I'm pretty sure the title of this article should have read "Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris because they wouldn't buy a real server".
You don't get rich by spending money on the little people. (/s)
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It's the highest frequency (out of the box) CPU ever sold, so by definition everything else must be currently running on 'slower' CPUs.
It's irrelevant though, because AI stuff typically uses GPUs or other dedicated silicon, and cloud servers get their speed from running many (slower) CPUs across many, many, servers. It's like comparing a Bugatti Veyron to a fleet of trucks.
To put it in perspective, a 14900K (6.0GHz) could compress a bunch of files in WinRar in 14.95s, the previous 13900K (5.8GHz) could do it in 15.21 (based on this review). So the 14900KS is probably a similar increase (or decrease I suppose, depending on how you look at it).
I'm not sure I'd could even notice a quarter of a second speed-up. I would probably notice the difference in my electricity bill though.
I had a similar "this should be fine, ohshit" moment, moving power connections on an HP blade enclosure. It could hold up to eight hot-swappable power supplies, this one had six, but IIRC could operate on as few as two with the small number of blades in this particular unit. I'd already moved the power lead of one PSU to a different UPS, so I wasn't expecting anything different when I pulled the kettle lead out of the next one down. Instead there was a click, and the entire blade enclosure powered down, taking with it several important servers. Cue my boss charging into the server room asking what I'd done.
After some testing, it turned out that one of the PSUs seemed ok, right up until it had to draw any significant load, whereupon it would completely fail. If the enclosure had chosen to spread the load onto a different PSU we'd never had noticed, it was just sheer chance it picked the bad one.
Latency and bandwidth are two different things. The simplistic explanation is that bandwidth is how much data you can transmit/receive at once, latency is the time it takes between you sending a packet, and it reaching it's destination.
Latency is mostly noticeable in online games, or VoIP/video calls. eg when you talk, but it takes a noticeable amount of time before the other person hears you.
(Of course, if you don't have enough bandwidth, your latency is going to go way up, so they are somewhat linked)
I've seen someone get a DIMM in the wrong way around, but not deterred by the notch being in the wrong place, they managed to jam it in hard enough to engage the latch on both ends.
Kind of impressive in it's own way. IIRC it worked fine once the DIMM had been re-inserted correctly.
Clarification
When I first read the article, it wasn't clear that it was the crash-inducing key combination that was introduced in Win2k (etc.). I used the corrections form, and got a reply from the author, Richard Speed* promising to make it clearer, and then another email from elReg staff also confirming the clarification. The amended article makes it much clearer, always use the Corrections form folks, the take their jobs seriously :)
Sorry for accusing you of being Ai, elReg :(
*name checks out ;)
Yep that sounds, well, wrong.
PS/2 keyboards were the norm when Windows 1.0 came out, and definitely worked out of the box with Windows 3. They're still supported on Windows 11, if you happen to have a motherboard that has a PS/2 port.
Win95 could just about handle USB keyboards with additional drivers etc. Win98 was the first version with USB support out of the box. (Although you'd still encounter motherboards which required a PS/2 keyboard to access the BIOS).
Oh, and Hyper-V was first added to Server 2008 and Win8.
Have elReg been letting an AI write articles?
Most data centres have multiple network and power connections, specifically picked to run nowhere near each other to reduce the chances of one JCB taking out multiple connections.
Of course, you can run applications internally, but most offices don't have redundant power or networking, so all it takes is one JCB to bring everything scratching to a halt.
According to The Sun, had this been a real mission rather than a test, the launch would have been successful. The MoD is, unsurprisingly, remaining tightlipped about such matters.
So reading between the lines, they're claiming that when they removed the nuke and replaced it with ballast/telemetry, someone broke the rocket?
SpaceX won't be the single point of failure for Artemis, NASA has also contracted Blue Origin to develop a lander.
It's a more conventional design, but it's from a company that so far has only launched sub-orbital rockets (and is also owned by a potentially volatile billionaire).
Still, I'm not a US citizen, so it's not my taxes being wasted :)
The Amiga had my favourite case sensitivity in it's shell, which was, 'some'.
If you wanted to, you could have FILE
and file
in the same directory (or any combination of cases)*, but assuming that just File
existed, then you could use any combination of case to refer to it and the command line would just interpret what you meant.
* I've yet to find a case when I'd want to have both FILE
and file
as separate files, but apparently it's important to *nix.
I'm still technically using the same license I bought for Vista, which got upgraded (in place) to 7, then 8>8.1>10>11. I think I did a fresh install on Win 10, but otherwise it was the same install, upgraded several times, and cloned to a newer SSD at least twice.
And yes, I too spent many hours on the phone to MS activation back in the XP days :(
You know how every bit of Microsoft documentation about setting up AD has always said to use a specific domain which is not your web address?
Well whoever set up the AD at my last job never read it. Nope, they'd set it up as companyname.co.uk, which was already causing problems when I started there, let alone during my job :(
How many times per day do you run backups on your systems?
At my last job I was creating a new snapshot every hour during business hours on the file server, keeping (I think) the last 12 hourly snapshots. (And then daily/weekly/monthly rotations, backing up to tape etc.). That was for normal user files (spreadsheets and the like) and worked well, and give me very quick restores for the "oops I just overwrote a file I need in five minutes" type requests.
Why does Firefox need to rethink it's UI, when it's already basically the same as Chrome?
Both have tabs along the top, under that you have Back, Forward, and Reload, then an address bar (that's also a search bar). Then the icons for whatever addons you have installed.
There some differences when you go into the menus, but that's 99% of most people's interactions with their browser.
The number of refuels required depends on the efficiency of the Raptor engines, not how much thrust they produce. I'm sure the efficiency has been increasing, but probably not linearly in-line with the thrust produced. And it doesn't just depend on the engines. If the design of Starship has to change to add (eg) one kilo of extra self-destruct equipment, that's a kilo of fuel they won't be able to carry (on every single trip). Currently the design of Starship is very much in flux, let alone the currently non-existent lunar variant.
It's just too early to say how many refuelling trips will be necessary right now.
el Reg have been following the story for over a decade now, which is how I first heard about it.
I suspect they meant it unthinkingly as 'those damn kids', but now that most millennials are in their late 30's/early 40's, chances are that it's managers around that age who are in charge of pushing new 'features' at Microsoft, so it might not be that far off.
I think if he'd donated as much to republicans, and they were in power, he probably wouldn't have been prosecuted for any of the charges.
Although I suppose once they realised he was broke and they weren't going to get any more donations off of him, they might have gone ahead. Not with the campaign 'contributions' charge of course, that might make people look at who he made 'contributions' to.
(Most US 'lobbying' would be considered straight up bribery under UK laws. To me the whole system seems rife with corruption on all sides)
I feel like OP missed out the word lit cigarette butts, which would make a better analogy.
And while it is possible to reuse the batteries, that's not much practical use if the majority of them are thrown in with general rubbish (or just chucked on the street). At least specific 'electronics' collections might hopefully make it easier to find reusable components without digging through a mound of mixed rubbish, and also reduce the fire risk somewhat.