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Submission + - AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980 (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @08:35AM

MojoKid writes: "Although much of the buzz lately has revolved around AMD's upcoming Llano and Bulldozer-based APUs, AMD isn't done pushing the envelope with their existing processor designs. Over the last few months AMD has continued to ramp up frequencies on their current bread-and-butter Phenom II processor line-up to the point where they're now flirting with the 4GHz mark. The Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition marks the release of AMD's highest clocked processor yet. The new quad-core Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition's default clock on all four of its cores is 3.7GHz. Like previous Deneb-based Phenom II processors, the X4 980 BE sports a total of 512K of L1 cache with 2MB of L2 cache, and 6MB of shared L3 cache. Performance-wise, for under $200, the processor holds up pretty well versus others in its class and it's an easy upgrade for AM2+ and AM3 socket systems."

Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 07, 2010 @08:23PM from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.

ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

Comment Couple observations... (Score 1) 539

by wneto on Saturday December 26, 2009 @08:53PM (#30559808) Attached to: Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server?

First of all, IANASA but i play one on tv (not really).
It seems to me both sides are doing it wrong. I understand you can only put so much information on Ask Slashdot before getting ignored by the tl;dr crowd so I might be wrong as well. Anyways, here it goes:

1) You said "I have a heavily-hit public server (web, mail, cvs/svn/git, dns, etc.) that runs a few dozen OSS project websites...".
Too many eggs in one basket in my opinion. No wonder you are pissed about outages. It sounds like you have one beefy server capable of running multiple virtualized OS instances (encrypted nonetheless). So why not just cancel your dedicated service and get VPS from multiple providers? That way you would have enough redundancy (e-mail, dns, rsync, HA/Varnish, whatever), none of the headaches of hardware/virtualization and save money while at it. Managing wouldn't be harder considering your proposition of vmware/uml. Also easier to move from your server bit by bit. Start with DNS, then e-mail, then web, then... You can take your time as it won't cost you much upfront (zero?) or monthly (sub $50) and gives you the ability to scale up or down the resources to acomodate the workload and cost.

2) You said "When I file 'WTF?'-style support tickets to the provider through their web-based ticketing system"
Do you have the option to call the provider? If not, you are doing it wrong. From my experience, over 80% of all ticket answers are canned responses. If possible, try calling (if you didn't yet) and get someone that has the power to fix the issue to talk to you. When you reach a dead end, ask to be transfered to the legal dept to discuss your contract/sla/whatever. If they don't have one, ask where you should send the legal papers. If everything fails, try the BBB.

Just my humble opinion. Excuse my poor english as it's not my first language.

Submission + - Microsoft To Charge Europeans 2X For Windows 7 (computerworld.com) 2

Submitted by

CWmike

on Monday June 29, 2009 @01:06AM

CWmike writes: "European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared with U.S. users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe. Some of the money Microsoft stands to make on the European editions of Windows 7 comes from the weak dollar. Last week, for instance, the dollar fell against the euro the most in a month, hitting $1.41 per euro. For example, Windows 7 Professional, the key retail edition for businesses, will sport a price tag of 285, or $400.60, and £189.99, or $313.84, at Saturday's exchange rate. In other words, EU customers will pay twice the $199.99 U.S. price; U.K. buyers will pay 57% more. And depending on your view on bundling IE, Europe's customers will be paying more for less, with Microsoft's decision to yank IE8 from Windows 7 in an effort to head off EU antitrust regulators, who may still force the company to take more drastic measures."

Submission + - America's Army 3 developer team canned

Submitted by

incognito84

on Friday June 19, 2009 @01:09AM

incognito84 writes: "The development team responsible for the developing of the freeware game, "America's Army 3" has been canned, days after the launch of the highly flawed game which was distributed mostly via Steam.

The anonymous America's Army 3 developers in touch with Kotaku unsurprisingly didn't sound too pleased with the current situation, venting that "a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours on this game that was butchered by outside sources."

The game's launch was plagued by massive server authentication issues which are inhibiting most players from playing it two days after the game's official launch."

Submission + - Microsoft Launches new 'Get the facts' campaign (microsoft.com) 5

Submitted by ko9 on Thursday June 18, 2009 @08:42PM

ko9 writes: Microsoft has launched their "Get the facts" campaign, in an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome. Needless to say, IE8 comes out as the clear winner, with MS suggesting it is the only browser to provide features like 'privacy', 'security', 'reliability'. It even claims to have Firefox beat in 'customizability'. Almost all of these are at the very least stretching the truth, and more likely blatant lies. To people like me, this page would destroy a lot of the credibility MS might have had with me. I'm wondering if the average joe will question these facts though, or will he just blindly accept them as facts, because a big company like Microsoft would not lie this openly?

IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP 409

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @11:34PM from the standards-are-critical-you-betcha dept.

Binestar was one of several readers writing in to note that Microsoft is listing IE8 as a critical update to Windows XP. CNet reported a couple of weeks back that Microsoft would be rolling our IE8 to users in a gradual fashion, and requiring an opt-in before installing it. Opinion has been split as to whether IE8 is worth installing or not. Binestar notes delicately, "For those not interested in upgrading to IE8 at this time, the MSDN released information back in January on how to keep IE8 off your machine."

Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents 1224

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @12:21AM from the no-you-cannot-borrow-my-keys dept.

thesandbender writes "Ford is set to release a management system that will restrict certain aspects of a car's performance based on which key is in the ignition. The speed is limited to 80, you can't turn off traction control, and you can't turn the stereo up to eleven. It's targeted at parents of teenagers and seems like a generally good idea, especially if you get a break on your insurance." The keys will be introduced with the 2010 Focus coupe and will quickly spread to Ford's entire lineup.

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