Posts by GL1zdA

Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it

This is the way

Last weekend I've patched a ROM of a GeForce4 MX 440 to work via DVI with a modern 4K screen. It would fail to negotiate a reasonable resolution resulting in a black screen. I fed Claude Code to bad ROM, a ROM known to boot well, EDIDs of serveral displays, gave access to Ghidra via MPC. It already new the nouveau repository and envytools, which helped immensly to pinpoint what is happening. It managed to code a test harness to test the ROM with the EDIDs, produced some small diagnostic programs to run on the actual machine to observe what is happening and produced a 7 byte patch (3 procedures were patched). And it works.

Someone else on vogons enabled the line-in of an Audigy 2 ZS under DOS.

All these things bring retro computing to a whole new level.

GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility

Re: Gnome3.....Gnome4..........Ughhhhhhhhhh!!!!

With Fedora 42 the KDE Spin was promoted to a Fedora Edition, meaning it's equal to Workstation (the GNOME Edition). KDE is also the DE of SteamOS desktop mode.

Imagine OLE reinvented for the web and that's 90% of Microsoft's Fluid Framework: We dig into O365 collaborative tech

Can anyone name uses of OLE which were useful other than the "Excel table in Word document" example? I've recently thought about all these compound document technologies from the 90s and it seems they had awful ROI. Lots of engineering time across many companies wasted on a feature that had such a low impact.

Nvidia unveils Pascal, its next-gen GPU with hella-fast interconnects and 3D packaging

Volta

Wasn't the codename Volta the last time they were talking about it?

How Britain could have invented the iPhone: And how the Quangocracy cocked it up

Re: Abandon all hope.... you are entering "couldhavebeen land"

"Remember the I-phone was invented and marketed by Apple using private funds... (and buying/licensing technologies that came from all over the world) not by expecting manna from government."

Have you actually read the article?

"But apparently the state does more. According to Mazzucato, as cited by Polly Toynbee, “huge state investment in touch screens” gave Apple its advantage. Mazzucato went further: “all the technologies that make the iPhone ‘smart’ are also state funded”. [p112] For Mazzucato, the state had made “an investment” in Westerman’s multitouch but failed to “recuperate” it. [p72] "