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Sam Johnston

  • Citrix OpenCloud™ is neither Open nor Cloud

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve been busying myself recently establishing the Open Cloud Initiative which has been working with the community to establish a set of principles outlining what it means to be…

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  • Trend Micro abandons Intercloud™ trademark application

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Just when I thought we were going to be looking at another trademark debacle not unlike Dell’s attempt at “cloud computing” back in 2008 (see Dell cloud computing™ denied)…

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  • Introducing Planet Cloud: More signal, less noise.

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. Update: PlanetCloud was retired after several years when news sources caught up with cloud coverage. As you are no doubt well aware there is a large and increasing…

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  • Face it Flash, your days are numbered.

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s no secret that I’m no fan of Adobe Flash: Why Adobe Flash penetration is more like 50% than 99% Towards a Flash free YouTube killer (was: Adobe Flash…

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  • HOWTO: Set up OpenVPN in a VPS

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.If, like me, you want to do any or all of the following things, you’ll want to tunnel your traffic over a VPN to a remote location: Access media…

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  • NoSQL “movement” roadblocks HTML5 WebDB

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Today’s rant is coming between me and a day of skiing so I’ll keep it brief. While trying to get to the bottom of why I can’t enjoy offline…

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  • Press Release: Cloud computing consultancy condemns controversial censorship conspiracy

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.SYDNEY, 24 December 2009: Sydney-based Australian Online Solutions today condemned the government’s plans to introduce draconian Internet censorship laws in Australia. Senator Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband, Communications and…

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  • A word on the Australian Internet censorship scandal

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve had a quick scan over Senator Stephen Conroy‘s infamous, long-awaited report on the efficacy of current Internet filtering technology and find it to be nothing short of scandalous. Without getting…

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  • HOWTO: Fix OS X by uninstalling Adobe Flash

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Adobe Flash just ruined my day for the last time… I’ve just arrived in Paris and needed to do some work before a meeting this afternoon. As it’s noisy…

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  • An open letter to the NoSQL community

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Following some discussion on Twitter today I posted this thread to the nosql-discussion group. You can see the outcome for yourself (essentially, and unsurprisingly I might add, “please feel…

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