Recent content by Megangel1

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    News U.S. Patent Office Rules in Intel's Favor for $2.18 Billion VLSI Patents Case

    <cynicism> And the winners are ...... the lawyers the rest of us lose no matter which side wins as we end up paying for the lawyers though higher prices. </cynicism>
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    HammerBot Beta Feedback Thread

    Wildly different answers to very similar questions. Answers appear to be VERY dependent on the quality of the natural language processing. You: What is the best PC build for a cost conscious buyer for general high performance use including gaming HammerBot: The best combination of motherboard...
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    News AI Can Crack Most Common Passwords In Less Than A Minute

    Another good reason to use 2FA. But: the table doesn't mean much without knowing what the metric is. Time is just not good enough, is it maximum time, average time, worst case ??? What compute power has been dedicated to the task? One 8086 processor versus Oak Ridge's Frontier ? ... Or have...
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    News $500 Audiophile SATA SSD Cable With Superstar Crystals Listed

    I hope my heavy sarcasm didn't miss the mark ... if so I have a few for sale ;-) and yes, I remember those, a blast from the past I had a SB in the mid 90's where even my mouse and graphics card caused interference! Then there was the old mobile phones, I could tell mine was about to ring by the...
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    News $500 Audiophile SATA SSD Cable With Superstar Crystals Listed

    Yeah but you want to remove all the outside EMI. With this in mind I have a limited stock of audiophile high tech space grade aluminium foil shielding sheets for just $999.99. Installation is easy, just wrap anything electrical or animal (including yourself, pc and monitor) in them completely...
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    News New Linux OS Scheduler Reduces Lag by Keeping Light Work on Fewer CPU Cores

    " The Reserve Nest is where all the unused cores are located. " Nope, it is where cores previously in the Primary nest but haven't been used for a while are put. Other unused cores are not in either nest.
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    News Microsoft Lasers Music into Glass for 1000 Years of Storage

    Just don't drop the little buggers.
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    News 8-Port M.2 NVMe RAID Controllers Offer Up to 28,000 MB/s of Storage Bandwidth

    "RAID 0 mirrors everything for maximum speed, RAID 1 mirrors each data drive as a backup solution, and RAID 10 does a mix of both. " And there is me thinking that RAID 0 consists of striping, but no mirroring or parity. and RAID 1 consists of data mirroring, without parity or striping. and...
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    News AMD Preps SP6 Socket For Lower-Power EPYC 'Genoa' CPUs

    Table says core counts of SP6 96C/128C while main body says 32C/64C. The table appears to have SP5 and SP6 core counts the wrong way around.
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    News A Truckload of EVGA's GeForce RTX 30-Series Cards Stolen

    'Furthermore, since EVGA knows part numbers of stolen graphics cards' .. well that is really pointless and useless information. Knowing the 'Serial Numbers' would help though!