The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2021

Yesterday, we wrote how Microsoft’s Windows 11 won’t technically leave millions of PCs behind — the company told us it won’t actually block you from installing Windows 11 on a PC with an older CPU, so long as you download and manually install an ISO file all by yourself. But it turns out even that technicality has a technicality.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A variety of new hardware updates are expected from Microsoft. Microsoft has been building up plenty of momentum recently with the impending launch of Windows 11. And with the new operating system set to launch on October 5th , it’s only natural to showcase it with new devices. Image: Microsoft.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Microsoft is creating a new security chip that’s designed to protect future Windows PCs. Microsoft Pluton is a security processor that is built directly into future CPUs and will replace the existing Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a chip that’s currently used to secure hardware and cryptographic keys. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. It’s an unusual surprise if you purchased a new PC for Windows 10, or perhaps you have a perfectly capable machine that’s even older.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Calling it a “historic day for the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed the transitions to PowerPC, OS X 10, and a move to Intel chips before unveiling its plans to use Apple’s own ARM-powered silicon in Macs in the future.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. And here’s another example of malware that is targeting Linux (along with Windows). Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It has a standard 15-inch form-factor and a good quality of the hardware. Operating System. Windows 10 Home 64-bit. The touchpad supports multi-finger gestures providing convenience to use Windows 10. Intel Celeron N4000 Dual-Core 1.1GHz Processor. Intel HD 600 Graphics. Intel HD 600 Graphics.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

back in September of 2000, as a successor to Mac OS 9, the last of the “classic” Apple operating systems that dated back to the original Macintosh in 1984. Microsoft even had began to follow suite, with the company declaring back in 2015 that it viewed Windows 10 as the “ final version of Windows.”. End of an era.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A truly robust endpoint solution will provide protection at all levels of the device, from the core BIOS, through to the hardware, firmware and application layers. This is what Intel has aimed to deliver with the Intel vPro® platform. vPro also boosts security for virtualised environments.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Microsoft will release a budget version of its Surface Laptop, the Surface Laptop Go , looking to appeal to quarantined home and student users with a 720p video camera and an advanced speaker system that the company describes an ideal combo for video calls, remote learning, and video streaming. The new laptop, with a 12.4-inch

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it’s moving Macs away from Intel processors to its own silicon chips. The new Macs will use arm64, the same CPU architecture that recent iOS devices use (Intel-based Macs use an architecture called x86-64). Screenshot: Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. Recovery from non-booting Windows systems For Windows systems that fail to boot, Stellar Data Recovery Technician can still restore RAID data.

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Galido

APRIL 22, 2019

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is intuitive even in operation, once the DVD has been inserted just choose the format in which to convert the DVD (MP4 / H.264, Furthermore, compatibility is also available for mobile devices, including iPad, iPhone, Samsung, Windows Phone and many other models, so you can watch movies from any Smartphone and tablet.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Operating Systems/Applications. Someone recently pointed this out.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. x86 marches on! Check this out.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool. So useful.).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Operating Systems/Applications. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Yes, please! (I

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool. So useful.).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85!

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 16, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Is the introduction of Google Cloud’s new Tau VMs an indication that AMD’s influence continues to grow over Intel’s? Microsoft has released clarified guidance for dealing with the recent Windows Print Spooler vulnerability. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. Chris Mellor shares an interview with Hazelcast on the performance of Intel Optane PMem.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Operating Systems/Applications. Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server. If you’re interested in playing around with OVN, I’ve built a Vagrant-based environment running OVS/OVN 2.6.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 7, 2023

However, the provided URLs will direct you to the manufacturer’s official website: Nvidia GPU AMD GPU Intel GPU Diablo 4 not working (Crashing, freezing, and more): If your internet connection is working properly, you should try updating your drivers. In the Settings window, select “Update & Security.”

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Dataconomy

JUNE 6, 2023

However, the provided URLs will direct you to the manufacturer’s official website: Nvidia GPU AMD GPU Intel GPU Diablo 4 not working (Crashing, freezing, and more): If your internet connection is working properly, you should try updating your drivers. In the Settings window, select “Update & Security.”

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Technology Short Take #26.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Servers/Hardware. Seen this ?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Frank Denneman (with an admittedly vSphere-focused lens) takes a look at the Intel Xeon Scalable Family in a two-part (so far) series. Both articles are worth reviewing if hardware selection is an important aspect of your role. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Operating Systems/Applications. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. is needed in order to see broader adoption of OpenFlow.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. Need to locate duplicate MAC addresses in your environment, possibly caused by cloning VMs? Matt Boren has a PowerShell script over at vNugglets that might be helpful.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Here’s one idea. The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Here’s a configuration example.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

To take advantage of high-capacity flash in the memory bus, Diablo supplies drivers for all the major operating systems (OSes), including ESXi, and what this driver does is modify the way that page swaps are handled. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache. Congrats to HyTrust.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Here’s one idea. The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Here’s a configuration example.

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