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Raspberry PI's SOC is made by Broadcom. They did a decent job in open source that part. I heard even the GPU driver/library was opensource for PI. GPU driver/library was definitively not opensource for the Freescale'
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This is the "Return of the Jedi" Episode where the Young Jedi finally able to bring Darth Vader back to the Light Side of the Force. George Lucas predicted this in 1983.
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Maybe the pressure was slowly building up from investors/board. They wanted the returns, profit, path to IPO , VC's carry for the Nth largest site of the internet. From the https://www.crunchbase.com/organizat
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I implemented a lockless IPC, DIPC - Interprocess Communication and Distributed IPC library in 2000-2002 time frame. The library is used in vxWorks, QNX, Linux (both kernel and user space.) and tested heavily on Xeon SMP 1-2GHz CPU at that
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The list forgot "Google Desktop Search" - One of my favorite google product. I like it so much that I even found a old copy to install on windows 10. 6 years after it is discontinue and still much more useful and much faster tha
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I have a few old android phones laying around. I have two app idea: write motion activated camera app that stores motion activated pictures on google drive - special folder. Only me and my family have access to that google drive folder.
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Become Uber car and start make $. Or charge themselves if it is really idle.
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Personally, I prefer to see Google/Waymo start deport 1-2 thousand self driving cars/minivans in Silicon Valley near Google and FB's headquarters. The near team (in 1-2 years) goal should be getting 20, 50, 95% of their own e
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Nice info. Thanks. Also what's the usage patterns for your HDDs? read/write/spin down/sleep time in term of life time of the HDD. I assume mostly write, some read. But also very low percentage is active?
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Do you have any info on what temperature your drives are running on normally? Love to see some performance stat to see if read /write IOP, MB/second, etc change over time on per model base. Other than complete failure, do you col
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Looks like a good case for class action lawsuit for all the surrounding farmers that have suffer damage from this. There are scientific proof, clear documented $$$ damage, etc. Any idea why it has not initiated yet?
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One solution is use rdnis over usb. It allows ethernet connection over USB. Once ip network is setup, you can easily run nfs, samba, vnc over that network interface. A few years back when I worked on AOSP project, I dislike the tools from A
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A related public key news: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypt... It compromises the TPM 1.2 and Microsoft Bitlocker HDD encruption. The researchers also scanned the Internet for fing
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I went to Disney World/NASA space center in Orlando a few years back. One impression I got was: For a place with some many water around, there were no mosquito and extremely quiet- no bird noise and no cricket noise at all.
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Learn from Israel - hack Kaspersky and do the code review from inside. :-)
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Any suggestion a good tools (good source one) on mac that can scan and detect this kind of malware?
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Here are my understandings: Today we are @ ~ 14, 16 nm. When we get to 7nm, the today's chip that is using 1 cm^2 size silicon can probably be build with 0.25 cm^2 size silicon die. (IO pads are another factor). If &quo
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"If you know your read and write patterns very well you can effectively use this for nearly asynchronous IO without the pains of AIO and few to none extra threads." I have seen Windows File Explorer lock up over and over again for
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Like two teenagers arguing on school yard, the Russian can easily said "you started first": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
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Designed realtime with Linux is non-trivial. I worked on HA (Highly Available) system with Linux inside Xilinx's Vertex Pro PPC. It is redundant system with multiple fault detections and switch over if any subsystem detected failure
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This remind me of debug a flight control problem with my son's model airplane. We did a foam board stretch build of Model Airplane couple years ago. https://www.flitetest.com/articles/ft-guinea-build After we flew
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https://www.techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hides-spying-backdoor... This kind of stories doesn't seems to hurt the US HDD maker 's brand, neither. Most of the world just don't care or don't have a choi
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The story is almost like the 2008 time where wall street wiz kids package the mortgages to special mortgages back securities/contacts and resell them over and over again to banks, mutual funds, etc. Hugh hype was created. Last time: I
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"earbud in both ears" One of my co-worker got a ticket just for that alone. I seems to remember it was $400 ticket.
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Also, the Chinese government's main goal is maintain 6-7% economic grow and by any mean possible. It will do anything possible to expand manufacture base, use all necessary means to acquire, absolve, develop, own technology/market
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I have good experience email police department and CC any public official email addresses you can find - Mayor, City Manager, Head of Police, local city council men/woman etc. The elective public officials seems to response to these
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Unfortunately attack surface on AV also includes Windows Defender itself: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/lates...
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I use the windows firewall to block all apps' out going tcp connection except firefox and chrome. It works well. All apps includes IE, Edge, svchost etc. "netstat -nbt" is the command I used to monitor all outgoing connecti
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Those professions also likely to view all arguments from both side of issue all the time. Probably more likely to reach an agreement when their own disagreement is on the line. If a client is paying you $400/hour to disagree with the o
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I like to see Android add System GUI to monitor: * all apps (including daemon processes) that makes internet connections. * Where they are connecting to. * AND give user to GUI/Options block those connections. I also want Android give
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