17th September 2011 Archive
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AMD spills secret to World Record clock speed
A little liquid helium goes a long way
On August 31, a team of AMD-sponsored overclockers cranked a Bulldozer-based AMD FX processor up to an unearthly 8.429GHz, setting a new world record. This week, The Reg sat down with the leader of that processor-torturing team to find out exactly how they did it. "This is an extreme technology sport," Simon Solotko, AMD's …
PCs & Chips 17 Sep 03:55
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Intel extends JavaScript for parallel programming
Google meets the Anti-Native Client
Intel is developing an extended version of JavaScript that brings parallel programming to web applications. Codenamed River Trail, the project was revealed this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, and the company has open sourced an early version of the technology in the form of a Firefox add-on. For the most …
Developer 17 Sep 06:23
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Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player with IPTV
Review Worth every penny?
Sony’s BDP-S380 Blu-ray bantamweight packs quite a punch. A mere 36mm tall, it barely looks big enough to swallow discs, but this plasticky pugilist can hold its own against full-size separates and is well stocked with features. Budget offering: Sony BDP-S380 The BDP-S380 is IPTV enabled, doubles as a Super Audio CD player …
reghardware 17 Sep 07:00
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Ten years on from Nimda: Worm author still at large
The malware which began the Windows megaworm era
Saturday marks the tenth anniversary of the infamous Nimda worm. Nimda (admin spelled backwards) was a hybrid worm that spread via infected email attachments and across websites running vulnerable versions of Microsoft's IIS web server software. Specifically the malware exploited a folder traversal vulnerability, which was …
Malware 17 Sep 09:00
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VMware: the next big storage vendor?
Re-envisaging the storage array
Nowadays some of the most discussed topics in the storage industry are related to VMware: "VMware support and integration", "VMware-aware storage" and "storage features for VMware" are only a few examples of what I mean but, are we sure that the relationship between VMware and traditional storage will be so tight in the long …
Blocks and Files 17 Sep 12:18
