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AI isn't ALWAYS a buzzword. Sometimes it's a real thing. Here's how to tell the difference

If you’re looking to get into the field, let the security researchers whose names you know share the books that got them started and the books they recommend for today’s hackers.

Unless, of course, you like killing your machines. Here are infamous commands that enable anyone with root access to wreak havoc. A word of caution: Never, ever run any of these on a production system. They will harm your system. Don’t try this at home! Don’t try it at the office, either.

Sysadmins who lived through Katrina, Sandy, and other disasters share real-world advice for anyone responsible for IT during an emergency.

DevOps teams long ago accepted virtual machines and containers in their IT stacks. But unikernals are not as well understood, and nor are they universally regarded. Here' s a primer to bring you up to speed, based on input from speakers at the recent Open Source conference.

Data storage, data centers, and networking are changing enterprise architecture as we know it. The best way to stay current is to connect with technologists who know what they’re talking about.

Here’s a few nostalgic steps into the painful past to review the history of backing up and to remind us all how much better things are today.

Every team -- including open source projects -- has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. By my observation, how your team members treat that person is a significant indicator of your organization’s health.

Any project that does not rely on financial motivation to get workers to contribute needs special skills to encourage people to do their best... and to avoid the terrible effect when a group implodes politically. These hard-won lessons might save YOUR open source project.

Years, millions of dollars, and endless arguments are spent arguing about tech standards. The reason for our fights aren’t any different from those that drove Edison and Westinghouse: It’s all about who benefits – and profits – from a standard.

Less than a year after announcing the beta release of Steam for Linux, Valve unveiled plans for Linux-based SteamOS and Steam Machine beta hardware. So far, we’ve seen plenty of buzz, but we can’t actually install the new operating system or get our hands on the hardware. Will the Steam releases live up to the hype? Four brave experts weigh in with early predictions for SteamOS and the Steam Machine – and they certainly do not agree with one another.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate the heritage of this influential operating system, and the many ways it has bettered our world.

Your open source project is one of thousands, so how do you help its community grow? Start with project management, great documentation, and a road map.

Tired of hearing about the programming gender gap? Here’s people doing something about it.

In response to concerns about a lack of women in the programming hub of Washington State, a nonprofit has formed that intends to train women with no programming experience to be developers in a year – for free.

You’ve written some code, you think it would be useful to the world, and you’d like to give back to the open source world. But how do you do it? An experienced open-source guy provides a checksheet for developers to release an open source project and get it noticed.

Life at a gaming company isn’t always fun-and-games. It’s also a demanding IT environment with a huge amount of data to manage. Using various Hadoop open source tools, the gaming company behind League of Legends supported hypergrowth and delivered more timely analytics.

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker surprised even staunch Android supporters with the platform's growth. Android increased its domination of the market for smartphones in the second quarter of 2013, making up 80% of the total devices shipped globally. Apple, on the other hand, declined in market share, shipping only 13%.

There's a revolution under way in the way documents are managed, reports Mike Vizard. Open-source platforms are rapidly replacing a host of proprietary systems as part of the rise of NoSQL databases in the enterprise. And that's bringing in more open source across the business.

The Walking Dead is a television show based on a long-running comic book about the survivors of a zombie apocalypse. When our protagonists aren’t being killed by zombies (Dale, T-Dog), killed by humans (Andrea), dying of natural causes (Lori), losing limbs to zombies (Herschel), or losing their tenuous grasp on sanity (Rick), they’re teaching us valuable lessons on how to better run your office. No, seriously.</p>