this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor
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this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor
who connects a floppy to it (except for you know who)
@whitequark a decade of description copy and paste
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@whitequark a decade of description copy and paste
@whitequark *two decades
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this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor
who connects a floppy to it (except for you know who)
@whitequark there are too many people on fedi, who would, to exactly pin down who you mean
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this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor
who connects a floppy to it (except for you know who)
There was a Xen vulnerability (VM escape) a few (10?) years ago that was a result of a bug in floppy disk emulation. It required urgent patching on most clouds, even though they don’t actually expose a way to use floppy disks. As I recall, this all existed because some Windows versions failed to boot if they couldn’t find a floppy drive.
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There was a Xen vulnerability (VM escape) a few (10?) years ago that was a result of a bug in floppy disk emulation. It required urgent patching on most clouds, even though they don’t actually expose a way to use floppy disks. As I recall, this all existed because some Windows versions failed to boot if they couldn’t find a floppy drive.
@david_chisnall i remember that!
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this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor
who connects a floppy to it (except for you know who)
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Casual reminder floppies stopped production more than 15 years ago (but really 19 years ago, February 2007).
Good riddance, substandard 1.4mb storage devices lacking any and all error correction. -
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Casual reminder floppies stopped production more than 15 years ago (but really 19 years ago, February 2007).
Good riddance, substandard 1.4mb storage devices lacking any and all error correction.@lynne i didn't know the exact date!
i had an idea to use Glasgow to write a one-packet-per-track, properly ECC'd and encoded data, with significantly higher density. but i never finished it
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this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor
who connects a floppy to it (except for you know who)
@whitequark people installing slackware
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@lynne i didn't know the exact date!
i had an idea to use Glasgow to write a one-packet-per-track, properly ECC'd and encoded data, with significantly higher density. but i never finished it
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I, along with 3 other people, had ideas about recording Opus to regular cassette tapes via QAM and using RaptorQ for FEC.
Glad I never bought that heavy tape deck now. One less thing to carry or throw away. -
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I, along with 3 other people, had ideas about recording Opus to regular cassette tapes via QAM and using RaptorQ for FEC.
Glad I never bought that heavy tape deck now. One less thing to carry or throw away.@lynne how would you do QAM on regular cassette tapes? would you modulate a carrier? or do you mean PAM?
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@lynne how would you do QAM on regular cassette tapes? would you modulate a carrier? or do you mean PAM?
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems My original plan was to use AC bias (~15khz constant sine to remove wow and flutter digitally), and 8b/10b on a lower frequency for the data.
@td@pars.ee made a demo using gnuradio with QAM, and later someone did the same, and I have no interest in the actual signalling, just in the error correction and Opus. So I was happy to have them deal with it.
There's enough pure beauty in error correction algorithms to satisfy me. Accurate on encoding, inaccurate in decoding is the exact opposite of audio codecs. -
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems My original plan was to use AC bias (~15khz constant sine to remove wow and flutter digitally), and 8b/10b on a lower frequency for the data.
@td@pars.ee made a demo using gnuradio with QAM, and later someone did the same, and I have no interest in the actual signalling, just in the error correction and Opus. So I was happy to have them deal with it.
There's enough pure beauty in error correction algorithms to satisfy me. Accurate on encoding, inaccurate in decoding is the exact opposite of audio codecs.@lynne fascinating
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this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor
who connects a floppy to it (except for you know who)
@whitequark The Japanese government (up until recently)?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx82407j1v3o -
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