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From an outsider, it certainly appears that he is filling positions based on loyalty to himself (or his family), rather than based on qualification or expertise in the field.

Thanks for the suggestions, and had a look at those options. Both of those look really good, but decided to stick with Thunderbird as it what my wife has and is used to, so at least she can help the kids if they get stuck with something. Thunderbird (current ESR) comes with all the support for...

Hi all, Just like to find out what email clients people are using/recommending these days. With Microsoft updating Windows 11 users to the ”new” outlook, which is imho is an extremely poor replacement for the older Mail app, need to migrate the kids systems to something better. My wife uses...

And one final take, with his age and health conditions, what is the likelihood that he is replaced by Vance just after the mid-point in his term? A few key points: If the first two years are bad, the GOP can blame Trump when he is ousted. If the VP becomes President with less than 2 years left...

Interesting take on the person.

I guess at this stage in the game, how many seasoned and long term politicians want anything to do with the president-elect, knowing that they'll outlive him and understand the transactional nature of dealing with him (you're only in his good books while you are useful to his cause). I can only...

Iraqi government is looking to set the age of consent for girls to 9 years old. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/back-to-medieval-times-iraqi-men-can-marry-children-as-young-as-9-government-lowers-the-age-of-consent-for-girls/articleshow/115118570.cms?from=mdr I guess...

I had no issues with XP x64, since the underlying hardware was all fairly stock standard, eg, the AMD-8000 series chipset, Adaptec U320 SCSI RAID, ATI 9600XT (replaced with the NV FX5600). My printer at the time supported PCL natively, so just used one of the generic HP PCL drivers. I run XP...

The Tekram i430TX motherboard I had certainly had the PIIX4 southbridge, as I could get UDMA33 working under Linux just fine, but the NT4 driver had an issue when attempting to enable UDMA33 with some Seagate drives (like the one I had), so under Linux I had UDMA33, but under NT4 I had to use...

Back in the day, I had my P233MMX running at 266MHz with no issues, and was able to get it to 300MHz with a beefier HSF. This was on a Tekram i430TX motherboard with 256MB RAM (SDRAM) installed. When I sold it, it had an SB Live! for audio, Matrox Mystique 220 graphics card, 2x Creative Voodoo...

If you believe the rumours, preproduction silicon is available to ODMs with initial drivers being ready. However, based on Intels financial status there are some concerns that it'll be effective dead on arrival, that it's released but with very little to no support as Intel will EOL it just...

Not that I'm aware of. Some telemetry is present on both macOS and GNU/Linux systems, but these are typically opt-in and generally limited to things like crash reports or package installation (eg popcorn on Debian, or your use of the AppStore on macOS and so on). If anyone has concrete...

IIRC Primarily lack of TPM on 7th gen era systems, so I would assume they just decided to make it easier on the consumer to rule out 7th gen CPUs as well despite there being no technical reason on the cpu side... I've had a look to see if any new CPU extensions were added in 8th gen Intel, and...

I had only played the original XCOM back in the day, and had XCOM2 on my Wishlist for a while as I was aware it does come on sale occasionally, So far only 5 missions deep in XCOM2 but really enjoying it.

XCOM 2 currently on sale for 95% off, also available as a DLC bundle for 94% off. https://store.steampowered.com/app/268500/XCOM_2/

Yeah, you can unlock when retrieved, so no issues there. The thing is, the remote lock and wipe, is specifically designed to make the device e-waste to make them less desirable to be stolen. But as we have seen, people are dumb and only see the potential value in something. If you read the...

Also something to consider is the security options available on the device. Does android support something akin to "Find My", and the ability to remote brick the device. (if the device is lost / stolen) How long does it take for someone to acquire data off the device with out the users...

Typically 5+ years after last sale of the device. The iPhone XS/XR (removed from sale 5 years ago), will be getting iOS 18 (to be released shortly). The prior iPhone X, shipped with iOS 11, and stopped at iOS 16, and the last patch for iOS 16 was just over a month ago. The prior iPhone 8...

PSA: After 27 years, AnandTech is closing... https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

Nvidia just displaced Microsoft as the 1st most valuable company (based on Mkt Cap). Nvidia - 3.335T Microsoft - 3.317T Apple - 3.286T Nvidia (based on Mkt Cap) is now the worlds most valuable company... As they say, when there's a gold rush, be the one selling the shovels, not the one...

Anyone playing/played "The Long Dark" ? Just started and so far it's interesting and frustrating at the same time.

For a few companies, yes, the majority, no.

Played "Firewatch" recently, really well worth the few hours of gameplay time. (I got it on sale).

Nvidia just displaced Apple as the 2nd most valuable company (based on Mkt Cap). Microsoft - 3.151T Nvidia - 3.012T Apple - 3.003T Nvidia shares have jumped $837.86 per share in the last 12 mths, with $312.02 per share in the last month alone. (currently trading at $1,224.40 per share).

We're not that remote, but our infrastructure provider (NBN) rolled out VDSL to many areas in the last 10 years and are now ripping all that out to replace with GPON based fibre. (The project started as a full GPON rollout and got changed at the start of the project due to political interference...

Cries with my barely reaching 50Mbps / 15Mbps connection on VSDL2... (That's the best on offer and no upgrades for at least 2 years where I am).

For the most part, yes, by increasing the width of the memory bus and bringing the memory chips onto the CPU package (which allows higher MT's). Case in point: The M2 Max is capable of 400GB/s. The M2 Ultra doubles that to 800GB/s. Intel 12th Gen or Ryzen 7000 series with dual channel...

Sed pretty much nailed it. 68K -> PPC - used fat binaries PPC -> Intel - used fat binaries OR Rosetta for translation Intel -> ARM - used fat binaries OR Rosetta 2 for translation

IIRC, the first Alpha's did it all in software (called FX!32 all done by DEC), but later versions added some additional CPU instructions to assist in the translated code performance. (IIRC Apple did the same with Apple Silicon, it has a very extra CPU instructions that assist Rosetta2 in working...

To make stock holders happy that {insert company} is delivering on AI. At a more fundamental level, LM mentioned the current primary reason (at least in the x86 world), is for AI accelerated workflows especially in image and video cleanup or enhancements. Adobe especially seems to be adding in...

On the current Apple Silicon series stuff, they are custom devices as the actual drive controller is in the SOC and the 'HDD' is just a card with NAND flash and a bridge chip on it. You can source upgrades and DIY, but you may need access to some Apple software to reset the drive controller in...

Based on my reading, it's firmware tweaked for AI workloads that process video... My guess it's the same firmware used for video surveillance systems (basically linear writes at low IO queue depth), but tweaked to be more responsive to random IO in regions the were written recently... (The cache...

I would assume the 'AI' part means the firmware is designed for typical IO workloads found when used with AI software. Similar to how drives for video systems is designed more for linear IO, vs random IO. And HHDs for NAS may be tweaked for more random IO and quieter running, and so on.

IIRC, SDR -> DDR4 were a single 64bit wide data bus to the DIMM, but with DDR5 that was changed to a 2x 32bit data bus, thus allowing 2x 32bit reads to the DIMM to done independently. Due to the change to 32bit wide channels we can now have non power of 2 sizing of the actual memory chip...

Sounds a lot like the approach Sun took with the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 series.

Sorry to hear, with my sincere my condolences. RIP.

IIRC, nVidia said no new architecture until 2025. Will look at refreshes of current generation (aka Super's and Super Ti's) and continued focus on AI for 2024... Some reports are also indicating the the 50xx series will be a refresh of the current Ada Lovelace GPU (same architecture on a die...

I was going to recommend cablemod for right angle adapters, but they are not currently doing 8pin/6pin PCIe adapters but only 12VHPWR at the moment... apparently 8pin are on there way... https://store.cablemod.com/product-category/angled-adapters/

Interesting take on Ryzen vs Intel

Thermite is the only way...

Appears I was slightly incorrect, it appears ASMedia designed the actual chipsets themselves... Source for the above: https://www.techpowerup.com/242485/asmedia-remains-amd-chipset-usb-partner-increases-revenues-by-44-7...

The Powerbook 100 came in black, didn't it? Or is that more of a very dark grey? Otherwise one of the G3 based models was certainly black...

The only items to really note, was the unusual RAM size for the M3 Pro based MacBooks, eg, based installed size is 18GB, and that the M3 Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth compared to the M2 Pro (150GB/s vs 200GB/s). Mind you, having colour matched keyboards on the iMac is a nice touch...

IIRC, AMD licensed and used one the ASMedia USB 3.x controller designs in their Ryzen chipsets, so you won't see as ASMedia, but rather as a AMD chipset controller. Motherboard manufacturers would often add additional USB controllers to boost the number of USB ports. It was speculated that it...

Typically 2 years from the release of the 'version' of Windows 11 (for Home/Pro, excluding Enterprise which has it's own release cycle). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-11-home-and-pro

Works fine in Safari as well...

Rumours of Windows 12 potentially being subscription based: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-windows-12-could-require-a-subscription However, these rumours appear to have been debunked, as the subscription information appears to relate to IoT Enterprise services that MS are...

$3 120GB SSD performance.... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/reviewer-tests-3-sata-ssd-gets-exactly-what-they-paid-for/

Puts hand up, yep did that back in the day, 20-odd years ago. It was awesome to print to the "Fax" and have to send directly from the PC. Just be warned, if ordering a VOIP service (as opposed to a real PSTN service), you want to confirm that the service is suitable for fax and data services...