When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere [Tue Nov 30 2021]

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When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?'

 
 

Off-Prem

Nextcloud and cloud chums fire off competition complaint to the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows

No, it isn't the limited levels of storage that have irked European businesses

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Renting your IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for your customers

We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing

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Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that

IoT still needs its lightbulb moment

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Indian government warns locals not to use Starlink's internet services

If you are going to sell satellite internet subscriptions in India, you Musk get a license, says regulator

20 Comments

AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up

The cloudy concern is a prodigy, but early promise is no guarantee of dominance

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The-Bypass-Around

The Bypass Around Database Sprawl

The Fast Track to Focusing Data Assets with MariaDB

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Data Centers, The Environment, And What Can Be Done

2021 report on the state of the green data center

On-Prem

HPE sees ‘no indication’ its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions

In the dark about how New H3C chip org ended up on USA’s naughty list

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits

That's so Meta

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Want to buy your own piece of the Pi? No 'urgency' says Upton of the listing rumours

A British success story... what happens next?

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Threeshiba: Key Toshiba investor opposes firm's split

3D Investments said plan will result in 'three underperforming companies'

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When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?'

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It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer

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Lenovo-webcast-202103

Hybrid learning is a good thing

How do you make it 'your' good thing?

Modernise_applications

Modernise applications with document databases

The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

Security

Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware

10 days after attack 'almost all systems' up and running, refuses to say if ransom was paid

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Why-your-email

Why your email encryption solution is doomed

(And what you can do about it)

Software

All change at JetBrains: Remote development now, new IDE previewed

Security, collaboration, flexible working: Fleet does it all apparently

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UK and Ireland S/4HANA migrations accelerated during 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns, figures reveal

User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade

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Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out

Multiple Windows in WinUI 3? Next version. Open source? Maybe one day

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Looking to get complex machine learning models into production? Serverless might be the answer

Oh-em-gee, it's only another free web lecture from our MCubed team

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

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Offbeat

James Webb Space Telescope may actually truly launch this century, says NASA

Will it fly by Christmas? Betteridge's law probably applies

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UK Home Secretary delays Autonomy founder extradition decision to mid-December

Could be a Christmas surprise in store from Priti Patel

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UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches

Submissions must create a 'sense of pride.' What could possibly go wrong?

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