Copyright Alliance Warns U.S. About Pirate Streaming Apps and Devices
Aug26

Copyright Alliance Warns U.S. About Pirate Streaming Apps and Devices

This week the US Customs and Border Protection Bureau hosted a meeting discussing various copyright enforcement efforts. During the meeting, various stakeholders were invited to submit input for the Presidential Memorandum on Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, set to be released later this year. A similar request was previously made by the US Department of Commerce. While we already covered some of these...

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Using variables in Bash
Aug26

Using variables in Bash

In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer). read...

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5 ops tasks to do with Ansible
Aug26

5 ops tasks to do with Ansible

In this DevOps world, it sometimes appears the Dev half gets all the limelight, with Ops the forgotten half in the relationship. It’s almost as if the leading Dev tells the trailing Ops what to do, with almost everything “Ops” being whatever Dev says it should be. Ops, therefore, gets left behind, punted to the back, relegated to the bench. I’d like to see more...

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Introduction to the Linux chown command
Aug26

Introduction to the Linux chown command

Every file and directory on a Linux system is owned by someone, and the owner has complete control to change or delete the files they own. In addition to having an owning user, a file has an owning group. You can view the ownership of a file using the ls -l command: read...

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