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Intel will come out with 4MB L3 Xeon processors this quarter, according to this old news item from the Inquirer. The price will probably be sky-high. I hope AMD follows, as these increasing cache sizes usually give a nice boost to DB servers etc. News source Submitted by The_JoJo

After the Novell acquisition of SUSE is done, Novell will offer some legal protection to it's SUSE customers. You will have to sign up for support etc., but that is not surprising. More resistance against SCO again. News source Submitted by The_JoJo

The eternal Apache vs. IIS battle is still raging, although according to these news Apache is still leading and widening the gap to IIS. Apache market share, according to Netcraft, has grown last year from about 62% to 67%. News source

Agreed. For the record, here we have a lot more winter time than pretty much anywhere in the States (Alaska excluded) and more people use cars instead of trucks than in the States. 4x4 are all about perceived security rather than true safety. I would take a Corolla with winter tires over a...

So, how's that for a fight (I'm still in front as of Jan 16th 9:00am)?

I hope the guy who kicked Shela Copps out of Hamilton isn't your new sig. CityK. He's criminaly ugly.

I guess I'm the only one who can't figure out who was LunarMist on the pre-MBF SR. I really don't have a clue. BigT is now Laurent there. TMD is apparently gone forever. Sean had way more temper than Lunarmist has shown here. Can't be Jehh (doesn't have 2000+). Mitch808 already logged here...

Tut, tut, tut, Doug, Doug, Doug. Installed a spell checking feature but misspelled a four letter word. Incorrigible. I always HEAR...

To pay the auction I won this evening, I planned to use PayPal and pay from my banking account. Problem is : I forgot to confirm my banking account to PayPal earlier. The confirmation is supposed to take 2 or 3 business days and that delay will surely piss the seller. Last time I used PayPal...

I don't know. I often wonder if I should moderate myself from posting, but every time I do or that another poster-on-a-frenzy do (like Tannin did this Fall), the forum becomes lethargic and few new discussions appear. So I guess it isn't a problem with the regulars that take too much place but...

I wonder how MySQL 5.0 would perform for the same task. Apparently, the very recently released 5.0 version is quite impressive and it's closing the gap with Oracle (I wrote "closing the gap", not "reached").

Thanks guys, but the seller has just replied to me and he changed his mind and accepts to ship here. I'll probably have to pay customs fees and taxes since I'm sure he won't write "gift" on the package, but, oh well, it's still cheaper than if I would have got it here. Again, thank you. It's...

Beware Pradeep, those American weirdos might scalp you if you're using Celcius and kilometers again instead of non-sense Fahrenheits and miles and feet and inches and pounds and oz and other non-decimal units.

But I like :roll: In fact, I don't remember the last time I used 8), but :roll: , yeah, often. What's that smiley fetish anyway?

I have a slight problem. I was interested in a cheap LVD SCSI controller on eBay, but the seller wrote that he would only ship in the U.S. (narrow minded I guess). But, surprisingly, no one seemed interested in his controller. With only seconds to go (9, to be precise - I remember the auction...

NRG, One has to wonder what the hell you're looking online to receive spam about whips. Please consider using AdAware or Spybot after your "suspicious" browsing sessions. :roll:

I see many places that claim that it's a 1 gagabyte drive. Although I haven't messed with one first hand, I'm pretty sure it's a four-250GB drives setup, probably configured in JBOD like Blaker wrote above. It isn't A 1 giger drive, it is a 1 giger storage box, which, technically, is quite...

Jan Kivar posted a news about this today, but Flagreen posted the same story days before. Maybe I should have sent it to the front page earlier, but I wasn't able to access the Net at the moment Bill created the thread (car broke, me in the middle of nowhere, ...) So now the news is on the...

yes. be4 de taxes and not including shipping. sowry for spelling : i'm eating wit 1 hand & typing with de other.

Thursday, 6:00am on ExOC's stats page : CougTek : 43105.40 The_JoJo : 43086.60What did you say? I know you passed me earlier, but one of my two systems was stuck with a Core_65 unit and therefore, slowed down my stats quite a bit. Sure, until I add another box, you'll certainly overtake me...

It's not only Bushy's fault, but his actions since he is on top are a significant contribution. I hope he'll pass to the electric chair someday.

I would buy the U160 for 38$, but they don't ship here. Next time I order something from one of you American members, I think I'll ask for a favor and a little addition in the package. Here, the only place where I can find this controller sells it, retail, for 176$CDN, which is roughly 135U$.

Wow, can't believe I'm the most active topic starter. And with quite a lead considering #2 is almost gone and that #3 will probably post less and less topics as the site has less and less problems.

And with Lite-On, you're sure you'll have firmware updates for a while, something that cannot be said about many other manufacturers. My Lite-On drives have the best media compatibility among all brands I've used (many, my temper forces me to change drives often).

Have the right to claim that you're not a wimp...and be able to prove it.

See this auction. The seller only offers the "Buy Now" option, so it is and it will stay 73.99$. Card only, but still a good price IMO. Shipping is low and it's unclear if he is willing to ship outside U.S. (divergent info at two places). I need a SCSI controller to format two or three...

How many times will I have to say it? Québec Sacrament, not Canada Tabarnack.

I would be interested to know that too. I don't think I'm first or second, despite the fact that I post many of the News threads. I do try to post topics, especially when the forum seems to go thru a down time, in order to generate some interest and discussion.

Yep, but I made a mistake. A look at the local news channel told me that it was in fact -31C at the moment I posted my previous message, not -25C like I thought. Now it's probably only -25C though.

Wow, it's pestacular. Thanks Watching my price lists won't be such a chore anymore.

http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_f.html?yqb Currently around -25C with windchill factor of below -46C. It's starting to feel a bit cool outside. It will only be warm from Saturday and on. Yesterday, I shoveled snow outside for about an hour and a half. It was 18C, -30C...

We are officially both part of and part out of Cacana since 1982. We aren't part of their constitution, but somehow, they still do apply it here. Why do our leaders let this be, I have no idea. All I can tell tell you is that Québec is nothing like Canada. You would visit both and think you...

It's been -25C or less here for the pass two or three days. Although it's not spring-like temperature, it isn't that bad either. But when you add the wind factor, it was -42C here yesterday. I went out to take a walk. Nice fresh air. When I wasn't facing the wind, I even didn't have to zip...

One issue that comes back to mind regarding this board is that the PCI slots were a tad too close to the edge of the board and PCI cards were very hard to insert when I used Antec enclosures with this mainboard. That's the only problem I remember about it.

Dunno for Tony, but I did on several boxes and the A7N266-VM was a very good board for the time. Very stable and trouble-free. No longer bleeding edge though.

I didn't see eDawg or CityK post here recently... Well, I do. Without optmisation, your client will run like one third of their maximal speed. Also, I'm not sure if the Linux client still lags the Windows' client as much as it used to (was like 60% slower for 3.24 and before).

Please, we aren't talking politics here, so let's keep it civilized. I don't know yet for version 7.23, but 7.21 and previous certainly crashed more often (more than once a day) than my Gecko-based browsers. It's possible that it's more stable on other platforms, but on my Athlon 500MHz to...

Damn, you too? What's pissing me off though is when one bullet doesn't bounce on a bone and passes through to sit deep inside. You then have to take a spoon and dig and dig and dig...I mean, it can be real long to find sometimes. Have you also tried to catch the bullets with your teeth? Now...

And even after posting a message of similar lenght under Firebird (I posted my last understandable reply in Opera), Firebird still leads Opera for my CPU time usage (Firebird now at 2m47s, Opera at 3m35s). Sorry for my previous very eloquent post. I was just trying to be fair...

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I did a quick comparison between the development build of Firebird 0.8 I'm curently using and Opera 7.23. I used five tabs of sites I frequently visits (eBay, SF's FAH stats page, Anandtech, Xbit-labs an Fedora Core). After about 10 minutes of browsing, doing exactly the same moves on both...

So what's your entire crunching farm, oh Finland ambassador? I currently only use two 2GHz Athlon XP.

I never use that function, but I've just tried under a dev. build of Firebird and it worked as expected. Been from one end of the thread to the other in no time. Doesn't qualify for "sucking" to me.

Open or not, people posting in a certain forum should keep in mind what's the purpose of the forum and why it's been created. It's just a matter of respect and civility. Going to a place called storagereview to post 500 jokes unrelated to IT when several veteran members of that place obviously...

Follow-up regarding the double-sided tape. I tried all the solvents I had at home to try to remove the damn tape without scratching the heatsink's bottom, to no avail. In the end, I had to use a screwdriver and scrap the base to remove all the glue. This, of course, created several scars on...

Guess you don't know me well. The board is an ECS K7S5A Pro. It doesn't offer overclocking options with the default BIOS. I could always use the cheapo BIOS at OCWorkbench.com, but I doubt it'll do wonders. The K7S5A is a good value board, but it's crap for overclocking. Even with thermal...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20040107114451.html This is bad for people (like me) who were looking to buy an nForce2-based motherboard from Abit. It doesn't look good for further optimizations and overall support of the boards that have already been sold either. Sorry Doug, we...

Well now we know :mrgrn:

My remark was mostly for spelling. None of us always uses perfect grammar. Let's not be over-nitpicking. So far, this has been a very informative thread about the AN-7. :roll:

Great plan, isn't it? Well, it was until I learned that the Duron 1.6GHz works on a 266MHz FSB and not on the 200MHz FSB like the older 1.3Ghz and lower models. I planned to put it on a motherboard having a max FSB of 266MHz...so I won't be able to run it above 1.6GHz. Which, as a result...