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P4 2.2GHz Overclocked to 3.5GHz
GraveD sent linkage to a site
explaining how a homemade nitrogen cooling system
overclocked a P4
from 2.2Ghz to an incredible 3.5ghz. There's plenty of stuff
to poke at over there. Update: 01/17 20:42 GMT by T : boaworm writes: "According to this paper, the Finnish geeks have successfully oveclocked a Pentium 4 to 3675 Mhz. They claim it is a new World Record, and it sure looks like they beaten another O/C'd Pentium 4 submitted earlier today on slashdot. (Summary in English in the end)."
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Another proud carrier of the $rtbl flag
Oracle9i. Unbreakable. Can't break it. Can't break in.
Legally they are correct. The DMCA says you can't break it, and various other laws say you can't break in.
i would have to loved to have been a fly on the wall in the oracle engineering department the day ellison announced that their software was unbreakable. i guarantee you the engineers at oracle wouldn't have supported that campaign, if they even knew about it before ellison announced it at comdex. it's tough enough to keep your software secure when your ceo isn't directly taunting every hacker in the world.
Well, because Forth to understand, like Yoda you must speak, that is.
Chris Mattern
I haven't seen it either. Oracle hasn't seen it either b/c they are over their heads in bullshit.
Wow, there are a whole lot of pissed off mods today. I'm all in favor of moderation, just look at all the -1 posts to see why, but when it gets abused like this, I can only wonder how many truly good posts have been moded down by moderators who think that the mere fact that they don't agree with some one's opinions makes that post a troll. Thank god for metamoding.
Sleep is for the weak!
Come on people. Oracle explained that they used the term "unbreakable" because it passed 14 security audits. Some people say you can't crash linux because it typically doesn't - but it can.
:-)
By and large the Oracle products are very good... We use them in some extremely large and significant datawarehousing situations and have probably managed to kill the server once in three years. Many times we've been amazed at what developers have thrown at the server without killing it - Oracle is very good at recovering from users mistakes.
Anyway, I look forward to hearing what the obvious vulnerabilities are - I dread the number of server upgrades to be tested though. The client I'm working for now has about 250 instances registered with their 24*7 DBA team already... You have no idea how hard it can be to choose a unique 4 character SID sometimes.
Long live Oracle... I'm sure Larry won't lose any sleep (or money) over this since it is still clearly the best product out there.
From http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/oracle9i/ index.html?content.html
The Unbreakable Database Can't break it. Can't break in. Oracle9i Database won't go down if your server fails and won't go down if your site fails. What's more, Oracle holds 14 international security evaluations. IBM DB2 has none. Microsoft SQL Server has only one.
If you *can* break it, which clearly you can, their marketing campaign is untrue. Saying "read the fine print" is making excuses for typical marketingese (or, more likely, Ellisonese). If they still try to say that 9i is "unbreakable," they'll be a laughingstock.
Why do we call them "buildings" anyway, after we're done building them? Shouldn't they be called "builts"?
Edith Keeler Must Die
The reviews of the P4 say should happen under these conditions.
tcd004
Beware at 0 degrees Kelvin the whole thing may be become supermagnetic. The cooling device may float of the unit.
Are these people implying that you can just go out and buy liquid nitrogen? Or that it is easy to create? Yikes! Where can I get some?
Everything is mainstream now.
[H]ardOCP beat your pants off with this story... stop surfing porn with Maldo and you would have seen that...
I don't drink because I have to, I drink to stop the voices in my head!