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From the article it's 'just' a 1x PCI-E 2.0 lane (theoretical 5Gbps throughput). This is all the VL805 expects so all that's broken out to it's pads and 'easily' accessible.

I've enjoyed Xubuntu 18.04 for the light-ness. I pull the taskbar down to the bottom of the screen, swap out the "Whisker menu" for the more classical "Applications Menu" and I'm h…

Towing a magnetic field generator behind a boat or aircraft is a common minesweeping technique. The generator is usually mounted on a floating 'sled' to maximise depth capability, …

I think, I haven't looked at their implementation; they'll be an artifact of piping the encrypted/mis-decrypted stream into a video decoder. A lot of video coding techniques use va…

I'm happy to see this, however I'd be far more excited if I thought there was a chance of it landing in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release - else I'll likely be waiting impatiently …

My understanding has always been that e-recycling centers have to pay to responsibly dispose of the junk they collect / are given, and they fund this by sorting through it for any …

The "DSLRKIT" splitters that are around on Amazon are reasonable in my experience, although the nominal output voltage varies by upto 10% between units. The 802.3at-specced ones ar…

My understanding is that the 'gzip' directive applies to HTTP compression, which is only performed on the body of the response (both in HTTP & HTTPS), and not SSL/TLS compression w…

Note that this is often done based on your IP address if you've not opted-in. It's often a quirk when using CCC (Chaos Computer Club) IP addresses at events in other countries; you…

They had very frequent issues with their payment processors. The current account (now the only account as the prepaid beta programme has ended) runs on their internally developed p…

It's often referred to as "two space stations flying in close proximity". One Russian, one American. 28VDC on the Russian side, 124VDC on the American. Rumour has it that there's b…

"On most networks, it wouldn't hurt if logging into the network for the first time took five more seconds ..." This doesn't give the impression that this is well thought out. That …

I help run one for the VHF/UHF Radio Bands, located in Surrey, UK. http://websdr.suws.org.uk/

From the subtley linked 'Husbandry Manual': http://www.aszk.org.au/docs/lhisi.pdf Section 3.2 (p8) The population at Melbourne Zoo, being descended from a single pair, appeared to …