Recent content by Glock24

What? Facebook was down? Didn't notice.

I've been using this for over a year. It was beta, but worked great.

I remember when I was in school a guy had this game for N64. It looked like shit to me, as I was used to PC gaming. It was fun though.

Didn't know it still existed. Better late than never.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone finds a serious bug in the calculator code, like a privilege escalation o worse. Microsoft has a talent for those kind of things.

My 1TB Spinpoint F1 died a couple years ago... I had it since around 2007. Most reliable HDD I ever had. Still, HDDs have been very unreliable fire the for decade.

There was a firmware bug that caused data loss and the drive was recognized as having 8MB capacity. I never saw a drive with that problem though.

RAID 5/6 is not recommended anymmore, as rebuid times takes ages on modern high capacity drives and poses a risk of another drive dying during the rebuild. Most storage arrays now use RAID 10.

I've had only 3 SSDs deaths. Two of those are OCZ Vertex 4, the other one is a Samsung 840 Evo, but this one died because of a short circuit along with the motherboard (apparently a mouse peed inside the computer). The most worn-out drives are various models of 120GB ADATA branded drives used...

I don't think there will be a 16 core part for AM4, just doesn't make much sense. I may be wrong.

"for Its Privacy Practices" Haha, I'll rephrase it "for it's lack of privacy". The only privacy they practice is hiding the identity of who they sell their user's info to.

So this rifle will be bend-prone, will have (trigger) touch issues, sometimes it will not respond, other times it'll fire on it's own. Ammo can only be purchased from the rifle manufacture's store, when something breaks you need to replace the whole thing, you have to take it to a certified...

Hmm, let's use them for the Pied Piper network!

I get tons of scam and phishing emails to my gmail account, so the filter seems to not be working. Then, emails I send from my own domain and server get identified as phishing by gmail despite my server having a good reputation and not being in any blacklist.

Is there any special application where using Itanium has any advantage to using x86 (or Power for that matter)?