How Linux Works, The Linux Bible, Crown of Vengeance by Mercedes Lackey et al, The Brightest Fell by Seanan MacGuire, Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone, Rituals by Kelley Armstrong, Raven Strategy by Yoon Ha Lee. I will likely add more before the month is over.
In your article, you say "The upshot: a x16 connector can transfer data at up to around 16GBps." (GigaBytes per second) Everyone else is reporting as 16gbps (Gigabits per second).
I realize it is only a factor of eight off, but I expect better from/.
To quote Robert Heinlein, through his character Lazarus Long, "A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain."
Clearly this applies to the UK Parliament as much as the US Congress. Politicians are all too willing to mandate legal solutions to technical problems, without being able to recognize the error of their ways.
To quote William Shakespeare, "First we shoot all the lawyers..."
Why don't we engineers search for technical solutions to legal problems? We stand about as much chance of being correct as the politicians do.
I find Microsoft's dependence on digital certificates hilarious, given that Verisign issued a couple of valid certificates for Microsoft to a hacker a couple of years ago. Makes you kind of wonder about the whole system and value of the verification procss they follow.
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I also stumbled on the Bobiverse. As a "Bob" myself, I got suckered in by the premise. I cannot wait to see where he goes with volumes 4 and up.
How Linux Works, The Linux Bible, Crown of Vengeance by Mercedes Lackey et al, The Brightest Fell by Seanan MacGuire, Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone, Rituals by Kelley Armstrong, Raven Strategy by Yoon Ha Lee. I will likely add more before the month is over.
Please correct "Opteron 2600" to "Opteron 6200". There are no 2600 series chips from AMD.
There is an article on DailyTech about a line of site solution for up to 5 miles. Look at http://www.dailytech.com/Inexpensive+80211bg+WiFi+Bridge+Connects+Locations+Five+Miles+Apart/article11859.htm for information.
In your article, you say "The upshot: a x16 connector can transfer data at up to around 16GBps." (GigaBytes per second) Everyone else is reporting as 16gbps (Gigabits per second). I realize it is only a factor of eight off, but I expect better from /.
To quote Robert Heinlein, through his character Lazarus Long, "A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain."
Clearly this applies to the UK Parliament as much as the US Congress. Politicians are all too willing to mandate legal solutions to technical problems, without being able to recognize the error of their ways.
To quote William Shakespeare, "First we shoot all the lawyers..."
Why don't we engineers search for technical solutions to legal problems? We stand about as much chance of being correct as the politicians do.
I find Microsoft's dependence on digital certificates hilarious, given that Verisign issued a couple of valid certificates for Microsoft to a hacker a couple of years ago. Makes you kind of wonder about the whole system and value of the verification procss they follow.