Recent content by johnrock2

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    News AMD's EPYC Rome Chips Crash After 1,044 Days of Uptime

    I guess I could see instances when you might want the server to never restart but honestly it seems like a good idea to restart periodically anyway, not just to avoid weird timer bugs. I wouldn't patch this either if I was AMD, not a big issue and I think they don't even sell this CPU anymore.
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    News All AMD Zen CPUs Vulnerable, Might Need to Disable SMT

    Might need to disable SMT to prevent an attack that requires an attacker to first run code on your PC in order to take advantage of the attack vector... Why? As far as I can tell this is another one of those "you have to be physically present at the PC" attacks or "the user has to be dumb...
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    Valve Holds Steam Lunar New Year Sale, Makes Changes To Wishlist

    These prices are still absurd, the RX Vega bundle has the card going for $999 not including the $135 Mobo. That's more than 2X it's MSRP! Non of this is any kind of deal.