Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites | News.blog | CNET News.com

Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites | News.blog | CNET News.com: "In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple's stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86. "

How the IT industry really works - Membox.com

How the IT industry really works - Membox.com: "How the IT industry really works "

Publishing Hacks � The Stealth Mode Fallacy

Publishing Hacks � The Stealth Mode Fallacy: "there is no shortage of brilliant ideas in the world. There is, however, a shortage of people that can execute on those ideas and turn them into successes."

Why Grammar is the First Casualty of War

Why Grammar is the First Casualty of War: "WHAT really alarms me about President Bush's 'war on terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? It's rather like bombing murder.
Imagine if Bush had said: 'We're going to bomb murder wherever it lurks. We are going to seek out the murderers and the would-be murderers, and bomb any government that harbors murderers.'
The other thing that worries me about Bush and Blair's 'war on terrorism' is: how will they know when they've won it? With most wars, you can say you've won when the other side is either all dead or surrenders. But how is terrorism going to surrender?
It's hard for abstract nouns to surrender"

Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right

Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right: "We added a 'find similar' button to the Blink interface, and the results were often quite good. The problem was that we were once again asking the user to go out and do things. The vision was that the similar sites would just be there, the same way Amazon presents you with the related products. But the servers couldn�t handle it. They could barely handle it when the users actually clicked to see results, let alone on every pageview.
I suggested a compromise. Instead of the algorithm, how about just using the text of the folder name as the key. Show the top 10 sites in all folders with the same name, across all users. I was basically suggesting a rudimentary tagging system"

A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod

A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod: "CHECK THE 'USE ERROR CORRECTION' BOX under PREFERENCES > ADVANCED > IMPORTING. Once I did I've never had a problem"

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?: "The sequence of Busy Beaver numbers, BB(1), BB(2), and so on, grows faster than any computable sequence"

Sun's Rock goes 16 cores and arrives with multi-core friends | The Register

Sun's Rock goes 16 cores and arrives with multi-core friends | The Register: "Rock will cater to a broader audience than today's UltraSPARC T1 processor that supports 32 threads and the second rev of that product that supports 64 threads. Each of the Rock processing cores will have a higher clock speed than the UltraSPARC T1cores "

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Vista not to support EFI

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Vista not to support EFI: "EFI support will not be seen until Longhorn Server is released in early 2007"

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system: "new speed record of over 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read/write performance to a single file."

Supermicro stuns with four-socket, 1U Opteron bad boy | The Register

Supermicro stuns with four-socket, 1U Opteron bad boy | The Register: "This is an OEM-only product, which is probably good because it's not for the faint of hear. Supermicro demands a 1,000 watt power supply to get this bad boy humming"

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system: "new speed record of over 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read/write performance to a single file."

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006: Introducing Intel's new Core processors

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006: Introducing Intel's new Core processors: "Woodcrest sees an 80% increase in performance and a 35% decrease in power compared to a Xeon 2.8GHz with two 2MB caches"

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

IBM - News: eServer xSeries Benchmarks

IBM - News: eServer xSeries Benchmarks: "x460 server achieves 15 percent better performance than HP ProLiant DL585-G1"

technology exclusive to IBM: an integrated snoop
filter that minimizes front-side bus (FSB) congestion and maximizes CPU performance, a key
ingredient for higher performance on the new dual front-side bus architecture.

Intel's new chip family: Core Microarchitecture | CNET News.com

Intel's new chip family: Core Microarchitecture | CNET News.com: "Core Microarchitecture features
Rattner touted a list of improvements coming with the new chip design.
� Intel Wide Dynamic Execution, which lets as many as four instructions be executed in a single tick of a chip's clock. In addition, a feature called macrofusion automatically combines two high-level chip instructions, in some cases into a single instruction.
� The Digital Media Boost means all 'SSE' instructions can execute in a single clock tick. SSE stands for streaming SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) extensions and speeds several operations such as video decoding or digital photo processing.
� Intel Advanced Smart Cache improves how high-speed cache memory is shared by multiple processor cores. For example, it lets one core control the whole cache when the other core is idle, and for other times, it governs how the same data can be shared by both cores, Rattner said.
� Intel Smart Memory Access is an improved set of algorithms that can predict what data should be 'prefetched' from main memory into faster cache memory so it's at hand when the processor needs it, he said.
� And Intel Intelligent Power Capability 'lets us shut down portions of the chip that aren't needed at a particular time to support instruction execution,' Rattner said. "

AMD gives Opteron lineup a speed bump

AMD gives Opteron lineup a speed bump: "All three dual-core CPUs top out at 2.6GHz, a 200MHz increase from the previous top-of-the-line Opterons. "

Virtualization in Xen 3.0 | Linux Journal

Virtualization in Xen 3.0 | Linux Journal: "Virtualization in Xen 3.0"

My Way News

My Way News: "One model, designed by White Lake, is made from 14-carat gold and features not one but five diamonds built-in for a touch of flash. It is expected to retail for euro2,950, or around $3,545, and comes in storage sizes of 128 megabytes to one gigabyte"