Another hackspherelabs post.
Notes
Somehow I missed the news about SMP mode and memtest86+. SMP mode will allow multi threaded memory testing….I found out about it after wondering why the Dell Diagnostics seems to do multi threaded testing but memtest86+ does not. It does…you hit F2 on start to activate it. I do not know if it auto selects SMP mode on different systems. Seems to work really good and is faster. Also did you know the Ubuntu build of 4.20 gave false positives? I would assume the SMP test would test each cores connection/path to the memory too (are they even different, or do they pipe through the same path in the end, I do not design processors)…but who knows if that is any different then the old way.
Windows Rant
Where do they find these people. Reading Joe Belfiore’s bio, it looks like the guy was hard working…so I guess I can look past the new age look. They have to have this guy in hair and makeup before he goes on. Still…whatever, what do I expect? He seems kinda cool. But in this and other videos they talk about UI changes like they are new features. DRM for corporate data? Is that what we are talking about here in the beginning? I mean they talk about windows features (maximize, minimize) like they have not been around since the first version of Windows. (Windows, like windows you move and drag around…the basic concepts…) THEY ARE BRINGING IT BACK WOW, you are blowing me away with all these new features. Vintage… I mean I get it. UI has to be approached in this demo…especially when you shoved a touchscreen interface down the throat of PC users. Touch is great…for people that have touch screens. It seems like this has a good balance, but please, if I use a mouse and keyboard, stop hiding all the things that people need to get to in submenu after submenu. If I have to hover my mouse for a second, you are wasting my time.
What about bootable ReFS volumes? What about security? And why all this cloud stuff? Where is the button to disable the cloud in one step? I cannot wait to spend hours and days of my time creating policies so Windows 10 does not leak data out when a user searches for a file…or transfers a picture from a camera, or whatever cloud stuff MS is planning to add to the OS.
I already know people at Microsoft know users do not know what they want. They released Windows 8…
How about you open source the networking code for audit? Filesystem code? Parts of the kernel?(I can ask right?). Encryption stuff? How about a version of Office that works natively on Linux? They have to protect the code. Protect it!
Why are there so many different versions of the same thing? Holy hell. I cannot wait to purchase Windows 10 Ultimate Enterprise Business Premium Cloud Office, just so I can encrypt stuff and create word documents. Does my license allow creating clone images? I better get Master Enterprise Double Basic Platinum for that. /sarcasm
How about 1 version, with everything…at a lower price. You could sell more copies of stuff everyone wants, and your product will actually be used, by everyone, to do everything. I think every loyal Windows user that I know is now an OSX user…that is saying something.
I will never use Windows ever again if I can avoid it. I do that pretty well right now. But I know I will still have to spend my days, explaining to people, why this stuff hardly ever works the way it should.
Internet Links
Translators – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QplQL5eAxlY
Supreme Court – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9prhPV2PI
Koch Brothers – http://news.yahoo.com/jon-stewart-daily-show-koch-brothers-video-133739372.html
Graphic Images of the Syrian Civil War: http://imgur.com/a/3gxfb
This site is neat. I think I have a book to add to it: http://blog.survivorlibrary.com/
They have a torrent on the site too so you can leech the info.
Media
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (The New One) – Pretty cool.
Caught Up on Walking Dead
Marvel Agents of Shield (Catching Up)
Things to Look at Later
CTCP TCP
Consumer Router Mods: At least a power Supply: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=54242
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Power_Supply_Info
https://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html