The Intel Arc B580 and PCIe Slot SizeThe Intel Arc B580 and PCIe Slot Size
A few months ago I bought a Intel Arc B580 for the main purpose of getting 8K video going [1]. I had briefly got it working in a test PC[...]
Matching Intel CPUsMatching Intel CPUs
To run a SMP system with multiple CPUs you need to have CPUs that are “identical”, the question is what does “identical” mean. In this case I’m interested in Intel[...]
Trying DeepSeek R1Trying DeepSeek R1
I saw this document on running DeepSeek R1 [1] and decided to give it a go. I downloaded the llama.cpp source and compiled it and downloaded the 131G of data[...]
Links May 2025Links May 2025
Christopher Biggs gave an informative Evrything Open lecture about voice recognition [1]. We need this on Debian phones. Guido wrote an informative blog post about booting a custom Android kernel[...]
Service Setup DifficultiesService Setup Difficulties
Marco wrote a blog post opposing hyperscale systems which included “We want to use an hyperscaler cloud because our developers do not want to operate a scalable and redundant database[...]
Machine Learning SecurityMachine Learning Security
I just read an interesting blog post about ML security recommended by Bruce Schneier [1]. This approach of having 2 AI systems where one processes user input and the second[...]
Leaf ZE1Leaf ZE1
I’ve just got a second hand Nissan LEAF. It’s not nearly as luxurious as the Genesis EV that I test drove [1]. It’s also just over 5 years old so[...]
Digital Sovereignty and EmailDigital Sovereignty and Email
Running Your Own Email Srever I run my own mail server. I have run it since about 1995, initially on a 28k8 modem connection but the connection improved as technology[...]
DDR4 RAM SizeDDR4 RAM Size
I’ve been looking at computer hardware on AliExpress a lot recently and I saw an advert for a motherboard which can take 256G DDR4 RDIMMs (presumably LRDIMMs). Most web pages[...]
Silly Job TitlesSilly Job Titles
Many years ago I was on a programming project porting code from OS/2 1.x to NT. When I was there they suddenly decided to make a database of all people[...]