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Obstacle Course  

We test two candidates for viewing and converting video DVDs and Blu-ray discs, HandBrake and MakeMKV, and point out legal hurdles.

Something for Everyone  

Gitpod relies on technologies such as Docker and Eclipse Theia to serve up individual development environments for GitHub projects.

Painting by Numbers  

Create intuitive and meaningful visualizations of storage performance values with a "TIG" stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana.

Checker  

AFICK is a small, free tool that helps administrators detect attempts to manipulate documents and system files.

Exchange  

Istio facilitates communication between the many small microcomponents that need to communicate with each other in modern applications.

Task Schedulers  

The fcron and hcron scheduler alternatives to cron are suitable for computers that do not run around the clock, and each come with specific benefits.

Same but Different  

The Podman container management tool does not use a daemon in the background, like its counterpart Docker, and can operate in non-privileged mode.

Continuous Progress  

The Zuul 3 gating system is a free and flexible solution for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.

Connections  

IPC in Perl is easy with a few functions, signal handlers, backticks, and pipes.

Solid Foundation  

If RAID hardware is missing on your server, Windows, Linux, and macOS offer various options for building software RAID.