Miscellaneous Tech News
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Haha Beta
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No announcement on their website about ending Cloud Print.
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A list of things depreciated in Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-10-deprecated-features
Here's a few that I found interesting:
- Wi-Fi WEP and TKIP
- Windows To Go
- Snipping Tool
- Software Restriction Policies in Group Policy
- Windows Hello for Business deployment that uses System Center Configuration Manager
- Windows PowerShell 2.0
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Snipping Tool
Snip & Sketch is installed by default
Perhaps, but if "universal" apps aren't allowed/uninstalled, they'll be up the creek for a bit while they find a replacement.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A list of things depreciated in Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-10-deprecated-features
Here's a few that I found interesting:
- Wi-Fi WEP and TKIP
- Windows To Go
- Snipping Tool
- Software Restriction Policies in Group Policy
- Windows Hello for Business deployment that uses System Center Configuration Manager
- Windows PowerShell 2.0
Good. All that that should go.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A list of things depreciated in Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-10-deprecated-features
Here's a few that I found interesting:
- Wi-Fi WEP and TKIP
- Windows To Go
- Snipping Tool
- Software Restriction Policies in Group Policy
- Windows Hello for Business deployment that uses System Center Configuration Manager
- Windows PowerShell 2.0
Good. All that that should go.
The only one that was halfway decent was Software Restriction Policies. Being able to whitelist apps was/is a decent tool. I think it's getting replaced with some Intune and SCCM though.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Snipping Tool
Snip & Sketch is installed by default
Greenshot is still better. I don't recall the other things that people around here use.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Snipping Tool
Snip & Sketch is installed by default
Perhaps, but if "universal" apps aren't allowed/uninstalled, they'll be up the creek for a bit while they find a replacement.
The Windows Store is a great place to get a malware infection.Interesting - I'm going to have to see if my dcrapify script gets rid of snip & sketch.
Though having just looked at it - I don't like it as much as Snipping tool.
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@Dashrender Have you looked at ShareX?
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
I agree, very surprised to see this go
And there is nothing on the market to replace it!
Not sure that’s true. I recall some vendor at SW a year or two ago... not sure it was cloud based though.
Papercut is pretty standard from my experience. But I don't remember if that used Google print or not.
Papercut provides a cloud printing service?
Kind of. It has a "driver-less" and Web-based printing GUI. You upload a file to Papercuts and it prints to the printer you selected.
We used Papercut for a bit at my last job. Not sure what we use here now.
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Hands-on with AMD’s 32-core, 64-thread Threadripper 3970x
AMD's monstrous new Threadripper hammers Intel everywhere it counts—except AI.
AMD's new 32-core/64-thread Threadripper 3970x continues AMD's 2019 trend of sweeping the field in desktop and server processors. In recent weeks, Ars has tested Threadripper head to head versus Intel's top-of-the-line i9-10980XE High End Desktop (HEDT) CPU, as well as its i9-9900KS gaming CPU. To nobody's surprise, the Threadripper is faster—a lot faster—than either, although with some caveats. When comparing the rest of the Ryzen 3000 line to Intel's 2019 desktop CPU lineup, one of the standout metrics is thermal design power (TDP). Non-threadripper Ryzen 3000 CPUs meet or beat the Intel desktop lineup on performance and TDP, which means quieter, cooler systems that don't cost as much to keep running. All that changes once you leave the "normal" desktop line and go Threadripper. With Threadripper, AMD is clearly far more concerned with raw power than niceties like running quiet or cool. -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Snipping Tool
Snip & Sketch is installed by default
Greenshot is still better. I don't recall the other things that people around here use.
Yeah thats what i install here. A lady here lost it when she switched machines and thenr equested it because she could never go back to the snipping tool after using greenshot.
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ShareX is what we use around here.
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Snipping Tool
Snip & Sketch is installed by default
Greenshot is still better. I don't recall the other things that people around here use.
Yeah thats what i install here. A lady here lost it when she switched machines and thenr equested it because she could never go back to the snipping tool after using greenshot.
I've been deploying it as part of the standard image for more than 2 years, it amazes me how many people still don't know about it - and frankly should have bumped into it just by using the printscreen button....
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ShareX is what we use around here.
Haven't heard of that but will check it out thanks!
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Snipping Tool
Snip & Sketch is installed by default
Greenshot is still better. I don't recall the other things that people around here use.
Yeah thats what i install here. A lady here lost it when she switched machines and thenr equested it because she could never go back to the snipping tool after using greenshot.
I've been deploying it as part of the standard image for more than 2 years, it amazes me how many people still don't know about it - and frankly should have bumped into it just by using the printscreen button....
Haha so true
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Object storage in NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4
https://www.veeam.com/blog/object-storage-new-office-365-backup-v4.html
*Object Storage supportStarting from version 4, you will be able to leverage Object Storage to offload your Office 365 data. You can choose from different providers such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, IBM Cloud or S3 compatible object storage providers or even on-premises object storage.*
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Twitter prepares for huge cull of inactive users
Twitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline.
The cull will include users who stopped posting to the site because they died - unless someone with that person's account details is able to log-in. It is the first time Twitter has removed inactive accounts on such a large scale. The site said it was because users who do not log-in were unable to agree to its updated privacy policies. A spokeswoman also said it would improve credibility by removing dormant accounts from people's follower counts, something which may give a user an undue sense of importance. The first batch of deleted accounts will involve those registered outside of the US. The firm bases inactivity on whether or not a person has logged in at least once in the past six months. Twitter said the effort is not, as had been suggested by some users on the network, an attempt to free up usernames. -
Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules
The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution bars people from being forced to turn over personal passwords to police, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled this week.
In a 4-3 ruling, justices from Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned a lower-court order that required the suspect in a child-pornography case to turn over a 64-character password to his computer. The lower-court ruling had held that the compelled disclosure didn’t violate the defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights because of statements he made to police during questioning.
“It’s 64 characters and why would I give that to you,” Joseph J. Davis of Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County told investigators in response to their request for his password. “We both know what’s on there. It’s only going to hurt me. No fucking way I’m going to give it to you.”
