The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The company also announced a new entry-level iPad during its recent “California Streaming” event , which comes outfitted with a new front-facing camera, a faster processor, and double the base storage. Greater storage capacity, with base storage starting at 64GB. The A13 Bionic chip, replacing the A12 Bionic from 2018.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2018, so here’s hoping I can provide something useful for you. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Operating Systems/Applications. Have a great remainder of 2018, folks!

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

SecureWorld covered the Five Eyes stance on the privacy and security debate back in 2018. It isn’t just aimed at Apple, Google, Facebook, Signal, and the like, though it certainly applies to them; it goes well beyond, to include everyone from Box and Dropbox, to the full range of Microsoft’s products, to OEM handset manufacturers.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For many of my readers, VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas was “front and center” for them since the last Tech Short Take. One of the interesting announcements to come out of the recent VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas is also described in this post on the AWS News Blog : Amazon RDS on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Operating Systems/Applications. Nicola Apicella has a nice, in-depth write-up discussing Docker images, overlay file systems, and the OCI specification. Former manager and colleague Paul Lundin penned this piece about working in a startup versus working in an enterprise back in June 2018. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Operating Systems/Applications. This page has a list of ways to exploit (or hack) macOS. Good stuff! I loved this set of Bash tips.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Trusted Platform Module) support, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Microsoft doesn’t typically enforce such specific processor requirements with Windows — with both Windows 8 and Windows 10 only requiring a 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB for 64-bit), and 16GB of storage (20GB for 64-bit).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. Cindy Sridharan has a good article on health checks and graceful degradation in distributed systems. This is a slightly older article (August 2018), but an informative one (to me, at least). I’ll leave it to readers to come to their own conclusions. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Welcome to Technology Short Take 92, the first Technology Short Take of 2018. Operating Systems/Applications. This one was supposed to be the last Tech Short Take of 2017, but I didn’t get it published in time (I decided to spend time with my family instead—some things are just more important). Virtualization.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

Asus calls it a “flagship” grade sensor, and while that might have been true in 2018, it’s at least a step up from the smaller, cheaper sensors often found in ultrawide cameras. The 12 mini is actually a little smaller than the ZenFone 8, and when you factor in storage capacity, it’s likely to be the more expensive choice at $829 for 256GB.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

Amazon Web Services describes the ideal candidate as having: Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services. Up until October 11, 2018, AWS required you to pass an Associate level exam in their category before you could take a Professional exam. Experience managing/operating systems on AWS.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In fact, only 1% of CIOs responding to Gartner’s 2018 CIO survey indicate any kind of blockchain adoption. They also require a separate app for every operating system. Between personal devices, cloud storage, internal databases, SaaS services, etc… business data is everywhere. Does that mean blockchain is all hype?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

Need a curated list of KubeCon 2018 session content? Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a quick primer on using OpenEBS for Kubernetes cluster storage. Look no further. Spot Instances are a cost optimization for AWs that I simply haven’t had time to really explore. Virtualization.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

It starts at $1,099 for a 128GB version, but increased storage and accessories like a keyboard or the Apple Pencil can shoot the price up fairly quickly. It’s 8GB on models with 512GB or fewer of storage and 16GB on models with 1TB or more. inch iPad Pro with the M1 as on my 2018 iPad Pro. Both the 12.9

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

This is true even though Apple runs its own email platform, which is free but charges for extra storage, and gets to keep all that revenue for itself. Meanwhile, Apple offers a mediocre Spotify alternative, Apple Music, which it advertises throughout the operating system.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2018, the last review year, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it was deemed to be legal as well, however, this activity is restricted to restoring the device in question to its original specifications. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2018, the last review year, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it was deemed to be legal as well, however, this activity is restricted to restoring the device in question to its original specifications. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire.

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