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Early Adopters Already Hit By Fedora Dropping Old Linux GPU Drivers

While it’s been known since last year that Fedora wants to get rid of old GPU drivers that don’t have DRM/KMS support and their plans moved forward months ago to rid the system of old GPU drivers, some Linux enthusiasts running against the latest Fedora development code are surprised their GPU driver vanished…

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Password Management Market Trends and Forecast 2014

Password Management Market

Passwords act as the authentication tool and a defense against attempts of unauthorized access. Password management has emerged as a major segment of identity management market. Human generated passwords are often algorithmically weak and prone to attacks. In the recent years, the importance of password management (also known as sensitive or shared password management or password vaulting) has grown enormously for both the enterprise and individual users owing to increased number of password secured accounts including financial, social, and official, among others. It is difficult for users or enterprise to remember all the passwords. Rise in the complexity and number of complex systems being deployed across the organizations, and strict compliance requirements and rules for generating and changing passwords makes it complicated to manage the passwords. Further, the password management problems often cause expensive delays and loss of productivity. Such issues are easily solved while using password management solutions.

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Moreover, increased instances of attacks by hackers have increased concerns toward password security and this is helping in growing demand for password management solutions. The password management products and solutions are deployed either on-premise environment or in hosted environment over cloud. The rapidly growing cloud market presents a great opportunity in the hosted password management market.

Low success of password self-service projects among end-users until now is a key concern among industry players. However, as the awareness toward the benefits of deploying such a model is increasing it is anticipated that self-service solutions would find increasing demand during the coming years. Also, growing customization, synchronization, and extension requirements are driving the demand for more extensive and sophisticated password management solutions. In order to provide improved password management and security to account, industry players such as Microsoft and Google are offering newer ways for managing passwords such as USB tokens and automatic encrypted solutions.

Two major segments of password management market are privileged password management and self services password management. Self service password management provides features such as management and resetting of passwords to the employees without needing the help of helpdesks. This helps in saving the valuable time of the IT personnel and reduces cost. The privileged password management solutions offer higher security to passwords by maintaining the passwords of privileged users deploying various methods including frequent randomization of passwords, automated password resets and privileged session recording. Key end-use sectors in this market include banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), telecom and IT, energy and utility, public sector, manufacturing, education, healthcare and life sciences, education and retail and distribution, among others.

Make Linux Troubleshooting Easier

It’s up to the sysadmin to ensure that Linux servers operate at peak performance. Linux troubleshooting is of paramount concern in the data center.

Data center experts answered some of your burning Linux server troubleshooting questions around performance problems, optimization and useful tools.

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Wink Adds Touchscreen-Based Home Automation Hub

Wink announced Relay, an Android-based smart light switch and home automation hub featuring a 4.3-inch touchscreen, proximity sensors, and voice messaging. Wink Hub(click to enlarge) Back in June, Quirky subsidiary Wink launched its Linux-based Wink home automation hub and free Android and iOS mobile app, together with 15 partners and 60 compatible devices. The app […]

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Brief Introduction of Huawei SSR2PD1A Board

The SSR2PD1A is a PDH processing board which adds tributary signals to line signals and drops tributary signals to line signals. This board has another name, SSR2PD1A01, so that you can use different names to search at Thunder-link.com which sells various transmission boards including SSR2PD1A. Thus you will enjoy your shopping tour at that site.

The SSR2PD1A can be used on the OptiX OSN1500B equipment to transmit/receive process 32xE1 signals. The series of PD1 is available in two functional versions, namely, R1 and R2. The difference between the two versions is with regard to their function: R2PD1supports the PRBS test in the tributary direction and in the cross-connect direction in the normal mode or MUX mode and does not support the PRBS test in the Server mode; The R1PD1 supports the PRBS test in the tributary direction and in the cross-connect direction and does not support the CRC function, but the R2PD1 supports the CRC function. The R1PD1A can be replaced with the R2PD1A when the required conditions are met. So you should pay attention to the difference.

In the case of SSR2PD1A of OptiX OSN 1500B equipment, it must be used with the D75S, D12S, or D12B. In the OptiX OSN 1500B sub-rack, the slots valid for the SSR2PD1A01 vary with the cross-connect capacity of the sub-rack. When the cross-connect capacity is 20 Gbit/s, the PD1 can be installed in divided slots 1–3, 6–8, and 11–13.The valid slots of SSR2PD1A are slot 1, 2 3, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17.

The feature code of the SSR2PD1A indicates the type of interface impedance. The relationship between the feature code of the PD1 and the type of interface impedance is: the feature code of SSR2PD1A and SSR1PD1 is A01; Type of Interface Impedance is 75-ohm.

Huawei transmission boards own a good word-of-mouth and a large scale market in the overseas. With the rapid development of the society and economy, the prospect of this field will be better and better. What’s more, SSR2PD1A will play a duteous board, service the people and society.

Google Brings Coreboot To 64-bit ARM

As of today there’s now mainline Coreboot support for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) thanks to work originally done by Google…

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ARChon Runtime Allows You To Run Any Android App On Chrome Or Any Other OS

Google last week announced the availability of four Android apps on Chrome OS as the result of a projected called App Runtime for Chrome (beta). That was pretty exciting, but what if you could run more than just four Android apps on Chrome OS? And what if you could run them on other operating systems as well? A developer by the name of “Vladikoff” had that same thought, so he went and built a runtime called ARChon (App Runtime for Chrome) that allows Android to spread its wings.

The initial release of ARChon was hamstrung by several limitations, such as limited apps support and only working on Chrome OS. However, Vladikoff has been hard at work tweaking his runtime, and the latest version now allows you to run any Android app on Windows, Mac, and Linux, in addition to Chrome OS.

Read more at Hot Hardware.

The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job

Wanna be a programmer? That shouldn’t be too hard. You can sign-up for an iterative online tutorial at a site like Codecademy or Treehouse. You can check yourself into a “coding bootcamp†for a face-to-face crash course in the ways of programming. Or you could do the old fashioned thing: buy a book or take a class at your local community college.

But if want to be a serious programmer, that’s another matter. You’ll need hundreds of hours of practice—and countless mistakes—to learn the trade. It’s often more of an art than a skill—where the best way of doing something isn’t the most obvious way. You can’t really learn to craft code that’s both clear and efficient without some serious trial and error, not to mention an awful lot of feedback on what you’re doing right and what you’re doing wrong.

That’s where a site called Exercism.io is trying to help. Exercism is updated every day with programming exercises in a variety of different languages. 

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The XPrize Foundation Announces $15-million Open-Source Literacy Prize

The XPrize Foundation, best known for its spaceflight challenges, has announced an earthly focus: Creating an open-source application that can teach teach a child to read, write, and perform arithmetic without a teacher.