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A few days ago I posted about the Core 2 Duo errata and how the OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt denounced the platform. Well Linus Torvalds has replied saying that the problems are "totally insignificant". DailyTech also reported this. Linux coordinator and former Transmeta employee Linus Torvalds, thought otherwise and considers these bugs “totally insignificant.” Processor errata is nothing new, Torvalds said. Commodity CPUs such as chips based on the Intel Core 2 architecture have a considerably lower bug rate than proprietary boutique CPUs.
Retails estimate that the Xbox 360 failure rate is as high as 33%. One often overlooked factor when considering a console purchase is reliability, an area that is apparently where the Xbox 360 falls short. Anecdotal evidence is heavily pointing to Microsoft’s latest console as being significantly more prone to failure than what consumers are accustomed to. Microsoft has said before that its Xbox 360 failure rate falls within three to five percent, what it believes to be well within industry standards. Internet reports from Xbox 360 owners, however, suggest that the failure rate is much higher than that.
Yesterday I posted about how AllofMP3 has been shut down, well a clone site no doubt run by the same mob has appeared. Shortly after AllOfMP3.com's disappearance, the site's owners launched a new, nearly identical music site called MP3Sparks.com. MP3Sparks makes all the same claims about paying royalties to Russian royalty collection agencies as AllOfMP3 did and states that all of its activities are legal. Additionally, anyone who previously had an account with AllOfMP3 can use the same account information on MP3Sparks; the new site is clearly just a cosmetic makeover of the old.
Google has bought a voicemail firm for US$50M. Google has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a California-based provider of web-based communications solutions. GrandCentral's service allows people to use a single phone number and voice mailbox for all of their phones. Google's product manager Wesley Chan made the announcement Tuesday on the company's official blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Allegro Networks with equipment from Alvarion are set to roll out a fixed WiMAX network in Queensland. Alvarion claims it will be the first WiMAX deployment in Australia and will enable "thousands of businesses in the outer metro and growth corridors across Queensland...to benefit from access to a high-speed network providing converged voice and data services." Allegro chairman and former Telstra senior executive, Ted Pretty, said: "Businesses in regional Australia cannot afford to wait any longer to receive advanced broadband services.
Data archiving is becoming troublesome due to rapid changes of formats and software systems. Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not always open old file formats. She was speaking at the launch of a partnership with Microsoft to ensure the Archives could read old formats. Microsoft's UK head Gordon Frazer warned of a looming "digital dark age".
Some Australians are trying to hack iPhones to work here even though they are supposedly locked down to AT&T in the US. Although the phone is locked on to the AT&T network in the United States, Dover - a certified Apple technician - is hoping that he can perfect a hack that will make him one of the first people in Australia to use the much-coveted phone. If he succeeds, the 32-year-old from the NSW north coast will have some major bragging rights. If he fails, he could end up with a $US600 ($700) paperweight.
The Computer History Museum in California has exhibited photographs of significant historical computers. The book, written by John Alderman and featuring the photography of Mark Richards, chronicles 35 of the most significant computers. The visual history and informative breakdown of the computer reminds us not just how far, but how fast, humans have evolved the computer since the punch card machine.
Todays timewaster is from CeeJay with Orbox B, an interesting puzzle game.
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