How to Use Hidden Browser Window Controls in ChromeOS
Tech Republic
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Learn how to use the hidden browser window controls in ChromeOS for an enhanced browsing experience with this step-by-step guide.
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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
The Verge
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Which Linux?
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 15, 2024
Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. And here’s another example of malware that is targeting Linux (along with Windows). Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Falco has graduated within the CNCF.
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Valve surprises with new model of the Steam Deck portable gaming PC
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
based Valve has not offered any information regarding what motivated its decision to give the Steam Deck a hardware refresh. Back in June, Asus also offered its $599/$699 ROG Ally, a portable PC with both TV and desktop compatibilities that’s powered by Windows 11. and Canada. Valve press image) Bellevue, Wash.-based
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Wall of Flippers is the way to put a stop to Flipper Zero
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. Wall of Flippers is an open-source Python project offers a beacon of hope.
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Technology Short Take 124
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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems
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.
(Lack of) Patch Management Highlighted in US Congress
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.
Technology Short Take 153
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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Technology Short Take 123
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 17, 2020
Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Operating Systems/Applications. Time to get patching, folks!
Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018
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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Technology Short Take 112
Scott Lowe
APRIL 19, 2019
Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. ” Operating Systems/Applications.
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Understanding Readium – Features, Architecture and Alternatives
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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The Linux Migration: Other Users’ Stories, Part 4
Scott Lowe
MARCH 21, 2017
At my new job, I have the option to use any operating system (OS), and I naturally gravitated toward Linux. Q: What hardware are you using with Linux? I used this to get started on my Linux migration journey, focusing on writing my blog and other open source efforts. Unfortunately, the HDMI port wouldn’t work.
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Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well.
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what every open source project needs
SPF13
MARCH 20, 2015
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker? Open Source is taking over the world. Transcript.
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Technology Short Take #83
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Servers/Hardware. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.
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Technology Short Take #83
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Servers/Hardware. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration. Nothing this time around!
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 19, 2018
Servers/Hardware. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Operating Systems/Applications. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Nothing this time around. release of Kubernetes.
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Best IT and Tech Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019
Galido
MARCH 19, 2019
These areas of IT 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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Technology Short Take 126
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. I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras.
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Technology Short Take #80
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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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.
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Technology Short Take #83
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 16, 2017
Servers/Hardware. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.
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Technology Short Take #60
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.
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Technology Short Take 98
Scott Lowe
APRIL 27, 2018
Cilium, the open source project working to bring eBPF-powered networking and security to Kubernetes environments, has hit the 1.0 Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. Your mileage may vary, of course. release.
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Technology Short Take 94
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here. It’s good to see my friend Brent Salisbury blogging again, this time writing about measuring bandwith using iperf and Docker.
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019
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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113 Tech Blogs – Best Must Read Tech Resources 2019
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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107 Best Tech Blogs – Must Read Tech Resources 2019
Galido
MARCH 22, 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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Scott Lowe
MARCH 2, 2017
Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?
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Best IT Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019
Galido
MARCH 19, 2019
These areas of IT 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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66 Technology Short Take #44
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots.
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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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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
No problem, Ravello Systems has a blog (and a blueprint) to help you set all this up. Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Hyper-V on Nano in Windows Server 2016 TP3?
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Technology Short Take #46
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. “Junk-box infrastructure,” eh?
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69 Technology Short Take #74
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 8, 2016
This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Servers/Hardware. I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project.
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60 What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019
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?
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60 Technology Short Take #36
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2013
with the Floodlight open source controller. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s kind of funny: I was doing a bit of reading on ZeroVM , a new open source lightweight hypervisor, trying to understand where it fits in the overall virtualization space. Technology Short Take #30.
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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT
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.
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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT
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.
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How to run Llama 3 locally with Ollama?
Dataconomy
APRIL 24, 2024
Ollama, a free, open-source tool, enables the operation of various large language models, such as Llama 3, on personal computers, even those with limited capabilities. It utilizes llama.cpp, an open-source library that optimizes the performance of LLMs on local machines with minimal hardware demands.
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41 Technology Short Take #43
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 8, 2014
Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, but I’ll keep my eyes open for more content to include next time. I am rapidly being pulled “higher” up the stack to look at tools and systems for working with distributed applications across clusters of servers. Operating Systems/Applications.
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