Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

Yeah, but it won't be about video cards (thankfully). (FWIW, the issues I am having driving two 4K monitors with an RX 550 exist in both Windows and Linux, suggesting that it's not capable of driving both monitors at full spec. Either I need to dial down the frequency as Russell suggests, or I

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:10:38PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote: > > OpenBSD is still thriving, and they carefully audit all their code before > > incorporating it, as well as have ongoing rolling security audits. They > > may be too extreme in their focus,

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On 2021-03-29 3:31 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 02:21:06PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: When I started using pfsense, about 5 years ago, I was surprised it was using FreeBSD and not Linux.  I also found BSD to be a bit crude, compared to Linux.  The only

Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | You have the floor tomorrow. Perhaps a discussion on this would be | interesting. Duh. The next meeting is two weeks away. Evan will be the speaker. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

| From: Peter King via talk | OpenBSD is still thriving, and they carefully audit all their code before | incorporating it, as well as have ongoing rolling security audits. They | may be too extreme in their focus, but that's another issue. That's what they claim. And it's probably true. But

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:10:38PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote: > OpenBSD is still thriving, and they carefully audit all their code before > incorporating it, as well as have ongoing rolling security audits. They > may be too extreme in their focus, but that's another issue. Oh OpenBSD

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 02:08:35PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > I think a more correct lesson is: FreeBSD has so few people involved > (and their processes for comming don't require review) that things don't > get checked in many cases. I certainly don't get the impression that >

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On 2021-03-29 3:59 p.m., Scott Allen wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 15:40, James Knott via talk wrote: While I haven't used it much, OpenWRT isn't in the same class as pfsense. From what I found with a quick web search, it looks like DHCPv6-PD can be handled by wide-dhcpv6, maybe along with

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 15:40, James Knott via talk wrote: > While I haven't used it much, OpenWRT isn't in the same class as > pfsense. From what I found with a quick web search, it looks like DHCPv6-PD can be handled by wide-dhcpv6, maybe along with dnsmasq, so any distribution supporting these

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On 2021-03-29 3:31 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote: OpenWRT seems to handle it fine, whatever program they are using on linux. While I haven't used it much, OpenWRT isn't in the same class as pfsense.  In terms of function, it's closer to Cisco.  However, according to a book I read a while ago,

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 02:21:06PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > When I started using pfsense, about 5 years ago, I was surprised it was > using FreeBSD and not Linux.  I also found BSD to be a bit crude, compared > to Linux.  The only reason I stopped using SUSE for my firewall was it >

Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad? Yes. For example, I've bought a couple ofAMD rx570-class video cards over the last two or three years. Each with 8G of RAM. $200 each, roughly. I recently saw a used one being offered for $500! These are

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On 2021-03-29 2:08 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: I think a more correct lesson is: FreeBSD has so few people involved (and their processes for comming don't require review) that things don't get checked in many cases. I certainly don't get the impression that there is much activity or

Re: [GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 02:47:46PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > Summary: a WireGuard port to FreeBSD was sponsored by Northgate (pfSense > company). The port was

Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 4:35 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all. > > I made the mistake that I might want to upgrade my video card. I have a > Radeon RX 550 that is struggling to drive two 4K screens. It works, but > plenty of flickering under both Linux and Windows. > > I looked at a

Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

> Over the last few months I have see articles about chip shortages. > > https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/21/global-shortage-in-computer-chips-reaches-crisis-point > > As for coin mining. > I think the hype and optimism has kind of rubbed off cryptocurrencies. > To the best of my

Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

Over the last few months I have see articles about chip shortages. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/21/global-shortage-in-computer-chips-reaches-crisis-point As for coin mining. I think the hype and optimism has kind of rubbed off cryptocurrencies. To the best of my knowledge ETH

[GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

Hi all. I made the mistake that I might want to upgrade my video card. I have a Radeon RX 550 that is struggling to drive two 4K screens. It works, but plenty of flickering under both Linux and Windows. I looked at a few sources such as Tom's Hardware to get a good idea of what to buy, and it