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It seems the Navy Secretary who fired the Captain has resigned (more likely forced to quit) over the handling of the incident. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/acting-navy-secretary-resigns-after-ousting-captain-calling-him-stupid/

Not surprising naval ships are being hit hard: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/politics/coronavirus-aircraft-carrier-theodore-roosevelt.html But note: I didn't see it mentioned in the above NYTime article, is that the Captain of the Carrier was relieved from command...

The Australian government is now publishing summarised data: https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-current-situation-and-case-numbers The number of reported new cases per day is now dropping, however, I can't find the daily...

Sorry, NBC = Nuclear Biological Chemical. Typically used to denote an operating state in which 1 or more of the elements are present on the battlefield or in the local environment. Some of the chemical weapons developed are pretty scary, especially what's called "blood agents". (In short Blood...

Interesting article on effectiveness of face masks... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/should-you-wear-a-face-mask-heres-all-the-data-we-have/ In short, most cloth/paper masks are useless, unless designed for a N95 rating, or for medical use (eg face masks warn by dentists). But...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15687/intel-details-10th-gen-comet-lake-h-for-45-w-notebooks-up-to-53-ghz In short, while these CPUs can reach 5.3GHz, the power supply and cooling solutions on most (if not all laptops) is grossly inadequate... I only mention this here, as time recently had...

US Testing rates are stalling... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/americas-covid-19-testing-has-stalled-and-thats-a-big-problem/ PS. It's hard to confirm sources in the article, but Ars tends to be fairly well researched in past articles...

This made me laugh...

Saw this posted on the Stargate SG-1 subreddit... (It's from an episode where the International community is advised on the existence of the Stargate program).

Unfortunately, all sides of politics are just as bad as each other... Gone are the days of listening to experts in the field of question and coming to bipartisan agreement, to doing the opposite of the other party is doing just to say they are different or simply for point scoring. And this is...

As Australia is implementing lock-down procedures, hundreds of thousands have been left without jobs in the space of less than a week... So much so, that the Centrelink website (Centrelink = Social Services) where people can register online for unemployment benefits went offline due to load...

Australia has now closed pubs, clubs are other places of gathering in order to enforce social distancing rules... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51992357 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/australia-coronavirus-shutdown-what-is-open-closed-places-scott-morrison PS. Bottle...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-19/coronavirus-why-is-australia-keeping-schools-open/12070702 Another item to note, is that the Australian Government is treating this (coronavirus pandemic) as a medium term issue (6-9 months), and don't want school kids to lose 6+ months of their education...

Interesting read on ArsTechnica... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/the-doctor-who-helped-defeat-smallpox-explains-whats-coming/

Vcore is used by the memory controller in the CPU, does it not?

Certainly sounds like a bad memory controller on the CPU, or a bad motherboard (power delivery or DIMM related). Glad to see the Vcore adjustment appears to be working.

I had a flu about 3 weeks ago, and still have a dry cough from it... The looks on people faces when I cough, sometimes is surprising... (The last few flu's I've had, whilst over the initial virus in under a week, tend to have a dry cough for 4-5 weeks following)... Note: As some of you are...

Maybe it's a mentality of "it won't happen to me"... Or they don't think of or care about the consequences of their actions (something many young people seem to go through at some point in their lives).

Granted, if you're only paying $3K pa, then yes, it's going to take 15+yrs to pay off... And probably cripple some... (eg pretty hard to get a home loan, if you owe the government $40K+, but then again if you can't afford to repay your HECS debt, should you be getting a home loan in the first...

Re: Tertiary Education and loans. To give a different perspective, in Australia loans for Tertiary Education is managed by the Taxation department, (repayments are managed as part of your annual tax), were payments are deducted as part of your paycheck based on income over the year (if you so...

Your DIMMs are dual rank: https://www.pic-upload.de/view-33001480/F4-3200C16D-32GVK.jpg.html And if you look at ASRock's page for a similar board: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570 Taichi/#Specification Under DIMMs, 4x Dual Rank DIMMs is limited to DDR4-2666... (I don't know why Gigabyte...

Out of interest, I can't see to find any numbers from DPRK (North Korea)?

Sucky, but out interest have you confirmed your DIMM Rank setup? I've found that some boards will dictate that for all DIMMs to be populated, that only SR (single rank) DIMMs should be used? (Just double check the DIMMs, their rank and what the motherboard says is supported for your CPU). It's...

I can understand the spec being used in something an Inwin Chopin style case, where you only have the CPU, motherboard, some RAM and an M.2 device attached, but for general DIY builds, it may gain the same amount of traction as the BTX motherboard spec... In some scenarios, it makes a lot of...

In short, the new spec offers only 12V, and if 3.3V or 5V rails are needed, the motherboard is to supply them. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3518831/how-intels-changing-the-future-of-power-supplies-with-its-atx12vo-spec.html...

ArsTechnica have written a summary on it: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/

Looks like most large conferences this year will see cancellation or severe reduction in attendance. I wonder what's going to happen to more local events, like the ComicCons, TrekCons, etc? Will the lack of attendance kill the companies that host these events?

LTT on buying now vs tomorrow...

I don't know what pricing is like in the US, but here it's possible to get a 4L Tawny Port for under AU$20 (1 Gallon for ~$US13), some (non-drinkable) wines are even cheaper (750ml bottle for AU$3.50 when on a sale). Home brew kit ingredients (about AU$20-AU$25 depending on what your brewing)...

Sounds like it might be easier to distill or brew your own for all that effort. (wine/spirits/beer isn't that hard to make yourself).

FYI, json files are plain text, so you open them with your favorite text editor, eg notepad++.

Looks like some analysts are worried about this as well... https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/23/investing/stocks-week-ahead/index.html

It's starting to look like the US reaction is to look like they are doing something, while doing nothing at all... Does the CDC not already have policy/plans for this sort of issue? I would hope that they do?

I agree, but it's certainly a non-obvious solution to what should be a default and easily accessible option.

Yet the CDC is saying Americans should prepare for it? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1142556

Is Microsoft losing the plot, or is this just another push towards Windows being PaaS on your own infrastructure? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-wants-to-do-away-with-windows-10-local-accounts/

It's because he was the last "IT nerd" to touch it (even though that was years ago), the failure is his fault, and he now has to fix it... (lots of sarcasm). My guess, family member or close relative.

My guess would be 14.04LTS...

Sorry for the short reply, was in a rush... Anyway, it's most likely a corrupt initrd image or filesystem. If it's a corrupt initrd, simply selecting one of the kernel versions (eg 3.3.13-032) should get the system booting... If it doesn't then you've got a corrupt filesystem. In that case...

The very first screen shot indicates either a corrupt initrd or corrupt primary filesystem... (... filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init ).

Going off on a side topic, with mail/package restrictions out of China now in force (for most countries), how long do we think prices for goods at the local stores will remain as they are? (As stock can't be replenished for goods made in China, what is pricing going to be like in 1-3-6 months)...

Both ESXi and KVM/QEMU support USB pass through (as does VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox on the desktop), but unfortunately there are times when you don't get to choose the hypervisor being used... (eg customer uses HyperV on all their VM servers)... It took me by surprise since most (if not...

One one to make VMs suck less... Support USB pass-through... Note: Hyper-V (even on Server 2019) doesn't support USB pass through, instead you need to rely on an USB over IP solution... :mad:

If the controller supports NVMe, then it should support 4Kn.... I did find Intel noting support for 4Kn on their RAID controllers on the latest chipset and firmware, but... However, I'm not aware of any SATA based SSDs that are 4Kn (all the ones I have in the office are 512e).

I would be very surprised if the disk controller didn't support 4kn drives in AHCI mode... As for RAID mode, I don't even think the Intel RAID drivers support 4kn drives in RAID mode. (At least all drives would have to be the same as a minimum, eg no mixing 512 / 512e / 4kn drives, for it to...

OK, There so there are two issues here: 1. Ability to update the contents of the card from a file (increase the balance). 2. Limited write cycle on the current card. I'll attempt to address both separately: Ability to update the contents of the card from a file. This one is pretty easy to...

This (assuming you can get that level of access to the card), or look at another card with higher write cycle limits. FYI: The Feitian smartcards we use at work have 500K+ write cycle endurance...(and these are the cheap ones). https://www.ftsafe.com/Products/PKI/Standard/Specification

For the morbid: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The WHO has declared a Global Health Emergency in regards to the Wuhan Coronavirus as it continues to spread. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/01/who-declares-global-health-emergency-as-wuhan-coronavirus-continues-to-spread/ PS. WHO = World Health Organization.

And I suspect that's why certain authorities are really worried... Is it a case that people in typically what's considered a low risk group are also dying as well? It's just not people in the typical high-risk groups (very young, elderly, immuno compromised, etc).