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[isthisthingon]

http://www.itpro.co.uk/615985/why-the-london-stock-exchange-went-for-linux

Old news but I missed this one.  Moving from .NET to GNU/Linux in such a mission critical, high profile environment is quite a show of support for open source 

[perkiset]

It is an interesting move, but they had to purchase the company, MillenniumIT to do it, since the actual product they wanted (Millennium Exchange) was NOT open source, LOL. True, it's built on Linux, but I think that's rather tertiary to the real deal - looks like they'd've been happy if it was still Windows. They actually seemed to go out of their way to say it was NOT about open source.

All that said, it's clear to me from a stability perspective why someone would build a mission critical and time-critial app on Linux rather than Windows ... No mystery there.   

[serialnoob]

What is really surprising to me is that such a critical asset in LSE's business was not "in-house" up to that point!

[stevetracks]

This was decided after a long discussion on London Stock Exchange switches to GNU/Linux. there were many rumors like , london st.ex will getting a brand new coding from window based software etc,  All these were rumors about the London stock exchange. Not to make it complex because
 

[isthisthingon]

Shameless Why do they simply refuse to form complete sentences? 

[perkiset]

Wow, look who's out and about!

[isthisthingon]

This was the first cache email I've received in a long time. It's a great reminder to check in

Speaking of segues, we saw We Need to Talk About Kevin last night. Feel good movie of the winter 

[perkiset]

Hmmm. Although I will probably never see that film because it looks monumentally scary, the trailer looks astounding on my new iPad.

Which is, of course why I thought you had come back: I assumed you were lying it wait to berate me afresh for my fanboiness.

[isthisthingon]

Hope if you got the 4g that Arizona will pony up some service for ya. I can browse the Internet and code to the cloud on a train from San Francisco to San Jose with decent performance. Video is still challenging and the hiccups are more frustrating than it's worth, but occasional saves to a PaaS works beautifully. 

Two nice cloud services you may have heard of, but if not might want to check out:

Evernote
Dropbox

Evernote is an organizational life saver and both have free plans. Dropbox finally delivered what we've always wanted: drop it in a folder (right in Explorer, not sure how Mac works), it's backed up and available from anywhere instantly 

[perkiset]

Hope if you got the 4g that Arizona will pony up some service for ya. I can browse the Internet and code to the cloud on a train from San Francisco to San Jose with decent performance. Video is still challenging and the hiccups are more frustrating than it's worth, but occasional saves to a PaaS works beautifully. 

Getting on average 22Mbs right now, got upwards of 40 earlier for just a little bit. At the moment hovering at only 14down and 12 up - but thats better than that 10x10 fiber Im sitting at (wifi) even. Pretty amazing.

Two nice cloud services you may have heard of, but if not might want to check out:

Was an Evernote user for a while, it just sort of fell away for me. But DropBox is awesome, have pretty much all of my clients using it. It's damn fine. The syncing is WAY better than the mobileme horesepoop ever was - its the real deal.

Just thought of another thing I've not tried, gonna do it right now: Bria over LTE. I'll bet that my VOIP will finally be really usable (although it was functional over 3G, I had a lot of dropout and stutter and it was not a business solution ... im agonna call Nuts right this minute and see how it goes ...)

[perkiset]

It Rocks. VOIP over LTE is absolutely a vaild solution. The mic on the pad is fine and the speaker, especially when the thing sits on a desk, is plenty adequate.

More pleased.

[isthisthingon]

Awesome! Skype with video works ok, but voice only is clear.