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The Final Technology Frontier – You: Welcome

I've watched many things drop from sight during my lifetime. Some are simply reminders of days past, such as mailboxes on the street, pay telephones, and vinyl record albums. Some of the innovations that have disappeared, however, have had a more profound effect on me, such as rotary dial phones that gave way to push-button phones, compact discs that gave way to downloadable music, and camera film that gave way to digital blips on a computer screen. The point is that all of the innovations I've seen during the past couple of decades have been made to make my life easier or richer in some obscure way. But the next generation of inventors isn't just thinking about the external environment: They have turned their sights toward you and me – in the years ahead, the consumers won't just use the product, they will become part of the product. (more)

On the DVD: Fedora 21 Server Edition

The Fedora Project is a free software community sponsored by Red Hat. With Fedora's rapid release schedule, you get the latest in virtualization, networking, and other technologies. The 64-bit Server version on this DVD is aimed at system administrators and is not a Live distro. (more)

Secrets: DIME and Dark Mail seek to change the world of digital mail

Email has the reputation of being insecure, unreliable, and easily readable for any user – just like a postcard. An initiative led by the founders of Lavabit and PGP hopes to replace email with a new medium. (more)

Safe Transport: Transport encryption with DANE and DNSSEC

Those who think that enabling STARTTLS in the mail client will make their mail traffic more secure are wrong. Only those who bank on DANE can be sure that a mail server or a firewall will not switch off encryption in transit. (more)

Dream Start: Booting Windows from a compressed image

Microsoft's WIMBoot lets you run Windows 8.1 from a compressed file on solid state drives. (more)

IPv6 on Board: Configuring IPv6 in Windows with NetShell

Windows provides a simple dialog box for configuring IPv6, but the available settings only scratch the surface. IPv6 comes with many features that are primarily managed using the command-line tool NetShell. (more)

Traffic Control: Email sender verification with DMARC

DMARC retrofits email with sender verification and thus provides a useful tool for fighting spam. (more)

Control Center: Zentyal Server 3.5

Some users may struggle when setting up various services, such as web servers, email servers, firewalls, and the like. Zentyal simplifies configuration of all those things, thanks to its intuitive user interface. (more)

On Track: Data analysis with R and Python

The statistical programming language R dissects its database in a masterful way, and you can embed your R in Python using the Rpy2 interface. (more)

Rapid Install: Automated builds using CentOS 7 and Kickstart

Automating your system builds can save a lot of time. We describe the steps of a minimal installation using CentOS and Kickstart. (more)

Think Small: Small-board computers

Single-board computers, such as the Raspberry Pi, are very low cost and low power, yet are complete systems suitable for personal and educational projects. But are they HPC-worthy? (more)

In Order: Cluster-Aware Updating for Windows Server 2012 R2

The Cluster-Aware Updating service gracefully handles OS and application updates within your cluster. We show you how to set up and manage this tool. (more)

Flexible Storage: Setting up FreeNAS

FreeNAS offers a range of features to suit your storage needs. We show you how to get started. (more)

Container Ship: Deis combines Docker and CoreOS

Deis combines Docker and CoreOS to create a platform-as-a-service tool, and the developers say version 1.0 is ready for production. (more)

Close Watch: Network monitoring with Icinga and Raspberry Pi

Icinga on the Raspberry Pi monitors your network, letting you see the good, the bad, and the ugly, so you can address problems proactively. (more)

Critical Support: Lean on Logwatch

Logging is of such importance in security monitoring and troubleshooting that easy access to the information buried in logfiles is essential. The Logwatch tool monitors logs and analyzes and reports on activities of interest as specified in configuration files. (more)

Secure Code: From debugging to exploiting

Kernel and compiler security techniques, together with sound programming practices, fend off memory corruption exploits. (more)

Watchful Spirit: Monitoring events with the Audit daemon

Use this powerful audit framework to log events on your Linux system. (more)

Mr. Efficient: Optimizing utilization with the EDF scheduler

The superior "Earliest Deadline First" task scheduling method has been part of Linux since kernel 3.14. (more)