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https://opensource.com/article/17/5/introduction-ext4-filesystem?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY The EXT4 filesystem primarily improves performance, reliability, and capacity. To improve reliability, metadata and journal checksums were added. To meet various mission-critical requirements, the filesystem timestamps were improved with the addition of intervals down to nanoseconds. The addition of two high-order bits in the timestamp field defers the Year 2038 problem until 2446—for EXT4 filesystems, at least. →

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3198249/computers/how-thunderbolt-3-won-the-port-wars.html  On Wednesday, Intel announced it will integrate Thunderbolt 3 into future CPUs. More importantly, the company said it would open up the long-secret protocol to the world, royalty-free. A world where one USB-C connector does it all—today, and for many years to come. https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunderbolt-3-everywhere/ →

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6433-digital-marketing-mistakes-to-avoid.html This article lists 5 mistakes. For this list I can add two common mistakes advertises do quite often: Buy advertisement on web site, get some users to click, but have incorrect URL on advertisement – users do not get forwarded to page you wanted them to go – money is spent on advertisement, no →

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4373882/Star-Wars-is-released–May-25–1977?utm_content=buffer50353&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Star Wars movie is now 40 years old. →

http://blog.sellfy.com/free-stock-images/ Looking for FREE high quality stock photo sites like? Here’s a list of the best ones. You can use all of these photos for commercial purposes too. And no attribution is required. Enjoy! →

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3197628/linux/fight-ransomware-by-running-windows-in-linux-as-a-virtual-machine.html Running Windows as a virtual machine in Linux may seems like unnecessary work until something like the Wannacry ransomware scare comes along.  Despite its headaches, desktop Linux rarely is the target of malware. (When it is, it can generally present a smaller attack surface.)  And if you need to run applications in Windows, run →

https://www.google.fi/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2017/05/24/microsoft-now-uses-git-and-gvfs-to-develop-windows/amp/ Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system.  →

https://workfutures.io/10-work-skills-for-the-postnormal-era-2c07a1009a25 World Economic Forum’s skills list is way out of date. We need new ways to think about — and talk about — this rapidly changing world. Deep generalists can ferret out the connections that build the complexity into complex systems, and grasp their interplay. In postnormal times creativity may paradoxically become normal: an everyone, everyday, everywhere, process. →

This article can be seen as continuation to my Powering microphones document and  PC microphone phantom powering improvements blog posting. Jon Blackstone said in comment: Tom – I’ve got a solution for this that’s very simple, and is working for me. I connect the ECM capsule (cheesy computer mic) directly to pins 2 and 3, →

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2392 Let’s look at those tried and true IoT projects that just keep on coming back (with good reason!) →