Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
There is also the possibility that they don't replace drives. Given how RAIN works, they don't need to. They might just let them die and spin up more.
Their blog posts have made it clear that they do replace failed drives. Your way makes more sense at their scale. Also makes me wonder if it's a limitation in the back end software they use.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
There is also the possibility that they don't replace drives. Given how RAIN works, they don't need to. They might just let them die and spin up more.
Their blog posts have made it clear that they do replace failed drives. Your way makes more sense at their scale. Also makes me wonder if it's a limitation in the back end software they use.
They could replace them in bulk perhaps. Not replacing a single drive on a node, but only when four or more have failed or something like that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
There is also the possibility that they don't replace drives. Given how RAIN works, they don't need to. They might just let them die and spin up more.
Their blog posts have made it clear that they do replace failed drives. Your way makes more sense at their scale. Also makes me wonder if it's a limitation in the back end software they use.
They could replace them in bulk perhaps. Not replacing a single drive on a node, but only when four or more have failed or something like that.
I don't remember the detail they went into on it, just that they've posted that they do replace drives when they go bad. I think they might replace all failed drives daily, but it's been quite a while since I read that article so easily could be mistaken.
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A notorious Iranian hacking crew is targeting industrial control systems
Iran’s APT33 may be exploring cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
Iranian hackers have carried out some of the most disruptive acts of digital sabotage of the last decade, wiping entire computer networks in waves of cyberattacks across the Middle East and occasionally even the US. But now one of Iran's most active hacker groups appears to have shifted focus. Rather than just standard IT networks, they're targeting the physical control systems used in electric utilities, manufacturing, and oil refineries. At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity of the Iranian hacker group APT33, also known by the names Holmium, Refined Kitten, or Elfin. Microsoft has watched the group carry out so-called password-spraying attacks over the past year that try just a few common passwords across user accounts at tens of thousands of organizations. That's generally considered a crude and indiscriminate form of hacking. But over the last two months, Microsoft says APT33 has significantly narrowed its password spraying to around 2,000 organizations per month, while increasing the number of accounts targeted at each of those organizations almost tenfold on average. -
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
Yep, it’s built into so many printers today. Just goes to show that you can’t rely on Google proucts
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yep, it’s built into so many printers today. Just goes to show that you can’t rely on Google proucts
Didn't know it existed lol
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
Yep, it’s built into so many printers today. Just goes to show that you can’t rely on Google proucts
Exactly. This is why I'll never use or recommend G Suite. Can't trust that it's a long term solution.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
Yep, it’s built into so many printers today. Just goes to show that you can’t rely on Google proucts
Exactly. This is why I'll never use or recommend G Suite. Can't trust that it's a long term solution.
Same here.
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Oh, another thing that is dead is the google message security (spam filter) for $1 / user / month.
I have a couple clients on it that were originally Postini. Google bought that and moved them to this.
But I logged in to add a user and was shown that we were on some grace period that expires on Dec 13 for GSuite.
WTF
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
how do you barely download something?
It's like being almost pregnant!
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Stable release of Wiki.js 2.0
https://docs.requarks.io/releases -
AT&T Opens Pre-Orders for Its First Consumer 5G Phone
AT&T has started selling the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, but it doesn't support AT&T's millimeter-wave 5G network, so you should wait for the Galaxy S11.
The carrier;s first consumer 5G phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, is available for pre-order starting today for $1,299.99. But you shouldn't buy it, because although AT&T just announced a much broader rollout of 5G, the Note 10+ can't deliver the super-speedy 5G performance you've been hearing about. The Note 10+ 5G supports AT&T's low-band 5G network, which will be launching in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Providence, Rochester, and San Diego in the next few weeks, and in Birmingham, Boston, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Las Vegas, Louisville, Milwaukee, New York, San Francisco, and San Jose by Febuary 2020. It doesn't support AT&T's millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G network, which is currently available only to business customers in parts of 21 cities. I've tested it and found it to be fast but with very limited coverage. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
I agree, very surprised to see this go
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
I agree, very surprised to see this go
And there is nothing on the market to replace it!
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers
That's a big, and much needed move.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers
That's a big, and much needed move.
It also might get Nvidia off of Linus Torvalds s-list.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/
Bye to another Google product.
Whoa, that seems like a big one.
I agree, very surprised to see this go
And there is nothing on the market to replace it!
Not sure that’s true. I recall some vendor at SW a year or two ago... not sure it was cloud based though.
