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Oxon Tech has been serving the Kidlington area since 2017, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.
Virtualisation Optimizing Business in the Digital Age
In today's fast-paced technological landscape, virtualisation has emerged as a game-changing technology that has revolutionised how we manage and utilise computing resources. Whether you're an IT professional, a business owner, or simply curious about the concept,...
“Windows Server 2012 End-of-Life Deadline: A Comprehensive Guide”
Windows Server 2012's end-of-life deadline is October 10, 2023. After that, Microsoft will stop offering updates and support. This blog explains why, gives tips on migrating to Windows Server 2022, and highlights the risks of not upgrading. ...
Prepare for the end of support for Windows Server 2012 R2
In today's fast-paced world of technology, staying ahead of the game is crucial for businesses to run smoothly and keep their data secure. One of the biggest obstacles IT administrators and organisations face is the end of Windows Server 2012 R2 support. While change...
Navigating Inefficient IT Infrastructure: A Guide to Avoiding Productivity Loss and Revenue Decrease
Information Technology (IT) forms the backbone of most modern businesses. It’s the engine that keeps everything running smoothly. But what happens when that engine sputters, slows down, or even stalls? The results can be catastrophic: productivity loss, revenue...
Initial finds from running our application in Cheri
Our application In basic terms our IoT collection device reads data from a sensor, it processes this signal and then runs it through a neural network and then sends the output to another device in the near vicinity. Sensor Reading > Data filter > Neural Network...
Cheri Compilation issues and getting around them
Background The program we intend to port over has multiple parts and requires a build tool chain to be able to compile properly. This is usually done with CMake and compiled with something like g++. To get the code to compile for a Cheri (dsdb) secured system we...
Starting the Cheri Porting Process
As part of our DSbD technology project we're looking at porting some of our code from our ARWAIN project to run on the Morello FVP. Our ARWAIN project is a UK government funded project developing indoor localisation tech for the Fire and Rescue Service. Part of this...
Some Working Cheri Examples
Proving that everything works as expected Now that we've got the CheriBuild tools installed and working as well as the QEMU virtual machine it's time to try testing some code. The below paper provides some good examples and allows us to prove that compiling code with...
Up and running with CheriBuild
Development Tools and SDK Setup The Cheri team provide a tool called Cheribuild, this is a Python script that does a lot of the heavy lifting to help get the Cheri SDK and build tools setup on a Linux machine, for this testing I am using an Ubuntu 18.04 server....