General Computer Thread

[Kamen Rider Blade]

AV1's claim of being "Royalty-Free" has always been dubious in my eyes.
The way they got their "Royalty-Free" status has been question-able at best.

This is AV1 getting the lawsuits they deserve.
There is no "Free Lunch" when it comes to Patents, somebody has to pay, you just might not be seeing who is paying directly.

"EVC MPEG-5 Part 1 'BaseLine'" is the only truly 'Free Codec'

 

[Marc]

AV1's claim of being "Royalty-Free" has always been dubious in my eyes.
The way they got their "Royalty-Free" status has been question-able at best.

This is AV1 getting the lawsuits they deserve.
There is no "Free Lunch" when it comes to Patents, somebody has to pay, you just might not be seeing who is paying directly.

"EVC MPEG-5 Part 1 'BaseLine'" is the only truly 'Free Codec'

problem is that patents have been frequently used to stiffle competition and development helped by some fucking stupid court decisions that have completely ignored blatantly obvious prior art - especially in the IT sector.

there's a U.S court devision that's infamous for this hence being a favoured venue for patent trolls.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

problem is that patents have been frequently used to stiffle competition and development helped by some fucking stupid court decisions that have completely ignored blatantly obvious prior art - especially in the IT sector.

there's a U.S court devision that's infamous for this hence being a favoured venue for patent trolls.

That's why EVC MPEG-5 BlaseLine is the only "Truly Free CODEC".

It's all based on Expired Patents, things that have been clearly given to the Public.

And it's "Good Enough" in terms of compression/bit-rate while being Free.

Way better than H.264, but still not competitive with H.265.

But WAY faster to Encode with.

 

[Santaman]

Still busy checking out the stockpile of antiques, today a Barton core Athlon 2800+ socket A machine, runs XP, it's quite fast for something that old.

 

[Marc]

2 years ago Adrian brought a Plexus P/20 back to life.

Possibly the only surviving example of the system dual 6810 processor Unix system from 1985.

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He's done a final video as he prepares to take the system to a Vintage Computer Festival but there's also condensed version of the previous 4 videos.

Him playing with uudecode brought back memories. I can remember using in the early 90s it retrieve binaries from usenet news group and uucp to download to my FreeBSD system.

 

[Santaman]

Interesting machine, one of the companies I worked for aaaaaaaaages ago had a similar setup, a master computer and some terminals, no idea what kind it was but I believe it was a Philips mini computer..

 

[Marc]

Interesting machine, one of the companies I worked for aaaaaaaaages ago had a similar setup, a master computer and some terminals, no idea what kind it was but I believe it was a Philips mini computer..

for something similar you'd have have the Usagi Electric series on the Ceturion (which I think I linked quite some time back).

my first exposure to multi-user was system that I've never found much on (lack of model number to search on for starters) was a Solbourne with dual 68000 series processors running Unix with 1st years using it for ADA programming.

 

[bdub76]

We're doomed.

The RAM shortage could last years

Memory makers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027.

www.theverge.com

I was hoping to build a PC next year since the costs will be high this year. Now, that's looking tough as well.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

We're doomed.

The RAM shortage could last years

Memory makers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027.

www.theverge.com

I was hoping to build a PC next year since the costs will be high this year. Now, that's looking tough as well.

It does feel downbeat and terrible. Thing is everyone has their own opinion and point of view on the ram crisis.

Lately I just don't know what to believe

 

[Santaman]

ASrock to the rescue!! sorta.. kinda.. maybe.. mwah..
the HUDIMM with one sub channel.. my FX 8350 is looking better and better in this day and age..

ASRock Develops HUDIMM Memory Standard: DDR5 with Just One Sub-channel

You know we've hit rock-bottom with memory affordability when ASRock innovates a new memory standard to lower prices. The new "HUDIMM," or half unbuffered DIMM, is an ASRock-innovated standard. It calls for UDIMMs with half a rank of memory, populating just one of the two 40-bit sub-channels...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

ASrock to the rescue!! sorta.. kinda.. maybe.. mwah..
the HUDIMM with one sub channel.. my FX 8350 is looking better and better in this day and age..

ASRock Develops HUDIMM Memory Standard: DDR5 with Just One Sub-channel

You know we've hit rock-bottom with memory affordability when ASRock innovates a new memory standard to lower prices. The new "HUDIMM," or half unbuffered DIMM, is an ASRock-innovated standard. It calls for UDIMMs with half a rank of memory, populating just one of the two 40-bit sub-channels...

www.techpowerup.com

Cash grab

 

[Marc]

ASrock to the rescue!! sorta.. kinda.. maybe.. mwah..
the HUDIMM with one sub channel.. my FX 8350 is looking better and better in this day and age..

ASRock Develops HUDIMM Memory Standard: DDR5 with Just One Sub-channel

You know we've hit rock-bottom with memory affordability when ASRock innovates a new memory standard to lower prices. The new "HUDIMM," or half unbuffered DIMM, is an ASRock-innovated standard. It calls for UDIMMs with half a rank of memory, populating just one of the two 40-bit sub-channels...

www.techpowerup.com

At least it's not rambus.

but it could be a lower cost option for those who a pretty much just using their computers to access stuff from the web and wouldn't known a i9 from z80.

v2 Xeon E5 hardware has generally fallen from favour in the homelabbing circles because it didn't really hold up on a power performance basis.

but you can by a shit load of DDR3 RDIMMS for not much and pay for a pile of power with the savings

 

[Santaman]

Rambus still exists...

Rambus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I have three machines coming my way in a while, all DDR3 based. I like my corporate e-waste computers.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

remember the old days from the ms dos era lol

 

[Santaman]

Yes I do.. config.sys and autoexec.bat
Have your precious TSR's loaded in the wrong way and a game couldn't start because there wasn't enough conventional RAM available, and decidng if you could leave out the CD drivers to make it work because you didn't need the CD drive anyway...
And then discover that if you loaded the mouse driver before the CD driver it would work!
Ah yes.. the "good" old days..

 

[Marc]

I have three machines coming my way in a while, all DDR3 based. I like my corporate e-waste computers.

in 2019 I bought a secondhand Supermicro motherboard with dual Xeon E5 2650v2s a which point it was 7 years.

First with ESXi and then Proxmox it didn't miss a beat and could probably still be my server if I hadn't upgrade early last year before prices when made.

Now it's just my 2 in 3-2-1 backups.

Also presently have some old Dell 2nd i5 laptops that came from a client for disposal. Wiped Windows and put on ChromeFlex (so basiclally ChromeOS) and will put them up on a local free stuff facebook group and see if I get any takers given they're old and heavy and the batteries are pretty shot but the screens are still decent and all devices work.

Will be saying there's no support with these. People won't want to pay and I won't want to give my time for free.

 

[Santaman]

I usually get old stuff from people I know, they buy a new machine and I get the old one, also with the corporate stuff, my brother is a sysadmin and after a few years old office machines land in my clutches.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Tom's Hardware - Scientists create electronic devices that function reliably at extreme temperatures from 500 degrees Celcuis to absolute zero — advanced semiconductor material unlocks new possibilities in space tech and quantum computing

This could be a game changer for making electronics & computers for Space Applications & Quantum Computers who operate in those extreme environments.

 

[Scanlan]

Tom's Hardware - Scientists create electronic devices that function reliably at extreme temperatures from 500 degrees Celcuis to absolute zero — advanced semiconductor material unlocks new possibilities in space tech and quantum computing

This could be a game changer for making electronics & computers for Space Applications & Quantum Computers who operate in those extreme environments.

Or our environment with the impending climate changes.

 

[Santaman]

I can remember something from the late 80's IIRC involving synthetic diamond substrate which would make chips rather invulnareble to heat, cold or radiation, never heard of it again ever since though..

There's nothing impeding about climate change, it has been happening for decades and it's accelerating..