Posts by robjcamb

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

Already exploited?

I wonder if anyone at the NSA/GCHQ/<insert government surveillance agency> is pissed about this being publicly discovered.

UK.gov: You can't have our drone test results because... er, security

Re: Not just drones

Also frozen chickens.

VW Dieselgate engineer sings like a canary: Entire design team was in on it – not just a few bad apples, allegedly

Re: Everything has a wire somewhere

Tubes. Definitely tubes.

New nbn^TM roadmap reveals HFC tests to start in Q4

100Mbps downstream.... and as usual, zero detail about the upstream capacity, which is what we should be interested in.

$10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience

Two idiots are required here. One to make the cable and believe in it's virtues enough to try and flog it, and another to believe them.

Re: On top of that ...

I predict disastrous effects with using this cable to transfer encrypted audio files. Given the implied frequency-dependent compensation specific to 'multi-octave audio' and if we assume that with suitable encryption that the signal can be modelled as pseudo-random noise and thus now having a flat power-spectrum density, the feedback loop could become under-damped leading to an inverse collapse of the wave function and destruction of the universe. Do not attempt this under any circumstances.

And that's a load of pseudo-random waffle. Much like this cable.

NBN's basement-dive begins in earnest

I *may* live in one the Brunswick MDUs referred to. It's notable by it's island-like lack of NBN in this area of coverage. What I can't find is a list of which unit blocks they're actually talking about.

The building developers back in 2010 did have the foresight to run cat5e from the basement to each unit, even if they did go and spoil it by dasiychaining each of the 4 wall sockets. Cue facepalm.

So the plan is to install VDSL DSLAM plant in the comms cupboard and and sell me another modem rather than fix the wiring and run lo-fi 1990's old-tech gigabit ethernet over it? Sounds future proof.

I appreciate the cheapskate wiring job does necessitate a conservative approach, but then again, a one-size-fits-all approach to retrofitting MDUs is just asking for trouble.

BT Tower restaurant reborn for Olympics

Size matters?

A 10-foot ring? If it's that small, imagine the size of the portions in the restaurant!