Miscellaneous Tech News
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Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company
Strong earnings push Microsoft toward a new milestone
Microsoft has become the third US company to pass a market cap of $1 trillion. -
Scientific Linux Will Be Discontinued After 14 Years as Fermilab Moves to CentOS
Fermilab, the makers of the Scientific Linux distribution based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system recently announced that they will no longer develop it.
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Why Linux stands out amongst other OSes
Up until recently, Elementary OS was my platform of choice. It's an elegant, simple, and user-friendly solution for the desktop.
One thing that the Elementary developers do that I believe is fairly wise is to not allow upgrades from one major release to another. -
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Linux Distributions Should Enhance how Sudo Asks for Passwords
sudo is probably the most famous command in the Linux world. It allows ordinary users to run other commands or programs using the superuser privileges, but it doesn't show you the password while you are typing it.
This behavior should change by default. -
@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/
This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"
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New iPad feature to compete with laptops could come in Apple's iOS 13
Commentary: When Apple unveils the next iOS at WWDC 2019 in June, it could integrate one of the trademarks of the original MAC
The debate over whether an Apple iPad can replace a laptop remains polarized. But with the launch of the next iteration of iOS, Apple could finally remove one of the longest-running arguments against the iPad as a productivity device. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/
This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"
A complete rebrand of the product, is anyone surprised?
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A complete rebrand of the product, is anyone surprised?
How could you be when they announced this like last year? :smirking_face:
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/
This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"
I can't figure out how to say either "szen" or "ksen"... I say "zen" like a zen garden... from wiki:
pronounced /ˈzɛn/ -
Tesla’s autonomy event: Impressive progress with an unrealistic timeline
An old software joke explains Elon Musk's implausible autonomy timeline.
There's an old joke in the software engineering world, sometimes attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs: "the first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. -
@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A complete rebrand of the product, is anyone surprised?
How could you be when they announced this like last year? :smirking_face:
That does make it hard.
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/
This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"
I can't figure out how to say either "szen" or "ksen"... I say "zen" like a zen garden... from wiki:
pronounced /ˈzɛn/zen is the correct pronunciation.
ksen would be like tsar but with a k instead of a t.
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Facebook broke Canadian privacy law, according to regulators
‘Their privacy framework was empty,’ the report said
Privacy regulators in Canada have determined that Facebook broke local privacy laws by mishandling user data. -
Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are $200 off
This deal ends just before Google I/O begins
You can save $200 on Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones at the Google Store until 11:59PM PT on May 6th. -
Password1, Password2, Password3 no more: Microsoft drops password expiration rec
For years, Microsoft's baseline security policy has expired passwords after 60 days.
For many years, Microsoft has published a security baseline configuration: a set of system policies that are a reasonable default for a typical organization. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Password1, Password2, Password3 no more: Microsoft drops password expiration rec
For years, Microsoft's baseline security policy has expired passwords after 60 days.
For many years, Microsoft has published a security baseline configuration: a set of system policies that are a reasonable default for a typical organization.Once again, 15 years behind. But better late than never.
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Blackmagic eGPU Pro mini-review: Quiet, fast, and extremely expensive—like a Mac
The higher-end cousin to Blackmagic's first Mac eGPU delivers where it counts.
There are many criticisms of Apple's Mac products, but one of the most commonly cited is that they often don't have graphics power that's comparable to what you'd see in similarly priced Windows machines. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Blackmagic eGPU Pro mini-review: Quiet, fast, and extremely expensive—like a Mac
The higher-end cousin to Blackmagic's first Mac eGPU delivers where it counts.
There are many criticisms of Apple's Mac products, but one of the most commonly cited is that they often don't have graphics power that's comparable to what you'd see in similarly priced Windows machines.A $1200 external GPU. . . sure why not. ..
