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I'm born in Québec, which isn't in the Canadian constitution since 1982 (or was it 1981, I never remember). Although not officially a country, Québec is also not really Canada either. Of course, I'm born well before 1981 when both Québec and Canada shared a common constitution, but no matter...

My ancestors were from French (long, long ago) and Scottish (relatively recent) origins. I have nothing in common with the British-loving Loyalists that have been kicked out North by the Americans more than centuries ago and who have become what the rest of the world associates to "Canadians".

I went through the memberlist and I only noted 37 different members who are still participating. I didn't count those I wasn't sure about and those who have not been visiting for a while. 37 is probably not exact, but I doubt there are currently more than 40 different persons visiting SF...

IIRC, early Unreal 2 benchmarks also put the Radeon 8500 above the GF3 and in the same ballpark as the GF4 Ti4400. Future games should favor the Radeon 8500 a lot more than the current generation, because the accent is restarting to be put on heavy textures.

Could you please tell me what "jocks" means? I won't take it personal BTW, I'm not Canadian. I would probably feel more like home in New York than here then. It means I have looked like a New Yorker for the past several years without even knowing. Do New Yorkers wear steel cap boots all the...

I added my third 24/7 system yesterday. Still, it won't allow me to resist the five machines setup of Furry Monkey. I repeat it, wouldn't it be of a damn problem with my firewall, I would have some 25-30 points more and that's why you're immediately behind me. I haven't rushed anything since...

While you're at it, why not through the whole Window?

Sorry Clocker, it's just that people have called you by your name so often that I thought it was ok. I wonder how many real different members our forum really has. I know I'm only registered as CougTek and nothing else.

Watch out Tony. Another line like this one and you'll receive a pm from Kevin ;-)

I might visit old Bill someday. Take him for a ride in a park and push his wheelchair ;-) But for the next two or three years, trips aren't part of my agenda.

Eudora 5.1 has worked fine for me so far.

Pssfff. Whimp. You don't even know what COLD is.

Cool, can we bring back this sort of souvenirs if we find one?[/jk] They are supposed to start to resconstruct the first building that'll fill the empty space left by the Towers soon. The site must be almost clear by now, isn't it? Is there still the nasty odor there was after the attack?

Thanks Steve. Did you submit that news on the front page?

Sorry. It's just that I'm often called "the dark one" and similar nicks, so I felt I was the one who was targeted.

My goal is to enter the first 100 teams during the first week of July or before. After that, being among the first 50 by the end of August. I'm sure we'll beat both of these marks.

I found the reason of my frozen stats : my damn firewall didn't allow the console to send/ask results. Unfortunately, I've been away from home for the last three days so that's why so many people past me during the weekend. Now, I should be back to my ~15-20 points/day. If you can beat that...

Isn't there any kind of mIRC on Linux? Anyway. There's a need IMO for an open-source, unbloated and secure piece of software to replace all the current IM programs. Chatzilla maybe (I never tried it)?

Don't worry, he doesn't have to. :P (easy cheap shot, couldn't resist)

These aren't my words (not do they reflect my opinion). Read this, it's original (albeit totally stupid). The guy must buy retail versions of each new Windows releases too.

You did that Merc? Congrats. Now could you do the same with him but with Linux (or at least Win2K) and convince him that WinXP is evil? Too hard huh? That's what I thought too. Even I, a man with limited Linux knowledge and working mostly on Winblows, wouldn't agree to install WinXP on one...

One of my relatives once said when observing an old computer listing : "It's writen that there's a DOS (dos means "back" in french), where's the front?"

You probably noticed the addition on the front page already or just read the announcement on Ars Technica, but RC3 has been released (in fact,it has been since the 23rd). RC3 is supposed to be the code that'll be used for the final 1.0 version, or to be very similar to it. I noted a few...

Nope Mark. That's not the problem. I even used another computer and my stats didn't change. I only hope I'll be credited for all of the WU I did when they finally update my stats.

My stats haven't been updated since early yesterday, although I'm sure that my two main computers are still crunching all the time. I even added another part-time box, but nothing has moved. I believe The_JoJo is experiencing similar problems with his stats. I don't know what is causing these...

If your products have anything to do that uses OpenGL, it's quite possible.

You are right Yeti. I should have look at the "Configuration" section before making hypothesis. I always forget to look at this section when I visit Western Digital's web site.

Forget it, I found it.

Where did you saw that? Where can I download it?

It's weird I'm able to hold my own against Kevin, his setup should be at least 50% faster than mine. Three CPUs vs two. Two Athlon XP 1700+ vs my Athlon XP 1600+ and a 1GHz PIII vs my Athlon 500MHz. There's something wrong, but I'm not the one who'll complain.

sees Handruin in the distance? Am I supposed to use binoculars or a telescope to see him?

I believe he sticks too much with PeeWee these days and it's having a bad influence on him ;-)

You see, here it is 8% cheaper than the 120GXP. Last week too, although both were 7-12% more expensive. I'll e-mail Eugene to ask him if he plan to review this drive soon.

Searching in my recycling back, I found that same drive on my price list dating from May 8th (the oldest price list I still have, the ones before that have probably been used somewhere to make newspaper or cereal boxes). This means it isn't all that new. Too bad no one cared to report them...

I'm talking about the WD1200AB. If you compare the Buffer to Disk transfer rate of the above to the one of the WD800AB, you'll see that the WD1200AB probably use higher density platters (60GB/platter?). Am I suffering from amnesia or StorageReview missed that drive? I remember the review...

*Athlon XP 1500+ at 1.436GHz (comparable to a 1600+) on a Soltek SL-75DRV2 *Athlon classic 500MHz on an Asus K7M Next week I'll add : *Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz on an ECS K7S5A (this config should work, but it does) Pentium III 733MHz on a GigaByte Apollo Pro 133A * Note that this system is...

Finally...I came back with my drive. Once again, I called to insure that one of their two stores (they have two addresses in Montréal's area) had the drive stock. I then headed to the store, bringing a shovel in my car just in case, and once again, they had none in stock half an hour later...

Are you sure that you have entered the correct team # (10047)? Because that stats engine is quite efficient. It seems to update at least once an hour.

I just looked at Statsman Genome@home page and someone needs to inform both Sol and Dozer that we have switched project. Two of my boxes are still running the Genome client, but they are fairly unproductive and won't add much to my stats. I'll install the F@h client on them soon. I figure the...

You have to answer "no" to the question "Ask before connect to network" (during the setup).

Nope, I don't. Unless it makes the client crunch faster, I don't need it. Others might though.

Sometimes, I trully feel like Jesus on the cross asking his father to show the light to the other mortals.

Fuc***g bunch of half-@$$ stupid bastards!!! I took care to call the place where I was about to buy the Deskstar and they told me they had plenty in stock and I didn't have to worry if I would come in the early afternoon to pick up a drive. What happened when I went there 1 hour and a half...

From 190$CDN to only 168$CDN for the 80GB model in a single week. That's ~123U$ to 109U$. The IBM used to be the most expensive (by ~10-20%) drive on the market and now they are cheaper than the Maxtor. Do you think it's because IBM has problem to sell their units because of all the bad press...

This is true for most, but not the one I mentioned above. 500:1 isn't a poor contrast ratio IMO. And while the advertized and real viewing angles are two different things, the new LCDs with 170/170 viewing angles are very usable. As for the response time, 25ms total isn't excellent, but it's...

I wish I could afford one of these to increase my F@h stats :roll: And it would be nice if RocketCalc would develop a similar cluster with Palomino (or Thoroughbred) instead of PIII. Lot of crunching power for the price though. One thing that's sad about clusters is the power consumption...

The first one if you want all the graphic interface, or just the text-only console if you only care about speed (1-3% faster).

You just have called our PeeWee a moron, Tannin.

I browsed through my old or rarely visited boolmarks this afternoon. I visited Princeton's web site (just to see if my old link wasn't broken) and I came accross one of their new flat panel display : the SENergy 981. Impressive to say the least. Unfortunately, I found no places where it's...

I have no idea Buck, Folding@home is only a few hours less new to me than it is to you. I think both projects are about as old so the level of maturity of both should be more or less equal. The next few days should be enough to answer your questions.