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Comment Re:buh? (Score 1) 642

by Marton (#36493816) Attached to: Bitcoin Price Crashes

RTFA?

What they're saying is that somebody amassed a lot of coins on a single account but wasn't able to transfer them out. Just $1000 worth. The coins are there, and the transactions can be rolled back. Mostly.

I hope that is the case - if they can't fix this then it's a huge blow to a very interesting experiment.
Portables

Submission + - big ram laptops? (beyond 4gb)

Submitted by Fubari
Fubari writes: Anybody know when laptops over 4gb might be coming out? Some of the devtools I want to run are just obscene ram-pigs. On the desktop I'm using now (win2003), it sucks up 1.6gb just to boot. By the time I log in and start doing work, it is stretching 2gb.

Move that to vista, add a vm-ware session or two, and I'm worried I'll be pushing 4gb.

I'm torn between buying a 4gb-max laptop now, or some mini-desktop that can fit in a set of luggage wheels. A friend of mine suggested something like this, but my first choice would be something designed to be portable.
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: AMD readies second-generation quad-core Opteron

Journal by OSTG Marketing
AMD will release the second-generation quad-core Opteron, 'Shanghai' early in 2008. Shanghai is enhanced version of its recently demo'd 'Barcelona' quad-core Opteron processor family. "AMD reckons DDR 2 will do the job for the foreseeable future - out into early 2009, on the basis of the roadmap. Just as current Opteron 1xxx, 2xxx and 8xxx CPUs use DDR 2, so too will Barcelona and 'Budapest', the future quad-core
Toys

The 10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time 404

Posted by Zonk from the watch-your-hands dept.
Ant writes "An article at the Radar lists the ten most dangerous toys of all time, those treasured playthings that drew blood, chewed digits, took out eyes, and, in one case, actually irradiated. To keep things interesting, the editors excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm." My favorite: 'Feed Me!' begged the packaging for 1996's Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kid. And much like the carnivorous Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors, the adorable lineup of Cabbage Patch snack-dolls appeared at first to be harmless. They merely wanted a nibble--a carrot perhaps, or maybe some yummy pudding. They would stop chewing when snack time was done -- they promised. Then they chomped your child's finger off."
Google

Google Releases Customized IE 7 198

Posted by Zonk from the they-were-bored dept.
narramissic writes "Google has released a customized version of Internet Explorer 7 that uses Google as the default search engine and provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. Perhaps not exactly what Microsoft intended when they released the Internet Explorer Administration Kit, which allows developers to customize IE."
Microsoft

Submission + - Vista not compatible with SQL Server

Submitted by kiran_n
kiran_n writes: Fortune's Owen Thomas has an article on Vista not being compatible with SQL Server. One more reason for slower adoption of Vista?
"But now Microsoft has a problem. Vista, its long-awaited update to the Windows operating system, can't run the current version of SQL Server. The company is working on a SQL upgrade that is compatible with Vista — called SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 2 — but it's in beta and can be licensed only for testing purposes. Microsoft hasn't set a release date for the new SQL program."

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