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AMD should skip DDR2 entirely and jump to DDR3 for its next interface. It is a better memory design. And I hate to say it, but lots of memory bandwidth with fewer pins could be done with another type of not-yet-dead technology : rambus. I think they are behind the XDR RAM used in one of the...

Exactly what I thought. I've almost stopped my folding contribution because my processors were both too old and took too much space altogether, so I wasn't competitive for the trouble that having 5 boxes running 24x7 brought me. But if I could get 8 highly efficient cores sitting into a single...

In another US ONLY DEAL :cursin: , Dell will offer a substantial rebate to its US :cursin: customers, starting 9am tuesday morning, during an online-only notebook sale. More details here. You better hurry tomorrow morning for this sale because there's only about 15000 units to be sold and...

The PR doesn't say which product line the 500 gagabytes drive will be part of (DiamondMax or MaxLine). I'd like to know the advertised access time and the POH rating too. Thanks for the news Baby.

I'm talking about this XPlite. The way I see it, it's a tweaking tool, not a complete OS, so I still have to own a separate copy of WinXP and then apply the XPlite miraculous diet to remove MSFT trans fat from the OS. It's not very expensive (40$ per copy, less if many copies are purchased)...

Oh shit, I'm tired. I meant "behing the wheel" And I agree with Clocker on one thing : current and upcoming GM cars are way better than their lineup from ~2001. The chassis (Delta and Epsilon) are a lot sturdier than those they replaced. I remember the lemons that were the past generation...

The most interesting GM vehicule to my eyes is the Saab 9-3. It's probably the safest car GM builds. It's one of the very few that scored a good rating on both the frontal AND lateral impact tests from the IIHS. It also has AWD and various traction and stability electronic systems, so its...

I've had Maxtor, Quantum, IBM and Seagate drives failing too. Shit happens. There was no important data on this drive anyway.

I don't see any promotion like that on their Canadian web site. United States of America isn't everyone in America. There's a world outside your borders, you know. What's the typical GM employee discount? 15%?

I think it should be the other way around. Chevy is a division from GM, just like Cadillac, Saab, Pontiac, etc.

I asked for an advanced replacement for a defective WD400JB through their web site and the drive arrived just two days later. Dunno about their service elsewhere on the globe but here, it cannot be better. I see no reason to complain about them.

A BIG mistake IMO. I thought they had plans going on about releasing dual-core G5 processors. This would have been awesome. Since the 2.5GHz G5 have been out and also because of MAC OSX 10.4 "Tiger", I've been somewhat tempted to make the switch or at least buy a PowerMAC system to try it...

What the PandeGroup should now do is to contact Sony or IBM and try to develop a client compatible with the PS3 and its Cell processor. I think it would be quite a cruncher for 400U$ per box.

My question is : What the Hell was an unback-uped drive doing, free-standing, on its second largest side?

Let me guess : You've installed GRUB on your Linux partition and then blew up your Linux partition. I did that a few times...

Perhaps his drive is a 7200.7 and therefore has lower density platters. :roll:

Yeah, but with Lake Toba's supervolcano, we're talking about a magma chamber around a thousand time larger than the one of the original Krakatoa. I'm not aware of any supervolcano that blew twice within less than 100,000 years. Their cycles are more around half a million years. So people...

The most interesting low cost CPU right now is the socket-939 version of the Athlon 64 3000+. Ok, it only runs at 1.8GHz, but it's made on the 90µm process and is easily overclockable. It's cheaper than the 3200+ too.

Lake Toba exploded 74000 years ago. I don't think it had the time to refil its magma chamber nearly enough to re-produce a super-volcano-like cataclysm just yet. Super volcanoes have very long cycles and 74000 years is quite short for one to recharge. There might be well enough magma out...

You'll have to update your sig.

I've looked for jobs in well-paid places like insurance companies, but most of them ask for bilingual candidates, which isn't your case. Same thing for government. I guess E-Dawg and CityK could help you more since they live in an English-speaking province. Here, you'd have to speak French...

Vancouver isn't cold or even cool.

I've never visited Amazon.com, but the above tells me that their pr0n material section must be fairly large.

I downloaded and installed (well, tried to) FC4t1, but I ran into some issues. First, although I get a correct SHA1sum for the iso files I've got, the media check always fails during installation. This is on disks that are known to be good. I've checked Fedora's support list and others are...

So I guess my Radeon 9550 should let me use 1920x1200 then. Good.

Is there a lot of graphic cards that support 1920x1200 on their DVI output? I while ago, DVI definition limit was 1280x1024. I haven't followed this up in the past few years.

Applying the same logic to computer brands, we should buy Compaq desktops instead of Dell boxes because we should worry why Dell offers so many coupons/rebates and Compaq isn't... :roll: The Maxtor drives I've own so far haven't let me down. I just don't see a good reason to suddenly be...

ENFIN CALICE! Y'ÉTAIT TEMPS EN SACRAMENT! Now if they can just offer something similar for the 2405FPW (which overshadows the 2005FPW so much that the latter doesn't even interest me), I might do something I almost forgot how to do : smile.

There's a thread for the deals on the 2005FPW, but the 24" beast needs one of its own too IMO. For Canadian and Québécois customers, the 2405FPW is on sale at 1349.10$CDN with free shipping this week.

I'm skeptical about this.

Just checked and I passed the mark back in July.

I've been above 3000 posts for quite a few months now, but thanks for noticing.

From Asetek. I guess this might be the next retail Intel CPU cooler for their roaster Pentium 4 CPUs.

I might, but not before this summer. No money for this right now. RSP time is just over and I saved a lot for my retirement this year. I will be quite tight until I get my (big) tax return.

Google told me it's Pythagoras.

Pythagore. That's is name in French anyway. Maybe you call him Pythagorus or something like that in English.

Weight: 22.1 lbs Image Max H-View Angle: ±89° Image Max V-View Angle: ±89° Color Support: 16.7 Million Image Aspect Ratio: 16:10 Image Brightness: 500 cd/m²(typical) Image Contrast Ratio: 1000:1 (typical) Max Resolution: 1920x1200 (WUXGA) Max Sync Rate (V x H): 76 Hz x 81 kHz Power Consumption...

Kevin Mitnick is a wozzie? This Kevin Mitnick? Ok, what is a wozzie?

73 meters and never ask me to do better.

I know the new Dell 1905 uses the same panel as the Samsung 193P and the specifications of the Dell 1704FPV greatly resemble those of the Samsung 711T. Here I could save around 40$ by opting for the Dell instead of buying the dearer Samsung unit. I'm not convinced that it is worth the 150$...

And the goal of this thread is?

A Western Digital drive (WD400JB) was sitting in my previous main system. Previous, yep... Because of FAH, I overclocked it a little too high, I suppose, until four days ago when it started to freeze every now and then. I then tried to lower the frequency of the CPU, but apparently, the...

Wow. It was obvious that the shares of AMD were a tad high lately, so traders would just wait for a little bad news to make it drop, but 22% in one day is silly. Damn, the company is still profitable. Just less than before. Very happy I am not to own any of their shares.

An upgrade to 512MB of RAM will add 75$ to the total.

http://www.apple.com/macmini/ 500$ to 600$ for a nice-looking 6.5"x6.5"x2" polished bx with a 1.25GHz-1.42GHz G4 inside and MacOS X. 256MB of RAM may be a downer though.

That's what I thought I heard, but the number was so ridiculously high that I figured it must have been a mistake. Think again. The wave should be 400 kilometers long. While it won't penetrate that far inland because it will decelerate a lot when it'll hit the coast, be sure that it will at...

Found more about this here. Some of the numbers differ (I wrote the previous post out of memory), but the main idea remains. Shudder.

I heard on TV that the quake was so powerful that it changed the axis of the Earth slightly, but I haven't been able to find links about this on the Net yet. There was a show this evening on Discovery channel about mega-tsunamis. I'm sure many among you saw it, but it was the first time I did...

Oh and what's the -advmethods option for?

Would a 2.2GHz Athlon XP (Thoroughbred core) with 512MB of PC3200 RAM count as a modern machine or would I need to upgrade to an Athlon 64 in order to use large WUs? I'll soon have two of them, instead of only one. One of my systems is waiting for a graphic card. I'll try to build a third box...