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Wednesday Afternoon
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(link) Wednesday, 31-January-2018 15:56:57 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Tonight there'll be a blue blood moon visible across Australia. What's that? A total lunar eclipse that occurs during the second full moon of the month. Should be pretty spectacular, weather permitting. Everyone across Australia will see the Earth's shadow glide across the Moon at exactly the same time over three hours starting from about 10:48pm (AEDT). Discussion here.
If you're a Ryzen user running Linux, you might want to know which distro is fastest, according to Phoronix. While we frequently do Linux OS/distribution performance comparisons on the latest Intel desktop and server hardware, some requests came in recently about looking closer at the fastest Linux distribution(s) when running on AMD's Ryzen desktop processors. Here are benchmarks of ten popular Linux distributions tested out-of-the-box on Ryzen 7 1800X and Threadripper 1950X systems.
If you're experiencing reboot issues since the Intel security patches came out, TechARP advise there is an emergency update from Microsoft to disable them. The patches, that is. Colloquially known as Spectre 2, it is more accurately known as Spectre Variant 2, Google Project Zero Variant 2 (GPZ Variant 2), or officially as CVE-2017-5715. After deploying the Spectre 2 patches in their new microcode updates, Intel started receiving reports of “higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behaviour“. Microsoft confirmed this, stating further that their “own experience is that system instability can in some circumstances cause data loss or corruption“. GamersNexus have an article to get you up to speed on the latest, a month after Meltdown & Spectre were announced.
There are some proposed changes to the .au domain name space. The independent self-regulatory body that oversees the operation and management framework of the .au domain issued a discussion paper on 25 January outlining the proposed reforms. The paper comes several months after auDA first issued a call to stakeholders for their views over the proposal to open up direct registration, which will allow .au domain holders an option to jettison ‘.com’ or equivalents if they choose. Along with direct registration, other proposals outlined in the paper include allowing internationalised domain by permitting the use of non-ASCII characters, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, or Chinese language characters – in .au domains.
Eurosport will be broadcasting the Winter Olympics in VR. Depending on your region, you will have various options to access VR content for the Olympics. For the most immersive content, you will need a VR Headset. But don’t worry, if you don’t have one, you can still enjoy content on your mobile phone. I'm not sure if there's a subscription fee or not but still, it's a cool use for the technology.
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