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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6404 Also, scuzzy drives with a high price premium aren't any more reliable than their cheap SATA conterparts, always according to their study. With a 100,000 drives sample, I'm quite confident that their results are fairly accurate.

D-Link stuff works great, except for their scouring security problems. Linksys stuff works great except for their scouring reliability problems. Belkin stuff works but only at short range, at least the few products I've used. Trendnet just plain doesn't work. Merc had good luck with them...

Handruin : 1 LiamC : 0 I've finally been able to fix our broken link for the team logo. The problem was that our team has been created before they required the founder to give an e-mail address, so there was none assosciated with our team and its founder : me. After about a week of e-mail...

Yes there is. It comes in the form of a shirt with long sleeves and attachs in the back.

There's something changed on the official Folding@home page of our team. Anyone notices what it is?

Which brands cost you less than 150U$? The cheapess I can get are the Asus and they are ~200$CAN (~170U$).

I'm eager to see how much they'll cost. News source

CPU F@h potential : http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2007q1/quad-core/index.x?pg=10

Ditto. The new scape goat of the irresponsible, ignorant polluting class is the sun now. Mysteriously becoming brighter right when mankind starts booming its industrial waste. How convenient. Good thing our star syncs its schedule with our oil companies. I just can't believe there are folks...

Someone call Ghost Busters! There's a revenant in this thread!

NCIX has a great sale on the HIS X1650XT with the ICEQ3 cooling system. They sell it for 120$CAN after a 20$ mail-in rebate. My cost for a non-ICEQ3 X1650XT is 160$. I don't know how they can do it, but they do. The X1650XT has double the pipelines of the X1650Pro (24 vs 12) and is equal or...

Oblivion has been one of the reasons why I've sold many expensive boxes during the last year or so. It is one of the most demanding games available when you turn everything up. I've only seen it on the X-Box 360 (briefly ; I didn't play). It looked very good, but less than the most impressive...

How can you not see the link between baby's food and virii? Baby's food makes babies crap. Virii makes computers crap. It's crystal clear. So next time you do your groceries and cross baby's food, remember that Antivir is your computer's diaper. Get it? [/humour] And sorry for the broken...

Thanks. I appreciate the notification. I wouldn't say that I'm part of the backbone here. That's solely Handruin. I'm more like the scary deformed skull topping the backbone. Woohooohoo!!! Scream, computer cases! SCREAM!!!

Forum access is very erratic right now. I've had such a hard time the last few minutes that I gave up replying in the thread made to underline my fourth milestone.

I thought pablum was universally known. My bad.

Could you please stop writing at the third person? It's really annoying. Thanks.

I no longer have access to 300GB drives, only 320GB models. You can't get the 750GB? What third-world country are you living in? ;-) Ok, I admit that even though I could sell a 750GB, there's no market for it right now and the price is prohibitive (I would be selling them at ~425$CAN, versus...

I'm now a retailer of Seasonic power supplies. I've visited NCIX.com and I can match their prices for Seasonic stuff. I'm not whiling to beat them though. I have no idea how much shipping to US would cost me, but I would not make a profit on shipping. I can ship elsewhere in Canada...

You two haven't followed the links I posted above, did you? Ok, open wide, pablum's coming : Detection rate % when run on background. Detection rate % when actively searching for virii. Same link as above, repeated. No comment needed, ranking is obvious. Clearer?

It's much faster to rebuild a RAID 1 than to rebuild a RAID 5. Read performance isn't better on RAID 5 than it is on RAID 1. Therefore, I'm glad they choose RAID 1 versus RAID 5. If there isn't any "we'll suck more money from you" in small caracters at the bottom of the new plan contract, I...

I tried to, but failed so far. I tried both with a Xubuntu and a Kubuntu (6.10 both) to install Linux on my X2 3800+, but for an unknown reason, both 'buntu versions I tried were incapable to mount the installation media during the installation process. I can boot with the CD/DVD. I can start...

The 570 chipset isn't really broken, except for the linkboost that does zip, nothing, but its overclocking potential is unimpressive. I could have sweared that I read somewhere that it still had the data corruption issues that plaggued the Nfarce 4 family, but I can't find the place where I saw...

Nope, nobody suggested you should. I mentioned the Asus P5N-E SLI, which cost 140$.

Pentium 133MHz were in 1995 IIRC. So make that 12 years.

Paid for it my ass. In every big company I've been, the employer contributes more than the employee to the retirement fund. In the Big Three case, the employer contributes A LOT more than the already well paid employee. Don't get me wrong, I'm not for nivelling by the bottom. But when you...

A T7200? What the Hell are you talking about? That's a C2D FOR LAPTOPS! And the E6400 isn't clocked at 2.0GHz, but at 2.13GHz. Merc is right about the value of the E4300, but only if you O'C it. At stock frequency, it's no better value than a X2 4600+. An Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro costs...

On my price lists, there's a 36$CAN difference between the 4600+ and the 5000+, but only a 10$ difference between the 5000+ and the 5200+. If I was to build a new AM2-based system right now, I wouldn't opt for the broken Nvidia 570 chipset. I would go with an AMD(ATI) Crossfire 3200 instead...

Avast is better, hand down. But Antivir is supposedly even better. The only negative point of Antivir is that it failed the last series of tests from Virus Bulletin. Sources : http://www.av-comparatives.org/ http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=82&mnu=82...

Don't use the Asus AM2 boards. Their Cool N'Quiet implementation is broken and you'll have stability problem if you enable it. I'm an unfortunate M2NPV-VM owner. The board is stable with CNQ disabled though.

It's called a F5D7050 and that's what I use too. Its antenna is weak, but for <50ft distance, it works well.

He's only 1/10th. And there's a new Genuine Check Notification on Windows Update. I'm pretty sure that the WGA hack #1.5.540 will no longer work after it. I'm not concerned (I have a genuine corporate license), but I know many people who omit to pay for a license thanks to this.

I'm a reseller. My cost and yours cannot be compared. I would sell that flash drive around 60$CAN (comparable to the 51U$ Newegg is asking for it).

Someone you know? Lucky bastard he is, 231 CPUs at his disposal. He's a network admin for a big department or what? Is he the guy who does the job you did some 17 years ago, before you became a paper shuffler?

I've seen the SuperTalent USB keys on the pricelists of my main supplier for a few months. They were cheap, very cheap, so I thought they were shit-kin. But following the 4GB USB key round-up at X-bit Laboratories, I decided to give the 4GB unit a try. ...Back home with my 39$CAN toy, I...

The one who will soon kill himself on a speed bike was right.

You have a vice and a chainsaw, right?

"Boost" it using a cable kit and your truck's battery.

Wrap it into foil and give it a microwave ride.

Which one was you? Seriously, I'm glad I'm no longer limited on bandwidth.

I thought SMP folding was preferably for systems with more than two cores, hence why I didn't use it on my X2 3800+ and E6400 C2D. You don't have any issue using the SMP client on such a relatively low-end dual core box? Great, I'll install a 64bit Linux (Kubuntu) right away on my X2 3800+...

What's the specifications of those 1000ppd systems? I wish. As stated 5 posts above yours, I only have a X1600 Pro. 1. Download the console GPU client. 2. Create a folder named FAH in your user profile (c:\Documents and Settings\[LIAMC_AKA_BILL]\FAH for instance). 3. Put the GPU console...

Exactly. And the problem occurs no matter if there's something in the CD-ROM drive. There's never been anything in the floppy when I witnessed it and the only two notable USB devices connected to the tower are an Epson CX3800 and a Labtec cheapo webcam. I'll visit the customer again tuesday...

http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/02/10/microsoft-vista-drm-tech-security-cz_bs_0212vista.html

Problem : IBM tower (P4 3.2GHz, 512MB RAM, XP Pro), two and a half years old, boots just fine when I power it up at my lab. I return the shitbox to the customer, install it and then the Inconceivable Bunch of Morons-made computer takes more than a minute to initialize (it POST, but then hangs...

Vista is a ripoff. I try to convince all my customers that buying Vista is throwing money out the window (I've found my new sig!). Those who don't listen, I add 150$ to the price of the system I quote them, so that they don't buy it from me. I try to avoid having stubborn morons in my...

Saturn used to sell very bland and technology-retarded vehicles, but now it has changed. The Aura is probably the best mid-size american car and the Sky is a Solstice, but with an improved design. Contrarily to DD, I don't find the Saturn Astra's picture unflatering. But I judge a car by its...

Nevermind my last sentence.

I would be quite worried about its sturdiness in case the vehicle turns upside down. It's probably been tested, but still, I would have some concerns. On the positive side, it could be great for visibility, especially with an aquapel treatment or something similar. I don't see anything to...