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My least performant computer is set to crunch the genome instead of the Folding (it wouldn't complete a F@h unit in a reasonnable delay). I simply used the FAH3 but gave it our old GAH team #. I don't know where to fing the stats page for the new Genome project though, but I doubt I have sent...

ASCII gibberish at post are sometimes the result of a dying CMOS battery.

Why, you're still not sure whether he is a boy or a girl? :P

Boohooo! :P [j/k] I'm happy for you.

I like to have comments related to the news by the one who submits it, but I would rather not write guidelines. I would rather leave it to the members to post according to their own style. Posting the news at delayed times could be done. I simply forgot about it when I approved Steve's news.

Guys, guys...you sound like it's the first time you see someone wearing a true beard (not something shy like mine or Tony's). Saying that Mark looks like the opposite of what you think he looked like is sad, because everyone here thinks Mark is a great guy, full of wisdom. IMO, he looks like...

I expected Tony to look like Mark and Mark to look like Tony... I thought my ~3000 books were quite a lot, but Mark beats me badly. I have no picture of myself and except for those taken for my ID cards, there's no picture of myself at all since I'm about 12 years old. With the temper I have...

Learn French and come here. We'll talk about your season preference in a year.

3 times would be enough if you would start lifting the true dumbels. Those blue and pink weights are for the old ladies, not you ;-)

You think you have to shave? Man, you're an amateur ;-)

I browsed Viewsonic's site a bit and from the half dozen monitors I checked, apparently, none of the A and E series are compliant with TCO'99 or any TCO at all. Only MPR II in case of the A serie monitors I checked. MPR II is so basic that I bet the old 15+ years T.V. I changed 2 years ago...

The G series has hit (G90f) and miss (GS790 and others). The A series is, well...I'm glad you like yours ;-) I only saw their A70 and A90 and I wasn't much impressed. All Viewsonic's models ending with a 5 are usually enhanced versions (usually, better electronics) of their end-by-0...

Our Pullayup member just couldn't hold it anymore. Today was the busiest day of my week (busiest outside the Net), so I haven't been on my computer much of the afternoon. What was my surprise when I came back at home around 8:00pm and saw the wave of news awaiting my approval...

Hummm....strange. The other benchmarks I saw showed clearly the Athlon has being a lot better at chess games than the Pentium 4. The software they use is intriguing. It must not be a learning program or else, the proportion of victories/defeats would have broaden in AMD's favor rather than...

Nortel. Worldcom was one of their main customer, if not their biggest customer. I wonder where that madness will end. Most of these bankrupts occur because of a little bunch of bastards who control or greatly influence the stock market. The economy is on the rise, but because of those damn...

Running 5-6 miles with you wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't to run another thousand and something from Montréal to Illinois.

I bought a Viewsonic E70 (not E70f) two years ago. It was for a secretary who used her computer some 15 hours/week. The picture was blurry and the colors were lavish at 1024x768. Only 800x600 and below was acceptable (and no more than acceptable). The E70 had a meager 110MHz bandwidth (if...

Thanks you both.

Under Winblows. I know Tannin has a similar setup. Modems are not really my cup of Tea. There must be something with ICS (which I don't remember how to configure). The setup (not mine) consist in 2 Winblows computers (Win 98SE on one and probably another Win9X on the other), each with its...

The Intel dually got his ass spanked quite badly during the last few game (I'm talking about the games 25-29, the 30th is playing right now). If the sofftware is a learning chess game, I don't expect the AMD rig to lose many games from there on, since computers aren't affect by the same...

How do you pronounce that again? ;-)

The cheapest flat (well, the front glass is completly flat, but the inner glass is very slightly curved, for most people it's flat) screen monitor you can get, at least on my lists, is the Samsung 753DF. It should cost around 170U$, but like I said above, I don't recommend it. There's also the...

While the 750s isn't bad, it isn't flat. The Samsung 755DF is though (don't touch the cheaper 753DF, it's not TCO'99 compliant probably because of its weak picture quality). The 755DF isn't very expensive either and I can certify that the CRT is of very good quality. You'll never find a 17"...

Don't tell me that Jason is back for real !!! The shock, the horror!

With the above table, we won't be an Atlas 10K III for long, just for 1 post. Oh well, by the time I reach 5000, the Atlas 10K III will be obsolete anyway.

C't Magazine has setup a contest between a dual Athlon MP system and a dual Xeon P4 system. I think they are supposed to play 55 games and declare a winner a the end of it. It's all in German (or in Dutch, all look the same to me), so I don't understand a damn thing of what's written there...

If the seek time was one of the strong point of their drive, they would talk about it. Also, they advertize that their upcoming ATA champion will feature 60GB per platter, so they have to respect that (or beat it). That, combined to the fact that one of their drives will feature 120GB (2x60GB)...

Done. It's been a while since last time we saw a 4 platters 7200rpm IDE drive, isn't it? I'm not sure the 200GB model will sell very well, but the 120GB model of the same family should though. I wouldn't be interested to get a 3 1/3 platters hard drive.

Looks like we both thought about the big fat red guy this evening James (it is the evening James, don't argue, it's true). I didn't read this thread before I wrote this.

A perfect example of impartiallity. We should all be ashamed of not taking Seagate's specifications for granted. Why none of us trust Seagate anymore? You are right as usual P.W. The barracuda ATA have always been tha bomb, especially the third generation. Winstone, IPEAK and all the other...

Mark making humor??? The end of the world must be soon.

BTW, even with the close contact between SR and Seagate, we still beat them on the announcement! SF is great.

I see that John Paulsen's name is back on the press release pages. They hide his name for quite a while, dunno why. I hope Seagate will have as much success as Western Digital with their 8MB cache version, planned for the serial ATA model. I doubt it though. If at least they can respect...

Correction : I don't use their DynaFlat lineup but their Natural Flat lineup (NF instead of DF). The Samsung DynaFlat use the same CRT as the old IFT lineup, except that the monitors are equipped with lower electronic controllers/filters than in the past IFT models. The NF are better, but dearer.

We always feel more comfortable with the old furnitures around :) SF is looking more and more like the SR of 98-99.

The main Samsung products I buy are their monitors. I started by using their IFT lineup and now I mostly use their DF (DynaFlat) models. The 900NF has been one of the best value among semi-high-end monitors over the last year and a half. Now, it's starting to show its age a bit more and other...

I know what's the meaning of AFAIK, ASAP, FWIW, FYI, IIRC, IMO, LOL, OTOH, ROFL and probably some others, but I never, ever, saw IOW before. What does it mean? Mercutio, Did you try installing the famous PCI latency patch for VIA chipsets?

Wow Steve, I didn't know you were such a freaking overclocker. Nice setup BTW. It's awesome the frequency you can reach with that Athlon. Was the CPU OEM or retail? I would like to build a box with an Athlon XP 1600+ working at 1.75GHz (166MHz FSB frequency) on an Asus A7N266-C. I know...

I'm about to add four more computers to our team (maybe under my name, maybe under the name of someone else, still unsure). It's a start.

I don't mind if others have titles. I don't have anything in mind for myself so you'll have one less mod to do.

How can it be out of warranty? No 60GXP has more than three years and IBM still offers three years warranty. Unless this drive comes from a third-party computer...

Thanks you all for your input. Just to clarify things a little bit, I'm not the seller in that story. I'm just an advisor. I would, of course, build the Athlon box if that's what he choose, but I won't make money on it (he helped me in the past so it would only be a service return)...

Indead, it's probably a Katmai or a similar Xeon version. That's about the same reflection I had. Cliptin, Are you talking about the memory sockets on the Dual-PIII? If you are talking about the CPUs, these are slots, not sockets. I don't think it would be cost effective to buy the used...

Hi, I'm facing a dilemna. Someone asked me if it would worth it to buy a dual PIII 500MHz Dell used box, with a SCSI hard drive (dating of the same period as the CPUs - probably '98 or '99) and of course an Intel chipset on the motherboard (probably 440GX IIRC). RAM amount unknown, but I...

Yes, you are right. It's him.

Then, unless those two are on the same CD (Tannin didn't allow compilations IIRC), it means you would probably die on an island with Tony's requierements because you could only have one of the two. Imagine the tombstone : Mercutio 1976-2002 killed by silence

It's probably because you use your system a lot while the client is running. For instance, when I start Serious Sam, the client completly stops processing proteins until I quit the game (or at least that's what the Genome@home client did). Don't forget that F@h only use the cycles that no...

Update : I finally got a ProteinA on my Athlon XP 1.436GHz and with the latest core v2.47 and when I let it work quietly (ie, not MSNing and surfing), it completes 1/100th in 8 minutes, 43 secondes (average of the first 7 segments). Not bad.

Damn forum lag! I double post because it didn't seem to ship it the first time. In case any clown working for Burst read this : I HATE YOU!