Stories about: APT

I like screencasts. A well-made screencast can explain complex concepts more effectively than a written document. Watching a screencast about a topic you're trying to learn is like having a friendly expert by your side, showing you what you need to know. Recently, I stumbled upon PeepCode's screencast about Git.

Think Starbucks should offer free Wi-Fi in its shops? Want a more comfortable chair to sit in while sipping your latte? Now you can tell the coffee giant exactly what you think, and if enough people agree with you, Starbucks might just do it.

An interesting thing happened in 1999. The unit price of a long-distance voice call to consumers, which had been falling since the early 1980s, finally crossed over the cost curve and long-distance voice became a loss leader. This eventually led to the acquisition of the long-distance giants by the regional Bells. It was certainly one of those pivotal events in telecom history, but another 1999 event might be even more important.

Linux servers infected with a mutating virus are commanding huge Windows botnets six years after the malware was discovered, according to security researchers.

Much has been made of the impact of teleworking on the careers of those who work outside traditional office environments. But what about the impact on those left behind in the office?

A popular expression in security circles is to equate critical company intellectual property with the crown jewels. That comparison is apt in more ways than one. I've visited the Tower of London and the crown jewels. The crown jewels are protected by many layers of security, but the truth is that they make very poor targets for theft because they are far too distinctive to fence. To sell such items, a thief would have to take great risks and heavy discounts. If someone was holding the queen hostage, they'd more likely ask for "nonsequential unmarked bills" that the crown jewels. Any item, whether tangible like the crown jewels or intangible like your company's latest flying car design is only worth what a buyer will offer. If the market for such an item is too small or the risk of laundering too high, the item will have to be heavily discounted. Yet, in most information security risk-assessment methodologies we measure the loss impact for the company and ignore the gain potential for the thief.

Gartner analyst Adam Sarner insists that he's serious when he predicts that binding [[ArtId:939030612|"virtual marriages"]] will be a reality by 2015. He says such couples -- including those who have never met in person -- will enjoy the same property rights and legal responsibilities as the rest of us bound by matrimonial bliss.

Virtualization can help IT managers allocate more resources with less hardware, but not without introducing a slew of management challenges.

Discerning typesetters have long relied on Tex and LaTeX for impeccable-looking documents. Now they have a front-end that works under Linux and BSD and brings control of the compilers and related utilities under the comprehensive graphical user interface. Authors and editors who use Kile can get increased productivity in the document creation business. This article will highlight some of Kile's key features which make it so attractive for newcomers to LaTeX.

Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, speaks about the open-source movement and new products SpikeSource introduced at LinuxWorld.

Providing location information to thousands of mobile phone users is all in a day's work for Ubuntu Linux, which has replaced popular enterprise distribution Red Hat for Locatrix Communications' mission-critical workloads.