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guys got to take a tour inside the Dane-Elec memory factory in Ireland and have posted a pictorial tour of their trip. " They give a nice tour with lots of decent photos of the process that the comany goes through to package up chips. Fascinating stuff.
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three hours and eleven minutes between posted stories and then it's just some damn RAM factory. woo. yeah, i think i'll subscribe now.
CLIT sucks, they are a joke. The United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation OWNZ you fools. WE WERE FIRST.
Oh, and fp.
90% are racist hicks.
Heh... it's been 15 minutes since the story went up, and there are more comments attached to the article than there are on /.
Go figure.
I'm not listening to a word this guy's saying... I wish I was at home with a big bag of potato chips... Mmmmmmm... Potato chips.
Oh wait, they make a different kind of chips...
Where does Osama Bin Laden get his money?? From DRUGS like HEROIN. Why do people use heroin?? Because losers like TWEAKERS.NET glorify its use. BOYCOTT TWEAKING - IT'S BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH.
Remember - If you visit tweakers.net then YOU are supporting terrorism. YOU are responsible for the Sept. 11th attacks. YOU are a murderer. REMEMBER THAT.
This is cool. I was trying to decide between getting some really, really cheap CAS 2 DDR by Dane-Elec, or some CAS 2.5 from Kingston. I'd never heard of Dane-Elec, but newegg sells their stuff. ;)
The Dane-Elec "DDR 512MB" CAS 2 seems to be the best deal I've seen anywhere: $102.00.
Now I can get it without worrying who this "no name" company is
They had one at the local Pizza Hut!
I love how space age technologies trickly down into everyday use.
I have been pwned because my
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I woke up this morning just in time to feel my big brother's .
thick prick slide up inside my hot little hole, and it wasn't
more than about five minutes later that I felt Jimmy's prick
swell in my tummy; as he squirted thick gobs of incestuous sperm
inside me. God, did that feel good.
I hunched back at my big brother, as I bucked underneath
him; trying to squeeze each precious drop of his potent sperm all
the way up inside my fertile young womb where it belonged. I was
vaguely aware of my mother watching her two eldest children
mating like minks on the bed. Having fucked Jimmy the night
before, Mother was quite willing to let me have my "turn" in the
morning without interrupting. She just watched to make sure we
"did it right"; and that every drop of her son's potent seed went
into her daughter's body where it belonged, and wasn't "wasted"
by him pulling out and squirting it all over me or the sheets.
Besides, Mother hated to wash sheets, when she has three healthy
daughters to help her with the chores. No, not washing sheets,
Silly. I'm talking about the "chores" of helping our mother with
the babies.
You know about babies, don't you? I thought so. Well,
Ginger, Mary and I all help Mother with the babies. Uhuh. We
not only watch them like most girls do, but we clean their
diapers, cuddle them, nurse them, and even help mother produce
them.
Yes, you heard what I said. By nursing them, I don't mean
we give them a bottle, I mean we nurse them, just like Mother
does, from our own breasts. All three of us have been giving
milk since we were ten years old, and Grandma figured we were
each old enough to start helping our mother with the babies. So
we each started nursing our little brothers and sister, and all
three of us have been giving milk since before we even started
bleeding, let alone had babies of our own. Grandma says this
slows us down so we don't get pregnant too young, and our bodies
are properly prepared to have children, when we do.
She must be right, as none of us girls ever got pregnant
before we were thirteen, even though we had been fucking our
father, brothers, and grandfather since long before we started
having periods at about ten. "Old enough to bleed, is old enough
to breed," is the motto around here; and any girl who doesn't
help her mother by having as many children by her siblings,
father or grandparents as she could, was thought to be an
ungrateful leech.
On the farm, everybody helped out with the chores, and
taking care of your male relatives and having their children was
just one of those chores; like doing the dishes, or milking the
cows. Only it usually turned out that WE needed milking, when we
did these "chores" right.
Not to mention, that we had almost as much fun helping our
mother produce babies, as our male relatives did. I mean,
there's nothing like feeling your own father, big brother,
grandfather or even uncle, sweating and straining over you; as
his thick prick slides in and out of your vagina before spurting
hot thick life-giving sperm in your womb where it belongs.
Just like today. Mother had me stop nursing Sherry about
two months before, so my body would be ready for another baby.
We all figured that if I was lucky, I would "catch" sometime in
the next month or so, and maybe Mother and I could share our
pregnancies this time, like Ginny and Mary did last time. While
Mother expects us to help, she's still young enough to produce
several more children herself, so she doesn't leave all the work
(or all the fun either) to her daughters.
This time, Mother has me sleeping with her and my big
brother, since we figure it was Grandpa who knocked me up last
time, and that my first baby was by Father. Besides, my little
sisters are doing a pretty good job of taking care of my father,
brothers, and Grandpa. Not that I would turn down a good fuck by
any of them, if offered. Or that my mother would either. It's
just that we try to mix up our partners as much as possible,
while still remaining in the family. Grandma says that
inbreeding is bad enough with us only fucking family members,
without having all our children by the same bed-partner.
So, while I've always preferred Grandpa, (Ever since that
first day when I was about 7, and Mother sent him down to me and
my little sister's room to teach us "how to make a baby") that's
why I've been spending the last month or so sleeping with my
mother and big brother; with him pumping thick gobs of baby-
making sperm in our bellies every night and morning, and
sometimes in the middle of the night, as well. Of course, I
still fuck Father and Grandpa. (Not to mention my little
brothers, whenever I [or they] feel like it.)
But still, chances are THIS baby is going to be Jimmy's,
then the next one will probably be Michael's. By the time I've
worked my way through the family, my eldest son will probably be
old enough to "help" me. And by the time I've run out of sons to
reproduce with, I'll probably be like Grandma, and only be doing
it for the fun of it, or to help the younger boys learn how. I'm
sure glad I live in a family like this.
After all my care to take my brother's seed up inside me
properly, I almost got it on the bed anyway; as I barely managed
to get a tissue stuffed in my leaking hole to stop it after Jimmy
pulled out.
On the way to the bathroom to clean up, I paused and watched
my two little sisters "practice" making a baby with Grandpa, as
the two little scamps did their best to drain the old man of his
sperm, before one of their older sisters (like me) got to him.
"Oh Grandpa, that feels good," said Mindy, while her little
sister looked on and waited for "her turn." The little 8-year-
old looked too small to be taking such a big cock up inside her
tiny little slit, but it was obvious that the little kid liked
feeling her grandfather's thick dong sliding in and out of her
clasping little hole, almost as much as the old man liked feeling
it inside her.
For a second, I was almost jealous of my little sisters for
being able to sleep with Grandpa, and fuck him, and go to bed
with his thick prick stuck up inside their tight little cunnies;
leaking incestuous sperm in their wombs all night long, like I
used to do.
Still, I did have at least one baby by Grandpa, and my
little sisters deserved their turn. It wasn't as though I never
got to fuck him any more. Heck, even if I was pregnant right
now, there was a slight chance that the baby was his anyway, as
my grandfather had left enough sperm in my womb the day before to
impregnate several girls like me. Of course, by the same
reasoning, it might be Father's or Mike's, or Uncle Jake's,
or. .
By the time I was finished reminiscing on this, the action
on the bed had speeded up, as Mindy was sliding up and down on
our grandfathers' thick prick as fast as she could; while
Grandpa's breath came in grunts and wheezes. I knew it wouldn't
be long before the old man filled my little sister's womb with
his potent seed. I was right.
You could see the little girl's belly bulge, each time her
grandfather's thick prick slid home inside her. Mindy is
slightly on the skinny-side, weighing not much more than her
little sister Samantha. Without seeing it with your own eyes,
you would never believe that two such little girls even knew what
sex was, let alone that both were sleeping with their
grandfather; taking his thick prick up inside their vaginas each
night, and getting the old man to squirt his sperm in each of
their tiny little wombs where it belonged.
Suddenly, Grandpa stopped thrusting, and Mindy sat down on
him hard; while both of them shuddered in ecstasy. I knew my
grandfather was ejaculating his seed in the little girl; and
after a second or two, a white bubble appeared at the base of the
old man's prick where it vanished inside Mindy's body to confirm
my assessment that Grandpa was indeed once again filling his
little 8-year-old granddaughter's tiny little womb with his
incestuous sperm.
Our little sister Samantha watched with eager eyes, as her
grandfather did his best to impregnate her older sister. I knew
that Sammy was aware of my presence; but was more interested in
the spectacle of her grandfather breeding her sister, to do more
than just acknowledge my presence. Especially, since she figured
the man would shortly be doing the same thing to her.
I almost shuddered in sympathetic orgasm myself; and I
wasn't sitting so close I could see my grandfather's prick bulge,
each time he sent another thick wad of incestuous cum squirting
high up inside his granddaughter's belly, like Samantha could.
Damn! Was that sexy! I could tell that my little sister was
almost ready to cum herself, just from watching her big sister
get fucked.
OMG BIG PENIS ATE MY SOUP
Spellcheck you fat muthafuckas!
where are they now? The United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation died quickly as CLIT immerge on the scene and gained great praise as master trollers and page wideners. TUCTAM is now just one linux zealot that wishes he could install freebsd and dreams of making it thru his gentoo install without his mom picking up the fone and killing is leet connection.
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HardOCP had a illustrated trip of the ABit factory a few years ago, and while they had a lot of surface mount technology that was automated, things like PCI sockets were installed by HAND. While the cool automated, dust-free machines are good for some things, a lot of the components we use are cheaper to assemble with manpower.
from the article:
:^p
Old 486 machines, laptops and dual CPU servers are sometimes running Quake III for days and days. All this to be sure that things don't crash due to a faulty memory module.
Do they have job openings?
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
pictorial tour of thier trip
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They got the whole factory to run off peat! Very good for the environment; not to mention the last sunday of each month when they burn the âoespecial mossâ and get the bulk of England high.
All I'm getting from the link are
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Is it just me or did anyone else read Dane-Elec as Dan Electro?
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sorry, but the parent comment is redundant and must be modded down. there is already a comment like the above one that i posted earlier here
notice the time differences between your comment and mine:
mine: by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 07, @03:27AM
yours: by Jailbrekr on Friday June 07, @03:35AM
have a nice day you unoriginal cocksucking faggot!
.. ... and go smoke some man juice from your daddie and OD you worthless jobless faggot nigger, and shave that fro ya GNU/LUNIX hippie!
About once a month since he started working for US Airways in September, Gaskell boards a plane in Cincinnati, rents a car and gets a haircut from Donald Stoops Jr. in New Bloomfield in central Pennsylvania.
"Why not?" said Gaskell, 54. "He gives a great haircut. I'm kind of particular about haircuts."
Gaskell, who retired from a 30-year teaching career last year, left Cincinnati around 6 a.m. Tuesday. Four hours later, his gray locks were being snipped at Stoops Barber Shop.
He's been going to Stoops for decades. Stoops' father, Donald Sr., cut Gaskell's hair when Gaskell was a cadet at Carson Long Military Institute in New Bloomfield.
"I have yet to find another place that cuts hair like I like it," said Gaskell, who served 17 years in the military and likes his hair cropped just a certain way.
As a US Airways ramp agent, Gaskell's plane travel is cheap -- he pays just 80 a year for unlimited flights. He said he's flown to Orlando, Fla., and Seattle just for lunch.
To Stoops, who has been cutting hair since 1955, Gaskell's trips aren't unusual. Customers return from South Carolina and California for haircuts and good conversation -- all for 5, he said.
"You'd be surprised where people come from," Stoops said.
i wonder if there's a spell checker inside goatse
tweakers.net routinely handles about one million hits a day, go check their Statistics page, or check out some pictures of their servers and server room.
Ofcourse the text is in Dutch, but I think you can read stats and view pictures in Dutch right :)
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
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since i asked FUCKING NICELY in my comment for his to get modded down, his will of course be modded down
MOD DOWN THIS COMMENT
What the fuck is going on with those abbreviations? What do they mean?
aren't there a lot of hard drive and ram companies in ireland and the surrounding area? just wondering why that is, considering manufacturing seems to be about a billion time cheaper in asia.
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This isn't a chip fab - they're just stuffing boards... still, nice photos of the whole process. I had a chance to see a shop like this in person, and took a bunch of photos and even some video (536K MPEG) of the process. The machines are quite mesmerizing (sp?) to watch, and it's amazing the amount of human and automated quality control that goes into manufacturing this stuff.
I know this is grandly off-topic, but how do they manage to take an areal photograph, with the mirrored image being an office, including office-chairs and a person sitting in one?
;)
If you don't see it, look closer, you'll see what I mean,- the chairs are red.
Now, I've been in quite a few business jets, actually, but I've never seen one with chairs like that.
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Roadkill is yummy.
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"TrueServer has a gigabit line to the AMS-IX and a 100MBit transit uplink with Level3, Ebone, Telia and AboveNet"
TrueServer is where they have their servers co-located. I think tweakers.net itself is 'just' on a 100Mbit link.
So what if you seen a memory factory. We don't want to know. Ive been in a server room before but I don't take pictures of it and send it to slashdot! Come on, 99.999999999% of the slashdot readers don't even know how to Install RAM, let alone make it! What next? Photos of CMDRtacos house? Slashdot, News for photographers, stuff thats in jpegs.
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This artical is funny I worked for IBM in the DRAM final Test and we had 40 2.5 million dollar Teradyne Testers to test the chips and this company uses old 486s and Computers running Quake 3. No wonder why we at IBM got out of DRAM.
Take that memory chips. Would you rather see some dance moves or some chips NOT move.
Also I like the banner up top it says "Bigger Ads are Better!! OSDN's self serve system, NOW WITH BIGGER BANNERS." Yay for bigger ad banners on slashdot!
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Dee Dee Ramone, bassist and one of the founding members of the seminal punk band the Ramones, was found dead in his Hollywood home, the Los Angeles coroner's office said Thursday. He was 50.
(Truely an icon...)
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Now, Im not dissing slashdot for posting the earlier article, Im just saying that some times it can be very interesting to go out and have a look around these places to see just how such and such corp make somthing, ie, big machines going real fast, really demonstrate how capitalism works.
You can palm me off as just being some loser but IMHO it is the coalface of our society more then wall sheet or some building full of office clerks. And should be given as much consideration as say rumours of Apple buying SGI or whatever.
So, way to go slashdot, Perhaps you could post a few more articles like this in the future when news is slow. Almost as fun as reading howstuffworks.com.
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"To test modules for which they do not have automatic equipment, or to test compatibility, they use a whole series of different computers. Old 486 machines, laptops and dual CPU servers are sometimes running Quake III for days and days. All this to be sure that things don't crash due to a faulty memory module."
lol, I wanna see Q3a on a 486 DX/4 120 with 128MB EDO and a GeForce 4MX PCI! considering Q1 was running at 5fps on a DX/2 66 with a 1MB orchid VLB card...
Ewww, tweakers.net on /. is way too much credit for this Radio Shack-buyers heaven. Their users are primarily involved in added a 3rd cooling-fan to their dad's PC. This PC runs Windows, as Linux sucks because you can't play games on it. Gimme a break guys...
mentions how "Overclockers think your chips can get hurt at 100 degrees, but in this plant, they heat them to several times that"
Yeah. And overclockers re right.
A solder oven heats the board assembly slowly and uniformly.
It's large thermal gradiants that kill chips... differnet parts of the chip at different temperatures introduce evil physical stresses that mess up the guts.
Just like putting a person in hot water.. I believe tests have shown that humans can endure some crazy hot temperatures if they are heated slowly.
No one else seems to have menioned this, but I can't view the site with Netscape (4.79, 1024x768). It's slapping the photos right over the text, not exactly browser friendly. I guss I could run IE, but then the terrorists win.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
The article indicated that they don't test 100% of the completed modules. That's surprising. I'd expect at least a quick test that all the bits work and none of the lines are shorted or open.
That looks alot like my memory plant in my garage! Only I dont see a "Crucial Memory" sticker making machine and any "Made in Mexico" stamps...wtf?