Recent content by great Unknown

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    News TSMC's $100 billion U.S. deal shows Taiwan's ruling party is 'selling out Taiwan,' say critics

    you say "critics", and then publish a quote from Communist China. Let's have a little more transparency here, please.
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    News Elon Musk took 19 days to set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs; process normally takes 4 years

    Jensen Huang apparently disagrees with you. But what does Jensen know? All he does is hire people and pay $$$. And apparently hiring people and paying $$$ is not as simple as it sounds, or other corporations would have done the same.
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    News Intel finds root cause of CPU crashing and instability errors, prepares new and final microcode update

    "All of the known Raptor Lake issues are now mitigated." In my programming days, I tended to comment my code with statements like, "This prevents such-and-such problems. FLW." Famous Last Words.
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    News Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated — buyers beware

    I think you mean " there is no silicon on the substrate...."
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    News IBM 7090 Mainframe up for auction with a value up to $60,000 — over 23,000 pounds of transformative transistorized milestone in computing

    Used one of these back in my college days. The air conditioning bill will be murder.
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    News Intel's CPU instability and crashing issues also impact mainstream 65W and higher 'non-K' models — damage is irreversible, no planned recall

    Your description of the auto industry is not accurate. If a major issue shows up, they will/must recall all the vehicles potentially affected for repair or replacement. And they certainly won't sell new vehicles with those problems. Doing anything would lead to legal liability, major lawsuits...
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    Review MSI MAG B660 Tomahawk WIFI Review: A Tempting Tomahawk

    Sorry; missed that. Looked for the failure in the wrong location.
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    Review MSI MAG B660 Tomahawk WIFI Review: A Tempting Tomahawk

    A "sub $200" motherboard that's on sale for $270? Suddenly the cost/value parameter shifts to the negative side.
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    News How to Make Windows 11 Look and Feel Like Windows 10

    Saw a rumor that the Android feature will be added to Windows 10 also. And if it runs in a VM - and therefore cannot access Bluetooth - then it adds no value to programs like BlueStacks.
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    News Expect To See Nvidia's 12-Pin Power Plug On Future PCIe 5.0 GPUs

    Going to need to take into consideration how this affects room temperature - the heat has to go somewhere. More AC in Summer, maybe no heat at all in Winter.
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    News Windows 11 Runs and Ups on 2006-Era Single-core Intel Pentium 4 CPU

    I'm waiting for somebody to run it on a Commodore 64
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    News TSMC Refuses To Disclose Clients' Data to the U.S. Govt, Taiwan to Back it Up

    Because the PRC wants the information. D'uh.
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    News Start 11 Comes To The Rescue of Windows 11 Menu Haters

    The comparison to Windows 8 does not portend well. Let's hope this menu issue is an artifact of a rolling, rushed introduction and will be soon solved.