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I found my first obvious bug in version 6.05. Under Opera, this page on Western Digital's web site (linked in another thread) doesn't appear correctly. The text in the windows that's supposed to list the spec of the drive is missing. This kind of rendering problems is pretty frequent on Opera...

This review (didn't read it) can only be obsolete about Mozilla. The Open source project has had many speed optimizations since release 0.96. I use both Opera 6.05 (first release of Opera I haven't experienced a serious crash so far, it's getting better) and Mozilla 1.0 (not yet switched/tried...

IIRC, FAHCore 0.78 is the core used for Gromacs test protein and it's only temporarily used. When the test protein is completed, it comes back to the good 'ol 0.65. At least that's what I've seen on my Linux box for the last month or so. If I don't suffer from any other service interuptions...

I had problems to get nForce-based motherboards some three weeks ago, but now it's ok and they are available again (at least here). I think nForce2 mainboards will arrive between the end of September, beginning of October IIRC. The sooner the better. Although I doubt it will effectively bring...

The above is only true when the fu****g bastard of frustrated dogs employees of my ISP (in lock out) cut the cable that gives me both internet and TV. Sorry for the delay, but I'm not responsible for it. As for the link to Opera 6.05, it took me 14 hours from the moment you posted it on the...

The thread is steady for three weeks now. First I thought it was only a pause in the price rising scheme, but on my latest price lists (today), there is an overall clear price decrease for anything that's called memory for PC. SDRAM (from 70$ to 55$ for 256MB PC133), DDR SDRAM (for 512MB...

No, no MSI. Microstar's products are almost always unoptimized enough to make you lost the equivalent of one speed rating. Put a 2GHz P4 in a i845E from MSI and it will give you about the same frame rate and overall performances as a 1.9GHz P4 on an i845E from gagaByte. The same goes for...

GigaByte GA-8IGX is probably the best value of any current Pentium 4 motherboards. It also comes with all the cables you need to assemble your system (two IDE cables, one floppy, plus the USB2 extentions). It's not the absolute cheapest if you consider the price of the motherboard as a whole...

Thermaltake joined the wagon too. Actually, I find their aluminum case version (Xaser II 6000 Plus) to be quite decent at first look (not talking about the "look" of the front anel, but the "look" of the features it has). You can see their designs right here. I also saw aluminum Antec...

Again, just in case : the installation manual for Win98. Apparently, it's more complicated to install the nForce drivers under that OS than on the more modern versions of the all-beloved bloated OS. Read even if you think you already know all this, it might light a candle on a slight mistake...

It's probably not related, but the nForce motherboards had a problem with the "writes" on the ATA channels not so long ago. The cure came in the form of a BIOS update IIRC. I know now that all the Asus A7N266-C I sell have respectable IDE transfer speed once I install the latest BIOS revision...

CougTek is down again and this time it will probably be for longer than the time before. The bunch of [insert insult] cut the cables again. Damn they're stupid. They piss off the customers who have nothing to do with the conflict they have with their employer and all that it will give them is...

I know I have processed proteins thru Gromacs on my RedHat 7.3 box for several weeks without a hitch. I like RH 7.3 very much, although it slows down rapidly when I open programs, even after I close them/stop using them. There seems to be a problem with the way Xfree86 (RedHat uses a mix of...

May I suggest OpenOffice? I agree though that Excel's .xls are more standard than OpenOffice's .sdx.

I'm alive!

I don't make support for people not able to use Windows, purely and simply (except for some friends and few family-related people). It taxes me too much. I only sell if the customers can make the difference between software and hardware related problems (at large, I don't ask them to be expert...

Who are Gremlin, support and Gary Piper? I think I saw the answer behind Gremlin somewhere in the forum...just can't remember where (SteveC?). I now finally know that Muitah is one of Tony's technicians, so it means that the RedHill veteran's contribution to our team has been very substantial...

I remember you were considered the ultimate lurker back then and there were "oh!" and "ah!" every time you poped in for a quick one liner. And I'm pretty sure you posted quite a bit more than 163 message in the old forum. I would swear I saw you at 23x or 26x at the end of 2001, but since I...

I discovered SR back in early '99 (probably February or March) through a link from another tech web site that I can't remember. It probably wasn't Anandtech since I only started to visit the wonder boy's website on a regular basis during the summer of '99. It might have been from a link at the...

It would be interesting to know what's the CPU/motherboard chipset. I'm certainly not in to buy it. I ask simply out of curiosity.

I wonder how many of us Gary monitors and keep track of...

Nope, no Promise POS on that motherboard for sure. I installed the SP3 on my Athlon XP + Soltek SL-75DRV2 system. Oh well, since the computer is running 24x7, I don't login/out very often do it might be a while until I do anything to fix that annoying little bug.

Thanks Gary, I'll try that later this week.

Why pay someone else to do something I would enjoy so much doing by myself? Besides, when you want something to be done right, you have to do it yourself. Everyone knows that. :P Seriously, you are right Steve. It's not the same forum without our PW screaming "kick me" all over the place...

Nah! You think?

I never realized I was such a genius by building all those new boxes without much trouble. :roll:

I disabled the Background Intelligence blablabla in the Administrative tools -> Component Services -> Service (Local). That and the automatic update service. According to the term in the EULA thing (not too much awared of that stuff), Microsoft has apparently the right to "monitor" every damn...

This forum is already a tech support forum, or at least a part of it. If you or people you know have questions, just post them here, it would be simpler. Our current problem is that we are a bunch of guys who generally are those who answer the questions, but we are missing people to ask them.

This is great Gary! Thanks a lot. 35% downloaded so far and eagerly waiting to install it. I hope you enjoyed your vacation. Be sure we are all please by your return.

My watch :mrgrn:

I mistook on-topic with active, sorry. On another subject and just to keep this thread on-topic, I have now entered the top 1000 F@H crunchers. This means I can see my progression in the java version of statsman and compare myself to others more easily. Right now, I'm the 246th fastest...

It's probably because this thread fills the duty that should probably belong to an entire division of the froum. Besides, it's still early to talk about records. The AtC last from April 14th 2001 untill the database lost on December 29th of the same year. That's 8 months. This thread is only...

Any task, Tea. No matter how poor the IPC of a Willamette P4 is, at 1.7GHz, it will kick the ass of a K6-III. Especially considering the platform it uses has far less bottlenecks than the old MVP3 chipset. MS Office, photo-editing, games, F@H or even web surfing. Anything will be faster on a...

I read it first on SR a few minutes ago (in fact, it must have been close to an hour). Interesting, but I cannot add much since, although I have read quite a few articles on the same or related subject, I don't feel I have enough knowledge on the topic to bring anything meaningful. I'll only...

An old review at Lost Circuit comparing the K6-2 and K6-III+. Unsurprisingly, the later wins. But both would be wiped by any modern CPU (yep, even the Celeron) in almost any task though. Please remember this before making your purchase.

It's aweful to see that a K6-III is just as expensive as a 1600+ Athlon XP.

You gotta agree that IT is a weird world for calling people like this guy, a senior at anything. Not exactly what I have in mind when I think about an old snock (senior). Or maybe it's just me... P.S. Try to let that beard grow a bit and use grey colorant for hair, then maybe Senior will...

No congrats from me, I'm jealous :P

Sorry, at first I thought it was a birth date or something (didn't count the # of digit). Here, our postal codes both include letters and numbers so I'm not familiar with your US addressing.

Simonstre's notebook is awesome BTW, or so he told me. It's a Compaq 1510CA (almost like the American version 1510US, but with slight differences), with a 15" SXGA+ display, 512MB PC2100 RAM, 40GB HDD (only a 4200rpm thought), a CD-RW/DVD combo drive and a surprisingly fast Radeon 7500 32MB...

In the United States you mean? Or elsewhere around the globe?

I'm sure he was talking about the guy in red and blue.

To be honnest Tony, I relied more on the info others gave me about it back then rather then tried it myself. I did, but not often and only on Cyrix-equipped systems, with utilies I wasn't used to (I was on a DOS-Win3.x -Win95 ladder back then). I didn't push my researches too far and followed...

Wow, and they say nothing is free in this world... Thanks for your contribution. It's always nice to add new players to our team, especially when they come out from the blue like you did. Don't be shy to post in the forum too. New blood is one thing we need.

I think I still have somewhere a big poster of : "OS/2, Get warped!" It was nice looking, but it didn't catch well enough. Back then, my main reason to favor Windows 95 was that OS/2 needed 64MB (huge for that time) to work relatively well and that Winblows 95 was ok with only half of that...

Only in one eye, but it was enough, thanks. Annoying yes, but painful too as I couldn't let my eye open at all. Now I'm feeling better. Wow, if even Clocker doesn't visit SR anymore, it's not good news for them. I've always saw you as one of the most enthousiastic SR fanboy in the past, so...

I still visit SR maybe ten times a week on average, but here is definately my first stop. It's sad for E&D, but I no longer feel at home at SR as much as I do here. I mostly post there (rarely though) more by duty than by anything else. Duty because I feel this web site has helped me a lot in...

It might be fast, but I would have a slight problem to justify the 4995U$.

Thanks guys. Tea, I don't plan to overtake either Mercutio nor JoJo in their respective categories. I couldn't. Nice to know my contribution is appreciated. I'll probably slowdown in the next few weeks because I'm busier than usual and also because I think too much of a good thing is worst...

PIII are pityful F@h crunchers. With two high frequency Athlon, your production should increase quite noticeably versus the single PIII 1GHz. Of course, I know it's not your only computer on the project, but anyway, the boost should be significant. A dual-Athlon XP/MP should give about 15...