Andrew S. Tanenbaum is know as the author of MINIX, the educational operating system which inspired Linix.
At FOSDEM ‘10 I sat down with him to talk about Micro-kernels, Embedded systems, and the state of MINIX 3.
Interview with best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett about upcoming books, writing, the legalities of fan ideas, technology and Alzheimers.
In our last show of the season we talk about HTML5, Video Codecs & Patents, and explore the future Flash might have.
Put on your tinfoil hats everyone, the powers that be are meeting in secret to break the Internet. The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is being threshed out behind closed doors and could change the way ISP’s work.
We also chat about the Digital Economy Bill that’s currently being rushed through the UK house of Parliament without debate. Seriously guys, stop doing these things in private!
Cutting edge science research need not be purely the domain of commercial laboratories and Universities.
This week we talk to Sacha De’Angeli, an American Chemical Engineer who is working on a project to create an affordable Arduino based Scanning Tunnelling Electron Microscope. He talks of his project and how it can aid garage hackers, inventors and scientists.
When a celebrity death, or news of a water shortage pop up on twitter – how can we cut the fact checked truth from the outright lies?
This week Gareth, Shane and Dave talk with Damien Mulley about the upcoming Irish blog awards, social media fact checking and online marketing.
We explore how frameworks can be useful to quickly get an application off the ground, but can be a hindrance as a project scales. We talk about client expectations and finally the relationships between developers and sys-admins.
In an effort to cut down on data centre electricity costs, the US Government may move to cloud based applications. We explain what cloud means, some potential problems and have an interview with an engineer from Spotify, a cloud based music service.
Phone location data has been available for years, but individuals are now opting to voluntarily share their location online. This can be a security risk, as hi-lighted by the recent site Please Rob Me, but could also open the door for more efficient traffic management, or more relevant mobile advertising.
