Archive for October, 2008

Some mainland Chinese folks have grabbed an i7, overclocked it to 3.2GHz, and posted the review up for your pleasure.
At the same time, I feel myself not… getting… as hard as usual over that review. That is because I’m looking at way more interesting computers at the same time, so you guys go ahead and [...]

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 at 07:06 | 0 comments
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So it’s not really an installer, but seriously, who hasn’t gotten frustrated trying to install IRIX over a network? TFTP anyone? Jesus fucking Christ, talk about something which can’t be acheived with anonymous FTP. Not to mention inetd, which TFTP absoloutely needs to start. Can’t it run on its own? This is the first time [...]

Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 06:23 | 2 comments
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It’s been a week or so (couldn’t help but count since the housing department dipshits wouldn’t get me internet in my room, despite advertising it as free on their brochures all the time). So I’m in the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, math was uninteresting as usual, and I didn’t understand anything when he [...]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 07:07 | 2 comments
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Whoa, call the man on the moon, this exclusive CPU news isn’t from coolaler for once! Pictures of Intel’s Lynnfield, a member of the Nehalem family with only 2 DDR3 channels as opposed to the proper 3 (and a different socket, LGA1160 as opposed to LGA1366 for Bloomfield), have surfaced here. Personally, I don’t really [...]

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 13:34 | 0 comments
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It’s a bit more heart-wrenching to part with my parents than I expected, but that must be a good sign. I hope I’ll do them justice this time in Oldenburg.
On a subject relevant to this blog, I’m suffering from Code Geass withdrawal. The next episode of G00 has probably been out there for days by [...]

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 09:41 | 2 comments
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