August 20, 2014
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CHICAGO — It’s a common story: Businesses desperately want Linux savvy employees. Programmers and system administrators who cut their teeth on the gcc and the BASH shell want jobs. But, between them rises the wall of human resources, which wants degrees and certifications. The Linux Foundation introduced an answer at LinuxCon: a new Linux Foundation Certification Program for both early-career and engineer-level systems administrators.
August 19, 2014
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CHICAGO – Almost three years ago, crackers broke into the kernel.org, Linux’s most important site. While no damage was done, it was still worrisome. So, at the Linux Kernel Summit, the Linux Foundation announced that it was securing Linux’s Git source code repositories with two-factor authentication.
Linux kernel source code repositories get better security. More>
August 18, 2014
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It’s hard to tell which database management systems (DBMB)s are the most popular. DB-Engines gives it a try every month. And, by its count, Oracle is still the top DBMS, followed closed by Oracle’s open-source DBMS MySQL, which is just noses ahead of Microsoft SQL Server.
As DBMS wars continue, PostgreSQL shows most momentum. More>
August 15, 2014
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When I started covering technology in the ’80s, the last thing I thought I’d need to learn about was intellectual property law. But as Nicolai Tesla learned in his fight with Thomas Edison in the electrical-current patent wars of the 1890s, wherever technology goes, IP law is sure to follow.
My moment of revelation came in 2003, when I started covering SCO’s copyright assault on Linux. SCO never really had a case, but I was soon to find out that with software patents, you really don’t need a good case to profit.
You see, defending yourself against a serious patent attack is expensive — expensive enough to make not defending yourself against a serious patent attack very desirable.
August 15, 2014
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I recently got a call from a friend whose business was having problems with an internal network whose web server had a URL that included .guru. One day, their staff had trouble reaching it. They’d made no changes and you could still reach the server using its IPv4 address; it was a mystery. It took me hours — and you still owe me guys! — but I finally discovered that there was a public internet website with a .guru top-level domain name that was conflicting with their private network. I gave their internal server a new Domain Name System (DNS), and all was well… after a few hours.
Lucky them, lucky me.
This kind of problem — when an internal server’s DNS name conflicts with one of the new Top Level Domain (TLD) names —is going to start happening more and more often. With over 300 new TLDs available to be used by August 2014 and 1,100 more to come, you can expect to see it a lot.
August 15, 2014
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When I started covering technology in the ’80s, the last thing I thought I’d need to learn about was intellectual property law. But as Nicolai Tesla learned in his fight with Thomas Edison in the electrical-current patent wars of the 1890s, wherever technology goes, IP law is sure to follow.
My moment of revelation came in 2003, when I started covering SCO’s copyright assault on Linux. SCO never really had a case, but I was soon to find out that with software patents, you really don’t need a good case to profit.