Color me about 29 shades of not surprised. I had their DSL when it was still Verizon. Good riddance.
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Saw that earlier today. I thought they had already declared bankruptcy.
Ah well. Probably upset they won't be able to charge you for using your own modem after June 20 of this year.
I mean, you would expect they wouldn't need to explicitly make this illegal, but... here we are.
--Patrick
Ah well. Probably upset they won't be able to charge you for using your own modem after June 20 of this year.
I mean, you would expect they wouldn't need to explicitly make this illegal, but... here we are.
--Patrick
Yes, though most people just use it as a way to find/launch apps by typing into the search bar.
--Patrick
)My prayers have been answered!
...by TechSpot.
tl:dr; Architecturally, i9-9900k is still the best at games (probably because it's the one with the lowest memory latency), and the difference between 1x8c (3700X) v. 2x4c (3900X w/ 4 cores disabled) is maaaaybe about 5%.
--Patrick
Apparently not. Researchers Find "Unfixable" Vulnerability Inside Intel CPUs
Yes, another one has come to light, and this one targets every Intel CPU that is Skylake (series 6xxx) or newer.
Starting to think jumping into those Broadwell (5xxx-series) CPUs for Cranky and the wife was a really good idea.
--Patrick
To continue the above, this is especially annoying for me since there was that point where Microsoft said, “We are no longer going to release updates to older OSes if you are running a newer processor, you must upgrade to WinX.”
And which processors are the ones affected? Basically all the ones Microsoft just forced you to use!
This rash of vulnerabilities probably explains why some mfrs are coming out with brand new motherboards supporting Sandy/Ivy Bridge (2xxx/3xxx) CPUs — enough people have apparently decided they’re never going to trust the newer CPUs and are just gonna stick with the older processors for as long as they possibly can. And for stuff like Microsoft Office, they‘re probably going to be just fine.
—Patrick
And which processors are the ones affected? Basically all the ones Microsoft just forced you to use!
This rash of vulnerabilities probably explains why some mfrs are coming out with brand new motherboards supporting Sandy/Ivy Bridge (2xxx/3xxx) CPUs — enough people have apparently decided they’re never going to trust the newer CPUs and are just gonna stick with the older processors for as long as they possibly can. And for stuff like Microsoft Office, they‘re probably going to be just fine.
—Patrick
At this point, I’m putting my 3950X plans on hold until “Late 2020” when the Ryzen 4xxx chips are set to drop. Every indication is that Zen 3 is going to be the pinnacle (and final!) revision of what can fit into an AM4 socket, so either that’ll be the one to go for...or else they’ll bring down the price of the 3950X.
—Patrick
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love that movie.
Oh look, now it’s AMD’s turn!
New AMD Side Channel Attacks Discovered, Impacts Zen Architecture
...also affects everything from “Bulldozer“ on, not just Zen, so that means my K10-based Phenom II is still safe (yay?). Can be run from within JavaScript, so it‘s not one of those “requires physical access to the machine” sort of vulnerabilities.
The article does mention that every modern processor has some kind of vulnerability (even ARM!), but this should cool down a lot of the recent “InTeL sUx AmD rUlEz“ stuff.
—Patrick
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Bout that time again.
www.forbes.com
New Windows 10 Update Causing Boot Problems, Slowdowns And BSOD Crashes
Microsoft has issued a Windows 10 update warning as reports of serious problems are escalating quickly...
www.forbes.com
This is getting to be almost a monthly thing.Bout that time again.
New Windows 10 Update Causing Boot Problems, Slowdowns And BSOD Crashes
Microsoft has issued a Windows 10 update warning as reports of serious problems are escalating quickly...
[April] Windows 10 update deleting files and causing BSD errors
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In other news, Intel has more to worry about these days than just AMD:
Apple Aims to Sell Macs With Its Own Chips Starting in 2021
Arm Development For The Office: Unboxing an Ampere eMag Workstation
Huh, so it looks like this whole ARM architecture/ISA might be catching on. Who knows if it can displace the mighty x86 ISA monolith that's been the dominant market force since Apple abandoned PowerPC in favor of Intel back in 2006. Might want to look into maybe making some Wall Street bets with ARM Holdings since ARMH holds the IP rights and is the one licensing their CPU technology to all these people HA HAA TOO LATE looks like Japan-based SoftBank Group bought them up and took them private back in 2016. Better luck next time!
--Patrick
Something that could be really useful for people with older servers (people like myself and @GasBandit, especially) which still have open PCIe slots, especially if those servers' internal ports are still limited to only SATA-II:
In other words, it lets you use 2.5in SSDs at their full SATA-III speed as if they were ginormous floppies, or build yourself different boot "cartridges" based on what you want to use the machine for at any given time.
Handy, and I might get one (or more) for my older PCIe v2.0 machines, BUT that's not really what I'm here to talk about. Turns out they also just released an NVMe version of the same thing, which gives you all the benefits I mention above BUT with the ability to mount it in a half-height server chassis with NVMe speed and convenience:
Put these under "Things I didn't know I wanted until I saw them and then I wanted them A LOT."
--Patrick
(Link to product page)
In other words, it lets you use 2.5in SSDs at their full SATA-III speed as if they were ginormous floppies, or build yourself different boot "cartridges" based on what you want to use the machine for at any given time.
Handy, and I might get one (or more) for my older PCIe v2.0 machines, BUT that's not really what I'm here to talk about. Turns out they also just released an NVMe version of the same thing, which gives you all the benefits I mention above BUT with the ability to mount it in a half-height server chassis with NVMe speed and convenience:
Put these under "Things I didn't know I wanted until I saw them and then I wanted them A LOT."
--Patrick
Another (possibly final) update to the .ORG sale saga:
ICANN has blocked sale of the ORG tld to a private equity firm
--Patrick
ICANN has blocked sale of the ORG tld to a private equity firm
Good.
--Patrick
Anandtech is thinking about trying something... ambitious.
The #CPUOverload Project: Testing Every x86 Desktop Processor since 2010
The #CPUOverload Project: Testing Every x86 Desktop Processor since 2010
--Patrick
It's for sale!
SoftBank May Be Selling Arm, But Apple Isn't Interested
You can buy them for yourself and influence the development of pretty much every mobile platform out there right now, IF you have a few dozen billion dollars lying around, that is.
--Patrick
Jeff Bezos makes that in a DAY.
Amazon web services IS a heavy server system, so I guess it's a possibility. But the current though is that nobody who would actually use ARM chips will probably end up as the buyer, since the world's regulatory agencies will immediately crawl deep up their butt if there's any thought of using ARMH ownership to stifle competition.
--Patrick
Bezos'll just buy them.
Turns out you're not that far off: Jeff Bezos [...] added $13 billion to his net worth in one day.
He's up over 74 billion since Jan 1st. That's one entire Elon Musk's worth!
--Patrick
Adjusted for inflation, Mansa Musa’s estimated wealth was approximately $440 BILLION... so he’s still got a long way to go.