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Congratulations Tannin & mubs. You guys have made a lot of great contributions in the time that I've lurked and been registered here. Your part of the reason that this place is head and shoulders above the rest of the internet.

I know I'm relatively new here, but I'd like to add my compliments Merc. Lots of terrific posts in there.

I don't know how familiar with Unix you are Buck, so forgive me if you already know the following. The directory is probably hidden. Any file (or directory) in a unix filesystem that starts with a . is hidden. You can select View/'Show Hidden ..' in Nautilus somewhere. The -a option tells...

I checked that out as well today. Real World Tech always does excellent technical CPU articles. I'm also looking forward to John Stokes writeup on ArsTechnica, which is apparently forthcoming.

I'd just like to add my congratulations Cougtek. Terrific news. Enjoy your good fortune :).

Berkeley pulled out all the stops to beat USC apparently. This is one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard. You gotta feel sorry for the guy though. Details. :oops:

Current LGA775 boards are supposed to support Conroe with only a BIOS update. I think it goes without saying of course that "support available with a BIOS update" is one of the most abused phrases in personal computer history.

So far I've been using vobcopy, a command line DVD ripper. I just create a decssed mirror of the CD on the hard drive. Command line tools are nice because they let me simply shove the disc in a fileserver, ssh in, fire & forget. I typically avoid burdening my desktop with IO tasks. I...

Quick thoughts: Pandora++, 1. They have a tremendous selection of less common music. 2. They're pretty damn good in terms of getting related sound out of their recommendations. Last.fm++, 1. Tracks my listening habits on my home collection using a plugin for Amarok. 2. Also pretty damn accurate.

Oops, Pandora is cheaper than I thought.

I've heard of Pandora, and it's definitely worth checking out. I don't have as much experience with it as I do with it's biggest competition, Last.fm, which is one of those Web 2.0, social services that everyone seems to think is going to save the world (regular reading of Nicholas Carr's blog...

Absolutely. I've been thinking quite seriously about installing SuSE as the main OS on my laptop. And DVD support is indeed one of those annoying things that no one can conveniently get around thanks to the politicians, the lawyers, the DMCA, and the entertainment industry lobby --may they all...

They pretty much were waiting for Conroe, for the big boys, the Power Macs. Their laptops and the Mini had always used G4's (32-bit PowerPC chips) so 32-bit wasn't a step back at all like it would have been for the Power Macs. 64-bit is also really only useful for its expanded memory...

That would be a terrific general market product. By the way, does anyone read bit-tech regularly? Is it a decent hardware/tech-news site? Worth subscribing to?

Ironically, Gentoo may be one of the few Free distributions that supports DVD playback auto-magically. P.S. I don't mean to be a crusader or anything, but if you have the time, don't forget to write a letter to your Senator/politician. The whole situation is ridiculous. Not in Canada, but in...

Of course, it all depends on prices. Even when Intel has had the performance lead, AMD has always been the better buy at any given price point. If Intel's performance advantage is indeed this significant then their chips will definitely at least be solid contenders on my price/performance...

Bozo, Conroe takes many design lessons from the Pentium M, but it is an entirely different microarchitecture. It has a different pipeline, frontend, execution resources, and implements all sorts of new tricks that haven't shown up in any Pentium M derivative. In general, I think it is still...

The big problem seems not to be wattage per se, but the current limiters mandated by ATX12V 2.0+ on the 12V rails. It's not that the PSU's can't supply enough power, but that many PSUs won't allow that much power to go over any given rail for safety :roll: reasons. If you're building a system...

There are details about it from IDF all over the net. Blah, blah, blah. This, on the other hand, is rather interesting --to say the least (41% in F.E.A.R. :o). I have no doubt that AMD's dual-core prices are going to be significantly lower in several months.

In my Photoshop News RSS feed, I just noted an interview with the Paint.NET project lead Rick Brewster. It's worth reading. Paint.NET is Free, not just free for those who care.

The problem is that any PC, no matter how cheap its insides, that's going to look good, is going to cost a pretty penny. I've yet to find a decent looking case for an appliance PC at a reasonable price.

Picasa. It seems to be quite highly recommended across the net, but it is more an asset management program AFAIK, which is quite different from a Paint program like Paint.net. The former is a general purpose image editor; the latter is designed for managing, archiving, publishing and basic...

Don't get me started on "lifestyle" commercials jtr...

I'm quite perturbed about the whole Cable Card, home-built systems fiasco myself. OTOH, since I mostly agree about the desert that is contemporary television; I don't really care as much as I might have a couple years ago. Screw 'em. The Daily Show & the Colbert Report are both, absolutely...

Personally, I consider it a good use of my RAM. I like it when my computer does what I tell it to pronto, and I frequently go back through several pages when browsing. Your problem likely has more to do with Windows' determination to page out anything that doesn't absolutely have to be in...

I'm a very, very, veeeerrrrry skeptical web browser. Even when I was using Windows I didn't acquire much malware. OTOH, I have to admit that SiteAdvisor looks to have the potential to be a very powerful service. The Register covers the details. It looks dangerously like a PR piece, but that...

Recycling is more of a job creation issue than anything else. OTOH, the character, good or bad, of the people who are most vocal in raising an argument has no relevance to its validity. There are few things more obvious in all of creation than the utter destruction humanity has wreaked on its...

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I have two DFI Ultra-D's. The chipset fan is not your typical chipset fan, it doesn't seem to have a brush motor in the middle. It's spun using magnets at the edges I think. Very strange, but it's absolutely silent outside the case with my ear 6" away.

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So far, I've been using more and more google services and I like the fact that it learns about me. Personalized search gives me noticeably superior results for example. Being able to examine my search history is also invaluable sometimes. The prioritzation of RSS articles based on my observed...

It would. But only if NCQ is enabled I believe. That's why Linux users haven't experienced these data corruption problems, our current SATA driver doesn't support NCQ.

On Windows I wouldn't use anything else :). On the subject of Songbird, I have to admit I'm very curious now. There's an ArsTechnica overview on it that I just read. I didn't know it aimed to be a singe frontend for multiple music stores. If it could achieve that it would be A Good Thing...

Wow, it's even in Portage (Gentoo's package management system) :).

ddrueding, I know your probably interested in a Windows solution, but, if only for the record, Zoneminder looks like a very mature Linux solution. It's GPL as well. I wouldn't have thought this type of software would be particularly mature on Linux. Hell, it can even integrate with X10 home...

I certainly learned my lesson. Who would've thought that the wood people build houses out of is solid :roll: . Also, having to explain to the cute resident how (stupidly) you hurt your hand is very good punishment. Humiliation is a very effective learning tool...

Only a few days ago somebody broke down my front door trying to break into my house. Nothing was stolen. I suppose someone must have appeared and scared them off, because the door was totally wrecked; there was nothing to stop them from helping themselves to whatever they wanted. I feel like...

I'm not so sure myself Sol. Firstly, the Power6 is also being used in the iSeries and pSeries. Both of which are geared towards more general-purpose, server computing --particularly the pSeries. In keeping with this, from the sounds of it, the Power6 isn't quite as wide as the Power4 & 5...

Thanks CougTek. As a fellow Canadian I don't get to see the real ads, and, while I generally despise all-that-is-advertising I have to admit you sometimes see some fairly funny stuff during the Superbowl. It looks like, Bud sprang for advertising north of the border as well. I remember...

I'd just like to add that I think it is very interesting that IBM is going in exactly the opposite direction of everyone else in the CPU business right now. It makes one wonder about the amount of thought that went into this reactionary about-face at Intel, and the "multi-threaded performance...

There's a much more indepth look into the albeit limited information on IBM's Power6 at Real World Tech. Those guys really know their processors. I've found them and ArsTechnica to be the best for indepth CPU information now that Ace's is relatively inactive. Real World Tech is more...

Hmmm. While this is unfortunate for all the Windows-on-P4 contributors out there, as a Linux-on-AMD contributor, this may result in an improvement in my systems' productivity. They won't get stuck on QMDs for which they are not allowed to use SSE2 optimizations :).

Since all my computers use Linux, I simply use cdparanoia, and flac on the command line. I rarely burden my main PC with the ripping. Instead, I pop the CD into one of the headless servers or even the old music playing boxes. There are various scripts available that will automatically look up...

One day, I'd like to build a dual-socket, dual-core Opteron system. The price of the 265 is low enough to be interesting. On the other hand it's still far more than I would normally consider paying for a single processor, let alone two. I though AMD was all sold out and under serious capacity...

Perhaps the linux clients don't run QMDs? That would be unfortunate; I was hoping to patch my client this weekend.

Dan did the definitive thermal goop analysis. I believe vegimite was the ultimate champion. It may be hard to source outside of Australia though. So you may have to go with some variety of real goop (vegimite also dries out anyway (high performance in the short term, but messy in the longterm...

In the U.S., Australia and other civilized countries perhaps, but Canadians still have some semblance of protected fair use rights.

I'm hoping to be able to resist purchasing new screens until SED computer displays start showing up. I find the grey blacks on LCD's unpleasant for video and troublesome for photo-editing. I picked up two refurbished twenty-two inch Philips screens about a year and a half ago and I think...

I'd like to think that all the makers of flash-using devices will switch to ext2. There are drivers for every major OS, and the fs is well-proven and free. Somehow though, I think we'll all be footing the bill for our crappy patent systems, and the lazy hardware vendors. FSCK!

Well, I think we can safely assume that QMDs on A64s are not a waste of time Will's last couple days haven't been so bad. I suppose I'll have to get around to trying this out myself at some point...