Tron Wants to Give BitTorrent Users Financial Incentives to Seed
Late May, TorrentFreak learned that Justin Sun, the entrepreneur behind the popular cryptocurrency TRON, was about to acquire BitTorrent Inc, the company behind the uTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline torrent clients. BitTorrent Inc. acknowledged that negotiations were underway but few official details became available until last week when both BitTorrent Inc. and the TRON Foundation confirmed the acquisition had taken place. “We...
EA Takes Down ‘Open Source’ SimCity 2000 Remake
SimCity 2000 is without a doubt one of the most iconic games in history, one that paved the way for hundreds of other ‘building’ titles. The game was first released in 1993 for Apple computers, but it later made its way to the PC and several gaming console platforms as well. After more than a quarter-century, SimCity 2000 still receives plenty of interest from nostalgic gamers who like to relive their early gaming...
A sysadmin's guide to Bash
Each trade has a tool that masters in that trade wield most often. For many sysadmins, that tool is their shell. On the majority of Linux and other Unix-like systems out there, the default shell is Bash. read...
How to be the lazy sysadmin
The job of a Linux SysAdmin is always complex and often fraught with various pitfalls and obstacles. Ranging from never having enough time to do everything, to having the Pointy-Haired Boss (PHB) staring over your shoulder while you try to work on the task that she or he just gave you, to having the most critical server in your care crash at the most inopportune time, problems and challenges abound. I have found that becoming the Lazy...
What's in a container image: Meeting the legal challenges
Container technology has, for many years, been transforming how workloads in data centers are managed and speeding the cycle of application development and deployment. read...
