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Sad to see the site go to seed. Was never much of a chatter but I will miss seeing all you guys's contributions

mako

From what I've read (no personal experience) Forth projects tend to get unwieldy and unmaintainable when a certain level of complexity is reached -- unless you happen to be Chuck Moore himself, who designs everything in Forth.

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I would sum up the points that everyone has made by saying that giving a processor another PCIe lane is like giving a mouse a cookie: a whole bunch of supporting infrastructure is required to make effective use of it. That includes physical stuff like die space for SERDES, extra pins in the socket, ...

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I know two guys at work who are former Navy Nukes. They went to college and grad school after getting out of the service, so it's a long road.

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Interesting review, chengong. I like high density displays but yeah, scaling is a big issue.

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I'm also skeptical about the Intel+FPGA thing, but Intel isn't stupid. (Usually. cf. Netburst, Itanium, Larrabee.) A traditional standalone accelerator FPGA is nothing new, and nothing worth writing home about since it's hamstrung by having to punt data back and forth. But what if you could configur...

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When I had Uverse they sold me a 2wire 3600 for $100. (The thing was an absolute monstrosity, by the way.) So you might be getting FTTN.

I saw 3600s at Goodwill but from what I've heard AT&T is pretty evil about not letting 3rd party or recycled devices onto their network.

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TR is the only hardware site left in my daily rotation. I remember back in high school I would hit up 5-10 a day.

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Not an antenna guy, but I'll observe that full 3D electromagnetic simulation is a standard tool these days, so you can make whatever crazy antenna shape you want and analyze its performance. For a cheap consumer product, max efficiency/performance is not necessary, it just needs to be good enough. I...

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Another Brother B&W laser user here. I don't bother with printing color at home.

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I moved from a Rosewill brown to the CODE V2 with clears recently. I definitely like the force level better compared to the browns, it's less mushy feeling and I'm less prone to bottoming out. No complaints about build quality from me (well, backspace/spacebar need oiling) but I wouldn't consider my...

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I'm probably going to have to take up a Microblaze project this coming year. Would prefer a Zynq since it's more powerful and less config-fiddly, but it seems that it costs substantially more. Oh well. At the moment I'm trying to figure out an LPC bus problem, of all things. LPC to a soft 16550 UART...

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Recently I've thought about adding a BR drive to my computer, but I will have to look at how the DRM situation is nowadays.

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I'm a hardware guy and work for a hardware company (not exactly computer hardware though). I get the impression that the supply chain has shifted to Asia, with rare exceptions for sensitive (ITAR/defense) and high-margin stuff. So that means a lot of travel; I have a friend who works for HP, and he ...

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There's a lot of options in the M.2 form factor, both physical and electrical. M.2 supports up to 4x PCIe, but not all motherboards implement all four lanes, and not all drives will support that either. Booting is also BIOS dependent. So you have to do your homework.

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I've always been curious about MREs, maybe I should get a couple. But the way you've described them makes me suspect that I already know how they'll taste.

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I got one of these about a month ago and thought I'd share some impressions. I am too lazy to do the whole uploading pics thing right now, so that will have to come some other time. For now, I present rather messy-looking benchmark results showing the memory hierarchy. The CPU in this NUC is a N2930...

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Hmm, just looked for updates on the Intel site. BIOSes 0034 and 0037 both claim "Fixed issue where Intel wireless adapters lose connectivity." That's encouraging, but at the same time, there's more than one issue? Eh. I guess I'll try it out eventually, but it just so happens that I couldn...

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I'm also running Mint (16) on my N2820. It's a cute little box but the experience could've been a little smoother. Initially I had to take it to work because it wouldn't do HDMI -> DVI to my monitor. Ended up chucking it in a drawer anyway, due to install difficulties, until BIOS 25 came out. Then I...

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I have no direct experience with WHEA errors, but I'd be skeptical that an unclean OS install has anything to do with them. Your increasing error rate also says 'hardware problem' to me. I suppose driver corruption or somesuch remains a possibility, though. If only to satisfy my curiosity, I'd go wi...

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I'll chime in to say that the DN2820FYKH kit comes with no less than 4 different plugs (it's the kind where it slide-clicks onto the adapter body).

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Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of experience with ZFS or BSD for that matter, and Btrfs doesn't sound like it's ready for prime time either. I had some wild ideas about a ARM-based ZFS subsystem that could fit in a 5.25" bay, or plug in like a RAID card...

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I'm still on C2D. With an SSD, desktop work is quick enough, still quicker than most machines I see in the wild. I don't game much these days (although my Steam library keeps growing) but I did get a 660. When I get out of school I am planning an upgrade. I am thinking more of ECC RAM and ZFS than I...

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IIRC optical SPDIF is supposedly inferior to copper because the optical receiver adds jitter, which affects the clock that times the DAC. I think this assumes an awful lot about the coax solution one would be comparing it to though: terminated correctly, no ground loops, etc. These days the good DAC...

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I used Rufus for Server 2012 and it seemed to work fine. (My SSD died right after but hopefully that's unrelated...)

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Sorry, I forgot that you were using a voltage reference. You will probably be okay, but you are never sure until you test it. I have avoided high-resolution stuff like this since I lack the means to verify performance to such a precise degree. For noise analysis in general, you need to consider the ...

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Negative voltages can be made with a switching DC-DC circuit, but you probably don't want that. In this case you probably want to add another battery, perhaps a AA or a coin cell. You put the (+) side to ground, and then the (-) side will give you a negative voltage. You might want to ask yourself i...

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1. For the reference, the datasheet guarantees the specs down to an input of 8V. Beyond that it's hard to say. Depending on your requirements, you may be able to go lower, but you'll need to verify that for yourself. For op amps, they are generally characterized at a few different supply voltages. Y...

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I've only done a cursory search, but it seems like the Phobya is a good option. It pushes less air than the Air Penetrator but I'm sure the flow is still substantial. Getting access to the 180mm looks to be a royal pain, though. There's another option that I haven't tried yet. Right now I have the 1...

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I just got a TJ08-E myself, and I'm very impressed by the build quality. Dislikes are silent-computing-related: 180mm fan is still too loud, hard drive dampening is not very effective. And yeah, more screws than I was expecting. Call me crazy but I've been putting basically the same computer into di...

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