Everywhere Mum writes, plugs daughter

Hi Mike,

Of course I enjoy reading about the Everywhere Girl since she is, in fact, my daughter. Here is another example - this book popped up in a staff meeting on Thursday in a high school in Everywhere Girl's hometown.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787950459/sr=8-1/qid=1149265224/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3436137-4790365?%5Fencoding=UTF8

From the Everywhere Girl's Mother
(if you should print any part of this please do not include my real name - thanks)

Subject: Left hookers

Mike,

"The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing". Isn't that amazing? I've recently learned that the average person's left leg does 50% of the walking! (unless they've been drinking heavily of course, in which case all bets are off).

Do you think there may be a co-relation somewhere? In the brain perhaps? In any case, I'm off to the pub to learn more. Call me the "Wet Inquirer", or better still, just buy me a few drinks to see what my legs will do. It's all in the name of investigative journohackism don't you know.

Cheers,

Volker

Subject: Four by Four
* Surely five blades.

Hmmm - that was beginning to remind me just the tiniest bit of this..

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930

And just one more thing, why on earth does AMD keep referring to the 2 x dual core setup as 4x4 ? 4 cores x 4 ...

tune ?
cast ?
sight ?
skin ?

Beats me.
All the best

tim

Subject: Intel "stuffed the channel" causing CPU price collapse

Dear Cher Price,

I am working for an official intel distributor. what i am seeing in the market is indeed what you are saying here.

But there is more that meets the eye, there are big OEM's like HP, lonevo etc etc. They are killing the distributormarket, they are buying the intel cpu's. Intel will give them an quartally bonus when they will reach their target, if they will reach above target they will receive additional bonus.

What they will do is that they will dump left over stock. wich is flooding the distributor market.

The traders in their turn will buy these, and then will sell these for prices far under DC ( distributor costprice ).

Intel has to wake up and smell the coffee this is shooting yourself in the leg, in the long term this will kill them. like we see now.

With regards,
"Mister X"

Subject: Opteron

Hello Ms "INQUIRER "

Very interesting article. When I think of it, it raises more questions than it answers... The thing I don't get, is how these Athlon64 processors would be different from the Opteron 2xx series.

The Opterons 2xx have 3 HT links, one of which is coherent (called cHT, to link the processors together). But of these 3 links, in most cases only 2 are used on one processor (the cHT to link to the other processor and another HT to the chipset), while the other processor uses only its cHT.

The "4x4-enabled" Athlon64s could have a unique, cHT link, but that would cause problems: you then have a unique HT link to connect to both the chipset and the other processor. Only chips that work as hubs could be used with it. There is at least one such chip from the NForce5 series that has 2 HT links and might work, if it indeed can be used as a hub. But most chipsets would be incompatible with this solution.

The other solution would be to have one HT and one cHT link per processor. But then, you end up with a direct competitor to the Opteron 2xx.

This year is defenitely going to be at least as interesting as the previous ones...

Cheers,

Stephane

Subject: Ernst & Young lose three quarter of a million CC numbers

the CIO's of these companies need to start to be fired as well...there is no good reason why you have people running around with such info on laptops...

all info of that type needs to be stored on secured servers, and when needed accessed via VPN if remote.

here..when someone has requested that i place any kind of sensitive info out on our open portion of our network that the outside world can access so they can get to it easily while at home..i laugh at them as the door hits them on the way out.

the people in charge of data need to start taking responsibility for its security as well as its ability to be used.

The bigger question is why does an Ernst and Young employee have hotels.com customer information? You don't need that data to do an audit.

Name supplied

Subject: Picasa for Linux is a good Windows application

Fernando, I think Googlites have made fools of themselves with this Picasa for penguins release. The one thing that may be good is that the WINE project stands to benefit a lot from this ; however, a native application (using either GTK+ or wxWindows, like ... Xara LX (xaraxtreme.org)) would have been a lot better... LX is a good example of a cross platform application that works perfectly. I met the Xara team at LGM (libregraphicsmeeting.org) 2006 in Lyon, France. They took the wxWindows route because, well, it was the easiest, fastest way to port (I bet using WINE never crossed their minds...). 2 years ago they were all Linux-unaware. Google has been using Linux for as long as it exists, and yet... Oh well. François

Subject: Why Dell now does Opteron

What ever happened to journalistic integrity and holding the belief of not obscuring facts with one's own biased opinion?

Bob

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