Android One is the best choice for ensuring that the IT stack on a BYOD device is well managed. This article discusses the need and benefits.
Category: Other Opensource
libressl
Libressl (http://www.libressl.org/) is a recent fork of OpenSSL. The goal of libressl is to provide a more secure alternative to openssl and the developers who forked the code feel that openssl is beyond repair at this point. Quoting from libressl website, LibreSSL is a version of the TLS/crypto stack forked from OpenSSL in 2014, with… Continue reading libressl
More from openssl last week
The heartbleed bug might have created pressure schedules for many a system administrators and security practitioners around the globe, but it definitely has done a few good things. One great outcome of heartbleed is closer scrutiny of the openssl code and use cases, that is going to help the secure online activities in the long… Continue reading More from openssl last week
Enterprises And OpenStack
A technology might show lot of potential, but its commercial success in certain market segments is driven by a varied set of factors. Take OpenStack, the technology that comes to mind when we talk about private clouds, for example. The technology has all the right ideas for it to be the primary choice of implementation… Continue reading Enterprises And OpenStack
First bake of your Raspberry Pi
Introduction This is a short tutorial on how to bring up your Raspberry Pi for the first time and make it run something simple and fun. In order to know that we accomplished what we want to, lets set the goal first. At the end of this short tutorial, we should be able to Boot… Continue reading First bake of your Raspberry Pi
Pi: Ready To Serve
I got hooked onto Raspberry Pi in recent weeks. Here are a few factors that contributed to this fanciness towards the device Simplicity of the device Ability to compile accessories from existing gear Potential of the device to serve to a wide range of use cases Ability to start simple and then dig deeper Potential… Continue reading Pi: Ready To Serve
Moving to Twenty Thirteen Theme
I was using Graphene theme of WordPress for quite some time. The biggest takeaways from the theme are extreme customization (font families, headers, footers, analytics), sliders, nice graphics and more. In the last few days, I started tilting more towards simple themes that would offer very simple layout and page views. So I started playing… Continue reading Moving to Twenty Thirteen Theme
Obituary – Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis is no more. That comes as a sad news for not only me, but also for the entire open source community in India and worldwide. Atul founded and ran foss.in with passion. Beyond foss.in, he is the go to guy for many hacks to make opensource software work. During the initial days of… Continue reading Obituary – Atul Chitnis
few edits using gimp
Took the pictures from my previous post and checked a few things with gimp. First time play with the levels tool in gimp. Tried to make the colors more striking and here are the results from a few minutes of play with gimp. First time use of color manipulation tools of gimp…
Bind, linux and resilience
Last month was a pleasant milestone for one of the servers I manage – the server is up for more than 1000 days and actively serving public DNS queries. $ uptime 19:52:37 up 1013 days, Â 2:44, Â 2 users, Â load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 $ The configurations on the device change on a weekly basis, the… Continue reading Bind, linux and resilience