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February 6, 2019
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How to download your photos from Flickr before it deletes them

Once upon a time, Flickr was a popular photo-sharing site with a remarkably generous free terabyte of storage. Well, all good things must come to an end.

After SmugMug bought Flickr in 2018 in the post-Yahoo firesale, it’s new owner soon realized there was no way it could profit, so it cut your free storage from a terabyte to 1,000 photos. And — here comes the bad news — on March 12, 2019, Flickr will start deleting your photos for you.

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February 5, 2019
by sjvn01
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Red Hat introduces first Kubernetes-native IDE

These days we often package our new programs in containers, and we then manage those containers with Kubernetes. That’s great as far as it goes, but if you’re a programmer, it’s still missing a vital part: An integrated development environment (IDE). Now, Red Hat is filling this hole with Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, a Kubernetes-native, browser-based IDE.

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February 1, 2019
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ZaReason Gamerbox 9400: The ultimate Linux gaming PC

A few years back, Gabe Newell, Valve‘s CEO, said, “Linux is the future of gaming.” Well, that didn’t happen, but Valve, creator of the Steam game engine and network, is renewing its push for Linux games. So, it makes good sense that ZaReason, a Linux computer manufacturer, has released a top-of-the-line gaming PC: The ZaReason Gamerbox 9400.

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January 30, 2019
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Four recent trends pointing to big things ahead for the hybrid cloud

The cloud has fundamentally changed. We had been focusing on the rise of the public cloud, but these last several months have showed us that the hybrid cloud may yet prove to be the real cloud IT model moving forward. As evidence, consider these four recent developments:

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