Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.) Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

based Valve has not offered any information regarding what motivated its decision to give the Steam Deck a hardware refresh. This sector of the gaming hardware market is older than many consumers think, but it was primarily a curiosity until the release of the Steam Deck. and Canada. Valve press image) Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Virtualized Greek

MAY 9, 2013

Reblogged from GigaOM: The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn''t enough. On Wednesday, it said it would solicit input on an open source top-of-rack switch. Read more… 884 more words.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Operating Systems/Applications. Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. I think some of the lessons in this article could apply to a lot of different scenarios, not just open source usage.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.

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Kitaboo

MAY 23, 2023

Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components. Authentication mechanisms can range from simple username/password combinations to more sophisticated methods like biometric authentication or hardware-based authentication tokens.

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Software Software Licensing eBook 78

Vox

JANUARY 29, 2021

Angry CEOs, operating system updates, and maybe even a lawsuit — the feud continues. Apple’s tracking-optional mobile operating system update is coming to iPhones this spring, and the new privacy-preserving features will give users the ability to opt out of being followed around the internet via trackers in their apps.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It’s packed with tools for exploring hardware, software, and wireless protocols. Pen-testing tool Flipper Zero was eventually used for Bluetooth spam attacks on the iOS operating system ( Image credit ) What is Wall of Flippers? Wall of Flippers is an open-source Python project offers a beacon of hope.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The courses are designed to be completed in succession, starting with the Apple Device Support course, which focuses on the skills and expertise you’ll need as a help desk professional, technical coordinator, or service provider for an organization that relies on Apple hardware and software.

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SCRUM Project Management Course Network 134

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Servers/Hardware. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! This article seems to think so.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. 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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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2020

” WiBotic’s power management software can work with the hardware to optimize battery use for whole fleets of robots, without a human ever having to handle a plug. “He’s got a lot of expertise when it comes to hardware, software, management and sales and marketing,” Waters said.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” Pulumi lets its customers apply modern software development practices to what has traditionally been a cumbersome or manual process of provisioning, configuring and updating the underlying hardware and software for running applications. It sells multi-user and enterprise plans in a software-as-a-service model.

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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. Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. Hat tip to James Kane for bringing this to my attention.)

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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. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2021

Not only are they the company’s first tablets running its own HarmonyOS operating system, but the smaller MatePad Pro and MatePad 11 use Snapdragon chips produced by Qualcomm rather than the Huawei-designed Kirin processors found in its previous devices. Huawei has announced a trio of new MatePad tablets; a new 12.6-inch

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Wireless Open Source Comparison Google 126

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Michael Gasch has a nice post on git and using it to collaborate on an open source project. Networking.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. What is serverless framework? Why use it?

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Linux Cloud Architecture Open Source 92

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Servers/Hardware. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Cormac Hogan shares some lessons learned using a Kubernetes Operator to query vSphere resources. Operating Systems/Applications. You may find this list helpful.

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Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. Since the launch of the.NET Core open source development platform in June 2016, it can be used on non-Windows machines. Kotlin is an open source language.

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Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

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Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Vox

APRIL 21, 2021

Tile says that Apple is not only creating hardware that’s similar to its own, but is also designing Apple software in a way that favors its own products and disadvantages Tile’s products. “We Tile has long argued that Apple unfairly designed its mobile operating system, iOS, and the Find My app to favor its own location-tracking tools.

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Apple Open Source System Operating Systems 69

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure publish shared responsibility models that push security of the data, platform, applications, operating system, network and firewall configuration, and server-side encryption, to the customer. Open source applications running in the cloud need to be copyrighted.

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Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 123

Kitaboo

MAY 19, 2020

The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. x, audiobooks, Web Pub, and image-based books such as Manga.

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Architecture eBook Open Source Applications 78

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. The investment in your family will pay off in later years, trust me. Networking.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Operating Systems/Applications. This is such an invaluable resource.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” Operating Systems/Applications. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ?

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Servers/Hardware. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! This article seems to think so.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. Kubernetes 1.24

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

But at the prompting of an Apple lawyer, Schiller mentioned on Tuesday that he’d also helped invent the iPod clickwheel — one of Apple’s most distinctive hardware designs. And why, Apple’s counsel asked, was a marketing executive working on hardware design? Apple used Schiller to put a new spin on Epic’s other evidence against it.

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Apple Hardware Open Source Engineering 66

Vox

JUNE 14, 2022

Then there’s Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS), which is free and open source. Carmakers can use it to build their own infotainment systems — basically, AAOS is the car equivalent to Android’s mobile operating system. CarPlay may not just be a preview of the Apple Car.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. Another advantage, which Mint shares with other Linux distros, is it runs on low-power hardware. This is an image of the Mint operating system which you can use to run or install the operating system.

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Linux Windows How To Operating Systems 106

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79