Andrew Buss - IDC

Hi @msonenote - I used to be able to search easily for a specific section tab as I have many. This seems to have disappeared in the latest Windows app update making section finding a tedious trawl. What is the new way to easily locate sections?

The eagle has landed! Intel is running the initial lots of wafers using Intel 18A in the Fab 52, Arizona. linkedin.com/posts/pankaj-m…

With Intel's announcement that they've isolated the Raptor Lake VMin instability issue to a clock tree circuit, the whole saga is making a lot more sense. Getting that far into the weeds (and ruling out everything else) is a ton of work community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-…

Tip for anyone who runs with a lot of browser tabs: If you use Edge, Chrome, or any Chromium based browser, you can press CTRL + Shift + A to search your open and recently closed tabs The ones playing audio or video are listed at the top

IBM FlashSystem update focuses on ransomware detection i.securitythinkingcap.com/T3KgZt

As community interest grows in ROCm on Radeon, we've created a tracker to capture feedback and provide updates. Coming soon: Open sourcing additional portions of our software stack and more hardware documentation.bit.ly/3TFO6MM

Task manager trivia: "Keeping it Small" When you press ctrl-shift-esc, winlogon launches taskmgr.exe, and the first thing it does it look for a running instance and activate that instead if it passes certain runtime tests. That means it takes at least as long to activate task manager as it does to load the exe, so I wanted to keep it small. The story is that to keep the whole thing under 100K (I think it shipped at 86K) I couldn't afford to link in the CRT, but still wanted to use C++. The C++ compiler assumes the CRT will be linked in to do housekeeping like calling the constructors of global objects. So, what I wound up doing was defining the sections that the linker would expect from the CRT and then at runtime I manually walk the tables that the linker inserts for initializing global C++ objects. Basically, the linker emits a list of constructors and since the CRT doesn't call them, I call them manually. The net is full C++ but with no runtimes. The older me wonders why I didn't just link to the runtime dll, but I was likely trying to avoid linking to anything directly other than user32 and gdi32. Any other DLLs, I figured, could hang. So I don't even link to shell32, I do a manual GetProcAddress every time I need to call a shell function, and I do it on a separate thread in case it never comes back. I was pretty paranoid about that stuff, but at least in the earlier versions when memory was tight, I think it paid off! If you enjoy these random historical musings, follow me for more!

#Sustainability analyst session at #CiscoLiveEMEA, with @adeletrombetta1 and other execs. Good to see so many @Cisco efforts here, not just on products but also on Services with @CiscoCX.

The @Azure ND MI300x v5 VM will use the @AMDInstinct MI300X. Looking forward to December 6th! #IGNITE

Seeing all the news about Lunar Lake-MX and MoP – That reminds me of Intel showing the capabilities of its packaging technology in Arizona where they showed this:

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Introduction by @jon_george1 #Azure #dotnet #csharp endjin.com/blog/2022/09/b…

.@IDC’s Stephen Minton presented our latest ICT outlook in a webinar entitled “State of the Market: IT Spending Scenarios for a Disrupted Economy” today.

Looking forward to the @IDC_EMEA Telco Xchange, kicking off in just over two hours. Lot of great presentations! #IDCTELCOX

Up in London for #A3TechLive and a day of updates in storage and data management. First up is @Hammerspace_Inc and global distributed data management and access

Visiting Paris for the @HitachiVantara Exchange event with 60 IT leaders from across Europe. @IDC_EMEA ’s David Clemente currently on stage presenting the European CIO agenda

@DavidZipper @NerdPyle This is the equivalent of tobacco companies denying that smoking causes cancer

"John Capp, [GM's] director of vehicle safety technology, strategy and regulation, stressed that there is not enough data about pedestrian traffic deaths to understand the causes." That's BS. We absolutely know that car bloat is killing pedestrians. 🧵 wusa9.com/article/news/n…

The opening ceremony for #IntelFab34 begins and @PGelsinger takes the stage to talk about Ireland as the Silicon Isle