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CodeSOD: Promotional Development

The Daily WTF

Upgrading to a new point release on the Linux kernel isn't the riskiest thing you can do in your infrastructure, but it's not completely without risk. This meant that, when they needed to expand their server capacity, there was no money to do it, and no older hardware they could press into service as a stop-gap. Advertisement].

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Taking Up Space

The Daily WTF

The Big Picture cFS is a C framework for spaceflight, designed to run on real-time OSes, though fully capable of running on Linux (with or without a realtime kernel), and even Windows. Advertisement] Continuously monitor your servers for configuration changes, and report when there's configuration drift.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Bryan Cantrill on Rust and the future of low latency embedded systems : Rust is the first language since C to live at the border between hardware and software. Chaos is new malware that can infect both Windows and Linux devices, including routers, firewalls, and other networking hardware. Has anyone done this with Emacs?

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A Massive Leak

The Daily WTF

Now, normally, we do this from Python programs on Linux. After a quick test of doing multitouch interactions, we also decided that we shouldn't deploy to Linux (Unity didn't really have good Linux multitouch support), so we would deploy a Windows kiosk. Advertisement]. Months go by. Which wasn't there.

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Reinventing the Wheel

The Daily WTF

" On the lab's distro of Linux, IUP uses GTK as its backend, which calls setlocale(LC_ALL, "") on startup. It's around this time that the LabView magician notices that the generator is designed for high-impedance inputs, meaning it can't even control the low-impedance hardware. Advertisement].

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Radar trends to watch: September 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Facebook’s Time cards are an open-source (code and hardware) solution for accurate time keeping. A topic-based approach to targeted advertising may be Google’s new alternative to tracking cookies, replacing the idea of assigning users to cohorts with similar behavior. How do you scale intelligence at the edge of the network?

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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A new generation of ransomware attacks is targeting IT professionals via fake advertisements for IT tools. Hardware Parmesan cheese producers are experimenting with adding microchips to the cheese rind to authenticate genuine cheese. Patches for Linux have been released. Could it displace ARM ?

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