Scott Lowe

JULY 9, 2017

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. I’m still using the Dell Latitude E7370, which continues—from a hardware perspective—to perform admirably. VM performance for my corporate Windows 10 image is a bit less than desirable.

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Linux Report Dell Mobile 60

Dataconomy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It’s packed with tools for exploring hardware, software, and wireless protocols. Soon, custom firmware emerged, expanding the attack canvas to Android and Windows, spamming users with unwanted advertisements, and potentially compromising device security. Well, Wall of Flippers is here to become a remedy for that!

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Windows Linux Operating Systems Wireless 41

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. I’m still using the Dell Latitude E7370, which continues—from a hardware perspective—to perform admirably. My line-up of applications also remains largely unchanged as well.

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Linux Report Dell Mobile 60

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Hardware-based keys offer extra layer of account security. Hardware-based keys offer an extra layer of account security by requiring that you either plug in the key or tap it to your device when you’re trying to log in. And if you do invest in a security key, check out our guide about how to use it.

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Security Authentication Hardware Linux 88

The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The five-hour virtual conference will include discussions of the hardware; games that will appear “on Deck” ; how the Linux handheld can play Windows games via a Proton compatibility layer; a deep dive on the AMD APU that powers it by AMD itself; and of course tips for Steam developers on how to make those things work in their favor.

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Development Hardware Linux Conference 73

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. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 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

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s not unusual to see “networking professionals need to learn developer tools,” but how often do you see “developers need to learn these networking tools”? Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Lots of geekery in here! Programming.

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Teammate Eric Shanks shows folks how to use ytt to customize a TKG deployment. Adrian Hornsby shows how to use AWS Systems Manager Automation to perform chaos engineering experiments. Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back. Good stuff!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. The article supplies lots of useful information, but I really would’ve liked some concrete examples of how to glue these pieces together.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. The article supplies lots of useful information, but I really would’ve liked some concrete examples of how to glue these pieces together.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). See here for details on how to inspect them. Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows. Lucas Pardue and Christopher Wood share a primer on proxies.

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Tomas Fojta shows how to use a PowerShell script to monitor the health of NSX Edge gateways. Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Here’s an article describing how to establish a site-to-site VPN between a Cisco ASA and Microsoft Azure. Servers/Hardware. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. Stephane Graber has an article explaining how to run Kubernetes in LXD. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Vadim Eisenberg has two articles that describe how to integrate external services into an Istio service mesh. Chris Young shares some details on a little side project he did to show how to use the Arista eAPI to do dynamic VLAN assignment based on MAC address. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 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. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Cody De Arkland shows you how. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. This article by Quincy Larson both provides some background for the recommendation as well as instructions on how to turn off Handoff. The world has moved on, and so did I.”

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 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. Jeffrey Kusters has a write-up on how to integrate AWS and vRealize Network Insight 3.4. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here’s an interesting post on how Simon Metzger pulled together Salt, NAPALM, and Kubernetes for a proof-of-concept on using Salt (via NAPALM) to manage network devices. Servers/Hardware. and how to use the Python SDK for NSX-T. Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Alpine Linux 3.5 Nothing this time around! Way to go, Daniel! was recently released.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Servers/Hardware. While this article on how to configure 2FA for SSH on Fedora probably won’t work in many corporate environments (few use Fedora), it may provide enough information to figure out what it would look like in your environment.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The challenge, says Bernard Golden, executive technical advisor at VMware, is how to make sure sensitive corporate data is protected and kept out of the general pool that makes up LLM databases. Traditional hardware vendors also have as-a-service offerings that can run in data centers or at the edge: Dell Apex and HPE GreenLake.

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Trends Cloud Oracle Enterprise 144

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

You will learn how to painlessly deploy fairly complex applications that scale across multiple instances in cloud technologies including Windows Azure Chef, Chef Solo, Linux and Windows Tools.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? Then you may find this list of tips for Linux performance on Hyper-V to be useful. What’s that? See here.).

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

How’s this for Technology Short Take inception—in TST #70 , I mentioned the Cumulus topology converter. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch?

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The first was on RESTful control of Cumulus Linux ACLs (this one isn’t actually sFlow-related); the second was on combining sFlow telemetry and RESTful APIs for visibility and control in campus networks. Servers/Hardware. Both articles are worth reviewing if hardware selection is an important aspect of your role.

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Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Servers/Hardware. There’s not much here yet, but it will be interesting to see how this “K8s by example” GitBook —which is, as the author admits, just a collection of various command-line snippets—evolves. Gergely Nemeth shares how to leverage skaffold so you can use Kubernetes for local development.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. Servers/Hardware. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Daniel Hertzberg provides an overview of Salt integration in Arista EOS.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60