fighting the lack of good ideas
In e99 of Exponent, Ben Thompson makes a compelling case for his idea that Amazon Echo (Alexa) is an operating system – and that Amazon has beaten Apple (with Siri) and Google Home (with Assistant) at the very game they both try to play. And I think he’s onto the start of something (he goes…
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I came across pi-hole recently – an ad blocker and DNS service that you can run on a Raspberry Pi in Raspian (or any Debian or Ubuntu (ie Debian-like)) system. Using pi-hole should obviate the need for running ad-blockers in your browser (so long as you’re on a network that is running DNS queries through pi-hole)….
Given the ridiculous popularity of Facebook, their huge datacenter investments, super-resilient computing models, etc, I’m very surprised they haven’t gotten into the cloud computing business like Amazon’s AWS, Google’s Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, etc.
For a variety of reasons related to package versions and support contracts, I was unable to use the Red Hat built KVM image of RHEL 7.2 for a recent project. (The saga of that is worthy of its own post – and maybe I’ll write it at some point. But not today.) First thing I…
Thanks, Apple. About time someone did this! We can now charge a laptop from either side. Like should have been possible for decades. Reference – Do any laptops exist with multiple power connectors?
I want to backup all of the MySQL databases on my server on a routine basis. As I started asking how to get a list of all databases in MySQL on Stack Overflow, I came across this previous SO question, entitled, “Drop All Databases in MySQL” (the best answer for which, in turn, republished the…
Starting from a tutorial I found recently, I want to share how to change your default font in Windows 10 – but in a shorter edition than that long one (and in, I think, a less-confusing way). Back in the Good Ole Daysâ„¢, you could easily change system font preferences by right-clicking on your desktop,…