Miscellaneous Tech News
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@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ubiquity EdgeRouter 4 is out, not sure if it is "new" but I have not seen it before?
https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_ER-4_DS.pdfIt has been in beta for something like 6 months or so.
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The big deal with the ER-4 and ER-6 is a new processor.
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Looks like beefed up ERL, with rack mount option.
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Looks like beefed up ERL, with rack mount option.
Pretty much what it is supposed to be. The refresh of the ERL and the ER-PoE
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When you look at the firmware ID info it is obvious.
In release order:
ERL/ERPOE - e100
ER8/ER8Pro - e200
ERX - e50
ER8XG - e1000
ER4/ER6 - e300 -
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
You should just be able to set the password after an install. It probably just locks the account since there isn't a password.
I never minded this because I never use the root account unless I switch to it with sudo. But I can see how if that's your normal workflow it would be annoying.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
Only if you don't set during install. If you set root, there it is. If you skip it, it forces you to do something.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReduceInitialSetupRedundancy under Root Account.
Having a root password is not useful for nontechnical users, and it is confusing to ask users to create multiple passwords.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Initial-Setup
Looks like all Workstation installs will have no root password set by default. The initial user created by gnome-initial-setup will be added to the wheel group.
That's basically what 27 does, but less elegantly.
Damnit, I hate this about Ubuntu.
Why can I not use a root account and a user account?
From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReduceInitialSetupRedundancy under Root Account.
Having a root password is not useful for nontechnical users, and it is confusing to ask users to create multiple passwords.
Security isn't useful for the masses.
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From the MongoDB blog's official announcement....
We announced MongoDB 3.6 in November. Following great community feedback on the 3.6 release candidates, we’re happy to say that 3.6 is now generally available and ready for production deployments. You can download the community version and MongoDB Enterprise Server today.
MongoDB 3.6 is also available on MongoDB Atlas, so you can try out 3.6 or upgrade your existing Atlas clusters to 3.6.
MongoDB 3.6 makes it easier than ever to work with data in the most natural, efficient, and frictionless way possible. In short, MongoDB helps you go faster when building and scaling apps. Key 3.6 features include:
Change streams enable you to build reactive web, mobile and IoT applications that can view, filter, and act on data changes as they occur in the database. Whenever data is changed in MongoDB, downstream systems are automatically notified of the updates in real time. Change streams provide an easy and efficient way to build reactive, event driven apps.
Retryable writes move the complexity of handling transient systems failures from the application to the database. Instead of you having to implement masses of custom, client-side code, MongoDB automatically retries write operations using exactly-once semantics.
With Schema validation, using syntax derived from the proposed IETF JSON Schema standard, we’ve extended the document validation capabilities originally introduced in MongoDB 3.2. Now, DevOps and DBA teams can define a prescribed document structure for each collection, down to the level of individual fields within nested arrays. And you’re able to tune this as you need: lock the schema down, open it up, apply it to a subset of fields – whatever you need for each app or stage of your project.
Binding to localhost by default: with MongoDB 3.6 all MongoDB packages across all platforms refuse all external connections to the database unless explicitly configured otherwise by the administrator. Combined with new IP whitelisting support, administrators can configure MongoDB to only accept external connections on approved IP addresses. These enhancements greatly reduce the risk of unsecured MongoDB instances unintentionally being deployed into production.
Aggregation enhancements support more expressive queries, giving you faster access to data-driven insights. MongoDB’s document data model allows you to model entities in the same way you represent them in code - as complete objects - so you don't need to worry about JOINs. But for analytics it’s useful to join data across multiple collections. We introduced left outer equijoins in MongoDB 3.2, but now we are expanding this with a more powerful $lookup operator to support the equivalent of SQL subqueries and non-equijoins. MongoDB's Connector for BI, which enables MongoDB to be used as a data source in SQL-based analytics and data visualization tools, takes advantage of these enhancements to deliver higher performance, with more analytic operations pushed natively to the database.
MongoDB Atlas is the best way to run MongoDB in the public cloud. MongoDB 3.6 is available as a fully managed service on Atlas, including important new features to support global applications, and with automated scalability and performance optimizations.
Cross-region replication allows Atlas clusters to span multiple cloud provider regions, maintaining continuous availability in the event of geographic outages, and providing optimal customer experience by distributing data closer to users. Atlas now also supports automatic scaling for storage associated with a cluster, making it easier for you to manage capacity. The new Performance Advisor continuously highlights slow-running queries and provides intelligent index recommendations to improve performance.
