Gizmodo

JUNE 25, 2021

When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 this week, it also made a fanfare of bringing Android apps to the OS through the Amazon Appstore. It’s an exciting feature both for Windows diehards looking for more ways to tinker and for casual users who might want the added utility of an Android app. But the initial announcement … Read more.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Microsoft announced today that Windows 11 beta users can now try out Android apps on their PC. But curiously, there are only 50 apps available. Read more.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Operating Systems/Applications.

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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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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

Here is how to install it on different operating systems: Windows: For Nvidia GPU Users: A portable standalone build is available on the releases page. FreeWilly : Meet Stability AI’s newest language models Manual Install (Windows, Linux): Clone the ComfyUI repository using Git. Check out the brand-new SDXL 1.0

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

It is the first known malware capable of bypassing Secure Boot on fully up-to-date Windows 11 systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. Linux, known for its security advantages, was previously considered less vulnerable compared to other operating systems.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Operating Systems/Applications. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself).

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple on Intel.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 22, 2022

Chromebooks have come a long way from their origins as cheap, budget-friendly laptops with small displays that are meant for kids and the classroom. One user segment they haven’t yet reached, however, is gamers. That could soon change now that Google is bringing Steam to Chrome OS. Read more.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container). Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Operating Systems/Applications. Larry Smith Jr.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s a lot of talk about how Nvidia is “owning” the AI movement, but as Derrick Harris points out, Intel still owns the data center. Here’s a good “what you need to know” article by Kevin Houston on the new Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (SP), recently announced. Operating Systems/Applications.

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

But the Flex is great for video conferences and regular music-listening, and certainly beats what I’ve heard from all kinds of Windows laptops that are over $1,000. When I’m using the Flex 3, I feel like I’m looking at a small window of screen floating in an abyss of black. On a Windows machine, these specs would be a hard pass.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? That’s the core question in this blog post , which explores the future of Intel in a software-defined world and the increasing interest in non-x86 platforms like ARM. Operating Systems/Applications. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In the plethora of announcements, what stands out for me is the increasing clarity of the emerging platforms battle, which is happening on two levels: mobile operating system and applications. Mobile operating system. The launch of the iPhone 3G redefined how people thought about mobile devices.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU.

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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. Frank Denneman (with an admittedly vSphere-focused lens) takes a look at the Intel Xeon Scalable Family in a two-part (so far) series.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Technology Short Take #16.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Technology Short Take #16.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Although I’m just now catching Kevin’s posts, they were published almost immediately after the Intel announcements—thanks for the promptness, Kevin!).

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Moreover, the Pocket AI GPU is compatible with both Windows and Linux systems, ensuring widespread usability. In a head-to-head showdown, it faces off against the Intel Xe GPU, an integrated solution, and the NVIDIA A5000 Laptop GPU, a high-end GA104 mobile processor with 6144 CUDA cores and 16GB of memory.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. Massimo Re Ferre takes a stab at explaining containerd in plain words. GitHub recently changed their Terms of Service (ToS), and this caused some concern about some users. (For

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

These are all basically network attacks, enabled by poorly configured IoT devices for true IoT hacking, I'm thinking you're going to need a bit more than a Kali Linux box on your side. Is that a traditional networking attack, or is that an IoT attack? I would think secure IoT attacks would be different.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

These are all basically network attacks, enabled by poorly configured IoT devices for true IoT hacking, I'm thinking you're going to need a bit more than a Kali Linux box on your side. Is that a traditional networking attack, or is that an IoT attack? I would think secure IoT attacks would be different.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Good stuff here!

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

The Internet Era: 00s • Internet changes everything • Open source movement gains traction (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) • Tech selling ads, bits, hardware & services • Google Dominates. Summary: small poll for my new operating system? Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

To take advantage of high-capacity flash in the memory bus, Diablo supplies drivers for all the major operating systems (OSes), including ESXi, and what this driver does is modify the way that page swaps are handled. Basically, it makes high-capacity flash storage accessible via the CPU’s memory bus.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light on details, but the embedded video may be more informative (I didn’t watch it). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Hykes says these rules are the impetus behind the separation between Enterprise Edition and Community Edition, and why there are tools like Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows. The demo shows off multi-stage builds and the desktop-to-cloud integration from both Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows. Make the powerful simple.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: In a few years time (let’s say 3–5 years), Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) will be regarded as important if not more important than the virtualization extensions. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Operating Systems/Applications. announcement post.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Intel recently announced a refresh of the E5 CPU line; Kevin Houston has more details here. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. Operating Systems/Applications. See here for details.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Operating Systems/Applications. App Firewall?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. Operating Systems/Applications. Ben Armstrong shows how here. Technology Short Take #29.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Operating Systems/Applications. App Firewall?

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