All Your Accounts Are Belong to Us
Thu, 07/13/2017 - 08:47 — Shawn Powers
Last weekend my work phone suddenly stopped working. Not the phone itself, but rather all service stopped. I first noticed (of course) due to an inability to load any web pages. Then I tried calling someone and realized my phone was disconnected. In fact, when someone tried to call me, it said the line was no longer in service. more>>
Applied Expert Systems, Inc.'s CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux
Wed, 07/12/2017 - 10:13 — James Gray
The contemporary data center is typified by an ever-increasing amount of traffic occurring between servers, observes Applied Expert Systems, Inc. (AES), sagely. Fulfilling the logical need to facilitate improved server-to-server communications, AES created CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux, now at v2.7. CleverView provides IT staff access to current and more>>
Sysadmin 101: Alerting
Tue, 07/11/2017 - 05:59 — Kyle Rankin
This is the first in a series of articles on system administrator fundamentals. These days, DevOps has made even the job title "system administrator" seem a bit archaic, much like the "systems analyst" title it replaced. more>>
Android Candy: Exploding Kittens!
Mon, 07/10/2017 - 07:18 — Shawn Powers
I don't very often play games. I know that seems odd, because I do often write about gaming. Honestly though, I very rarely actually take the time to play video games. Recently, however, there has been an exception to that rule. more>>
Mistral Solutions' 820 Nano SOM
Fri, 07/07/2017 - 09:56 — James Gray
One of the smallest System on a Module (SOM) solutions currently available in the market—measuring a mere 51mm x 26mm—is Mistral Solutions' 820 Nano SOM. The company predicts that its new 820 Nano SOM solution is "destined to be a preferred SoM in the industry". more>>
Linux for Everyone--All 7.5 Billion of Us
Thu, 07/06/2017 - 05:58 — Doc Searls
Linux has long since proven it's possible for one operating system to work for everyone—also that there's an approach to development that opens and frees code so everyone can use it, improve it and assure its freedoms spread to everyone doing the same. more>>
Analyzing Videos for Fun and Profit
Wed, 07/05/2017 - 05:46 — Joey Bernard
People's phones and all of the various sensors that may be built in to them is a source of scientific data logging that almost everyone carries around. Although the selection of sensors varies from phone to phone, they almost all have a camera. In this article, I take a look at a piece of software called Tracker that can be used to analyze videos you take of experiments. more>>
eCosCentric Limited's eCosPro
Mon, 07/03/2017 - 08:25 — James Gray
In contrast to general-purpose operating systems for the Raspberry Pi, the new eCosPro from eCosCentric Limited is a lightweight, multithreaded, industrial-strength RTOS delivering reduced latency with bounded response times. eCosPro's resource requirements are a fraction of those demanded by a general-purpose OS and maximize the RAM resources available to applications. more>>
FreeDOS Is 23 Years Old, and Counting
Fri, 06/30/2017 - 15:49 — Jim Hall
The FreeDOS Project has just reached its 23rd birthday! This is a major milestone for any free software or open-source software project. more>>
J. and K. Fidler's Cut the Cord, Ditch the Dish, and Take Back Control of Your TV (Iron Violin Press)
Fri, 06/30/2017 - 11:05 — James Gray
Prospective TV cable-cutters, even those with technical abilities, often are flummoxed in the face of choosing between all of the content options and new technologies available. Reliable sources of complete and neutral information in this space are hard to find, and the fun evaporates rapidly when you're faced with hours of stumbling through forums and strings of searches. more>>
Testing Models
Thu, 06/29/2017 - 06:20 — Reuven M. Lerner
In my last few articles, I've been dipping into the waters of "machine learning"—a powerful idea that has been moving steadily into the mainstream of computing, and that has the potential to change lives in numerous ways. more>>
AWS Quickstart for Kubernetes
Wed, 06/28/2017 - 11:27 — Craig McLuckie
Steve Suehring's CompTIA Linux+ and LPIC Practice Tests (Sybex)
Wed, 06/28/2017 - 10:48 — James Gray
Possessing Linux skills is valuable in today's IT job market where demand for talent outstrips supply. Getting certified proves you have the chops to do the job, and two well worn paths to Linux certification are the Computing Technology Industry Association's CompTIA Linux+ and the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC). more>>
Ubuntu Kylin, a Linux Distribution with a Microsoft Windows Experience
Tue, 06/27/2017 - 09:48 — Jack Yu
Ubuntu Kylin is an open-source Linux distribution based on Ubuntu since 2013, mainly developed by a Chinese team alongside dozens of Linux developers all over the world. It contains the basic features you would expect from Ubuntu, plus features a desktop environment and applications. more>>
SUSE CaaS Platform
Mon, 06/26/2017 - 06:33 — James Gray
There are a lot of decisions to be made before enterprises are ready for production and deployment of container apps, asserts SUSE. more>>
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