Recent content by wsanders11

Yep, meaningless numbers. For all we know those tapes are reel to reel, which actually ought to be replaced, assuming the data is worth keeping. The main problem with tape is vendor risk. I mean right now LTO is still a thing, but 30 years ago 8mm was cheaper and more reliable. Anybody got...

I find Linus' crankiness entertaining. My guess is that all the devs on the kernel team have experienced far worse from much less competent engineering managers. Reverse engineering modern hardware is getting more and more difficult: increased complexity. spotty documentation, sometime...

The maintainability of their PTX compiler is not much of an issue. Before too long China will have their own chips rivalling "last year's model" NVidia, and they will be widely available and supported, at least outside the US and EU.

The big question with these little things: How hot does it get? Does the fan come on and scream like a banshee?

I've inherited a drawer full of 2GB laptop SODIMMS and I'm trying to sort them out. The speed and CAS are fairly easy to figure out, but there are subvariants from the same vendor with the same speed and CAS (but >1 yr between date codes). For example: Hynix 1Rx8 (8 chips), 2GB: PC3-12800S...