Added a second ASUS GPU GeForce GTX 1060 to my GPU Server, installed and up and running.  As the motherboard is an ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamers) and as the first one is working pretty well I figured it couldn't hurt to add a duplicate (almost, see BIOS below).  My other concern was if the Nvidia CUDA GPU driver could handle multiple types of GPU models easily (apparently it can), however it seems less risky (or rather a gut feeling based upon previous hardware experience) to stick with the 1060s.  Plus those cards are in my price ra

CompTIA Security+ Certificate

Issued to:  Austin Davis Holiday

Expires:  2021-10-12

# COMP001021399817

Any intelligence is good. If you do not have natural intelligence, then artificial; if you do not have organic intelligence, then synthetic. But any intelligence is good if it is intelligence. Suppose the walls in your house turned out to be intelligent ones, is it not fantastic? The only thing is, if they get smarter than you, you may feel a little insecure! Otherwise, having a lot of intelligent things around you is a great blessing.  Sadhguru (link)

I recently visited my friend MJ in Taipei City, Tiawan, and we made our way to Guanghua Digital Plaza, an awesome place for new and cheap electronics.  I ended up walking out with 18kg of gear for a crypto-currency mining platform which I figured would be easy to convert to a neural network server.

Death to company CEOs for data leakage.  Okay.  Maybe death is an exaggeration.  But a slap on hand for the people who have leaked my data is too weak.  I was again reminded how little control I have over my data.  The IEEE Computer 09.17  edition (issue 09), one of their better issues this year, has a great article on the security risks of IVAs (Intelligent Virtual Assistants) like Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, etc.,

Summary

Eclipse Oxygen 1, release 4.7.1,  failed to start with Java 9, followed the suggestion at Comment 75: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=493761#c75

After adding --add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM to the last line of my eclipse.ini, it worked.