mcbridematt

7 ms·

1.
by mcbridematt 3mo ago
Some employers "force" their employees to use a portion of their annual leave during the Christmas / New Year shutdown period (usually 24 December -> first full week after New Years Day, if not longer). So you might not be
2.
by mcbridematt 6mo ago
Ah, that explains this patchset that was submitted to the Linux kernel today "KVM: s390: Introduce arm64 KVM" "By introducing a novel virtualization acceleration for the ARM architecture on s390 architecture, we aim to expand
3.
by mcbridematt 8mo ago
IIRC Qualcomm smartphone SoCs have always run some kind of hypervisor, I believe it's to allow partitioning of the CPU cores with the modem/DSP. They used to (mid-late 2000s) use an L4 derivative ("REX"?), with the more
4.
by mcbridematt 1y ago
I have a similar Windows Arm64 machine (Lenovo "IdeaPad 5 Slim"), RDP into it works OK. There is one issue I ran into that I haven't on my (self-built) Windows desktops: when Windows Hello (fingerprint lock) is enabled, and n
5.
by mcbridematt 1y ago
Aside from the changing pint glass color and level, the Sky set top box / decoder, will also overlay the subscription ID at random intervals and locations. I don't know if Sky does it, but Foxtel in Australia, in addition to the
6.
by mcbridematt 3y ago
The Cypress chipset used to be a Broadcom product. Broadcom decided to sell the 'IoT' side of their WiFi/BT product line.
7.
by mcbridematt 3y ago
dsl (Dmitry) is the main developer behind the DPAA2 drivers for FreeBSD and he's done a fantastic effort so far. Myself and Bjoern (bz) have also written bits of it. The performance has improved compared to how it was a year ago (e.g s
8.
by mcbridematt 3y ago
No, we haven't bought any ASKs. We have worked with them on a DPDK project and they were quite helpful when it came to debugging difficult bugs with it. Improving the routing performance in Linux is near the top of my TODO list, howeve
9.
by mcbridematt 3y ago
Hi, I'm the person behind the Ten64. Ten64's have been shipping for a while now, though you are best to ask in our support forum: https://forum.traverse.com.au/ . We haven't posted much on Crowd Supply as it&
10.
by mcbridematt 4y ago
It's part of what's called the Universal Service Obligation (USO) for which Telstra (the dominant carrier) is responsible for delivering: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/media-technology-communica... The money c
11.
by mcbridematt 5y ago
In Australia (Afterpay's home market), credit card merchant fees are tightly regulated (<1% for most transactions AFAIK), so 'cash-back' offers like the US don't exist. Airline/Frequent Flyer point conversions si
12.
by mcbridematt 5y ago
Nice writeup. Reminds me of a famous 'intentional buffer overflow' by AOL in 1999 to determine if the user was using a 'genuine' AIM client, this came after Microsoft had added an AIM client to MSN Messenger. https:&#x
13.
by mcbridematt 6y ago
Intel tried this with the Quark core, which was discontinued in 2019: Compare the Quark Core Block Diagram: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr... with that of the 486
14.
by mcbridematt 6y ago
I cleaned out a MBP of similar age while replacing the battery. There was quite a bit of dust trapped in the CPU fan, as well dried out thermal paste. Between new battery + cleaned fan + new paste it runs 'like new'. (Unfortunatel
15.
by mcbridematt 6y ago
It's not as customizable under the hood as Home Assistant, but it's much easier to setup than HA. Mozilla was attempting to market it to telcos and home router manufacturers as a IoT addon for a while (in competition with stacks s
16.
by mcbridematt 6y ago
The software and/or device you are trying to trick would be able to determine it's true location using the MAC address of other WiFi APs in its vicinity - the same way a map app on your smartphone can without GPS and cellular netw
17.
by mcbridematt 6y ago
Azul Systems (who today are mainly a JVM vendor) started by building large multicore boxes (Vega) to do Java workloads - there is an interesting tech talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI (2009) They bu
18.
by mcbridematt 6y ago
The BBC ran a service called BBC Select in the early 90s with a VideoCrypt derivative, rather than line cut they shuffled blocks of lines around the screen - which worked better over more lossy and interference prone terrestrial transmissio
19.
by mcbridematt 7y ago
Also prior to the NBN (wholesaler) taking over the network, "take rate" (number of homes actually connected to the cable) was ~30%. Changing a network designed around that to 80% is quite a task
20.
by mcbridematt 7y ago
I can't see this being true for IoT/M2M either, sorry. There are a couple of small MVNOs on Vodafone but nothing that would bridge the gap between them and the other players. _Maybe_ they have a good share of multinational contrac
21.
by mcbridematt 7y ago
Whoever told you that was being very liberal with the truth, Vodafone has always been #3 in the Australian mobile market since they started, they were hemorrhaging subscriptions for most of this decade due to underinvestment (known as &quot
22.
by mcbridematt 7y ago
Yes, it is possible to get 600Mbps from LTE, but you need lots of mid-band spectrum - the US operators are quite challenged in that respect, plus CPE capable of carrier aggregation + higher MIMO ('flagship' smartphones generally).
23.
by mcbridematt 7y ago
You will probably need a true SD/MMC controller to use any "new" commands, such as a smartphone or embedded target (such as the RPi). USB or other bridges used on notebooks are unlikely to have support for it (especially as t
24.
by mcbridematt 7y ago
Also note that LTE and cable modems both came to Intel as a result of acquisition (LTE from Infineon and cable+DSL from Infineon via their Lantiq spinoff). Both times they have tried to put an x86 core around the modem part with varying suc
25.
by mcbridematt 8y ago
Further to this, I recall Darwin (the BSDish system running under OS X) x86 images being available to download from Apple up until Intel Mac's became available.
26.
by mcbridematt 8y ago
Didn't we (sort of) try age restriction metadata during the '90's with P3P? (or a closely related technology.. the name escapes me) If you tightened the settings in Internet Explorer it would only allow you to access sites wi
27.
by mcbridematt 8y ago
Mobile/Cell technologies work better when not all stations are "visible" from each other - as the channel access control in 802.11 is fundamentally peer-to-peer (even with an AP) Some of the major outdoor WiFi companies (Ubiq
28.
by mcbridematt 8y ago
I'm not sure how the SanDisk one works, but other verification checkers in China have 'this code has been viewed X times' on the result page. So if the counterfeit product has copied a real code, you might see 'this code
29.
by mcbridematt 8y ago
The phone OS itself would actually use something like the QMI (Qualcomm management interface) protocol or MBIM for modem cards. The Hayes/AT commands are still used either for debug purposes, or for non-smartphone use cases like IoT.
30.
by mcbridematt 8y ago
Bitcoin was floated as a solution for people who were wronged by PayPal and the banks, before the speculators moved in.

More ›