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But hey, the x86 world has lived by the MHz sword. They can die by it, too.

By far the best part is the kibosh that the Athlon-64 has put on Intel's Itaniums (MS is embracing the AMD offerings, forcing Intel to extend).

...being able to WATCH your DVD movies at all

And I do not mean watching them on oure "pirated-from-Sco"
GNU/Linux systems, but actually being able to watch them.

It seens that the latest generation of DVD Drivers (the
"legitimate", DeCSS free stuff), will simply not play any DVD
if your PC has got a working TV Out video card.

I saw this in an e-mail of a friend the other day, and just checked google for it: Here
I can see it was not a thing with my friend computer.

ummmm RTFA? last paragraph of the summary and conclusion here:

"Overall, the Asus MyPal a620 proved to be an excellent PocketPC, with great battery life, easily making it through a full day of extensive use and hours of multimedia playback. On average we clocked between 10 till 12 hours on the battery, which is a little more than weâ(TM)ve seen from popular PocketPC 2002 devices. If youâ(TM)re in the market for an affordable, yet powerful and versatile, PocketPC be sure to give the Asus MyPal a620 a serious consideration."

Page 1 says "Mircrosoft" will launch the thing, and "thereâ(TM)s some changes"

According to page 2, 2.5G is now "fully supported a offers GSM suspend/resume" while meanwhile, "on the multimedia site of things..."

Page 5 tells us there are "a few welcome extraâ(TM)s" and "we clocked between 10 till 12 hours on the battery..."

Quick, somebody make this guy a Slashdot editor!

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but AMD signed an agreement to develop these sorts of things with IBM. If that's the case, I wonder if these techniques will translate over to PowerPC processors ...

Here's a small article describing their relationship.

a port to AMD's hammer is being done with Unreal Tournament 2003.

For games right now, I'm sure it's the extra registers and other things that help, not 64 bit. Greater than 4GB will probably only be useful on the workstation and server level for a few more years. It'll take another 2 versions of windows before 4GB+ is needed to browse the web or run office.

AMD's Fab 30, Simply Fabulous
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/15 81/

They just posted another bigger article with a bunch of pictures and even a video. Check it out at http://hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1581/

FYI, Hardware Analysis has an article on the AMD Dresden plant. They were invited to an AMD Media Workshop there.

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/15 80/

A bit short but they've got two pictures of the plant.

- hama -

3.5 GHz without liquid-nitrogen cooling

"IDE is cheap for storage, but if you're looking for performance, a nice IDE RAID card (3WARE Escalade 8500-4) and disks (Western Digital Caviar Special Edition) is expensive compared to an Adaptec 39320 and a Seagate Ultra320 disk. The IDE variant would require at least two, but probably four disks in a RAID 0 configuration to even come close to the SCSI performance."

Did you see this, posted here a few days ago?

It mentions their choice of storage being a RAID0+1 of four IDE disks, and it beating SCSI in both price and performance by some considerable margin.

Cheers,
Mark.

...at what point we saturated the Apache web server with too many requests handled, the hardware however never budged or was near 100% load, we just pushed the software to its limits.[last paragraph on
Can someone please explain this?

What's truly funny is now that they've tuned the ONE page that's linked in the /. article, the rest of the site is unavailable.

Just try going to their main page or to an old article. Pretty sad really.

What's truly funny is now that they've tuned the ONE page that's linked in the /. article, the rest of the site is unavailable.

Just try going to their main page or to an old article. Pretty sad really.

think we can drive it up to 10mbps usage at least? (hey, we just hit 3.3, so why not? :P)
let's begin by linking to their interview with CmdrTaco.
I'm also sure they'd appreciate it if we posted a comment in their forums. ;)

think we can drive it up to 10mbps usage at least? (hey, we just hit 3.3, so why not? :P)
let's begin by linking to their interview with CmdrTaco.
I'm also sure they'd appreciate it if we posted a comment in their forums. ;)

And just when we installed a new box with dual 1.3GHz CPUs, 240GB of RAID0+1 storage and 1GB of RAM (see here) and thought we were ready for just about anything the Slashdot Mob comes along and brings it down to it's knees!

Thanks guys, I'm happy to report the server pulled through although we had to limit the no. of simul. connects to keep things afloat. We'll be going over the server logs today to see where there's room for improvement, as there's some parameters we'd like to change in order to handle such loads better in the future.

Thanks and kind regards,

Sander Sassen

Since things seem to be getting bogged down on Hardware Analysis's end, here are two mirrors:

1. Earlham College

2. UW-Madison

These are in PDF format, which I converted from the printable HTML provided on the website. It is missing one eye-candy picture of a hard-drive's interior.

from Voodoo Extreme:

Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU
Intel 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU

The Xeon MP will be released later this year and IS targeted towards the server market. So that'll be the day when we want server benchmarks and other stuff like Linux kernel compilations.

I found another techy website, www.hardwareanalysis.com that does get into the whole workstation benchmarking and environment. They even have a similarly configged dual Pentium III Xeon system they compare it to, good read!