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. TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.)

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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. 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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. Salesloft uses OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 to write the email, says Fields.

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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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Galido

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Some senior management managers may have concerns about the ability of the cybersecurity team to absorb a larger budget in terms of execution and increased headcount, the only alternative is a clever combination of hardware, software, and few personnel to enforce data loss prevention in a custom methodology. Ice Cream Sandwich.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

By 2019, with an SD-WAN in place, the firm had deployed video-enabled Microsoft SharePoint and Teams on its Windows-based corporate laptops and had migrated its accounting practice management to Microsoft Azure. So, Swift signed on before the official launch of Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC roughly one year ago. “It

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Kitaboo

MARCH 29, 2023

Short for electronic publication, an ePub is the most widely used open-source eBook file format. In this article, we’ll discuss all you need to know about ePub files including how to open and convert them. In this article, we’ll discuss all you need to know about ePub files including how to open and convert them.

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Education eBook How To Adobe 78

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Developers will be able to select from a range of proprietary and open-source LLMs; choose data sources, including Microsoft Fabric OneLake and Azure AI Search for vector embeddings, enabling responses to be fine-tuned with real-time data without having to retrain the whole model; and monitor their models’ performance once deployed.

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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. Berk Ulsoy discusses WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), providing a “Linux veteran’s” perspective. That’s cool.

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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! James Hamilton is back with a post on the AWS Graviton2 ARM processors.

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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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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. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations. Nothing this time around! Very handy!

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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. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2021

We’re sharing some of our hard-earned lessons on this behind-the-scenes episode of the GeekWire Podcast, including details on hardware and software. Computers: Our workhorse studio machine is a Dell Alienware Aurora R7 with 16 GB of memory, a 256GB solid state drive and a 2TB hard drive and NVIDIA graphics card, running Windows 10.

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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? Ulrich Speidel shares some of the findings after the volcanic eruption in Tonga.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We’ve seen the amazing progress with open-source AI, with ChatGPT, and previously with DALL-E. Mackenroth: Everything was previously hardware-centric. It’s like in the example that Chris gave, we had those windows of opportunities where we’d replace hardware because the source of the world was hardware.

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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. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Outside of its hardware announcements, one of the bigger takeaways from yesterday’s Samsung event was its ever-closer relationship with Microsoft. They even announced that you’ll soon be able to use and control multiple apps from your Samsung phone directly on your Windows 10 PC, as well as use your Samsung tablet as a secondary display.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

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. I first went with Chromium (open source version of Chrome), and then realized that the 32-bit Iceweasel plugin was the way to go.

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Vox

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Because the identifier was linked to the device’s hardware, it couldn’t be changed or reset. Safari is Apple’s native browser, which means it’s also only available for Apple devices (a Windows version is no longer supported). Brave also lets you use Tor in its “private window” feature — more on Tor later.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. As Russell indicates in his post, some additional analysis is needed to truly understand what’s happening, but early looks at the results of his tests show performance improvements in OVN versus ML2+OVS when it comes to total time required to boot a VM.

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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. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

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. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. Check back next time! and vSphere.

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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. Per the README.md

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Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Since the launch of the.NET Core open source development platform in June 2016, it can be used on non-Windows machines. Java is more than 20 years old; it is used by millions of developers and on billions of devices around the world, and can be run on any hardware and operating system through the Java virtual machine.

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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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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. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Mark Peek talks about Dispatch , the open source serverless framework VMware recently released.

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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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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

As someone who used a Switch Lite for a couple of years, though, I actually think Ayn’s hardware is better. The only real complaint I have about this hardware is the goofy Odin logo underneath the D-pad. The Odin’s design inspiration is pretty obvious: it’s basically a Nintendo Switch Lite running Android.

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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. Per the README.md

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

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. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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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. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. The project’s GitHub repository is here , and documentation for Skydive is here. What’s that?

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Dataconomy

APRIL 24, 2024

Meta made its new Llama 3 LLM open-source and you can run it locally with Ollama. By making Llama 3 open-source, Meta has unlocked a wealth of potential for businesses of all sizes. Ollama provides a platform for running open-source large language models such as Llama 2 on local systems.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here. Nick Janetakis writes about accessing documentation directly from your code editor using either Dash (macOS) or Zeal (open source, multiple platforms).

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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. Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots. Sessions at the Fall OpenStack Summit.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

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. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here.

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