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2007/09/19 End of Moore’s Law in 10-15 years?
Could it really be? (story from slashdot.org): Hardware: End of Moore’s Law in 10-15 years? Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 19, @10:52AM from the no-for-real-this-time dept. javipas writes “In 1965 Gordon Moore — Intel’s co-founder — predicted that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every two years. Moore’s Law has been…
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2007/09/07 Server Benchmarking Lone Wolf Bites Intel Again
Here is another thing thats biting Intel in the butt again: Hardware: Server Benchmarking Lone Wolf Bites Intel Again Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday September 07, @02:53PM from the everyone-loves-a-homecourt-ruling dept. Ian Lamont writes “Neal Nelson, the engineer who conducts independent server benchmarking, has nipped Intel again by reporting that AMD’s Opteron chips ‘delivered…
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2007/08/03 Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor
Here is a good story from Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes “Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun’s “Throughput Computing” effort. Along with having more cores than the quads from…
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2007/07/27 Slashdot: A historical Look at the First Linux Kernel
This is a article on slashdot taking a look at the historical Linux Kerel 0.01: LinuxFan writes “KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel “Freax,”…
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2007/07/25 Slashdot.org: Virtual Containerization
Here is a story from Slashdot.org: Virtual Containerization AlexGr alerts us to a piece by Jeff Gould up on Interop News. Quoting: “It’s becoming increasingly clear that the most important use of virtualization is not to consolidate hardware boxes but to protect applications from the vagaries of the operating environments they run on. It’s all…
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2007/07/23 Worldwide XPS 700 Motherboard Exchange Program Launch Date Confirmed
Posts now will come out @ 5:00 PM PST which is when the New Day Starts on ryanorser.com Here is the Dell XPS 700 Motherboard Exchange programs launch date confirmed on July 19th 2007 is now worldwide on Monday, August 13th, 2007 and the world wide exchange will end on October 13th, 2007. So you…
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2007/07/17 Dell fixes Linux Prices
Hello again happy Tuesday. here is an article from http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9933912441.html Dell Ubuntu Linux buyers were recently outraged when a price comparison between identical Inspiron 1420 laptops showed that instead of the Ubuntu system being cheaper, it actually ended up costing $225 more than the same laptop with Vista Home Basic Edition. This was after Dell…
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2007/06/26 Dell Scraps Dimension Desktops!
Instead of having Dimension Desktops Dell has come out with Inspiron Desktops which support both AMD and Intel chipsets. They also Made a huge improvement to the Laptop line which Dell has brought back the 1400 line of 14.1 ” notebooks! They have also made 2 new 15.4 ” notebooks the 1520 and the 1521,…