29DEC2020 – Editing frozen. I’m now working on pulling this together.
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Have a good weekend
Seems like so much around us sucks right now and I’ve nothing positive to report on.
So, I thought I would leave you this Friday with a video from 2012 that has resurfaced several times this year and I love it.
This is the band Heart doing Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven at the Kennedy Center Honors with Jason Bonham on the drums and John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant looking on…
*edit – Good friend Mr. Ed just sent me this:
Thursday News
Microsoft Flight Simulator is Fastest Growing Entry in the Series with Over 2 Million Players to Date
I keep saying I’m gonna buy this…
Facebook and Apple Are Sparring Over Ads, Privacy, and ‘the Free Internet’
Apple: Facebook doesn’t care about privacy.
World: Pot meet kettle.
Facebook: What they said. Wait…What?
Microsoft: Whew, they’re keeping us out of it.
Google: It’s because you’re irrelevant.
38 State Attorney’s General: You’re too relevant.
I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We’re Being Hacked.
“The magnitude of this ongoing attack is hard to overstate.
The Russians have had access to a considerable number of important and sensitive networks for six to nine months. The Russian S.V.R. will surely have used its access to further exploit and gain administrative control over the networks it considered priority targets. For those targets, the hackers will have long ago moved past their entry point, covered their tracks and gained what experts call “persistent access,” meaning the ability to infiltrate and control networks in a way that is hard to detect or remove.
While the Russians did not have the time to gain complete control over every network they hacked, they most certainly did gain it over hundreds of them. It will take years to know for certain which networks the Russians control and which ones they just occupy.“
Wednesday Random Stuff…
Firefox 84
Some security fixes and the last FF version to support Flash.
Download | Release Notes
Tails and Tor Browser updated too.
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 460.89 WHQL
Vulkan Ray Tracing for the Quake II RTX v1.4.0 update.
Download | Release Notes
Be careful this winter!
Yesterday was trash pickup day. I awoke with a headache, sat down with my coffee, and remembered I needed to haul the trash to the curb.
It had rained heavily the day before and temps were in the 20s. I headed out the door in a hurried haze and forgot the steps would be iced over.
It hurts but luckily I’m OK except for bruising. I provide this video as comic relief and a warning to please be careful out there this winter.
Best Cities for Beer Drinkers – 2020 Edition
“we compared 384 cities across the following metrics: total number of breweries, breweries per 100,000 residents, average number of beers per brewery, bars per 100,000 residents and the average price of a pint.”
The Windows 10 Pagefile And Running Without One
In 2011 I wrote The Windows 7 Pagefile And Running Without One. It’s been sourced, quoted, and held up as an example these several years. In reviewing possible changes to the upcoming Win10 Tweak Guide revision I decided to revisit this.
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Weekend News
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 460.79 WHQL
“This new Game Ready Driver provides the ultimate gaming experience for Cyberpunk 2077. In addition, this driver provides optimal day-1 support for the official launch of Minecraft with RTX for Windows 10.”
Download | Release Notes
Intel Graphics Windows 10 DCH Drivers
“Playability improvements to reduce stutter in Fortnite on 7th Generation Intel Core™ Processors and higher”
Download & Info
PowerToys v0.27.1
A few fixes.
Download & Info
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Updated
Download | Security Bulletin
Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested
“Amazon has a new health-tracking bracelet with a microphone and an app that tells you everything that’s wrong with you.
You haven’t exercised or slept enough, reports Amazon’s $65 Halo Band. Your body has too much fat, the Halo’s app shows in a 3-D rendering of your near-naked body.
And even: Your tone of voice is “overbearing” or “irritated,” the Halo determines, after listening through its tiny microphone on your wrist.”
I already have one of these. It’s called a wife.
Patch Tuesday
Windows Updates
Security updates only this month.
20H2 & 2004 – December 8, 2020—KB4592438 (OS Builds 19041.685 and 19042.685)
1909 & 1903 – December 8, 2020—KB4592449 (OS Builds 18362.1256 and 18363.1256)
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.12.1 Optional (WHQL)
Support For: Radeon RX 6900 Series, Cyberpunk 207, 5 other fixes, 11 known issues.
Download | Release Notes
Speaking of the RX 6900 series…
It’s a new release. MSRP is $1000. Nobody has it in stock.
Tom’s Hardware, “Impressive Mainstream Appeal“. Really, a card that MSRP’s at $1000 (U.S.) is mainstream?
Guru3D, “If you are less interested in what Raytracing and DLSS bring to the table, then the 6800/6900 XT with it’s 16GB graphics memory is a recommended choice over the $699 USD GeForce RTX 3080 and that expensive 1499 USD 3090 (not that you can purchase any atm).”
My Football Team Stinks
And it’s been a great season!
Win10 – Uninstall Apps Via PowerShell
Ongoing work on the next Win10 tweak guide.
I’m considering removing this method from the guide and linking to a separate how-to.
I very much need your input…
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My O&O ShutUp10 Settings – 03DEC2020 – Win10 20H2
Wednesday News
Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 87.0.4280.88 for Windows, Mac and Linux”
Bunch of fixes.
Download | Release info
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 457.51 WHQL
“Includes support for the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU”
Download | Release Notes
Intel Wireless Bluetooth for Windows 10
Download & Info