Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jun 2012 01:59 UTC
Infoworld: "After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m. EDT on Thursday. At that time, the Azure portal will offer a number of Linux distributions, including Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, OpenSuse 12.01, CentOS 6.2 and Canonical Ubuntu 12.04. Azure users will be able to choose and deploy a Linux distribution from the Microsoft Windows Azure Image Gallery and be charged on an hourly pay-as-you-go basis." SmartGlass on iOS and Android, Office supposedly coming to iOS and Android, Linux on Azure... It's almost as if Microsoft finally got the memo that 'Windows everywhere' can't be a reality any longer.
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RE: Er, buy a VPS from dozens of other vendors instead
by Nelson on Thu 7th Jun 2012 07:50
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RE: Er, buy a VPS from dozens of other vendors instead
by vaette on Thu 7th Jun 2012 09:13
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RE: Er, buy a VPS from dozens of other vendors instead
by Soulbender on Thu 7th Jun 2012 09:21
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RE: Er, buy a VPS from dozens of other vendors instead
by mgarba on Thu 7th Jun 2012 14:07
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RE: Er, buy a VPS from dozens of other vendors instead
by Modafinil on Thu 7th Jun 2012 14:09
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Last year, I started renting a VPS in the US for $5 a month and am still paying it regularly via auto-Paypal:
1GB RAM
Quad Core CPU
30GB disk space
64-bit CentOS 6
Huge bandwidth per month (1500 TB or something mad)
Full root access
Can install and run anything that's legal
1GB RAM
Quad Core CPU
30GB disk space
64-bit CentOS 6
Huge bandwidth per month (1500 TB or something mad)
Full root access
Can install and run anything that's legal
That's a fantastic deal, please could you give me the URL for the provider as I'm currently looking for the a VPS myself.
Best I've found so far is this http://www.minivps.co.uk/openvzvps.php but your deal blows that out of the water!
RE: Er, buy a VPS from dozens of other vendors instead
by backdoc on Thu 7th Jun 2012 18:04
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RE: Er, buy a VPS from dozens of other vendors instead
by Morgan on Fri 8th Jun 2012 00:46
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I've had bad experiences with those "cheap" VPS providers. They claim you are guaranteed to share the same box with at most 10 users, but it turns out there are often 50 or more, and every one of them has turned their share into a torrent seedbox or ad-farming setup. Contacting support was a dead end, they just offered to wipe and reinstall my instance to fix "software issues" I wasn't actually having.
I was better off running a P4 with 1GB of RAM and a PATA drive from my home connection for free.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/16/13 9:29 UTC
The day has finally come: Google has started shipping Google Glass to the lucky few early adopters. Now that it's shipping, Google has also unveiled a lot more about the API and the specifications of the device itself. While the company had already given out substantial details at earlier occasions, there are still a few surprises here.
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Last year, I started renting a VPS in the US for $5 a month and am still paying it regularly via auto-Paypal:
1GB RAM
Quad Core CPU
30GB disk space
64-bit CentOS 6
Huge bandwidth per month (1500 TB or something mad)
Full root access
Can install and run anything that's legal
Tell me how the Microsoft Azure setup beats that in any way, especially at $5 a month? Hourly pay as you go - what the freak?!