This Week I Learned - Week #125

This Week I Learned -

* Currently (article updated on Apr 27, 2015), SAP does not support its applications on the Linux guest operating system.

* Azure Site Recovery (ASR) provides a comprehensive disaster recovery solution suite.  Typical RPO with ASR should be approximately 15 minutes or less, an RTO of 5-60 minutes and a very quick and effective way to do a Disaster Recovery Test.

Project Gutenberg now allows selected ebooks to be copied directly to Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive

* You can save a webpage as a text file in Internet Explorer but not Chrome

* According to LinkedIn data, liberal arts grads are joining the tech workforce more rapidly than technical grads.

* Cartoonist Hugh MacLeod’s Illustrated Guide to Life Inside Microsoft has illustrations that represent the new Microsoft

In the West, public transport authorities give two kinds of feeds: one being a fixed schedule of trains and buses and the other being a real-time feed which gives information about where a particular vehicle exactly is at any given time. But when it comes to India, a lot of groundwork needs to be done. Both types of feeds from transport authorities mentioned above are non-existent. Transitpedia is an Android app that allows users to conveniently search local public transport details of Mumbai, Pune, Delhi (currently).

* "..trying to remove your data from the web is “like trying to remove pee from a swimming pool”

* "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened" - Mark Twain

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