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Presentation on the hidden realm of processors and HW agents within SOCs ands peripherals. It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware — Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich — USENIX 2021 https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-keynote Thrust is there are many SOC designs...

Announcing ddrescue-helper.sh, a bash script to make using GNU ddrescue easier on macOS (and soon Linux) https://github.com/c-o-pr/ddrescue-helper OVERVIEW If you have an older spinning hard drive, you may have run into problems with read errors preventing access to some files, or the drive...

Where will old hackintoshers go? Maybe this way... https://ravynos.com/

I have a Sonoma 2018 Mac Mini with a Data partition that is so full that it crashes when reaching the desktop, Moreover, when booted into Recovery even the rm command fails with the error no space left on device. I looked into deleting a neighbor partition to free up some space, but the only...

"Intel 80386, a revolutionary CPU" https://www.xtof.info/intel80386.html Worse than that, "At the same frequency" meant it was effecticely limited to 0.0005 GHz, or 500 KHz, at the initial stepping. With a lot of tuning it got cranked up to 5+ MHz. More unfortunately, normalized for clockrate...

Dave Cutler of DEC and Microsoft on History of Windows (3hrs) Not for the casual observer, but full of references to important companies, people and systems. In the first 15 minutes, we learn that the executive culture of the early PCs got trashy— It was a different era. But then the story...

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-20 Worthwhile retrospective!

Mac news from the 80s https://32by32.com/ What users worried about in 1983...

PCIe5 SSD Active Cooling https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/27/liquid_cooled_ssd/ ... active cooling is a gimmick. The term "prefer" means an industry consensus that running NAND flash hot (e.g. 60+ C leads to best power-off data retention.

A Look at the FS N9510-64D A 64x 400GbE Switch https://www.servethehome.com/a-look-at-the-fs-n9510-64d-64x-400gbe-switch-broadcom-nvidia-intel-amd-pny-supermicro/

News for folks interested in server roadmaps... AmpereOne with 192 Cores 128x PCIe Gen5 Lanes and DDR5 in 2023 https://www.servethehome.com/ampereone-with-192-cores-128x-pcie-gen5-lanes-and-ddr5-in-2023-arm/

Up to date technical information on the progress of NVMe storage. https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/594375 Link to part-2 at end of above.

"It was 30 years ago today, When Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play They've been going in and out of style But they're guaranteed to raise a smile So may I introduce to you The act you've known for all these years Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" "Professionals" Will he give the...

https://gist.github.com/kconner/cff08fe3e0bb857ea33b47d965b3e19f Note—That url is kind of wonky, how long will it last? Explanation: This github "gist" is a curated table-of-contents to old Ars Technica articles on macOS. Github user kconner publicly marksup (marksdown) ancient exposition...

What if someone made a 2008 Macbook Pro today for Linux / ChromeOS, and sold it for $100: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/ 4 x ARM Cortex A53 cores @ 1.152 GHz ARM Mali 400 MP2 GPU 2GB LPDDR3 RAM 1080p IPS panel Bootable Micro SD slot 16GB of eMMC (upgradable) HD digital video out 2x USB 2.0...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7000-burning-out-root-cause-identified-expo-and-soc-voltages-to-blame Tldr, overvolting leads to failure of thermal protection logic and chip overheats to the point of damaging the board and even desoldering (? I only skimmed the report)

Nice presentation and great results

"Ahoy" Using personal computers hasn't changed in some key ways for a long time. Pointing and clicking lists, hedged app associations, goofiness resolving names, file compatibility headaches, uncertain waiting for something to happen... Endless fussing. Regarding the restoration: I am...

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/04/01/amds-hd-6950-vs-rx-6900-xt-what-does-adding-50-do/ This writeup is a great litany of architecture changes that attend a superficially minor model number change. And for hackintosh cognoscenti, clues will be supplied as to why the inadvertently-bought XTX...