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jhibbetson Go forth, and make your company more secure

No, I worked with Ann Marie to get this published, we do not pay our writers. I'm actually surprised she didn't need to put the IBM disclaimer on it ;) But this is her sharing some best practices from her team.

jhibbetson 10 handy Bash aliases for Linux

Noted.

jhibbetson Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later

Open source solves a business problem and would NOT exist without GNU or free software. Here's a good read about the term open source: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...

jhibbetson Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later

When you say free data, how does that compare, in your mind, to open data? Are they the same?

jhibbetson Through the looking glass: Security and the SRE

"Security + chaos engineering = security experimentation"

I liked this equation the authors added and their explanation.

jhibbetson The Open Organization

Community and further discussion can be found at: http://opensource.com/open-organization

jhibbetson Firefox drops Google as default search engine, signs five-year deal with Yahoo

Wow, just wow. I don't know the last time I searched using Yahoo.

jhibbetson Extra extra How to use the press to promote open source

Love this part "Don't call the press, email them with the details"

jhibbetson Root access for students at Penn Manor

Would you trust 1,700 students with root access to their Linux system? This teacher does. A great story. Every school in America should be doing this.

jhibbetson Interview with James Pearce of Facebook

After attending a session with James Pearce at DevNation earlier this year (April), I was really impressed with the open source efforts Facebook is pursuing. It's pretty cool to see how far they've come so fast and the ToDo initiative looks exciting.

jhibbetson Behind the scenes with Twitter and why they use Apache Mesos

"When is the last time you've seen the fail whale on Twitter?" This is my interview with Chris Aniszczyk, Head of Open Source at Twitter, and we take a deep dive on how Twitter scales their data center with the Apache Mesos project.

jhibbetson Why is Docker the new craze in virtualization and cloud computing?

My favorite quote from the article/interview: "Its mission is basically: make it easy to package and ship code"

jhibbetson Top ten open source gifts for the holidays

Lots of good open hardware in there. Raspberry Pi, MaKey Makey, etc.

jhibbetson NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software

I'd never heard of Nginx or Railo CMS open source tools before. I can add that to my oss toolkit!

jhibbetson The automotive industry accelerates its Linux commitment

What did you think about the wireless stuff they were talking about? Jason

jhibbetson Marketing open source is made for geeks

Love this post! Great overview of marketing and communities in open source.

Jason

jhibbetson Open source games: It’s a team effort

There seem to be a lot of good resources highlighted for folks who want to get into open source game development.

jhibbetson 3 unspoken blockers prevent professors from teaching open source comm. part.

How do we fix these blockers...for example, blocker 1) At some schools, if you make it on campus, for campus, or with resources from campus, guess who owns it? Campus

I went to a state-owned institution, so doesn't that mean that the tax payers ultimately own it?