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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2023
=> Gemini Articles of Interest | Programming Leftovers
=> ↺ Meet Sean McManus | #MagPiMonday
The MagPi regular and Raspberry Pi guide writer, Sean has done just about everything with a Raspberry Pi. This #MagPiMonday, we get to know him better and take a walk down memory lane to the early days of Raspberry Pi.
REx now offers global resource distribution figures for IPv4, IPv6, and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) and the history of the number of delegations and addresses delegated. REx also provides the list of all delegations currently in place around the world.
=> ↺ Good RPC systems versus basic 'RPC systems'
It's not particularly easy or straightforward to make a HTTP based system into a good RPC system. But often you can get away with a basic HTTP based 'RPC' system for a surprisingly long time, and it may be the best or easiest option when you're just starting out.
=> ↺ Netnews: The Origin Story
Netnews, sometimes called Usenet, was arguably the first social network. It had a profound influence on online socializing, including helping to give to the world the current slang meanings of words like “spam”, “troll”, and “flame”. It was where many technologies we now take for granted were first announced, including Linux, the World Wide Web, and the graphical web browser. But its design was a function both its design goals and the technological context of the time. I describe those and a variety of other early design decisions, those which were right, those which were wrong, and those which were inevitable.
=> ↺ Some tactics for writing in public
I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years, even if sometimes people are jerks. So I want to explain some tactics I use to try to make the comments on my posts more informative and useful to me, and to try to minimize the number of annoying comments I get.
=> ↺ Making a move: How migrating to Ubuntu saved a life insurance company 60% in costs
Balancing high performance operations against the need to reduce total operating costs is a classical dilemma faced by both large and small organisations. This dilemma becomes particularly important when you choose the foundation of your IT infrastructure: the operating system.
A recent case study by Tech Mahindra, the multinational IT services and consulting firm, details how their partnership with Canonical enabled them to shift the balance for a major Fortune 500 life insurance company.
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