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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products.

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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Linux Distribution. Chat/Instant messaging: I continue to use the Slack Linux client and Pidgin.

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The Linux Migration: April 2017 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” Early adopters of industry clouds were healthcare, banking, and tech companies, but that has expanded to energy, manufacturing, public sector, and media.

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Technology Short Take #70

Scott Lowe

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #70!

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Technology Short Take 164

Scott Lowe

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past! That’s all for now!

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Fix for Strange Issue Booting KVM Guests

Scott Lowe

This was an important step in educating myself on Linux, KVM, libvirt, and Open vSwitch (OVS), all of which are critical core components in most installations of OpenStack. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Client-Specific DHCP Options with Linux DHCP Server.

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