Kitaboo

MAY 19, 2020

The Readium SDK performs simplistic test applications for the different operating systems, whether it be Android, iOS, or even OS X, apart from supporting encryption-based modules. Create a cross-platform native code software development kit (SDK), which you can use to build native applications across different hardware platforms.

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Architecture eBook Open Source Applications 78

Gizmodo

AUGUST 30, 2021

Microsoft is cautioning that those who take an alternative road to installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware won’t receive software updates. Read more.

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Windows Microsoft Software Software 75

The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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Windows Microsoft Operating Systems System 80

Gizmodo

JULY 1, 2021

It hasn’t even been a whole week, and Windows 11 has already been successfully ported over to a smartphone. A very committed student of engineering, Gustave Monce , published a video to YouTube showing the latest developer preview of Windows 11 running on an old Windows Phone. Read more.

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Windows Course Engineering Video 71

The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. The common ARM-based architecture across Apple’s products should now make it easier for developers to write and optimize apps across every major Apple device. Apple is designing its own range of SoC for Macs, with unique features to Mac.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2014

An introduction to Napatech: Imagine you find an open window into your company’s system. You quickly realize that nefarious individuals are attempting to break into your system and steal sensitive information. Napatech is committed to stopping criminals before they get into your systems. By Katie Kennedy.

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Applications CTO Network Operating Systems 254

Mick's IT Blog

AUGUST 8, 2018

It allows you to configure and/or query the BIOS before an operating system is laid down. The first thing is to determine the architecture of the WinPE environment. Depending on the WinPE architecture, you will use the appropriate directory. The x: drive contains the WinPE operating system.

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Dell .Net Operating Systems Architecture 97

The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The new Macs will use arm64, the same CPU architecture that recent iOS devices use (Intel-based Macs use an architecture called x86-64). But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware.

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Intel Apple Windows Programming 101

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Operating Systems/Applications. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux. That’s cool. Both are good articles.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Here’s a two-part series (so far) on setting up a multi-architecture Kubernetes cluster ( part 1 , part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post. Programming.

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Operating Systems/Applications. Someone recently pointed this out.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I found this link in the serverless mullet architectures post, see the “Operating Systems/Applications” section below.). Servers/Hardware. If you’re seeking to deepen your understanding of the Kubernetes architecture, I can heartily recommend this article. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Architecture Operating Systems Applications How To 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around! Career/Soft Skills.

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

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. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85!

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) explaining the routing architecture in NSX-T (which brings multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud support to the NSX platform). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. (Who knows, maybe I’ll throw a rant or two in there.) Networking. Nothing this time around (sorry!).

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. For me, the key takeaway was that you need to carefully examine the architecture of your application(s) in order to understand where serverless (function-as-a-service) is the best fit. “The What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before? See here.). environments.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Amazon’s new Luna cloud gaming platform is powered by Windows servers and Nvidia GPUs. Luna supports more than 100 games thanks to this Windows support, allowing developers to quickly move their existing Windows games over to an AWS instance and provide cloud streaming access to subscribers. Image: Amazon.

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Windows Hardware Linux Microsoft 96

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.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. The CPU architecture flaw involving speculative execution has been garnering a great deal of attention (see here , here , here , and here ). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Servers/Hardware. Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud. Operating Systems/Applications. Seen this ?

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

To take advantage of high-capacity flash in the memory bus, Diablo supplies drivers for all the major operating systems (OSes), including ESXi, and what this driver does is modify the way that page swaps are handled. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache. It was a highly entertaining discussion.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Run Windows containers on the Mac. With the recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems by Docker Inc. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It’s taken Microsoft years to get the hardware and software right, but the company firmly believes now is the ideal time for something new. Work began on the Duo just after Microsoft had canceled the Surface Mini , an eight-inch tablet running Windows. Image: Windows Central. A small Surface was Panay’s dream for years. “It

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Microsoft Hardware Windows Mobile 108

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Run Windows containers on the Mac. With the recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems by Docker Inc. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

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. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

Internet 52

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. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52