Posts by MondoMan

Hands on with the new Apple MacBook Air

err, Pentium Dual-Core CPUs ARE Core 2 Duos

Just with a bit less cache (and a bit less cachet!).

EMC co-founder kills himself

Clarifying the timeline

Contrary to what the article suggests, PCs were "invented" in the 1970s, well before EMC was founded. Perhaps you meant "the IBM PC"?

Belarus media sites under attack by zombies

correction

The Estonian cyberattacks happened in 2007, not 1997.

Shuttle XPC SP45H7

faster RAM tests mostly pointless

Since data to/from RAM has to pass through the FSB on this system, and RAM run at DDR2-667 in dual-channel mode already fully saturates the 1333MHz FSB bandwidth, there's not much point in running the RAM at DDR2-800 or DDR2-1066.

Nobel Prize winner demands more honesty from peers in green debate

honesty?

It would sure help to get the story's facts straight for a start. The BC pines are dying not from "warming", but rather from a bark beetle infestation. Such infestations have happened in the past, and will happen again in the future; causation by "warming" is far from evident.

Other widespread recent warming claims cover only the time period during which data has been collected by satellites -- a 35-year stretch of data. Of course this ends up being reported as "...(most)est in history."!

Estonia fines man for DDoS attacks

To clarify...

The conflict was about moving (not removing) a single memorial.

LCD monitor biz squeezed at both ends

Bad news for buyers

This may explain the seeming increase in the number of notebook/flat panel displays with one or more single-pixel defects -- manufacturers are likely dropping quality standards in order to boost supply.

Dell's laptop customisation options not very customisable

@Paul

As pointed out above, the type of memory used does NOT require two memory modules of the same size to work.

It's worse than "It's worse than that"...!

Dell actually offers one of their pre-configured M1530 versions with 1x1GB + 1x2GB modules (3GB total), meaning that they are selling a version where part of the RAM runs in single-channel mode.

Thus, the refusal to sell a version with only a single RAM module is purely a marketing/configuration issue, not a technical issue. However, this issue is not limited to Dell, as most notebook manufacturers seem to populate their systems with the lower-cost pair of modules rather than the single higher-cost module. To their credit, Asus sells at least some of its notebooks with only a single module, allowing for more economical RAM upgrades down the road.

Remembering the Commodore PET 2001

Exidy ruled!

We Exidy Sorcerer owners were secure in the superiority of our "real" keyboard and 30x64 character display...

An inconvenient update

If the problem was post-2000 data, why did 1934's temp get changed?

The really interesting question is this: if the data problem only affected post-2000 temps, why did the 1934 temp get revised *higher* in the process of fixing the problem? (See for example http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1880) Since apparently GISS is unwilling to release the code they use for the calculations, the details of their temperature processing and analysis remain unverifiably murky.

In passing, I note that Chip Mefford's skills at ad hominem attacks are lacking. If GRL isn't a peer-reviewed journal, it's hard to know what would qualify! As for McIntyre's skills, he's an amateur (for the love of it) statistician who's been able to find flaws in the statistical tools (and results) used by a number of climate scientists, as verified by the NAS's Dr. Wegman, among others. If you don't believe Wegman, just work through the statistics yourself.

Student detained following attacks on Estonian websites

To clarify...

The statue was not removed from Tallinn, but rather relocated to a cemetery near its original location.