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3Com: Four Ports In Every Socket
News 3Com is bringing to the UK a network jack with a difference; it multiplies sockets by four. The J95 jack has been on sale in the US for a year, but has only just been made in a shape which fits UK standard wall sockets.
[January 16, 2003, 11:49]
BT, Broadband And Electromagnetic Noise
Blog Anyway, BT is trialling a cheap piece of kit it says will mitigate the electromagnetic noise issue for many people - essentially a self-install interstitial plate called the i-Plate (they're confident they won't be sued by Apple) that can be...
[March 12, 2008, 15:51]
Itanium Suffers Setback Despite Server Progress
News One part of that commitment will appear on 18 January when HP brings new top-end Itanium processors to midrange Integrity servers with eight or 16 processor sockets and to its high-end Integrity Superdome line with 32 or 64 sockets.
[January 6, 2005, 8:00]
Council Flats Get Broadband Via Power Line
News Residents of council flats in the West Midlands town of Solihull are to get free or subsidised broadband through their three-pin power sockets. On Wednesday, the wide area networking company CI-Net announced that it was the technology partner for...
[May 21, 2008, 16:26]
Implementing Serial ATA On HP Business Desktops
White Papers An HP SATA-ready system has a fully functional onboard SATA controller, onboard SATA sockets, SATA-compliant BIOS, and a power supply with SATA power connectors. This white paper covers the implementation of Serial ATA (SATA) technology on HP...
[October 11, 2004, 3:00]
Future Power Jumps Up Celerons
News The motherboard, called the ABIT BP6, integrates two 370-pin sockets for pin-grid array Celeron chips. It has a partnership with Daewoo Telecom, a subsidiary of Daewoo Group, which makes a number of the components used in Future Power PCs.
[August 25, 1999, 8:32]
Intel's Montvale Itanium Chip Arrives
News Coupled with the existing socket-level lock-step technology, the core-level lock-step feature enables "greater reliability, availability and serviceability [RAS] by guaranteeing that calculation results are consistent among the cores and sockets...
[October 31, 2007, 7:56]
Sun Says New Chip Doubles Speed
News Sun's chip will be able to plug into the same sockets as an UltraSparc III, meaning customers can upgrade their computers rather easily. IBM used a similar technique to make its Power 4 processor, and Intel plans to follow suit with its Xeon and...
[October 13, 2003, 8:40]
I Don't Normally Reward Spam, But...
Blog Given the eternal pain of trying to jam huge great black bricks into power strips, having them fall out through gravity or awkward positioning, the idea of making the converters the same size as the standard plugs that the sockets are designed to...
[May 10, 2007, 11:06]
Redbus Boss Begs Customers To Stay
News There is no surge protection built into cabinet sockets or the floor supply. Users remain to be convinced, and Redbus is likely to receive claims for compensation for damage and downtime from users whose kit was destroyed by a power spike during...
[March 7, 2005, 15:20]
HP Doubles Up Itanium Processors
News This will enable owners of mid- and high-range HP servers (everything with four or more processor sockets) to double the number of processors. The company said this will allow owners of mid-range servers to almost double performance in the same...
[May 5, 2004, 14:10]
AMD Has A Friend In HP
Leader Certainly, it is the first time HP has outwardly appeared so excited about a non-Intel processor since the Alpha (which is on its way out) and Itanium (which is reserved in HP's collective mind for servers with eight sockets or more).
[February 15, 2005, 13:35]
Revamped Top-end Xeons Unveiled
News Our intension is that you'll be able to drop the dual cores.into the same sockets as we come to those product offerings next year," Gelsinger said. Intel and AMD both hope to grow at the expense of processor alternatives such as Sun' UltraSparc and...
[March 30, 2005, 9:05]
Intel Reveals Second-gen Dual-core Details
News Code names for those second-generation dual-core chips are Conroe, for desktop machines; Merom, for laptops; and Woodcrest, for lower-end servers with two processor sockets, Otellini said. The dual-core design philosophy is the chip industry's...
[May 6, 2005, 9:05]
Intel: Teraflops Industry Standard Chip On Way
News This will support up to four sockets, putting 16 cores into a blade. Intel chief technology officer Justin Ratner showed the previously announced 80-core Polaris research processor running at one and two teraflops, with clock speeds of 3.13GHz and...
[April 17, 2007, 13:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Most multiple USB sockets I know are close together, designed to let you stack those thin USB leads without wasting space. That means there may be two sockets, but only room for one battery — and even that's blocking the other port so you can't...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
Distributed Computing's Prime Moment
News Prime numbers are needed for encrypted communications such as a Web browser's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology that makes it harder to sniff out credit card numbers or other private information. Mersenne primes are named after Marin Mersenne...
[December 13, 2001, 13:44]
Intel Launches Six-core Dunnington Chips
News The products include four-socket rack and blade servers from vendors such as Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Sun and Unisys; as well as servers that scale up to 16 sockets from IBM, NEC and Unisys. There are two low-power versions that bring power...
[September 16, 2008, 9:06]
Oracle Database 11g Product Family
White Papers Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One (SE1) delivers unprecedented ease-of-use, power, and price/performance for workgroup, departmental, and web applications on single servers with maximum capacity of two sockets.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
FTP Commander
Downloads Our ftp client is compatible with Proxy, Firewall, Sockets 4, 4.5, and 5. FTP Commander is not only easy to use (you can pick it up in minutes), it's also a very lean application (657kb) - yet has all the features and power of it's weightier...
[May 25, 2007, 21:01]
