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  1. LiamC

    ThinkPad battery recall

    Tannin, weren't you guilty of ThinkPad lovin'? http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37946 ..." The problematic batteries were sold to customers with notebooks or as optional or replacement for the ThinkPad R60, R60e, T60, T60p, Z60m, Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and Z61p. Models may have...
  2. LiamC

    Show off your 1337 gaming skillz

    http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37658 Go on, I dare ya!
  3. LiamC

    Want to know why MS went for flash based cache in Vista

    'Trinity' works for MS. Follow his replies in this thread for some info http://www.aceshardware.com/forums/read_post.jsp?id=120074556&forumid=1 Random disk I/O
  4. LiamC

    Windows/386 & crack-smokin' monkeys

    Apologies to Tea. Watch the video. Watch what happens at the 7 min mark. Scary... http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239&q=windows+386&b3ta
  5. LiamC

    I want an interface like this!

    Screw Vista/Luna/Gnome/insert interface of choice http://www.flixxy.com/minority-report-interface.htm
  6. LiamC

    Damning with faint praise?

    Was just over on XBit and their latest review is of a couple of ThermalTake cases. Given what people here seem to think of ThermalTake cases, I thought I'd share the heading: ..."Thermaltake Armor Jr and Thermaltake Aquila: Worthy Thermaltake Heritage"... Hence the title of this post... :)
  7. LiamC

    Seagate announces 15K savvio 2.5" HDD

    http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/11638 ..."The new Savvio 15K is not only the world's first 2.5" hard drive with platters spinning at 15,000 RPM, Seagate also says it's 10% faster than 3.5" 15K-RPM drives, making it the world's fastest hard drive. That's a bold claim to make, but the...
  8. LiamC

    Sockets ahoy. AMD goes Intel

    AM2, AM2+, AM3... The Inq: ..."AM2+ is a variant that will arrive in the Barcelona time frame, basically Q2. It brings us the wonder of split voltage planes so you can "volt" the CPU differently from the memory controller, freeing AMD from one of its bigger frequency scaling headaches. AM2...
  9. LiamC

    Life imitating art?

    In this case Happy Gilmore. A Russian cosmonaut plans to play golf on the ISS, but he hasn't played golf before... ..." Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin plans to begin a spacewalk, set for Wednesday evening, by knocking a lightweight golf ball off a tee placed on the top of the Russian docking port...
  10. LiamC

    500GB drive review

    13 drives in all—Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, Merc's Bane. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/seagate-barra-720010.html
  11. LiamC

    AVG 7.1 to be discontinued

    mid January '07. Update to AVG 7.5 at your convenience.
  12. LiamC

    IE 7.0 released

    I case you missed it. A vulnerability has been found http://secunia.com/advisories/22477/ A demo is here: http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer_Arbitrary_Content_Disclosure_Vulnerability_Test/ According to MS, this was patched long ago, and is a flaw in Outlook Express. So why is IE 7.0...
  13. LiamC

    Smoothwall 2.0 update 9

    Update 9 for Smoothwall has been released. http://smoothwall.org/updates/2.0/fixes9.html Do not apply unless all other fixes have been applied. ..." Notes fixes 9 makes the following changes from SmoothWall Express 2.0 with fixes 8 applied: Linux kernel updated to version...
  14. LiamC

    This has covert action written all over it.

    The collision between the private jet and the Brazillian commercial airliner. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1755939.htm CIA?
  15. LiamC

    I hate dynamic disks.

    I really do. They wasted my long weekend. To cut a long story short, I decided to "upgrade" my system & convert my 160GB Samsung over to a 250. I'd forgotten that the 160 & 250 in place were dynamic disks. Swap over motherboard from X2 to C2D etc. Boot drive is a Maxtor 15KII. That goes...
  16. LiamC

    xSATA and SATA 6G news

    Charlie "Bunny" over at Le Inq has news on xSATA and SATA 6G http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34712 xSATA has an 8m (26') external cable while 6G is/has a transfer rate of 6 Gigabits/s
  17. LiamC

    What's the latest and greatest in anti spyware?

    I've stopped using Ad-Aware as it doesn't seem to do a lot. I do still use Spybot. What else should I be using?
  18. LiamC

    Ubuntu install help

    I need some help installing Ubuntu. Downloaded Ubuntu 6.06.1. Popped CD (it appears to be only 1 CD right?) into drive, booted. HDD is a 10GB Quantum with XP on it. Ubuntu fired up and the first option was Start or Install. Selected that and after a few minutes, was presented with Gnome...
  19. LiamC

    MS -> Google: Resistance is futile!

    http://www.live.com/ Wonder if they'll share/aggregate user searches and data?
  20. LiamC

    Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB

    TR on Seagate Barracuda ES http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/10748
  21. LiamC

    I've gone over to the dark side

    Built myself a Core 2 Duo system E6600, 1 GB Corsair ValueSelect DDR-2 667, Gigabyte 965P-S3. This thing rocks. After initial booting and verification, I set it to run @ 333MHz FSB (default 266). O.K. The bus is quad pumped, so 1333 FSB instead of 1066. Just faster than an X6800 @ stock...
  22. LiamC

    The F word

    http://firefoxflicks.com/flick/index.php?sort=new&id=30199&c=false
  23. LiamC

    Speedfan update

    Speedfan has been updated to 4.29. This is important for K8 owners as this version can now accuratelt detect the K8's internal CPU temperature diode correctly. You'll find that your CPU is running several degrees hotter than you think. http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
  24. LiamC

    3600+ X2 reviewed

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-x2-3600.html Once again, AMD chips care less about cache size (2 x 256KB v 2 x 512KB). Should be a good entry level X2. Pity it's Socket AM2 only.
  25. LiamC

    Practical Joke of the day

    Crazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBnY28Mo6Is&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b
  26. LiamC

    New weapon in the terrorist arsenal. Exploding DELL's

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550 Seriously, as an IED, that does give one cause for concern. But can you imagine airlines banning notebooks? And turn away their business customers? Won't happen. The power of the dollar.
  27. LiamC

    Opera 9 released

    Come and gets it http://www.opera.com/
  28. LiamC

    Terrestrial Engineering. Objections?

    I'm interested in moral/philosophical/environmental objections to this idea (ignoring the engineering). Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth. If global warming is occurring, we can expect Aus to get drier. Proposal. Open Lake Eyre to the sea. For those that don't know, Lake...
  29. LiamC

    From Computex—Hitachi 750GB & 1.8" form factor

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32189 Expands their 500GB range with a 750GB model & adds 1.8" FF drives with 30, 40, 60 and 80GB variants, all spinning at 4200RPM. Meanwhile, Toshiba shoed off 200GB perpendicular recording media 2.5" drive. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32173
  30. LiamC

    Boot from Compact Flash

    Seen by OS as IDE device. Bootable. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32070
  31. LiamC

    S939 is dead, long live S940 (Mk. II)

    Just in case you've been living under a rock, AMD released Socket AM2 Athlon FX/64/Sempron 64s using DDR2. My cheat sheet. * DDR2 is only faster than DDR400 when you get to DDR2-800 and use ultra low latency DDR2 800. * The caveat to this appears to be video encoding/latest games (read huge...
  32. LiamC

    You are never going to believe this—DELL & AMD

    ..."May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Dell Inc., the world's largest personal-computer maker, will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips in some servers, ending its exclusive use of Intel Corp.'s products after 22 years."... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a.yPx_13lYX4&refer=us...
  33. LiamC

    Silly new toy to play with

    Well maybe not too silly http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=83 Basically a tool which might help you to find good o/cing AMD E Rev. chips. More info can be found here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article313-page2.html about ⅓ the way down.
  34. LiamC

    Everyone loves 2.5" drives

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/25inch-hdd-5400.html http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/mobile-ata/index.x?pg=1
  35. LiamC

    One for Tony

    I guess http://www.eaglecamera.com/
  36. LiamC

    Some here might like this avatar

    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?s=8f1a4d415093bf610bc9328bbdf6c743&p=1362163&postcount=13
  37. LiamC

    Notebook question

    My wife wants an in-car/portable DVD player to keep the kids amused. I started thinking that perhaps a notebook could do double duty. Has anybody investigated this? What I would need is a light laptop that could fold the screen flat (180 degrees) and had good battery life 3 hrs +. Ideally...
  38. LiamC

    WD for sale?

    This should make the resident Good Cop/Bad Cop duo—you know who I mean, dont you T and M ;)—happy. The rumour is Samsung to buy WD http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30619 :eekers:
  39. LiamC

    Ramblings on the brands we love (or hate)

    I have had a string of bad luck lately hardware wise, but this has enabled me to compare/notice a few things because I've had to swap hardware around while diagnosing. I have three ATi video cards and one NVIDIA. Old GeForce (2, 4) cards were pretty crap at 1024x960 on a DVNF 19" Trinitron...
  40. LiamC

    Memtest x86 Question

    How many passes of Memtest x86 (3.2) would people consider necessary before ruling out memory issues? My X2 is starting to give errors in F@H, where I'm getting Error 72, which research indicates is memory related. The machine has not been overclocked for weeks. BIOS settings are standard, or...
  41. LiamC

    Recommendation wanted, HDD cooler

    I am a bit concerned with temps of my Atlas II 15K and wanted to install a HDD cooler. Can anybody recommend one? Low noise, lots of airflow...
  42. LiamC

    USB Geek USB 2.0 to SATA Cable

    http://www.dansdata.com/satausb.htm Dunno if it'd be useful, but the article is funny.
  43. LiamC

    Is NVIDIA the new VIA?

    Active Armor data corruption, SATA issues (reported previously), EIDE driver issues, and, I am sure there was another issue with nForce 3 or 4, though my memory could be failing. Via hasn't had data corruption issues, though the K8T890 rev. 1 that didn't work with X2's was a cock up. Can't...
  44. LiamC

    SCSI drive roundup

    Usual contenders–Cheetah, Atlas, Hibachi :) and Raptor (control) http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/storage/roundup-scsi2005.html
  45. LiamC

    HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 controller review

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/highpoint-rocketraid-2320.html 8 SATA-II HDDs RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD PCI E x4.
  46. LiamC

    Eugene, 250GB drive comparo

    http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/250_1.html
  47. LiamC

    Rev F A64's to support DDR2-800

    out of the box. According to here... http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29716 To be launched at Computex, orders in May, delivery in (for retail sale) in June. Sell more memory!
  48. LiamC

    If you live in the US and want to win an X2 4600+

    AnandTech and NewEgg are running a comp http://promotions.newegg.com/NEPro/AnandTech//index.html
  49. LiamC

    2.5" HDD review

    http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/9378 Seagate smacks Hitachi.
  50. LiamC

    Google double plus good

    Trust Google! Google is your friend. Bow down and serve Google! http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=719
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