AMD's CPU Problems

internetnews.com: AMD: 'No Opteron Flaw'.

"AMD this week alerted several hundred customers that certain single-core Opteron processors may be susceptible to inconsistent results."

Are Google Results More Relevant?

internetnews.com: "Lance Jones, director of competitive intelligence at Keynote Systems, discussed a study he did where users were asked to rate satisfaction of their search experience using the normal Google site and using Google without the Google brand identifiers (logo, etc.).

According to the survey results, satisfaction was higher with the branded version even through there was no difference between the results."

Microsoft Bypasses HOSTS File

SecurityFocus: "But then I found the staggering truth: Microsoft DNS client special-cases 'go.microsoft.com' and refuses to
look it up in the hosts file."

McAfee unafraid of Microsoft security push

CNET News.com: McAfee's president Kevin Weiss: "Security is hard--we have been doing this for 15 years. We have over 10 patents that are focused right at security. We think we have a pretty significant lead in what we are doing. Security is not something you do part-time."

Why Microsoft Employees Should Own a Mac

Joe Morel's Blog: "I own a Mac because, as a Microsoft employee, I should. [...] Nothing says “arrogant” more than believing that Microsoft’s stuff is so good that there’s nothing to learn from our competitors, and shouldn’t see what they are doing really well (or really poorly)."

$50 Discount

Neowin.net: "$100 laptop project aims for $50 price tag by 2010."

Time Zoning

Joel on Software - What I need a calendar to do: "Understand enough about time zones so I can enter a flight. Flights from New Zealand to Los Angeles arrive before they departed. It's confusing but it's true and if I can't enter them properly on my calendar I'm back to typing itineraries in Word."

(And there's more.)

אברכים, מחשבים וראשי-תיבות

תגובה ב-Ynet: "האברך הסגיר את עצמו עם ראשי התיבות. אני לא מכיר חילוני אחד לרפואה, שיכתוב ד'א, כלומר דבר אחר, ולא דרך אגב כמו שהכתב שלכם טועה להבין. מזה יש מסקנה ברורה: זהו אברך דתי כלשהו! חפשו אותו בבני ברק או בריכוזים של נוער חרדי שמתעסק עם מחשבים."