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29th June 2002 Archive

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  • Sun joins the benchmarketing season

    Sitting with the heavy hitters

    Sun Microsystems yesterday announced that its flagship Sun Fire 15K server had recorded the World's Fastest TPC data warehouse result based on the TPC-H benchmark. In the latest salvo in the benchmarketing wars (which saw results released by IBM and Hewlett-Packard earlier this week), a 72-processor 1050 MHz Sun Fire 15K system …

    Servers 29 Jun 2002, 08:24

  • Ford loses 2600 lawsuit

    Expletive not deleted

    Online hacker magazine 2600 has emerged victorious in its campaign to retain ownership of the controversial FuckGeneralMotors.com domain. Ford has withdrawn its appeal to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, meaning that 2600 can direct FuckGeneralMotors.com at anywhere it jolly well pleases (it plans to canvas opinions on …

    Music and Media 29 Jun 2002, 08:27

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