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Redmond created executable installers with vulnerable tools Security researcher Stefan Kanthak claims that the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 executable installers (x86 and x64) were built with insecure tools from several years ago, creating a vulnerability that could allow privilege escalation.…

If you want to run or update a task when certain files are updated, the make utility can come in handy. The make utility requires a file, Makefile (or makefile), which defines set of tasks to be executed. You may have used make to compile a program from source code. Most open source projects use make to compile a final executable binary, which can then be installed using make install. read more

Prometheus is a free and open source software ecosystem that allows us to collect metrics from our applications and stores them in a database, especially a time-series based DB. It is a very powerful monitoring system suitable for dynamic environments.

Government to cut Microsoft off at the end of 2018 Microsoft’s desire to move users into the exciting world of Office 365 subscriptions has been dealt a blow as the Israeli government took a look and said “no thanks.”…

News briefs for August 22, 2018.

IEI’s rugged, “TANK-860-QGW” IPC computer for M2M and IoT runs a Qnap-derived QTS Gateway Linux distro on a 4th Gen Core CPU with dual SATA bays and up to 6x PCIe slots. IEI Technology has spun a rather singular embedded PC that aims to replace barebones IPC (interprocess communications) systems with something a bit more […]

I've said it before. I'll say it again: Red Hat, not content with being a Linux power, wants to be a cloud powerhouse. Need proof? Look no further than the newest beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6. The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes a big step forward into the cloud.

Looking for a way to simulate keyboard and mouse input? The web is full of various guides and tutorials mentioning xdotool, a “command-line X11 automation tool”. xdotool simulates X11 input events; it can even move or resize the desktop windows. Unfortunately, as its name implies, xdotool only works with the X11 window system. This means it […]

Apache Subversion or SVN is an open-source software versioning and revision control system developed by the Apache Software Foundation. In this article, I will show you how to set up the Apache Subversion using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

Flowcharts are a great way to formalize the methodology for a new project. My team at work uses them as a tool in our brainstorming sessions and—once the ideation event wraps up—the flowchart becomes the project methodology (at least until someone changes it). My project methodology flowcharts are high-level and pretty straightforward—typically they contain just process, decision, and terminator objects—though they can be composed of many tens of these objects. read more

Open-source pixel botherer cranks it up to version 2.10.6 There appears to be no rest for Wilber as the GIMP team has updated the venerable image editor to version 2.10.6.…

Programmers may love hot newer languages like Kotlin and Rust, but according to a Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) recent survey of global enterprise developers and IT decision makers, Java and Javascript are the top dog enterprise languages. They may not be the coolest languages, but Java and JavaScript remain the top enterprise developer languages for the cloud.

Tranquil PC open pre-orders on a fanless, barebones “Mini Multi Display PC” mini-PC with AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoC, 4x simultaneous 4K DisplayPort displays, 2x GbE, and up to 32GB DDR4 and 1TB storage. Manchester, UK based Tranquil PC has launched the first mini-PC based on the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000.

News briefs for August 21, 2018.

Here at HowtoForge, we have already discussed the passwd command, which lets you change your account password on a Linux system. But what if you want to change passwords of multiple users in one go? Well, there exists a command - chpasswd - that lets you do this.

One of the biggest—and the fastest moving—open source projects, the Linux kernel, is composed of about 53,600 files and nearly 20-million lines of code. With more than 15,600 programmers contributing to the project worldwide, the Linux kernel follows a maintainer model for collaboration. read more

Git is a free and open source version control system that can be used to track changes of code. Git allows you to create many repositories for the same application and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. It is primarily used for source code management in software development.

Everyone's heard the term, but what exactly are containers? To understand the technology completely, you first need to understand the many pieces that make it all possible.

I love it when the opportunity to combine music and coding comes together. I've worked on a few personal projects related to music, from making music with network traffic to an auto-accompaniment system for electronic drums. More recently, my wonderful wife gave me a beautiful, programmable music box for my birthday. You punch out music notes on a card and crank it through the music box to play a tune. read more

As the late, great mathematician, computer scientist, and educator Seymour Papert once said, "I am convinced that the best learning takes place where the learner takes charge." Unfortunately, most schools stifle children's natural curiosity and creativity, locking down technology and reducing students to consumers of content they have no hand in creating. read more