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That Obelisk thing and the house with the Lincoln figure in it that is in the same park (or whatever).

I have a Linux-based router/firewall, but it's all configuration files and stuff. Something with fancy graphs and statistics would be nice :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXHlTMKyse8 (Heaven Unigine and Prime95 at the same time)

> But I guess the money you saved on buying the CPU will outweigh the electricity costs even in countries where electricity is expensive. Unless he's running 24/7 and paying way to…

I had a similar chip since 2011 and only recently upgraded. For thread-heavy workloads even one of the fastest E3 Xeons is only like 40-50 % faster (if no special insns like AES ca…

Is there a router/firewall distro or administration tool for OpenBSD that's recommendable (e.g. like pfsense without all the enterprisey bloat, or like securityrouter without the l…

I recently powered an old Acer laptop on that I didn't use for a while. It informed me that "/dev/sda2 has gone 941 days without being checked", after it finished that and booting …

Intel probably intentionally advertises with their weirdo socket names (1156 -> 1155 -> 1150 -> 1151) just to confuse people more. Heck, they probably choose the pin counts in such…

IA64 failed because it was a bad answer to a question no one asked. AMD got it right, that's why AMD64 won.

CPU intensive != single threaded

> Intel's quad cores are only really required for the pro Counter-Strike players who want 600fps at 1080p just to get the absolute latest frame. The source engine isn't exactly the…

Or when Intel HT first appeared. Or when Intel HT reappeared. Or when the first dual core appeared. Every time Windows needed updates to perform properly; Linux also needed patches…

The bigger E7 scratch the 200 W mark pretty hard and IBM already had POWER chips go beyond 200 W. However, cooling and power density are ... problematic. The same goes for accelera…

"IBM did it first" Well not with HBM (which is DRAM), but huge amounts of L3 SRAM on a MCM... POWER5 I believe.

ARM cores are much weaker, crypto performance without NEON is absymal across the board. Of course, compared to hardware-acceleration software always seems slow; Haswell manages AES…

This is not part of AES-NI and has never been released in a mid-range+ server/desktop CPU, only part of some Atom parts (Goldmont). Therefore software support is poor (I think Open…

n-P / n-S / n-way = how many sockets/processors a system has. A 1S system has one socket / processor, a 2S system two, a 4S four and so on. x U (or x HE, if you're talking with a G…

I think Naples is a very exciting development, because: - 1S/2S is obviously where the pie is. Few servers are 4S. - 8 DDR4 channels per socket is twice the memory bandwidth of 201…

If I'm not mistaken then the NYT has shown in the past that it can get basic tech/security facts like these straight.

Copyright is an intrinsic property of a work in every legislation I have ever heard of.

And why is that worth a HN submission?

In case someone else is wondering: What is being called "mid-stack inlining" here is what is generally understood by the term "inlining".

Actually Windows can and does use NTFS transactions (TxF) in the Installer and Updater code, so the probability of non-recoverable damage should be lower (which is also my experien…

I don't see the "does at length argue about the health risks of X-Rays emitted" in the article. It discusses them and concludes that they are widely considered safe. > CRTs can emi…

The CPU isn't actually very powerful, they use low-power Jaguar cores at 1.6 GHz or so.