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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield

The Seduction of the New

Christiann MacAuley's cartoon, "An Upgrade Is Available for Your Computer" has been making the uncredited rounds of social media sites for the last few years. The cartoon shows the reactions of users on different computers to the news of an upgrade: The Linux user is enthusiastic, the Windows user groans, and the Mac user is glad it will only cost him $99.

Open FOSS Training Needs Donations

Technical documentation was my bridge from academia to journalism and remains a concern of mine. Free software frequently lacks documentation, and even more frequently, it lacks documentation for complete beginners.

Linus Torvalds and the Three Stages of Celebrity

No matter what you think of the accusations that Linus Torvalds encourages a culture of abuse in the kernel project, one thing is clear: he's well into the second level of celebrity, which complicates the situation immensely.

Productivity Sauce * Dmitri Popov

Use Chromium and Chrome Browsers as Timers for the Pomodoro Technique

To practice the Pomodoro technique, you need one thing: a timer. And there are plenty of timer tools and applets out there designed specifically for the Pomodoro technique. If you happen to use Google Chrome or Chromium as your preferred browser, you can use the set timer for search query to activate a timer in a separate window or tab.

Krill: News Filtered

Overwhelmed by the news stream in your regular RSS aggregator? Try Krill. It may look like yet another text-based RSS aggregator, but this nifty little application has a few clever tricks up its sleeve. For starters, Krill can handle not only RSS and Atom feeds, but also Twitter.

DIY GPS Tracking for Your Android Device

Being able to pinpoint the current position of your Android device can come in useful in many situations, but using a third-party app or service may not appeal to privacy-conscious users. If you are one of them, Self-Hosted GPS Tracker might be right up your alley.

ADMIN Online

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OpenSMTPD Makes Mail Server Configuration Easy * Tobias Eggendorfer

The OpenBSD origins of the OpenSMTPD mail transfer agent makes SMTP easier to implement and manage and more secure.

Improving Docker Security Now and in the Future * Sebastian Meyer

The focus for container solutions such as Docker is increasingly shifting to security. Some vulnerabilities have been addressed, with plans to take further steps in the future to secure container virtualization.

Analyzing Large Volumes of Data with Apache Storm * Holger Reibold

We take you through the installation of a Storm cluster and discuss how to create your own topologies.

Managing Networks in Windows Server vNext * Thomas Joos

We look at a new component in Windows Server vNext – the Network Controller server role.

Successful Protocol Analysis in Modern Network Structures * Matthias Hein

Virtual networks and server structures require additional mechanisms to ensure visibility of data streams. We show how to monitor and analyze network functions, even when virtualization is involved.