Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

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. Sysdig explains PSPs, and talks about kube-psp-advisor , a tool to help simplify deploying PSPs.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Way to go, Daniel! Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

and the open-source community. The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others. RDP is built into Windows and is available on most versions of the operating system.

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Operating Systems/Applications. As of January 14, Windows 7 is now End of Life (EOL), as pointed out here by Sergiu Gatlan. This is kind of cool. I’m so far behind.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. To help address that, I looked around to find an open, interoperable way of adding an extra layer of encryption onto my data. A Mac port of the open source EncFS FUSE filesystem. Background. What You’ll Need.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Operating Systems/Applications. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras. Operating Systems/Applications. Cody Hosterman, of Pure Storage, takes a look at Pure Storage’s support of the recently-released vSphere 7. I also really liked his post on text processing tools.

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. I hope you found something useful here!

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

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. Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

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. Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 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 Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. Here’s YAKI (Yet Another Kubernetes Introduction).

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

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). release of Kubernetes. PowerShell Core 6.0 is now GA and supported by Microsoft.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

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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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project. Operating Systems/Applications. Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server. I’m pretty clear about Kolla, Kuryr, and Magnum, but I’m not so clear about OpenStack Zun.

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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. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Virtualization.

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 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. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Operating Systems/Applications. I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Virtualization. Want to install ESXi 5.5

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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.). Operating Systems/Applications. Thomas Maurer has a nice post on first steps with Windows Containers.

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

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. 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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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

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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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Operating Systems/Applications. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. 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. What makes up a hybrid cloud?

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Kitaboo

MAY 6, 2024

For instance, the digital textbook publishing tool KITABOO allows learners to download educational eBooks across platforms and operating systems, and enjoy an interactive reading experience. FBReader FBReader or Favorite Book Reader, is a free-to-use, open-source eBook reader. and engage in several ways.

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eBook Education Windows Tools 78

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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How To Artificial Intelligence Open Source Operating Systems 45

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system. Michael Dales shares his experience trying out Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a Linux development environment. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Networking.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework. Operating Systems/Applications. Nigel Poulton attended DockerCon EU and has an article sharing some early thoughts on the state of Docker and Windows containers. Virtualization.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 An Ubuntu userspace and Bash shell running on Windows , eh? This almost entices me to try Windows again. of vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). via VMware Photon OS TP2.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc. Apparently, “Mt.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

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). Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Then again, what do I know? DVM looks handy.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Use software, especially open source software, to drive more development toward Intel-based solutions. Intel CAS operates at the operating system (OS) level, serving as a file-level cache on Windows and a block-level cache (with file awareness) on Linux. IDF 2013 Summary and Thoughts.

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