Recent content by davidjao

Why didn't you just use Ubuntu? All of the listed apps are available in the Snap store.

I assume you mean "Magic Carpet 2 - The Netherworlds" by Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. released in 1995. I don't know anything about this game, so I can't play it skillfully, but I am able to play it for as long as I want without glitches using 86Box. 86Box config is as follows. Operating system...

The point I'm trying to make is, if it's YOUR conference room, and you control the hardware purchasing decisions for that conference room, then you can make sure to purchase what you need (e.g. DisplayPort hardware) to get the most out of that room. It's very rare that you need to go into some...

If some particular hardware doesn't work with open source drivers because of DRM, this isn't a "problem with the open source driver." It's a problem with the hardware.

HDMI still works in Linux. You just can't get the very best display quality or refresh rates. For a conference room it's not a big issue if you don't have gamer-optimal refresh rates.

HDMI still works in Linux. You just can't get the very best display quality and refresh rates. For a presentation or a TV, I think it's fine to have lower quality. The message is just to make sure that your main monitors support DisplayPort.

Article gets history wrong. Xeon existed before Itanium. It was simply co-opted into the x64 line once Intel released x64 processors. The reason Itanium failed was because it eliminated all the hardware that makes CPUs fast, instead shifting that functionality onto compiler software, and then...

There are some inaccuracies in this article. The $50000 bounty mentioned in the article was not sponsored by NIST; it was provided by Microsoft. The article also does not clearly distinguish between the four algorithms selected as replacement standards by NIST and the four additional algorithms...