OpenSource For You
January 2018 Issue
Vol. 6 No. 4
Admin - Overview
Top Three Open Source Data Backup Tools
This article examines three open source data backup solutions that are the best among the many available.
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Admin - Lets Try
Encrypting Partitions Using LUKS Sensitive data needs total protection. And there’s no better way of protecting your sensitive data than by encrypting it. This article is a tutorial on how to encrypt your laptop or server partitions using LUKS.
| Admin - Lets Try
Use These Python Based Tools for Secured Backup and Recovery of Data Python, the versatile programming environment, has a variety of uses. This article will familiarise the reader with a few Python based tools that can be used for secured backup and recovery of data.
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Expoloring Software - Guest Column
Python is Still Special The author takes a good look at Python and discovers that he is as partial to it after years of using it, as when he first discovered it. He shares his reasons with readers.
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Regular Expressions in Programming Languages: Java for You This is the sixth and final part of a series of articles on regular expressions in programming languages. In this article, we will discuss the use of regular expressions in Java, a very powerful programming language.
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Developers - How To
Explore Twitter Data Using R As of August 2017, Twitter had 328 million active users, with 500 million tweets being sent every day. Let’s look at how the open source R programming language can be used to analyse the tremendous amount of data created by this very popular social media tool.
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Machines Learn in Many Different Ways This article gives the reader a bird’s eye view of machine learning models, and solves a use case through Sframes and Python.
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Developers - Overview
Demystifying Blockchains A blockchain is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography to ensure data security.
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Get Familiar with the Basics of R This article tells readers how to get their systems ready for R—how to install it and how to use a few basic commands.
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Admin - Insight
The Best Tools for Backing Up Enterprise Data To prevent a disastrous loss of data, regular backups are not only recommended but are de jure. From the many open source tools available in the market for this purpose, this article helps systems administrators decide which one is best for their systems.
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A Hands-on Guide on Virtualisation with VirtualBox Virtualisation is the process of creating software based (or virtual) representation of a resource rather than a physical one. Virtualisation is applicable at the compute, storage or network levels. In this article we will discuss compute level virtualisation, which is commonly referred to as server virtualisation.
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For U & Me - Open Journey
My Love Affair with Freedom Wearing geeky eyewear,this dimple-chinned man looks content with his life. When asked about his sun sign, he mimes the sun with its rays, but does not reveal his zodiac sign. Yes, this is the creative and very witty Niyam Bhushan, who has kickstarted a revolution in UX design in India through the workshops conducted by his venture DesignRev. in. In a tete-a-tete with Syeda Beenish of OSFY, this industry veteran, who has spent 30 odd years in understanding and sharing the value of open source with the masses, speaks passionately about the essence of open source. Excerpts:
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Analysing Big Data with Hadoop Big Data is unwieldy because of its vast size, and needs tools to efficiently process and extract meaningful results from it. Hadoop is an open source software framework and platform for storing, analysing and processing data. This article is a beginner’s guide to how Hadoop can help in the analysis of Big Data.
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Admin - Overview
Getting Past the Hype Around Hadoop The term Big Data and the name Hadoop are bandied about freely in computer circles. In this article, the author attempts to explain them in very simple terms.
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Open Source Storage Solutions You Can Depend On Storage space is at a premium with petabytes and terabytes of data being generated almost on a daily basis due to modern day living. Open source storage solutions can help mitigate the storage problems of individuals as well as small and large scale enterprises. Let’s take a look at some of the best solutions and what they offer.
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Admin - Lets Try
How to Identify Fumbling to Keep a Network Secure Repeated systematic failed attempts by a host to access resources like a URL, an IP address or an email address is known as fumbling. Erroneous attempts to access resources by legitimate users must not be confused with fumbling. Let’s look at how we can design an effective system for identifying network fumbling, to help keep our networks secure.
| Admin - Insight
Build Your Own Cloud Storage System Using OSS The real threats to stored data are breaches which, of late, have been affecting many cloud service providers. Security vulnerabilities that enable breaches result in a loss of millions of user credentials. In this article, we explore the prospects of setting up a personal data store or even a private cloud.
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For U & Me - Let's Try
Tricks to Try Out on Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Learn to use and store email messages offline with Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
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DevOps Series Deploying Graylog Using Ansible This 11th article in the DevOps series is a tutorial on installing Graylog software using Ansible.
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Admin - Insight
A Quick Look at Cloonix, the Network Simulator Cloonix is a Linux router and host simulation platform. It fully encapsulates applications, hosts and the network. Simulators like Cloonix offer students and researchers scope for research into various Internet technologies like the Domain Name System (DNS).
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CodeSport In this month’s column, we continue our discussion on detecting duplicate questions in community question answering forums.
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Developers - Insight
Using Jenkins to Create a Pipeline for Android Applications This article is a tutorial on how to create a pipeline to perform code analysis using lint and create a APK file for Android applications.
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