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Detachment from users' lived reality is how corporates shoot themselves in the foot. Opinion Last week, one fundamental problem for IT cropped up in three very different stories. One story was Google's parent Alphabet doing an internal audit of all its products on the back of falling profits. One was a highly critical look at Meta's efforts to put business into VR. And one was Linus Torvalds getting cranky that the i486 architecture was still in Linux's first-class lounge when it should be packed off to the Old Codes' Home.…

Suricata is a free and open-source network analysis and threat detection software developed by OSIF. It can be used as an intrusion detection system (IDS) and an intrusion prevention system (IPS).

Halloween will be here before you know it! This fun, over-the-top holiday is a great time to ponder the mortal fears of the developer in each of us. What haunts you the most, in the quiet moments just before your code starts to run?

The RAK7391 WisGate Connect is an industrial gateway board powered by the Raspberry Pi Computer Module 4. This product also includes flexible peripherals such as dual GbE ports, camera connectors, and multiple expansion sockets for memory devices. According to RAKwireless, the WisGate Connect can support the whole Raspberry CM4 family. Broadcom BCM2711 – quad-core Cortex-A72 […]

The NanoPi R6S is the newest router Single Board Computer released by FriendyELEC. This SBC combines two 2.5GbE LAN ports, one GbE LAN port in addition to the Rockchip RK3588S octa-core SoC. According to the product page, the processor found in the R6S is the RK3588S which has been featured in other boards such as […]

Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year. Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100.…

Matrix is a popular open source chat application that makes it easy to chat securely with people all over the world. Similarly, Discord is a non-open source chat application that's also popular with many online communities...

Finding tooling that fits the other professionals on the team, such as technical writers, editors, information architects, and documentation product owners, may take more effort. A few options to consider...

ModSecurity is a free and open-source firewall tool supported by various web servers, such as Apache, Nginx, and IIS. In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up ModSecurity with Apache on Ubuntu 22.04.

We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner Column The fact that I like the Linux desktop will come as no surprise to anyone who reads my work. I mean, I was once the lead writer and editor for a long-gone publication called Linux Desktop. So why is it as I sit at Kubecon North America in Detroit that I'm writing this on an HP Chromebook x360?…

NTP or Network Time Protocol is a networking protocol for time and clock synchronization on the computer network. In this guide, you will learn how to install and to use Chrony on the Rocky Linux server.

Fedora Linux 37 is going to be late; very late. Here’s why. As you may have heard, the OpenSSL project announced a version due to be released on Tuesday. It will include a fix for a critical-severity bug. We won’t know the specifics of the issue until Tuesday’s release, but it could be significant. As […]

We don't have the details yet, but we can safely say that come Nov. 1, everyone -- and I mean everyone -- will need to patch OpenSSL 3.x.

Everyone has to join Discourse… although you can still participate via email The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project's GNU Mailman instance - which relies on Python 2 - and a lack of moderators.…

The Apache module mod_wsgi provides an interface for hosting Python-based web applications. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure of mod_wsgi using Apache web server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.

This week, TUXEDO launched two variations of their latest InfinityBook Pro 16 laptop built around the i7-12700H Intel core processor. TUXEDO’s high-end laptop supports up to 64GB RAM, 2x M.2 2280 slots, Wi-Fi 6, 80Wh battery and other optional features. The Max Performance and the Workstation edition feature the same 12th Gen processor from Intel: […]

Lua isn't an object-oriented programming language, but a scripting language utilizing C functions and a C-like syntax. However, there's a cool hack you can use within Lua code to make Lua act like an object-oriented language when you need it to be. The key is in the Lua table construct, and this article demonstrates how to use a Lua table as a stand-in for an object-oriented class.

This HOW-TO describes the process of implementing Perfect Forward Secrecy with the NGINX web-server on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The process can readily be adapted to other GNU/Linux systems.

Monitoring your virtualized server environments is the ideal way to ensure optimal utilization of hardware resources and the best possible performance of your IT infrastructure. In this tutorial, I will show you how to monitor your vSphere with the open-source monitoring tool Checkmk in just a few minutes.