* Posts by gem

3 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2013

How Novell peaked, then threw it all away in a year

gem

Developers, Developers, Developers

I think Novell actaully knew what it had to do to compete with LANManager, but was unable to do so due to the mess its development model had become. Microsoft made it easy for the developers with MSDN, while it became so hard to write code for Netware that even Novell could no longer do it. Novell was announcing good feature updates, but then was unable to deliver. The best engineers had moved on and those that replaced them just went round in circles slowly making things worse instead of better.

Free cloud server self-destructs in 35 minutes

gem

Re: Spam.

Not all spam is over port 25 these days. I get a ton of comment spammers to my websites from AWS instances.

Plans for fully 3D-printed gun go online next week

gem

Re: Brassed off

Most 'metal' detectors only detect ferrous metals. They do not detect brass or lead. I know many people that have taken bullets through metal detectors undetected.