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We currently offer pretty much the same system as the one you wrote above, except with 1Go of RAM, for 589$CAN. Yes, that's an insane deal. Even though it is supposed to be a dead season for computer sales, we have been quite busy building new systems for customers this week because of the...

We have one like this at the store. It works well and saves us time.

I highly recommend it. I use Acronis True Image all the time to back-up customers' data at work.

Not too hard. Time's daughter is a nice little girl. She even made logos for my company a while ago. Simpler solution : Make an image of a clean install with Acronis True Image and put it in an Acronis-made "secure zone". At startup, you'll have the option to press F11 to enter the secure...

It is supposed to be just below the "Design Service Centers Promotion". I don't know why it isn't in your version of that page. In your company's profile, you probably omitted to tell them that you were interested in personal storage solutions so they don't offer that promotion to you. I'll...

False alarm. The price monkey at my main processor distro made a mistake. I've searched for good AM2 boards all this morning for nothing. At least I learned that PC2-5400 RAM were not that much more expensive than PC2-4200. There's no way I'm going to sell PC2-4200 with AM2 boards. It's...

Done for me. Today, my price for the X2 3800 on AM2 socket were axed in two. From 315$ to ~155$CAN. We'll finally start to sell AM2 platforms AND X2 Athlon 64. So the bottom line is that last week, we sold Athlon 64 3000+ systems for just 40$ less than we can sell X2 3800+ systems today...

The only network card detected by Kubuntu is the one integrated on the motherboard. I've found a driver for the USB wireless network toy, but it looks like something I'll have to compile in order to make it work. When will click and run arrive on Linux?

I can't find a way to make this Linksys wireless toy work on the Kubuntu box. We will start installing Kubuntu on all our systems next week for customers who don't want to pay for a legit Windows copy. In the meanwhile, I installed Kubuntu on a system in the front of the store where no wire...

Thanks, I no longer feel like I'm alone in my bubble.

Are 2.5" drives THAT noisy to you? And they dissipated less than 5W IIRC. 120GB models are fairly cheap and they don't have a smallish write countdown death clock. IMO, flash memory is best left to portable stockage devices like USB memory keys, not internal devices that are constantly...

Yeah, put your swap file on it and see how quickly you can waste 180$.

You inspired me to write a new song for Judas Priest : HE!..IS!...THE THREAD KILL-ER! THIS!...IS!...THE THREAD KILL-ER! MMAAARRKKKKK!!!!!!!!! Ok, time to go to bed for me now.

I thought this expression also existed in English. Picture what a dog would look like if let loose in the alleys of a bowling center with people looking at it and thinking "What the Hell is it doing there?". It means something or more often someone that is unexpected, completly out of place...

Some weirdo from Indonesia requested a quote for a few systems from our store. We are a 6 employees store with annual sales in the six figures, not a multinational corporation dealing with millions. He asked if we take credit (from Indonesia???) and also asked for delivery periods. Someone...

At last, a tropical strom finally formed. It's not a hurricane, but at least it's a beginning. Watch the show.

P5-133XL would be in the 10% I would keep. You though....

Why? Do you plan running those systems on a 120W PSU or what?

It would be funnny to see a pissing contest between ddrueding and Supercaff. "I didn't know what to do this afternoon so I bought a new boat." "Great for you. I tow my own yatch with my BMW M5, you? [looking at the Golf] Not with that little thing over there?" "Oh that's just the car the...

Posted on the front page. Better late than never.

The Manhattan kitten will kill you if you buy a square box like the Element. If you want the interior space of the Element and reasonable fuel consumption, you should look at the Honda Odyssey. At least it is somehow aerodynamic. The Odyssey has a 240hp V6 with similar fuel economy as the...

Version 6.06 is now officially out. It is the first Ubuntu/Kubuntu version to ship with the extra long support (3 years desktop / 5 year server).

We use some RAIDmax 450W PSU in most our systems. They are no where near as efficient as the Antec (I haven't measured, but it's obvious). They aren't very noisy and so far, I haven't seen even one fail. They have a single 12cm fan at the bottom, no rear fan (but the rear is like a grid so...

250GB for 84$CAN :P

I think Foobar2000 can play those. At least it is among the formats it lists in its installation for modifying your MIME settings. http://www.foobar2000.org/

Thanks for the reply. I'll try sudo apt-get install wine. Then all I'll have to do is figure out how this thing works.

With the insane Vista hardware requirements and the increasing difficulty of hacking a copy of Windows (by users, of course), our store has to offer a cheap alternative to the OS of the Evil Empire. Both cost 50U$ per license. I have a Linspire Five-O iso that I've never burned and used. I've...

Back in Linux...and on Firefox. I went to the Add/Remove programs windows and selected Firefox to be installed. Done. I have my favorite browser now. It was too simple for me to think about it I guess.

Not that I still follow the F@h effort much, but...Fuckbag and FreeViagra!!! ? We've really raised our standards, haven't we?

Oh and I found where to fix the keyboard layout issue and that was all fine at the end, except that my Linux journey ended only half-an-hour later due to the Firefox screw up.

My honeymoon with Kubuntu was short. Konqueror's rendering sucks, so I tried to install Firefox. I went to mozilla.com and downloaded the tar.gz file. I extracted it with Ark without problem. Then I tried to fire it up. There seems to be only two executable files inthe Firefox directory ...

HP buyers are the modern version of the fool-of-the-village every settlement had back then. Like lemmings, they seem to have over-reproduce.

How proud the old guy must be to have beaten a five years old at something...

KDE looks great on the DVI input of my Dell 2005FPW. We are planning to start bundling a yet-to-be-decided Linux distro with some of our cheapo computer systems at the shop. Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.06 will officially launch in June. Juging by its Flight 7 release (kinda like a beta 7), it will...

I had two Pavillon towers to repair during the last two weeks. Both were absolute crap. The problem seemed to be with their motherboards (both of them, although they were different models). The integrated IDE controller was a drive killing device. And the power supply caused instability in...

AMD doesn't seem to have an answer ready to fight Conroe when it arrives in July. Intel will certainly be able to fill the demand in term of volume, so AMD is almost sure to lose a lot of the recently gained market shares. The K8L, which still might not be able to match Conroe's level for...

A 200Gigger for 140...U$? That's a rip-off! We sell 250GB drives for 105$CAD. And we make a good profit on them. So 140U$ for a smaller drive­... You've been robbed.

It's mid-May and there still haven't been a major hurricane in the Atlantic! Have evil Texan rednecks stoppped driving polluting SUVs or what? When will I finally be granted the pleasure to see Floridians fly and crash on concrete walls? Global warming anyone? Where are those doom-day...

I almost posted this about an hour before you did. I think it's pretty official this time. Dell IS going to sell AMD. The reason why I didn't post it afterall was that I doubt anyone here will buy a Dell server anyway.

RE : SiS chipsets We used an ASRock board with an SiS 741 chipset almost exclusively for months to replace dead socket-A boards and it's a joy to work with. Plug and play, really. The problem is more with manufacturers' implementations than with the chipset manufacturer IMO. The 741's drivers...

I don't know about you, but around here, SATA drives have a death rate much higher than PATA drives. I still recommend PATA drives most of the time because of this. The only Samsung 250GB that we've tried lasted three weeks before dying, but it might have been because some other technicians...

Thanks for the link Howell. I'll try those tips sometime in the future. I've not found any EDO RAM larger than 16MB, so the maximum RAM I've been able to put in this system was 96MB (6 slots on motherboard). The system will be sold for ~30$. Except for the hard drive, it is relatively quiet...

I have a Win98SE CD at work and if RedHat 9 would agree to install itself on that Pentium 200MMX, it would run VERY slowly. Thanks for the offer though.

Found! It does. And it supports up to 512MB of RAM. Now that would be insane. I have to try.

8 hours, 37 minutes and 32 seconds later, the virus scan is finished and nothing has been found (the drive is clean). I have to disable the virus-protection in order to make it usable though. Since about the only thing I'll do with this box will be web surfing (safe sites), I doubt I'll need...

And there's no way I'll install Mozilla Firefox on that box. For old junks like this one, Opera does the job a lot better. That or an old version (think 0.4) of Phoenix before it became fat and changed name to Firebird and afterward to Firefox.

If there are fixes for RedHat 4, it isn't from RedHat themselves. You'd have to manually update the kernel and other elements. I think I still have a RedHat 6.1 CD resting somewhere. I downloaded and burned DSL to a CD-RW, but the old HP junk can't read CD-RW. I still haven't tried to burn a...

I've been given an HP Vectra XA with a Pentium MMX 200MHz, 32MB of puny RAM and a 2.5GB hard drive (oh lucky me). The system is quite limited on ressources. It now has Win98SE installed on it, but the OS is out of shape and I don't currently have a Win98SE CD lying around so f**k to M$...

I am glad to learn that you are almost back to your "normal" weight. Losing 65lbs in less than two years is very good too. How fast can you run a mile? ;-)

Wow, that's awesome Doug. I remember a photo of yourself that you posted a while ago and, not to offend you but, it's hard to believe you've made it to just 34" waist by now. Shit, I'm 33" waist. How can you be just 34" and weight 215lbs without being a very muscular guy? I'm 190lbs and...