Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Via Russ White , RFC 9199 was drawn to my attention (“Considerations for Large Authoritative DNS Server Operators”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. What do I have in store for you this time around?

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

in the consumer market for a configuration with an Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage. A model of the Surface Laptop Go with an i5 processor, 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage will sell for $899.99. The base model, with an SQ 1 processor, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage sells for $999.

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Microsoft Storage Intel Windows 98

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

In contrast, choosing iPhone is an easy choice in terms of product line; the models launched to the market by the Apple are few, numbered and classified in with a higher price tag. iOS users may swear on the ease of use of Apple products, while Android users may debate that Apple users just don’t know what they are doing.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Networking.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. Trusted Platform Module) support, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Windows 11 will require Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up, TPM 2.0

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Windows Microsoft Hardware Intel 91

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. network virtualization). Programming.

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. For the most part, OS X has delivered that over the years.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s great for Apple Arcade games that support controllers. Unlike most controller accessories made thus far, the Backbone One is a hybrid of tightly integrated hardware and software. If we’re looking at the hardware, it’s arguably the best of its kind yet.

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Video Hardware Apple Software 112

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Jeff Johnson shows how to log some information being sent between macOS and Apple. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications. A redesign for Apple’s long-stagnant System Preferences app? (Seriously.). Yes, please.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Dataconomy

JULY 25, 2023

Apple’s entry into the wearable market with the Apple Watch in 2015 revolutionized the industry ( Image Credit ) 2010s – Mainstream adoption The 2010s were a watershed moment for wearable computers as they started gaining mainstream acceptance.

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Energy Applications Operating Systems Data 36

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Operating Systems/Applications. Kubernetes 1.15

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Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. include, among other things, support for Apple Silicon-based virtualization hosts (to run AArch64 guests). In fact, he’s already built some container images, and the post has information on running tools from his prebuilt container image. Well worth reading!

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. Operating Systems/Applications.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

That isn’t to say Samsung has come as far as Apple in those integrations, nor is it to say that the traditional Android tablet gripes — namely, a much smaller pool of optimized apps — don’t apply here. The hardware differences between 2020’s Tab S7 / S7 Plus and this year’s Tab S8 versions are such: New Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor.

Hardware 59

Hardware Windows Apple Storage 59

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp. Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp. Cassandra and Neo4j.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Galido

AUGUST 7, 2018

It is limited in capability and flexibility and required by Apple by default to add music, videos, and photos. However if there was a simple way to do without iTunes and easily manage your device without having to deal with the flaws of Apple’s software, would that interest you? 10, iOS 8 and later. Video Download + Conversion.

Video 66

Video Backup Windows Software 66

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Sentinel Labs outlines a major malware push that is bypassing Apple’s malware protections. Operating Systems/Applications. I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

Apple iPad vs the Blackberry Playbook. When I saw the Playbook for the first time, I thought “Now here is a tablet that can take Apple off it’s high horse” I still think it’s the closest tablet to the iPad (I have not tried a Kindle Fire, but believe it’s in the same ranks). SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced). Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time; sorry! Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Sentinel Labs outlines a major malware push that is bypassing Apple’s malware protections. Operating Systems/Applications. I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

Nor is it like a Samsung Galaxy Watch or an Apple Watch. runs its own proprietary software, based on a real-time operating system. It’s similar to the software on the budget smartwatches you can get on Amazon; if you’ve ever used an Amazfit , Umidigi , or Wyze watch , you’ve used a real-time operating system.

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Apple Software Software Operating Systems 71

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Patrick Ogenstad outlines what’s involved with managing Cisco IOS upgrades with Ansible.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. There was a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with the Touch Bar. Operating Systems/Applications. The new filesystem is called LCFS, or Layer Cloning File System, and you can get more details on LCFS via its GitHub repository.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Read more about it here. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you this time.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

I wrote device drivers for the IBM PC, as well as Apple Mac IIs and SEs.”. Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”.

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Transportation Windows Software Software 129

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2020

The collection seems a tad heavier than normal in the hardware and security sections, probably due to new exploits discovered in Intel’s speculative execution functionality. Servers/Hardware. This is one of those times when an article belongs in multiple categories—in this case, hardware and security. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Intel Hardware Storage 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Networking.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Howard Oakley of The Eclectic Light Company discusses some details on Apple’s M1 chip and what it does differently than other chips. Operating Systems/Applications. Russ White shares some thoughts on the collapsed spine network design. Thank you, Ben! This is a quite old post (from 2014!),

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Normally I talk about server hardware and such here, but with so much moving to public cloud providers, let’s expand that focus a little bit: in this post , Jeramiah Dooley provides his perspective on the Surface Duo after a month of use. Operating Systems/Applications. I guess time will tell.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Even worse, this isn’t just limited to Intel chips, but may also affect ARM-based systems like Apple’s M1 CPUs. Operating Systems/Applications. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud.

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 19, 2018

I won’t go into all the gory details here; see this post for some background and then see this update from last October that summarized my previous efforts to migrate to Linux ( Fedora , specifically) as my primary desktop operating system. The motivation for using Linux is something I’ve already discussed.

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Linux Hardware Media System 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

CloudVelocity detects an existing environment, discovering the constituent hosts and blueprinting system components and configuration. It can then provision cloud resources, replicating and synchronizing the entire app stack (including operating system, kernel, app software stack, and app data) in the cloud site. Networking.

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Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205