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This is my wish too.

Sorry, but I don't get it.

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No. Matsushita is Panasonic. It was something else. I'llsearch and post it in a few minutes.

Nope, LG = Goldstar Philips is German IIRC.

The LG GCE-8160B (16x/10x/40x) is a high quality burner that I highly recommend to anyone looking for a cheap yet reliable CD-writer. Their 24x model is another story though, but their 32x seems to be in the same league as their 16x. Their 24x burner uses an Oak Technology controller and their...

Cougtek isn't all that bad, but writing it twice in a row in less than 5 minutes is ;-)

Will Glover and Shakespeare are nothing compared to myself. I think my nick has the record the most various mispelled attempts. Just to give some of the names I've been called : Cougtek (countless times) Cougtech (Tony and many others) Coug-tek (Tony and many others) Coug-Tech (A certain...

Glad to see you here.

Mercutio, Be careful with OEM monitors. The prices are attractive, but there's a hidden issue with them. AFAIK, Dell only offers warranty on complete systems, not spare components like monitors, unless you bought them directly from their website (which isn't your case). If one of them (not...

If they aren't able to follow Intel in the Megahurtz race, they'll have to improve the IPC indeed. Things that could be done to improve the IPC on the Athlon : Widen the bus to access the L2 Cache : It's currently 64bit wide, one fourth of the Pentium III and probably also ¼ of the Pentium 4's...

I also sell several computers to students and very few of them have particular space requierements. As Tony wrote : "I guess that every place has their own particular wrinkle, and that everyone's customer mix is different." Another peripheral I place special attention to is the monitor. No...

For us it doesn't matter because we don't have a life outside the 'Net and we will all pass 100 posts before next week ;-), but for newer members who will join in case SR closes for good after February 28th, don't you think 100 posts can be a bit too challenging before they get their official...

Thanks for the explanation.

Hi, Up to yesterday and perhaps even up to this morning, there were various ratings for TSF members. I think less than 25 posts were newbie, 26 to ~70 were regular and more than 70 were no life. Every current forum member is a SR veteran so I don't care about our rating. I just want to know...

As long as they aren't too large, I don't mind. I'm sure Pradeep would prefer to see the Avatar option turned disabled ;-)

Criquet games aren't very long. What motherboards do you use on these systems? I assembled a Celeron II on a Microstar MS-6368 ver5.0A w/LAN last week-end for a cheap upgrade. The motherboard only cost 109$CAN (~131$AUS) so the overall system cost was quite low. SiS730-based motherboards are...

But despite your shameful bias, you are still Mon Ami too so no worries ;-)

Bill, It's not necessarily because some 'Net reviewers say it that it must be true, but guys like the ones at Ace's Hardware usually know their stuff and I trust them for the most part. Besides, I've built a few Pentium III and Celeron II systems using VIA chipsets and they were fine for their...

Shameful bias. That's not what most of the 'Net reviewers say about the SiS645.

A few things, I don't put Panasonic CD-ROM drives in my systems because OpenBSD doesn't support them contrarily to most other CD-ROM readers. I agree that people messing with OpenBSD are quite rare, but nonetheless, if they ever choose to make the switch, I want to be sure they won't have...

Maxtor are quite reliable in my experience and the D740X should be even more because it was developped by Quantum (my personal favorite for ATA drives). The Seagate should be fine too. But the foam layer next to the PCB makes it heat more than most other 7.2Krpm ATA drives. Heat is a concern...

Time, I know the P4 1.7GHz isn't a Northwood. I was just comparing the similar ratings together. Intel is rumored to launch a 1.8GHz and perhaps even a 1.6GHz version of Northwood in the upcoming weeks. Northwood is made to operate at ~2.4GHz and more, so a 1.8GHz would be very overclocking...

You might lose the array, but if a single drive fails, you don't lose any data. Let's say you have four drives : A, B, C & D. Drive A&B are striped together and C&D also. AB is mirrored with CD. If any of those drives fails, you won't lose any data. The array will die, but you'll be able...

Do-it-yourself is the best way to learn about something. Messing a bit with a few RAID arrays would allow you to look more intelligent when one of your customers will pop up in your store and ask you something about RAID. It always shows when someone has only theoric knowledge about something...

I was just making fun on Tony's back. Making a spelling mistake while claiming that someone lacks proper education is kinda funny :) Thanks Mercutio for pointing out that Shakespeare can be writen both ways. So Tony's previous post is ok since he didn't mispel anything.

Err, Tony...it's Shakespeare I think.

I think this person must be a teen living his identity crisis. Concluding that Mercutio is derived from mirQtio is a bit pulled by the hair. Anyway, you've been a veteran member of SR for at least as long as he claims to have been and you are far more renown than he is so you have every right...

The price drop is very recent here so maybe you didn't have it yet. I agree that a P4 + SiS645 mobo still costs more on average than an Athlon XP + VIA KT266A combo. The gap isn't as huge as it was though. I like the Intel option more an more as the Northwood CPUs are droping slowly but...

I vote for StorageForum.Net, so people won't have problem to remember the url. I like the design with shades in the letters.

Yes, it's called uninstall ;-) No, sorry, I don't have extended knowledge about McAffee.

Instead of converting your file to generic 8-bit or 16-bit colors, convert it to optimized 8-bit or 16-bit colors. The difference is that in the later case, the 256 or 65535 colors will be chosen among the entire palette of the original picture instead of simply be chosen among Windows' generic...

Hi, Like most of you, I read a whole bunch of reviews about the latest DDR chipsets for the Pentium 4. If you put aside the temporary DDR SDRAM price jump, the new socket 478 DDR chipsets make it possible to build a P4-based system at a fairly competitive price, even compared to Athlon...

Unfortunately, we can't tell you, it's part of the agreement ;-)

I don't know for DS-3, but OC-base is ~52MBps. OC-3 is therefore 3x OC-base, so ~156MBps. OC-48 is ~2.5GBps and OC-192 is ~10GBps. The map Doug posted must be at least 2 years old I guess. OC-192 exist for at least three years, so I figure it should be more common than what's shown on the...

Please gentlemen, stop talking and keep quiet. Mister Post 1000th has arrived. ;-)

Bill, I recommend you to use .gif or .png instead of .jpg. You won't have the jitters around the letters as there is currently in the pictures you posted. BTW, are the processors yours or you just took the screenshot from another review web site?

If it can enhance the CPU's performances, then I vote for it. Hyperthreading or not, I still don't like the main idea being the design of the P4 core, that is : decreasing the IPC in order to boost the frequency. Hyperthreading sounds like a way to raise the IPC somewhat, so it certainly ain't...