MC2 is BackUP: January 2018

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Wednesdays Is This Week In Google

Link: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

A New More Modern Substitute for OpenVPN on FLOSS Weekly

A Substitute for OpenVPN on FLOSS Weekly

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Link: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/468?autostart=false

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Host:

Dan LYNCH (sub for Randall)

Co-Host Jonathan BENNETT

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Guest

Jason A. DONENFLED

Wireguard

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Monday, January 29, 2018

The Rage of the Assistants Watch your Words...

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Sunday, January 28, 2018

The Books of George SMILEY

The series of Books of George SMILEY

Source Link: https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/john-le-carre/

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Friday, January 26, 2018

PCPers Building THE Plex Server With AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X

pcperspectives PLEX SERVER Build

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Building A Kick-Ass Plex Server With AMD Ryzen

Threadripper 1950X

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Link: https://www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/Building-Our-Kick-Ass-Plex-Server-AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-1950X

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Bitcoin Is Causing a Spike in Gaming GPU's and Memory

Gaming Graphic Cards Are Costing Way Too Much

Why ????

BitCoin

Go to TekThing for the Story

Link: https://www.tekthing.com/

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The Intel Hack that Keeps on GIVING Headaches

The "Hot Mess Problem" of Meltdown and Spectre

The Latest from Intel

Don't Apply the Patch...

This Goes for Apple Too!

And a couple of Older Models

as Well....

For All the Sad News

Go to the Latest Episode

of This Week in Computer Hardware.

Link: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-computer-hardware/episodes/450?autostart=false

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Saturday, January 20, 2018

And it all comes down to This

SUNDAY JAN 20, 2018

In college basketball, it would be, so

"Who is going to the Big Dance?"

But This is The SUPER BOWL!

And no, Superman will not be making an appearance.

And as for the "Dance", the

"I Can't Do Anything Right Two-Step"

IS Taking Place.

In Washington.

It's called:

"Another Government ShutDown."

"Is This Anyway to Run the Country???"

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Reading Middlemarch has me thinking about the Victorian Age

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5 Things Victorian Women Didn’t Do (Much)

BY ELIZABETH DUNN // APRIL 2, 2013

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Link: http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/5-things-victorian-women-didnt-do-much

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Friday, January 12, 2018

CES: The Year of the PA

The Daily Clean-Up

after CES

The Year of the PA

by E. M. Lopez

It's Sit and Sip time in my Oasis. And as the morning sun rises in the east for the beginning another day in the High Desert.

On the TV to my left runs a screen savor program from Apple.

And it's showing the morning panorama of San Francisco's west coast “canyons' of tall buildings.

Just over the border in Las Vegas Nevada, I'm sure the clean-up is taking place following the yearly massive event called CES,

which no longer just means Computer or Consumer Electronics Show.

But Everything with even the slightest bit of electrical do-dads inside them.

The big take-away this year was the Personal Assistant, and the Giant Leap from Google to overtake the incredible lead Amazon had in this space.

If you snooze you lose, and Google woke up with a vengeance
with the most Google Assistant Partners in that space.

Apple's Siri was quiet for the most part but it was Window's Cortana
that was the biggest loser in this Personal Assistant Leaders Race.

And one would almost think that Cortana had stopped running.

Windows, of course, claims it isn't so.

I guess Their Tortoise is Just Resting.

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Monday, January 8, 2018

Understanding the Problems of MELTDOWN and SPECTRE

From Leo Laporte's

THIS WEEK IN TECH

The First 30 plus minutes Explain the Problems

Regarding Our SECURITY

The Problems stems from a technique used to speed up Processors with

something called LOOK AHEAD CACHE

which has been Done for over 20 Years...

Wingman.

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The following TWIT Program will help Explain the Issues Involved.

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Link: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/648?autostart=false

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A Patch for your System WILL HELP

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But on Windows, If you are Running Anit-Virius software,

It May BLOCK YOUR PATCH

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Leo Warns Don't Use Third Party ANTI_VIRUS Programs

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Mike ELGAN

Amy WEBB

Micah SARGENT

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2018 International CES began at 10:00 AM on

Tuesday, January 9

and ends on

Friday, January 12

All times are in Pacific Time.

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