Abstract: The operation of modern network infrastructures presents network operations engineers with considerable challenges, esp. in multi-vendor environments, due to their inhomogeneity and ...

Not everyone can declare themselves “benevolent dictator for life” of a company, but such was the nature of Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer who invented an entire programming language from ...

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A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

In the past I used pfSense, and I liked it. But I was bitten by the infra-as-code bug, and so far I have not found anything like pfSense, but which can be automated well. I've seen people use OpenWrt ...

The Florida Python Challenge is fast approaching, when hunters can sign up to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible in 10 days to help protect the Everglades (and potentially win up ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...