Laptops are expensive. It’s critical that consumers have the option to repair things that go wrong, as well as upgrade their own hardware to keep it relevant as new technologies roll out. On top of being glued together, the new MacBook Pro is virtually non-upgradeable—making it the first MacBook Pro that will be unable to adapt to future advances in memory and storage technology.
“Defensive Patent License” created to protect innovators from trolls
The pledge might help Twitter attract ethical engineers, but ultimately it’s just one company taking a stand among a sea of litigators that are happy to prevent the sale of competitors’ products or extract licensing fees. A potentially more ambitious project called the “Defensive Patent License” aims to take the same basic idea practiced by Twitter and spread it across a big part of the technology industry.
via “Defensive Patent License” created to protect innovators from trolls | Ars Technica.
The commitment is both daunting in that it requires submitting all of a member company’s patents to the pool, and forgiving in that members can still sue the pants off non-members. Schultz said his team thought long and hard about the exact implementation of the Defensive Patent License.
Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 Targets Enterprises
Hortonworks has unveiled Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 1.0, an open-source platform built on Apache Hadoop 1.0 that includes data-management, monitoring, metadata and data-integration features.
via Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 Targets Enterprises.
For example, the platform’s provisioning interface surveys nodes in the target cluster and recommends optimal software configurations, with the subsequent ability to start the cluster via a single click. The monitoring interface offers a streamlined ability to see the health of the cluster in depth. The data integration services allow users to connect with data services and build transformation logic via graphical interfaces, sparing them from having to write code.
VMware’s Serengeti Brings Hadoop to Virtual, Cloud Environments
Hadoop is a framework for reliably running applications on large hardware clusters. Many large enterprises (such as Facebook and IBM) have come to rely on it as a vital part of their respective data-crunching infrastructures. Research firm IDC recently predicted that worldwide revenues from Hadoop and MapReduce, another framework for processing problems across huge datasets, could hit $812.8 million in 2016, a significant uptick from $77 million in revenues last year.
via VMware’s Serengeti Brings Hadoop to Virtual, Cloud Environments.
VMware has positioned Serengeti as a “one click” deployment toolkit that, when used in conjunction with its vSphere platform, can deploy an enterprise-level Hadoop cluster in a matter of minutes. The company claims that vSphere’s virtualization capabilities will boost the “availability and manageability” of Hadoop clusters.
Project Serengeti
Serengeti is an open source project initiated by VMware to enable the rapid deployment of an Apache Hadoop cluster HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, .. on a virtual platform.
Serengeti 0.5 currently supports vSphere, with the ability to support other platforms. The project is at an early stage, and is endorsed by all major Hadoop distributions including Cloudera, Greenplum, Hortonworks and MapR.
via Project Serengeti.
European ISPs Lobby ITU Against Net Neutrality
ETNO’s submission to the ITU sets out a difference between “end to end quality of service delivery” and “best-effort delivery”, and says operators should get “fair compensation”, concluding that “nothing shall preclude” commercial agreements based on differentiated service.
Net Neutrality advocates say charging for services would allow providers to kill off competitors that run on top of their networks, like VoIP services such as Skype that operate over networks and compete with telephone services. The question also raises fears of Internet taxes.
via European ISPs Lobby ITU Against Net Neutrality | | TechWeekEurope UKTechWeekEurope UK.
“mount.nfs4: Operation not permitted” when mounting NFS device
This is a configuration issue. A required parameter needs to be added to the file /etc/exports to define the root file system for mounting.
The parameter that needs to be added follows:
fsid=0
An example line would look like the following:
/storage *(rw,fsid=0,sync,insecure_locks,insecure,no_root_squash)
Additional information
NFSv4 works differently and no longer references the root of the file system but instead requires the root to be defined with fsid=0.
If fsid=0 is not present, permission will never be granted for the file system to be mounted.
NFS4 is different. After configuring exportfs the old fashioned way the nfs mounts did not work at all. I narrowed it down to the CentOS server running nfs4 and then found this article from IBM. It seems to work now.
CentOS 64 bit bad ELF interpreter
You’re on a 64-bit system, and don’t have 32-bit library support installed.
sudo yum install glibc.i686
via linux – CentOS 64 bit bad ELF interpreter – Stack Overflow.
Also had to yum install gtk2.i686. Here’s the solution from the above link for Debian based systems:
Updated: Since it seems this answer is still getting viewed, and occassionally up-voted, note that the solution above works on CentOS, Fedora, or Red Hat derived operating systems; on a Debian or Ubuntu derived system, however, one would instead use
sudo apt-get install ia32-lib
For some reason, after all these years of using 64 bit OSs, and still having an active, running FC10 installation, this was the first time I had no choice but to run a 32-bit app on a 64 bit machine.
The above solution worked
The Future Fruits Of Apple + Facebook
And while Facebook is struggling to make money on small mobile screens, Facebook TV could be a more natural place for display ads. Advertisers have been demanding a bigger, flashier ad formats that Facebook TV could host. We’re so used to watching commercials on TV that a glossy still ad every 10 minutes or 10 photos, or the occasional fifteen-second pre-roll might not seem out of place.
Apple would gain a good showcase for how existing mobile and web apps could be reformatted for the television. The special Facebook app could also be a selling point for Apple’s new TV hardware. Facebook needs to be on televisions and Apple needs Facebook on its televisions, so this collaboration seems inevitable if not imminent.
via The Future Fruits Of Apple + Facebook | TechCrunch.
What goes around comes around. The first computer to use the TV as a monitor was the VIC-20 or Commodore 64. Then there was WebTV. Now Apple wants to pipe Facebook to TV? Not having a TV or a Facebook account I have no basis for an opinion on this.
Which carcass is worth more for Microsoft’s vultures, RIM or Nokia?
Nokia and RIM, the two former leaders in the early smartphone market, are now basically at the end stage of their downward spirals. This is an opportunity for Microsoft, which wants to make some inroads in the smartphone market, assuming Microsoft it can play its cards right.
via Microsoft Explorer : Which carcass is worth more for Microsoft’s vultures, RIM or Nokia?.