The Minority Report

You can sure tell that Bill Gates is gone, huh? Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another’s hypervisors. This is deeply significant as it means that customers will be able to confidently deploy Windows Server and Red [...]

Aside from Nokia and every other freaking cell phone company out there smelling the cash, I’m going to concentrate on Micrsoft’s following again. First the GUI…now this…Apple has long been described as Microsoft’s R&D department. I think it’s hysterical. Did you watch Family Guy last night (it’s at the bottom) and catch the total slam [...]

I decided to do a major clip job on the news that Paul Maritz of VMWare released an Open Source version of their VMware View client (links below). There are a few reasons why he did that, one being Open Source is a good way to get your product foot in the door and it [...]

Pretty much says it all and I got nutin’. Maybe they need to put a frakkin’ bell around everything? Officials from New Mexico’s Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory have fessed up to having only just realised that 67 of its computers were missing, with no less than 13 of them having disappeared over the past [...]

Clippy, clippy from Robert X. Cringely’s Notes from the Field Dan Lyons, a journalist better known to geekdom as the Fake Steve Jobs, has declared the blogging industry kaput. It has expired. It is deceased, it is pushing up daisies, it has joined the choir invisible. It has ceased to be. Dead man blogging |Notes [...]

I use Statcounter for all my sites and I love it. In fact, it’s open in a tab right now and that is how I found this announcement. So here is a little, very little, linky luv for the ol’ free statistics site. Going Hungarian… This is why we are delighted to announce that StatCounter [...]

I forget when the processor industry went to the nanometerW designation for chip sizes but 32nm is pretty freaking small. That is 12 nanometers bigger than the rhinovirusW. While in Washington, Intel’s CEO gave a speech that highlighted, among other things, the investment that Intel was going to be making in state-side R&D and manufacturing. [...]

First of all, let me thank all the readers of The Daily WTF for stopping by and making sure this stupid little blog wasn’t just a steaming pile of crap. My traffic has doubled…tripled…quadrupled since I linked to one of the posts on calculating PI using a DOS batch file. I mean seriously, that dude [...]

I posted the other day about Michael “Monty” Widenius leaving Sun Microsystems. Open Source Release Feed has a follow up interview with him. Not much there and you can get most of the skinny on Monty’s site, Monty-says. Unless you have been living under a rock or are very new to the open source world [...]

I’m sorry but all I could take away from this video was that no matter what, these retards were geeks. No cool Austrailian accents or cool destruction of hard drives could save this video. Add some stupid music and while I watched it, I will never get that 3 minutes back. Updated: since I can’t [...]

Techcrunch is reporting that online advertising rebounded slightly in the 4th quarter of ’08. They used data from the “big 4″ online advertising players, Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL to put together the graphic below. I pulled out this quote to explain the jump: What the slight rebound in growth tells us is that search [...]

It’s official, Michael Widenius has resigned from Sun Microsystems to pursue other things with MySQL. He’s left to work full time at his new company, Monty Program Ab. Looks like he’s going to be working on the Maria engine, a transactional storage engine for MySQL, Mariadb, a branch of the MySQL database with the Maria [...]

Finally! I’m too damned lazy to look it up but Cringely finally tells me that a SKU is a “stock keeping unit”a SKU is a “stock keeping unit”. Now I can sleep at night. The six faces of Windows 7 |Notes from the Field | Robert X. Cringely® | InfoWorld Well, the word is out. [...]

Now if I could only get 4 million mobile users to hit this blog daily, I’d be set. Shit, if I could get 4 mobile users to hit this blog daily, I’d be moderately happy… Facebook Has Over 4 Million Daily Mobile Users Last week while at Davos, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that the company currently [...]

I don’t know if you use Digg…but I think it sucks. I’m not entirely sure why I think it sucks but I do. I personally read Reddit but either way and either one, neither of them have a business model. Yes, yes…the whole eyeballs = advertising = money argument but I just don’t see how [...]