Day: June 21, 2022

Why Is the Linux Mascot a Penguin?

magenet 1 week ago

Linux Penguin Mascot Tux up close
Larry Ewing and The GIMP

If you’re a fan of Linux, you might have observed “Tux,” the welcoming penguin mascot for the functioning method. But why a penguin, and why Tux? We’ll explore the background powering the semi-aquatic chook mascot with a small help from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux himself.

Linus Torvalds Loves Penguins

Not like commercial working units backed by lots of million-dollar marketing and advertising strategies, early variations of Linux did not have any formal branding. Linux begun as a hobbyist venture by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds in 1991, and a group of volunteers about the entire world made and maintained it in its early several years. So when developing Linux’s public impression, its builders went about it in a really informal way: by discussing it on the Linux-Kernel group email listing.

Of class, 1 person’s voice—Torvalds—carried substantially a lot more body weight than the

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Quality of Service (QoS) Explained: Tips on 100% Improvement

magenet 1 week ago

You might have heard of QoS, short for Quality of Service. It’s a common and valuable feature among home Wi-Fi routers.

Sometimes, the lack of QoS makes you have issues making calls over Wi-Fi. But this feature can also affect other general Internet-related problems.

This post will help you understand where Quality of Service applies and offer tips on configuring your existing router to get the best possible experience for real-time online communication. That applies to Netflix streaming, video or voice calls, or any other things you do online.

On Wi-Fi and the Internet

Dong’s note: I first published this post on March 23, 2020, and updated it on June 19, 2022, with additional relevant information.

QoS, or Quality of Service, can improve real-time applications such as Voice over IP or video conferencing.
QoS, or Quality of Service, can improve real-time applications such as Voice over IP or video conferencing.

QoS explained: What is the Quality of Service?

Quality of Service is a routing feature that

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Architecture of object-based storage and S3 standard specifications

magenet 1 week ago

Object storage has been growing in popularity among data storage architectures. Compared to file systems and block storage, object storage faces no limitations when handling petabytes of data. By design, the limitless nature of object storage makes it fit for Big Data and Cloud contexts.

Moreover, object storage is simple and efficient. It offers easy data replication, scalability and is fit for “Write Once Read Many” contexts such as data analytics. Those characteristics combined with its ease of implementation and programmability all account to its widely spread usage.

What exactly is an object? How does object storage work, and what enables it to scale? We aim to clarify this.

Object storage is not exclusive to Cloud services such as AWS Simple Storage Service (S3), and multiple local object storage solutions exist as alternatives. Because AWS S3 sets a standard for object storage’s API interface, storage solutions and

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Stock market news: Live updates

magenet 1 week ago

BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock marketplaces were being mixed Wednesday in advance of the Federal Reserve’s announcement of how sharply it will raise curiosity rates to amazing U.S. inflation.

Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Tokyo and Sydney declined. Oil costs edged better.

Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index dropped .4% on Tuesday as traders waited for a Fed rate hike they be expecting to be a few-quarters of a proportion place, or triple the normal margin. They stress that aggressive Fed motion to interesting inflation that is working at a 4-10 years large may possibly tip the major international economic system into recession.

A “hawkish surprise” from the Fed could be a “further shock to danger property,” reported Anderson Alves of ActivTrades in a report. “Money marketplaces are now pricing all around 90% likelihood of these kinds of motion.”

The Shanghai Composite Index attained 1.1% to 3,323.64 soon after the

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