Sam Labs shows off a new educational electronics kit — with no wires

Perhaps you're old enough to remember when building interactive electronic devices involved breadboards, soldering irons and assembly code.Tell young people today that, though, and they won't believe you -- especially if they've used one of the educational electronics sets Sam Labs is showing at IFA in Berlin.The components in these sets are the same as you would find in beginners' electronics kits of the 1970s and 80s: lamps, photo sensors, pushbuttons, potentiometers, tilt switches and DC motors.The big difference is, there are no wires.Instead, the components are mounted on small plastic blocks each containing a USB-rechargeable battery and a Bluetooth module. This lets them talk to one another and to a host PC, phone or tablet running Sam Labs' visual programming app.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Your Docker Agenda for September

From webinars to workshops, meetups to conference talks, September is packed with lots of Docker events. Check out the list of upcoming events sorted by continent below:

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Official Docker Training Courses

Introduction to Docker: This is a two-day, on-site or classroom-based training course which introduces you to the Docker platform and takes you through installing, integrating, and running it in your working environment.

Sep 5-6: Introduction to Docker with Luis Herrera – Docker Captain – Madrid, Spain

Sep 12-13: Introduction to Docker with Contino – London, United Kingdom

Sep 15-16: Introduction to Docker with AKRA – Hamburg, Germany

Sep 19-20: Introduction to Docker with Alterway – St. Cloud, France

 

Docker Administration and Operations: The Docker Administration and Operations course consists of both the Introduction to Docker course, followed by the Advanced Docker Topics course, held over four consecutive days.

Sep 12-15: Docker Administration and Operations with Luis Herrera – Docker Captain – Madrid, Spain

Sep 15-18: Docker Administration and Operations with AKRA – Hamburg, Germany

Sep 19-23: Docker Administration and Operations with Amazic – Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands

Sep 20-23: Docker Administration and Operations with Vizuri – Austin, TX

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25 is the New 10

I am continually amazed at the productivity of the Cumulus Networks development team who recently collaborated with the Mellanox development team to do some amazing things in this new Cumulus Linux 3.1 release. Besides innovating on a number of important new software features, they added support for five new switches from Mellanox, including the first native 25 Gigabit Open Ethernet switch as well as the highest capacity 10/100GbE switch on the market.

 

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The Mellanox SN2410 is the industry’s first generally available switch with native 25 Gigabit Ethernet (25GbE) ports. Working for *the* provider of 99% of all 25GbE NICs sold worldwide, I can say with confidence that, until now, all 25GbE servers have been connected to 100GbE switch ports via breakout cables. The SN2410 changes all that by providing 48 SFP28 ports that can natively operate in 1G, 10G, or 25G modes, which is great for cutting-edge deployments while providing backward compatibility for legacy devices. Just like 10GbE SFP+ ports, the 25GbE SP28 ports can utilize inexpensive passive copper direct-attach cables.

Who needs 25 Gigabit Ethernet?

Without my naming names, you can safely assume that the hyperscalers and other early consumers of 10GbE are now moving to 25GbE Continue reading

A mystery user breached an email account on Clinton’s server

In 2013, an unknown user accessed an email account on Hillary Clinton’s private email server through Tor, the anonymous web surfing tool, according to new FBI documents.On Friday, the FBI provided details on the possible breach in newly released files about its investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was the U.S. secretary of state.The affected email account belonged to a member of Bill Clinton's staff. In January 2013, an unknown user managed to log in to the account and browse email folders and attachments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

A mystery user breached an email account on Clinton’s server

In 2013, an unknown user accessed an email account on Hillary Clinton’s private email server through Tor, the anonymous web surfing tool, according to new FBI documents.On Friday, the FBI provided details on the possible breach in newly released files about its investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was the U.S. secretary of state.The affected email account belonged to a member of Bill Clinton's staff. In January 2013, an unknown user managed to log in to the account and browse email folders and attachments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Quagga Routing Software with EIGRP Support

In May 2013, Cisco opened its proprietary EIGRP protocol and released an informational RFC 7868 - Cisco's Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). It gives other vendors an opportunity to implement EIGRP protocol into their devices. A group students led by an assistant professor and Cisco CCIE Peter Paluch who is an instructor trainer at the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, Slovakia implemented EIGRP support into Quagga routing software.

The goal of this tutorial is to provide a VMware vmdk disk with installed Linux Core and Quagga which supports Cisco EIGRP protocol. The image can be used to test compatibility between EIGRP configured on native Cisco devices and an implementation of EIGRP daemon in Quagga . I also share my findings about issues that I have noticed during my tests.

Here you can download Linux Core vmdk disk with installed Quagga 0.99.24-rc1 which supports EIGRP.

How did I create Quagga Qemu Image with EIGRP Support
I installed Linux Core 7.2 to Qemu virtual machine and remastered Core for sending output to a serial port according to this tutorial. I download Quagga version which supports EIGRP from github and I installed it from source. Afterwards I created Linux Core Quagga extension. I did not submit Continue reading

Worth Reading: Hybrid and the last common denominator problem

Hybrid cloud only works when applications are designed to run predictably across all the infrastructure choices in the IT portfolio. Most organizations achieve this through a “least common denominator” approach to design, one in which API abstractions are so thoroughly simplified that only the barest set of cloud services remain. This approach, while functional, strips away nearly all of the useful advanced features that different infrastructures offer. A new Apache open source project, ARIA (Agile Reference Implementation of Automation) wants to solve this compromise. —The New Stack

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Point-of-sale data breaches have now reached the cloud

The latest in a string of hacks against retail point-of-sale systems has hit the operator of a cloud-based service with about 38,000 business clients.Montreal-based Lightspeed reported the breach on Thursday and said it affected a system that retailers can use from tablets, smartphones and other devices.  The incident occurs as a growing number of retailers and hotels have been targeted by hackers, who typically install malware into the point-of-sale systems to steal credit card numbers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Point-of-sale data breaches have now reached the cloud

The latest in a string of hacks against retail point-of-sale systems has hit the operator of a cloud-based service with about 38,000 business clients.Montreal-based Lightspeed reported the breach on Thursday and said it affected a system that retailers can use from tablets, smartphones and other devices.  The incident occurs as a growing number of retailers and hotels have been targeted by hackers, who typically install malware into the point-of-sale systems to steal credit card numbers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

VMware’s Embrace And Extend Strategy

The most successful players in the information technology space are those that can adapt, again and again, to tumultuous change. With a vast installed base and plenty of technical talent, it is unwise to count VMware out as the enterprise customers who have embraces its server virtualization tools ponder how they want to evolve to something that looks more like what a hyperscaler would build.

Many companies have faced these moments, but here is perhaps a pertinent parallel.

IBM’s vaunted mainframe business reacted successfully to the onslaught of minicomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, spearheaded by Digital Equipment …

VMware’s Embrace And Extend Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

A series of tubes: What’s next for home automation

"A series of tubes" is one of the most famous explanations of what makes the internet work, but it's also what many Europeans use to heat their homes. That's made room-by-room heating automation difficult -- until now.Heating systems in Europe typically circulate hot water from a boiler to radiators around the home, with the pump and boiler controlled by a central thermostat. Programmable timers can boost the temperature on winter evenings or lower it at night.Generally, though, such control is an all-or-nothing, whole-home affair, making it impossible to heat the living room only in the evening but warm the bathroom for a morning shower. Smart controllers like Nest and its European competitors Tado and Netatmo can't change that, as the series of tubes in most homes doesn't allow for independent control of different heating zones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft fixes freezing problems in Anniversary Update

Microsoft has issued fixes to the problem plaguing its Anniversary Update, aka Redstone, a major update to Windows 10 issued this past August. The fixes are available via the Windows Update utility.The Anniversary Update was an ambitious update, far more than a mere patch, so problems are not too big of a surprise. However, issues quickly piled up in this instance. Almost immediately there were reports of login issues, a bug causing webcams to fail, and Kindle's causing the PC to crash when the Kindle was plugged into the PC via USB.The big one, though, was freezing and slowdowns on the PC after installing the Anniversary Update. It took Microsoft roughly a month to figure out the problem, but users can now apply a Windows Update, which was released Aug. 31, to alleviate the problem. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Docker Weekly Roundup | August 28, 2016

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The last week of August 2016 is over and you know what that means; another Docker news roundup. Highlights include, Docker comes to Raspberry Pi, a cheat sheet for Windows 10 and a presentation by Mike Coleman at Tech Field Day at VMWorld 2016.


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