Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the rhythm of the project’s development cycle will clash with Christmas, so developers need to make sure they ready their work before the holiday season. The warning came in Torvalds’s weekly kernel development update in which he announced release candidate 7 […]
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Using Cloudera Deploy to install Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud
Following our recent Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) overview, we cover how to deploy CDP private Cloud on you local infrastructure. It is entirely automated with the Ansible cookbooks published by Cloudera and it is reproducible on your local host with Vagrant. CDP is an enterprise data cloud. It provides a […]
‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video
My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, or a school-wide showing of a “Stranger Danger” PSA? […]
US effectively bans imports of Chinese telecoms products • The Register
The United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has barred itself from authorizing the import or sale of Chinese telecoms and video surveillance products from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision, and Dahua, on national security grounds. As it is not legal to offer such products in the US without FCC approval, […]
Take $50 off the price of this smart door lock with Black Friday savings
For many of us, personal security is highly prioritized, particularly when tasked with keeping an entire family safe. There are many modern ways to explore at-home security upgrades, but those can quickly become overly expensive or complicated. For a limited time, we’re serving up Black Friday savings to make the BOSMA Aegis Smart […]
Architecture of object-based storage and S3 standard specifications
Object storage has been growing in popularity among data storage architectures. Compared to file systems and block storage, object storage faces no limitations when handling petabytes of data. By design, the limitless nature of object storage makes it fit for Big Data and Cloud contexts. Moreover, object storage is simple […]
Introducing Trunk Data Platform: the Open-Source Big Data Distribution Curated by TOSIT
Ever since Cloudera and Hortonworks merged, the choice of commercial Hadoop distributions for on-prem workloads essentially boils down to CDP Private Cloud. CDP can be seen as the “best of both worlds” between CDH and HDP. With HDP 3.1’s End of Support coming in December 2021, Cloudera’s clients are “forced” […]
Tips for employees and leaders navigating job cuts – GeekWire
(Bigstock Photo) Wendy Turner-Williams thought she was on the verge of a promotion. Instead, the former chief data officer at Tableau got laid off. Turner-Williams is one of more than 57,000 tech workers dealing with the emotional and financial stress of being laid off over the past two months as […]
Best MacBook Cyber Monday Deals 2022
You’ve come to the right place for the best deals on Apple’s MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. We’ve done all the hard work for you, checking the top MacBook resellers in the US and UK for the biggest savings. Read on to save money on a new Apple laptop in […]
I Used to Struggle With Where to Send My Kids to School. Now I Struggle With Sending Them at All.
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, we often had conversations about where we would send our kids to school. These conversations were almost always rooted in fear, with the ever-present threat of gun violence in schools weighing heavy in the back of my mind. Even in moments […]
Nix introduction, main concepts and commands
Nix is a functional package manager for Linux and other Unix systems, making the management of packages more reliable and easy to reproduce. With a traditional package manager, when updating a package, a new version is downloaded and used to overwrite its associated files. Changes can’t be undone. If for […]
How Does Random Number Generation Ensure Fair Playing in Online Games?
The term “random number generator” (RNG) refers to a certain mathematical process used in technology, particularly online gaming. It has a wide range of capabilities, such as a reliability element with improved randomization, protected encryption, and increased security. With extremely little likelihood of prediction, this sophisticated algorithm creates numbers at […]
Blockchain 102: Cryptocurrencies, Wallets and DApps
A lot of people own cryptocurrencies today. But holding some tokens on an exchange does not mean interacting with the blockchain. The assets you trade are only numbers stored inside the exchange’s database. It’s because trading assets on-chain at high speed would be slow and super expensive. To bring your […]
SingleStore and Intel Collaborate to Deliver Next-Generation Real-Time Data Technology
SingleStore, the cloud-native database built for speed, scale and powering real-time data-intensive applications, announced it has been accepted as a Gold Status Partner in Intel’s Disruptor Initiative. The program helps companies push the limits of innovation through technical enablement and multi-channel go-to-market activities. As a result, SingleStore customers will benefit by […]