This has so far got to be the best explanation I’ve seen for the Meltdown/Spectre vulnerabilities…
Category Archives: Computers
The IPv4 Report
So, it’s the end of another year and time to have a look at where we are with IPv4 address exhaustion as of now.
Project PVR (Part 3)
So, just the remote control to do now. A few weeks ago, I bought an FLIRC USB dongle and a One For All remote control, which can work as a Microsoft Media Center (sic) remote if you use the code 1272 on it. Configuring the FLIRC device was pretty much as simple as plugging the dongle into a USB port and running the supplied software on it (I used the Windows version, but there is also a Linux version too). Continue reading
Project PVR (part 2)
In my last article, I talked about my PVR hardware build. This is now complete, so this blog post is going to talk about the software build. The PVR software is entirely built on Debian so is entirely open-source apart from the binary firmware blob I needed to make my Hauppauge TV card work. Continue reading
Project PVR
Hopefully soon all the parts should arrive for the latest of my little projects, building my own DVB-T (Freeview) & DVB-T2 (Freeview HD) Personal Video Recorder (PVR). So far I have in my hand the Noctua CPU cooler, which on its own won’t record TV programmes very well, and the rest is (at the time of writing) due to be delivered early next week. Continue reading
Latency
For those of you that read my last article, you’ll know that I had to turn the power management off on the PCI slots to make my sound card work properly. Well tonight I’ve been comparing the new WASAPI drivers vs the ASIO drivers on my RME HDSP9632 sound card using SONAR Platinum, and the effective latency results were quite surprising:
Why I hate computers, part 335,123,232
When it comes to computers in my house, it never rains but it pours. Microsoft released their monthly Patch Tuesday updates on 8 November 2016, which I duly installed and rebooted, and turned the computer off. When I turned it on the following day, the computer failed to boot. It didn’t even get as far as the blue Windows logo that appears when you try to boot Windows 10. “Very odd”, I thought, “I wonder what caused that?” and went to do some digging.
UK IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2016
This year I was finally able to attend in person, which took place last Monday 31 October at the offices of the IET in London, having only being able to watch the videos the previous two years. There were many interesting talks; in the morning the meeting was mainly talks from some of the major UK ISPs on how their rollouts are going.
IPv6: Everyone’s an expert
One of the great things about the Internet, it might be argued, is that it gives everyone who wants one a voice. One example of this in action might be this blog. But equally, there’s ways of expressing your opinon all over the Internet, most popularly using social media web sites, and comment sections of ‘normal’ web sites.
Sky/IPv6 announcement
Sky put out a press release today which announced the completion (although, later on in the press release, it changed its mind to almost completed) of its IPv6 rollout in the UK (and well timed, too, because the UKNOF35 conference starts in two days)