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Pingdom’s Podcast is a show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff. In this show we covered the following topics:

• Updates on Carbon
• <a href="https://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/#!/dot1ne/status/173636953567281156 “>John Gruber tweeting using Carbon for Windows Phone.
• iPad 3 launch March 7: “We have something you really need to see. And touch.”
• Apple multitouch patent – bad news for everyone else?
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview is available for download
• Windows Phone Marketplace coming to 23 more markets
• Mobile World Congress: Nokia PureView 808, Nokia Lumia 900, HTC One X, Skype for Windows Phone, Sony Experia U/P/S, Huawei Ascend D and MediaPad 10, LG Optimux 4X HD.

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The show is hosted by Magnus Nystedt at Pingdom and <a href="http://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/dot1ne”>Saleh Esmaeili, User Experience Designer at dots & lines in UAE, currently working on Carbon for Windows Phone, <a href="https://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/#!/carbonandroid”>Android, and iOS.

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A team of researchers in Australia has managed to create a transistor that is the size of an atom. That’s the smallest transistor ever created. Considering that the single-atom transistor is only 0.1 nanometer in size, the possible applications are mind-boggling.

It will be quite some time before we see the single-atom transistor technology implemented in microprocessors that we use in computers and other devices. But this is such a thrilling development that we wanted to find out how it fits in with how microprocessors have evolved so far.

How small can a transistor be?

With the single-atom transistor now a reality, at least in research labs, we charted the evolution of microprocessor manufacturing. We think you will agree with us; it’s quite a dramatic development over just 41 years. And things get even wilder when we gaze into the future, comparing the microprocessor manufacturing processes of today and yesterday with what is waiting around the corner.

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Moore’s law will hit the wall

Gordon Moore gave name to the law that has been dominating the microprocessor evolution over the last 42 years.

Moore himself declared in 2005 that the law named after him was dead, when he said: “In terms of size [of transistor] you can see that we’re approaching the size of atoms which is a fundamental barrier, but it’ll be two or three generations before we get that far.”

That may just become reality possibly sooner than even Moore thought.

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ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that it is delivering on its promised mobile device management (MDM) services. The company has rolled out security, asset and configuration management for Apple iOS-based devices, integrating them into its enterprise-wide, real-time IT strategy that unites mobile, desktop and service desk management under a single, unified user interface.
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<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-12589" title="shutterstock_25505344-150px" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/36ec0_shutterstock_25505344-150px.jpg” alt=”" width=”150″ height=”150″ />Even the most hardcore Linux fan would admit that their favorite OS has not captured more than a very small market share on personal computers. And that would include us here at Pingdom: all of our engineers and 50% of or our developers are, in fact, running Linux.

Ubuntu has enjoyed great success, and more recently Mint, as well. But Linux desktop OS doesn’t seem to be able to break free and climb above the low single digits in market share.

But that may be changing if the latest numbers are anything to go by.

Linux beats Windows 7

Linux has been putting up a tough fight on desktops, but it has been lingering around 1%  for years. As sad as it may be for fans of Tux, even Apple’s Mac OS X is usually attributed with many times the market share of Linux.

And Linux on the desktop is still in the low single digits by any measure we can find, but there may be hope as it has, based on one source, increased 64% in market share in the nine months from May 2011 to January 2012.

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That made Linux the fastest growing desktop OS during this period. In second place came Microsoft Windows 7, which increased only 37%.

The only way is up

Obviously, the installed base of Linux on desktop computers is still small but if this growth can be sustained, it’s going to be a force to be reckoned with.

There are countless of reasons for why you would select to use Linux as your desktop OS, including it’s free, it’s stable, it’s secure, it can run on almost any hardware, etc. But whatever the reason is that you do run Linux, this news must be exciting and welcome.

So, Linux fans, let’s cheer for our favorite OS and hope that this trend will continue and even increase. Remember, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKADQnjQmc”>the only way is up.

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We provide several DNS Tools to help out with some important questions:

• What’s the IP behind this domain name?
  • With the HostName test you immediately get the IP behind a domain. This is also a great way to verify that the DNS records are correct and specific domain points to the correct IP address.
• Where did this email come from?
• The MX Lookup test returns a list with servers responsible for delivering e-mail to that address and their priority relative to each other. You can now see where this nasty spam came from.
• Who is in charge of this domain name?
  • If you are curious to know who owns a domain, you should use Whois. Nevertheless, you can also take advantage of the NS records lookup test. It will return the NS servers managing the domain name records for that certain domain. It is a great tool to verify DNS records when transferring a domain from registrar to another. Also if you are purchasing a domain it is good to double check on the name servers, once you set them.
• What is the host behind this IP?
  • The Reverse DNS test is the exact opposite of the HostName test. You enter any IP and you get the host associated with it.
• How can I trust that IP address?
  • Every now and then you will face a site you don’t actually trust. You can use the HostName tool to check the IP behind a website. You can then copy the IP and paste it in our Blacklist Check tool. We query the major DNS Blacklists – Sorbs, Spamhaus, NJABL, DSBL, CBL and PSBL for specific IP address and returns whether it is listed for sending spam, as an open proxy relay or for other possibly malicious activities.

These tools will help you troubleshoot common problems and find problems where you would rarely look. Even if your server is working perfectly and the sites are beautifully written, it would not mean a thing if something as simple as your DNS server goes down. In a world without DNS we would had to type in 69.20.11.136:80 just to reach www.websitepulse.com. Now, give the tools a try and let us know what you think about them. We hope you find the useful!

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According to the website where you can view the iPhone, it was created with “no images… just 3,395 lines of CSS code and 335 lines of JavaScript code.”

We talked to the creator of this very impressive project, Vasiliy Zubach, to find out more about him, and learn how he actually made all the thousands of line of code work.

Q&A with Vasiliy

Pingdom: Tell us a bit about yourself.

Vasiliy: My name is Vasiliy Zubach, or <a href="https://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/#!/tjrus”>TjRus, for short. I’m a web developer (mostly front-end) from Ukraine, working at MacPaw. I was born in the small village of Vorokomle and grew up there with only one goal – to move to a place with great opportunities. When I had just turned 13 years old, I started that journey by entering the Kiev Physics and Mathematics Lyceum. My main goal was to study to be able to get a good job. But that all changed at university, actually during my second course, when I found a good job and became much less interested in studying. However, I did finish my master’s degree in information security in 2011.

Pingdom: How did you get started with web development?

Vasiliy: When I was searching for my first job I was just looking for vacancies and compared them with what I could do, what skills I had, and what I was interested in. It was very clear my main interest was web development. After studying HTML and CSS for about a month, I managed to get offered a job. So in March of 2008 I started my front-end developer career and I’ve not questioned this even once since then.

Pingdom: How did you come up with the idea of making the iPhone 4 in CSS3?

Vasily: One day at my current job a coworker showed me some cool icons made entirely in CSS3. If you know anything about CSS, you would have been amazed just as I was, so when I saw that, I just said to myself “I can do that too and I can make it even better!” But I couldn’t just do the same thing, that didn’t make any senses. So I decided to go further. I decided to make a whole iPhone with icons and everything in CSS3. That was a real challenge, and as far as I knew, no one had done it before me.

Pingdom: How did you build it?

Vasiliy: I have some experience in creating an interactive iPhone from before. About six months ago, we launched an iPhone wallpaper sharing service (ensoul.me). For this service I’ve already developed an iPhone, so to speak, but with images. But that meant that the main algorithm and how pieces of code would have to interact were in my head. From that I just started writing code. In fact, the idea was so strongly stuck in my head that I even thought about it every day, going back and forth to work. At work there were too many other interesting things to do, so the iPhone became something I did with my spare time.

Pingdom: How many hours, in total, did the project take?

Vasiliy: All in all it took about 35 hours. I worked on it for a period of time, about 1-2 hours every day after work and on weekends. That may not sound like a lot, and perhaps it isn’t, but my previous experience helped me understand what needed to be done. That saved time, I think. It was all clear in my mind, and I did not have to redo anything once I had started. So that was the start of success.

Pingdom: What equipment (software and hardware) did you use?

Vasiliy: I worked with my personal notebook, an Apple MacBook Pro with 2.4 GHz Core i7 processor and 8 GB RAM. I’ve actually tried my CSS3 creation on iPad and iPhone as well, and they run, but way too slow. In terms of software I use Espresso for HTML and CSS3 coding, and Coda for writing scripts. At one point I tried to use Adobe DreamWeaver, but it didn’t work very well with the FTP account I was using.

Pingdom: What was the most difficult thing in this project?

Vasiliy: The most difficult part was creating the icons. Some icons are simple, with few lines of code, like Calendar and Notes. Many others were very hard, like App Store, because of the huge amount of gradients and rotations. However, when I had finished it all, I realized there were really no hard parts. I just had to learn a few more things, and all that I can now use in future projects. Drawing every part of the iPhone is simple. Now I can even paint pictures with CSS3! Just kidding.

Pingdom: Can you tell us if you have any future plans to build something else using the same or similar techniques?

Vasiliy: I don’t think that it would be good to tell you all my secrets but I can just say that in the  near future I will be revealing something just as cool as the iPhone. Also, an off shoot of the iPhone in CCS3 will be used in another project, to demonstrate an application that I’m working on.

Pingdom: So you’re leaving us with a cliffhanger, that’s not very nice of you. But let’s move on. If someone else is considering starting a similar project, what advice or suggestions would you have for them?

Vasiliy: If you have any ideas for things you want to create or implement, do not put them in the future. Just do it! If an idea appeared in your head, it’s worthy of implementing. Not all may become a full project, but you will learn something from each and every one. Often when I’ve had an idea I tell someone about it, they think I’m just kidding with them. Then I do something with it, like write a piece of code to try it out, and show the same person the result. Often they don’t believe me, saying that they didn’t think it was possible. Every idea should have a chance to come alive. Just do it!

Onto the next project

As we finish our interview with Vasiliy, he’s already on his way to the next project. He won’t tell us what it is, as you could read in the interview, but we’re sure it’ll be something really exciting. Vasiliy has however said that he’ll let us in on some of the cool things he’s working on as soon as possible.

Are you working on something cool and exciting for the web, the Internet, or just tech in general? We would be interested in featuring you here on Royal Pingdom.

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Who doesn’t like free stuff? We put together a selection of free Linux e-books that you can read, in many cases download, and use as references, or simply to learn something. The topics range from advanced programming to Java, from GNU to Emacs, from device drivers to the kernel, and much, much more. You don’t have to pay anything to take part of the wealth of knowledge and information available in these e-books.

Advanced Linux programming

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GNU Emacs manual

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GTK+/Gnome application development

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Java application development on Linux

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Linux device drivers

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Linux kernel in a nutshell

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Linux network administrator’s guide

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Self-service Linux – Mastering the art of problem determination

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The Linux command line

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Ubuntu pocket guide and reference

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A lot of reading, and there’s more!

We hope you find this selection of books useful. If you have suggestions for other free books or other resources you’d like to share, put them in the comments below. And if you didn’t get enough of reading with this article, we do also offer a weekly suggested reading article, with 5-10 articles each week on a different topic.

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Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, security, and other geeky topics.

This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on Big Data and NoSQL.

This week’s suggested reading

• Big Data Wizardry: Pay Attention To What’s Behind The Curtain: There’s been a lot of hype lately around the concept of big data, with the lion’s share of that hype related to things like analytics, data management and data storage technologies (like NoSQL).
• NoSQL Offers Users Scalability, Flexibility, Speed: User case studies at the NoSQL Now conference show NoSQL being used for a variety of reasons.
• Oracle MySQL Gets NoSQL-Savvy Upgrade: Plenty of telcos have embraced Oracle’s MySQL Cluster edition for its combination of scalability, performance, and reliability. Now Oracle is increasing the appeal to Web-based businesses with performance upgrades and built-in support for linking to NoSQL databases.
• How Infochimps wants to become Heroku for Hadoop: Deploying and managing big data systems such as Hadoop clusters is not easy work, but Infochimps wants to change that with its new Infochimps Platform offering.
• Big Data Makes Banks Rethink Storage: Banks have long been built on massive amounts of data. But as “big data” gets even bigger, legacy storage systems are growing increasingly inefficient and even obsolete, according to industry experts.
• I.B.M. Turns to Big Data Algorithms for Computer Security: I.B.M. is now the latest company to attempt to take a more holistic approach to corporate security using “Big Data.” The company has rolled out QRadar, its new security intelligence platform, to track corporate vulnerabilities in real time and cross-reference unusual activity with I.B.M.’s X-Force database, the world’s largest repository of threat and hacker information.
• How to prepare your social game for massive growth: James Phillips, co-founder of Couchbase, a NoSQL database company, presents how your company can prepare for massive growth using NoSQL technology.
• Unstructured data is worth the effort when you’ve got the right tools: It’s dawning on companies that data analysis can yield insights and inform business decisions. As data-driven benefits grow, so do our demands about what more data can tell us and what other types we can mine.
• Eight Business-changing Ways to Use Big Data: Enterprises are finding business-changing ways to put the power of Hadoop, an open source Apache project for storing and processing large amounts of data, to good use. They are using Hadoop and Big Data to reduce risks, better serve customers and even change the Internet.
• And finally on the lighter side…
• MySQL Diehard vs. NoSQL Fanboi: The Animated Movie: There is often a charged debate between MySQL proponents and those who are increasingly excited about NoSQL. So, it’s good to see a bit of levity enter the discussion.

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