Miscellaneous Tech News
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Next Windows release will include DTrace support
Popular open source Unix tool is now a part of Windows too.
The forthcoming Windows 10 feature update will bring support for DTrace, the open source debugging and diagnostic tracing tool originally built for Solaris. The port was announced at the Ignite conference last year, and today the instructions, binaries, and source code are now available.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.
I'm glad you said this. I felt the same way when I read this.
I see it more likely that F5 will try to nuter or completely kill off Nginx to push people to their paid product.
I mean I'm glad that Nginx was able to get enough support contracts to keep themselves affloat, but this is a hugely different company who lived in closed source, closed door sales plus support.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.
I'm glad you said this. I felt the same way when I read this.
I see it more likely that F5 will try to nuter or completely kill off Nginx to push people to their paid product.
I mean I'm glad that Nginx was able to get enough support contracts to keep themselves affloat, but this is a hugely different company who lived in closed source, closed door sales plus support.
F5’s product does not do the same thing.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.
I'm glad you said this. I felt the same way when I read this.
I see it more likely that F5 will try to nuter or completely kill off Nginx to push people to their paid product.
I mean I'm glad that Nginx was able to get enough support contracts to keep themselves affloat, but this is a hugely different company who lived in closed source, closed door sales plus support.
F5’s product does not do the same thing.
They are very similar. They both can be used in a load balancer and reverse proxy implementation.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.
I'm glad you said this. I felt the same way when I read this.
I see it more likely that F5 will try to nuter or completely kill off Nginx to push people to their paid product.
I mean I'm glad that Nginx was able to get enough support contracts to keep themselves affloat, but this is a hugely different company who lived in closed source, closed door sales plus support.
F5’s product does not do the same thing.
A lot of overlap, they are competitors.
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Fitbit Inspire HR review: A worthy $99 investment in your health
Fitbit packed many essentials into its $99 replacement for the Alta HR.
Apple may be dominating the wearable space, but Fitbit isn't far behind. Long before Apple even made smartwatches, Fitbit made fitness trackers for all types of people who would like to become healthier or advance their training to the next level. And as of late, Fitbit's $129 Alta HR surpassed others as our favorite simple-yet-powerful fitness band that could work for almost anyone.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.
I'm glad you said this. I felt the same way when I read this.
I see it more likely that F5 will try to nuter or completely kill off Nginx to push people to their paid product.
I mean I'm glad that Nginx was able to get enough support contracts to keep themselves affloat, but this is a hugely different company who lived in closed source, closed door sales plus support.
F5’s product does not do the same thing.
A lot of overlap, they are competitors.
I think a software offering from F5 has potential to not be a bad thing -- at least not for the F5 company. I know they do hardware appliances. This could give them an "in" to do virtual appliances as well.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.
I'm glad you said this. I felt the same way when I read this.
I see it more likely that F5 will try to nuter or completely kill off Nginx to push people to their paid product.
I mean I'm glad that Nginx was able to get enough support contracts to keep themselves affloat, but this is a hugely different company who lived in closed source, closed door sales plus support.
F5’s product does not do the same thing.
A lot of overlap, they are competitors.
I think a software offering from F5 has potential to not be a bad thing -- at least not for the F5 company. I know they do hardware appliances. This could give them an "in" to do virtual appliances as well.
Potential to be good. potential to be bad.
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As though I needed more reasons to GTFO of Georgia...
... but this is probably a great time to swoop in and sell them some kind of backup solution (they had NONE).
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
As though I needed more reasons to GTFO of Georgia...
... but this is probably a great time to swoop in and sell them some kind of backup solution (they had NONE).
Well it could've been worse. The hackers could've sold em bad keys.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
As though I needed more reasons to GTFO of Georgia...
... but this is probably a great time to swoop in and sell them some kind of backup solution (they had NONE).
Well it could've been worse. The hackers could've sold em bad keys.
That's no way to treat a cash cow. Take the $400k, supply the right keys, wait a little bit and use your newly gained knowledge of their systems (and the fact that they will decide not to make backups again) to pwn them once again. This time, the ransom goes up, and then you give them bad keys.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
As though I needed more reasons to GTFO of Georgia...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/georgia-county-pays-a-whopping-400000-to-get-rid-of-a-ransomware-infection/
... but this is probably a great time to swoop in and sell them some kind of backup solution (they had NONE).Until they throw you in jail when they stop paying like @jimk
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
As though I needed more reasons to GTFO of Georgia...https://www.zdnet.com/article/georgia-county-pays-a-whopping-400000-to-get-rid-of-a-ransomware-infection/
... but this is probably a great time to swoop in and sell them some kind of backup solution (they had NONE).Until they throw you in jail when they stop paying like @jimk
Georgia politicians don't play fair. Never have. But @jimk got the most raw deal I've ever seen (because forsyth county is full of old money, racist pricks).
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Windows 10 will automatically remove updates, drivers that break booting
Problematic updates will be held back for 30 days.
Windows appears to be getting a little smarter about updates that go wrong. A newly published support page (spotted by Windows Latest) describes what the operating system does when a recent update causes a boot failure. First, Windows will uninstall the update and revert to a configuration that should work correctly. It will then block the update for 30 days.
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All signs point to a Google game console announcement at GDC
Google's "future of gaming" event involves hardware for Project Stream.
Normally, Google showing up to the Game Developers Conference isn't a huge deal. The company does this pretty much every year—Android smartphones and Google Play are a pretty big gaming platform, after all—and it shows up with livestreams and blog posts and all the usual festivities. This year, though, is different. Google has been sending out vague teasers since last month for a GDC event, but as the date approaches, the company has been dropping more and more hints of exactly what it is announcing: Google is launching video game hardware for the Project Stream platform.
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Microsoft brings (some of) DirectX 12 to Windows 7 to boost WoW multithreading
A few more games may get the same treatment, too.
The latest patch for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, version 8.1.5, includes the user-mode components of the Direct3D 12 (D3D12) runtime, modified to run on Windows 7. Blizzard found that there was a "substantial framerate improvement" from updating WoW to use D3D12, thanks to D3D12's improved support for distributing the work of building graphical scenes across multiple threads. For complex environments with lots of on-screen objects, this multithreading can provide a healthy performance boost.
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Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.
It's a Google division. Google is a brand name designated to warn us that all products are temporary and will be going away soon.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.
It's a Google division. Google is a brand name designated to warn us that all products are temporary and will be going away soon.
Crap. I was thinking of getting a Pixel for my next phone. Dunno now.
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@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.
It's a Google division. Google is a brand name designated to warn us that all products are temporary and will be going away soon.
Crap. I was thinking of getting a Pixel for my next phone. Dunno now.
All depends if you want a phone from a company that is dedicated to long term manufacturing, or you just care about the one phone. It doesn't change what the phone itself is like.
