December 7, 2018
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Comments Off on Edge goes Chromium, and open source wins the browser wars
A little over twenty years ago, US Attorney General Janet Reno stated Microsoft had “used its monopoly power to develop a choke hold on the browser software needed to access the internet.” Although Microsoft would lose United States v. Microsoft Corporation, … Continue reading
May 30, 2018
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Comments Off on Back to basics: What sysadmins must know about logging and monitoring
With containers springing up and down in minutes and virtual machines coming and going in hours, some sysadmins have neglected their system logs. Log files still provide invaluable insight into how systems are operating! Hereâ s what you — still … Continue reading
March 28, 2017
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Last week, to protect myself from the Apple iCloud crack, I changed my password for my Apple ID, which is also the iCloud. So far, so good. Then, I discovered that my 6th generation iPod Touch, running iOS 10.2.1, wouldn’t … Continue reading
March 14, 2017
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Recently, the open-source multi-instant messaging (IM) program Pidgin was updated to version 2.12.0. That’s the good news. It’s a very useful program if you work with people using multiple IM services. The bad news is that its developers couldn’t add … Continue reading
March 10, 2017
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If all you’re doing is running a single server instance, you don’t need DevOps tools such as Puppet. But, if you’re setting up and managing multiple servers, you need Puppet. Oh, you could run dozens of servers using shell scripts. … Continue reading
March 6, 2017
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Microsoft is finally moving its latest Linux Skype client to beta and adding the ability to video-conference with other people using the latest model of Skype. What’s new in the Skype for Linux beta. More>