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TCP/IP stack vulnerabilities threaten IoT devices

Network World

A set of vulnerabilities in TCP/IP stacks used by FreeBSD and three popular real-time operating systems designed for the IoT was revealed this week by security vendor Forescout and JSOF Research. The nine vulnerabilities could potentially affect 100 million devices in the wild.

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The LAN: A History of Network Operating Systems Part 11

IT Toolbox

The NETwork Basic Input Output System (NET-BIOS) was introduced at the same time IBM announced the PC Network in 1984. The network microcode was the foundation for program control of the IBM LANs; it resides in ROM on the Adapter Card, on diskette, or on the PC's motherboard.

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Cisco, Nutanix strengthen joint HCI package

Network World

AHV is a core component of the Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS), which provides the full software stack for Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure platform, according to Shah. The traditional scenario would require Nutanix HCI customers to purchase and deploy net-new factory-installed servers dedicated to running Nutanix.” “Now,

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ProBeat: Net Applications will no longer track the browser wars

Venture Beat

After 14 years, Net Applications is killing off its NetMarketShare reports that track browser and operating system market share. Read More.

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The Browser as an application platform : spf13.com

SPF13

t the operating system, nor is it adobe air,net or java, itâ??s s promised mission, the underlying operating system wouldnâ??t With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in the world of computing. For the first time ever, the application platform. s the browser.

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Windows 7 Migration Status Check with Windows 10 1903 Release

Anoop

Windows 1903 is the eighth (8th) version of the Windows 10 operating system. Windows 7 Migration Status As per the latest status (28th June 2019) from Net-Market-Share […]. Microsoft recently released Windows 10 1903 version. What are we doing with Windows 7 devices?

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface

All Things Distributed

The problem we were facing in those days was than many new high-speed network technologies, such as ATM, became available for standard workstations but that the operating systems were not able to deliver those capabilities to its applications. The research to unlock these capabilities led to an architecture called U-Net.

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