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Pass the Test

Regular expressions are invaluable for checking user input, but a vulnerability could make them ripe for exploitation.

Ducks in a Row

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To reduce the possibility of disk thrashing, optimize your data cache through spatial locality and cache-friendly algorithms and utilize fully the data loaded from slower storage media before moving on.

Renovated

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ITIL version 4.0 has undergone a fundamental revision and is now headed into the age of the cloud and DevOps.

Obstacle Course

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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

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

Painting by Numbers

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

Checker

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

Exchange

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

Task Schedulers

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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

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