... Some highlights of the 7.1 release are...
-Initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics cards...
All of the code is under non-restrictive licenses, and may be used without paying royalties to anyone.
People I care about know how to contact me. People I don't care about may not. I'm fine with that.
Case in point.. I have a POTS line at home that keep around for the very occasional fax I need to send. When my "home" phone number rings, most of the time I don't bother answering it. If it's anyone I care about, they'll ring my cell.
... I've seen popups that urge people to use Edge over Chrome of Firefox on Windows 10 machines of other people.
I wish I had a dime for every goddamned popup I've had to dismiss nagging me to install Chrome, both on my Windows machines and my iPhone. It seems every time you hit a Google site with a user agent other than Chrome you get nagged.
Exactly. The problem is not that IoT devices are lacking "unique identities", or not using signed SSL certificates, it's that any clown on the Internet can exploit them remotely.
My wife had the same problem on her iPhone - could not swipe up to access the flashlight icon. After considerable futzing I was able to get it working again. I think the swipe up function might have been turned off under Settings -> Control Center, but I can't remember for sure.
Good luck with that, MS. The adversaries out there are not just nations who might have something to gain by playing fair or following rules due to game theory, but terrorist groups, criminal organizations, heck, even disaffected college students.
Just because it does not address every threat doesn't mean that a digital treaty is not worthwhile. For one thing, state sponsored attacks are likely to be far more sophisticated than what "disaffected college students" can do. When the US conducted Operation Olympic Games, they set a dangerous precedent in digital warfare. And history shows that rules can be applied to warfare. Not perfectly, to be sure, but perhaps better than no rules at all.
Telnet client is no longer installed by default on Windows machines, and the protocol is deprecated for good reason, but I still use it occasionally to connect to TCP port 25 on an SMTP server and manually type commands to send a test e-mail.
Are PCIe drives so reliable now, as to not needing RAID?
Personally, I never want a single point-of-failure in my storage system, no matter how reliable the devices are. Good NVMe SSD drives aren't cheap though, so I can imagine people running them without RAID if they're very confident about their backups and can withstand a bit of downtime.
What I find really interesting though is pushing the limits of performance by striping two or more of these drives together in RAID 0.
You're right, however, that hardware support for PCIe RAID is not really there yet.
I run a virtual Domain Controller / DNS Server / DHCP Server for a small network using dynamic memory allocation on a Hyper-V hypervisor. It' settings are as follows: Startup RAM = 768 MB, Minimum RAM = 512 MB, Maximum RAM = 1536 MB. So it can grab a bit more or a bit less RAM that what it starts up with as needed. The current allocation is 772 MB. It could take double that if needed, but hasn't. Conclusion: You can run a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine quite comfortably on 1 GB RAM.
the design of the things will encourage, if not require, Internet connectivity to work
And that's precisely the point at which one should vote with their pocketbook whether or not they want such features to be mandatory.
As consumers, hell, as human beings, we do have the power to protest things. We don't have to just lay down and say this type of "progress" can't be stopped. Otherwise, be prepared to buy antivirus software for your toaster, and have Google profiling how dark you like your toast.>/p>
"Threatens" is a pretty inflammatory way to describe it. I would say that "offers" WiFi connectivity is more like it. FFS, if you don't want some device on your WiFi, then don't enter your WiFi password on the device.
No idea if it relates to this specific issue, but a LOT of patches stem from vulnerabilities being discovered in otherwise stable code. Given that DHCP clients can affect who you go to for DNS resolution, for example, it has "potential security issues" written all over it.
I noticed just recently that my Windows 10 machine wasn't connecting to either the wired or wireless networks when I moved between home and office. IP addresses were defaulting to Microsoft's 169.254.0.0/16 range, as happens on Windows when DHCP attempt fails. Doing ipconfig/release and then ipconfig/renew would restore operation.
The problem seems to stem from "fast startup" being enabled under Control Panel -> Power Options -> Choose what the power buttons do. With this feature enabled, performing a shutdown doesn't really shutdown the computer, it basically just hibernates. I'm not terribly surprised that acquiring an IP address, hibernating the machine, then waking from hibernation on a different network might cause a networking issue, but for whatever reason this wasn't causing any problem until just recently.
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... Some highlights of the 7.1 release are...
-Initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics cards...
All of the code is under non-restrictive licenses, and may be used without paying royalties to anyone.
That NVIDIA bit doesn't sound non-restrictive.
That would be a great joke if the plural of pie was pie.
People I care about know how to contact me. People I don't care about may not. I'm fine with that.
Case in point.. I have a POTS line at home that keep around for the very occasional fax I need to send. When my "home" phone number rings, most of the time I don't bother answering it. If it's anyone I care about, they'll ring my cell.
... windows 10 IS an ad platform.
The entire f**cking Internet is an ad platform. Windows 10 is but one of the players.
... I've seen popups that urge people to use Edge over Chrome of Firefox on Windows 10 machines of other people.
I wish I had a dime for every goddamned popup I've had to dismiss nagging me to install Chrome, both on my Windows machines and my iPhone. It seems every time you hit a Google site with a user agent other than Chrome you get nagged.
I'm running Windows 10 LTSB. It does not include Windows Store.
They'll set you up on a date with AI.
Exactly. The problem is not that IoT devices are lacking "unique identities", or not using signed SSL certificates, it's that any clown on the Internet can exploit them remotely.
My wife had the same problem on her iPhone - could not swipe up to access the flashlight icon. After considerable futzing I was able to get it working again. I think the swipe up function might have been turned off under Settings -> Control Center, but I can't remember for sure.
A definition of "layman's terms":
simple language that anyone can understand
Note how it doesn't say "...that anyone can look up the meaning of using a search engine".
For what's it's worth, I was already familiar with that acronym. I was questioning whether a layman would be.
You seem to be confusing "Layman's terms" with "Anything that can be looked up on Google".
In layman's terms, this means an AnC attack can break ASLR...
'cause every layman knows what ASLR is.
Good luck with that, MS. The adversaries out there are not just nations who might have something to gain by playing fair or following rules due to game theory, but terrorist groups, criminal organizations, heck, even disaffected college students.
Just because it does not address every threat doesn't mean that a digital treaty is not worthwhile. For one thing, state sponsored attacks are likely to be far more sophisticated than what "disaffected college students" can do. When the US conducted Operation Olympic Games, they set a dangerous precedent in digital warfare. And history shows that rules can be applied to warfare. Not perfectly, to be sure, but perhaps better than no rules at all.
Telnet client is no longer installed by default on Windows machines, and the protocol is deprecated for good reason, but I still use it occasionally to connect to TCP port 25 on an SMTP server and manually type commands to send a test e-mail.
Similarly, I frequently tested RS-232 ports / cables by jumpering pins 2 and 3 with a paper clip to make a loopback cable.
Are PCIe drives so reliable now, as to not needing RAID?
Personally, I never want a single point-of-failure in my storage system, no matter how reliable the devices are. Good NVMe SSD drives aren't cheap though, so I can imagine people running them without RAID if they're very confident about their backups and can withstand a bit of downtime.
What I find really interesting though is pushing the limits of performance by striping two or more of these drives together in RAID 0.
You're right, however, that hardware support for PCIe RAID is not really there yet.
I run a virtual Domain Controller / DNS Server / DHCP Server for a small network using dynamic memory allocation on a Hyper-V hypervisor. It' settings are as follows: Startup RAM = 768 MB, Minimum RAM = 512 MB, Maximum RAM = 1536 MB. So it can grab a bit more or a bit less RAM that what it starts up with as needed. The current allocation is 772 MB. It could take double that if needed, but hasn't. Conclusion: You can run a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine quite comfortably on 1 GB RAM.
County Auditor Mike Smith saw the bright side. “Apparently, our clock still works,” he told the Newark Advocate.
Godwin FTW.
other than his professional reputation.
the design of the things will encourage, if not require, Internet connectivity to work
And that's precisely the point at which one should vote with their pocketbook whether or not they want such features to be mandatory.
As consumers, hell, as human beings, we do have the power to protest things. We don't have to just lay down and say this type of "progress" can't be stopped. Otherwise, be prepared to buy antivirus software for your toaster, and have Google profiling how dark you like your toast.>/p>
"Threatens" is a pretty inflammatory way to describe it. I would say that "offers" WiFi connectivity is more like it. FFS, if you don't want some device on your WiFi, then don't enter your WiFi password on the device.
I had this happen to 1 machine at work, and did this to fix it:
netsh winsock reset catalog (Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults)
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log (Reset IPv4 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults)
I had this happen to my machine, and did this to fix it:
ipconfig /renew
No idea if it relates to this specific issue, but a LOT of patches stem from vulnerabilities being discovered in otherwise stable code. Given that DHCP clients can affect who you go to for DNS resolution, for example, it has "potential security issues" written all over it.
I noticed just recently that my Windows 10 machine wasn't connecting to either the wired or wireless networks when I moved between home and office. IP addresses were defaulting to Microsoft's 169.254.0.0/16 range, as happens on Windows when DHCP attempt fails. Doing ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew would restore operation.
The problem seems to stem from "fast startup" being enabled under Control Panel -> Power Options -> Choose what the power buttons do. With this feature enabled, performing a shutdown doesn't really shutdown the computer, it basically just hibernates. I'm not terribly surprised that acquiring an IP address, hibernating the machine, then waking from hibernation on a different network might cause a networking issue, but for whatever reason this wasn't causing any problem until just recently.