It's obvious that SCO is not only wanting to raise its stock price, but it's hoping to be bought out by some of the bigger fish out there to possibly placate them.
Let's hope Microsoft doesn't clue into this. Their best strategy right now might be to buy out SCO (along with their IP claims) and just throw an insane amuont of money and lawyers into these lawsuits. If a tiny flea like SCO can create this much FUD, imagine what MS could do.
A better way to deal with these security flaws (and the bloated piece of crap that is RealPlayer) is to uninstall RealPlayer and download Real Alternative.
Just throw everything you buy from Wal-Mart in the microwave for a few seconds. I'm sure the RF static from the microwave should be enough to fry any circuits in your clothes.
Just make sure you don't throw your new tinfoil hat in there, you could start a fire!
This highlights the reason why I think that John Edwards's plan is so great:
Edwards' plan is to eliminate tax cuts for companies that move jobs
overseas and instead give them to those that will create jobs in the
United States.
I really don't care if it's Edwards or someone else who ends up doing it, but something along these lines must be done or we're all screwed.
Intel's Prescott, Intel's Extreme Edition, and AMD's Athlon 64 3400+
posted by augustus on Monday February 02, @11:51AM
from the CPU-Gods dept.
Today Intel unveiled the next great chip in their line of Pentium 4 processors. This chip codenamed "Prescott" has been talked about for quite some time and we hope the chip lives up to the hype. With new features like an increased L2 cache and new instructions, the Prescott has the goods on paper. Along with this new processor, Intel also released a speed bump to their "Extreme Edition" line which brings the chip up to 3.4GHz. The Extreme Edition chips encompass the same features of their normal "Northwood" Pentium 4 cousins but also add an additional 2MB of L3 cache to the existing 512KB of L2. In this review we will introduce you to these new Intel processors and also bring in the Athlon 64 desktop processors now available at 3400+ model numbers. If your ready for a look into what AMD and Intel have in store for you today, read on.
Intel's Chips
First, we'll talk about Intel's Extreme Edition part. The Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition offers nothing fancy like new instructions or a new manufacturing process. Instead, Intel took the brute force approach on this CPU and simply added an additional 2MB of L3 cache. This wasn't even a processor redesign for Intel, they simply took their Xeon MP processor and repackaged it in a Socket 478 socket, compatible with today's 865/875 series motherboards. Many have said that this processor wasn't even planned but that Intel decided they needed an answer to AMD's Athlon 64 FX line. This wouldn't be confirmed by Intel, of course, but it's not like any processor company to spring random new products on the industry without a fair amount of hype.
The Extreme Edition processor was launched at 3.2GHz and was extremely difficult to get. About the only way to find one initially was to buy a new system through a select few retailers. Not only were they hard to get but the price was prohibitive at around $1000 for the processor alone. The processor is available now through many more retailers but the price has wavered little. The 3.4GHz already seems like it will be a little easier to find than it's predecessor but expect to add at least $100+ for the extra 200MHz of the 3.4GHz model.
The Prescott is an entirely different story from the Extreme Edition. The Prescott has been on Intel's road map for quite some time and was a necessary step in processor evolution. The biggest feature of the Prescott that you'll read about is the move to a 90nm manufacturing process from the previous 130nm process. As we've discussed in other articles about process shrinks, this allows for two things. First, it allows Intel to shrink die sizes, resulting in more CPUs per wafer (the base from which CPUs are carved). This will lower Intel's cost per chip. Second, it will allow for the processor to operate with less power consumption per transistor, due to the fact that the electrons will have to travel a shorter distance between transistors. Another change in this manufacturing process is the use if strained silicon which allows for an easier flow of electrons.
The next big feature in this processor is the addition of 512KB more L2 cache bringing the total to 1MB. This increase in cache size is something that always seems to speed up the majority of applications. This allows for more of the application's code to fit into a extremely fast portion of memory sitting right next to the processor running at the full processor clock speed. While this seems like something relatively easy to add to a processor, it adds a great deal of transistors to the core which increases the cost of manufacturing.
Finally, there are some architectural changes for the Pentium 4 that come with the Prescott. The first is that the pipeline has been extended and reorganized to make the processor more efficient. Along with this reorganization, the way memory is handled internally has been optimized
Come on, is that any way to treat the marketing geniuses who come up quality ad campaigns like "make Her.hApppy inBed gheihhaADFG!" and "sa,spec1@1 $33 priclng av@1la61e For @ limlted t1me!"?
People are starting to get way to good at optimizing their sites for Google. The search results I get from Google are getting worse and worse. This isn't because Google is getting worse, it's because they staying the same. They are a victim of their own success and have too many people trying to cheat the system to make a buck from Google traffic. I'm starting to see more and more "Google Spam" in my search results. It's pretty annoying to search for "foo," and then have to wade through several pages of "We have the best foo and the best prices on bar! Come check out our bar and see all of our great foo, laptops, pda's, foo, bar, goats, creamcheese and foo!" Google is still (in my opinion) the best search engine on the web, but they are slipping. They need to improve their algorithm to filter out all the crap. The most used search engine a year from now will be the one that gives users the most accurate and useful results, whether it's owned by Google, Microsoft, SCO, goatse.cx, or anyone else.
The problem that I see with that is that the off-campus bookstore has little recourse if the student doesn't pay. I mean they can send the account to a collectin agency, but how much good does that usually do? The University bookstore can deduct the amount from the student's financial aid before they get it. Or, failing that, add it to the tuition bill and hold enrollment/transcripts until it's paid.
The university claims that the decision to hold financial aid checks was unrelated. Riiiight.
Add to that selling students' names and addresses to credit card companies along with the rights to put the University's name and logo in the return address so more people will open the junk mail. I graduated two years ago and I'm still getting it. Has anyone else recieved crap like this from their alma mater?
I agree 100% that Universities are gouging students to make a buck. At the university I graduated from (a medium sized state school) The University owned bookstore charges astronomical prices and always seems to run out all too quickly of the multitude of used books they bought back the previous semester for 10% of the price they resell them for. When an off-campus bookstore opened to provide some competition what did the University do? They moved back the date that financial aid checks were distributed. You could charge your books at the Uni bookstore and have the amount taken out of your change check when you finally got it. So, if you're an average student and dependent of financial aid to buy your books your choices are: 1. Buy the overpriced books at the Uni bookstore or 2. wait for you financial aid and get your books 5-6 weeks after classes start. Guess which one most students choose. The off campus bookstore was out of business within a year. This also effectively rules out buying books online for most students. What a racket!
The best jokes to play on people are the kind that the IT staff can laugh at, but the users don't even notice...
My favorite is when someone calls and says that their password isn't working. I tell them to press caps-lock three times to "reset the password buffer". Nine times out of ten this solves the problem, the user is happy, and the IT department has a good laugh.
Google's value has always been that it used new and innovative filtering techniques to cut out the crap and return useful results. I agree that Google's results are getting less useful and relevant lately. Up until now, they've always done a good job adapting their technology as search engine spammers change their tactics. Let's hope that they can continue to do so...
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It's also an infinite loop, since the result of total(Linux.Users) is never decremented. ;)
It's obvious that SCO is not only wanting to raise its stock price, but it's hoping to be bought out by some of the bigger fish out there to possibly placate them.
Let's hope Microsoft doesn't clue into this. Their best strategy right now might be to buy out SCO (along with their IP claims) and just throw an insane amuont of money and lawyers into these lawsuits. If a tiny flea like SCO can create this much FUD, imagine what MS could do.
This gives credibility to the earlier post that stated that virus writers were actually helping by exposing vulnerabilities in code.
Real Networks posted the instructions on dealing with security flaws.
A better way to deal with these security flaws (and the bloated piece of crap that is RealPlayer) is to uninstall RealPlayer and download Real Alternative.
Just throw everything you buy from Wal-Mart in the microwave for a few seconds. I'm sure the RF static from the microwave should be enough to fry any circuits in your clothes.
Just make sure you don't throw your new tinfoil hat in there, you could start a fire!
This highlights the reason why I think that John Edwards's plan is so great:
Edwards' plan is to eliminate tax cuts for companies that move jobs overseas and instead give them to those that will create jobs in the United States.
I really don't care if it's Edwards or someone else who ends up doing it, but something along these lines must be done or we're all screwed.
Please to be joining me in welcome our hand-coding hundu overlords.
Better than nothing until the ./ effect wears off:
Intel's Prescott, Intel's Extreme Edition, and AMD's Athlon 64 3400+ posted by augustus on Monday February 02, @11:51AM from the CPU-Gods dept. Today Intel unveiled the next great chip in their line of Pentium 4 processors. This chip codenamed "Prescott" has been talked about for quite some time and we hope the chip lives up to the hype. With new features like an increased L2 cache and new instructions, the Prescott has the goods on paper. Along with this new processor, Intel also released a speed bump to their "Extreme Edition" line which brings the chip up to 3.4GHz. The Extreme Edition chips encompass the same features of their normal "Northwood" Pentium 4 cousins but also add an additional 2MB of L3 cache to the existing 512KB of L2. In this review we will introduce you to these new Intel processors and also bring in the Athlon 64 desktop processors now available at 3400+ model numbers. If your ready for a look into what AMD and Intel have in store for you today, read on. Intel's Chips First, we'll talk about Intel's Extreme Edition part. The Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition offers nothing fancy like new instructions or a new manufacturing process. Instead, Intel took the brute force approach on this CPU and simply added an additional 2MB of L3 cache. This wasn't even a processor redesign for Intel, they simply took their Xeon MP processor and repackaged it in a Socket 478 socket, compatible with today's 865/875 series motherboards. Many have said that this processor wasn't even planned but that Intel decided they needed an answer to AMD's Athlon 64 FX line. This wouldn't be confirmed by Intel, of course, but it's not like any processor company to spring random new products on the industry without a fair amount of hype. The Extreme Edition processor was launched at 3.2GHz and was extremely difficult to get. About the only way to find one initially was to buy a new system through a select few retailers. Not only were they hard to get but the price was prohibitive at around $1000 for the processor alone. The processor is available now through many more retailers but the price has wavered little. The 3.4GHz already seems like it will be a little easier to find than it's predecessor but expect to add at least $100+ for the extra 200MHz of the 3.4GHz model. The Prescott is an entirely different story from the Extreme Edition. The Prescott has been on Intel's road map for quite some time and was a necessary step in processor evolution. The biggest feature of the Prescott that you'll read about is the move to a 90nm manufacturing process from the previous 130nm process. As we've discussed in other articles about process shrinks, this allows for two things. First, it allows Intel to shrink die sizes, resulting in more CPUs per wafer (the base from which CPUs are carved). This will lower Intel's cost per chip. Second, it will allow for the processor to operate with less power consumption per transistor, due to the fact that the electrons will have to travel a shorter distance between transistors. Another change in this manufacturing process is the use if strained silicon which allows for an easier flow of electrons. The next big feature in this processor is the addition of 512KB more L2 cache bringing the total to 1MB. This increase in cache size is something that always seems to speed up the majority of applications. This allows for more of the application's code to fit into a extremely fast portion of memory sitting right next to the processor running at the full processor clock speed. While this seems like something relatively easy to add to a processor, it adds a great deal of transistors to the core which increases the cost of manufacturing. Finally, there are some architectural changes for the Pentium 4 that come with the Prescott. The first is that the pipeline has been extended and reorganized to make the processor more efficient. Along with this reorganization, the way memory is handled internally has been optimized
Come on, is that any way to treat the marketing geniuses who come up quality ad campaigns like "make Her.hApppy inBed gheihhaADFG!" and "sa,spec1@1 $33 priclng av@1la61e For @ limlted t1me!"?
I think they'd better run chkrootkit just in case...
People are starting to get way to good at optimizing their sites for Google. The search results I get from Google are getting worse and worse. This isn't because Google is getting worse, it's because they staying the same. They are a victim of their own success and have too many people trying to cheat the system to make a buck from Google traffic. I'm starting to see more and more "Google Spam" in my search results. It's pretty annoying to search for "foo," and then have to wade through several pages of "We have the best foo and the best prices on bar! Come check out our bar and see all of our great foo, laptops, pda's, foo, bar, goats, creamcheese and foo!" Google is still (in my opinion) the best search engine on the web, but they are slipping. They need to improve their algorithm to filter out all the crap. The most used search engine a year from now will be the one that gives users the most accurate and useful results, whether it's owned by Google, Microsoft, SCO, goatse.cx, or anyone else.
The problem that I see with that is that the off-campus bookstore has little recourse if the student doesn't pay. I mean they can send the account to a collectin agency, but how much good does that usually do? The University bookstore can deduct the amount from the student's financial aid before they get it. Or, failing that, add it to the tuition bill and hold enrollment/transcripts until it's paid.
The university claims that the decision to hold financial aid checks was unrelated. Riiiight. Add to that selling students' names and addresses to credit card companies along with the rights to put the University's name and logo in the return address so more people will open the junk mail. I graduated two years ago and I'm still getting it. Has anyone else recieved crap like this from their alma mater?
I agree 100% that Universities are gouging students to make a buck. At the university I graduated from (a medium sized state school) The University owned bookstore charges astronomical prices and always seems to run out all too quickly of the multitude of used books they bought back the previous semester for 10% of the price they resell them for. When an off-campus bookstore opened to provide some competition what did the University do? They moved back the date that financial aid checks were distributed. You could charge your books at the Uni bookstore and have the amount taken out of your change check when you finally got it. So, if you're an average student and dependent of financial aid to buy your books your choices are: 1. Buy the overpriced books at the Uni bookstore or 2. wait for you financial aid and get your books 5-6 weeks after classes start. Guess which one most students choose. The off campus bookstore was out of business within a year. This also effectively rules out buying books online for most students. What a racket!
"According to their homepage, Trillian is currently only releasing the patch to paying customers."
I was just stating the facts. No negativity about it.
According to their homepage, Trillian is currently only releasing the patch to paying customers.
Oh my God, you stole my +1 Funny! You bastard!
After waiting 10 minutes for the page to load I realized something... Some people have way too much free time on their hands.
The best jokes to play on people are the kind that the IT staff can laugh at, but the users don't even notice... My favorite is when someone calls and says that their password isn't working. I tell them to press caps-lock three times to "reset the password buffer". Nine times out of ten this solves the problem, the user is happy, and the IT department has a good laugh.
I suppose that they could go with "Decium" for their next processor. (But Digital Equipment Co. might not like that.)
Google's value has always been that it used new and innovative filtering techniques to cut out the crap and return useful results. I agree that Google's results are getting less useful and relevant lately. Up until now, they've always done a good job adapting their technology as search engine spammers change their tactics. Let's hope that they can continue to do so...
Will they be charging me state sales tax to search?
"Fifty million Americans can't be wrong."
Umm.. they are if the other 240 Million of us don't think so.
Let's call up the other 240 Million and ask them what they think about it. I hear that you can get an autodialer pretty cheap these days.
We'll really need one now. I shudder to think how much spam will increase as companies look for alternative ways to recoup their telemarketing profit.