Tuesday, January 15

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Daily News Stuff 15 January 2019

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  • Micron has bought Intel's share of their flash memory joint venture.  (AnandTech)

    That's still big news, though something that has been in the works for over a year.  The IMFT joint venture is the manufacturer for Intel's Optane chips, and now Micron will own it.

  • How is Intel going to respond to AMD's upcoming Ryzen 3000 series?  With the Core i9-9990XE, a 14 core 255W part with a base clock of 4.0GHz and a boost clock of 5.0GHz.  (AnandTech)

    About that power draw:
    Motherboard vendors will have to support 420 amps on the power delivery for the chip (which at 1.3 volts would be 546 watts), and up to 30 amps per core. It will be for the socket 2066 X299 motherboards already on the market, and perhaps importantly, there is no warranty from Intel.
    Oh, and the price?  There is no price.  It will be sold only to approved system vendors by private auction.

  • The Opteron whichwhat?  The Opteron X3421 is...  Oh, that's Excavator, isn't it?  (Serve the Home)

    Yes, Excavator.  Meh.

  • Apple says Qualcomm refused to sell them modems for the latest iPhones.  (Thurrott.com)

    Qualcomm says Apple already owes them thirty-seven trillion dollars, so of course they didn't sell them any more chips.

  • Why is my keyboard connected to the cloud?  (ZDNet)

    Good question, I'll ask Google.

    Hmm, the answer appears to be It is safe and secure.  Please remain calm and stay in your current location.

  • Xapiand is a search engine designed to compete with Elasticsearch but written in nice clean C++ and not icky Java.

    (Or is that the other way around?)

    Anyway, it's clearly written around the Xapian search library, which I have used extensively and works well.  I haven't looked at it for about four years so I'm not sure if it's entirely kept up, but even at the state it was in then it's a solid foundation.

    Xapiand specifically is in a pre-release state and needs some love, most obviously in the documentation.  But it's all on GitHub and it's MIT licensed, so it's open to anyone who wants to help out.


Disclaimer: I am prepared not only to disavow my remarks, but to deny under oath that I ever made them.

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1 <blockquote>The Opteron whichwhat? </blockquote>
More like the Nope-teron, right?
<blockquote>Why is my keyboard connected to the cloud?</blockquote>
I installed Corsair's iCue software to control the unicorn vomit on my case fans (4 16-LD Corsair LL120s).  It interacts badly with Guild Wars 2, causing regular but short lag in the game, even causing sound skips.  Very annoying.  Oh, and I think it may be cloudy, too.

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, January 15 2019 03:14 PM (Iwkd4)

2 And in related news, practice safe scp.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, January 15 2019 03:48 PM (tgyIO)

3 That scp bug is a gem.  Using scp to upload files to a hostile server can compromise the client.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, January 15 2019 03:58 PM (PiXy!)

4 I'm impressed by the "nobody discovered this for 36 years" aspect, myself.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 16 2019 01:12 AM (Q/JG2)

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