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Minecraft for $2.5 Billion – Yes, ‘the App’ is King
I’m still not completely over the shock from last November when I learned Microsoft had bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion dollars. Let me repeat that: “$2.5 BILLION”; you heard right. Markus Persson, the 35 year-old original … Continue reading →
Posted in Amazon, Business, Game Programming, Games, Mac OS X Yosemite, Networking, Operating Systems, PC, Programming Languages, Rack Space, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware
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Tagged $1.3 Billion, 1.26 Billion, 128 million, 2.5 Billion, 2.7 Billion, Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon S3, Apple, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS X Yosemite, Aruba, Aruba Networks, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Billionaire, Carl, Carl Manneh, cloud, cloud platform, developing games, EBS, EC2, Forbes World's Billionaire list, game developer, Hewlett Packard, HP, Jakob, Jakob Porser, Jeff Barr, Lego, Lego-like blocks, MAC, Mac OS X, Manneh, Markus, Markus Persson, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Minecraft, Minecraft multiplayer mode, Minecraft on Mac, Minecraft Realms, Minecraft single player mode, Mojang, Nicira, PaaS, PaaS vendors, Persson, Platform as a Service, Platform as a Service vendors, Porser, Rackspace, Rackspace Deployment, Rackspace Deployment services, RDS, Realms, SDN, software defined networking, windows
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Security, Art of Hacking, & the Worst 2014 Security Breaches
Security is hot; no doubt about it. Consider the fact that between 2011 and 2013, venture investors put nearly $3 billion into cyber security companies, resulting in new funding for some 300 firms (Source: Thomson Reuters). Worldwide security software revenue … Continue reading →
Posted in Business, Hacks, Labs, Linux, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Python, Red Hat Linux Enterprise, Security, Technology, Technology, Tips, Tips & Tricks, Windows
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Tagged backdoor, backdoor access, backdoor script, brute-force, cyber security, data breach, DOS, employee negligence, Experion, firewall, firewall misconfiguration, Gartner, Global Cybersecurity Spending, Goodwill industries, Goodwill Industries data breach, Goodwill industries security breach, hacked Linux, hacked pc, hacked target, hacker, hacking, Home Depot, Home Depot data breach, Home Depot security breach, host scanning, JP Morgan, JP Morgan data breach, JP Morgan security breach, linux, malicious code, malware, malware detection software, malware software, malware software detection, Michael Bruemmer, Michaels Data Breach, Michaels security breach, micro-segmentation, microsegmentation, negligence, Neiman Marcus data breach, Neiman Marcus security breach, network security, novice hackers, packet injection, perl, Point-of-sale, Point-of-sale system, Point-of-sale systems, Point-of-sales system, Point-of-sales systems, Ponemon Institute, POS, POS systems, proxy server, Python, Python client, Python hacking, Python hacks, Python server, RedHat, RedHat Linux, RedHat Linux Enterprise, security, security breach, security exploitation, security infrastructure, security perimeter, security software, sensitive information, social engineering, Sony, Sony data breach, Sony security breach, sophisticated hackers, spyware, spyware detection software, spyware software detection, SQL injection, Target, Target data breach, Target security breach, traffic sniffing, trojan, unpatched Windows, unpatched Windows flaw, vi, Visa, windows, Windows flaw
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How to Transfer Your Putty Settings Between PCs Running Windows
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had people ask me how they can export their Putty settings. For those of you who have been completely in the dark for the last decade, Putty is a Telnet and SSH … Continue reading →
Posted in Applications, Hacks, Networking, Operating Systems, Technology, Tips & Tricks, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
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Tagged export putty, export putty settings, export windows putty, export windows putty settings, hack, putty, putty hack, putty hack to export settings, putty windows registry hack, regedit, registry hack, Simon Tathamm, ssh client, telnet client, transfer putty settings, transfer putty settings between computers, transfer putty settings between pcs, windows, Windows 7, windows 7 registry hack, windows regedit, windows registry, windows registry hack
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Installing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter in Windows 7
The Microsoft Loopback Adapter is a logical dummy network card. It can be very useful for testing purposes with a virtual network environment where network access is not available. You can also bind network clients and other network configuration items … Continue reading →
Posted in Networking, Operating Systems, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 7
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Tagged dummy network card, gns, Graphical Network Simulator, Hardware Wizard, Install Microsoft Loopback Adapter in Windows 7, Installing Microsoft Loopback Adapter in Windows 7, loopback, loopback adapter, Microsoft Loopback Adapter, Network adapter, Network adapters, pc loopback adapter, windows, Windows 7, Windows 7 Microsoft Loopback Adapter, windows loopback adapter
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Unix shell script – convert Mac ASCII file to Unix ASCII file
With some applications like Microsoft Word you can save a file in ASCII format. However, for new lines Macs use a carriage return (ASCII character 015) while Unix uses a linefeed (ASCII character 012). If you save the file as … Continue reading →
Posted in Linux, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Shell Scripts
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Tagged ASCII, carriage return, linefeed, MAC, Mac to Unix, Microsoft Windows, new line, shell script, Unix, windows
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Linux with Windows Apps
In terms of using Ubuntu Linux as my laptop operating system, I have often been put in the predicament of needing to use applications that either I only have for Windows or applications that are not available for Linux. In … Continue reading →
Posted in Applications, Linux, Operating Systems, Technology, Tips & Tricks
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Tagged linux, ubuntu, VirtualBox, virtualization, vmware, windows, Wine
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Run Windows & Linux on the same PC at the same time!
I’m currently writing this blog from a 1 GB Lenovo NetBook running Ubuntu Linux 8.10 inside virtualization software installed on Windows XP Home Edition. I have been experimenting with different hosted virtualization software to compare and contrast – I have … Continue reading →
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Tagged freebsd, linux, open source, operating system, parallels, suse, ubuntu, virtualization, virtualization software, vmware, windows
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