Y2K was mostly panic.
Admin edit: Fair warning, the page behind this link contains an acronym which spells out a rude word.
This one seems to be for real, though.
A serious security flaw in the intel cpu architecture, going back a decade. The only possible countermeasures are developing a new chip (and then for everyone to go get that, obviously), or patching the flaw on the OS level, which Microsoft, Linux and Apple are currently in the process of doing.
Trouble is, doing a CPU job with software is terribly slow... Exact benchmarks on the performance impact of these OS level fixes are not yet available, the linked article puts it anywhere between 5% and 30%. So anywhere from "very significant" to "utterly disastrous".
Fun times ahead...
Admin edit: Fair warning, the page behind this link contains an acronym which spells out a rude word.
This one seems to be for real, though.
A serious security flaw in the intel cpu architecture, going back a decade. The only possible countermeasures are developing a new chip (and then for everyone to go get that, obviously), or patching the flaw on the OS level, which Microsoft, Linux and Apple are currently in the process of doing.
Trouble is, doing a CPU job with software is terribly slow... Exact benchmarks on the performance impact of these OS level fixes are not yet available, the linked article puts it anywhere between 5% and 30%. So anywhere from "very significant" to "utterly disastrous".
Fun times ahead...
Last edited by a moderator: