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P4 2.2GHz Overclocked to 3.5GHz

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the never-underestimate-the-power-of-nitrogen dept.

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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  1. Unbreakable in a legal sense... by _DMan_ · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    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.

  2. crazy fucking ceos by dildofire · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    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.

  3. Re:All software is breakable - by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    Well, because Forth to understand, like Yoda you must speak, that is.

    Chris Mattern

  4. I know, let's make the story something it isn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    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.

  5. Re:Nobody bothered to read the challenge... by clontzman · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    Oh, come on... read their marketing fluff...

    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.