andreas koidis

“Once upon a time, oper­at­ing sys­tems used to mat­ter a lot; they defined what a com­puter could and couldn’t do… Today, there’s only one oper­at­ing sys­tem: Unix (okay, there are two, but we’ll get to that)”

Jean-Louis Gassée (cre­ator of BeOS), con­tends that we need to take another look at the word’s con­tent, at what we mean when we say ‘Oper­at­ing Sys­tem’.

“Pow­er­ful com­put­ers, some housed right next to the machines that drive mar­ket­places like the New York Stock Exchange, enable high-frequency traders to trans­mit mil­lions of orders at light­ning speed and, their detrac­tors con­tend, reap bil­lions at every­one else’s expense”.

Rick Book­staber, explains the arm race in high fre­quency trad­ing, and Charles Duhigg from the NYTimes, describes how traders profit with com­put­ers set at high speed.

“Many users are aware that Face­book has numer­ous pri­vacy con­trols, for exam­ple, but even the most expe­ri­enced Face­book users often don’t know just how much they can con­trol who sees what”.

Jacqui Cheng, from Ars Tech­nica guides you through Facebook’s pri­vacy set­tings so that you can be both social and respectable at the same time.

…“There are costs asso­ci­ated with nearly every [user inter­face] technique”.

Bran­don Walk­ing goes over some of the issues sur­round­ing [user inter­face] com­plex­ity and tech­niques that can be used to man­age it.

…“Data Cen­ters will ulti­mately become the Sub-Stations of the infor­ma­tion utility”.

Michael Manos (data cen­ter loca­tion expert), talks about The Cloud Politic – How Reg­u­la­tion, Taxes, and National Bor­ders are shap­ing the infra­struc­ture of the cloud.