Retro gaming/art design hardware build by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Retro gaming/art design hardware build
Retro gaming, program design and retro graphic development is entirely practical!
The bad thing about not throwing away old stuff is that your house can soon become full of clutter. The good thing about not throwing things away is that there is always something to dig into and there is always a useful gem hidden in amongst all that stuff. We have a family of eight or nine members living in this house (dependent upon how well we treat the daughter's latest boyfriend) and so there is enough stuff here to fill a large-sized house. It is my boy's birthday so I thought I'd build him a test rig, a machine to test and build new hardware and install
Spectre and DeviantArt users update Windows today by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Spectre and DeviantArt users update Windows today
UPDATED: Added comprehensive lists of CPUs affected, Intel, ARM and AMD, ARM situation updated, Intel Microcode patch problems *4, re-organised certain paragraphs.
I've written this tutorial/journal item for all Deviantart users. Most of us use computers now to create our art and so what follows is really ultra-relevant to all of us. I have tried to distil the important facts regarding the Spectre/Meltdown exploits and how they might affect you. There are a lot of words here but please don't let let that put you off. You need to read and understand at least some of it as it WILL affect you.
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:star: Spectre/Meltdown
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