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@obsolesce I know most machines have over 4gb of ram these days, but still nice to see a lower footprint..
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nice lower memory usage, love watching the progress with this distro.
That's great if you are running it on a PoS from the 90s.
Well no quite , POS in the 90s barely got over 1 GB of RAM.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nice lower memory usage, love watching the progress with this distro.
That's great if you are running it on a PoS from the 90s.
Well no quite , POS in the 90s barely got over 1 GB of RAM.
Smeg off, my first PC in 1994 was a 486DX2/80 and I didn't have enough cash for the big 500MB HDD I later bought. But I did have 4x 256MB sticks of RAM in it!
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@jaredbusch I had an olivetti 486dx2 66, it was grey and I'm sure it had a turbo button on it, defiantly didn't have that much ram in it though.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nice lower memory usage, love watching the progress with this distro.
That's great if you are running it on a PoS from the 90s.
Well no quite , POS in the 90s barely got over 1 GB of RAM.
Smeg off, my first PC in 1994 was a 486DX2/80 and I didn't have enough cash for the big 500MB HDD I later bought. But I did have 4x 256MB sticks of RAM in it!
Which was great then but usually they didn’t come by default like that. Plus in those days the CPU did the video as well, unless you had one of those non integrated video card (you might as well had it too). I just remembered in 1995 my pc was a Pentium S with 128 MB of RAM and Windows 95.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nice lower memory usage, love watching the progress with this distro.
Awesome! Deepin is so impressive.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nice lower memory usage, love watching the progress with this distro.
That's great if you are running it on a PoS from the 90s.
Well no quite , POS in the 90s barely got over 1 GB of RAM.
Smeg off, my first PC in 1994 was a 486DX2/80 and I didn't have enough cash for the big 500MB HDD I later bought. But I did have 4x 256MB sticks of RAM in it!
My first PC had two floppy drives, no HD.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nice lower memory usage, love watching the progress with this distro.
That's great if you are running it on a PoS from the 90s.
Well no quite , POS in the 90s barely got over 1 GB of RAM.
Smeg off, my first PC in 1994 was a 486DX2/80 and I didn't have enough cash for the big 500MB HDD I later bought. But I did have 4x 256MB sticks of RAM in it!
My first PC had two floppy drives, no HD.
PC = IBM clone
My first personal computer was a TRS-80 in the mid 80's, followed by a C-64 in the late 80's. Then the PC in 94.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nice lower memory usage, love watching the progress with this distro.
That's great if you are running it on a PoS from the 90s.
Well no quite , POS in the 90s barely got over 1 GB of RAM.
Smeg off, my first PC in 1994 was a 486DX2/80 and I didn't have enough cash for the big 500MB HDD I later bought. But I did have 4x 256MB sticks of RAM in it!
My first PC had two floppy drives, no HD.
PC = IBM clone
My first personal computer was a TRS-80 in the mid 80's, followed by a C-64 in the late 80's. Then the PC in 94.
My first one wasn't a clone. It was a non-clone PC, actually from IBM. It was the 5150.
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I got to use an XT, as well, but not an AT. I knew the AT well, but only from reputation and magazines and such.
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https://threatpost.com/severe-php-exploit-threatens-wordpress-sites-with-remote-code-execution/136649, and not just Wordpress since it is a PHP flaw. This is technically an old flaw, but it remains unpatched. Not an easily exploited one either, but something to be aware of.
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Summary: Teenager "hacks" replica voting database using trivially defeated attacks.
<opinion>That isn't to say that voting systems are all properly secured. I'm frustrated that DefCon would create an obviously insecure scenario in order to make a point. Contriving an insecure system to make a point does more to harm the process of securing something than it does to help.</opinion>
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Summary: Teenager "hacks" replica voting database using trivially defeated attacks.
<opinion>That isn't to say that voting systems are all properly secured. I'm frustrated that DefCon would create an obviously insecure scenario in order to make a point. Contriving an insecure system to make a point does more to harm the process of securing something than it does to help.</opinion>
Agreed, it suggests that DefCon knew that hacking the real thing was too hard, so this actually implies to people hearing about it that voting machines are so secure that they can't be hacked at DefCon.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/08/interesting-facts-about-linux
That was a great read!
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Who in their right mind would work for a company like this?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-22/nobody-trusts-facebook-twitter-is-a-hot-mess-what-is-snap-s-evan-spiegel-doing -
@momurda if the paycheck is big enough you can afford a life raft. . .
