Miscellaneous Tech News
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Material Shell Is A New Tiling Shell For Gnome (Beta)
Material Shell is a new tiling shell replacement for Gnome Shell that's currently in beta. It's tagline mentions that this extension proposes "a performant and simple opinionated mouse/keyboard workflow to increase daily productivity and comfort", while also following the Material Design guidelines.
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CISA "news" this morning: U.S. Coast Guard states the obvious for securing networks.
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Desktop Analytics Preview Now Available for Assessing Windows 10 Upgrades
Microsoft announced on Monday that a preview of its Desktop Analytics service is now available for testing.
The preview is currently just of interest to organizations using Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) management solution. -
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.This will be awesome. We are about to witness a new era in Internet access and usage.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.This will be awesome. We are about to witness a new era in Internet access and usage.
I'm really curious how this works for mobile, as in the power consumption needed to reach low earth orbit, how long will a typical cellphone battery last?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.This will be awesome. We are about to witness a new era in Internet access and usage.
I'm really curious how this works for mobile, as in the power consumption needed to reach low earth orbit, how long will a typical cellphone battery last?
This is about WAN, not cell phones. Satellite Internet has never been for cell phones.
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If you read the bit in the article that mentions mobile, you will notice that it is about the WAN backhaul for mobile carriers to use, not the mobile system itself. The Amazon Kuiper system is meant for direct to home access, direct to business access, as well as light use WAN backhaul. These low earth orbit systems are for fixed location endpoints, not mobile ones.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you read the bit in the article that mentions mobile, you will notice that it is about the WAN backhaul for mobile carriers to use, not the mobile system itself. The Amazon Kuiper system is meant for direct to home access, direct to business access, as well as light use WAN backhaul. These low earth orbit systems are for fixed location endpoints, not mobile ones.
oh - that makes it much less interesting to me then. I get it's still very useful. If you live in the mountains, you can have a dish and get decent internet once this is in place, etc.
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Canonical GitHub account hacked, Ubuntu source code safe
Ubuntu source code appears to be safe; however Canonical is investigating.
The GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked on Saturday, July 6. -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you read the bit in the article that mentions mobile, you will notice that it is about the WAN backhaul for mobile carriers to use, not the mobile system itself. The Amazon Kuiper system is meant for direct to home access, direct to business access, as well as light use WAN backhaul. These low earth orbit systems are for fixed location endpoints, not mobile ones.
oh - that makes it much less interesting to me then. I get it's still very useful. If you live in the mountains, you can have a dish and get decent internet once this is in place, etc.
In theory, better for pretty much everyone. Should lower cost and improve speeds. And allow account mobility... take it with yo uwhen you move or travel.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.I wonder how this will work with Musk's satellite internet tech. They are both proposing similar satellite numbers IIRC.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.I wonder how this will work with Musk's satellite internet tech. They are both proposing similar satellite numbers IIRC.
No, not really close. SpaceX is approved for over 21,000 already.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.I wonder how this will work with Musk's satellite internet tech. They are both proposing similar satellite numbers IIRC.
They are simply the latest to pitch this. There are several proposals for LEO networks.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.I wonder how this will work with Musk's satellite internet tech. They are both proposing similar satellite numbers IIRC.
They are simply the latest to pitch this. There are several proposals for LEO networks.
Three or four large players trying to get this going right now.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you read the bit in the article that mentions mobile, you will notice that it is about the WAN backhaul for mobile carriers to use, not the mobile system itself. The Amazon Kuiper system is meant for direct to home access, direct to business access, as well as light use WAN backhaul. These low earth orbit systems are for fixed location endpoints, not mobile ones.
That would allow them to put towers in remote locations where all they need is a means to power them.
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Microsoft Now Supports Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Microsoft has reversed an earlier position and now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Even for organizations using it in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) scenarios. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Now Supports Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Microsoft has reversed an earlier position and now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Even for organizations using it in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) scenarios.This is very interesting. I have been trying to figure out which way to go in my replacement of a 2008 R2 RDS where I will need Excel.
Edit: Looks like it is still only the ProPlus option. (As indicated by the title)
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Now Supports Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Microsoft has reversed an earlier position and now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Even for organizations using it in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) scenarios.This is very interesting. I have been trying to figure out which way to go in my replacement of a 2008 R2 RDS where I will need Excel.
how could they ever not have expected to do this for RDS farms?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Now Supports Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Microsoft has reversed an earlier position and now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019
Even for organizations using it in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) scenarios.This is very interesting. I have been trying to figure out which way to go in my replacement of a 2008 R2 RDS where I will need Excel.
how could they ever not have expected to do this for RDS farms?
I am guessing they are right when they said this-
"The lack of support, now reversed, was expected to perhaps drive organizations accessing Office 365 ProPlus on remote servers in VDI scenarios toward the use of Microsoft's new Windows Virtual Desktop service instead."
