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)."

Comments

Re:Weinberg's law of programming;

[geekoid]

I hate that quote.
When we have been programming for as long as we have been building things, then that quaote will be valid.
I am willing to bet that the buildings that where built during the first 50 years the human race had been building building wheren't all that good.

Yikes, what a sentence.

What about PostgreSQL?

[ortholattice]

How does PostgreSQL compare to Oracle? Is PostgreSQL more or less secure than Oracle? I don't know. I've never heard of a problem with it nor have I had one. Is PostgreSQL faster or slower than Oracle? I don't know, and apparently Oracle desperately doesn't want anyone to find out. From benchmarks that have had Oracle results deleted to benchmarks that someone (I wonder who?) has gotten the ISP to remove for "violation of our Terms of Service" (this used to be a benchmark), Oracle is very aggressive in preventing anyone from finding out how their database really performs. I wonder why? (However what might be another version of the second benchmark seems to have survived by carefully avoiding the mention of names of proprietary products.) All I know is that after trying to deal with the bloat of Oracle on a less-than-mainframe-class PC, PostgreSQL was a lean, mean breath of fresh air. Converting PL/SQL to PL/pgSQL was easy, too.

Better way to spend your $10k Oracle license fee:

[dasmegabyte]

$0 for a copy of PostgreSQL
$2000 for a firewall
$1000 for a thorough security consultation
$7000 for beer & chicken wings

I suppose posturing and unbelievable claims are what you can expect from a company whose CEO looks like The Rock.