Miscellaneous Tech News
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/orangeworm-menaces-healthcare-computers-489561
Dubbed Orangeworm by Symantec, the attackers have conducted supply chain attacks on healthcare providers, pharma companies, as well as IT solution providers and equipment makers for the medical sector, since January 2015. -
Just the testing. Seems like most of this technology should be open source from the get-go. I understand the need to make money but nothing precludes making money in this instance. Especially when the hardware is massively expensive and really only available to people who have an existing supply chain in place.
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Windows lean wtf? Probably be as useless as the ARM Edition
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It could be okay, depends what they are stripping out. Windows is very bloated by default, so the idea is sound.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It could be okay, depends what they are stripping out. Windows is very bloated by default, so the idea is sound.
They are removing things like the desktop wallpaper, Registry Editor and MMC management console and more.
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Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.
Typical
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PC has dramas? Reinstall! None of this troubleshooting nonsense.
That being said, there isn’t a published target audience. Perhaps they really want the kiosk business...
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@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
PC has dramas? Reinstall! None of this troubleshooting nonsense.
That being said, there isn’t a published target audience. Perhaps they really want the kiosk business...
I actually just reset my gaming laptop, both the wireless interface and the Ethernet were getting piss poor performance.
Next step perform a clean install.
It's gonna suck having to reinstall everything tonight though. . .
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.
eh?
To me it appears they are trying to make a new OS - one they've had since Windows 8, but has gained no traction at all. -
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.
eh?
To me it appears they are trying to make a new OS - one they've had since Windows 8, but has gained no traction at all.Nothing new or different, same OS just with fewer packages installed.
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Node.js released version 10. Version 8 is officially their LTS and required for XOCE community users.
Worked for me, please confirm.
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Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/
Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/
Holy cow, that's pretty huge.
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In other news, Windows blows and essentially cripples great hardware.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/
Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.
ah, missed that
