Remove 2020 Remove Hardware Remove Open Source Remove Storage
article thumbnail

The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

The Go was officially discontinued in 2020. This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down.

article thumbnail

Technology Short Take 134

Scott Lowe

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Here’s number 43 , from 9 November 2020. I’m glad to see this.

Linux 60
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Technology Short Take 123

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #123, the first of 2020! Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps!

article thumbnail

How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

By the federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) count in October 2020, 3.2 For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. Another advantage, which Mint shares with other Linux distros, is it runs on low-power hardware. Photo: Linux Mint.

Linux 106
article thumbnail

Technology Short Take 132

Scott Lowe

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

article thumbnail

Kick-Start Your Career Growth with Training in Hadoop

Galido

Hadoop is a software framework under open-source technologies for storing the information and running the applications on commodity hardware clusters. It enables huge storage for any type of data, high power of processing and the capability to manage virtually unlimited jobs or tasks concurrently. billion by 2020.

article thumbnail

5 Sustainability concepts driving the data center of the future

CIO Business Intelligence

million from the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, part of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission. The fuel cells use a unique tri-fuel design, allowing them to consume whichever fuel source is locally available: natural gas, green hydrogen, or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).