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by philcrump 6y ago
From the article it's 'just' a 1x PCI-E 2.0 lane (theoretical 5Gbps throughput). This is all the VL805 expects so all that's broken out to it's pads and 'easily' accessible.
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by philcrump 6y ago
I've enjoyed Xubuntu 18.04 for the light-ness. I pull the taskbar down to the bottom of the screen, swap out the "Whisker menu" for the more classical "Applications Menu" and I'm happy. It has been pointed out
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by philcrump 6y ago
Towing a magnetic field generator behind a boat or aircraft is a common minesweeping technique. The generator is usually mounted on a floating 'sled' to maximise depth capability, but aircraft-mounted degaussing coils were used in
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by philcrump 6y ago
I think, I haven't looked at their implementation; they'll be an artifact of piping the encrypted/mis-decrypted stream into a video decoder. A lot of video coding techniques use variable-size blocks to describe changes to are
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by philcrump 7y ago
I'm happy to see this, however I'd be far more excited if I thought there was a chance of it landing in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release - else I'll likely be waiting impatiently until 22.04 for server-side support.
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by philcrump 7y ago
My understanding has always been that e-recycling centers have to pay to responsibly dispose of the junk they collect / are given, and they fund this by sorting through it for any equipment that can be refurbished or cannibalised and s
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by philcrump 7y ago
The "DSLRKIT" splitters that are around on Amazon are reasonable in my experience, although the nominal output voltage varies by upto 10% between units. The 802.3at-specced ones are a little more efficient than the af for the same
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by philcrump 8y ago
My understanding is that the 'gzip' directive applies to HTTP compression, which is only performed on the body of the response (both in HTTP & HTTPS), and not SSL/TLS compression which compresses the headers and so is vul
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by philcrump 8y ago
Note that this is often done based on your IP address if you've not opted-in. It's often a quirk when using CCC (Chaos Computer Club) IP addresses at events in other countries; you'll be looking at google.de for the first cou
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by philcrump 8y ago
They had very frequent issues with their payment processors. The current account (now the only account as the prepaid beta programme has ended) runs on their internally developed payment processor, and has so far had minimal issues. More
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by philcrump 9y ago
It's often referred to as "two space stations flying in close proximity". One Russian, one American. 28VDC on the Russian side, 124VDC on the American. Rumour has it that there's bolts with imperial thread on one end and
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by philcrump 10y ago
"On most networks, it wouldn't hurt if logging into the network for the first time took five more seconds ..." This doesn't give the impression that this is well thought out. That would unacceptable to most modern cons
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by philcrump 11y ago
I help run one for the VHF/UHF Radio Bands, located in Surrey, UK. http://websdr.suws.org.uk/
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by philcrump 12y ago
From the subtley linked 'Husbandry Manual': http://www.aszk.org.au/docs/lhisi.pdf Section 3.2 (p8) The population at Melbourne Zoo, being descended from a single pair, appeared to experience increasing sympt