April 20, 2015
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Is this a feature or a bug? Twitter, the popular 140-character social network, has now made it easier than ever for anyone to send you a Direct Message.
Twitter allows anyone to send you a direct message: This is an upgrade?. More>
April 20, 2015
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Chris Roberts, security researcher and founder and CTO of One World Labs, is well known for speaking his mind on airlines not taking in-flight networking security seriously. They may not, but the FBI does. After Roberts tweeted, “Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? “PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone ? :)” He found himself detained at the next airport for four hours and his gear confiscated.
April 19, 2015
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Today, containers are the hot topic of cloud computing. With them, system designers and cloud architects can have as many as six times the number of server applications on a hardware server as you can with a virtual machine (VM).
But, for all the excitement about Docker, the headline container technology, and how even Microsoft has embraced this open-source technology, we’ve never really looked at containers’ origins. You see, this “new” technology is decades old.
April 17, 2015
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I’ve used almost every desktop on the planet, but Ubuntu 15.04 with the Unity 7 interface may be the easiest. Heck if my now 82-year-old mother-in-law can be an Ubuntu user, you can be one too!
Six Clicks for Linux beginners: Ubuntu 15.04, Vivid Vervet. More>
April 16, 2015
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The good news is that open-source software is used in the vast majority, 78 percent, of businesses. The bad news is that far less do even a half-way decent job of managing it.
It’s an open-source world: ?78 percent of companies run open-source software. More>
April 15, 2015
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NGNIX‘s slogan should borrow Avis’s iconic tagline, “When you’re number two, you try harder.” While Apache is far more popular, 50.7 percent to NGINX’s 14.4 percent – by Netcraft’s web server count — NGINX is trying hard with its latest update, NGINX Plus Release 6 (R6), to challenge Apache for the top spot.