In Pictures: Curviest new tech devices
Shape of things to come: Phones, TVs and more are starting to throw us curves
Shape of things to come: Phones, TVs and more are starting to throw us curves
The other night when I was trying to make my way to bed, I kept stumbling over gadgets, accompanied by a sea of chargers and cables of different sizes and shapes. Looking around our cramped little flat, I realised that they are taking over whatever little floor space is left.
The original New Zealand dotcom success story, Murray Haszard, is back in the software game, with the launch of backup and recovery software for smart phones from Sprite Software.
Linux is finding success in much smaller devices than the servers and workstations that have traditionally been its mainstays. For embedded systems developers, the advantage of Linux over proprietary OSes lies as much in its flexibility and openness as in its low cost.
At many companies, users have got ahead of themselves — and IT, too — in the rush for the latest mobile devices, unaware of the challenges they pose. “They don’t realise it takes infrastructure, a wireless signal and a whole bunch of things before you can use a handheld,” says Hap M Cluff, director of IT for the city of Norfolk, Virginia.
Troubleshooting servers is a fine art, but there are some methods and tips to get things running smoothly, quickly and easily. ITIL methodology delves into how to troubleshoot a server or a related issue more deeply, but the general theme is to narrow down the problem as quickly and efficiently as possible. Take a step back and think about how to logically resolve an issue during an outage. For example, if a user complains that they can’t access something, find out if other users have the same issue, eliminating the possibility that the problem is localized to a single end-user device.