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[#] Sun Nov 17 2024 23:06:36 UTC from Nurb432

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Might have mentioned it before elsewhere. 

HP.. Their 'mini' series.  I got one. Was working fine.  then started rebooting out of the blue. ( not OS reboot, hard power restart )

Thought it was my UPS dying .. nope.  brought it inside to beat on..   stress test until it was nearly on fire, not a blip.  Next day 3 reboots in a row.  Then nothing for a few days..  Even tho testing was fine, tried new ram, new SSD, same random results.   So bought a 3rd party power supply. A mistake.  these **** use DRM keyed power supply so even tho they have the same plug and enough juice, if they dont 'talk nice' so they are ignored. 

Against better judgment.. got an OEM one. Ran fine for 2 days. poof.. reboot.  Sigh. into the trash heap it goes i guess. 

Oh, and you cant freaking update bios unless you install windows. wtf? Last HP i ever get. 



[#] Sat Nov 23 2024 02:58:55 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Not too long ago, I put a Linux partition on my work computer, because it's the lightest machine I own (my personal laptop has a big screen and lovely keyboard but it's big and heavy and has no battery) and I want to be able to boot up into a non-work environment while traveling.  They've got all sorts of snoopware on the corporate image, and anyway it's running 'doze and therefore barely usable.

Recently I decided that it's too risky, that eventually they'd scan the machine and see an unauthorized partition, and my risk tolerance has sharply declined lately, so I deleted it.

I got the recommendation for this "high speed" USB stick from pendrivelinux.com.  It uses UASP (which is SCSI-over-USB instead of the traditional USB bulk storage profile) and has a "real" SSD inside it.  I installed a full Linux image to it, with an EFI system partition and everything.  Now I can boot my work laptop into this and it works really well.  It can run the "super speed" USB at 10 Gbps so if your machine has a fast enough port it's just as fast as having the disk inside the machine.

I've tried the whole USB Boot Drive thing before, but was never satisfied with the performance.  This, on the other hand, works great.

And apparently I got it for half price because I bought it for about $40 and now it's listed for $80.



[#] Sat Nov 23 2024 16:51:31 UTC from Nurb432

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Until the security team locks down the BIOS and you cant boot anything that they wont allow :)

 

I think we do that where i am at. I still have that old un-managed mac, so not sure if its happened yet. But if not, its still on the planned list. Tho one side effect is that mac hardware can NOT get on the network, VPN, or directly use any of our non external-web-based services. Has to be via a shop managed VM in my case, at least for now. Soon i bet that stops working too. ( or i put osx back on, and let them control it. Which i doubt would work, since it cant be upgraded to whatever is current. its an X86..  last one  )

 

Sat Nov 23 2024 02:58:55 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: The Flying Penguin

Not too long ago, I put a Linux partition on my work computer, because it's the lightest machine I own (my personal laptop has a big screen and lovely keyboard but it's big and heavy and has no battery) and I want to be able to boot up into a non-work environment while traveling.  They've got all sorts of snoopware on the corporate image, and anyway it's running 'doze and therefore barely usable.

Recently I decided that it's too risky, that eventually they'd scan the machine and see an unauthorized partition, and my risk tolerance has sharply declined lately, so I deleted it.

 

 



[#] Sat Nov 23 2024 19:09:42 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Subject: Re: The Flying Penguin

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Until the security team locks down the BIOS and you cant boot
anything that they wont allow :)

Already did. I know the password.

[#] Tue Nov 26 2024 13:59:19 UTC from Nurb432

Subject: PowerPC.. ooo

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From LXer's feed.  I didn't realize they were still making them...  Cool.

 

 

Mon Nov 25 2024 21:04:32 UTC from rss <>Subject: IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11
IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Power11-KVM-Nested


[#] Tue Nov 26 2024 22:55:05 UTC from Nurb432

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So intel just got rescued, in effect. 8 billion of our tax dollars because, well, money laundering..



[#] Tue Dec 17 2024 14:19:17 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Subject: Re: PowerPC.. ooo

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IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but
their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux
kernel and other open-source software for Power11.

I wonder how long it will be before IBM starts merging the POWER line with the chips that run their mainframes. They already combined the AS/400 and RS/6000 lineages into POWER (and its little brother, PowerPC) ... and more consolidation is called for when people aren't exactly lined up around the corner to buy IBM midrange systems.

And when no one is running any *new* workloads on those systems ... what's the advantage, really. AMD64 has closed much of the performance gap at this point, and has pulled way ahead on price/performance. Cloud service providers large and small are all offering ARM as their "not Intel derived" option.
I wouldn't want to be IBM

[#] Tue Jan 14 2025 23:18:17 UTC from Nurb432

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cool.  not looked at details but supposedly DJI just dropped the hard coded 'geolocking' in their firmware.  Now you fly where you want to, not where the FAA tells you that you can.  

 

Not that mine had any of that nonsense, but that is a different story.



[#] Tue Jan 14 2025 23:32:20 UTC from Nurb432

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From what im hearing, the mainframe division of their business is minimal anyway. Not zero, but it could vanish tomorrow and they would not go under.  Already got rid of the 'PC' division and they didn't collapse.

Its all about consulting, data centers, AI, etc.   Perhaps not the 'market owner' they used to be, but not hurting either.

Tue Dec 17 2024 14:19:17 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: PowerPC.. ooo
I wouldn't want to be IBM

 



[#] Thu Jan 16 2025 12:11:50 UTC from Nurb432

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Well darn. 

The official statement came out on that RISC-V AI board we have been waiting on for a good year..     Its dead. Sanctions killed it.    Another F-Biden moment.

 

 

 

 



[#] Sun Jan 19 2025 14:09:52 UTC from Nurb432

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They may have just cracked the quantum computer error issue..   An 8 state quantum machine at scale is almost unimaginable what it could do.

 

"The new method encodes quantum information onto an antimony atom, which has eight possible states that enable data to be more safely stored than in a standard two-state qubit, or quantum bit."



[#] Sun Jan 19 2025 14:10:48 UTC from Nurb432

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Oh and to be fair, which i try to be, Trump's appearance wont make it any better. In fact, most likely will make it worse in this area.

Thu Jan 16 2025 12:11:50 UTC from Nurb432

Well darn. 

The official statement came out on that RISC-V AI board we have been waiting on for a good year..     Its dead. Sanctions killed it.    Another F-Biden moment.

 



[#] Wed Jan 29 2025 18:34:12 UTC from Nurb432

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I know i hate NVIDIA and want off the GPU treadmill, but since RISC-V is about to be derailed to keep things out the reach of us serfs, someone get me a couple of 64G Jetson Orins for my birthday..

Finally got my old Xavier NX working properly with LLMs and while not a speed demon, its more than usable. AND does not suck up a KW like my AI server does.  But ts only 8 gb so rather limited.  



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