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Brian Madden
Personal blog · brianmadden.comsystemsbusiness
Brian Madden's personal blog at brianmadden.com covers systems and business. Since 2008, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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FWIW, in iOS 13 Apple has finally made it so you can firewall off user personal device control from MDM control https://www.brianmadden.com/opinion/Apple-iOS-13-user-enroll...
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on “NHS open-sources contract tracing iOS and Android apps”Submitted Why are Chromebooks still a thing? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionLooks like there are ways to block sideloading of apps: https://www.brianmadden.com/opinion/How-do-you-block-sideloa... Basically you create an enterprise profile for your phone and block sideloading of apps as a policy ("Disallow_Install_Unknown_Sources). Same with iOS.
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on “Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang”Submitted VMware gets into mobile phone virtualisation business as a story · 4 points
HN discussion>Address space shortage will likely be covered by the tab unloading feature mentioned in the article, before it becomes an issue in practice. before? I've seen Firefox run up against the 2gb limit[1] for years. This 4GB space is evenly divided into two parts, with 2GB dedicated for kernel usage, and 2GB left for application usage. Each application gets its own 2GB, but all applications have to share the same 2GB ker…
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on “64-bit Firefox for Windows should be prioritized, not suspended”Submitted Microsoft's Surface Tablet: 5 confusing issues that people aren't discussing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOh the hours I spent on https://www.brianmadden.com/.. .
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on “RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo”Submitted Why it will be hard for Microsoft to "win" the future desktop/tablet/Win8 race as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm Nikola, a founder of Mainframe2. Lots of good questions -- you can find a good info on what we do here: http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2013/12... 1. We'll support all HTML5 compliant browsers on all OSs at launch. This public demo is designed as a technology preview and we're primarily focused on user experience, not necessarily feature completeness. If you still want to try the demo, we re…
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on “Mainframe2: Run any software in a browser”Submitted Server OS-based VDI is an official “feature” of Windows Server 2016 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft should allow Windows Phone to run on a VM next to Android as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 ways Microsoft is screwing the desktop virtualization industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What customers need to know about Windows Virtual Desktop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fortnite will require Android users to allow unknown sources as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple’s iOS management protocol needs to get better for BYOD (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are we too focused on typical office workers? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Chat with Browsium Founder Matt Heller about IE6 on Win7 (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nvidia , AMD, and Intel: How they do their GPU virtualization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted VMware beats Amazon, launches Horizon DaaS for $35 per user as a story · 1 points
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