Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here’s your weekend reading—a collection of links and articles from around the internet on a variety of data center- and cloud-related topics. The Linux kernel project has become a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote a blog post that discusses this in more depth. Welcome to Technology Short Take #175!

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Construction Open Source Virtualization Cloud 84

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Well, you’ll have to read the whole article to find out for sure, but I have links to articles on…well, lots of different topics! DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. A “highly evasive” Linux malware named OrBit has emerged; see here for more details.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency). Operating Systems/Applications.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Networking.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

… And when you went from one application to the other, you had to redo it all from scratch. … It’s almost the love child of a search engine, like Google, which you can talk to about anything, with the somewhat limited but very real intelligence of AI systems.” ” AI2 technical director Oren Etzioni.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! This article on using osquery for behavioral detection of macOS malware was an interesting read. Read this article and you will be enlightened.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. a shares a trick for bypassing the macOS TCC protection using older applications. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories. Don’t worry—I’ll keep my eyes peeled and my RSS reader ready to pull in new articles in those categories for next time. Sander Rodenhuis wrote an article on security policies in Kubernetes.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In any case, I’ve spent the last month collecting links to articles and tutorials from around the web on all the various technologies that us IT folk are likely to encounter in our day-to-day adventures. Looks like some significant bandwidth increases could be on the horizon; see this article for more details. Good stuff!

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Also see the link to the newer article the author wrote as a follow-up. As fate (luck?)

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Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency). Operating Systems/Applications.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

I’d never heard of Pipy before seeing it in this article , but it look like it could be quite useful for a number of use cases. BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Rob Salmond has a good article on Prometheus service discovery, Istio, and mTLS.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This article is chock-full of useful information that, typically, can only be gathered from direct experience (like the note on using istioctl instead of the Istio Operator to avoid an issue when upgrading from 1.6 I wasn’t aware of Cloudflare Argo Tunnel, so this article was informative for that reason alone. Good stuff!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. More details are available in this article. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS. Networking.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

There will be a longer gap than usual before the next Tech Short Take (more details to come on Monday), but in the meantime here’s some articles and links to feed your technical appetite. Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2023

If you need a foundational review of Amazon ECS, this article is a good starting point. In the end, he comes up with using a general purpose programming language (via CDK in his article) to write higher-level constructs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Has your team started saying, “It works in my container”?

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Network World

JUNE 22, 2016

In a world where any new software project is built in large part on existing third-party code, finding and patching vulnerabilities in popular open-source libraries is vital to creating reliable and secure applications. Libarchive is an open-source library first created for FreeBSD, but since ported to all major operating systems.

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Open Source Linux Operating Systems Applications 62

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Exploiting cloud VMs via a remote serial/console service? What about preventing it?

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Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the mechanisms white label ed platforms use to convert, adjust, optimize, and distribute eBooks across different formats. Operating System Testing Apart from device compatibility, K12 eBooks must also work across different operating systems.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows.

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Have a look at the article for more details. Networking. Good advice.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

I’m back with another collection of articles on various data center technologies. This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. More details are found in this article.

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Linux Programming Cloud Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Ivan Pepelnjak has a fantastic article on adapting network design to acommodate automation. This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

ForAllSecure

MAY 16, 2023

This article discusses those questions by explaining common causes of false positives and how to mitigate them. Outdated Vulnerability Data Testing an application for vulnerabilities typically involves using testing tools that access a vulnerability database, such as the NVD. What Are False Positives in Software Security Testing?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward monthly articles, since it’s been about a month since my last one. Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. This article from Bruce Schneier is worth reading. Both are good articles. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Don’t be surprised, then, to see me start talking more about switching away from OS X, and exploring applications and tools that work on other platforms. Macintosh iPhone Linux'

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thanks to this article , that oversight is now corrected. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T. In truth, the answer is exactly as Ivan says at the top of the article: when it comes to migrating container hosts, you don’t. Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. I certainly hope not!

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

Everyone’s favorite three-letter agency recently released some VPN security guidance, as reported by this InfoSecurity Magazine article. The article also provides some links to said guidance, for those that are interested. ” Want to use a Yubikey to automatically lock and unlock your Linux system? Programming.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

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. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

If you are reading this article, it means that you want to start studying programming. This language is perfect programming language for the development of medium and high complexity web applications. Originally authored by David Heinemeier Hansson, it is a cross-platform Web application framework written in Ruby. Objective-C.

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Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Operating Systems/Applications. Carlos Fenollosa has a series of articles describing his attempt to move to Linux from macOS, and why he came back.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here’s a look at a few of the articles and posts that have caught my attention over the last few weeks. Via Kirk Byers (who is himself a fantastic resource), I read a couple of articles on network automation that I think readers may find helpful. There’s some good information in their article. Networking.

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