AnandTech
AMD has been surging for the past year and a half or so and enthusiasts are pretty hyped about their x86-64 architecture. But the fact that enthusiasts (and some major manufacturers) are taking the Athlon 64/Athlon FX/Opteron plunge, Dell is still one of the more prominent holdouts:
Dell’s stance on this is that they don’t see a strong demand from their customers and thus won’t consider AMD based PCs just yet. Dell’s CEO, Kevin Rollins, makes it very clear that Dell won’t be offer AMD based PCs anytime soon, by stating ‘We’re the most successful PC company on the planet and we don’t have AMD’.
Pretty strong words there from Dell’s CEO. He is right and Dell’s sales have been up for the third quarter, but good times don’t always last and relationships can be broken…
The real reason is, of course that AMD can’t manufacture the chips in enough quantity for Dell, which is a shame, I’d love if Dell started selling alternates to intel boxes
WTF
The Daily WTF is a fine site pointed to me by Fintan. Some of the entries have me really saying WTF are they thinking of?
libXpm buffer overflow problems
Solaris security suffers image problem – Apparently there’s a buffer overflow with the Xpm library. It’s just a shame that I don’t use Xpm files for anything anymore – all the gnome applications use .pngs’s and I don’t think I’ve seen an .xpm file over the web in years – they’re just too big for anything other than icons.
Where I stay for the wekeend
Well there is a family do happening tomorrow, so I had to book into a hotel for the weekend, and this is what I ended up staying in (because the B&B was booked out).
Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork City, Ireland – Luxury Hotel Accommodation and Conference Venue with Leisure Centre
I’m using an eircom wireless card. Quite easy to connect and get everything working – simply pick up the eircom wireless connection and you’re away on a hack (pun not intended). The only problem is that I seem to not be able to access it from my room.
Money money
I have the sinking feeling that my housemate has fled the country just before everything comes together for his big drinks deal. If that’s the case then I think I may be moving house within the week as there is no way on the planet I’m going to be around when the Garda
Course goodness
I have a course all the mondays of this week. It’s a complete disaster for me because it means that I have to get to the office before 9am. I never manage to make it into the office before 9 normally, 9.15 is my time.
That said, I need to hit the shower now or I will be late. C’est la vie.
See the pretty flowers
I was at home for the weekend. The weather was nice and I got some photographs of some flowers. Sad, I know. I need to get a new digital camera, as my current one is really poor, that and I want to take more prefessional looking shots.
Self Selection
Sometimes people tend to say something that seems quite innocuous, but it turns out to be quite insulting. How about this pearl:
It turned out that the worm exploited three or four different holes in the system. From this, and the fact that we were able to capture and examine some of the source code, we realized that we were dealing with someone very sharp, probably not someone here on campus.” –Dr. Richard LeBlanc, associate professor of ICS, in George Tech’s campus newspaper after the Internet worm
anyone got an idea what this is?
I’d like to know what people think this is
Mmmmm… Cake.
