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    Chips infused with lab-grown diamonds could double or triple performance

    "While the material (Intels' Ultra Pure Glass) doesn’t do much to help dissipate heat"... That would be a good opportunity to mention that diamond is an excellent conductor of heat. Not sure of the progress made in doping diamond to make transistors, but diamond transistors promised to offer...
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    Millions of prepaid electricity meters in South Africa could stop working on 24 November 2024

    Oh, Yes, that is 100%. The literal implication of the original statement however was that the meter would be bricked by a mistake in entering either of the two key-change tokens, which should not be the case. All tokens generated after the key-change tokens will obviously use the new key.
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    Millions of prepaid electricity meters in South Africa could stop working on 24 November 2024

    Thanks for the relatively technical write-up of the issue. There are some issues that I feel aren't clear. My first job out of University was as a meter validation engineer for an STS (prepaid) split meter project. The physical design put the meter in a locked box out of reach of the consumer...
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    (mx2/mail).telkomsa.net is refusing mail - keep getting "554 5.7.1 Domain does not match the connecting IP address"

    Hi Everyone Hoping someone can assist me with this. I have a couple servers sending legitimate email to clients/customers/prospective clients/users/etc. I'm getting a "554 5.7.1 Domain does not match the connecting IP address" error from mx2.telkomsa.net and mail.telkomsa.net, for mail to...
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    Vumatel cuts off Fibrestream, helping clients find a new ISP

    We were affected by this whole mess - FibreStream support told me on Monday (I got through once) that Vumatel had a national outage with no ETA. Yesterday I investigated further (having heard nothing more about a national Vumatel outage) and found Vumatel sticking to a few terse, vague but...
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