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10th November 2001 Archive

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  • Worker ‘rigged’ HP Superdome benchmarks

    Sabotage cost millions - HP

    In February this year, Queen Carly Fiorina blamed a botched channel re-organisation for plummeting HP Unix server sales. Worst hit was the high-end 9000 series, where the company's new Superdome Unix server, launched in January, failed to hit the mark with customers. And at $400,000+ a pop, it doesn't take too many failures to …

    Hardware 10 Nov 2001, 09:50

  • Site downtime, Sunday 12th November

    While readers snooze, RegGeeks spanner site

    The Register will be going down for engineering from approximately 7am GMT on Sunday 11th November. We are, since you ask, deploying a brace of beefy new servers which will support considerably higher traffic. We're sure you good people will be happy to supply this. According to our own brave/foolhardy geeks, the project can …

    Business 10 Nov 2001, 18:56

  • Surf Nazis Must Die!

    Letters ATI driver tweaks, Lotus eaters, and your grudges against French Judges

    Did we receive any letters this week that weren't about Petabytes, Pebibytes or Troglobytes? Hell, yes. Much hot debate about NForce. Either PC part of the year or an outdated POS? Even more thoughtful responses about ATI tweaking its drivers for Quake. And a cry for help from a Lotus user. Read on... US judge's Nazi Net …

    Letters 10 Nov 2001, 22:03