Share With Care: Danish ISP Blocks Point ‘Pirates’ to Legal Alternatives
Denmark was among the first countries where The Pirate Bay was blocked, now more than ten years ago. A lot has changed since then. At the moment, major Danish ISPs are preventing subscribers from accessing roughly 300 pirate sites, and this list is far from complete. Aside from expanding the list of sites, the parties involved also realized that blocking is not the end goal. Ideally, pirates should be directed toward legal services....
An introduction to using tcpdump at the Linux command line
In my experience as a sysadmin, I have often found network connectivity issues challenging to troubleshoot. For those situations, tcpdump is a great ally. Tcpdump is a command line utility that allows you to capture and analyze network traffic going through your system. It is often used to help troubleshoot network issues, as well as a security tool. read...
5 alerting and visualization tools for sysadmins
You probably know (or can guess) what alerting and visualization tools are used for. Why would we discuss them as observability tools, especially since some systems include visualization as a feature? Observability comes from control theory and describes our ability to understand a system based on its inputs and outputs. This article focuses on the output component of observability. read...
Talk over text: Conversational interface design and usability
Conversational interfaces are unique among the screen-based and physically manipulated user interfaces that characterize the range of digital experiences we encounter on a daily basis. As Conversational Design author Erika Hall eloquently writes, “Conversation is not a new interface. It’s the oldest interface.” And the conversation, the most human interaction of all, lies at the nexus of the aural and verbal rather...
Iptables tricks, Linux command-line tips, Python, agile, DevOps, and more top reads
Tricks for sysadmins, Linux command-line tips, and a Python programming article were our top 3 posts last week. Do you have tricks, tips, or programming wisdom to share with Opensource.com readers? Send us your story ideas! Stay up on what’s going on with Opensource.com by subscribing to our highlights newsletter. Top 10 (October 1-7) Here are our most popular Opensource.com articles from the past week: read...
