Posts by cmannett85 81 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2014
I'm baffled by this. The usually reason why hardware developers create FPGA dev boards is so that the software stacks can be developed in parallel with the hardware. But Tachyum are providing an emulation layer so customers wouldn't need to modify their software, even if they wanted to use Tachyum's ISA, it would just involve recompiling (assuming they upstreamed to LLVM or gcc...).
So why release this to customers?
"It wants its web giants, and computer, phone, and server makers, to use homegrown and homebuilt chips within China."
"CHMT need only be given enough intellectual property from AMD to physically produce the chips - typically a mind-bogglingly non-trivial "netlist" of gates that's difficult to reverse engineer..."
So the Chinese government still have no idea what's going into their data centres?
Can someone enlighten me, because I thought 'hashing' in this context was just checksum generation?
Which means that just changing the resolution, or cropping, or changing the colour of a single pixel of an image would change the hash value. So wouldn't you need something more akin to resolution-independent (vector-based) feature detection of images?
I'm confused, IEEE solved this almost 15 years ago. It's called PTPv2 or IEEE-1588-2008, v1 is IEEE-1588-2003, which came out in... I'm sure you can guess.
PTP has major traction in industrial control systems, and is starting to make headway into professional and broadcast level audio systems (not domestic). The major issue for most people is the cost, the switches required tend to have Hirschmann, Cisco, and Arista labels on them - rather than D-Link or BT.
So El Reg, is "TimeSync" actually just marketing fluff for PTP - or is it actually a new standard? And if it is, why is IEEE reinventing the wheel?
I recently decided to use a password manager and chose KeePass, primarily because it's open-source but also because it doesn't do any cloud stuff on your behalf. Unfortunately I've found that I end up using a cloud service to sync the keys database across all my devices - so I don't know how much better off I am now...
Hopefully Tavis will set his sights on KeePass after he's done with the proprietary ones, as a good security audit is never a bad thing.
I like using their IntelliJ IDEA at work when I need to (C++ developer most of the time).
But I've actually bought their CLion C++ IDE for use at home, because I bounce between Windows and Linux and it's a lot better than Qt Creator. It's nice to see they're doing the same for C# as going between VS and MonoDevelop is a bit of a pain.
I was in the States years ago and being introduced to a couple via a friend. The man stated his name, and being useless at names I frantically repeated it to myself in my head.
"Pat", " Pat", "Pat".
A few minutes later his girlfriend introduced herself, "what's your name?" She said.
"Pat".
My name is not Pat.
I was looking at these things to build a home ownCloud/git server, but I really wanted a RAID1 configuration and none of them have more than one SATA or M.2 port. Which I find odd because you'd think home server would be a popular use for them.
You could hook it up to a NAS, but you've just doubled the price...
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