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Some employers "force" their employees to use a portion of their annual leave during the Christmas / New Year shutdown period (usually 24 December -> first full week after New Year…

Ah, that explains this patchset that was submitted to the Linux kernel today "KVM: s390: Introduce arm64 KVM" "By introducing a novel virtualization acceleration for the ARM archit…

IIRC Qualcomm smartphone SoCs have always run some kind of hypervisor, I believe it's to allow partitioning of the CPU cores with the modem/DSP. They used to (mid-late 2000s) use a…

I have a similar Windows Arm64 machine (Lenovo "IdeaPad 5 Slim"), RDP into it works OK. There is one issue I ran into that I haven't on my (self-built) Windows desktops: when Windo…

Aside from the changing pint glass color and level, the Sky set top box / decoder, will also overlay the subscription ID at random intervals and locations. I don't know if Sky does…

The Cypress chipset used to be a Broadcom product. Broadcom decided to sell the 'IoT' side of their WiFi/BT product line.

dsl (Dmitry) is the main developer behind the DPAA2 drivers for FreeBSD and he's done a fantastic effort so far. Myself and Bjoern (bz) have also written bits of it. The performanc…

No, we haven't bought any ASKs. We have worked with them on a DPDK project and they were quite helpful when it came to debugging difficult bugs with it. Improving the routing perfo…

Hi, I'm the person behind the Ten64. Ten64's have been shipping for a while now, though you are best to ask in our support forum: https://forum.traverse.com.au/ . We haven't posted…

It's part of what's called the Universal Service Obligation (USO) for which Telstra (the dominant carrier) is responsible for delivering: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/media-te…

In Australia (Afterpay's home market), credit card merchant fees are tightly regulated ( Airline/Frequent Flyer point conversions similarly got nerfed, so much so it's better to cy…

Nice writeup. Reminds me of a famous 'intentional buffer overflow' by AOL in 1999 to determine if the user was using a 'genuine' AIM client, this came after Microsoft had added an …

Intel tried this with the Quark core, which was discontinued in 2019: Compare the Quark Core Block Diagram: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr... with tha…

I cleaned out a MBP of similar age while replacing the battery. There was quite a bit of dust trapped in the CPU fan, as well dried out thermal paste. Between new battery + cleaned…

It's not as customizable under the hood as Home Assistant, but it's much easier to setup than HA. Mozilla was attempting to market it to telcos and home router manufacturers as a I…

The software and/or device you are trying to trick would be able to determine it's true location using the MAC address of other WiFi APs in its vicinity - the same way a map app on…

Azul Systems (who today are mainly a JVM vendor) started by building large multicore boxes (Vega) to do Java workloads - there is an interesting tech talk about it: https://www.you…

The BBC ran a service called BBC Select in the early 90s with a VideoCrypt derivative, rather than line cut they shuffled blocks of lines around the screen - which worked better ov…

Also prior to the NBN (wholesaler) taking over the network, "take rate" (number of homes actually connected to the cable) was ~30%. Changing a network designed around that to 80% i…

I can't see this being true for IoT/M2M either, sorry. There are a couple of small MVNOs on Vodafone but nothing that would bridge the gap between them and the other players. _Mayb…

Whoever told you that was being very liberal with the truth, Vodafone has always been #3 in the Australian mobile market since they started, they were hemorrhaging subscriptions fo…

Yes, it is possible to get 600Mbps from LTE, but you need lots of mid-band spectrum - the US operators are quite challenged in that respect, plus CPE capable of carrier aggregation…

You will probably need a true SD/MMC controller to use any "new" commands, such as a smartphone or embedded target (such as the RPi). USB or other bridges used on notebooks are unl…

Also note that LTE and cable modems both came to Intel as a result of acquisition (LTE from Infineon and cable+DSL from Infineon via their Lantiq spinoff). Both times they have tri…

Further to this, I recall Darwin (the BSDish system running under OS X) x86 images being available to download from Apple up until Intel Mac's became available.