Inventor of the web rounds out LCA schedule

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Editor's note Welcome to the final Wrapper for 2012. There was quite a lot of Microsoft coverage this year, but it was a year when Microsoft launched Windows 8, took to the Surface, and gave its corporate look a makeover. And there was also all that time that the company attempted to sell developers and designers on the new "Metro" look of Windows, and then told everyone that the name was wrong. In keeping with this theme, Tony McSherry closed out the year by looking at what applications are available for Windows RT. But if Windows isn't your thing, in January next year, Linux.conf.au will be held in Canberra. Keynoting the conference will be Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who will be delivering his only technical talk of his trip to Australia at the conference. Thanks for reading the Wrapper in 2012, and I hope you'll join us again in 2013. Have a great break, everyone! --Chris Inventor of the web rounds out LCA schedule Sir Tim Berners-Lee will keynote the 2013 edition of linux.conf.au. Read more Resource of the day Comparing Availability of Various Rack Power Redundancy Configurations By making your power redundant, you won't have to worry about your servers crashing because they don't have juice. Read this white paper to learn more about the electrical architectures that make redundant power possible. What applications are available on Windows RT? Tony McSherry looks at the desktop applications available on the Windows RT Surface tablet. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Getting started with iOS Views and View Controllers: Part 1 Scott Kantner explains the basic things you need to know to get started using the fundamental views and views controllers that make up the user interface of any iOS app. Read more Windows 8: The development wildcard of 2012 Justin James gives his 2012 year-in-review take on Windows 8, HTML5, and more. He also shares his professional and personal updates. Read more Why today's CIOs may no longer be up to the job As CIOs are asked to take a more strategic role in businesses fresh talent may be needed to take over from IT leaders stuck in an "order taker" mentality. Read more Add a Shutdown menu to the Windows 8 desktop Greg Shultz has found a technique that will allow you to recreate a reasonable facsimile of the Shutdown pop-up menu on Windows 8's desktop. Read more Email: Middle aged and still going strong Email celebrated its 41st birthday recently, yet despite its age new research shows that its use is unlikely to significantly wane for at least the next decade. Read more The high-volume, low-margin cloud Thoran Rodrigues examines Amazon's strategy in the cloud marketplace and how it puts pressure on other cloud providers to position themselves in regards to pricing and service claims. Read more The Web of Things: A web-connected world of smart devices Ryan Boudreaux illustrates what is meant by the Web of Things with real-world implementations and an example of where the future of WoT is taking us. Read more Featured multimedia   Shutdown Windows 8 right from the desktop Greg Shultz has found a technique that will allow you to recreate a reasonable facsimile of the Shutdown pop-up menu on Windows 8's desktop. View on site Today's recommended downloads Exalogic Retail Webcast (Oracle) SPARC T4 Servers - Optimized for End-to-End Data Center Computing (Oracle) HP Client Virtualization Gen8 Enterprise Reference Architecture for VMware View 5.1 (Hewlett-Packard (HP)® & Intel®) Protection enterprise servers with StoreOnce and NetWorker: HP StoreOnce Backup systems (Hewlett-Packard (HP)® & Intel® Xeon® Processors) Using HP StoreOnce Backup Systems with Data Protector v6.2 for Microsoft Hyper-V Protection (Hewlett-Packard (HP)® & Intel®) Connect with TechRepublic The 12 networking truths applied to information security Alfonso Barreiro relates the 12 networking truths to the information security field. TechRepublic newsletters   Get programming, mobile development, and design tips and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Software Engineer App Builder Web Designer IT Consultant

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