24th February 2013 Archive

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• Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84

  Terminated

  The designer of iconic Dr Who villain the Daleks has died. 84 year-old Ray Cusick died in his sleep over the weekend, reportedly of heart failure. Dr Who Magazine broke the news with a Tweet. It's with great sadness that we report the death of Ray Cusick -the designer of the Daleks. Half a century on, his iconic design lives …

  Vintage 24 Feb 06:04

• Meet Antarctic sysadmin Richard Youd

  Live chat Cisco, VMWare, and maybe helping with emergency surgery, at the bottom of the world

  While some sysadmins bemoan the lack of training on offer in their workplaces, Richard Youd has just completed several courses, namely: Two weeks studying to be a Lay Surgical Assistant A week of Search and Rescue (SAR) technical training Six days of fire fighting and emergency response training A four-day advanced …

  Jobs 24 Feb 16:02

• Fondling again: HP slates new tablet for April

  Seven-inch Jelly Bean with Google goodies

  HP has used Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as the stage to launch into the Android tablet market, with the new Slate7, a 7-inch unit based on Android Jelly Bean 4.1. Shipping from the mobility unit headed by ex-Nokia executive Alberto Torres, who joined HP last year, the Slate7 will arrive in April (which previous …

  Tablets 24 Feb 22:31

• France tries again, with EU20 billion broadband fund

  'Terminate the copper' says Hollande

  French president Francois Hollande wants to take the cable-cutters to the country’s copper, announcing EU20 billion ($AU25 billion) worth of broadband funding to be spent over the next ten years. His aim is to bring universal fibre-based broadband to the country. The cash-strapped government won’t be providing all the …

  Broadband 24 Feb 22:50

• Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant

  X.509 dispute turns XXX as Torvalds says Red Hat wants kinky fun with Redmond

  Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has again vented his spleen online, taking on Red Hat employee David Howells with a series of expletive-laden posts on the topic of X.509 public key management standard. The action takes place on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, with Howell posting a request that Torvalds “pull this patchset please …

  Operating Systems 24 Feb 23:46