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QNAP launches QSW-M2108R-2C web-managed switch for small businesses
wingliston and 4 others reacted to n_K for a topic
64 vulnerabilities https://www.cvedetails.com/vul...t/vendor_id-10080/Qnap.html A web portal. Lol. I don't think this would be a wise purchase for any company that cares about security5 points -
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor
Malisk and 2 others reacted to adrynalyne for a topic
FINALLY!!!3 points -
NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
wingliston and 2 others reacted to Good Bot, Bad Bot for a topic
Fun facts: The heart of the Ingenuity Helicopter is a OnePlus One phone (with a Qualcomm SD801) and like the Perseverance Rover it runs Linux. 😁3 points -
NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Steven P. and 2 others reacted to freedonX for a topic
Mindblowing how bits and bytes traveled 180millon miles (286millon KM) and it 'only' took 3 hours. 20 years ago I was still on dialup. It would take 1 hour to download 20MB at a distance of maybe 3,000 miles. bits and bytes traveling THROUGH SPACE! There's no copper, no backbones, no redundancy, no friction (I believe...), there are other objects traveling in space. We complain if there's a lag while playing videogames, what's 180mil miles in 3 hours of delay..just mind blowing3 points -
WordPress becomes the latest company to oppose Google's FLoC
quikmantx and 2 others reacted to kiddingguy for a topic
Cookie & FLoC... potato... potahto. Just another way, now via 'cohorts', to still haunt you via personalized ads. And get to know everything from you.... Good thing that Wordpress, after Brave/Vivaldi, Safari, iOS etc, is blocking this.3 points -
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor
wingliston and one other reacted to thartist for a topic
Ok, I'm no programmer but the icons are a clear step back.2 points -
Sony reverses PlayStation 3 and Vita store closure decision
+E.Worm Jimmy and one other reacted to Brony for a topic
Lol, Sony Timer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_timer2 points -
Amazon invests in nine renewable energy projects globally
dustojnikhummer and one other reacted to Brony for a topic
For the scales: As of the beginning of 2018, Amazon’s freight shipping arm has shipped over 5,300 shipping containers from China to the United States (however not all of them are destined exclusively to Amazon). A ship could use 63k gallons per day and it uses from 2 weeks to a month to arrive from China to the USA. 63k gallons is equivalent to 2.1gwh Globally, we are not even close to an acceptable level and I think we are even worsening the situation. However, if we are only focusing on a plastic straw or, in this case, the energy used by the corporate office, then we are creating noise of the real problem. Even more: Amazon owns 60 big cargo planes, bigger than the national airlines of some developing countries. It runs 60,000 of its own delivery trucks, not counting the 100,000 now on order. And, perhaps most startling, it says it now delivers 60% of its packages through its own drivers. However, since most of the delivery trucks are third companies, then they don't count in the green balance. It's a matter of time until we will realize that we should heavily tax shipping to the extent that countries will decide to buy products locally.2 points -
Nvidia's $40bn ARM acquisition could be foiled, UK Govt is looking into the matter
wotsit and one other reacted to fco for a topic
SoftBank a Japanese investment firm purchased ARM in 2016, rather than ARM going public. The difference here is a bit nuanced. SoftBank is not a high tech company, and have let ARM operate business as usual. Nvidia however will swallow ARM, and integrate it into its operations. It will almost certainly result in jobs being lost in the UK. We need not look further than to the Nvidia-Mellanox acquisition to see how things will go.2 points -
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor
Malisk and one other reacted to Brandon H for a topic
wait, was Visual Studio really still a 32bit only app until now? why???2 points -
NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Tuskd and one other reacted to Jim K for a topic
Source please, as I highly doubt that.... Consumer electronics will not survive the travel through space for all that time, let alone the stay on Mars. And Perseverance runs on Wind River’s VxWorks, not Linux. The copter does run -a- Linux flavor though From JPL’s Tim Canham (Ingenuity operations lead): There are some avionics components that are very tough and radiation resistant, but much of the technology is commercial grade. The processor board that we used, for instance, is a Snapdragon 801, which is manufactured by Qualcomm. It’s essentially a cell phone class processor, and the board is very small. But ironically, because it’s relatively modern technology, it’s vastly more powerful than the processors that are flying on the rover. We actually have a couple of orders of magnitude more computing power than the rover does, because we need it. Our guidance loops are running at 500 Hz in order to maintain control in the atmosphere that we're flying in. And on top of that, we’re capturing images and analyzing features and tracking them from frame to frame at 30 Hz, and so there's some pretty serious computing power needed for that. And none of the avionics that NASA is currently flying are anywhere near powerful enough. Basically it sounds like since Ingenuity is a proof of concept ... they had flexibility with respect to the hardware. Source (and a really good article/interview): https://spectrum.ieee.org/auto...rover-fly-autonomously-mars 2 points -
NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
xrobwx71 and one other reacted to Jim K for a topic
Only took 42,858 days (117 years and 4 months) after the Wright Brothers first powered flight to achieve powered flight on another planet. Extraordinary.2 points -
WordPress becomes the latest company to oppose Google's FLoC
Nas and one other reacted to fishnet37222 for a topic
It's one thing to target the ads based on the site's content. However, it's a completely different thing to target the ads based on the visitor to the site.2 points -
Lenovo ThinkBook 14 Gen 2 review: A solid mainstream business laptop with AMD Ryzen
dirtyvu and one other reacted to Mockingbird for a topic
...and yet, it still beat out the latest gen CPUs from Intel Not the point. Nobody want to buy dated hardware. So would you rather buy the latest gen CPUs from Intel? After all, it is "the latest gen", even though it performs worse. Clearly what I said went over your head if that’s what you got from it. It's a natural interpretation. You are the one being ambiguous. The again, you are probably not a native English speaker, so I can hardly fault you. I’ve already explained it fully to someone else; I am not lowering myself to your level to do it again. Okay, your highness.2 points -
New Chia crypto-coin could lead to Hard Drive and SSD shortages, price hikes
monterxz and one other reacted to excalpius for a topic
Another scam for the suckers that the Chinese will use to siphon money away. The actual solution here is to stop feeding these worthless pyramid/Ponzi schemes.2 points -
The Lockdown - Stuff you bought - No Buyers Remorse
+Dick Montage reacted to Jazmac for a topic
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XBL Rant
Brandon H reacted to +InsaneNutter for a topic
I realise you posted this a few months ago now, however i've just noticed your post when browsing through the Xbox forums. The problem you have is most of the games you listed are not actually backwards compatible on the Xbox One sadly, so won't show as something you can download. I suspect if you ever got another Xbox 360 you would find them available to download in your download history, despite the games been long since delisted from the store. If I had to guess Xbox support probably can't see that you have purchased something that is no longer on the store and not backwards compatible.1 point -
Shang-Chi - The Legend of the Ten Rings
+primortal reacted to McCordRm for a topic
I'd bet my soul this will be infinitely better than the Iron Fist series. I'm excited for it.1 point -
Intel's i7-10700K Comet Lake CPU is 18% off today
ThaCrip reacted to George P for a topic
Exactly. prices seem a bit high and I am more than happy with my i5-3550 which I probably won't need to upgrade for years to come. it's nice that CPU's don't get outdated nearly as fast as they once did. I'm still on my i7 6700k and GTX 1070 for now. I'll upgrade GPU long before I'll probably need to get a whole new mobo+CPU. It really comes down to what you do with your system. For most work tasks unless you're using heavy apps that are thread and ram hungry, you don't need to upgrade CPU often. I average around 9 years before I get a new system.1 point -
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor
Brandon H reacted to adrynalyne for a topic
They insisted it wasn't necessary and decided to take the approach of breaking it into several processes instead. so yes, laziness lol small projects it wouldn't be an issue sure, but larger projects I bet ran into that 'out of memory' error quite frequently due to the 4gb ram limitation of 32bit apps. I'm sure it's been pretty trivial for them to recompile the new version in 64bit too so laziness is the only thing that adds up in my mind. Wait, No, 64bit development was not constrained by the UI/GUI of VS running at 32bits. Think of it like this, writing 64bit code in 32bit Text Editor will still compile in the x64 compiler and run just fine. (I don't think you will find any source files that are over 2GB, or even close.) VS crashing with OOM errors absolutely hindered 32 AND 64 bit development. Read carefully.1 point -
Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming is finally coming to PC and iOS through the web
suni08 reacted to Brandon H for a topic
i believe so yes1 point -
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor
Nas reacted to soder for a topic
They insisted it wasn't necessary and decided to take the approach of breaking it into several processes instead. so yes, laziness lol small projects it wouldn't be an issue sure, but larger projects I bet ran into that 'out of memory' error quite frequently due to the 4gb ram limitation of 32bit apps. I'm sure it's been pretty trivial for them to recompile the new version in 64bit too so laziness is the only thing that adds up in my mind. Its 2GB on 32bit, not 4GB. More precisely, 2GB usermode+2GB kernel mode memory. With a special mode, you could shift the ratio to 3GB user + 1GB kernel, but you could not use the entire 4GB for the user mode memory.1 point -
Parallels Desktop adds native support for Apple M1 Macs
domboy reacted to NXTwoThou for a topic
Last I heard and also from what I can find, Visual Studio has not been ported to ARM64 (at least not in its entirety), so you're going to be running translation on top of virtualization. If you deploy an insider build of WoA you can probably use 64 bit emulation/translation unless it breaks unless some bug breaks it (its beta software afterall). If you build a stable release on WoA (using UUP dump as mentioned previously) you'll be limited to the 32 bit x86 apps until probably the fall update. Visual Studio still has a 32 bit version. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...es/2019/system-requirements SQL server might be a problem on a current stable build of WoA. Looks like SQL Server 2016 is when Microsoft dropped 32 bit support. I expect we'll eventually get ARM64 support for SQL server when an ARM64 build of Windows Server becomes available, but pretty sure that's no available to anyone outside of Microsoft if it exists yet. All that to say... while perhaps technically possible, who knows how well it'll run via x86/x64 to ARM64 translation. Of course, the M1 is supposed to be faster than the Qualcomm 8cx, so maybe it'd run ok. There is no x64 nor arm version of Visual Studio it's always just been 32 bit. Visual Studio Code does have an 32, x64, and arm64 version. You would also need to look at Azure SQL Edge( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql-edge/overview ) as long as you aren't using any CLR stuff in MSSQL right now. Ha! There -wasn't- a x64 version of VS.. https://www.neowin.net/news/mi...022-now-in-a-64-bit-flavor/1 point -
Entry-level CMP 30HX ASUS variant will reportedly be priced at an astounding $799
+Thayios reacted to PmRd for a topic
Wow!!! just in time for EIP 1559! 🤦♂️1 point -
NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Steven P. reacted to Dutchie64 for a topic
Thanks for both articles, interesting read indeed. And yes, the 'tech' websites do often just give you half the information or half truths....1 point -
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2022, now in a 64-bit flavor
Brony reacted to adrynalyne for a topic
Laziness? Not sure. It has been a very popular request for several years. VS would often go oom with big extensions or solutions. I switched to Rider because of it.1 point -
The Lockdown - Stuff you bought - No Buyers Remorse
Steven P. reacted to +Biscuits Brown for a topic
Sorry to say I didn't really buy anything beyond my normal spends over the last year. Aside from cancelling a vacation (that resulted in a net positive to my back account for the year) nothing at all changed in mine or my wife's life. We only really had about 2 weeks of anything even close to a 'lockdown' (and never came close to overrunning our hospitals) so no need to splurge here.1 point -
QNAP launches QSW-M2108R-2C web-managed switch for small businesses
n_K reacted to fco for a topic
6746 vulnerabilities https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/26/Microsoft.html Lol. I don't think this would be a wise purchase for any company that cares about security /s I'm not sure what you're trying to prove? A lot of companies have software where exploits exist, but this number purely from a total makes no sense when it's for all of a company's products. Break that down and Microsoft isn't so bad in comparison. Microsoft: 6746 total (529 products) Average 12 per product Apple: 4507 total (119 products) Average 37 per product Linux: 2346 total (17 products) Average 138 per product Microsoft has far and away more products comparatively, these are reported across all of them. Yet there's this misplaced notion amongst people that security exploits are somehow only a problem for Microsoft.1 point -
Nvidia's $40bn ARM acquisition could be foiled, UK Govt is looking into the matter
Brandon H reacted to Louisifer for a topic
I agree, they are up for sale so let nvidia push it to its potential, its a much better fate than letting them get bought by yet another holding company1 point -
The Lockdown - Stuff you bought - No Buyers Remorse
Jazmac reacted to cacoe for a topic
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Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming is finally coming to PC and iOS through the web
Nazmus Shakib Khandaker reacted to Atoqir for a topic
This is missing but it is supported on through Edge, Chrome, or Safari browser. FF is not supported. Cloud be important for those last FF users out there.1 point -
NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Dutchie64 reacted to Jim K for a topic
The helicopter cost $80M (development/construction/testing/etc)... the entire Perseverance mission is projected to cost $2.7B (or how much the DoD spends in 33 hours).1 point -
New Chia crypto-coin could lead to Hard Drive and SSD shortages, price hikes
freedonX reacted to Farchord for a topic
yeah I am starting to see that virtual currencies are starting to be way too numerous, I thought the point of having bitcoin was to have one centralized currency around the world?1 point -
NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)
Steven P. reacted to Jim K for a topic
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DOOGEE S59 Pro Review: Battery life so good, charging becomes a weekly chore
hellowalkman reacted to +InsaneNutter for a topic
With a 10,050 mAh battery this would be the perfect phone for anyone playing Pokemon Go, or any other Niantic game such as Ingress. The constant gps, data usage and having your screen brightness at full outside takes my phones 3,300 mAh battery from 100% to 15% in just over 3 hours! I suspect this phone would give you well over 10 hours play in such demanding conditions.1 point -
Dell Latitude 7320 review: The ultimate work from home laptop
hellowalkman reacted to Michael Scrip for a topic
Maybe it's a con in general at this price point. 2000 USD seems like a 4k price point to me. Perhaps... but I wasn't thinking about the price. I was just wondering why you'd want 4K resolution... over 8 million pixels... in a 13" laptop screen. It just seems a little excessive. And let's not forget that the GPU is responsible for pushing around all those 8 million pixels... ...on a business laptop.1 point -
GNU/Linux Desktops Thread: 2Q 2021
Barney T. reacted to Mindovermaster for a topic
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New Chia crypto-coin could lead to Hard Drive and SSD shortages, price hikes
freedonX reacted to +Warwagon for a topic
YAY! Just what we need ANOTHER new coin.1 point -
Huawei MateBook X Pro review: A great PC with a WFH deal-breaker
+Dick Montage reacted to spy beef for a topic
The left shift key is more of a dealbreaker than the webcam.1 point -
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden sells his first NFT for $5.5 million
+Dick Montage reacted to n_K for a topic
I think at this point, though it was widely known already, there are 2 sides to these things: Smart: if you're selling something and some absolute idiot actually buy it and you actually manage to 'scam' (and let's be clear, these are a complete scam) someone out of money Complete idiot: if you buy anything related to these systems1 point -
Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating
matthiew reacted to samw61 for a topic
Absolutely. Do you also open individual browser windows for each website? I would suggest that browsing the web is one of the few user cases where tabs are useful. They are all pages that may have originated from another page (remember when MS tried to group tabs by colour based off source in IE8 or something??). Things like research, comparisons, or queuing articles to read, it's surprisingly useful. Web apps that are unable to spawn new pages (eg Music or Calendar rather than News apps) be treated as individual apps, and are a much easier way to control each of those items using the Windows task switcher. I don't go to a folder and open 3 or 4 folders in new windows, there isn't much reason to, certainly for most user cases. And on top of that, you essentially have your tabbed experience through the Windows taskbar. I know it's not like it used to be back in Vista, but it's effectively there. Don't get me wrong, I used a File Explorer tab extension back in the Vista days and while I'm sure teenage me loved it because it was new and shiny, I look back and cannot see many cases that I used it though. This is one of the reasons I hate the idea of having browser tabs show up as windows in taskview. I know the other tabs are there in that window, that's where I want them! Sets seemed so messy as it was basically going to mess up how Windows was used and worked. It seemed MS thought the solution lay in Virtual Desktops, which seems logical to me.1 point -
NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon
domboy reacted to DocM for a topic
The money is being spent, taxed, and recycled through the economy on Earth. SpaceX is employing thousands of people in Brownsville and McGregor TX, California, Washington State, Michigan (the tank domes for Starship are pressed here) and other states, and most aren't engineers - there are welders, laborers and dozens of other job descriptions the area needed desperately. Additionally, SpaceX is sponsoring STEM programs in their schools, working with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on astronomy projects, etc. etc. On the Moon they'll be doing advanced science, setting up a research station with Europe, Japan, Canada, and other nations. Much of it'll be medical, but also environmental and Earth observation (which includes climate science.) So, not so useless as some may think.1 point -
Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating
matthiew reacted to derekaw for a topic
Not at all. As you can see, this concept has been criticized for having too much white space and being overly dumbed down, while the Mac OS Finder that has even less information present is an example of the exceptional, magical design prowess of Cupertino. Totally different. Also, dur hur. Sorry, You misunderstood me and I was not clear, let me be clear - I think it looks like Mac.1 point -
Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating
matthiew reacted to dustojnikhummer for a topic
No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... What do you gain by hiding the full path?1 point -
Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating
matthiew reacted to acetken for a topic
What do you mean? Drives are there, all the existing special folders, path, breadcrumb etc Okay. As a user, go ahead and show me where the directory is located. Oh, I know you can see Pictures / Wallpapers in the demo pictures, but in actuality, that directory is a "Symbolic Folder" and doesn't really exist. The real path to the file is "C:\Users\Username\Pictures\Saved Pictures". The problem with the symbolic directories is that documents are listed there constantly that don't physically reside there. The number of user machines I've had to pull files from is astounding and due to poor File Managers on Mac and Pinned / Favorite directories on Windows, people don't know where their files are. Period. Ever since Windows 10, storage management has been a godawful mess when dealing with users as they do not know or care where they save things, they just hit "save". It goes to a download folder (that gets cleared whenever a file cleanup happens), a Documents folder (that doesn't exist), or their desktop. It's sad that the desktop is, organizationally, the best option, and this UI is further enforcing the "I dunno, search for it" school of thought that has made things so poor for both I.T. and users (even if they don't know it). This (and UI design like it) is designed for looks, not utility. It functions terribly the deeper you need to go and serves to enforce bad habits. However, I'm certain it is the road UX will travel down because people are very lazy and would rather have the OS think for them instead of having to do it themselves. "It just works" until someone has to actually do something technical, then "it just sucks."1 point -
Windows 10 May 2021 Update is live - here's what to expect
seeprime reacted to Zerosignull for a topic
The worst Windows update from MS was going from Windows 7 to Windows 8. No one will easily convince me otherwise. Unless you had Win XP then moving to Vista was a Mess. Or come to think about it moving from 98SE to ME or was it 98SE to XP? Bah humbug1 point -
Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating
matthiew reacted to MS Bob 11 for a topic
Oh please it's one of those super annoying articles, some non-professional/hobbyist "designer" creates some mock-up designs that throw out functionality and usability for the app looking good and all the clueless people who know nothing about UI design salivate over it. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ I loathe such concepts. It has all the words also that I hate - Fluent, clean, minimalist, sleekness. NO THANKS. This is anti-productivity as the controls are dumbed down. Such concepts throw out the 25+ years of evolution Explorer had. They are ok for amateur users on Windows 10X, not for Windows 10 Desktop. Such idiotic ideas are dangerous should actual Program Managers at Microsoft adopt these ridiculous concept designs and throw out the app that was designed in a certain way and evolved for 25+ years.1 point -
Nokia to use new Intel Xeon Scalable Processors to reduce emissions
hellowalkman reacted to NewGuy123 for a topic
AMD is a better choice.1 point -
Desktops Thread: 2Q 2021
cacoe reacted to spy beef for a topic
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Yahoo mail issues
+Dick Montage reacted to +Biscuits Brown for a topic
Probably can't help you on this one I'm afraid. That said, I think the solution is to move off of Yahoo mail and on to just about any other platform. I didn't even know after all the security issues Yahoo has had over the years that they even HAD live email service anymore nor why anyone would want to continue using it. Good luck man1 point