jebr224

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by jebr224 3y ago
It is complicated. AMI sells a bmc software stack, https://www.ami.com/megarac/ Intel and small manufacturer were unhappy, about always paying the ami tax. So intel created openbmc, as a hedge against ami's monop
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by jebr224 3y ago
Kermit is still used in the embedded space, on modern platforms specifically for uboot. zmodem can also be used in embedded spaces to retrieve files if the only interface is a serial port.
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by jebr224 3y ago
You logic is sound ... maybe too sound. Have AI already taken over HK comments.
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by jebr224 4y ago
Presumably, they were measuring the level of coal (or other material) in a tank. Look up "ohmart radioactive level transmitter". It looks as if this type of device is still sold today.
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by jebr224 4y ago
> Are you designing a motherboard? Yes, the team I work for designs server motherboards. BMC security is what keeps me up at night. Firmware software quality is low, and often not up to date. I think openbmc does a good job in both respe
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by jebr224 4y ago
There are two standards for pluggable BMC's - runbmc (https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-runbmc-daughterboard-card-design-specification-v1-4-1-pdf) - DC-SCM https://www.opencompute.org/d
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by jebr224 4y ago
I do development on openbmc ( https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc ) which is an open source bmc implantation using bitbake, primarily targeted to aspeed, and nuvoton bmc chips.
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by jebr224 4y ago
2) Consulting makes sense, companies are less likely to hire in a downturn (because they want to avoid increasing ongoing cost). However,is still work to be done, and timelines to be made. A "one time" expense is easier to justify
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by jebr224 4y ago
I would enjoy real world (apples to apples) comparison of the cost of cloud vs self hosting. There are many speculations and approximates, but some hard facts would go along way.
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by jebr224 4y ago
My freshman year I was aiming to enter the engineering program, so I could be a petroleum engineer, for the reasons above. I took an intro CS, and that changed everything.
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by jebr224 5y ago
same, It comes of as smug or some desire to prove he smarter, rather then genuinely trying to educate. The videos are of educational, high quality, and the content is accurate. But the presentation is not for me.