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  1. CougTek

    Matrix reloaded?

    I was surprised to see Roy Jones Jr. being one of the not-so-unimportant character of the movie. The guy is a boxer, not an actor. And he didn't look like a goon. I mean, he fitted with the rest of the cast. One thing that didn't really annoyed me, but still felt weird was the very large...
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    [NEWS] - SCO self-immolates

    SCO Group today announced that it is suspending Linux sales. The Inquirer points out: SCO has distributed their own version of Linux. And Linux is licensed under the GNU General Public License. And, according to the GPL, SCO has therefore granted full rights to all source code -- including...
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    [NEWS] - Firebird 0.6 available for download.

    Not passwords, only things like login name and unencrypted filling text. Besides, among the new features of Opera 7.11 ... With Firebird, the auto-completion info is easily cleaned in the "privacy" section of the Options menu. I haven't checked if the same applies to Opera. I'm more familiar...
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    [NEWS] - Firebird 0.6 available for download.

    Official press release Download locations : Windows: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6/MozillaFirebird-0.6-win32.zip Linux: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6/MozillaFirebird-0.6-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz Mac OS X...
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    VIA KT600 faster than nForce2 according to [H]ard|OCP.

    In their review of the Athlon XP 3200+, they also pitted a reference board from VIA using their upcoming KT600 cheapset against a new nForce2 400 Ultra by Asus and the outcome isn't what you would expect. The KT600, despite being a single-memory-channel design, defeated the new revision of the...
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    Hitachi 2.5-inch 60 GB 7.2kRPM & 80 GB 5.4kRPM Hard Driv

    Sorry guys. I came back to home very late yesterday and didn't check for news entries before going to bed. Be sure that if I finally decide to buy a laptop, it will have one of those into it for sure. I would like to see some IPEAK results comparing this newcomer to desktop 5400rpm units to...
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    New Samsung drive

    I wonder how succesful their implementation of an 8MB buffer will be as far as performance goes? I would like to find a good reason to like Samsung drives, given their 3 years warranty.
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    Too much news is like not enough

    So yesterday, NVidia launched the GeFarce 5900 Ultra based on the NV35 GPU and you can read reviews on it at many hardware-dedicated web sites like X-bit labs and Anandtech. According to what I saw on it, it is even faster than ATI's Radeon 9800, therefore making it the fastest gaming graphic...
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    Pre-Sale: Asus nforce2

    I have some reserves on the Asus nForce2 board. IMO, you would have been better with an EPox or an Abit (yes, an Abit - for the nForce2, that is) or even a Soltek or FIC. I'm not saying it's a bad board, I'm only saying that I have doubts about it.
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    Which IDE controller card?

    http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=23357&highlight=#23357 Can't go wrong.
  11. CougTek

    The motherboard to car analogy project

    Nissan (Renault), Porsche, Ferrari, Volvo (owned by Ford), Lamborghini, Land Rover (owned by who knows who), Saab (GM), Renault, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi (or Mitsubushi in some parts of Australia) ... and Lada.
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    [NEWS] - Matrox P750 review

    Unfortunate, but nice to know before buying :(
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    [NEWS] - Matrox P750 review

    Icrontic reviewed the newly introduced and more affordable version of the Parhelia GPU : the P750. Many of us, not being gamers, should be quite interested in such a graphic card. I surely am.
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    Assault Turtles

    His turtle wasn't loaded... :)
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    Folding@Home

    Every time I look at our stats, I remember that post I made. How has it changed since then... In order to compete again with teams around the 30-35th position, we would need no less than 100 additional high-end Athlon XP. I made the count. That would bring our weekly total around 20000...
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    Software Licensing for charity

    Where's the monitor in the above?
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    Software Licensing for charity

    Sorry, I was reviewing my post when you posted yours...
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    Software Licensing for charity

    Ok, if you really don't like them : All from NewEgg.com since I didn't want to break my head to hunt for cents on pricewatch. I added the shipping to the item price when it wasn't shipped free : Athlon XP 1700+ OEM : 42$ Speeze 5F263B1M3 : 12$ Biostar M7VIQ (KM266) - includes video/audio/LAN...
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    Software Licensing for charity

    Why? Is it because the computers have to be assembled by the local union members? An entire personal computer station, built from reasonably modern spare parts, for under 350U$, is simply impossible. Period. I am able to put up a nice package for around 350U$, but that doesn't include the...
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    Try to change RAM, PC won't boot...

    BTW, from the picture they show of the CPU, not only is it a T'bred B, but it's also one of the 1.5V models, those that overclock the best. Not surprising since that by now, that must be pretty much all there is to sell at that rating for the Athlon XP. Link to AXDA1700DLT3C @ NewEgg.
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    Try to change RAM, PC won't boot...

    Forget the 8 vs 16 chips suggestion, I didn't read the whole post before replying.
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    Try to change RAM, PC won't boot...

    42U$ shipped for T'bred B. Life's unfair. Lowest price I have on them is 80$CDN (~55U$).There's never been such a great bang for the buck as far as I can remember. About the RAM, parhaps your motherboard only supports RAM modules with 16 chips on it and the 256MB and 128MB modules are 8 chips...
  23. CougTek

    Getting In Shape

    Well, trying to get down to two Howell instead of being at three Howell could be an idea...
  24. CougTek

    Getting In Shape

    According to that paper you linked, one 14-years-old-Howell would have fitted three times, or close to, into one Mercutio.
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    Getting In Shape

    You are right and I don't buy that either. The problem is that both Howell's and SteveC's mesurements were taken only on the thickness of the skin above their tricep (that's the most basic and common mesurement for % of body fat). But this mesurement isn't accurate. I too have a 3% body...
  26. CougTek

    All-Day Portable Power (to come)

    Ve have no vorries about pop ups or downs, ve use Internet Explorer. So the browser crashes before displaying the pop ups or downs.
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    Nero 5.5.x.y and DVD Video

    ? Since when is there porn in Disney movies? I heard something about leaves forming the word "SEX" in one of their movies (Lion King maybe?), but that's about it.
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    So, um, where is everyone?

    Except perhaps JamesW.
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    Getting In Shape

    Nope, not really. While I used to have almost olympian-like stamina for middle lenght competitions (think between 3000m and 10Km), but I never trained for it. I didn't have to, I just had it. I had to train to develop my strenght though...and still does. My biggest achievement in endurance...
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    [NEWS] - Internet Explorer's dumbest bug ever revealed

    I thought it was common knowledge that MS' QA was their customers.
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    Getting In Shape

    One more thing Steve. No matter how serious you are in your training efforts, you won't look anywhere near a professional wrestler by the end of summer...or even by this time next year. Building enough muscles to look significantly above average takes years. So while it's good that you start...
  32. CougTek

    So, um, where is everyone?

    I asked myself the same question. Seing others did the same thing too, I think I should have posted three or four silly threads just to draw attention and generate a few activity around here. Something intelligent might have come out of it.
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    Getting In Shape

    :o So you're at what, 350lbs now? Merc, this makes no sense. You're usually a fairly reasonnable guy, but letting you go like this is anything but rational. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! And stop mourning about the loss of your girlfriend, I'm beginning to wonder if you are Jewish. SteveC, I...
  34. CougTek

    Fuel economy hits 22-year low

    That is impossible with a very large portion of the population. Many people are simply too selfish and/or idiotic to grasp that concept. Common wealth is a very low priority on most people's list. They apparently don't care if the climate is completly fucked up in 25 years, as long as they...
  35. CougTek

    Fuel economy hits 22-year low

    Well said, or written, ...whatever.
  36. CougTek

    [NEWS] MSI and Gigabyte In Merger Talks

    This must not happen.
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    [NEWS] - SiS to spin off graphics chip division soon

    Looks like SiS is doing whatever they can to get their grafix line back up in touch with the big boys. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has decided to spin off its graphics chip division (multimedia product division) as a new subsidiary in May or June under the name of Tu Chiang Technology...
  38. CougTek

    Max Payne - How Will it Run on This System

    Since when do the GeFarce 2MX and 4MX support directX 8.0 features? Both are DX7 and nothing above. Radeon 8500/9000/9100 and GeFarce 4 not-MX are DirectX 8 compliant.
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    Max Payne - How Will it Run on This System

    There's quite a step between a T'bird 1.2GHz and a 950MHz Celeron with a crippled 128K L2 cache and 100MHz FSB. Same goes for the Radeon 64MB DDR and a 16MB TNT2. I think playing Max on Clocker's box will be a Payne. Adios eye candy if you don't want to recite all your known swears because of...
  40. CougTek

    [NEWS] - SETI@home security flaw.

    I'm no expert on these things, but I think a buffer overflow would result in a system hang.
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    [NEWS] - SETI@home security flaw.

    People found a hole related to the SETI@home client for FreeBSD and it is believed that the hole could be common to all SETI@home versions : So if you're SETI'ing at your home (or elsewhere), this is a story to follow. I'm not very found of public reports on holes and flaws that haven't been...
  42. CougTek

    Full spectrum solar cell?

    Very interesting JTR. Someday, I plan to fill a part of the electricity needs of my house with a solar panel. Now it isn't a very attractive option on the economical side. You need a huge, expensive panel, that cannot even answer the entire demand of a typical house.
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    SR new forums

    Their average forum member crowd hasn't improved though. Read the second line of that post. I guess he probably calls an helicopter every time he has to go to the grocery for milk too.
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    Another reason why I don't like Intel.

    I think it is *([supposed to be])* the DOJ. I cannot really say that I'm in admiration for them either.
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    Who says there is nothing interesting in hardware these days

    I eagerly await the days when powerful and affordable processors and graphics will be available in those form factors. I believe there would be a market for Pentium-M-based µ-ATX motherboards for instance. Same thing for AMD's SFF Athlon XP. Both are fast even compared to desktop processors...
  46. CougTek

    [NEWS] - P2P softwares judged legal.

    There might be at least one judge on this planet with something grossly similar to intelligence afterall. Let's hope the verdict will hold in later lawsuits. Full story.
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    Another reason why I don't like Intel.

    That's the kind of piss poor mentality that makes the system stinks.
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    I hate all of you Americans - Newegg's specials

    Biggest thread ever in the FS&T forum. Somehow, I knew the title would generate a lot of attention :-) A replacement should be guaranteed for as long as the original's unit warranty period. Anything less, no matter what the replacement is (a brand new drive or a refurbished unit) is totally...
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    Another reason why I don't like Intel.

    Why, do you think? A tip : who do you think finances the scum bag at the head of your country (not meant to insult Aussies, just a fact common to the majority of Earth's countries)? Is it the small or the big companies? There you have your answer. A theoritical concept that has never been...
  50. CougTek

    Another reason why I don't like Intel.

    WHAT HAVE I WRITTEN ABOVE? NO IF, NO BUT, NO MAYBE! Quick, quick! Plastic bag for for CityK. Of course it's done elsewhere too. It doesn't mean it's ok to do it. I know a guy who killed his wife. Does it mean I can do it too (assuming I would have been craze enough to marry one)? Strong...
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