DamonHD - Slashdot User

Submission + - European Internet Connectivity Crash?

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DamonHD

on Monday January 01, 2007 @01:34PM

DamonHD writes: "Is hungover New-Year-Europe having an Internet outage to go along with the mandatory seasonal glitches in the banking networks ("I was standing in the pub and suddenly all my cards stopped working")?"

Submission + - Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 break(s) off Taiwan

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DamonHD

on Wednesday December 27, 2006 @11:13AM

DamonHD writes: "It seems that the earthquake off Taiwan on Boxing Day caused the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 submarine cable fault between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan and between Lantau, Hong Kong and Chongming, China.

Connectivity within AsiaPac can be patchy at the best of times: this APCN2 break has made it noticeably worse and disrupted traffic to and from the US and Europe too..."

Submission + - What will be the new clockspeed ceiling at 45nm

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DamonHD

on Thursday November 30, 2006 @08:36AM

DamonHD writes: "http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/30/intel_45nm _crossover_coming_2008/

It looked like 3GHz to 4GHz has been a practical ceiling for CPU clocks for mainstream microprocessors with current fabs.

What kind of practical increase can we expect from a move to 45nm without blowing the thermal envelope and toasting our laptops and co-lo server farms? 2x?

Rgds

Damon"

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