Source: Steve Johnson @ Unsplash Best USB charging hub TechnoBuffalo 2022 A USB charging hub lets you plug in several devices to power up at once. Some plug directly into a wall outlet while others connect to your laptop. We looked at portable charging hubs and power strips that have […]
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IKEA and Sonos team up again, building a floor lamp speaker this time
IKEA and Sonos collaborated three years ago to build a table lamp with an embedded speaker. Embedding a Wi-Fi speaker inside a lamp isn’t as nutty a proposition as it might sound—we were quite pleased with the result. Now, the two companies have collaborated to build the Symfonisk floor lamp […]
Apache HBase: RegionServers co-location | Adaltas
RegionServers are the processes that manage the storage and retrieval of data in Apache HBase, the non-relational column-oriented database in Apache Hadoop. It is through their daemons that any CRUD (for Create, Read, Update and Delete) query is performed. Together with the Master, they are the guarantors of data backup […]
Electrohome Montrose turntable & McKinley speakers review
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Bluetooth speakers also work with your phone No fuss setup and playback Classic mid-century design Cons Subpar vinyl digitizing Tracking weight is too heavy to use with valuable vinyl Our Verdict If you’re looking to dip a toe into the vinyl world, this Montrose […]
Using Cloudera Deploy to install Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud
Following our recent Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) overview, we cover how to deploy CDP private Cloud on you local infrastructure. It is entirely automated with the Ansible cookbooks published by Cloudera and it is reproducible on your local host with Vagrant. CDP is an enterprise data cloud. It provides a […]
Reliable and reproducible Linux installation with NixOS
When using an operating system, upgrading packages or installing new ones are common tasks that introduce the risk of affecting the stability of the system. NixOS is a Linux distribution that ensures the reliability of the operating system and allows easy reproducibility of the system current and previous states. This […]
Jackery Explorer 1500 solar generator review: black out protection at its best
Source: Technobuffalo Jackery has been making large solar generators for a while now, and each one has improved upon its predecessors in one way or another. The Jackery Explorer 1500 is the latest big solar generator from the company and features many upgrades that make it even more helpful at […]
Desacralizing the Linux overlay filesystem in Docker
Overlay filesystems (also called union filesystems) is a fundamental technology in Docker to create images and containers. They allow creating a union of directories to create a filesystem. Multiple filesystems, which are just directories, are superposed one on top of another to create a new filesystem. These directories are called […]
The Rotel S14 Integrated Network Streamer is coming soon
Rotel has taken the wraps off its first high-resolution network audio system: The Rotel S14 Integrated Streamer. The word “integrated” means this digital player has an integrated amplifier, so all you need to add are loudspeakers. The S14 features a 32-bit ESS Sabre digital-to-analog converter, and it supports several music-streaming […]
Deploy your containerized AI applications with nvidia-docker
More and more products and services are taking advantage of the modeling and prediction capabilities of AI. This article presents the nvidia-docker tool for integrating AI (Artificial Intelligence) software bricks into a microservice architecture. The main advantage explored here is the use of the host system’s GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) […]