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Technology Short Take #67

Scott Lowe

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. You may have heard about Microsoft’s announcement regarding running Bash on Windows; here’s an article written by Deepu Thomas with more details on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which makes running native Linux ELF64 binaries on Windows possible. (By

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Why I Might Leave OS X

Scott Lowe

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Macintosh iPhone Linux' I welcome your comments and thoughts, both now and throughout this process.

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Why I’m Now Using VirtualBox with Vagrant

Scott Lowe

I’ve been a long-time Fusion user (since 2006 when I was part of the original “friends and family” early release). If I need to run Windows, I’ll do that with Fusion because the UI and the Windows support are outstanding. This is where “using the right tool for the job” applies.

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Using Your Home DNS Servers with Corporate VPNs

Scott Lowe

This post builds upon an article on this same feature that I published in 2006.). This workaround might also work for Linux and other BSD-derived systems; I haven’t tested it there yet. I don’t know of any similar functionality for Windows.). Personally, I almost always have a terminal window open anyway.)

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

On March 13, 2006, Amazon Web Services launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Companies also felt relatively safe in their industry vertical due to the high financial and operational barriers prospective new competitive entrants would face. Although not widely appreciated at the time, that announcement was the launch of Cloud Storage 1.0

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Give-Away Contest: Win a Copy of SBS.

Sean Daniel

Book Give-away : Win free copy of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) Certification Guide , just by commenting! Why I should have this book is elementary: Not because I'm planning on getting certified like most, but because I know LINUX & OS/X intimately and SBS 2011 is neither of those.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: SBS is a Community, Stick together!

Sean Daniel

about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. Before I joined Microsoft, I spent countless hours with my roommates with Windows NT4 server, Proxy Server, and more software, trying to share an Internet connection with my room mates. Windows 7. (47). Windows 8. (4).