industryterm:remote server

Why Google has an edge over #cloud #gaming?
▻https://hackernoon.com/why-google-has-an-edge-over-cloud-gaming-56886ee0440f?source=rss----3a81

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Photo by Mike Meyers on UnsplashThe gaming industry is one which is growing at an unprecedented rate each year. The technological advancements that have taken gaming to a whole another level, also pushes different competitors to keep coming up with new concepts to blow teenage minds. Gone are the simpler days of Vice City or Counter Strike, the market is alight today with buzzwords like Cloud Gaming. Win or lose, you keep coming back for more.When we talk about cloud gaming, we observe a delightful shift in the traditional requirements for hardcore gaming. There is no need for expensive gaming hardware or powerful graphics cards anymore; cloud gaming lets you play a game controlled by a remote server which does all the heavy work for you. All your PC is expected to do is to simply (...)

#xbox #google-stadia #playstation

These Videos of Mycroft, the Open-Source Alexa, Are Just Too Funny
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/mycroft-the-open-source-alexa-fail

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As an intended open-source alternative to Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Home, the humble Mycroft AI has an awful lot of hype to live up to. Can this plastic ET, which was initially built around a Raspberry Pi and Arduino board and hooked up to a remote server running in a datacenter somewhere temperate, deliver […] This post, These Videos of Mycroft, the Open-Source Alexa, Are Just Too Funny, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

leadfoot
▻https://www.npmjs.com/package/leadfoot#star

Unlike existing WebDriver client libraries that assume the remote server will just do the Right Thing, Leadfoot detects and works around inconsistencies in WebDriver server implementations, so you can just worry about making your tests work—not bugs in WebDriver servers.

Enhanced capabilities are also exposed to end-users about which features and APIs a remote environment supports, so you don’t have to browser sniff to decide whether (for example) you’re testing a touch-device or a mouse-device. Optional convenience methods are also available for use, and support for chai-as-promised is built in.

Git Large File Storage
▻https://git-lfs.github.com

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#Git Large File Storage (#LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.

NCurses Disk Usage
►http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

Sur un serveur pour voir rapidement là où il faut faire de la place. Attention la touche d fait un « rm -rf » (je l’utilise que pour naviguer personnelement.

Not quite happy with the available disk usage analyzers and looking for a fun project to get used to C programming, I started working on ncdu: A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface, aimed to be run on a remote server where you don’t have an entire gaphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection. ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

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#unix #tools