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Did you order the Hybrid version?
Using gem stones for data storage and lasers for quantum computers reminds me so much of just those elements in Blake’s 7 and other science fiction of the 80/90s/noughties!
I wonder if that pre-existing technology makes it impossible to patent the principles? At one time it was said that Arthur C Clarke could have made a fortune by the way he presaged the use of geostationary satellites if he had just taken out a patent on the idea.
Certainly impressive!
There appears enough detail there for such drones to be used in ‘Search & Rescue’, much better than tramping over cliffs and beaches. Much cheaper than using a helicopter.
Looks as though the ‘vulnerable ones’ can look forward to having six-monthly jabs for the rest of their lives!
The US are being plagued by Omicron variants that evade both vaccination and previous Covid infection. Ars link.
These variants are probably around in the UK as well as an elderly friend has just recovered from Covid despite being ‘protected’ by four vaccinations/boosters.
The world is going to have to find ways of living with this disease. The only winners are going to be the Pharmaceutical companies and their share holders.
If you are really off to Egypt for hols, do not forget to have up to date jabs plus anti-malaria pills (you start taking anti-malarials about a week in advance).
https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/destinations/africa/egypt
Personally I would avoid the anti-malarial mefloquine (larium) like the plague as it has a bad track record of causing depression and suicide. Prior to this becoming public knowledge, the wife and I took this while traveling in a high risk Asian country and it nearly drove both of us loopy! Talk to your local pharmacy about your options and tell them of any other meds you are taking.
Being more than just a tad cynical, and a person who is used to marketing spiel, this Intel release is refreshing as reading between the lines the differences between PCIe3 4 and 5 are ‘not a lot’.
Cutting to the chase the differences between the three is bandwidth, but really only storage bandwidth may use this at present. In fact Intel say until better drivers are developed even that is a bit iffy.
“Currently, PCIe 4.0 SSDs are designed to have higher maximum read/write speeds than PCIe 3.0 SSDs, but their current real-world advantages in areas like loading times and large file transfer are small. Over time, however, new memory controllers will be released and both games and applications are expected to take greater advantage of modern SSDs.”
According to Intel the main value of using PCIe5 is future proofing for the day when drivers and hardware use the capability that it will provide:
“As mentioned above, each generation of PCIe doubles in throughput. But the real benefit of PCIe 5.0 is full backwards compatibility and future-proofing: you know that new hardware won’t be bottlenecked on your system.”
*At the time they wrote the article Intel did not really know what tangible benefits will come from PCIe5. They did however speculate:
“PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 devices. Though you might not spring for a PCIe 4.0 SSD or GPU during your initial build or purchase, it’s easy to see why support is useful down the road. Maybe ports of new console games start relying more heavily on streaming in assets, and a PCIe 4.0 SSD provides a tangibly smoother experience. Or the next generation of GPUs benefits from the doubled throughput of PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 slots. ”
I read this as saying don’t get too worried about it at the moment but do keep it in mind for your future PC unless you are into AI or Bitcoin mining in which case you may want it earlier.
*I do wish technical articles were date-stamped, as I have to assume that the thoughts are still current!
Digital Trends have a reasonably current report, but share the same conclusions adding only that it ‘might’ allow smaller desktops/consoles – not sure I understand why that should be the case but hey ho!
My wife tends to ignore trivial things like the disks being nearly full, and other warning signs! I therefor need to make a PC as robust as possible, especially as SSDs drop dead without any warning. Over-provisioning tends to put off that evil day, maybe even until the whole setup gets changed. The other thing I have done is to put in far more ram than she needs and turn off Windows Paging as that can cause a huge number of SSD writes.
Of course backups are an essential part of all this, but they only become useful after the disaster has hit.
I honestly do not know!
I use Disk Management to set up an SSD, and that is where I now format (say) a 500Gb drive as 400Gb to give it 25% over provisioning.
What I do know is that when my wife filled her drive up to 99% or so and kept using it, the machine went scatty due to it not having enough swap space – it triggered all sorts of issues including the screen flashing and the PC appearing to be bricked for many seconds. If Windows now manages that situation on new disks that would be great.
While I could not find the exact manual, the H170Pro manual is on-line. Take a look at the layout on page 12 and it should give you an idea if it is similar.
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/H170-PRO/E12046_H170-PRO_UM_V2_WEB.pdf
As I noted previously, I could not find details for your box.
Often this form factor uses a heat pipe to move heat from the cpu to a metal heat sink that is cooled by a fan and vents in the box. When I had problems with a similarly positioned 24/7 operation NUC (positioned in a drawer-like space) the top of the NUC became almost too hot to touch.
My guess would be that feeling the top of your pc after prolonged use will give you a good indication of potential problems.
If you start getting strange errors – your first suspect should be the temperature of the PC. Keeping a biscuit tin sized PC in a cupboard or confined space can be a problem. If that happens think about sitting the PC on top of an external cooler.
Sorry John, I could not see any info on that little box. You need to get into bios and see if it is uefi boot capable, and if it supports M2. Then before doing anything else I’d prepare a Windows 11 recovery stick.
Then you can try using the instructions in Quora. I personally dislike the cloning option but that is up to you.
https://www.quora.com/Can-I-use-an-M-2-SSD-as-a-boot-drive
All this is likely to be suck it and see, hence the precautionary step of making a recovery stick.
BMax claim to give full technical support so I would call their bluff, and follow their advice with respect to installing an M2 as you are still under warranty.
Supposedly research has shown that mixing Pfizer/Az jabs with a later Moderna dose gives improved resistance to Covid.
Unfortunately until you try there is no real way of knowing if you will get a bad reaction to Moderna. We had three doses of Pfizer before receiving a 4th (half dose) of Moderna, and luckily we had no real aftereffects (except as usual my wife had a sore arm).
Sorry it has affected you so much. While getting jabbed beats getting Covid, a friend of ours had a bad 24 hours following a third Moderna jab. His blood pressure crashed the next day and he had a precautionary overnight in hospital as a result.
Apparently it is better to see like a Bug – its compound eyes have better focus capabilities.
https://newatlas.com/photography/nist-light-field-camera-record-depth-of-field/
Alternately, see like a Harris Hawk – they have superior telephoto and colour contrast capabilities.
Nice looking camera – great size and specs! I’m surprised that you have to do much to your pics, but if you are really serious in your tweaking then I’d recommend shooting in the RAW format as that usually gives that extra couple of bits to play with.
What I would really like is a 48bit camera as that could really sort out light-dark contrasts, and give superior HDRI.
May 15, 2022 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Russiagate, Geopolitics, National Politics, Gas, Ukraine and us #69529I dipped in from time to time, and mostly saw strong contenders for ‘Null Point’, especially the manic Norwegian yellow ‘Were Wolves’, and their crazy lyric. Maybe I’m just getting old, but that act ticked no boxes for me.
I was however pleased to see that the British contribution was much better than the usual weak carp and deservedly did NOT get the dreaded zeroes. It was nice to see that France and Germany got the kicking instead.
Microsoft are extending the requirement for a Microsoft account (MSA) to Windows Pro users:
“Previously, we shared new requirements for internet and MSA on the Windows 11 Pro edition. Today, Windows Insiders on Windows 11 Pro edition will now require MSA and internet connectivity during the initial device setup (OOBE) only when setting up for personal use. If you choose to setup device for Work or School, there is no change, and it will work the same way as before.”
Imo linking an Admin account to an email address reduces security somewhat. However, I reluctantly set things up with an MSA, install everything, then set up a real Admin account with an non-obvious name, and down-grade the MSA admin account to a mere ‘User’ status.
The new one has systems in place to frustrate you every step of the way.
I share your frustration. I too have had a GP practice merger thrust on me, which caused at least two good GPs to retire, and turned a slick user friendly IT based system into a heap of American carp. No doubt the partners in the practice made out but the patients certainly did not! The unannounced Conservative policy of ‘privatisation through the backdoor’ stinks!
May 10, 2022 at 7:33 am in reply to: Russiagate, Geopolitics, National Politics, Gas, Ukraine and us #69517Yes, unfortunately even sites like this could fall foul of the new legislation that is going to be announced in the Queens Speech today. This will massively extend the Official Secrets Act. As the Civil Service is run by Oxbridge Arts graduates they do not really understand technology, as a result they avoid getting into areas they do not understand and use swingeing legislation that gives the Government blanket powers to act on anything they might not like. This leaves the law very ‘grey’ and open to wide interpretation.
As I currently understand it, the new Act will cover everything from social media manipulation through to discussing any aspects of critical infrastructure. As a real but extreme example of the latter should we get into a discussion about automation, I could possibly get into trouble by saying that Siemens PICs are widely used in Sewage Farm control systems and complain about their vulnerability to Stuxnet type attacks and its potential impact on our beaches.
Journalists are expressing concerns that this blanket legislation will stifle their investigation into areas that should be of public concern. They are also noting that in typical fashion the new law does not include any action against Russian money being funnelled into the Conservative party or individual Conservative MPs!
Shades of 1984.
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