Recent content by holmes4

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    Review Bambu Lab X1-Carbon 3D Printer review: Leading the pack

    Overall, a good article, but some errors. For the X1C, a MicroSD card is NOT required to send prints to the printer (one is required for the P1S and is included). You need an SD card for the X1C only if you wish to record timelapse videos. A more subtle error is that the article presents the...
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    News Verbatim Launches Write-Once External SSD With 10-Year Warranty

    So happy to see that the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory has finally found a commercial use.
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    News Deciphering Intel's Codenames: What's With All the Lakes?

    "So then Intel learned that your codename should be something that not many people care about. " When the Penryn name became public, the people who lived in Penryn (UK) cared a lot, as suddenly web searches for the town's name were flooded with hits regarding the processor. Just now I did a...
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    News Deciphering Intel's Codenames: What's With All the Lakes?

    Two comments based on the 15 years I spent at Intel. 1) Geographic place names can't be trademarked. Intel ran into this with one of the Itanium designs, which the ex-DEC team that worked on it called Tanglewood. Though Tanglewood is a place, it is the name of a commercial performing arts venue...
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    Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban

    I have a theory as to what happened here. (I am retired from Intel.) The wording about benchmarking was typical for beta products (hardware and software). I think someone just misunderstood what the purpose was of the microcode update and picked the wrong text file. (Not that they'd admit this...
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    2013 Audi A8L: Nvidia Graphics, Wi-Fi, LED Lights, And Google Earth

    Regarding USB and audio inputs - Audi typically puts a connector for these in the glove compartment. You may need to buy a custom adapter cable depending on your device. At least on my 2013 A4, it can control an iPhone through the MMI this way, though I just use the Bluetooth integration.