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Seeing all those free compression tools, an idea pop'ed in my mind. Why not make a comparative review of all those? By comparing their speed and compression ratio for several types of archive. Testing if their performances vary from a Pentium 4 to an Athlon XP (for possible SSE2 optimisations...

In fact, it's the main reason why I prefer not to sell their stuff : strong arming to kill the concurrence. It's ugly, unacceptable, and undefendable. These tactics are ultimately bad for the customers, since they weaken companies with competitve products but lower market share. It's squarely...

Board is a new SuperMicro i875-based. What's the error in the picture below? The ISA slots, damnit!

The light blue found everywhere the new forum look is too pastel to my taste. It's...quétaine.

Right here. 295$ for the OEM version, 315$ for the retail kit. Only the slowest Opteron (1.4GHz), but still. Now the only thing you need is a motherboard to plug it into.

:eekers: Blake, it's greatly time you take a look a a comparative review between a Pentium 4-based Celery and anything else in the same price range. They are only 90% of the power in very few benchmarks (if any) compared to the 512K L2 cache Northwood. Against the Athlon XP, especially the...

IMO, Intel now slightly in panic mode because of Opteron. I don't think IA-64 will ever be a success if x86-64 offers a decent speed improvement. And that's a good thing. Not because x86-64 is good, but because IA-64 is bad replacement. More infos on News.com

Is anyone surprised? Visit X-bit Laboratories for the details. AMD's slash is just as important, if not more, than Intel's one earlier this week. The two processors that dropped the most are the Athlon XP 3000+ and 2800+, with 45% and 40% reduction respectively. The Celeron looks simply...

I have just read it and loggued in to link it. Opteron has every reasons to succeed.

Given the small price difference between the 1.6GHz and the 1.8GHz, I don't think the first one will sell as well as the later. Here's Opteron naked : Additional informations at a hardware website near you.

Terminator 2 : Judgement Day ;-)

CRTs only have such constrast ratio in relatively dark environments, where they can reach 1000:1. In daylight, they normally fare around 200:1 - 300:1, no more. Contrast ratio isn't one of the flaws that LCDs still have compared to CRTs. Response time and color accuracy, especially when...

I usually take The Inquirer's articles with a grain of salt, but I rarely start the switch of my intellect when reading about browser's security anymore. Unless it's about the one I'm using the most : Phoenix/Mozilla. I read it quickly, didn't pay much attention to details, saw a possible...

The price cut, which is steeper than usual for Intel, fixes the oddity with the Pentium 3GHz (so chipzilla restarted to distribute it again). Here's the meat of it : AMD's processors nonetheless remain cheaper than comparable Intel's offsprings. They are simply not as cheaper as they were...

The press release. The monitor. The monitor's specifications. Bottom line : 700:1 contrast ratio. 170° viewing angles. Consumes only 36W. Complain : Why no sub-20ms response times? :-( Anyway, 25ms should still be quite respectable. I would prefer 1280x960 to the 5:4 display ratio like...

A ghost from the distant past sent me a link to an interesting thread on the subject. One of the Opera software developer (yngve) has another opinion on the matter. GIANT, Was it humour or were you serious?

No, I didn't. I remember a thread where you complained about how much misery your lame telephonic connection gave you, but I wasn't sadistic enough to continue reading the whole of it. I felt so bad for you, it was aweful. Just give me a link to it, I'll read the end that I skipped.

Western Digital WD800JB @ 89$ shipped, but NOT AVAILABLE FOR QUÉBEC RESIDENTS. EPoX EP-8RDA+ @ 94$ shipped, but NOT AVAILABLE FOR QUÉBEC RESIDENTS. The best prices I can get the WD800JB is 151$CDN (104U$) and 8RDA+ is 179$ plus non-free shipping (123U$ + shipping). I HATE YOU! But then I...

I've just uninstalled Opera and I will remove their URL from my bookmarks. I also plan to stop using my operamail.com account soon. Back in the Opera 6.x days, I complained about its large memory footprint. I should have investigated further... Their practices are lame.

Most higher-end Pentium 4 currently selling can swallow significantly more power than the old Thunderbird 1.4Ghz ever was able to. Intel prefers to advertize the typical power dissipation of their CPUs, but their maximal power dissipation is much higher. I don't remember the exact number, but...

This card should have never been released. It's clear that it isn't an overall good design and was launched only to make NVidia looks a little less ridiculous in benchmarks compared to ATI's offerings. A graphic card that cannot even handle a screensaver without failing is a graphic card...

The place is pretty clean for Colorado in the West now with Detroit out. I don't see any other team able to beat them. I've always liked Roy, the goal-tender of Colorado. I wish he'll win another cup (his fifth?).

That was totally uncalled, especially since my post wasn't in any way addressed to you. And somehow offensive since it comes from someone who's probably just as clueless as I am about cars, as demonstrated below : Ahhh... the sounds of a nerd wanna-be. I won't be full of love for you in the...

Weapons : no blood = no fun. Give that to grandma and let me my aluminum bat.

You're only able to see the economic side of fuel consumption, aren't you? I forgot the specifications of the Corvette's motor, did remember it was similar tothe 5.7liters of the CTS. But I don't share your optimism about the possibility of an even lower fuel consumption for the CTS, since...

Add the latest Detonator and Catalyst since most graphic cards you'll encounter will be from either of those two manufacturers. The NForce all-in-one driver v.2.03 should also be part of this CD since this chipset is becoming increasingly popular. I wonder why Mercutio has left nVidia's...

5.7 liters is pretty big. I wouldn't be surprised if it would be rated at something like 13/20Mpg...or less. Two cars that impress me a lot on the HP / fuel rating ratio are the Corvette and the Porsche 911. You get a LOT of power for a relatively moderate fuel consumption.

The 3.2 liters/6-in-line of the M3 almost certainly is significantly less fuel-ungry than the 5.7 liters/V8 of the CTS. For happy oil-burner rednecks, it might not matter much, but for anyone who's sensible to environment, it is another advantage of the BMW.

Coug just wants to tell everyone that Coug didn't compose the ambiguous or non-ambiguous message above, he merely copied/pasted it from a submitted news. Coug isn't the Zoloft Avenger. That said, both Coug and the one behind "The Zoloft Avenger"'s mask are professionals and deserve to be...

I have known that for years. Still good to remind it though. North America's economy is led by only a few thousand folks (not in the six digit, probably not even up to 15000 with Canada and US together) and they all sit in each others' leading board. They are those who make our society...

Only those found in oysters. No luck.

Thanks Gary. This reminder was especially helpful for me now (not that I am a student though).

I hope there won't be problems with its availability in North America and that it will arrive soon.

Guess it'll be a while longer for an 800MHz-bus P4. Intel apparently delayed its new P4 chipsets about two hours after the product launch due to a "product flaw". Specs look sweet(RAID0, DDR400, SATA, Gbit LAN) if you swing that way, but rumors are pointing to logistical issues for the real...

From X-bit Laboratories : There's still a lot of decently fast offerings by the competition to not become desperate enough to waste money on that crippled card IMO. What the hell is thinking NVidia for bringing back such backward oddities as graphic boards with 64bit memory interface?

This must be old news to many of you and I heard about it some time ago, but while browsing a well-known online store (to compare my prices to theirs - they don't ship here, the bastards), it stroke me in the face. Here's the PCB of the old 9500 that is so famous to overclockers : Now look...

There might be hope afterall. Someone on Gentoo's forum told me that there is a driver for my NIC, but on a different name than what I thought it should be. Here's the thread where I learned that. I'll try it soon.

From Dell's spec sheet for the 1800FP : The above are quite poor. You could get a NEC LCD1760NX with a fast response time for 499$ shipped from Newegg.com. It's a 17", but it has the same native definition as the 18" Dell and it also has modern specifications. There's also the 1760V, that is...

May I suggest getting a LCD for Net browsing and any text-based applications? A CRT for gaming and image editing and a LCD for everything else. Best of both worlds and your eyes will be grateful.

I tried to install it about half an hour ago. The adventure didn't last long : there's apparently no support in Gentoo for my Adaptec Single64 NIC. I'll try it again when I'll have another NIC or another power supply for my test machine. I had to give the PSU in replacement to a customer...

If what I've seen at X-bit Labs is true, then people should refrain from buying an AMD processor at 2000+ rating or above before the end of the month. Also note the absence of the very popular 1700+ as well as all sub-2000+ models from the chart. This probably means they will disapear soon, so...

Although it's better than it was, I still don't find it usable enough to keep it as my default browser. I have problems with some links (try left menu items with an arrow aside of them -CPU coolers for instance- at HeatsinkFactory.com) and I get an error when I try to login at my netscape.net...

If I could blush, I would. Actually, I think the unusual styling figures found in my posts are simply because I poorly translate some french expressions to english. Seldom heard or read the appropriate version, so I compose one of my own. I'm pleased some appreciate the end result :-)

At www.opera.com. Several improvements in this revision, notably in the bookmarks handling. Forum here finally shows up the boxes around text input spaces, but there is a major annoyance in the way the forum is displayed. All topics' titles are centerd instead of being placed on the left...

There's something very wrong with the Winbench transfer rate reported in the review for the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB : Way too low IMO. It should bust 50Mb/s at the beginning and also be quite a bit higher at the end. Like a Chinese would say : "something wong".

Forgot to put the link to the original article.

The day has finally come. Microsoft has acknowledged the existence of Linux by allowing one of its own applications to be ported over to the rival operating system. Earlier this week the software giant quietly announced that it had selected media player developer InterVideo to port its Windows...

LiamC submitted a news about this review for the front page. I don't know who wrote about it first between Buck and LiamC, so Buck gets the honors of the thread and LiamC those for the front page.

No luck with me :-(

You can get it here. Then, explain me what to download from the page I linked and how to install it.