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Nothing like having two four core systems running flat out at 50C+! The reason I am posting this is to welcome a new piece of equipment onto our test bench. The new incubator is working well and at a minimal cost. (That is because it is a corrugated cardboard box, but just don't tell anybody.)
Together the systems are pulling about 800 watts of power. EVGA's 780i SLI FTW and Foxconn's A79A-S are our victims today.
Dell's earnings are in and I know that while the media keeps telling me how bad off we all are, seems as though people spent their money on something other than $4 a gallon gas. I suggest you take time to digest the whole page if this is of interest to you. Some good points towards the bottom.
We announced Q2 results today. Revenue was up 11% to $16.4 billion on 19% unit growth. EPS were down 6% to $0.31 per share and cash from operations was $1.1 billion and $3.4 billion on a trailing four quarters basis. We strongly encourage investors to read the full press release and earnings presentation; and listen to a replay of our conference call that can be found on the investor relations web site after the earnings call.
This quarter we enhanced our competitiveness by introducing a more robust enterprise solutions portfolio, a new commercial notebook line and expanding our product portfolio in consumer, including our new Studio brand of desktops and notebooks. Again this quarter we saw share gains in all major product categories and regions including rapid growth in BRIC and emerging countries. Global Consumer revenues grew 28% on unit growth of 58%, and BRIC revenues were up 46% on unit growth of 41%.
Dell reported a seventeen percent dip in its second quarter results today but, despite the lower profits, the company's server and laptop shipments were way up.
Despite lower-than-expected profits, Gladden called it "a great growth quarter" for Dell. The cost of growth in Europe in particular, he said was partly to blame for this quarter's results. In other words, in an attempt to gain share in both consumer and enterprise markets Dell spent more than it did last year.
Cooling
Glacialtech Igloo 5063 Light E Heatsink @ FrostyTech
ETC.
Air Live HP-3000E 200Mbps Powerline Adapters @ techPowerUP!
DigiMate III Touch Screen 2.5" SATA HDD Enclosure @ DSM
OCZ Dominatrix Gaming Mouse @ OCAholic
Vantec NexStar MX eSATA Dual HDD Enclosure @ Virtual Hideout
Carnegie Mellon researchers created a program that helps you avoid bogus websites. According to the article, the program can tap into a network of publicly accessible servers that have been programmed to ping web sites and record changes in the encryption keys they use to secure data. A change in the data could mean the site has been compromised.
Intercepting Internet traffic, and spying on the communication between two computers, is a gold mine for hackers. Now Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope software they've built will make it harder for criminals to hit that jackpot.
During an interview with Welt Online, Sony’s CEO commented on the Wii’s “superior” business model and went on to say (as he laughed) that that the company will never recover the $3 billion spent on making the PS3 “in his lifetime.” The good news is that Sony is making money on its games, so that is a good thing.
You have spent three billion dollars on the Playstation 3, disregarding research and development. Can you ever get your money back?
Stringer: Not for as long as I live (laughs). It will certainly take some time. The traditional business model for the Playstation envisaged us making a loss with the hardware in the early years until the production costs had decreased to a point that enabled us to break even. In the meantime, we earn money with the games. We are currently at the stage in which we need to get a grip on the production costs. That takes time. We are already making more money with the games than we are losing with the hardware.
That has to be headline of the day…“Target will become more accessible to the blind.” Heh, that is one of those unintentionally funny headlines that makes you call your blind mother (mine) and read it to her out loud.
Target has settled a class-action dispute with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) whereby the retail giant will pay $6 million and make its Web site more accessible to the visually impaired by next year, the company announced Wednesday.
Yes, our amazingly awesome Folding team is the only team to hit the one billion points milestone…but that is not what we are here to talk about today, we are here to talk about ME…my milestones damn it!
Last month, using our handy GPU Folding Guide, I kicked my folding efforts into high gear and jumped up almost 189 spots and broke into the top 500 folders on our team. This month I am up another 73 spots and up to 420,000 points. The reason I am telling you this is because I am Folding with one GPU and a PS3 and I am kicking some ass. No high end hardware or server farms and it is as easy as you can get. So if I can do it, you can do it…join Team #33 today and kick some ass too!
The AutoBlog crew says “they knew it all along” that heated seats bake your balls. What does that mean for all of you with heated seats trying to have a family? Heh…you need a heatsink for your huevos. Peltier powered pantaloons. TIM (thermal interface material) for your testes?
Scientists studying male fertility have discovered that the proliferation of heated seats raises the temperature of your junk by a full degree Fahrenheit verses sitting in the car without artificially warmed seats. That's enough to cut your chances of reproducing, and it makes us strategically point a fan at close range just thinking about it.
If you are running a pirated copy of Windows XP Pro, prepare to be nagged into buying a legit copy. New features in the latest version of WGA Notifications promise to nag you until you do the right thing and get a legit product key.
Starting this week, we will begin deployment of the latest version of WGA Notifications for Windows XP. In addition to the usual updates to validation that improve WGA's ability to detect the latest stolen or fake product keys and other attempts to circumvent product activation, this release will also include a couple of other significant updates.
ESA Welcomes Game Pirate Jail Sentences @ Shacknews
Fallout 3 Goes Public at PAX @ Kotaku
Man Assaulted Over PS3 @ Tribune-Review
Michael Phelps Gets CoD: World at War Early @ CBS
Prince of Persia Developer Diary 1 @ FileShack
Wil Wright Says E3 is "The Walking Dead" @ VE3D
The ASUS Rampage Extreme is stylish, powerful and comes packed with everything but the kitchen sink (including a water cooled capable chipset cooling system). If you are in the market for a new mobo, make sure you read today’s evaluation of the Rampage Extreme before you spend your hard earned money.
The ASUS Rampage Extreme is a hell of a motherboard and the likes of it is being used to break some pretty big overclocking records. We think that these X48 chipsets are being handpicked for these “Extreme” motherboards, and you of course know whether or not 500MHz+ FSB speeds will benefit you or not. If you have access to sub-zero temperature chambers, maybe you will see 645MHz too!
