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Comment More Reviews (Score 2, Informative) 173

by tab_b on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @01:03PM (#29353329) Attached to: Intel Lynnfield CPU Bests Nehalem In Performance/Watt

Here are a few more reviews for today: The Tech Report, Phoronix, AnandTech, X-bit labs, and Benchmark Reviews. It's all enough to make your eyes bleed. There's a list for the Core i7 870 at 0x6877.com

Comment HotHardware too (Score 1) 195

by tab_b on Thursday July 23, 2009 @05:19PM (#28800421) Attached to: Intel 34nm SSDs Lower Prices, Raise Performance

HotHardware has taken a crack at these new drives also today.

Comment AnandTech writeup (Score 5, Informative) 195

by tab_b on Thursday July 23, 2009 @01:02PM (#28797137) Attached to: Intel 34nm SSDs Lower Prices, Raise Performance

AnandTech has a nice writeup too. If the price curve drops like the first-gen X-25M we should all be happy pretty soon.

Comment Re:Standardize battery pack (Score 1) 369

by tab_b on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @02:41PM (#27677357) Attached to: Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars

I'm sure there are several ways around this, computer-vision systems could just look at the underside of the car and recognize the battery, RFID tags on the car could identify the make and model so the system would know where the battery should be, magnetic sensors, etc. Use some imagination.

Comment Have sshd give out less info (Score 1) 327

by tab_b on Monday December 22, 2008 @11:24AM (#26200637) Attached to: The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning

Haven't seen anyone mention this but... how about patching sshd so that an attacker can't tell the difference between a connection failing because of a bad userid or because of a bad password/key? Let them sit and spin (a tarpit?) trying to break into that "amanda" account they think I have - or blow out their database thinking every host has every possible userid in the book.

Comment Re:low prices on sdd (Score 1) 290

by tab_b on Saturday December 13, 2008 @12:02PM (#26103189) Attached to: Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs?

OCZ has grabbed the bottom, at least on NewEgg, looking here and sorting by price, you'll find the 30GB Solid Series is $69.99.

Journal Journal: Netflix is keeping the Profiles feature

Journal by rubeng on Monday June 30, 2008 @05:02PM

Netflix has reversed its earlier decision to remove profiles. They just sent out an e-mail that said:

You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.
We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.

Journal Journal: HP Develops "Memristor"

Journal by rubeng on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @06:08PM

HP has come up with a practical implementation of a device called a "memristor", according to the New York Times, that provides a non-volatile memory element possibly down to 4nm in size. At 1/10th the speed of DRAM, it won't be suitable for main memory, but could certainly give

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