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Gregory Manley

Gregory Manley is a sophomore at Colorado School of Mines where he is majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Mining Engineering. He is the owner of iTech News and a contributor for Section’s Engineering Education Content Program. His management of iTech News has led him to work with many brands on writing technology focus articles.

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How Does Cryptocurrency Mining Work?

Nov 19, 2020

It is hard to talk about cryptocurrency without mentioning mining. Mining cryptocurrency is a complex mathematical system, generally utilizing cryptographic hashing algorithms. Since hashing is extremely...

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How to Install a GUI on an Ubuntu Server 18.04 for Easier Remote Management

Aug 5, 2020

Almost every Linux-based Virtual Private Server (VPS) runs off of a command line with no graphical user interface (GUI). This is good for many programs as there is less overhead and thus more resources for the...

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Does your website need a sitemap?

Jul 16, 2020

Sitemapping is, by definition, a process for creating a map that describes relations between pages of a website. Most websites have a sitemap, but not many people see, use, or even know about it. This raises...

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HTTP Code Cheat Sheet - What You Need to Know About HTTP Requests and Responses

May 25, 2020

If you have ever copied a link from your browser and noticed that http:// or https:// had been added before the domain, you are looking at the protocol used which defines how messages are formatted and...

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How to Create a User Login Web System in Python

May 4, 2020

Recently, I started work on a project where I had to figure out how to create a user login system to protect the website from unauthorized access. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make the same system...

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What Is MD5 and Why Is It Considered Insecure?

Apr 20, 2020

MD5 Message Digest Algorithm, or MD5, is a cryptographic hashing function. It is a part of the Message Digest Algorithm family which was created to verify the integrity of any message or file that is hashed....

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Why You Shouldn't Use WEP Encryption

Apr 16, 2020

There are many encryption standards in the digital world today, many of which have been shown to have fatal flaws. Unfortunately, many standards that are considered insecure are still being used in sensitive...

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What is the difference between mainframes and supercomputers?

Apr 6, 2020

What do you picture when you hear the word mainframe or supercomputer? Most people think of a very similar picture, which is not surprising if you look at the definitions of the words. According to the Oxford...

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How to Install a Single Node Kubernetes Cluster on Ubuntu

Apr 1, 2020

Kubernetes, or K8s, is an open-source system that is used to automate deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. It provides a framework to run distributed systems, taking care of scaling...

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How Much Data Is on the Internet?

Mar 27, 2020

Every day, we are generating over 2.5 quintillion or 2.5 exabytes of data. This number is also increasing, with estimates that by 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day. While not all of this data...

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What is Kubernetes?

Mar 16, 2020

Kubernetes is an automatic container management system. While it is not a traditional, all-inclusive Platform as a Service (PaaS), due to it operating at the container level, it provides some features common to...

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How Does Elliptical Curve Cryptography Work?

Mar 6, 2020

There are many modern encryption algorithms, each of which have their own strengths. Elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) is a family of algorithms that are based upon elliptical curves. ECC is a next-generation...

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Are Chiplets the Future of Computing?

Feb 26, 2020

The use of chiplets allows manufactures to use more than one node in a processor design. For example, the I/O components of CPUs are hard to shrink.

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What is RISC?

Feb 10, 2020

The Central Processing Unit Architecture operates using an instruction set architecture. RISC, or Reduced Instruction Set Computer, is a type of microprocessor architecture that uses a small, highly-optimized...

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A Brief History of C Programming

Jan 23, 2020

There are many programming languages in use today, one of which is C. There are many offshoots of the C programming language, including Objective-C, C++, and C#. None of these are the same language. So, how did...

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The Evolution of Wi-Fi 6

Jan 13, 2020

Almost every smartphone can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, and all modern laptops connect through Wi-Fi (since they do not have a RJ45 Ethernet port). The current version of Wi-Fi is called 802.11ac. Wi-Fi...

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Breaking Down Load Balancers

Dec 19, 2019

Modern Internet infrastructure requires multiple computers to serve a website or web application reliably around the globe, but each of these computers has a different external IP address. While this would not...

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What is CSS and Why Does it Matter?

Dec 11, 2019

CSS is a very important part of the modern web. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Modern web pages use HTML5 in conjunction with CSS to make amazing, beautiful websites. Without CSS, websites would look...

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Why is the Switch to IPv6 Important?

Dec 5, 2019

Computers talk to other computers all the time, but how can they tell who is who? This is where IP addresses come in. Each computer on a network receives an IP address, which can be thought as the unique name...

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The First iPhone

Nov 13, 2019

On January 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a phone that forever changed the smartphone industry. On that day, Jobs said, “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half years....

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The History of Blockchain

Oct 18, 2019

The first blockchain application was started by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009 with the creation of the first block of the chain. While we do not know the actual identity of Nakamoto, we do know the...

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What Is Pen Testing and Why Is It Important?

Oct 2, 2019

Pen Testing, also known as penetration testing, is the method of planning attacks against security infrastructure or computer programs to find security vulnerabilities that need to be patched. Pen testing comes...

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