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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield

Compensating with Neon

A basic tenet of organizational theory is that, whenever the formal structures are inadequate, other structures emerge to compensate. And that, in a sentence, may explain why KDE Neon has emerged.

Why I Chose a Creative Commons License

I recently published a book called Designing with LibreOffice. The experience can be surreal, and some other time, I'll blog about incidents like my photo shoot, which was continually interrupted by a two-by-two line of 10-year-olds coming and going, or trying to plan a book launch menu that included vegetarian options and satisfied two different sets of allergies.

David Graham Provides Glimpse into FOSS in Canada's Government

Ordinarily, free and open source software receives little attention in the government of Canada. A rare exception occurred on Thursday, March 10 when David Graham, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Laurentides--Labelle (Québec) began asking questions before the Standing Committee On Government Operations and Estimates (Shared Services).

Productivity Sauce * Dmitri Popov

Use Node-RED to Get Twitter Mention Alerts

I don't use Twitter a lot, which explains why I often miss mentions from other users. But checking for mentions manually is as practical as playing tennis with a broom stick. Node-RED to the rescue!

Quick-and-Dirty Geotagging with a Bash Script

When you need to quickly geotag a bunch of photos with an approximate location (e.g., city and country), a simple Bash shell script can help you to do it much faster than a heavy-weight application like digiKam.

Open Note Scanner: Instant Note Digitizing on Android

There is no lack of apps of varying degrees of sophistication and quality that can transform your Android device into a handy note digitizing tool. And, if you prefer to keep things simple and open source, Open Note Scanner is what you need.

ADMIN HPC

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Finding and Recording Memory Errors * Jeff Layton

A recent article in IEEE Spectrum by Al Geist, titled "How To Kill A Supercomputer: Dirty Power, Cosmic Rays, and Bad Solder," reviewed some of the major ways a supercomputer can be killed. The first subject the author discussed was how cosmic rays can cause memory errors, both correctable and uncorrectable.

ADMIN Online

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Linux Storage Stack Stacking Up * Werner Fischer and Georg Schönberger

Abstraction layers are the alpha and omega in the design of complex architectures. The Linux Storage Stack is an excellent example of well-coordinated layers. Access to storage media is abstracted through a unified interface, without sacrificing functionality.

Network virtualization with OpenDaylight * Sandro Lucifora

OpenDaylight provides a flexible solution for setting up a software-defined networking environment. We show you how to get started.

Monitoring Containers * Sebastian Meyer

A monitoring system helps avoid unpleasant surprises during operations, but admins need to modify existing solutions to fit a containerized world.