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Reminds me of the French database language Multilog.

The "if...endif" construct was "si...is".

It was very slow, as the interpreter was written in QuickBASIC (the "advantage" was that we could access Multilog's internal data structures from Q(uick)BASIC).

I found it only being mentioned once on the internet here.

Obscure: very.
Important: nah, forget about it. I hope one day I will forget about it too.

French retail return rates:

http://www.hardware.fr/article...

That's a bit out of date (May 2013), but it includes the previous figures (the "contre" is from November 2012). I doubt they've changed too dramatically since then. I think it's fair to say that Intel and Samsung have similar rates, if nothing else, so Intel's huge price premium is hard to justify.

Power failure protection is nice, but I don't have any computers that don't have some form of battery backup, be it a UPS or a built-in battery, and some of the SSDs aren't even in use cases where that would matter (who cares if a ZFS cache drive gets scrambled on power failure, it gets reinitialized every boot). So considering that I'd need to suffer a UPS or PSU failure to have the SSD suffer from a power cut, and that the chances of an SSD scrambling its own management data on a power failure is fairly small (user data isn't relevant because the same thing happens to HDDs, and filesystems expect this scenario), it's not really a scenario that I worry about.

I'll go ahead and link to this article with detailed failure stats from a large French e-tailer:

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/893-7/ssd.html

Note that, depending on the sales period, OCZ's failure rates are up to 18x higher than Intel's despite the fact that both companies use the same controllers for consumer products. One OCZ model had a failure rate of more than 52% within 6 to 12 months...

It gets even worse:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-rates-7.html
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/893-7/ssd.html

There are other reports from this guy before and after those times and it's ugly numbers for OCZ till maybe this far back: http://www.behardware.com/articles/831-7/components-returns-rates.html
But that might have been early stages for the SSDs so the stuff hadn't started failing yet, or they hadn't got them to their usual "quality".
Go look at OCZ's track record for RAM back then compared to the rest: http://www.behardware.com/articles/831-4/components-returns-rates.html

Maybe OCZ stands for Often Crap, Zero quality... ;)

I don't see the point of keeping the brand.

Here's early 2013: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/893-7/ssd.html

Don't put so much weight on warranty lengths.

You might want to factor in that OCZ's stuff are often even crappier than HDDs:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-rates-7.html
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/893-7/ssd.html

Either OCZ sell defective hardware or OCZ users are many times more likely to return stuff for no good reason. I'm more inclined to believe the former.

HD
SSD
So the *best* 2TB HD had a 5x higher average failure rate than Samsungs SSDs...

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SSD
So the *best* 2TB HD had a 5x higher average failure rate than Samsungs SSDs...

Its lovely little chiclets taught me to touch-type, its sucky Basic pushed me towards assembly, and its lack of games gave me all the inspiration I needed to write my own software .. and .. most important of all .. the Atmos is still one of the nicest looking machines, ever!


I had an MSX for a while (Yamaha), but only for the superlative MIDI support .. now *that* was total integration .. ;)

I read fast through Tom's Hardware' and Xbitlabs' reviews, they dont say a word about overcloking.
Having read 3 franch-language tests this morning I can tell you the results are mixed.

1. 3050 MHz
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/576/page3.html

2. 3010 MHz with good air cooler
http://www.presence-pc.com/tests/Test-AMD-Athlon-6 4-FX-57-314/3/

3. 2991 MHz
http://www.clubic.com/afficher-en-plein-ecran-1346 67.html

The weather is hot here these days and they had just 2 days to do the testing under the NDA, so YMMV

They don't use Oracle either. Google use their own homegrown software for the main search engine. Neither Oracle nor MySQL, nor any other general purpose database is able to spit out millions of web links in fractions of seconds thousands of times in parallel like Google does.

However, MySQL is able to serve web pages (that is do multiple queries) to thousands of users at a time like some web forums do (our forum, http://forum.hardware.fr, serves 1500 to 2000 connected users daily without failing nor slowing down).

BTW, does slashdot use MySQL or Postgres ?

Hey guys, I can't find this posted anywhere, but this is *good stuff*, DS Screenshots and renderings. Enjoy.

It looks like it's just the way they do business.

Me, I bought an ATI, specifically because it's supported by the XFree86 and DRI projects. No binary-only NV disaster on my PC, thanks.

Some people indeed underclock their CPU and lower the voltage, in order to cool it with a 5V fan, or get an fanless PC.
Here's the rigs of the creator and webmaster of the most visited french hardware site :P

Some people indeed underclock their CPU and lower the voltage, in order to cool it with a 5V fan, or get an fanless PC.
Here's the rigs of the creator and webmaster of the most visited french hardware site :P

see: http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos_news/00/06/IM G0006295.gif