Nathan's Occasional Blog

I’ve got some great news … looks like we’re in a position to have a prolonged hospital stay of up to 4+ weeks! Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, right? Not so much. But in this case, it’s great!

We spoke with our doc this afternoon and he’s very happy about how Alicea’s been reacting to treatments and our situation has mellowed out some and stabalized nicely. She’ll need to spend the rest of her pregnancy under close observation and treatment here at the hospital, but there’s a good chance we get to “bake the bun in the oven” another few weeks to get the baby to a pretty safe age before they’ll induce labor. Horray!

So, instead of having a baby girl born sometime in early June, now it looks like we’ll become parents around the end of April or the first few days of May. So much for our pre-baby classes! But I guess that’s what the nurses here, and our close friends B&C (and R) are for.

AMD’s dual-core Opteron due this month:

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to launch new Opteron chips later this month that combine dual processing engines on a single slice of silicon, CNET News.com has learned.

AMD will announce at an event on April 21 in New York that the first dual-core Opteron processors are available, months ahead of schedule, sources familiar with the situation said. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker also is expected to announce its dual-core chips for personal computers will go on sale in June.

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So it’s not a rumor anymore … Intel really IS screwed. This will be interesting; I wonder what Dell will do? We’re a Dell shop at work and we’ve been very happy with their servers. However, we’re going to be doing a big tech refresh later this year and an x64 foundation is a key decision factor for us as Longhorn will be around during these boxes’ lifetimes.