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Comment WSJ links (Score 1) 57

by ppartipilo on Friday May 19, 2017 @01:35PM (#54449663) Attached to: A Tip for Apple in China: Your Hunger for Revenue May Cost You

What's the deal with all the WSJ links lately?

Comment Re:Aren't they too power-hungry? (Score 1) 68

by ppartipilo on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @01:34PM (#53155741) Attached to: Intel Announces Atom E3900 Series - Goldmont for the Internet of Things

The newest generation Skylake and Kaby Lake u-series processors default to a 15w TDP and can be configured as a 7.5w TDP-Down. This gets you a full powered Core-i processor, not a weakened Atom chip. Is this device still a hampered weakened Atom-type chip or have they added some IoT centric features to a Core-i?

Comment Re:I don't think this is 100% true (Score 1) 151

by ppartipilo on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:23AM (#51675957) Attached to: Apple Executive Confirms: Manually Quitting Apps Doesn't Improve Battery Life

This is true. Words With Friends will stop playing audio, and must be manually closed and reopened to fix it.

Comment Cablecards work good nowadays. (Score 1) 167

by ppartipilo on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:59PM (#51400247) Attached to: Cable Lobby Steams Up Over FCC Set-Top Box Competition Plan

I had troubles pairing my old Series 3 HD Tivo, requiring a visit from a Comcast technician. I currently have a Series 4 Premiere and have been able to perform a self-install without difficulty.

Comment Costco (Score 1) 358

by ppartipilo on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:53AM (#50787109) Attached to: Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out?

There is a documentary on Costco that delves into this phenomenon. Choice paralysis is a thing, and that is why there are few choices amongst product categories available at Costco.

Startup's Submerged Servers Could Cut Cooling Costs 147

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 18, 2010 @03:55PM from the alliteration-alternation dept.

1sockchuck writes "Are data center operators ready to abandon hot and cold aisles and submerge their servers? An Austin startup says its liquid cooling enclosure can cool high-density server installations for a fraction of the cost of air cooling in traditional data centers. Submersion cooling using mineral oil isn't new, dating back to the use of Fluorinert in the Cray 2. The new startup, Green Revolution Cooling, says its first installation will be at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (also home to the Ranger supercomputer). The company launched at SC09 along with a competing liquid cooling play, the Iceotope cooling bags."

Comment ATI (Score 1) 333

by ppartipilo on Wednesday June 14, 2006 @10:38PM (#15537156) Attached to: Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System

I wonder how this will fare for ATI. While both ATI and Nvidia sometimes have issues with drivers, ATI seems to have them constantly. There is also an issue of their drivers never quite fully uninstalling when you choose to uninstall them. For example, they leave a storm of entries under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Video, along with unremoved *.pnf files in %systemroot%\inf. If you do not clean those out between driver updates, you will have problems.

ATI was lauded in the past for (finally) evolving to a monolithic driver set (catalysts) back in the day, however they still have work to do.

Overall I think this is a fantastic idea. This is excellent motivation for driver manufacturers as the system is no longer binary.

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