today's leftovers
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Fifth successive quarter of falling shipments for tablets, Chromebooks
Tablet shipments fell by 8.8% year-on-year in the third quarter, coming in at 38.6 million units, making this the fifth successive drop, the technology analyst company IDC says.
Chromebooks followed a similar trajectory, shipping 4.3 million units, a decline of 34.4% year-on-year, and making this the fifth straight quarter of decreasing shipments.
IDC said Chinese vendors were able to perform well in emerging markets where there was demand for low-end devices. Additionally, sanctions on many vendors enabled Huawei to sell well in the Russian market.
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Fax machines to finally disappear under proposed Ofcom rule changes
Ofcom has proposed rule changes that mean BT and Hull telecoms operator KCOM will no longer be required to provide dedicated landlines for fax services at affordable prices.
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HTTP Workshop 2022 - day 1 | daniel.haxx.se
The fifth HTTP Workshop is a three day event that takes place in Oxford, UK. I’m happy to say that I am attending this one as well, as I have all the previous occasions. This is now more than seven years since the first one.
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All the people gather in the same room. A person talks briefly on a specific topic and then we have a free-form discussion about it. When I write this, the slides from today’s presentations have not yet been made available so I cannot link them here. I will add those later.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – October 2022 Updates - LinuxLinks
Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. For October, we have focused almost entirely on expanding our recommendations for coding and web apps. A huge pat on the back to Eilidih Parris for her sterling work and dedication.
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Sparky news 2022/10 – SparkyLinux
The 10th monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022: – Linux kernel updated up to 6.0.6 & 5.15.76-LTS & 4.9.331-LTS49 – Common Desktop Environment (CDE) updated up to version 2.5.1 for Sparky 6+7 amd64+i386 – Sparky 2022.10, 2022.10 Special Editions and 2022.10-1 and 2022.10-2 LXQt released – Cartillo started translating Sparky Wiki pages to Spanish; thanks a lot!
The LXQt 2022.10 and 2022.10-1 iso images of the rolling line features LXQt 1.1.0 from the Sparky ‘extra’ repos, but it is not compatible with present Qt libs in Debian testing repos. You can remove the ‘extra’ repos and downgrade all LXQt related packages (see Sparky forums for details https://forum.sparkylinux.org/index.php/topic,6177.msg16986.html) or make fresh installation using Sparky 2022.10-2 LXQt iso. And, the Sparky ‘extra’ repos have been deleted now.
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upgrading PHP 7.4 to PHP 8 on FreeBSD
Like PHP. PHP is very much the real world. My site has been running PHP 7.4 for a while, which goes end of life on 28 November. I put this off as long as possible, but it’s time to update.
I run my e-bookstore on Woocommerce, which is built on WordPress, which is built on PHP. What started as a silly experiment has become the center of my business. I need to minimize downtime, which means I must check everything before upgrading. It’s PHP, which means it’s a maze of twisty little modules that all look alike. PHP has this annoying habit of adding, removing, splitting, and changing modules. Running PHP applications on FreeBSD is all about finding the module your application needs, so I want to identify all possible problems before changing.
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How a Redditor Ended Up With an Industrial-Grade Netflix Server
Dave Temkin, Netflix’s former Vice President of Network Systems Infrastructure told Motherboard there’s nothing too mysterious about what the servers can do, though they significantly help improve video streaming by shortening overall content transit time.
“They’re just an Intel FreeBSD box,” he said. “We got Linux running on some of the generations of that box as well.”
Netflix’s Open Connect Content Delivery Network hardware caches popular Netflix content to reduce overall strain across broadband networks. Netflix lets major broadband ISPs embed a CDN server on the ISP network for free; the shorter transit time then helps improve video delivery, of benefit to broadband providers and Netflix alike.
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Cloud infrastructure services spend grows at slowest rate in 3Q 2022 [Ed: The clown computing bubble is imploding and Microsoft fakes its share by simple re-branding all sorts of things "Azure" (Azure is a division of layoffs, basically a failure covered up with media deceit)]
Expenditure on cloud infrastructure services increased by 28% year-on-year globally during the third quarter to reach US$63.1 billion, the first time the rate has fallen below 30%, the technology analyst firm Canalys reports.
The low rate of growth was attributed to high inflation, rising energy prices and the strong US dollar, with Canalys saying companies had responded to the uncertainty by cutting down on spending.
This, it added, could have an effect on demand for cloud services in the near term.