Re: [GTALUG] your desktop too boring?

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: Hey Hugh, Just a quick note while wearing a moderator hat on this mailing list. You may not be aware of it, but 'Rice it' is a pejorative term, please avoid using it here. See -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner "In some cases u

Re: [GTALUG] your desktop too boring?

Hey Hugh, Just a quick note while wearing a moderator hat on this mailing list. You may not be aware of it, but 'Rice it' is a pejorative term, please avoid using it here. See -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner Thank you, Alex. On 2019-08-19 7:14 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via ta

Re: [GTALUG] your desktop too boring? Rice it!

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Personally, I like a boring desktop. Same here. Any desktop showing is wasted space. Here's mine (from a workspace not curently in use): http://cfaj.ca/images/desktop.jpg -- Chris F.A. Johnso

[GTALUG] your desktop too boring? Rice it!

Personally, I like a boring desktop. I found this from a blog post: This guy has a nice collection of old computers (in Cambridge, Ontario):

Re: [GTALUG] AMD firmware update removes PCI 4.0 support on some motherboards

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:10 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > One of the features of the latest round of Ryzen chips is support for PCI > 4.0. > > In practice, PCI 4.0 isn't very important yet: current video cards don't > saturate PCI 3.x and neither do NVMe SSDs. But NVMe SSDs that exp

[GTALUG] AMD firmware update removes PCI 4.0 support on some motherboards

One of the features of the latest round of Ryzen chips is support for PCI 4.0. In practice, PCI 4.0 isn't very important yet: current video cards don't saturate PCI 3.x and neither do NVMe SSDs. But NVMe SSDs that exploit PCI 4.0 are starting to be announced. There is a chicken and egg proble