Miscellaneous Tech News

[mlnews]

AT&T 5G testing produce Gb/s speeds and 9ms latency. Not too shabby for a cell phone!

[mlnews]

RHEL 8 to drop Python 2 support.

[stacksofplates]

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Hills ditches Salesforce for Microsoft

http://flip.it/MfGG-e

ha i thought you meant the Hills thay was bought by Ames.

[scottalanmiller]

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Hills ditches Salesforce for Microsoft

http://flip.it/MfGG-e

ha i thought you meant the Hills thay was bought by Ames.

Like in the 1980s?

[scottalanmiller]

Kids today probably think that "Ames" is a code word for "abandoned shopping center."

[scottalanmiller]

This is great, this was their website:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961023000450/http://www.amesstores.com/

[scottalanmiller]

[scottalanmiller]

What's amazing is how much worse it got a year or two later...

[scottalanmiller]

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Hills ditches Salesforce for Microsoft

http://flip.it/MfGG-e

ha i thought you meant the Hills thay was bought by Ames.

Oh man, I remember this now...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_(store)

[coliver]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Kids today probably think that "Ames" is a code word for "abandoned shopping center."

We had one of those in my hometown. It was still going when I was a kid but was vacant for a very long time.

[travisdh1]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is great, this was their website:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961023000450/http://www.amesstores.com/

Awe man, their map is broken in The Wayback Machine. I wondered which one of the old department stores in town was the Hills.

[scottalanmiller]

@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

This is great, this was their website:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961023000450/http://www.amesstores.com/

Awe man, their map is broken in The Wayback Machine. I wondered which one of the old department stores in town was the Hills.

LOL

[scottalanmiller]

We had a Gold Circle, back in East Avon. Became The Hills, I think.

[dbeato]

Ubiquiti Low Profile Access Point (Nano HD)

https://unifi-nanohd.ubnt.com

[scottalanmiller]

The new skins are pretty cool

[black3dynamite]

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/enable-live-patch-kernel-updates-in-ubuntu-18-04

[NashBrydges]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/enable-live-patch-kernel-updates-in-ubuntu-18-04

Wut?

Not clear about free use for Ubuntu servers though.

[mlnews]

System76 joins the Gnome advisory board.

[PenguinWrangler]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

System76 joins the Gnome advisory board.

But they are still pushing their PopOS.

[black3dynamite]

@nashbrydges said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/enable-live-patch-kernel-updates-in-ubuntu-18-04

Wut?

Not clear about free use for Ubuntu servers though.

https://auth.livepatch.canonical.com/
Personal users of Ubuntu can subscribe three machines (laptop, server or cloud) free of charge. Canonical's customers are entitled to use the service on every system for which a product including Livepatch is active, including those covered by an Ubuntu Advantage enterprise support agreement (Essential, Standard, or Advanced).