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bink.nu — "HP SuperDome64 Itanium Procs, Dual Core, HyperThreaded=256 Logical Porcessors"

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 11, 2008

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  • rubored, on 11/11/2008, -50/+941It's his Crysis machine..
  • Tugsy, on 11/11/2008, -37/+616Anyone else think the Crysis jokes have had their day, birthday, wedding and funeral by now?
  • TKOtheKDR, on 11/11/2008, -3/+469but can it play global thermonuclear war?
  • inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+440look at the CPUs he must have opened Symantec.
  • gingerboy, on 11/11/2008, -7/+372Why not just take a screen shot?
  • jmandawg, on 11/11/2008, -5/+368This version of windows 7 only runs task manager
  • SFBWork, on 11/11/2008, -27/+384All those cores, and he's still running the machine at 80% usage. Must be playing Crysis.
  • chromerium, on 11/11/2008, -7/+336It won't run crysis.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium

    Not x86 compatible.
  • melance, on 11/11/2008, -9/+294And he still has the graphic details only set to medium
  • vbisbest, on 11/11/2008, -1/+243Not enough free cpu cycles.
  • babakdigg, on 11/11/2008, -3/+228Give that system a Windows 7 ready sticker!
  • crackah, on 11/11/2008, -3/+197or 6th November...
  • gllopc, on 11/11/2008, -10/+204Fine:

    It's uninstalling Crysis.
  • mark076h, on 11/11/2008, -3/+188that is a private IP address
  • Etchii, on 11/11/2008, -3/+186damn you and your facts.
  • oldhick, on 11/11/2008, -2/+158If you had all of those cores and weren't running at 80% usage than you would have wasted a ton of money.
  • naner, on 11/11/2008, -6/+142ZOMG U SHOULD TOTALY SEND IT TEH PING OF DETH!!

  • HeyArnold, on 11/11/2008, -39/+172***** you! 2 of my friends were killed by 256 CPU cores!!
  • jtotheoe, on 11/11/2008, -27/+151I could stare at that for hours on end.... Its like a work of art.
  • techAU, on 11/11/2008, -108/+220Running Windows 7 ... interesting, assuming the system date is correct, that's middle of this year.
  • amauldin71, on 11/11/2008, -3/+113"HP SuperDome64 Itanium Procs, Dual Core, HyperThreaded=256 Logical Porcessors"

    Let me guess -- you can't just go down to Best Buy and pick that up.
  • Elranzer, on 11/11/2008, -1/+109Nah. He's just trying to open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat.
  • chipxsd, on 11/11/2008, -0/+105no, but they have a sale down at Circuit City
  • zip000, on 11/11/2008, -3/+97Yes, this is Windows 7 Basic Home Premium+
    If you want to run another application you need to get Window 7 Premium Home Basic+
  • crownedgriffin, on 11/11/2008, -1/+80Just think. That looks crazy now, but it'll probably be the norm before you know it.
  • killhouse, on 11/11/2008, -6/+80It might not be running Windows 7 you can get those large icons in vista and XP.
    This is how you do it.
    Unlock taskbar -> Right click on an empty area inside quick launch -> View -> Large Icons.
    And bam Windows 7 looking icons in xp or vista.
  • rrife, on 11/11/2008, -2/+73Yeah, most of which is dedicated to updating the task manager display.
  • n1eb, on 11/11/2008, -0/+70So next time I want to publish a fake image all I need to do is take a photo of my screen with the fake image on it?
  • TehDoctor, on 11/11/2008, -6/+76Come on, run Crysis? From the looks of the picture it can't even run Aero!
  • juneof44, on 11/11/2008, -0/+70http://bink.nu/news/windows-server-2008-r2taskmana ...

    Server 2008 -- mystery solved.
  • mecah, on 11/11/2008, -6/+76he is using it to develop a nuclear weapon in his mom's basement.
  • hiro, on 11/11/2008, -21/+88It's probably American, they write the date backwards
  • PleaseJustDie, on 11/11/2008, -5/+71People are stupid... its obviously windows Server 2008, who the ***** would run 256 processors on windows in a non-server version?
  • thegodfather138, on 11/11/2008, -34/+97NO, all other countries write the date backwards.
  • Gubs, on 11/11/2008, -2/+65With great power comes great responsibility... I bet he is looking at pron.
  • RockNRollBeaver, on 11/11/2008, -6/+67Why such a ***** picture?
  • d4ni, on 11/11/2008, -1/+61It says 11/6/2008, which with the mm/dd/yyyy notation would be November 6.
  • AaronCo, on 11/11/2008, -11/+70256 cores... That's just so... 8 bit.

  • Tob1as, on 11/11/2008, -13/+71still IE? why?
  • ToddFFW, on 11/11/2008, -1/+55How about a nice game of chess Professor Falken?
  • R031E5, on 11/11/2008, -4/+53Because if he did, everyone would be saying that it's photoshoped.
  • insanebrain, on 11/11/2008, -0/+49Now I know why Windows 7 has a limit of 256 cores. .. they are unable to make a scrollbar in the taskmanager.
  • FKnight, on 11/11/2008, -4/+51The real WTF is that when Windows Update kicks in, any game he's playing will drop to 2 FPS because Windows Update will sure as ***** find a way to peg all these cores "Checking for updates."
  • solarweasel, on 11/11/2008, -0/+47there is no doubt this is from the 2008th day of the 6th month in year 11 AD.
  • Muzztein, on 11/11/2008, -0/+45yes
  • MCA2142, on 11/11/2008, -2/+47Echelon hard at work.
  • silverphoenix48, on 11/11/2008, -9/+53AHHH he's remote accessing it doesn't count!!
  • jmandawg, on 11/11/2008, -8/+50Damn, windows 7 needs alot of CPU power.
  • Murdats, on 11/11/2008, -0/+41it needs more flashing lights, a computer isn't really working unless the case is covered in flashing lights and random readouts.
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