User Profile

[xorbe]

Turns out there are video games using rdrand for random numbers ... this is HORRIBLE, rdrand is a slow, cryptographically secure source of random numbers....

[xorbe]

I believe it's the speculative execution part that's required, not ooo. Even when linearly executed, the problem is a younger op executing before the...

[xorbe]

Wait, what? If swap is disabled, what is the system doing when the browser exceeds 4GB? Seems like the process should die with out of memory. Or is it...

[xorbe]

They finally marked the path browsable, usually doesn't take them this long, I guess someone was on vacation ......

[xorbe]

Yeah I don't get the point of this effort. You don't switch from Linux to Windows on a server for "minimum down time" with kexec.

[xorbe]

Yes, yes, let the systemd run through you ......

[xorbe]

This. Claiming that ancient 32-bit machines are great for schools is seriously romanticizing the situation. At least within the USA. Maybe there are...

[xorbe]

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/430.40/

404 - Not Found

[xorbe]

This is a tough one because it's a few hundred MHz vs L1/L2 cache thrashing. I think I would personally prefer consistent speed across multiple cores...