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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down. John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) September 24, 2021. “We

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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Technology Short Take 150

Scott Lowe

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Not only for this Technology Short Take, but also for 2021. Networking.

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Technology Short Take 136

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #136, the first Short Take of 2021! Servers/Hardware. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Want to enable logging in every AWS service that exists (as of 2021)? Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take 170

Scott Lowe

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). This is a slightly older post (dates from 2021), but still useful, I think.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. Music] VAMOSI: What is an operating system?

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” The post focuses on Otomi, which in turn leverages Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper. Michael Gasch pontificates on Knative’s missteps in this post from June 2021.