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Monday December 30, 2024. 12:00 PM
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...
I’ve never been to a LAN party, not even back in the ’90s and early 2000s when they were quite the common occurance. Both my family and various friends did have multiple computers in the house, so I do have fond memories of hooking up computers through null modem cables to pl...
At Chronotrains, you can see how far you can get by train from anywhere in Europe in 8 hours or less. A good base appears to Brussels, which gets you most of Germany, France and Britain—and Turin and Zurich to boot. — Read the rest The post How far can a train get you in...
Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated chess player, refused to change out of jeans at the World Rapid Championship in New York. He was disqualified, and subsequently withdrew from the Blitz tournament too. Fide explained their decision in a statement while Carlsen said: 'I...
Gaming PCs tend to be large, to house and cool full-size desktop GPUs. Few Mini PCs have discrete GPUs—an Intel NUC here, a Zotac Magnus there—but this year offered the peculiar AtomMan G7 Ti, thin and tall where such things are usually short and fat. — Read the rest ...
Last week, South Korean legislators impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol after his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law. Yesterday they impeached his replacement, acting president Han Duck-soo. The BBC reports that 'chaos erupted in parliament' after the speaker announced...
The number of people without homes rose 18.1 percent in 2024, say federal officials, following a 12 percent increase in 2023. The numbers are driven by the soaring price of housing and the high number of migrants, reports the Associated Press. — Read the rest The post Homele...
One of my favorite social media accounts is 'The Weens,' which features the hilarious adventures and shenanigans of eight adorable dachshunds, who are named Boots, Bandit, Peanut, Plopper, Tubby, Punkin, Einstein, and Meatball. The household even includes Simon the cat, for...
An indoor cat in Oregon recently died from H5N1 avian flu, after eating contaminated raw pet food. The raw food, which tested positive for avian flu, was produced and sold by Portland, Oregon-based pet food company Northwest Naturals. The food in question is called 'Feline Tu...
The CDC recently reported findings from an analysis of specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who became severely ill from H5N1 avian flu, and found genetic mutations that, according to Politico, 'may enhance the virus' ability to infect humans.' — Read the rest ...
Costco's most recent 'Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders,' which contains information about business matters that will be voted on at the January 23, 2025 meeting, included an anti-DEI shareholder proposal that was submitted by the National Center for Public Policy...
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