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by jburgess777 9y ago
This matches what has been said about the planned rollout of 5G in the UK: more use of higher frequency bands and cells sites possibly sited at every road junction (intersection). The impact of land topology is seen as so important that the
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by jburgess777 9y ago
LTE Advanced already supports a feature called carrier aggregation where your phone can transfer data on multiple different frequencies at the same time to boost its aggregate throughput: http://www.3gpp.org/technologies&#x2
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by jburgess777 9y ago
This website has useful information about the Tinker board and links to some alternative software distributions: https://tinkerboarding.co.uk/
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by jburgess777 9y ago
The Guardian did a report a few years ago about some of the multi-million pound properties in London which have been left empty and derelict for years: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/insi
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by jburgess777 9y ago
I know for a fact that an amateur cyclist in the UK was banned for 2 years for testing positive for EPO after taking part in a race. I believe he had been deliberately targeted for testing because of suspicions about his performance. The ra
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by jburgess777 9y ago
Even on Linux things don't always work as intended. The reason I am familiar with the EDID information is that my display stopped working after a kernel update and I tried to figure out why. It turned out that my AV receiver didn'
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by jburgess777 9y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of the I2C clock stretching bug[1]? Bugs like these are not unusual in embedded systems. It is often difficult to fix the hardware and the software will implement some kind of workaround. The web page lists several
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by jburgess777 9y ago
Yes, plugging the monitor into a Linux box would have be easier. In my case the edid is exposed under /sys, and edid-decode is from the xorg-x11-utils Fedora package $ edid-decode < /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:0
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by jburgess777 9y ago
You might want to try digiKam[1], it has a fuzzy search feature for finding similar images[2]. 1: https://www.digikam.org/ 2: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/us.
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by jburgess777 9y ago
Gigabyte have a range of small form factor machines they call BRIX. There are lots of models covering a wide performance range. There are a few which are fanless and might meet your power target but they don't state an obvious maximum
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by jburgess777 9y ago
A long time ago, a bug in Firefox let a screenshot be taken of data outside the browser window: "This issue allows attackers to capture screen shots of private or confidential information" https://blog.mozilla.org/
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by jburgess777 9y ago
VKD3D Is Beginning Flight As Wine's Direct3D 12 To Vulkan Library https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VKD3D-Ta...
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by jburgess777 9y ago
I think the assumption today is that is easy to boot from some alternative media (usb/cdrom/pxe) into what used to be called a "live cd" (like Knoppix). Once there you can mount your existing partitions and attempt to fi
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by jburgess777 9y ago
sln is on the way out too... https://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg241326.html
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by jburgess777 9y ago
This Amazon listing wants £295 for a ZX81 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Sinclair-ZX81-Spectrum-Pro... Or this TRS80 for £500 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Radio-Shack-TRS-80-MODEL-100-PORT... Of cours
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by jburgess777 9y ago
The current resale prices of some 8 bit micros from the 1980s sometimes match or exceed the original sale price. Not a good investment if you bought new but I imagine that many HN readers might be kicking themselves about things they threw
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by jburgess777 9y ago
That projects site seems to give a particularly pessimistic view. I looked at the 'traffic server' project[1] (a web cache) and it says the last release was in 2012, but the real project website[2] shows there has been a steady st
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by jburgess777 9y ago
Something like this is already supported by the GDB "remote" protocol: https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Remote-Protocol.ht... In your program you would probably need to link in some code to
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by jburgess777 9y ago
There was a special US variant of the BBC Model B but not many were sold: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/33658/US-BBC-Micro-(U... http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/B
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by jburgess777 9y ago
The plan is for the LEDE and OpenWRT projects to "remerge" but the implementation is taking some time: https://lwn.net/Articles/722135/ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-adm&
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Imagination Technologies agrees £550m sale to Canyon Bridge(ft.com)
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Some interesting products appear on CNXSoft: https://www.cnx-software.com/
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by jburgess777 9y ago
New Egg are listing the Intel Core i9-7900X at $999 In some previous Phoronix results the "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation" on the link below show this Intel part at 38s vs ThreadRipper 1950x at 45s. I don't know what changed
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by jburgess777 9y ago
There are several examples where the US has successfully extradited people from the UK on charges related to financial crimes: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/british-trad... https:&#x2F
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by jburgess777 9y ago
> Today, it would be at best extremely difficult to (profitably) run a web site targeting the same audience. This makes me think of https://lwn.net/ If I remember correctly, the site has struggled to keep going at times
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by jburgess777 9y ago
This looks a lot like the old boot.kernel.org (BKO) site which was taken down a while ago. I don't remember why it was taken down but you can still find some references to it, e.g. https://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-
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by jburgess777 9y ago
Imagination purchased MIPS Technologies 4 years ago for $100M so I think they have the rights to use the MIPS trademark. https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/acquisition-of-mip...
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by jburgess777 9y ago
I have used Fedora + KDE for the past 5 years. Yes there are occasional issues but they are normally common to all distros which happen to use the same combination of components. For me, I ran into a regression with compositing: https:&#x2
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by jburgess777 9y ago
UK Power networks recently completed a 2 year trial of a 6MW/10MWh battery system which was installed as an alternative to adding a 3rd circuit to meet future peak demand of a town. At the end of the trial they produced a projected bus
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by jburgess777 9y ago
I think you underestimate current C compilers. GCC with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 successfully detect a buffer overflow at runtime when doing: strcpy(((struct Data *)data.next)->name, string_pointer) If the compiler knows the size of the input

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