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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield

Why I Don't Write Lists of Influential People

Summer is coming, and the entire tech sector is entering its annual slowdown. One way you can tell is that lists of influential people are starting to appear. It's a type of story that I've never written, and hope that I never will.

What Happens When Leaders Quit?

Recently, Swapnil Bhartiya published an article that quoted Linus Torvalds speculating on what might happen if he quit leading kernel development. To my surprise, I have seen the article condemned here and there as being in poor taste. Yet the more I think about it, the more I think many free software projects need to start similar discussions.

Productivity Sauce * Dmitri Popov

Extension Watch: The Great Suspender for Chrome and Chromium

If you have a nagging feeling that the Chrome or Chromium browser has an unhealthy appetite for system resources, you have every right to be concerned. Since the browser runs each tab as a separate process, the more tabs you keep opened, the more resources the browser consumes and the less stable it becomes. The Great Suspender extension provides a not very elegant but workable solution to the problem.

Thoughts on Tuxedo DX1305

There are a few machines in our household, but truth to be told, hardware doesn't excite me too much. I don't get obsessed by the processor model and speed, amount of RAM, screen resolution, and such. As long as the machine I use does the stuff I need it to do, I'm a happy camper. But every now and then, I come across a computer that piques my interest, like Raspberry Pi and Chromebook. This happened to me again when I had the chance to play with Linux-based machines manufactured and sold by the German-based company Tuxedo Computers.

Track Locations with Fancy Places for Android

Fancy Places is not a fancy Android app, but it's a useful one. It offers an easy way to keep track of places you have visited and plan to return to in the future. The app features a simple interface that makes it supremely easy to record locations and keep tabs on them.

ADMIN HPC

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The Fundamentals of Building an HPC Cluster * Jeff Layton

High-performance computing begins with understanding what you are trying to achieve, the assumptions you make to get there, and the resulting boundaries and limitations imposed on you and your HPC system.

ADMIN Online

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Tested – Tenable Nessus v6 * Thomas Bär and Frank-Michael Schlede

To ensure your servers and workstations are well protected against attacks on your network, you need a professional security scanner. In version 6, Tenable has substantially expanded its Nessus vulnerability scanner. We pointed the software at a number of test computers.

Logon Scripts Investigated * Thomas Wiefel

We compare the performance of batch, VBScript, and PowerShell commands with four standard tasks.

Detecting Intruders with Suricata * James Stanger

If you're looking for an intrusion detection and prevention system, it pays to shop around. Suricata offers scalable performance and an impressive set of features – it even supports Snort rulesets.