This Week I Learned - Week #260
This Week I Learned -
* Now you can backup Azure VMs with disk sizes up to 4TB(4095GB), both managed and unmanaged.
* The following two Linux distributions can be used to host the SAP HANA Platform on Azure:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications (SLES for SAP) releases 11 & 12
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA (based on RHEL7)
* "Deepfake" refers to an ultrarealistic fake video made with artificial intelligence software. Deepfakes are one of the newest forms of digital media manipulation, and one of the most obviously mischief-prone. FakeApp makes it free and relatively easy to create realistic face swaps and leave few traces of manipulation. FakeApp is a program that was built by an anonymous developer using open-source software written by Google..called TensorFlow, which was developed by Google's A.I. division and released to the public in 2015 - NY Times
* Roughly a third of American gun owners buy guns without a background check, which federal law does not require when buying directly from a private seller. Yemen has the second-highest gun ownership rate in the world, after the United States - NY Times
* The biggest problem in computer security is people
* Google Cloud is built as a comprehensive system with security automated wherever possible. That means a potential flaw is instantly fixed system wide. Code is repeatedly checked, and so is the system hardware, thanks to a proprietary chip. Encryption at rest and throughout the network is automatic.
* Gartner concluded that the security posture of major cloud providers is as good as or better than most enterprise data centers, and security should no longer be considered a primary inhibitor to the adoption of public cloud services
* The top twelve security threats in the cloud
* PowerShell scripts can be compiled as executables for distribution and use, but they are still scripts that are executing inside of that file and not a programming language of any kind. PowerShell’s number one purpose for DevOps, System Admins, and IT Pros is the automation of various administration tasks. Today, most Microsoft products and services have hooks in them that can be used with PowerShell. In addition, some OEMS like Cisco and VMWare are adding similar capabilities into services that enable the use of PowerShell for system management - ITProToday
* As one of the most wired countries in the world, Denmark offers hospital records, death certificates, tax returns and other important documents with little more than a couple of clicks. Even a divorce can be obtained in less than a week with only a short online form and a $60 fee. Denmark has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe - NY Times
* In the 1980s even the Ramakrishna Mission, which was under pressure from Bengal’s Communist government to reconstitute the governing bodies of some of the Mission-run colleges, claimed it was a non-Hindu minority institution and hence insulated from state interference under Article 30 of the Constitution. This article guarantees the rights of linguistic and religious minorities to establish and administer their educational institutions...only minority institutions are exempt from laws like the Right to Education Act, while majority institutions, even if set up entirely by private funds......the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), India’s richest temple, is run not by the majority community, free from state meddling, but state-appointed politicians. Between the six southern states, somewhere around 1,00,000 temples are directly administered by the state - The Times of India
* Ask yourself how each task on your TO DO list does or does not contribute to accomplishing your goals — your vision of success. For more complex projects, create a list of the critical success factors you will need to complete them and tackle them one at a time. Breaking a large undertaking into small, bite-sized tasks can help reduce overwhelm and the resistance that often goes along with that feeling - HBR
* Mexico produces more of the avocado "green gold" fruit than any country in the world about a third of the global total and most of its crop is grown in the rich volcanic soil of Michoacan, upland from the beaches of Acapulco. It is one of the miracles of modern trade that in 2017, Mexico's most violent year on record, this cartel-riddled state exported more than 1.7 billion pounds of Haas avocados to the United States, helping them surpass bananas as America's most valuable fruit import. Fueled by a growing Latino community and Hollywood stars promoting the health benefits of the fruit's unsaturated fats (Miley Cyrus has an avocado tattoo on her arm), America's avocado craze has intensified every year. Mexico was China's largest supplier of avocados until last year, when it was surpassed by Chile. (Peru is moving in quickly, too.) - NY Times
* At whatever age we are, we can choose to adapt to whatever happens. We have influence over whether we let things knock us out.
* A history of world GDP through 2 charts
Courtesy: The Economist
* Now you can backup Azure VMs with disk sizes up to 4TB(4095GB), both managed and unmanaged.
* The following two Linux distributions can be used to host the SAP HANA Platform on Azure:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications (SLES for SAP) releases 11 & 12
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA (based on RHEL7)
* "Deepfake" refers to an ultrarealistic fake video made with artificial intelligence software. Deepfakes are one of the newest forms of digital media manipulation, and one of the most obviously mischief-prone. FakeApp makes it free and relatively easy to create realistic face swaps and leave few traces of manipulation. FakeApp is a program that was built by an anonymous developer using open-source software written by Google..called TensorFlow, which was developed by Google's A.I. division and released to the public in 2015 - NY Times
* Roughly a third of American gun owners buy guns without a background check, which federal law does not require when buying directly from a private seller. Yemen has the second-highest gun ownership rate in the world, after the United States - NY Times
* The biggest problem in computer security is people
* Google Cloud is built as a comprehensive system with security automated wherever possible. That means a potential flaw is instantly fixed system wide. Code is repeatedly checked, and so is the system hardware, thanks to a proprietary chip. Encryption at rest and throughout the network is automatic.
* Gartner concluded that the security posture of major cloud providers is as good as or better than most enterprise data centers, and security should no longer be considered a primary inhibitor to the adoption of public cloud services
* The top twelve security threats in the cloud
* PowerShell scripts can be compiled as executables for distribution and use, but they are still scripts that are executing inside of that file and not a programming language of any kind. PowerShell’s number one purpose for DevOps, System Admins, and IT Pros is the automation of various administration tasks. Today, most Microsoft products and services have hooks in them that can be used with PowerShell. In addition, some OEMS like Cisco and VMWare are adding similar capabilities into services that enable the use of PowerShell for system management - ITProToday
* As one of the most wired countries in the world, Denmark offers hospital records, death certificates, tax returns and other important documents with little more than a couple of clicks. Even a divorce can be obtained in less than a week with only a short online form and a $60 fee. Denmark has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe - NY Times
* In the 1980s even the Ramakrishna Mission, which was under pressure from Bengal’s Communist government to reconstitute the governing bodies of some of the Mission-run colleges, claimed it was a non-Hindu minority institution and hence insulated from state interference under Article 30 of the Constitution. This article guarantees the rights of linguistic and religious minorities to establish and administer their educational institutions...only minority institutions are exempt from laws like the Right to Education Act, while majority institutions, even if set up entirely by private funds......the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), India’s richest temple, is run not by the majority community, free from state meddling, but state-appointed politicians. Between the six southern states, somewhere around 1,00,000 temples are directly administered by the state - The Times of India
* Ask yourself how each task on your TO DO list does or does not contribute to accomplishing your goals — your vision of success. For more complex projects, create a list of the critical success factors you will need to complete them and tackle them one at a time. Breaking a large undertaking into small, bite-sized tasks can help reduce overwhelm and the resistance that often goes along with that feeling - HBR
* Mexico produces more of the avocado "green gold" fruit than any country in the world about a third of the global total and most of its crop is grown in the rich volcanic soil of Michoacan, upland from the beaches of Acapulco. It is one of the miracles of modern trade that in 2017, Mexico's most violent year on record, this cartel-riddled state exported more than 1.7 billion pounds of Haas avocados to the United States, helping them surpass bananas as America's most valuable fruit import. Fueled by a growing Latino community and Hollywood stars promoting the health benefits of the fruit's unsaturated fats (Miley Cyrus has an avocado tattoo on her arm), America's avocado craze has intensified every year. Mexico was China's largest supplier of avocados until last year, when it was surpassed by Chile. (Peru is moving in quickly, too.) - NY Times
* At whatever age we are, we can choose to adapt to whatever happens. We have influence over whether we let things knock us out.
* A history of world GDP through 2 charts
Courtesy: Visual Capitalist
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