Fun Hacking Salvaged Data Storage

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Every few years, someone hits the papers—or, in this day and age, the Internet – by going out to eBay or Craigslist, buying a bunch of old computers, and checking out what data is still available on them.

This year, it was Josh Frantz, a senior security consultant for Rapid7, a security firm,…READ MORE

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Moogsoft CTO Cappelli: hats off to understanding AI understanding

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The Computer Weekly Developer Network team spoke this month to Will Cappelli in his role as CTO for EMEA and VP of product strategy at Moogsoft on the subject of just how far we need to understand Artificial Intelligence’s ability to understand, reason and infer on the world around it. 

Moogso…READ MORE

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SuSE touts ‘move to independence’

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Corporate (but ultimately technically-related) news from March saw the completion of SuSE’s acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus.

EQT is a Scandinavia equity funds organisation that has previously spoken of its intentions to invest in engineering prowess at SuSE itself.

As Tec…READ MORE

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NVIDIA Inception Startups Get Free MapR Enterprise License @mapr

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MapR announces MapR AI Edge Program. This program benefits all NVIDIA Inception startup members with a free MapR enterprise license. This is something phenomenal. And it means a lot for the startup community. What it means is that all NVIDIA AI startups can boost their AI development lifecycle with …READ MORE

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Emerging frameworks for cross-silo IoT data models

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As far back as 2015, in one of the earliest macro-assessments of IoT, the consultancy McKinsey quantified the market opportunity in nine categories. They ranged from consumer homes to wide open spaces and included home automation, factory, personal monitoring — health and fitness — and smart city …READ MORE

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Is open source lock-in possible?

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Earlier this week, open source software company SuSE announced that it is strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific region following its acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus.

Well-known for its SuSE Linux distro that got me into Linux during my student years, SuSE is now Europ…READ MORE

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Dell EMC partner strategy stays the course for FY20

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Ahead of its 2019 global partner summit, Dell EMC isn’t veering from its core channel priorities.

Since the formal launch of the Dell EMC Partner Program in 2017, the company’s channel strategy hasn’t seen any significant overhauls. In February, which marked the start of Dell Technologies’ fisca…READ MORE

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Win10 ComputerName Generation

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I just got back from a Spring Break mini-vacation yesterday, and am back at work today. When I tried to log in to my Surface Pro 3 remotely just now, I realized a couple of things. One: I couldn’t find the device under its usual moniker. Two: I did eventually identify it as DESKTOP-1D8K0YZ. This is …READ MORE

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Remainers accidentally DDoS the British government

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With eight days until the UK’s scheduled exit from the European Union, a prime minister who has lost control, a paralysed political system, and Britain reduced to a laughing stock on the world stage as it limps into an entirely avoidable humiliation, the country feels like it’s on the edge of total …READ MORE

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A Technical Debt Secret

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Eleven years ago I co-organized the first Workshop On Technical Debt with Steve Poling; Michael Kelly was our facilitator. Since that time I published a cover story for Better Software Magazine on the topic and continued to work in the field. It is common for me to perform consulting and contract as…READ MORE

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Vote Leave’s early bath

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Vote Leave’s band of zip-wiring cowboy builders has been handed another fine: this time for sending out nearly 200,000 unsolicited texts to the poor sods who entered their contest to win £50m if they could correctly guess every single result of Euro 2016.

At this point, the Vote Leav…READ MORE

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Welcome to the new legacy

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Budgets in IT general do not grow at a rate that can sustain stellar financial performance across the IT industry.

However, Gartner’s latest spending forecast has reported that worldwide software spending projected to grow 8.5% in 2019. It will grow another 8.2% in 2020 to total $466 billion. A…READ MORE

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Hubris over Horizon? Post Office shocks High Court with accusation of bias

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The Post Office likes to describes itself as “the nation’s most trusted brand”. Anyone following the latest developments in the increasingly heated High Court case about its Horizon IT system would be justified in questioning that assertion.

In a move that stunned the court – including th…READ MORE

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Putting user information into computer description

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I was recently asked how to add user information – specifically first and last name – into  computer description in Active Directory.

First get your user

$user = Get-ADUser -Identity FredBrown

Then add the information to the computer’s description

Set-ADCompu…READ MORE

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Tips for Tech Business Travelers

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No matter how much the tech industry ebbs and flows between encouraging working in the office or allowing work from home policies, the one constant in the industry is that people ultimately make buying and usage decisions, and the majority of those people still like to interact with other people in …READ MORE

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Another turn of the screw on the CIO job? All hail the CIO-plus

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What is it about the CIO job that makes it so ripe for over-analysis? As long as I’ve been covering CIOs, there’s been hand-wringing over how to fill the job successfully. CIOs need to have a seat at the table to do well. They need to partner with the CFO, work hand-in-glove with the CMO, generate r…READ MORE

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What the Myspace data loss debacle tells us about how the internet values creative content

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The news that Myspace lost 12 years of user-generated content during a botched server migration has prompted a lot of debate this week, which Caroline Donnelly picks over here. 

When details of Myspace’s server migration snafu broke free from Reddit, where the incident has been discussed and k…READ MORE

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Using business intelligence tools to prevent team burnout

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This is a guest blogpost by Andrew Filev, founder and CEO, Wrike.

Since no business wants to leave money on the table, it’s tempting to try to squeeze as much productivity as possible out of your workforce to execute every campaign, programme, and project available.

The problem with this app…READ MORE

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I thought my days of Linux were over

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Oh, how wrong I was. Back in the day, all I worked on was Microsoft SQL Server. These days I’m doing some Microsoft SQL Server and a decent amount of Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud work. With all three of those, there’s a lot of Linux in play. Microsoft SQL Server has supported Linux since…READ MORE

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How Instacart works around buggy Elasticsearch queries

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Enterprises that use Elasticsearch to find dynamic information in other apps are struggling to identify errant code that stalls enterprise apps. In theory, application performance monitoring tools should help. But, it wasn’t enough for Instacart to identify the queries that consistently created prob…READ MORE

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