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Comment Re:I find this disturbing (Score 1) 137

by Movi on Monday August 03, 2009 @07:10PM (#28934381) Attached to: Intel Confirms Data Corruption Bug, Halts New SSDs

From my perspective it's actually beggining to be quite common among HW manufacturers to release broken hardware. Actually had 2 run-ins with a required firmware upgrade to gfx boards (both nvidia) #1 8800GTX 512MB who in it's video bios claimed to only have 256MB. I guess the windows drivers had their own VRam enumeration procedure, but this majorly put other drivers off to a hang (OSX - yeha i know hackintosh is bad, and noveau). I had to get the vbios from the board, hexedit it (4 offsets), then flash it back. Thankfully all went well and now it's reporting what it should have been in the first place. Why did the card lie about this, i have no clue. #2 9800GTX 512 - would hang on any driver reload in windows. I spent DAYS figuring this out, first with WinXP, finally some older drivers managed to load, then with Windows7 - multiple builds, multiple version (x86, x64), BIOS settings, hackery. Finally something irked me "what if this card is lying too". Went to check for a BIOS update - huzzah "Fixes windows reload driver hang". On both of these occurences, i wouldn't imagine a normal PC user doing these. So i guess releasing broken hardware which is then "fixed" is the norm. Now that i think about it.. AMD Phenom Look-Aside cache bug, countless ATi-Mac firmware, SMC and EFI updates. This is actually common, no?

Comment Re:Typical redditor (Score 4, Insightful) 137

by Movi on Monday August 03, 2009 @07:01PM (#28934317) Attached to: Intel Confirms Data Corruption Bug, Halts New SSDs

Because suddenly your code becomes time-based, eg it matters WHEN x=0 becomes x=1, and what's in between. Believe me, this kicks you in the balls really hard. I still remember the frustration on my Altera course, where in simulation everything worked fine, but once flashed onto a FPGA everything went to shit.

Comment Re:Time Warner is already doing this in Brooklyn/N (Score 1) 281

by Movi on Thursday June 18, 2009 @11:56AM (#28375051) Attached to: Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010

Nope, not really 1 [My IPv6] 1.421 ms 1.087 ms 2.245 ms 2 [My Tunnel] 35.730 ms 38.181 ms 34.940 ms 3 gige-g2-4.core1.fra1.he.net 33.940 ms 34.452 ms 33.944 ms 4 de-cix20.net.google.com 45.923 ms 43.556 ms 39.865 ms 5 * * * 6 fx-in-x68.google.com 56.283 ms 50.369 ms 36.717 ms

Comment Two things (Score 1) 252

by Movi on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @08:11AM (#28359993) Attached to: UK Government Announces Broadband Tax

There are only two things sure in life : Death and Taxes

Comment Re:Who gives a fsck... (Score 1) 259

by Movi on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @08:06AM (#28263861) Attached to: Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central

Actually it's Stanislaw Lem. He's Polish (like me) and we don't use the letter v.

Comment Re:Because when I think graphics, I think intel (Score 0, Troll) 288

by Movi on Friday February 06, 2009 @07:56PM (#26759723) Attached to: Intel To Design PlayStation 4 GPU

Yet it still fails to do the thing it was made to do : play good games (well it does play them, but most games aren't that good, and the good ones aren't in great numbers compared to the other consoles).

Comment Re:What Has Changed? (Score 1) 900

by Movi on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @07:39PM (#25226623) Attached to: How Big Should My Swap Be?

Well, as far as i go, i have a 1GB Swapfile, whilst having 1,5GB of RAM, and having usage around 512MB. But the swap comes in handy when compiling gcc or glibc (i use Gentoo). Other than that, usually it isn't even touched by the system.

There are advantages of having a swapfile - you can add them while the system is running, and delete them when you no longer need the extra swap space. Also, those using Macintels know that having a 4th partition is problematic if you wnt to use the neat Leopard-supplied Boot Camp assistant.

They have one (in my eye at least) disadvantage - most hibernation methods in linux (i heard tuxonice isn't the case anymore) don't work with a swapfile. I don't care anyway, since the normal S3 suspend is good enough for me.

Submission + - GoDaddy Lets Their SSL Certificate Expire (superubergeek.com)

Submitted by

SuperUberGeek

on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @08:37PM

SuperUberGeek writes: "GoDaddy Lets Their SSL Certificate Expire

Of all the biggest blunders you do not want to do, GoDaddy.com has let their security certificate expire and is now taken offline. As of 4:10 PST, Dec 19, 2007 Godaddy.com has ceased to exist. This is a major blooper for a company that prides itself in reselling SSL Certificates, and in providing web based tools to manage your domain names, websites, and auctions for domain names. All three which can expire in the time godaddy is down, presenting a huge problem for anyone who has a domain name expiring tonight, or who needs to manage something for a client using the tools at godaddy."

Submission + - New Milestone Demoscene Releases. (pouet.net) 4

Submitted by on Sunday August 05, 2007 @08:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: With over 3000 visitors one of the biggest computer festivals, the Assembly 2007, just closed doors. The event saw the release of some of the best demoscene productions of this year. Among them the first good demos for the XBOX 360, but also for platforms as obscure as the Atari VCS2600 from 1976. The main demo competition was won by Lifeforce, one of the most acclaimed demoscene demos ever. Other releases can be found here.

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