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Automate and Protect
At this point, you have a VPS up and running, and it has a domain name associated with it. But the VPS can't do much until you install the required software and specify a basic configuration. At the very least, you need...
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CompTIA recently released an updated version of its CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) exam/certification, which focuses on entry-level project management skills.
According to the company, the new CompTIA Project+ certification, which costs $358 per exam, is ideal for IT professionals, “because it covers essential project management concepts...
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Linux used to be intimidating for new users, but that’s simply no longer the case, says Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. “With the best Linux distros for beginners, you don't have to possess any coding or programming experience.”
In this article, Vaughan-Nichols considers which distros are best...
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The RESF has released Rocky Linux 9.1, available for the x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. This latest version features updated developer tools as well as an open source, scalable trust system called Keylime, reports Bobby Borisov.
“The big news in Rocky Linux 9.1 is...
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The widely used JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file format “uses human-readable language, text, and syntax to store and communicate data objects between applications,” explains Chiradeep BasuMallick.
JSON has gained popularity because of its ease of use and simplicity, BasuMallick says, with common uses including:
Writing JavaScript-based...
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Yahoo!Finance has ranked the largest open source software companies, based on the number of active GitHub contributors. The survey included contributions from employees with official corporate email addresses, explains Ramish Cheema.
The top 5 companies, in terms of active GitHub contributors, are:
Microsoft — 5,708 active...
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The logrotate tool can deliver logs by email and can compress and uncompress the logs (with gzip and gunzip). It also tells you where you can find the “state” of log rotation (/var/lib/logrotate/status).
You can change the compress/uncompress tools to something you want (e.g., pigz,...
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The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) has resolved to discontinue use of leap seconds, reports Kevin Purdy.
Starting in 2035, “the remarkably complicated way of aligning the Earth's inconsistent rotation with atomic-precision timekeeping” will be discontinued, Purdy says, and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)...
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Despite recent industry layoffs and current economic challenges, demand for tech talent remains high, reports Dice, “with more than 3.8 million tech jobs posted in 2022 so far.” And, employees remain highly motivated to improve their skills and advance their careers.
According to a recent survey...
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Cybersecurity researchers are looking more closely at Mastodon now that the decentralized social media platform’s popularity has soared, reports Eduard Kovacs, and they’ve started finding security issues.
“Much of the cybersecurity community has joined the ‘Infosec.exchange’ instance on Mastodon,” Kovacs says, “and some researchers have...
