a whiff of slapdashery

Negligence is hard to avoid and the bigger you get, like Apple, the harder it becomes to avoid it

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks all things Apple

In a recent interview, Google executive Eric Schmidt opined on all things Apple.

T-Mobile to begin offering Apple products next year, iPhone likely

It looks like the iPhone will finally be coming to T-Mobile

Coming next season on The Walking Dead: Windows XP

The operating system proves unkillable as analysts say Microsoft needs to keep patching it past the end of support.

JBoss AS7 Clustering Using mod_cluster and http 2.4 (Part 1)

McAfee reportedly may have had a heart attack

Reportedly taken to a hospital in Guatemala City

What if Linux went closed source? Would you still use it?

The most important hypothetical question you'll see all day: Would you use Linux if it went closed source?

Avaya brings virtualization to the communications space

Virtualization, the most disruptive technology IT has seen in years, is just starting to enter the communications field.

Government board aims to revamp decrepit US security classification system

Feds have over 100 ways of classifying, 230 ways of handling sensitive information

Why did BlackBerry blacklist the ‘Pooh’ gang?

List of 106 banned passwords goes especially heavy on one children's classic

Despite Zynga’s flop, social gaming is not a fad

Zynga's early struggles have led many to call mobile/social gaming a fad. Don't believe that myth.

Pandora shares plummet despite increased revenue and growing audience

Shares of Pandora have plummeted in the last two days after the mobile Internet radio company issued a dissapointing forecast for next quarter's earnings.

Best practices to close the door to spear-phishing attacks

Another start-up targeting SDNs, Cisco’s dominance

Founded by ex-Ericsson execs, Canada's NoviFlow unveils 100G OpenFlow switch

McAfee in a Guatemalan jail cell, still ‘blogging’

UPDATED: Authorities may return him to Belize for questioning in neighbor’s murder

An introduction to SQLite for developers and sysadmins

Wi-Fi: Channel 14 on the Way?

A proposal to the FCC from a satellite communications carrier could breathe new life into the 2.4 GHz. band – but will it?

US, European law enforcement take down $3M high-end online fraud scheme

Romanian nationals arrested for porting false ads on websites including eBay, Cars.com, AutoTrader.com and CycleTrader.com

That’ll clear the wax out of his ear

Another picture from my brother’s work travels