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Monday December 30, 2024. 04:34 PM
The origins of the TCP and UDP network protocols can be traced back a full 50 years. Even though networks and their use have changed radically since those protocols were designed, they can still be found behind most networking applications. Unsurprisingly, these protocols...
Norovirus cases are unexpectedly high in the U.S., reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. There's not so much to get in the way of a quick-spreading and potentially lethal virus as there once was—wash your hands! The most recent numbers from the U.S. — Read the re...
The Associated Press reports that the judge in Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's case is unhappy with his conduct and that it 'not go well for him' when he is next in court. Giuliani is on the hook for a $148 million defamation award after lying about two election workers, and...
Here are my notes on running NetBSD 10.1 on my first personal laptop that I still keep, a 1998 i586 Toshiba Satellite Pro with 81Mb of RAM and a 1Gb IBM 2.5″ IDE HD. In summary, the latest NetBSD runs well on this old hardware using an IDE to CF adapter and several changes...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-good1.0 and opensc), Fedora (iwd and libell), and SUSE (chromium, govulncheck-vulndb, and poppler).
Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated chess player, quit the rapid and blitz world championship in New York City last week after it ejected him for wearing jeans—part of a recently-imposed dress code that has already found controversy for predictable reasons. — Read the...
Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States, died Sunday at 100. The Democrat's 1977–1981 term in office saw a landmark Egypt-Israel peace accord, economic struggles, and a failed Iran hostage rescue. Afterward, he championed peace, human rights, and the...
Comedian Brendan Scannell recently announced a 'New Diva Alert!'—in response to Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas' new 2025 calendar, which, I have to agree, is simply marvelous. The calendar features 12 glamour-shot style images of Pappas dressed to the nines and...
We have previously covered the Traffic Cam Photobooth, which features a map of New York City's traffic cameras and instructions for taking 'selfies' with them. The site is fun, but its true purpose is to raise awareness of the constant surveillance New Yorkers are subject...
The Silicon Valley hype cycle follows a familiar pattern: an emerging technology or tech product or service is hinted at, rumored, leaked, reported on, announced, and then shipped. That’s the cycle for what actually happens. At any point during this cycle, the rumors or...
We may be on the brink of 2025, but PDFs are still unavoidable in the professional world. No matter what industry you work in, you’re bound to whittle away precious moments wading through reports, white papers, and other dense documents in that clunky-feeling form. If that ...
Data comes in many forms, it may be structured, it may be unstructured, it could be sensitive or purely statistical. Whatever it looks like you can only benefit from it if you know what you have, where it can be found and how to access it. We spoke to Brett Hurt, CEO and...
In a previous article, we explored various approaches to managing data for multitenant applications. We examined the benefits, compromises and limitations of different deployment models, including share-nothing, share-everything, and hybrid. We discussed the needs and...
Tides ebb and flow. Pendulums swing. Ideas come and go, especially in programming, where the technologies and techniques for creating software continuously evolve. Some programming languages, libraries, platforms, and tools become hot and irresistible. When they’re...
Open Source Initiative (OSI) chief Stefano Maffulli says Meta is “bullying” the industry on the concept of open source. The Economist more colorfully characterizes the dispute as “bare-it-all purists … confronting Meta, the social-media giant controlled by a...
Sunday December 29, 2024. 10:35 PM
The 6.13-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: 'It's been another week, but I'm happy to report that clearly most people actually seem to have been enjoying the holidays, because rc5 is tiny'
TL;DR: Save over 40% on the TOKK™ day and night vision camera and have a second set of eyes at home in 2025. Have you ever wished you could see what your cat or dog was up to when you're not home? — Read the rest The post Here's how to keep an eye on Fluffy even when...
IncludeOS is an includable, minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services running in the cloud and on real HW. Starting a program with #include <os> will literally include a tiny operating system into your service during link-time. ↫ IncludeOS GitHub page...
Saturday December 28, 2024. 06:06 PM
While we’re out here raising funds to make me daily-drive HP-UX 11i v1 – we’re at 59% of the goal, so I’m starting to prepare for the pain – it seems you can actually run older versions, HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 to be specific, in a virtual machine using QEMU. QEMU is an open s...
In late June 2024 I got asked to take over the work started by Jerry Wu creating a systemd-sysupdate plugin for Software. The goal was to allow Software to update sysupdate targets, such as base system images or system extension images, all while respecting the user’s...
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