Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward monthly articles, since it’s been about a month since my last one. In any case, here’s hoping that I’ve found something useful for you. Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. That’s cool.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

The Verge

JANUARY 9, 2021

Oh hey, it’s all of my PC games available to play on the Quest 2, wire-free, from within a virtual room. I’m going to walk you through the steps required to make this happen on your Quest 2 virtual reality headset. Go to this page and sign in to your Facebook account in your browser of choice. This is getting weird.

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Linux Academy

MAY 13, 2019

Great to have you back for this week’s discussion on incident response plans. Good, since we’re all on the same page, why is this such a bad situation? It’s bad because when an incident occurs, time is of the essence. Okay, that’s great, but why is it such a big deal?

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Security Exercises Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Andersen first presents a disclaimer that the presentation is mostly a brain dump, and the he’s not personally responsible for a lot of the work presented here. IMA is also responsible for allowing the Linux kernel to take advantage of a system’s Trusted Platform Module (TPM). rc for the demo).

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. Welcome to Technology Short Take #46. Interesting thought.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JULY 18, 2014

This was an important step in educating myself on Linux, KVM, libvirt, and Open vSwitch (OVS), all of which are critical core components in most installations of OpenStack. The only consistency appeared to be with Ubuntu, as virtually (no pun intended) all my KVM guests were running Ubuntu. Bypassing Root’s Password.

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Linux Academy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Hi, I’m Anna, COO of Linux Academy. Anthony is out on some much-needed vacation, but that’s not going to stop us from updating you on everything new in this Linux Academy Monthly Update. We’ve updated our quiz pages with more information, and changed their layout to look more like the rest of our platform! Hands-On Labs.

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Linux Disaster Recovery Course Firewall 13

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 1, 2014

CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution designed with containers, massive server deployments, and distributed systems/applications in mind. systemd is not unique to CoreOS; it is the new standard system and service manager for Linux. A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC.

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Linux Applications Open Source System 89

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Virtualization. Good advice. x environment.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Here’s a handy tutorial on using Docker for persisting state across AWS Spot Instances. Here’s another one. Here’s an example of using Ansible to setup an environment in OpenBSD. Virtualization.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite IT Blogs, across various technology industries. It focuses on all of the latest developments in Google’s security world. Google Online Security Blog. Dark Reading.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Here’s hoping you find something useful! Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Ádám Sándor has launched a blog series ( chapter 1 is available now) that mirrors Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way tutorial on GitHub. Networking.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite Tech Blogs, across various technology industries.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 16, 2013

Here’s a quick look at the steps involved: Create a set of build directories for source RPMs. Let’s take a look at each of these steps in a bit more detail. Let’s take a look at each of these steps in a bit more detail. The CentOS wiki has a great page for how to set up an RPM build environment.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite Tech Blogs, across various technology industries.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2014

In case you’re just now catching up on this blog series, I encourage you to visit my Learning NVP/NSX page , which has a brief summary of all the posts in the series. Let’s start with a generic overview of OpenStack Neutron and its components. VMware NSX was designed to be integrated into a cloud management platform.

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Galido

MARCH 25, 2019

Selenium provides the developer with an API that will allow him to interact with the page he wants to try. That is, a first step would be to provide a URL to the page you want to try. Next, we can go looking for and selecting the elements that we know that the page that we indicated at the beginning exists. Selenium WebDriver.

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Tools Applications Programming Mobile 84

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite Tech Websites and Blogs, across various technology industries.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 18, 2014

etcd is a distributed key-value store (more on that in a moment) and is one of the key technologies that I feel distinguishes CoreOS from other Linux distributions. Later in this post, I’ll show you how that’s done using both the RESTful etcd API as well as using the etcdctl command-line client.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite IT Blogs, across various technology industries. It focuses on all of the latest developments in Google’s security world. Google Online Security Blog. Dark Reading.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 14, 2013

Among IT pros, it’s quite common these days to have a home lab/home network complete with DNS, DHCP, hypervisors, storage, etc. As IT pros, it’s also quite common to have to use a virtual private network (VPN) solution to connect back to our employers’ corporate networks in order to get work done.

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Network Linux System Windows 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Here’s the write-up on some of the vendor meetings I’ve attended while in San Francisco. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. Jeda Networks.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

That’s why the Aerospace Village at DEF CON exists, to expose various groups of people to each other, and to collectively start to work on solving these problems before they negatively impact our lives. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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Airlines Government Security Conference 52

TM Forum

OCTOBER 13, 2021

in its ability to deploy and generate value from new technology, the rate of development, the appetite for new technology, and the changes in the ways we work are all speeding up, reflecting the confidence of an industry that’s getting bolder and braver, a positive outcome from the past 18 months. As the telecommunications industry.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io is contributing its NVMKV (nonvolatile memory key-value) interface to flash and is also posting the first flash-aware Linux kernel virtual memory Demand Paging Extension to GitHub for community testing. Virtualization. and Percona Server 5.5.31. Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Convergence.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I think that’s the point Ivan tried to make as well—it’s the architecture and how OpenFlow is used that makes a difference. (Is Brad Hedlund (who will be my co-worker starting on 2/11) created a great explanation of network virtualization that clearly breaks down the components and explains their purpose and function.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Microsoft now has more than 1 million servers in its data centers, according to CEO Steve Ballmer, who confirmed the number during his keynote address during last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference in which he handicapped the size of the server platforms for the world’s leading cloud computing providers.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Here’s hoping you find something useful! Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. I can’t imagine that anyone has been immune to the onslaught of information on Docker, but here’s an article that might be helpful if you’re still looking for a quick and practical introduction.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

From top left, clockwise: Arcade 1Up recreated arcade cabinet, Steam Deck, Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Essentials Kit; Xbox Series S. This doesn’t include the PlayStation 5 or Nintendo’s OLED Switch, because like the last installment , we’re focusing on gifts you can actually expect to find. Price: $24.95.

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Sean Daniel

JUNE 12, 2012

Robert Crane : Having 15 years of IT experience with a degree in Electrical Engineering as well as Masters of Business Administration, hes been awarded with the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his contributions to the Office 365 product in 2012. Virtualization. 6/12/2012 6:42 PM. Jules Wilko. Cheers Jules.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? Well, nothing’s impossible. There’s a classic trope in fiction, that a criminal hacker somehow gets information that allows them or their team to take down a power grid of a major city. Here’s Robert M. But how might it actually happen?

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System Industry Conference Network 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 25, 2014

If you are just now joining the series, I encourage you to visit the Learning NVP/NSX page , where you can find links to all the posts in the series. Let’s take a more in-depth look at each of these steps. For now, let’s make sure that VMware NSX is ready for Neutron. Configure VMware NSX for Neutron.

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Vmware Network Transportation .Net 96

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 20, 2014

The GitHub page for fleet describes it as a “distributed init system” that operates across a cluster of machines instead of on a single machine. Now that you have an idea of what fleet does, let’s take a closer look at actually using fleet. There’s still at least one more step required (possibly two).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why Tennisha Martin founded Black Girls Hack , an organization designed to help the next generation receive the skills and experience they need to land jobs in the C-suites, and perhaps begin to address the acute shortage of infosec professionals with qualified people of color. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why Tennisha Martin founded Black Girls Hack , an organization designed to help the next generation receive the skills and experience they need to land jobs in the C-suites, and perhaps begin to address the acute shortage of infosec professionals with qualified people of color. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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Study Security Information Security Examples 40

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

It’s a huge milestone, and I’m excited for the final RTM sometime the first half of this year! I am a new father (she’s 8 months old at the time of writing this) and I’m a hobbyist photographer. While we’re talking about media, let’s focus on the internal network. Did I mention free security?

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