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Billly Gates writes:
For all the system-D haters who want a modern distro feel free to rejoice. The Debian fork called Devuan is almost done completing a daunting task of stripping SystemD dependencies from Debian. Duvuan Linux is not init only. Duvuan gives the user a choice of SystemD, sysv init, openrc, and others
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Billly Gates writes:
Spotify which uses SQL-Lite to store it's media files and playlists has a bug that constantly re-compresses data. Spotify claims to have fixed this with an update, but other readers at Arstechnica.com are still reporting writes of many gigabytes per hour to their SSDs/HDs. One reader pointed out that anyone can go over the endurance limit set by Samsung for it's EVO 840 in just 4 days for those who have over a large collection of music at the rate of data being re-written per song.
Arstechnica.com has the scoop here
87229205
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Billly Gates writes:
Trump's transition team is steam rolling ahead to transition the government. Trump chose Myron Ebell to oversee environmental policies. Myron Ebell is a director of the CoolHeads Coalition a group of climate change denialists and alarmists.
86469507
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Billly Gates writes:
It was first reported on on Neowin.net that the patch was not thoroughly tested in the inside ring and was quickly released just 2 days into the production ring of Windows Update. Some hardware such as the HP Spectre and Microsoft's own Surface Book and Surface Pro 3 have reported endless reboots or freezes when attempting installation. However, not all of the hardware listed as problematic is impacted by this update so far for some users. In related news Microsoft has posted a new job open called a "Windows Update Manager" whose job description mentions the 'ability to reduce chaos, stress'.
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Billly Gates writes:
The next version of Windows Server has arrived. This new version is more cloud and virtual machine oriented with more features such as Docker container support, a new tiny headless version designed to run as a docker VM in Hyper-v called Nano Server, 3d graphics support in remoteFX for OpenGL and Open CL for Hyper-V vms, nested virtualization, Powershell Direct, Shielded VM support, stable REFS file system, Hyper-V Linux secure boot support, Storage Spaced Direct which now are clustered and ADFS v4 which supports multifactor authentication with OpenID support. You can find the features listed here as well as here.
Nano Server has a 92% less footprint requiring significantly less rebooting, patching, and security updates than a traditional Windows Server virtual machine.
81857439
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Billly Gates writes:
Microsoft has a preview of SQL Server available for Linux. The product will be available for Linux in Azure as well as standard alone installations. The initial version will be written for Redhat while Mark Shuttleworth wants a new generation of SQL developers running on Ubuntu which hints a release for that platform as well.
75218079
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Billly Gates writes:
Another security update which home users can't turn off hit Windows 10 today causing a havoc of a continual reboot on some systems. KBKB3081424 is the culprit to manually uninstall to fix this latest bug.
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Billly Gates writes:
Build 10240 RTM now available for download for members of the insiders program. Windows 10 is a big shift for Microsoft where a more long term release with minor updates. Windows 10 has a fixed start menu and a new universal api for mobile and desktop apps which are now cross platform.
73288835
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Billly Gates writes:
Arstechnica has the scoop on a new build with less flat icons and a confirmation of a mid July release date. While Microsoft is in a hurry to fix the damage by the Windows 8 versions of its operating system the question next is if it is ready for prime time? On Neowin a list of problems are already mentioned by MS and its users with this latest release including wifi and sound not working without a reboot and users complaining about tiles and apps not working in the new start menu. Also the new Microsoft browser EDGE/aka Spartan will be shipping without plugin support at RTM which could damage its reputation as an IE killer as one of the disadvantages of IE compared to Firefox or Chrome was the lack of real browser extensions. Also this new build takes away color from the titlebars similiar to Office 2013 which bothers some users as well. What is not known is if Microsoft plans to have OEMs sell new computers with Windows 10 in the middle of July? Or will this mean OEM's will get the official version for testing and deployment in the middle of July too while Microsoft fixes the bugs for the next 1 — 3 months before it comes standard on all new pcs?
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Billly Gates writes:
This is a story which is both sad, yet unsurprising. News like this just 5 or 6 years ago would send many of us in a panic as only Firefox was the savior from the stranglehold of IE 6 on the internet last decade. Many things have changed since then. Microsoft decided to start developing IE again to remain competitive. IE became secure and standards compliant starting with IE 9 which is still continuing to catch up with project Spartan for Windows 10 and no longer is proprietary.
New players have arrived derived from a new standard called webkit. Webkit and it's fork Blink created a new more modular rendering engine. Chrome, Safari, and mobile apps and browsers based on it rapidly have taken marketshare over the last few years. Chrome became a better browser with very fast java, threaded tabs, and tight memory management, and innovated many of the new HTML 5 and CSS 3 technologies leaving Firefox and IE in the dust.Firefox meanwhile has frustrated it's users over various issues and poor releases starting with Firefox 4.0 and continual breakage with add-ons every 6 weeks.
Netmatshare produces statistics independently from other companies which have Firefox marketshare listed at around 10%. but all seem to show the same trends. Are we heading into an era soon where webmasters will not support Firefox and put banners encouraging their users to download Chrome instead?
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Billly Gates writes:
Since Unity has been given a liberal license and free for non commercial developers it has become popular. A computer science student used the tool to remake SuperMario 64 with a modern Unity 5 engine. There is a video here and if you want to play the link is here. You will need Firefox or Chrome which has HTML 5 for gamepad support if you do not want to use the keyboard.
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Billly Gates writes:
The newest build has new icons for My pc, trashcan, network, and control panel which are more mobile friendly and match better with the new modern UI style. The build number is 10002 and the screenshots are listed here.
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Billly Gates writes:
Lenovo and Superfish are not the only companies who used the fake root SSL certificates by Komodia to spy and decrypt network traffic. Komodia advertises its products including a SSL-digestor to rid the obtrusive thing we call encryption and security. So far game accelerators are mentioned as some have seen these certs installed with Asus lan accelerator drivers.
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Billly Gates writes:
There was confusion during the Microsoft consumer preview of Windows 10 last month. Microsoft mentioned it was a free upgrade for one year for both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. What did the meaning of "free for one year" mean? It turns on the government paperwork for the trademark included references for operating systems in addition to other services like video on demand and extra software. Does this mean Microsoft plans to go the road of Adobe and allow only rentals to use your own computer?
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Billly Gates writes:
Just a week or 2 ago another flash exploit hit the net installing CryptoWall through infected servers from ad networks. Now the scammers are using another 0 day exploit to hit any browser at any version to install malware or Cryptowall on a victims computer. A decade on Slashdot there were discussions on whether it was time to uninstall Java JRE from local browsers. Is it time in 2015 to just uninstall Flash now since we have HTML 5 with major websites like www.youtube.com already switching to it?
