Comment Re:Finally a replacement (Score 1) 166
Yes, it has a slightly higher power consumption, but at this processor's insanely high 6MB L3 Cache and 6 x 512KB L2 Cache, I can accept it. It is a solid performer.
Comment Re:Old news, over and over (Score 1) 147
Yes, but as Edgar Matias explains, we need to use and preserve the far superior keyboards that use ALPS switches.
Comment Re:Here's another complaint! (Score 1) 147
Unicomp sells several classic-style IBM/Lexmark keyboard with classic TrackPoint nubs. Just have a look.
Comment Re:Edgar Matias saved the ALPS switch industry (Score 1) 147
This keyboard at Massdrop is offered with Matias switches. All you need is a soldering iron and an hour.
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/i...
Sorry for the link, it requires an account, but mechanical keyboards are an important legacy to continue, at least so future generations can enjoy carpal-tunnel-free computer usage.
Comment Edgar Matias saved the ALPS switch industry (Score 5, Interesting) 147
Edgar Matias saved the ALPS switch industry. His company, at significant expense, and through expensive trial-and-error, has succeeded in perfecting the manufacture of clicky and non-clicky ALPS switch clones.
While most of us keyboard enthusiasts extol the virtues of buckling-spring IBM/Lexmark keyboards continued by Unicomp, and the recent introduction of full Cherry MX Green heavy clicky switch keyboards (previously only used in spacebars alone), Matias is a true hero.
Newegg Rosewill/Striker, Newegg ABS, DS International, and Ducky have had reasonably good ALPS clones that have fallen out of production. But Matias continues to be the gold standard for those of us who appreciate the sound and feel of classic ALPS clicky and non-clicky keyboards.
It's a complicated and varied history in the original and clone ALPS switches if you're into that sort of thing.
Comment Why do they keep crying poor? (Score 1) 202
If everything's so well paid for, why do they keep crying poor with those beggar messages at the top of the screen all the time?
Comment Re:Finally a replacement (Score 1) 166
I just retired my 1045T desktop and moved it to a VMware server. With SSDs it performs very well in this application.
Comment Re:Mainframe era? (Score 1) 46
It's breathtaking to use systems that are explicitly designed for multiple workloads. I wonder how much energy and space datacenters could save if everyone and their brother hadn't gone whole-hog on an architecture that is only marginally suitable for multiprocessing. It keeps getting better, but x86-64 is just not designed for this.
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House 553
seven of five writes: According to Reuters, "Former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Carly Fiorina announced on Monday she is running for president, becoming the only woman in the pack of Republican candidates for the White House in 2016. ... Fiorina registers near the bottom of polls of the dozen or so Republican hopefuls and has never held public office. But she has already attracted warm receptions at events in the early voting state of Iowa where she is positioning herself as a conservative, pro-business Republican highly critical of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Fiorina was forced by HP to resign in 2005 as the tech company struggled to digest Compaq after a $19 billion merger."
As part of her announcement, she said, "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works." I'm sure we'll soon begin hearing from all the HP employees, current and former, who have nothing but love for Carly F.
As part of her announcement, she said, "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works." I'm sure we'll soon begin hearing from all the HP employees, current and former, who have nothing but love for Carly F.
Russian Cargo Spacehip Declared Lost 108
schwit1 writes: The Russians have declared lost the Progress freighter that had been launched to the ISS yesterday. They never could regain control of the craft, plus it was in an incorrect orbit. Moreover, the U.S. Air Force has detected debris nearby, suggesting a significant failure of some kind. The Russians are now considering delaying the next manned launch, scheduled for May 26, while they investigate this failure. Both Soyuz and Progress use some of the same systems, including the radar system that failed on Progress, and they want to make sure the problem won't pop up on the manned mission. At the same time, they are also considering advancing the launch date of the next Progress to ISS from August 6. Based on these reports, I think they might swap the launch dates for the two flights. A Dragon is scheduled to go to ISS in between these missions, though that schedule could be changed as well to accommodate the Russian plans.
Comment Why not merge with Android, already? (Score 1) 112
Why not merge with Android, already?
My Chromebooks are pretty poor performers and as the months move on they get slowly worse.
Why haven't Google already replaced the ad-hoc, stripped-down Linux distribution with their much more sucdessful other ad-hoc, stripped-down Linux distribution?
Comment Re:MY data in AMAZON's cloud ?? (Score 1) 122
I'm going to ignore your sarcasm since I believe that sarcasm invalidates your argument.
But, since you asked, AMZN has recently enhanced S3 with cross-region replication, not just cross-availability zone replication, per this announcement:
Comment Re:MY data in AMAZON's cloud ?? (Score 1) 122
I thought everyone knew that Amazon stores your data in a multitude of locations. Why didn't you know that?
Comment Re:Good Grief (Score 1) 120
The irony with Intel's gaming of marketing was that it was actually AMD who broke 1 GHz.
Comment Re:It's about time (Score 1) 355
That's right. They state that everything else is the same as the original Pi B+ which means it runs everything off the USB bus.
Having a better CPU is vitally important when you run nearly everything off USB. The USB bus is CPU-dependent, unfortunately, but with this new processor/memory package, we've got a big improvement, here.
