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A bit late to think about it since he just moved to his newly-bought house. Idealistically, yes, he should probably travel in order to exit his shell. Accepting Tea's invitation would be great (Tony, you're a great guy). Realistically, however, people on a forum won't make him move...

I haven't found it on their web site. Last time I took one of those tests, I was directed to become a mariner. Oh and can say that I strongly advise against enrolling in the army, especially the american army. You'll risk your life serving the purposes of masters of deception and not the...

Only unable to figure out the very last word. Cheerio? What does it mean? We all had training to decipher mispelled words back in the days at SR when Eric was typing on his portable. Tea often refreshes our skills too. Me too, probably.

You missed your branch, you should have been a lawyer.

In the full version of the article, the "instant on" feature is a separated feature from the BTX form factor. Instant on is due to come in the next few years, while I haven't read anything suggesting a specific time frame for the introduction of the BTX form factor.

Answer : No. Your budget doesn't allow to and there still isn't many drives (like CD-writers/DVD) using that interface. And if there is, those must not be cheap. So you'll need to plug your optical drive with a PATA cable. Better save some cash on the interface and not mix things. SATA...

The Radeon 9000 is slower than the 8500. All current DirectX 8.1 GPU from ATI are in fact slower than the original 8500. For "better than 8500", you have to jump to the 9500 and above. The 9600 can be purchased for roughly 115$ these days, which is too much for your budget (and I doubt your...

Maybe ArsTechnica's Agora?

Make that : "We can only dream". The seek time of this drive (the real one, not the advertised one) must be quite poor. Still hope it isn't so bad to make it slower overall than the current 7200.7. At least it's only available with an 8MB buffer. The actual 7200.7 with 8MB cache is doing...

For those who haven't seen it before, I thought it worth mentioning. Anyone needs SR's adress or do you all remember it? STR will increase a lot, seek time will drop nicely, noise should decrease due to the use of fluid bearings and it will fully implement tagged command queuing. It should...

24Mbps for 50U$ a month? Impressive. Even better than our already very good services here (~3-4Mbps for ~35U$ a month, cable modem).

No. I've been unable to access ExOC's stats site since yesterday evening.

I think he just banned Merc from this thread with the truck load of huge pictures. Damn, it even took time on my cable connection.

haHA! Now I know I'm not the only one having misery with the spelling of though, thought, tough. Why isn't it just spelled tuf instead? It would be less confusing. BTW, I saw J vs F too. I knew it wouldn't be fabulous, but I needed entertainment that day, even a poor one. For the genre...

Got it too. Everyone should have received it.

JMP is JMP and Mourn is Groltz.

What happened to Mourn and JMP? We'll never overtake Team Alberta without their help.

Thought about this, but don't know where to start. Would need help, but don't want to harash people.

I think the translation for "tuque" is skull cap.

Pop music or worst...rap, that they renamed hip hop. Sounds like a too old vinyl that skips. It's music for monkeys and it's often made by urban apes too (look how they move, can't argue they're apes). It's junk, it's, it's ... :puke-r: Plus, what's the idea to wear a tuque when it's +20C or...

I'm again dying of boredom. If someone is going to watch Once Upon A Time In Mexico this evening, please tell me if it worthes the price of the entry ticket. This isn't a movie I would usually be tempted to see, but the presence of Jonhy Depp among the cast tells it might be good. His last...

Employment of the convicts, in respectable conditions (ie - not rock hammering with guardians using whips) is a very good idea IMO. It gives them the opportunity to continue to participate to the society development and give them the feeling (at least to some of them) that they serve to...

The Samsung 900NF is able to display 1600x1200 on its aperture grill at 85Hz and it can be purchased for less than 300U$ at Legend Micro. Text will be quite small though, but if you're like Pradeep, it shouldn't bother you.

Primitive thinking. Do you think it will re-abilitate them? Being someone with strong criminal tendancies (officially, strong temptations only), I can tell you that the hardest life is for me, the nastiest I become. I believe those guys are just the same. Making their lifes more miserable...

Yeah, I was pretty pissed when I heard that they would name the Dorval airport by the name of that bastard. Still don't know if I'm going to do something about it. PET ("farth" in french BTW) doesn't deserve to have his name anywhere in Québec, especially not in the city where I'm born. The...

For new blood, wouldn't Hannibal Lecter be more qualified than Hannibal Smith (who is this guy)?

Well, according to the description he made of himself, this must be pretty close to what he looks like...plus the hair : The guy above is Gabe Newell, one of the developpers of Half-Life...and he bashes nVidia too!

Really? Groltz, you snobish westerner!

She was blonde, wasn't she? I particularly liked the smoking sections...

Some famous personality once said (or wrote) that the we can judge the level of a society by the way it treats its prisonners. It was better phrased, but you get the idea. Doesn't surprise me to hear that coming from the U.S.

No Seagate, no Western Digital, very probably not HGST. Your choice is starting to be quite limited Merc. All that's left are the sluggist Samsung (I have heard or tried the 8MB version of their P80 serie) and, well, the one year warranty Maxtor. Last two drive models I bought were a bunch of...

Why nobody told me about this spelling mistake? You think I'm illiterate and feared to insult me? Me think the Grammar Police must be syndicate to still have a job while being so lazy.

And I'm eager to remind myself how it does. Congratulation Tha JaJo.

Things like this turn me off from nVidia's graphic cards for the moment. It makes no sense to me to lay 400-500$ on a card with poor image quality.

Insert old "Microsoft security flaw" disc in player...again. These are similar to the one that opened the gate for MSBlast worm : Get the patch here. Since there's been a few worms recently that have been developped to exploit security flaws made public by Microsoft itself, updating your...

I re-downloaded it and the third CD now occupies 649MB on my hard drive. Hey Merc, the 649MB download only took me 31 minutes. :P

I should have posted this yesterday when I first saw it but...better late than never. So far, I've always prefered KDE to GNOME, but I will definetly give the GNU Network Object Model Environment a shot next time I install a distro on one of my boxes. News source

Must have had a f**ked up with my download. Things happen.

Hmmm... First CD doesn't fit on regular size CD-RW medias. No way I'm gonna waste another CD-R (700MB capacity versus my 650MB CD-RW) for a beta OS that will be updated in some two weeks. It's quite stupid from Mandrake since the last CD is only 52MB large. They should have distributed the...

In fact, US did to Iraq what Iraq did to Koweit in August 1990. Kinda Lame, isn't it? So, hum..who volunteers to invade US to prevent them to invade other countries? If we can find five or six persons, maybe we can form a coalition to divide the expenses of the war and call us "The Allies"...

Well, not on all mirrors, but at least on those. I haven't checked the changelog. I hope they have improved their support for the nForce2 chipset because the last few betas and release candidates I've tried didn't allow me to access the Net, although the LAN integrated in the MCP was...

??? What's the link with that and the rest of the thread? In any case :

I don't understand the bold word in that sentence. There is no if. Some of your leaders (D. Rumsfell at least) have even brag about lying to the international community months ago in interviews that were, of course, boycotted by the U.S. medias due to the onmipresent pressures from the White...

While fresh blood would have more impact, IMO, among the admins than within the moderation group (where they cannot change anything to the site's working order), integrating new members (or simply not rotten-old founders) into groups with more responsabilities is good to enhance the bound...

She must have caught the CLOTS due to a frequent exposure to an infected member.

Let's say I decline. I already have the front page admin to do and right now that's enough. Anyway, it's not like if there weren't enough quality candidates already. I'll make the poll simpler by removing one entry. One last thing. It must be obvious, but I feel that candidates shouldn't...

You can update your graphic card driver to the latest version here.

Even if you end up not finding it, thanks for the effort.

Have you tried booting minus one of your SCSI drives, one at a time, to see if the problem occurs every times or only when a certain drive is connected?

Well, you have the candidates list, just need to create the poll. Who's James backup when he's on another plane of existence?