Miscellaneous Tech News
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Nvidia RTX 2080 Super hands-on: The result when AMD is out of striking distance
Last year's $799 card is this year's slightly upgraded $699 card, but is it "Super"?
Earlier this month, Nvidia kicked a stool out from under AMD's feet, just as the graphics-card sector began heating up anew. AMD was set to land a serious blow with new RX 5700 cards in the "pricey but reasonable" range—a range that Nvidia had failed to capture with its "entry-level" RTX cards, the 2060 and 2070. Nvidia responded to AMD's news by unveiling and launching a surprise pair of solid "Super" cards. AMD responded with its own price cut (and a claim that this price-war dance was its plan all along).
As these similarly specced cards jostled for the "$400ish" crown, the winner was ultimately consumers. At every price point, new GPU buyers can expect a solid bang-for-buck quotient between the $349 AMD Radeon RX 5700 and the $499 Nvidia RTX 2070 Super. -
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The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
Looks like I get to see how the upgrade process goes.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
Been thinking of wiping and starting a fresh on my home lab. Maybe time to try XCP-ng again.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
Looks like I get to see how the upgrade process goes.
I've been running beta for about a month, the upgrade was as smooth as any other minor upgrade using the ISO. It's a bummer the yum updates don't work for major upgrades, but it's not that big of a hassle.
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
Looks like I get to see how the upgrade process goes.
I've been running beta for about a month, the upgrade was as smooth as any other minor upgrade using the ISO. It's a bummer the yum updates don't work for major upgrades, but it's not that big of a hassle.
I'm still on 7.4 and am waffling between going to 7.6 or 8. I have E5540 Xeons and I'll need to check the compatibility lists 1st.
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Guidemaster: Ars tested and found the best USB-C accessories you can get now
These USB-C hubs, SSDs, mice, and more are the ones worth buying for your new computer.
The transition to USB-C hasn't been smooth or swift, but that won't matter when you need to upgrade accessories to fit your new USB-C computer. OEMs started forcing users into the USB-C world by making their flagship laptops and tablets USB-C only. And while USB-A ports aren't scarce by any means, it's likely that your newest or next laptop will rely primarily on USB-C for connectivity. -
@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
Looks like I get to see how the upgrade process goes.
I've been running beta for about a month, the upgrade was as smooth as any other minor upgrade using the ISO. It's a bummer the yum updates don't work for major upgrades, but it's not that big of a hassle.
I'm still on 7.4 and am waffling between going to 7.6 or 8. I have E5540 Xeons and I'll need to check the compatibility lists 1st.
You probably wont find it on any compatibility lists because it's so old. I have (2) E5649 in my home lab and both 7.6 and 8.0 work/ed flawlessly.
http://hcl.vmd.citrix.com/cpus/?cpusupport__version=15&vendor=2
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
Looks like I get to see how the upgrade process goes.
I've been running beta for about a month, the upgrade was as smooth as any other minor upgrade using the ISO. It's a bummer the yum updates don't work for major upgrades, but it's not that big of a hassle.
I'm still on 7.4 and am waffling between going to 7.6 or 8. I have E5540 Xeons and I'll need to check the compatibility lists 1st.
You probably wont find it on any compatibility lists because it's so old. I have (2) E5649 in my home lab and both 7.6 and 8.0 work/ed flawlessly.
It's an old HP. They had just done away with the hand crank. I have no complaints with this system. I've seen quite a few posts on the XCP-ng forum with odd behavior with older systems. Either way, I have current backups.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big release is here. After about a month of QA on the Release Candidate, XCP-ng 8.0 is now available and can be safely used in production environments.
Looks like I get to see how the upgrade process goes.
Doing that now.
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Apple acquires Intel’s 5G smartphone modem business for $1 billion
Apple will likely now develop its own 5G modems for future iPhones.
Apple today announced that it will acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business for $1 billion. The acquisition will bring 2,200 Intel employees under Apple's umbrella, along with various intellectual properties, leases, and equipment. After the move is complete, Apple will hold more than 17,000 wireless technology patents, and Intel will still be able to develop modems for PCs, vehicles, IoT devices, and other products that aren't smartphones.
The confirmation of the sale comes after a series of on-again-off-again reports and rumors about the deal going back several months. However, a Wall Street Journal report earlier this week made it appear all-but-certain that the finalization of the deal was right around the corner. -
Please break up Facebook, cofounder asks regulators
They say that breaking up is hard to do, but Hughes really wants to try.
Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes isn't just idly wondering if regulators might break up the tech behemoth he helped launch. He's going on a personal tour, meeting with state and federal officials to lay out in detail the way he thinks it could be done.
Hughes has met with members of Congress, the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, and the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James to make a detailed case arguing Facebook is too big for its own good, according to separate reports from The Washington Post and The New York Times. -
GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions
If you use GitHub's online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions
If you use GitHub's online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings.
The US is, once again, forcing the world to work around it for basic stuff. This could easily cause the end of the GitHub hegemony if people don't trust it.
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Soon you’ll be able to watch PBS on YouTube
It's the first time PBS will stream live over the Internet.
PBS and YouTube have announced that PBS and PBS Kids will join YouTube TV’s channel roster. The two partners made the announcement this week at the summer Television Critics Association’s (TCA) press tour. Based on their markets, 333 member stations will be available to users.
PBS already offers a robust on-demand streaming service of its own at video.pbs.org, with content tailored to individual markets. And PBS launched a channel on Amazon Prime Video with special on-demand content earlier this year. But this will be the first time viewers will be able to stream live programming from PBS through a digital service, excepting some anomalies over the years like the now-defunct Aero service and the like. -
Privacy group asks court to reconsider FTC’s $5 billion Facebook deal
The settlement does nothing to address the underlying issues, EPIC says.
A group of privacy and consumer organizations is asking a federal court to slow its roll on approving the Federal Trade Commission's $5 billion settlement with Facebook, saying it doesn't do nearly enough to protect individuals.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed the motion to intervene (PDF) with the US District Court in Washington, DC, on Friday, asking the court to let it and other privacy advocacy groups file comments in a "careful review of the fairness and adequacy" of the proposed settlement. -
Samsung won’t let Android tablets die, announces the Galaxy Tab S6
Would you believe Samsung is removing the headphone jack from tablets?
Samsung is still not giving up on the Android tablet market. Today the company announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6, its latest high-end tablet, for $649.
The Samsung Tab S6 features a 10.5-inch 2560×1600 OLED display, a 2.84GHz Snapdragon 855, and a 7040mAh battery. The base version has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, with a higher tier of 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. For cameras, there's an 8MP front camera, while the rear gets a 13MP main camera and a 5MP wide-angle lens. The device is down to 5.7mm thick and weighs 420 grams. This is Samsung's first-ever tablet with an in-screen fingerprint reader. Interestingly, it's an optical reader instead of the ultrasonic tech that the Galaxy S10 uses.
Somehow, on a 10-inch tablet, Samsung couldn't find room for a headphone jack. Even Apple, which ditched the headphone jack two years ago, still puts a headphone jack on iPads. Samsung is apparently declaring war on the headphone jack with this round of updates—the Galaxy Note 10, launching next week, is expected to dump the headphone jack, too. -
Multi-monitor wallpapers with Hydrapaper
When using multiple monitors, by default, means that your desktop wallpaper is duplicated across all of your screens.
However, with all that screen real-estate that a multiple monitor setup delivers, having a different wallpaper for each monitor is a nice way to brighten up your workspace even more.
One manual workaround for getting different wallpapers on multiple monitors is to manually create it using something like the GIMP, cropping and positioning your backgrounds by hand. There is, however, a neat wallpaper manager called Hydrapaper that makes setting multiple wallpapers a breeze. Hydrapaper is a simple GNOME application that auto-detects your monitors, and allows you to choose different wallpapers for each display. In the background, it achieves this by simply composing a new background image from your choices that fits your displays, and sets that as your new wallpaper. All with a single click.
