A planned server maintenance went awry due to a bug in an upgrade script, says a Dropbox blog. [Read more] Read more at CNET News Source: Linux
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Boston Moves 76K City Employees to Google Apps
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Every Boston city employee from police officers to public school teachers now have a Google Apps account. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Open Computing Accelerated Sharply in 2013
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. Open computing has been steadily growing in enterprise acceptance and, in 2013, that trend accelerated sharply. Many factors contributed to the upward trajectory of open computing in the last year. However, there were three notable developments…
Open Invention Network Welcomes Google as a Full Member
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In 2007, has stood out through its participation as an Associate Member in the OIN community. Source: Tech
10 Useful Open Source Security Firewalls for Linux Systems
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Being an Nix admin over 5+ years, I’m always responsible for the security management of Linux servers. Firewalls plays an important role in securing Linux systems/networks. It acts like an security guard between internal and external network by controlling and managing incoming and outgoing… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for…
Reform corporate surveillance
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The FSF issued the following statement in response to the recent open letter on government surveillance published by AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo. Source: Free Software
Google Compute Engine Goes Into General Availability
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Google , the company well known for keeping products in beta for the longest time, has just announced that its Infrastructure as a Service offering, Google Computer Engine has gone into general availability. Source: Tech
New PubNub App Template for WebRTC
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PubNub on Wednesday released an open source template to allow developers to add Skype-like video chat into their apps. The free template provides a fully functional video chat platform using WebRTC, PubNub and Google Authentication for a global, reliable collaboration solution. “While the WebRTC protocol has created huge excitement as a way to deliver video…
Google now pays for finding Android security holes, too
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The program began with Chrome and expanded to Google Web sites and other open-source software projects. Source: Tech
Yum Tips for Taking Charge of Package Management in CentOS
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An important aspect of administering a CentOS server is to understand its package management system and its various online repositories. Together they ensure you are always running a secure and updated server. CentOS uses the Yellow Dog Updater, Modified (yum) package manager to install and update software packages in RPM format from online software repositories.…