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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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Looking Back: 2012 Project Report Card

Scott Lowe

About a year ago, I posted a look at my planned projects for 2012. Become more familiar with Xen (and Open vSwitch and OpenStack). Become more familiar with Xen (and Open vSwitch and OpenStack). In a (near-)future post, I’ll incorporate the progress on my 2012 projects and the key takeaways into my list of 2013 projects.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. (TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.) Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. This is a handy trick.

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5 reasons to shift from Flash to HTML5 for Mobile Learning

Kitaboo

Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, withdrew support to Flash in its iOS platforms in 2012, given the numerous malfunctions that happened due to it. In fact, in one of his articles, he said, “new open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and on PCs too)”.

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The Risks In Using Third-Party Code

ForAllSecure

BlackDuck Software uncovered that 67% of the applications they analyzed contained open source security vulnerabilities. The breach was made possible due to a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open source server framework, Apache Struts. Security is a top risk of using third-party code. Free is Never Free.

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The Risks In Using Third-Party Code

ForAllSecure

BlackDuck Software uncovered that 67% of the applications they analyzed contained open source security vulnerabilities. The breach was made possible due to a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open source server framework, Apache Struts. Security is a top risk of using third-party code. Free is Never Free.

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Looking Ahead: My 2016 Projects

Scott Lowe

Almost every year since 2012, I’ve been publishing a list of projects/goals for the upcoming year (here’s the original list for 2012 , then 2013 , I skipped 2014, and here’s the list for 2015 ). Make more open source contributions. I learned in 2012 that the synergy of the projects does make a difference.