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Frankly I am guessing, but the latest NVMes have a lot of i/o channels and act like block devices:
“All I/O submission functions are asynchronous and non-blocking. They will not block or stall the thread for any reason. . . .”
Provided the OS/CPU and mobo makes full use of the device then I’d guess that it would be good to go and not provide bottlenecks, I think however that I’d need one NVMe for the OS and one for the VMs unless I can get sneaky with RAM drives . . .
I would hazard a guess that careful mobo selection would be a key step.. From my reading Win10 fully supports NVMe (I do not know about Linux), as do mobos supporting Intel 9 series and X99 chipsets. (The Ryzen has four lanes that connect directly to NVMe and supposedly all AM4 mobos have two NV?Me slots). As I said some research will be required to confirm all this as I move closer towards the Autumn and ceremonial Piggy smashing!
I suggest that we drop the slave trade protest comments otherwise we will descend into discussing all the British slaves sold by the Vikings to the Turks! As Boris stated it was something that used to be common practice around the world, and many African tribes were in fact complicit in the trade. To the general shame of the world it still goes on in one form or another.
The past cannot be changed, instead we should learn lessons and move on and ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
Sorry John, I misread your post. I agree with Boris. Your MOT runs out on the date shown on the certificate — i.e March 2021. You missed out by a couple of weeks on getting the additional extension
The Government guidance is as usual badly thought out and poorly worded. link
The MOT on our car expired in April 2020.
As our car needed a service we have just had it serviced and MOTd. The new MOT now expires in 12 months time so the covid-19 extension has given us an extra two months grace. I would therefore say that if you have it MOTd in September 2020 the following MOT will be due September 2021.
The Government is coming under huge pressure from both within and without to reduce the social distancing rule to one metre. On the other hand the Civil Servants who claim to be scientists are making it difficult for the Government to move in that direction.
My bet is a lot of gaslighting which conflates the real benefits of everyone wearing masks with reduced social distancing. The gaslighting will include compulsory mask wearing for front facing staff in the restaurant and pub sector, and a recommendation that customers also wear masks except when eating/drinking. — BYO eating utensils and glass of course)
Be nice if my dream comes true, I quite fancy a pint on July 4th (accompanied by a lot of celebratory fireworks!).
Well at least Mushroom Matt has not yet set up scientists as scapegoats. This is exactly what is happening to the German virologist Christian Drosten who is receiving hate mail for opposing the easing of the German lockdown.
It is a good article and explains the bind that scientific Advisors are in. Scientists hate making decisions based on incomplete evidence – which of itself argues that scientists should NEVER be employed to advise on pandemics arising from new sources. Instead we should use scientifically trained business-men who are used to making such decisions. (Face masks are a good case in point – it has taken our ‘advisors’ too long to advise a measure that reduces infection by a factor of 5 (comparing cases where neither the infected person/victim have masks and the case where both are masked)) This is twice as effective as increasing social distancing from one metre to two metres.
I remember my mother telling me that the Lockheed P38 Lightning (long range WW2 two seat fighter/fighter bomber) had a similar name.
As I was a small child things now get a little mixed up in my memory, but I suspect that the epithet may have come from the low-level strafing target practice that was carried out on targets moored in the Severn Estuary somewhere between the Oldbury Nuclear Power Station and Lydney. Judging the height of the plane above the water was difficult and errors were nearly always fatal.
I may have confused the P38 with with the rocket firing practices of Typhoons and Tempests who also used that firing range.
Initially the P38 was used as a long range escort fighter, but they were ordered not to leave the bombers alone and were sitting ducks against single seat fighters, so that may also have been where they got a bad name.
My ignorance – why could they not have used compressed air, or an electric rail-gun as the driver?
With respect to Pivotal I just hope that I do not read that some Civil Servant or Politician has been given a plum job or Board position with VMWare or one of its many associated companies.
Not actually NHS but NHSX , a Government ‘holding company’ charged with pulling together software for the NHS. Its same-oh-same-oh from Mushroom Matt and the Tories and is really a vehicle for lucrative backdoor privatisation of critical parts of the NHS. The appless app is being developed by a US cloud company, Pivotal which is a divison of VMWare. Although VMWare is a reputable company it and Pivotal have little or no in-house experience of app development (zero would be my personal rating of their experience). A weird choice at best, and hard to see why they were selected. Obviously some idiot wanted to centralise the data gathering and assumed that the phone interface would be simple — hah!
Apparently BoJo’s world-beating Track & Trace App will not be working properly until September. Why we have to pay for a new App when over two years ago the Beeb had a functionally identical app that was tried and tested nation-wide for their Pandemic simulation and it was both Apple/Android compatible. link
I think in the words of Christopher Robin:
” Let’s play Poo-Sticks”
I actually think this Ars Technica article is the best way to kick off an ‘appless’ Track & Trace program and wrote to my MP asking for a follow-up with the Ministry, as one test will reveal active covid-19 in a way that would otherwise require testing thousands of people.
For clarity Dave, the El Reg link is about the ‘manual’ contact tracing system and the dangers from a spoofed telephone call or SMS message that apparently originates from the ‘official’ telephone number 0300 013 5000
I’m afraid I’m going to warn friends and family to ignore such calls and seek verification first.
It looks as though Dave was correct to be fearful of the Government’s Contact Tracing system. According to El Reg it is remarkably simple to spoof.
I found out that the Aussies are conducting a trial with zinc – the kicker is that like all the other medical trials the results will not be available until early next year!
I think the medical profession really need to overhaul their experimental design or they risk killing too many people.
A small-scale trial shows that vitamin supplementation helps ward of the worst aspects of covid-19. I’d like to see a similar trial for zinc.
“Based on evidence from 10 studies involving 2,647 participants, they found that the risk of infection or transmission when wearing a mask was 3% compared with 17% when not wearing a mask”
Maybe our ‘Not Invented Here’, so-called Scientific Advisors will now state that wearing face masks is important to stopping Covid-19 and that by not wearing a mask you are at least five times more likely to cause or get the disease.
Perhaps Bob, they do not attract as much opprobrium as they are not quite such nasty pieces of work as Cummings.
One Law etc – Cumming’s second home appears not to even pay Council Tax or have been registered as a habitable property. This man obviously believes himself to be above the law.
Data analysis of Covid-19 cases in Germany and the UK apparently shows that Germans are less liable to fall victim to severe cases of Covid-19 and less liable to die even when they do need hospital treatment. A real puzzle.
I think that you are right Dave, we will just have to make our own judgement – Cummings-Style. :yahoo:
This ‘Government’ is a shambolic mess, shies away from necessary detail and could not even organise a booze-up in a brewery. Instead they spend the tax-payers money by outsourcing everything to their incompetent friends. I wonder what role Jennifer Arcuri’s ‘tech’ company plays in the tracing app?
Shades of Typhoid Mary and the Diamond Princess are revealed in this BMJ Analysis of a South American Cruise Liner.
A number of very scary points emerge from this second floating Petri Dish in which everyone was thoroughly tested and half those on board were found to be infected.
a) The rapid swab test is fairly useless, and lab based testing had to be used
b) Of those infected, 81% were asymptomatic and apparently healthy.
Once again our ‘scientific’ advisors are pandering to politics and ignoring scientific findings. Everyone should be wearing a mask if they will meet other members of the public (especially runners puffing past you). Masks should be mandatory in all enclosed public places.
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