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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

The majority of today’s popular Wi-Fi routers run the Linux operating system (which also powers Google’s Android ) with MIPS processors. CITL first detailed a major vulnerability in Linux with MIPS in a report it published alongside its December report on routers. There’s just no safe version of Linux MIPS.”.

Linux 37
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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. Again, code is available here. The monster repo of them all. Note that most of these repos took at most a few minutes to analyze, using my script. half-life (years).

Linux 241
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Top 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019

The Crazy Programmer

Scala, which is a high-level programming language, is developed for both the functional and object-oriented, it is designed in the year 2004 by Martin Odersky. PowerShell analog in Linux is known as bash Scripting, which is built and developed on the.Net framework. As of now, the latest version of the Scala is 2.14.8.

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History of MySQL Database

The Crazy Programmer

After one month, source and Linux binary got released. The first version MySQL 1.0 was out only for limited group and then it was followed by the public release. Their initial public release offered just the binary distribution for the Solaris. Around half a dozen of alpha & beta versions of this platform got released.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. Again, code is available here. The monster repo of them all. Note that most of these repos took at most a few minutes to analyze, using my script. half-life (years).

Linux 100
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A Microsoft Bigot’s Guide To Windows 10

Modus Create

With decades of experience as a developer and network engineer, I have seen my own personal progression of preferred workstation operating systems from DOS to Windows 3, to Windows 95, to Amiga, to OS/2, to Windows 7, and finally to Linux and macOS. I’m quite impressed with what I’m seeing as of Windows 10 version 2004.

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Config best practices: Docker layer caching

CircleCI

In this example, you set the ubuntu-2004:202104-01 Linux image as your machine executor type, then set docker_layer_caching: true to enable Docker layer caching for this environment.