Miscellaneous Tech News

[zachary715]

Got a chuckle out of this email this morning from Lenovo.

Subject: Is your company's data secure?

Answer: Yes, because we don't use Lenovo

[scottalanmiller]

Security starts at the device level... by avoiding compromised devices.

[scottalanmiller]

[JaredBusch]

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Unifi 5.6.30 has been released
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/UniFi-5-6-30-Stable-has-been-released/ba-p/2220761

Been a week and it has not hit the repos yet.

I thought it was supposed to be a week from blog post before the repos updated.

edit: Yes it is supposed ot be a week. https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/Notes-on-UniFi-releases-Stable-Candidate-Stable-repos-download/m-p/1800676#M203780

[dbeato]

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Unifi 5.6.30 has been released
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/UniFi-5-6-30-Stable-has-been-released/ba-p/2220761

Been a week and it has not hit the repos yet.

I thought it was supposed to be a week from blog post before the repos updated.

edit: Yes it is supposed ot be a week. https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/Notes-on-UniFi-releases-Stable-Candidate-Stable-repos-download/m-p/1800676#M203780

Yeah, I tried in Ubuntu Server and still didn’t show up.

[JaredBusch]

Office 2019 to only work on Windows 10.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3253326/windows/microsoft-office-2019-will-only-run-on-windows-10-and-will-begin-previews-next-quarter.html

[dbeato]

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Office 2019 to only work on Windows 10.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3253326/windows/microsoft-office-2019-will-only-run-on-windows-10-and-will-begin-previews-next-quarter.html

Interesting, I saw the Office Client 2019 Updates on wSUs on Tuesday.

[scottalanmiller]

Given how many versions we are into the Windows 10 era, now, it's not surprising at all.

[mlnews]

A European VPS provider is now using CoreBoot on thousands of its systems.

[mlnews]

Wine 3.1, the Windows on Linux library system, has released.

[Obsolesce]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Given how many versions we are into the Windows 10 era, now, it's not surprising at all.

It would be a bad move on Microsoft's part to support something so new on OSs so old. When you have to do that, it opens the door to problems and security issues.

I think it's extremely beneficial to everybody to limit it to Windows 10. It's no surprise at all they'd do that.

[mlnews]

Ubuntu 8.04 will be as small as 81MB on disk, and just 30MB when compressed for download.

I agree, supporting old stuff is a financial disaster.

[brandon220]

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2017/

[PenguinWrangler]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubuntu 8.04 will be as small as 81MB on disk, and just 30MB when compressed for download.

I agree, supporting old stuff is a financial disaster.

It took me a second to realize that your comment about "I agree, support old stuff is a financial disaster" was agreeing with @Tim_G statement because your link text says Ubuntu 8.04 but links to an article about Ubuntu 18.04.

[scottalanmiller]

@penguinwrangler said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubuntu 8.04 will be as small as 81MB on disk, and just 30MB when compressed for download.

I agree, supporting old stuff is a financial disaster.

It took me a second to realize that your comment about "I agree, support old stuff is a financial disaster" was agreeing with @Tim_G statement because your link text says Ubuntu 8.04 but links to an article about Ubuntu 18.04.

That's odd.

[PenguinWrangler]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@penguinwrangler said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubuntu 8.04 will be as small as 81MB on disk, and just 30MB when compressed for download.

I agree, supporting old stuff is a financial disaster.

It took me a second to realize that your comment about "I agree, support old stuff is a financial disaster" was agreeing with @Tim_G statement because your link text says Ubuntu 8.04 but links to an article about Ubuntu 18.04.

That's odd.

Your Link is "Ubuntu 8.04 will be as small as 81MB on disk, and just 30MB when compressed for download." it should say "Ubuntu 18.04 will be as small as 81MB on disk, and just 30MB when compressed for download."

[dbeato]

Updated Cisco News:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180129-asa1
After further investigation, Cisco has identified additional attack vectors and features that are affected by this vulnerability. In addition, it was also found that the original fix was incomplete so new fixed code versions are now available. Please see the Fixed Software section for more information.

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/theres-a-new-adobe-flash-0day-and-up-and-coming-hackers-are-exploiting-it/

[dafyre]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/theres-a-new-adobe-flash-0day-and-up-and-coming-hackers-are-exploiting-it/

*begins to panic* *remembers that I no longer have flash installed*

[scottalanmiller]

@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/theres-a-new-adobe-flash-0day-and-up-and-coming-hackers-are-exploiting-it/

*begins to panic* *remembers that I no longer have flash installed*

I can't even remember how long ago I stopped installing Flash.