Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Team Xecuter created modification devices and specialized hardware for use with various video game consoles, for purposes of modifying and occasionally “jailbreaking” them. It also actually drew fire from within the piracy community in 2018 because its own software required a paid license to work.

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Licensing Groups Hardware Video 101

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Paessler PRTG Network Monitor’s licensing is based on sensors. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need. Maps and dashboards: visualization and control panels.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel. First, DPDK provides optimized pass-through support.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. Linux Containers take center stage - Linux Containers of all forms, will mature and become interoperability building blocks of the cloud computing world.

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Social Mobile Cloud Data Center 169

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Servers/Hardware. VMware is offering licenses for Log Insight to customers who already own NSX. Thanks Jason!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Servers/Hardware. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. Mike Preston has a great series going on tuning Debian Linux running under vSphere. Linux Macintosh Networking Storage Virtualization ESXi NSX OpenStack VMware' Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Servers/Hardware. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Brendan Gregg has a pretty detailed write-up on migrating from Solaris to Linux (pertinent given the recent layoff of the majority of the Solaris developers). Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes. Nothing this time (sorry!). Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 14, 2009

And heres another way to think about Chromes business model But when you consider the $50/year price to license an anti-viral, the $30/year to license a malware program and the additional $30/year you need for a registry cleaner, the software price of a Netbook gets completely out of line with its hardware cost.

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Social Agile Google Big Data 100

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Servers/Hardware. It’s important to note that these security enhancements don’t really represent “net new” functionality but rather reflect existing Linux security constructs now being exposed and usable by Docker. Anthony Metcalf has a collection of posts over at PlanetVM on NSX packet walks (see here , here , and here ).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. The Internet Era: 00s • Internet changes everything • Open source movement gains traction (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) • Tech selling ads, bits, hardware & services • Google Dominates. The Software Era: ?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Get daily email alerts direct to your inbox.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That’s partly due to the complex web of licensing agreements that game publishers make cloud services sign. Google still has some of the best streaming quality and impressive latency to entice partners, but it requires them to port games to Linux right now. Now, not so much.

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Google Cloud Linux Licensing 98

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Here’s a nice article on using Ansible with Arista EOS.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As a developer you can go to GitHub, see the license agreements, and then add the code to your next build. Vamosi: Virtual Machines are what just that; they’re software representations of hardware machines. They contain an operating system and they have confirmation for RAM and other hardware you may want to simulate.

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Open Source Software Software Applications 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It manages all the hardware and all the software on a system. So what do we mean by managing all the hardware? That program, then, handled all the issues of hardware and software. And now, what has happened is we've got much more massive hardware, much more massive memory, much more massive applications. And software?

Operating Systems 40

Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A quick perusal of the ONF web site does not indicate that the OpenFlow materials are available anywhere under any open source license. This isn’t to say that they aren’t freely available, just not available under an open source license.). Servers/Hardware. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Anyway, one year there was this weird hybrid of hardware and software challenge. So it's kind of in between the sort of software and hardware hardware if you listeners aren't familiar with it. I think like 1000 People live watching live and I've used the recap since then for the license. IT was called Badger.

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Engineering Tools Software Software 40

ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. It's not network security where you can download a spec or code and analyze it on your Linux box. Vamosi: And then there's the small matter of hardware itself. Hard and hardware hack with no hardware. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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Engineering Network Video Energy 52

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 6, 2011

The Academic version was only via volume licensing to qualified people, and supported 20 users and the beloved domain-join functionality. I’ve even seen old useless Linux based laptops, that have support for RDP be instantly turned into a powerful Windows 7 workstation. WMS is essentially a turnkey TS server on steroids.

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Windows Small Business SMB Education 69

The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The decision to do hardware SKUs was really centered on that. But] if it’s, we’re going to go compete with one hardware competitor and we just want to make it as easy as possible to compare our one product to their one product, that was the thought process that would have you push to say, no, just do one thing. Is it playing out?

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Hardware Retail Microsoft Industry 120