It’s a holiday weekend here in U.S. Not much going on in the tech world.
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Bruce Dickinson’s Perfect Answers
I tried social media. There are a number of reasons why I left it but it’s kinda hard to explain well.
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson was interviewed and gave what IMHO are the perfect answers (about 2/3 of the way down).
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Report: Windows 10 Threshold 2 Pushed Back To November
Winbeta is reporting that Win10 TH2 will be released in November and not October as expected.
This is good news / bad news.
It is good news because TH2 is incredibly buggy which I attribute to the new Memory Compression feature. This is simply IMHO. This will give MS time to sort things out.
It is bad news because as I stated before, I will not release thw Win10 tweak guide until TH2. I just don’t want to continually rewrite the guide. Win10 is a perpetually ungraded OS and TH2 is being followed by Redstone in 2016.
Google Chrome 45
“The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 45 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Chrome 45.0.2454.85 contains a number of fixes and improvements.”
Download or update from within the program.
Random Tuesday Stuff…
Free PCmover Express
“Microsoft has partnered with Laplink to provide you with data transfer tools that transfer selected files, folders, and more from an old Windows PC to a new Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 PC.
To get started, download PCmover Express —free for a limited time.”
Never used it. Maybe You or someone you know would find it useful.
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Windows 7 and 8 Spying On You Too?
Ars Technica – Microsoft accused of adding spy features to Windows 7, 8
By now we are all aware that by default Win10 sends a lot of info to Microsoft. Folks have found Windows 7 & 8 are doing it too.
Well, kinda. Let me explain. Microsoft added 2 updates that collect more info.
1 – KB3022345 superseded by KB3068708 superseded by KB3080149 adds the Diagnostics Tracking Service.
2 – KB3075249 seems to monitor UAC prompts (hopefully to make it less annoying)
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Site News
Comments are back. I’m using the default comment system for now (with a couple of anti-spam plugins).
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About Comments
About Comments:
-Comments are not posted until moderated, and are filtered using several methods.
-Comments are closed after 2 weeks to cut down on spam.
-In addition the following comments will be deleted; posted in the wrong topic, bashing other people, profanity, links to adult or other questionable sites.
-Once you click submit your IP address is recorded (it is NOT posted). FYI – All sites do this, I just tell you about it.
-The comment section is not a way to contact me. See here for that.
-If you post a lazy question, don’t be upset when nobody answers.
-In the end it is my site and not a public forum. I will decide what I do and do not want posted here.
New Nvidia Drivers
GeForce Game Ready Driver 355.82 WHQL available. Supports Windows 10 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Windows Vista.
“The latest GeForce Game Ready driver, release 355.82 WHQL, ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Mad Max”
Download
Release Notes
Linux 352.41 drivers dated 8/28 available too. 64-bit and 32-bit.
NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver README and Installation Guide
openSUSE SDB:NVIDIA drivers
Linux workstation security checklist
Linux Foundation – Linux workstation security checklist
This is a set of recommendations used by the Linux Foundation for their systems administrators. All of LF employees are remote workers and we use this set of guidelines to ensure that a sysadmin’s system passes core security requirements in order to reduce the risk of it becoming an attack vector against the rest of our infrastructure.