• A possibly not entirely terrible small office switch from EnGenius, whoever they are  (AnandTech)
  
  Eight 2.5Gb ports, four 10Gb SFP+ ports, and, oh look, it uploads monitoring data to the cloud.  What a great idea.
  
  Netgear has a reasonably priced small multi-gigabit switch, but the port configuration is a mess: Four 1Gb, two 2.5Gb, two 5Gb, one 10Gb RJ-45, and one 10Gb SFP+.
  
  
  
• Matrox still exists.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They just make low-end cards for driving video walls, but if you need an aggregate resolution of 20,480 x 12,800 from a single PC, they've got you covered. 
  
  Covered with a rat's nest of adaptor cables, but covered.
  
  
  
• Another day, another ContentID debacle from YouTube.  (TechDirt)
  
  In this case a particularly impressive showing: YouTube took down a livestream that hadn't even started.
  
  
  
• Amazon pressed Ukrainian business magazine Vector to alter an article that linked the behaviour of Ring to Amazon.  (TechDirt)
  
  Amazon owns Ring.
  
  At least it's standard corporate evil empire behaviour where nothing matters but money, and not the international socialist takeover kind where nothing matters but uniformity.  You can always pay the former to leave you alone.
  
  
  
• Let's remove quaternions from every 3D graphics API and replace it with the same thing with a different name.
  
  Or, on the other hand, not.
  
  
  
• Some Epyc Rome chips don't have four memory channels instead of eight.  (Serve the Home)
  
  This is just a little bit confusing.  These parts - the 7232P, 7252, 7272, and 7282 are "four channel optimised", but all eight channels work.  You can still have sixteen DIMMs per CPU.
  
  The only difference is that because they only have two CPU dies - 8, 12, or 16 total cores - they only connect directly to two quadrants of the huge I/O die in the middle.  Memory accesses can still hop right across to any other quadrant but it does take several extra nanoseconds.
  
  So "four channel optimised" means "eight channel but you will get a few percent better performance on some workloads if you only populate four of the channels, maybe".
  
  
  
• Online meal delivery apps have a strange new trick:Add restaurants without asking them first.  (Eater)
  
  Including restaurants that don't offer take-out.  Unsurprisingly, lawyers are now involved.
  
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, February 01 2020 01:44 AM (Iwkd4)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, February 01 2020 11:14 AM (PiXy!)

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