Search results

Seen in a PC Magazine article : Find the mistake that made my jaw drop. Hint : it's easy and obvious. I can't believe it passed through proof-reading or the supervisor.

Good thing, I hate cops. Leave her slim down. And all my imaginary money goes to my not-imaginary debts. Sorry.

The case shouldn't be a problem. If it bent one way, it can bend the other. I did countless times. And for the rivet that poped out ; you have a hammer? Regarding the erratic behavior of your system, I would tend to point out the mainboard. Especially since it's a Microstar in their dreaded...

They can't replaced a defective card by a slower one. Ask for a 9600XT instead, or else, threaten to sue the Hell out of them. Call the local newspaper. Find out who's the manager's mother and tell her what his son did to you. Put a banana in the exhaust pipe of his car. Put thermal paste...

I don't dislike the Duron processor itself, just the name AMD gave it. Celeron is without comment. Let's say it's a name only a mother could love (in fact since they borrowed the Willamette core, this comment could be applied to the entire processor, not only its name). And what's the latest...

For an instant, I thought you had lost your mind...until I remembered that seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere. ...We received almost a foot of snow on Christmas' evening.

Glad to see you back on the forum and improving your FAH contribution, which was already quite good nonetheless.

Brought me a smile. AMD should consider it. Would draw more attention than other recent ugly nicknames given to their offsprings (Duron, someone?).

But certainly not the most economical. And I'm not sure about the easiness since you'll have to provide the driver of the controller on a disk during Windoz's installation because Winblows considers it as a Scuzzy adapter. And I'm not too confident about OS/2's support for these controller...

Nope, 92mm. 90mm fan, I've never heard about that. I don't know much enclosures with intakes right above the PSU either. The gnegneneers at Fortron who designed that PSU didn't expect the enclosure to have holes on the top. That's why they've placed (if you look at the positions of the screw...

May I suggest Fortron Source's PSUs? This one looks like a nice unit. 350W and should be fairly quiet with the single 120mm fan. 42$ shipped.

I don't know what's wrong, but their f'king stats system no longer counts mine. Take a look at that page for an example. According to them, I did 123 points in their 2003-12-28 19:00 update, but they don't count it in their daily total. Plus, both my systems are up and running without problem...

Re-read. They have two cars. Unless wife had a car before and somehow decided to keep it in addition to the '84 Saab (which is unlikely).

For what it worthes, I sympathise, SteveC. Hope things will improve for you next year.

Are you using a 40pin ATA cable or an 80pin ATA cable to attach the drive?

Two fruit cakes and a wine bottle opener. And a few chess and Scrabble games with relatives.

Why June 30th? (don't answer)

You're really not feeling well this evening, aren't you? Body temp. is normally 37C, so 40C fits "just above" according to me. Is "just above body temperature" means 37.2C for you?

=> e-dawg (e-dog) I asked because he has two heatsinks similar to the one I just got.

Bone-lover, did you lapped it?

As expected, I received it late this morning and also as expected, the bottom is poorly lapped. I won't touch it until this week-end and I don't know at all when I'll a CPU on which to put it. But as soon as I decide myself to get one (eyeing a Barton 2500+ right now), I'll post comments and...

Until Dec. 27th. I'll be taking a computer break for a few days, so any news submission from now until then could take longer than usual to appear on the front page. You might be lucky and catch Doug's attention, but I don't expect him to be on alert 24x7 either. Merry Christmas for those who...

The TwinMOS pen drives I sold a lot starting last Spring were bootable. Motherboard has to support booting from odd devices though.

If an Athlon 500MHz meets your "old" criteria, then yes I did, last spring. Wasn't unbearably slow. Things were less snappy in Gnome/KDE than in Win2K on the same machine, but that was to be expected. Overall, the system was usable and I only flushed it because I inevitably screwed up...

This price almost seems too good to be true for the Swiftec. Oh well, great for you. I should receive this heatsink from the mailman today. Supposed to be very quiet too. There's also a version for the Opteron, but none for the Pentium 4. Cost me 44$CDN with taxes and shipping (about...

If you like OS X, then you're a patient man. Personally, I can't stand waiting for simple menus to scroll when I place the cursor over them and windows being almost reluctantly redrawn every time I want to move them. OS X is nice looking, but at least up to Jaguar, it's been even less...

Because integrating the GUI within the kernel has the huge drawback that if the GUI crashes, the whole system crashes. In Linux, if X becomes corrupted, the kernel often remains operative. Since Linux is a very popular server OS, my guess is that the way things are currently is more...

Oh and they sell Speeze heatsinks like the Falcon-II and the MicroFlow. 24$ and 21$ IIRC.

...ships everything for free on orders above 100$. This includes enclosures and some of their prices are very good. I've never seen an Antec SX835-II at 110$CDN before, for instance. I stumbled on their site this afternoon and (affiliated to Yahoo! shopping engine) I think their current...

Thanks. Who's your friend? Is he in the team yet? And what is your FAH user name? I see no Cawood in the team list.

I guess that Arctic Silver Céramique is a thick thermal paste, isn't it? I have a big tube of it, enough for my all my personal computers for the next five years probably, so I don't mind using some even for processors that might not need such a high-quality paste. I also hooked an air duck to...

Thanks for the replies. Maybe I'll give a 5 to 10 minutes try to 800 grit and then consider it done.

Does it really makes a difference if you use 800 grit paper after you're finished polishing off with the 600 grit paper? I mean, I feel the 800 grit is more for aesthetics than for actually cooling benefits. Not that the freak wet-sanding his north bridge gave me ideas, but I wanted to prolong...

Now if they can just find a way to run the FAH client on one of those damn graphic cards, I'll be quite happy. Since the research is being done by stooges from Stanford, we can hope that this is what they have in mind. Source

The first ECS motherboard costs 80U$. I expect offerings from more reputable brands to cost about 10$ to 20$ more. I know that you'll tell me that this only matches the price of the KT880-based GigaByte board, but my answer will be that it will offer better performances at the same or slightly...

Yeah, me neither. Strange huh?

You're just painting yourself in the corner. Your way to attack only the source and not the facts is pityful and shows a certain level of despair. Regarding the validity of my puppet government claim in Philippines, why else would a country accept such kind of invasive occupation by the U.S...

Kung-fu doesn't motivate me very much. I look more like Hulk than Bruce Lee when I'm pissed about a computer.

Wait for more SiS755-based motherboards to arrive. For now, only ECS has one and typical ECS boards aren't very speedy and often not reliable. But the SiS755 is the fastest chipset for the Athlon64 platform yet. I'm sure GigaByte will release one and probably Asus too. Just wait a month and...

Philippines!?! Ah! You gotta be kidding me! Here, instruct yourself : In short, Philippines are ruled by a puppet government carefully controlled by the U.S. And BTW, from the same article : Yet you could name only 4, with one awefully flawed, two dating from the second World War and one...

Here we have news papers from everywhere. I'm not just talking about France and Canada, I mean a lot of EU nations, your country and other places with important daily or weekly publications. I often browse through them and except for the american press, there isn't much support for your...

How about "made publicly available" then? IIRC, it was nowhere to be downloaded last time we talked about it.

They must have had serious problems to have almost completly missed the Holiday season. Let's hope everything has been fixed now. News source

Eric (EBB) has already explained here why he no longer spell-checks his posts. I don't agree with his attitude, because I think one should make a reasonable effort to post messages in a correct grammar on public forums, but I don't condemn him either. And I'm more tolerant versus the mistakes...

Version 5.01 was released yesterday. According to that report, it contains many bug fixes and a few new features.

Probably that for Flagreen, anyone who isn't a die hard right-sided republican is awefully biased. For the record, what this guy is saying matches what the great majority of international observers are saying too. I guess that the entire world is wrong and only the American rednecks hold the...

I didn't consider NT4 to be usable prior to SP4 and Win2K prior to SP2. I still don't like WinXP even after SP1, but I have no problem even with betas of .Net Server 2003. Two of my three systems are running evaluation copies of Server 2003 while the last one is on W2K SP4. I don't plan to...

Folding@home client 4.00 officially released : http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html Download and install quickly.

This is what I call a débile profond in my language. http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=70&var2=0 Spending what seems like an entire day sanding a chip, not a heatsink. You gotta wonder about his mental health.

We've discussed about this software before in the forum, but now that it's been released, we can test instead of speculating. You can download Maxboost here. News source