* Posts by Alfred Loo

12 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2008

BOFH: Sure, I could make your cheapo printer perform miracles

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WTF?

Nevermind

Nevermind

Oracle kicks Amazon after Glacier download bill shock

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Archive are for throwback thursdays or FB mammories

AMD starts year, checks watch, hurries out Warsaw Opterons

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99W, sounds like toaster oven.

Knox vuln is Android not us, says Samsung

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The only place for a CC number is on the card. No where else. Unless you like memorizing CC numbers

Virgin Galactic's supersonic space ship in 71,000-ft record smash

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Re: Launched at 45,000 ft

White Knight 2 is a very much skin and structure layout. Too much turbulence is bad news.

ARM server chip upstart Calxeda bites the dust in its quest for 64-bit glory

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Re: O gosh

You have no idea how much history repeats itself.

AMD developed the problem plagued K5 processor. Another company called NexGen was struggling/died. AMD bought it and rebranded their processor as K6 aka Athlon and the rest was history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K6

Original HP notebooks were POS. After the purchase of Compaq, the Presario range injected the much needed know how to make reliable notebooks. The same can be said of their DL series of servers, orginally from Compaq. HP original Netservers was a joke.

I am sure there are more examples.

Google may drop Intel for own-recipe ARM: Bloomberg

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Hmm I thought The Chocoloate factory servers runs on Linux natively and not VMware?

Got loads of old databases clogging up your company's storage?

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Some production database fields are not meant for human eyes. Data confidentiality, patient info etc. How does Delphix shields this in the staging environment?

BOFH: The Explosive Christmas Evacuation

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You do know that the water from the overhead sprinklers stinks?

Paul Allen latest plan: Space rockets on MEGA PLANE

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Unhappy

Launch separation and banking

1. Launch separation.

Note the length of the orbital rocket and its minimal vanes. Getting a clean separation is going to be tough, If it pitches down, its bye bye time.

2. Roll to side or banking?

With this monster's wing span? How long does it take to get the wing tip to clear the center line?

Nokia creates Indoor Positioning

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Been there done that.

Differential GPS anyone?

Why blade servers still don't cut it, and how they might

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Niche market

Useful when you are adding more applications than your real estate (server room) can grow. Otherwise it would be a hard sell against a traditional server.

Here is some food for thought a 42U server can theoretically take 42 servers. Anyone ever checked the back of the rack? It is simple not possible to run 42 power cords to the PDUs.