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Hackers at Def Con's voting machine village made quick work of showing just how vulnerable 'secure' voting machines really are.

In the first post of our series, we outlined three components of a modern front-end stack. In the second post, we untangled the challenge of package management with Yarn. In this post, we’ll take a look at the next component in our stack: webpack™, a way of building and bundling assets for web apps.

With the recent release of Fedora 26, Fedora 24 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status on August 8th, 2017. After August 8th, all packages in the Fedora 24 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, no new... Continue Reading →

RabbitMQ is a free and open source enterprise message broker software. It is written in Erlang and implements Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP). In this tutorial, we will install RabbitMQ on CentOS 7 server.

It's easy to think other people use their computers and software in the same way you do. That they need every feature and function you rely on. That your computing choices are, or should be, their choices. read more

Dev thinks we need to keep notable .SWFs readable for the sake of posterity A group of developers have taken to GitHub with a petition to save Adobe Flash, despite the company's largely-welcomed decision to end support for the oft-reviled software in 2020.…

Functional programming is taking off, but there appears to be some misunderstanding about the theoretical background of its types. Many programmers incorrectly name types and create confusion around simple ideas. To clarify, let's look at the differences between union, tagged unions, and algebraic data types. read more

Out of beta, still won't let you read Linux files from Windows Microsoft's head-turning Windows Subsystem for Linux will emerge from beta to become a fully-fledged-and-supported feature of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.…

The rising cost of traditional textbooks, along with an increased demand for high-quality, low-cost alternatives, has fueled the growth of open educational resources in higher education. One of the leaders in this burgeoning sector of academia is Saylor Academy. Here's what Saylor's director of education, Devon Ritter, told me recently how the organization is using open educational resources to level the playing field in higher education. read more

This made me realize that large companies who are getting into open source for the first time often think that they can 'buy' influence, or that their reputation in the industry means that open source projects/communities should listen to them.

So, I recently got my father to start to switch from Windows to GNU/Linux... an issue that he is facing, and that I know many others have faced when running a dual-boot system, is when they swap over to GNU/Linux for a while, and then boot back into Windows only to find that their clock is set at the wrong time!

Our list of 10 products is limited to those with onboard Linux or Android computers...

We all know what CIA is capable of but what WikiLeaks has been publishing lately under the Vault 7 leaks series is simply astonishing. According to the latest set of information ... the CIA developed three dangerous malware for Linux and macOS systems.

Updates are something that are often ignored for one reason or another. However, if you’re not making a daily (or at least weekly) habit of updating your systems, then you are doing yourself, your servers, and your company a disservice.

One out of every seven people on the planet uses the messaging app WhatsApp every day, according a recent blog post from the company. A billion people a day send messages to their friends and family on a service that's end-to-end encrypted by default...

Advantech’s Linux-ready “UNO-2484G” Box PC offers dual-core 6th Gen U-series CPUs, 4x GbE ports, and either HDMI/USB or “iDoor” expansion units. Like Advantech’s Linux-on-Quark based UNO-1252G IoT gateway and Intel Apollo Lake based ARK-1124C embedded computer, the new Skylake based UNO-2484G embedded PC offers up to four of the company’s homegrown “iDoor” expansion modules. The […]

As the technology industry evolves, today’s system administrators need command of an ever-expanding array of technical skills. However, many experts agree that skills like effective communication and collaboration are just as important.

Today is Sysadmin Appreciation Day. Turn to your nearest and dearest systems administrator and be sure to thank them for the work they do. "Ops is over." "Sysadmins? That's so old school." "All the good engineering teams are automating operations out of existence." read more

Artila’s “RIO-2014PG” remote I/O module runs FreeRTOS on an Atmel SAM4E16E, and offers isolated Fast Ethernet, RS485, and analog and digital I/O. Artila Electronics, which is known primarily for its embedded Linux industrial computers such as the Matrix-700 and Matrix-710 IoT gateway, has more recently been getting into embedded gear that runs the open source […]

Please, please let Adobe Flash die in peace.