Massive coil whine issues. No matter of HSF replacement or chassis sound proofing/dampening will get rid of it, the coil whine will be the loudest part of your computer when you're playing a game.

How can AMD release a 1000 dollar card that has such a massive issue? The dual GPU ASUS card did not have this problem.

OK that's cool, it'll be able to run those systems fine I think.

Now the problem is with emulators as usual is that it's not legal to download the ROMs for your system, even if you own the cartridge. (this might be system dependant)

There are devices that can extract the ROM from a cartridge though, but I'm guessing they aren't that cheap (niche market).

Sure.

No, that is not impressive. Super lo-res screen, slower than any phone that is available today. But it's open source, so I suppose that's good.

But what is the point? Learning? Because the thing won't sell, like the previous models didn't do. You can have the best hardware, but if you don't have games for the device it doesn't matter.

I, for one, would rather game on my phone which is faster and has a much higher resolution display, with a bluetooth connected game controller of my choice.

I was in China for 2 trips. used a US vpn both times, had no issues.

What?

Steam on Linux will be nice.

Mostly it's Battlefield 3 and the likes (new games with shiny graphics and DRM), they won't work well or at all.

Wait, NASA doesn't encrypt its laptops? Why not?

Just use Bitlocker, it's enforced by GPO where I work. Or if on another system, truecrypt or just CryptFS.

Why is this an issue?

I've always looked at it as number of CPUs (physical chips), number of cores (total, on all CPUs), number of threads (total cores, with HT or not etc).

-way was a socket thing for me, but perhaps it's not.

8-way would mean 8 sockets on the motherboard, like http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/5U/5086/SYS-5086B-TRF.cfm .

Started with Slackware in the early days, then moved to Debian. Stayed with Debian until Archlinux showed up, been with it since. However, been trying out Ubuntu for a few years every now and then just to check it out.

We keep the management network and the production network on separate physical networks. So if you get into a box, you still can't IPMI to any other box.

Also, this is not hacking, it's by design.

I've noticed that when friends get faster internet access (100/10 or even 100/100) they tend to download less and less, and just stream the shows/movies they want to watch. For them loads of storage is not really necessary.
Of course you still have the odd one who wants to download everything in 1080p x/h264 rips at 8-20 GB a piece.

So, for people with slower speeds I can see they'd want to have more storage, as streaming is not an option. (no one rents discs anymore, there's a reason the shops are closing)

Also, for the technical side, how do you back up 10TB (or more)? I suppose it would be necessary to have 2 HDDs in RAID1 with ZFS on top or something, to prevent the effects bit rot etc.

How are you doin' ?

That'd be perfect. 6x 3TB in RAID6 on that baby... 12TB in a small box!