Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member. Platinum is the highest level of membership at the Linux Foundation. Other Linux Foundation platinum members include: Cisco, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, and Samsung. The Linux Foundation has different levels of memberships for organizations. The different levels of membership […]
CenturyLink, the telecommunications company that took over Qwest and Savvis a few years ago is now going to acquire Level 3 Communications. The transaction is valued at $34 billion dollars. CenturyLink will use a combination of cash and stock to acquire Level 3. Datacenter operators will probably not be liking this news. Qwest, Savvis, and […]
WPEngine has announced the company will now be including free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for their customers. Existing customers can activate their free SSL certificate with a few clicks from within the WPEngine portal. Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates are just like any other SSL certificate with the exception that they expire every 90 days. This […]
If you are a Weebly.com customer you should go and change your password. If your Weebly password is shared with any other accounts. You should also change the password for those accounts. LeakedSource has data obtained from a security breach at Weebly in February of 2016. The data was was taken from Weebly includes: usernames, […]
Users on the West Coast and East Coast of the United States maybe experiencing some issues when attempting to access sites like: Amazon.com, Spotify, Netflix, GitHub, SoundCloud, Etsy, Twitter, and many other poplar sites. The reason for the connectivity issue is because Dyn.com is experiencing a massive DDoS attack. Dyn.com is one of the largest […]
FreeBSD 11 was released on October 10, 2016. This is the actual and official 11.0 release. You can go over to FreeBSD.org to grab a ISO or install image of your choice. You should also read the release announcement here. Some tidbits from the release errata: The release announcement stated “Wireless support for 802.11n has […]
FreeBSD 11.0 was not released yesterday. It was expected that October 5, 2016 would be the date but a new date is now set. The FreeBSD team has delayed the release of FreeBSD 11.0 to October 10, 2016. The reason via the FreeBSD mailing list: As many of you are aware, 11.0-RELEASE needed to be […]
It is being reported that Host Europe Group anticipates bids for the company to come from at least 2 different parties. Deutsche Telekom’s Strato is believed be teaming up with Hellman & Friedman to make a bid. While United Internet (parent of 1&1) will team up with Warburg Pincus to make another bid. There has […]
This afternoon Netflix experienced an outage for over 2 hours. This resulted in thousands of users taking to Twitter to voice their concern about their plans and how they would go about their day. Netflix primarily relies upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their video library and streaming operations. It is not clear at […]
WoSign is a certificate authority that most people don’t know about. While StartCom is famous for giving free SSL certificates via StartSSL.com. While ordinary SSL certificates cost anywhere from $20 dollars to a few hundred dollars. SSL Certificates issued by WoSign and StartCom in the future may no longer be considered recognized by Mozilla. SSL […]