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Interesting. I have a CPU with Intel Iris Pro graphics, which has 128MB of on-die eDRAM, which appears as L4 cache and which I assume can be used as both VRAM and cache.

I wonder if this is useful to me in terms of allocating/using it for the latter?

s/Adobe/Apache

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> youtube where I want auto play but not until the tab is focused

Chromium does this by default

She.

This is false. IPMI is a completely different thing from the Intel ME. It is implemented on a separate chip (bmc) and has its own NIC (usually with its own physical port)

AMT on the other hand provides its network functionality by hijacking the host's IP, and siphoning off traffic destined for its ports (16992 and 16993). This is one of the things that makes it scary, and just one of the differences between it and IPMI.

Source: I have worked extensively with AMT and built a semi-open-source Python management library for it in a previous job.

> The recipient is not made aware of this change in encryption, while the sender is only notified if they have opted-in to encryption warnings in settings, and only after the messages have been re-sent.

Surely this is backwards. It's the recipient who is notified about key changes when the relevant setting is enabled.

Very interesting use of vsync.. using it to cap redraw time and allow more time for processing...

What was wrong with the G4 cube? (speaking as someone who has always wanted to own one)

In think the concern is more that if you encounter a bit-flip checksumming a block on write, then ZFS will mark the data corrupt on read; and thus, make good data unreadable.

A non-checksumming FS would not be vulnerable to this particular issue. On the other hand, would undetected corruption through bit rot be a worse problem? Almost certainly.

And considering how vanishingly unlikely such a scenario is, I do agree with your sentiment.

That said, I'm not sure if my understanding of the issue is complete and would welcome an explanation of the failure scenarios that [very] occasional RAM bit-flips expose ZFS to.

> Not so long as Vim is installed by default, and holds the name Vim. NeoVim can't even simply replace Vim as the default, since it works differently

Something about this comment (perhaps the above quote) makes me think that perhaps neovim will be to vim, what vim is to vi...

ASUS is one of the few that lists it on their spec sheets. But I believe Gigabyte also supports it on a number of current boards, along with some other manufacturers.

I don't find this stupid. The job of `kill` is to send a signal, not to wait around afterwards.

Unix makes it trivial to write a wrapper script around `kill` that does exactly what you want -- that's the entire point.

I wish modern chassis, and indeed, consumer cards, would come with these support brackets.

This. 100 times this.

AMD used to have much a much better hardware story for compute. I don't know how it looks now, but nVidia have absolutely stolen the market due, in part, to their excellent software -- even on Linux.

My only experience of compute on AMD was a FirePro v7900 -- an expensive, workstation-class card. With both the latest, and the 'workstation-class' Catalyst Linux drivers, my LuxMark tests came out very vast, but very red.

With nVidia, I can simply add a repo to my Ubuntu machine and have the latest stable drivers every time I do a dist-upgrade. If I want a solid, tested CUDA dev environment, I can install the CUDA repo and do likewise.

AMD have to make sure the end-user experience with these cards is as smooth as that, and that everything works.

I really hope AMDGPU-PRO is that experience. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't comment.

It's easy to dismiss enthusiasts / hobbyists / developers / gamers as a 'small market'. There was no 'pro gamer' market until ~10 years ago. Now there are entire companies built off the back of it. AMD cannot continue to leave a sour taste in end-users' mouths, otherwise there might not be any left soon.

> they thought we should be impressed it can make phone calls.

Oh, but you should be impressed. For how long could OpenMoko not make phone calls?

Open-source phone OSs have a habit of neglecting actual phone functionality. So I think it's great that they highlight it.

I really, really wish they would release this for 32-bit Windows 10. Let me explain...

I bought a laptop with W10, mainly to use WSfL on it. Only after updating to the insider preview and then scratching my head for a bit, did I learn that WSfL is only available for 64-bit Windows. The laptop, however (Bay Trail-based), has a 32-bit UEFI, with which 64-bit Windows refuses to install.

I'm dual-booting (amd64) Arch for now; the first distro whose installer played nicely with the funky UEFI setup _and_ F2FS. But I'm really impressed with the W10 on this laptop. If only it could provide a native UNIX experience...

Don't think so, unless I'm misunderstanding what you have.

I basically mean replacing your animated camera with the cube, but still using a [fixed] orthographic camera to look at the face of the solid as the cube cuts it away.

I tried using your scripts but Meshlab on my system really doesn't like the data and refuses to produce any output :(

If the OP is reading this...

Try animating a large cube moving into the logo, and using the boolean subtract modifier between each mesh and this cube. Place the cube on another (invisible) layer, et voila.

You can leave your camera fixed in the same place, too.

EDIT to add: I should have mentioned, I think this is a very cool idea! I might just steal it one day ;)

"How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e08kOj2kISU

Humour, serious technical insight and a good reminder of why being a generalist is an advantage.

Proofreading error near the 'buy' button.

> I've learned more in this last year since I started programming over 25 years ago.

Should be '... this last year than since ...'

Personally, I think '... the past year than since ...' reads better also.

Do I get a free copy of the book for pointing that out? ;)

I use Markdown Here for this - - compose in Markdown, click a button, get nice html-formatted email.

One annoyance is not being able to get back the original markdown. But a mutt workflow could easily deal with this.

Seconded. Using a ~ 10-year-old Precision M2400 (Latitude E6400 with a Quadro FX370 GPU) and it's still going strong.

Of course, I do have my desktop for 'actual' computing. But I rarely feel the laptop is low on poke.

This comment (on my favourite SGI enthusiast forum) might explain why: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16730962&star...

One thing that _really_ annoys me about swipe-to-archive on gmail is that, if you do it accidentally, you can't swipe back to undo -- you have to actually tap 'undo'.

My muscle memory just seems programmed to swipe back in the direction I came; and this seems much more intuitive. It's such an annoyance that I've now disabled the swipe functionality.

Does Fastmail implement this better? Or maybe I'm just strange...

The S812LC is designed, and made, by Tyan.

http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/

If by 'proper' power system you mean IBM Pseries, this is not it.

We bought a Gigabyte 1U server based on one of these at my old workplace.

(http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5423)

It definitely seemed a half-hearted effort from Gigabyte. Both our usual suppliers were able to source one, but the delivery date kept slipping. It did eventually arrive, months later, and by then we'd lost enthusiasm and/or found alternative ways of doing the work we'd planned for it.

Given my experience with another Gigabyte board, I can't recommend using their server platforms until they show a bit more care.

I know they've been doing custom integration in this space for a long time -- I remember an article about Google Nehalem servers, for example, that were OEMd by Gigabyte. And many of their efforts look like contract designs pushed out to market -- nothing wrong in that.

But they need to take a lesson from Supermicro's book in terms of attention-to-detail in and end-user support before I'll consider them worthy again.

Which is a shame, because their new CaviumX ARM platform looks very interesting indeed: http://www.servethehome.com/cavium-thunderx-micro-benchmarks...

If I bought the property next to yours, and built large walls to block light from entering your windows, you'd rather the law had no power to stop me?

I agree, but X2 already holds the connotation of a dual-GPU card.

On that note, you might find Introversion's (cancelled) 'Subversion' project interesting.

Dev blog: http://www.introversion.co.uk/subversion/

Post 12 is especially relevant to the 'convincing city' discussion: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=41634

Edit to add: Amazing to think that this was happening 8 years ago. I wonder what it would turn out like if they took another crack at it today.

It may be _logically_ untenable. But certainly not politically...