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Automating Processes with Chef
Recently, Chef (along with Puppet and other tools) has been getting plenty of coverage in the areas of DevOps and continuous delivery. Big companies, including HP, have embraced Chef as an important tool in automation.
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FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE Announcement
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/10 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and introduces some new features.
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Issue 1249693002: Improve the about/discards UI, allowing each tab to be individually closed. - Code Review
As we speak, the chromium team is adding tab discarding to Windows and Mac OS platforms in the latest chromium build. Linux will follow shortly after. This feature enables least interesting tabs to get automatically discarded when system memory is running low. Discarded tabs are still visible on the tab strip and get reloaded when clicked on.
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Security experts pressure Obama to veto CISA, a cybersecurity bill
Pressure is mounting against a cybersecurity bill that critics say endangers Americans' privacy while still failing to protect against cyberattacks... By Eric Geller.
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FreeBSD-SA-15:13.tcp Resource exhaustion due to sessions stuck in LAST_ACK state
TCP connections transitioning to the LAST_ACK state can become permanently stuck due to mishandling of protocol state in certain situations, which in turn can lead to accumulated consumption and eventual exhaustion of system resources, such as mbufs and sockets.
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Surviving Hurricane Katrina: A sysadmin's epic DR (as in Didn't Realise) odyssey
25 days of refugee sex and guns in odd places 5 pages, but COMPLETELY worth reading.
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NetCrunch 8.7 Network Monitoring System
NetCrunch is an all-in-one and agentless network, server, application, file, log and web monitoring suite. Get 30 days of free installation and tech support.
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PowerTip: Copy Information to the Clipboard with PowerShell
This is a lot easier than I was thinking it would be
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Office 365 prices 'to rise by up to 13 per cent'
Will hit Euro-zone, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and Canada
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Dot-com da-bomb Verisign fires off a Cloudflare rival
Domain biz offers 'DNS Firewall'
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Any first hand experience with Tutanota?
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Linux on the desktop is so hot there's now a fight over it
Citrix joins VMware in virtual penguin desktop ploy
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Powershell Tip - Storing and Using Password Credentials
Save your credentials in a secure file to use them in a script later
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Setup MariaDB Master-Slave Replication In CentOS 7
Setup MariaDB Master-Slave Replication In CentOS
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A government surveillance bill by any other name is just as dangerous
The CISA ‘cybersecurity’ bill is really a way to blow another massive hole in Americans’ privacy. By Trevor Timm
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On ethics in information technology
Our field requires ethical frameworks we accept, instead of rules that remain technically unbroken while we hackers violate their spirit with as much ingenuity as we can muster.
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Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center
You know it's cold when you have to heat the air used to cool your data center.
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Getting Started With The Spark Framework on Plesk 12 • Conetix
In the world of web application development, especially rapid web application development, the names you usually hear of are PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python...
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Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can't Guess
It’s getting easier to secure your digital privacy. iPhones now encrypt a great deal of personal information; hard drives on Mac and Windows 8.1 computers are now automatically locked down; even Facebook, which made a fortune on open sharing, is providing end-to-end encryption in the chat tool WhatsApp. But none of this technology offers as much protection as you may think if you don’t know how to come up with a good passphrase.
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Two weeks on, Superfish debacle still causing pain for some Lenovo customers
Based on the experience of Ars readers Chai Trakulthai and Laura Buddine, Lenovo overstated both assurances. The pair recently examined a $550 Lenovo G510 notebook purchased by a neighbor, and their experience wasn't consistent with two of Lenovo's talking points.
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