By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 13, 2006
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
- What About Quad Core? ★
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AnandTech:
Later this year Intel will be introducing pin compatible upgrades to its Core 2 and Xeon lines, except instead of two cores these processors will feature four. Codenamed Kenstfield (Core 2) and Clovertown (Xeon), Intel’s new quad-core processors will dramatically increase the amount of processing power you can have in a single system. Given that the Mac Pro features two LGA-771 sockets, you could theoretically drop two Clovertown processors in there and you’d have an 8-core Mac Pro.
So they tried it with pre-release samples of the quad-core processors:
We grabbed a pair of 2.4GHz Clovertown samples and tossed them in the system, and to our pleasure, they worked just fine.
Uh, wow. (Via John Siracusa via AIM.)
- TUAW: iTunes to be rebranded as ‘Showtime?’ ★
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This has to be the biggest pre-event-speculation laugher of the week. The “iTunes” brand name is worth billions. And, as the Macalope pointed out yesterday, “Showtime” is already in use by a long-standing and popular premium cable network.
- WMV DRM Crack Prompting Media Companies to Pull Content? ★
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Jeffrey Goldfarb, reporting for the Washington Post:
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB temporarily shut down its fledgling broadband film service after software provided by Microsoft was cracked, enabling the digital protection to be stripped.
(Via Andy Baio, who says his “insider sources say some major media companies will be pulling their DRM content within days.”)