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I came accross a short article saying that Michael Phelps has been suspended three months for being caught smoking weed. Kellogg also terminated their contract with him because of the incident. I'm sorry, but WHAT A BUNCH OF RETARDS YOU ARE! He's a 23 years old man who has spent most of his...

I decided to install a virtualization software on my Server 2008 box this evening. I found out that Server 2008 isn't part of the supported operating systems listed for MS Virtual Server 2005 R2. For Server 2008, M$ has something called Hyper-V. It's a huge download (1.1GB) and it's a .iso...

I make an effort to push 80Plus certified power supplies down the throat of my customers. Right now, I'm selling the In Win IP-350EQ3-2 (a 350W model) as my basic replacement power supply and also in new low-end computer systems. I pay less than 45$ for it, which is very reasonnable in my...

A customer asked me yesterday how to do something apparently quite easy. He's a musician and he wants to copy videos from Youtube on a DVD that he'll play on his home theatre setup while he practices. So far, it doesn't seem very complicated. I tried doing this by using Youtube Downloader and...

I'm finalizing the cleanup of an infested computer. I had to disabled everything with msconfig and do a chkdsk /r before being able to install anything. I passed MalwareBytes, Superantispyware, Spysweeper, Spybot S&D, Adaware 2008 and Avira Antivir. I removed every temporary files I could...

Maybe it's because I'm tired, but I find the following funny as Hell : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUS6nKpddec Who's that guy? Was it live? Does he still have a job? And is channel 4 a big news channel?

An article linked from 2CPU.com led me to test the four Internet browsers I have on my main system using SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. The results are shown below : Google Chrome 0.3.154.9 : 1108.6ms ±1.9% Opera 9.62 : 3095.8ms ±0.6% Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 : 2419.6ms ±1.0% Internet Exasperor...

I hate to be stuck with hardware. I've been stuck with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro cooler since September 2006, two years ago. The only other computer part I haven't been able to sell is an In Win BT611T slim desktop case with a 300W power supply, but this one is only one year old, so it...

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http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13581 There are still very interesting items to get at great prices. Take a look. Maybe the Enermax CS-718 case would be good for Ddrueding to replace his Lian-Li.

One of my distributors sent me an e-mail about a shortage of Western Digital hard drives, causing Seagate to increase their prices by up to 15% during the upcoming 5 weeks. Anyone heard something about this? I find it hard to believe that a manufacturer couldn't supply drives in all capacities...

How to make them all see each others and share files? I used to do this all the time ten years ago, but now I'm no longer sure how to do it. I don't think that just all hook the four computers to the hub and let them play together by themselves will be enough (WinXP). They'll probably have to...

Am I the first to be able to sell a 1333MHz fsb Core 2? Actually, the one I'm waiting for is the E6750. I can't have it yet. Newegg don't have it.

I need a good mono laser printer with a medium duty cycle for a small business. They currently have 2 years-old HP LaserJet (I don't remember the model) and they complain that the printer heats so much that the paper curls when they print many sheets sequentially. I read good comments about...

I cannot create a new thread in the computer forum. I receive the following error message :

I'm looking for the fastest 0.5- 8 (half height) PCI-E graphic card currently available. It is for a slimPC that will have to be good enough for casual gaming on a WUXGA display. DVI out is mandatory, HDMI would be nice too, althought I'm not dreaming. Please don't tell me that 0.5 8 card...

My supplier offered me a deal this week, so I can sell the latest 1TB Hitachi drive at 400$CAN for StorageForum members (I would sell it 15$ more normally). Deal is good for the entire week. I make no profit on shipping. I will ship from Montréal via the courrier of your choice. I'll put...

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackPro-main.html http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackUSB-main.html I have a customer who ask me about the M-Audio USB Midi interface and which one would be better for her and blahblahblah... I don't know anything about MIDI stuff and I...

That's what I read on a French site. I have no idea if the source is reliable or not. If true, AMD is in business. A 2.8GHz Phenom X4 will beat anything Intel will be able to push to the market until the end of the year. The timing will be crucial for AMD though. Phenom has to ship not too...

Review. According to their tests, the drive is very fast. It gives the 10Krpm class a run for their money. The new Caviar is advertised at 250U$.

I must be thick, but I don't get it. Read that guide. Vista has to be activated within 30 days before it goes nuts. Activation delay can be rearmed three times. So let say you have 30 days free, then you need to rearm once (+30 days), then a second time (+30 days) and you're allowed to rearm...

http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/a260325.html http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/a260889.html No press release yet. Only listed on a few European web sites. Two variants exist, one with 16MB cache (HD102UJ), another with 32MB cache (HD103UJ). The marketing name will be SpinPoint F1...

I have a bunch of old socket-370 processors watching dust covers them. Why? Because all the used motherboards using s370 I cross are dead. Blown capacitors and capout BIOS on each and everyone of those. I often see perfectly working socket 7, socket A, Slot 1, Slot A motherboards. But s370...

News source. Their marketing department says it is the best 250GB 2.5" drive out there, so it must be true ;-)

Another failed FreeCell game made me transform a Compaq small form factor computer into a compact and smaller form factor computer. The HD, obviously containing valuable data, has been under repair by HD Regenerator for the past hour or so. Last time I checked, there were 171 bad sectors among...

Go see for yourself : www.storagereview.com Both SR and SF are one next to the other in my bookmarks. Now it will be more confusing when I'll accidently click on the wrong link.

So now maybe it will be easier to get PC Power & Cooling power supplies outside the United States. News source

News source The drive is a 5400rpm, with 8MB of cache and it has a 12ms seek time. It is only available in SATA version. It is available on Western Digital's site for 199.99U$. WD clinches Fujitsu as the first manufacturer to ship a 250GB 2.5" hard drive. Fujitsu announced its 250GB...

I can have those until tomorrow 5pm. PM me if interested. Quantities are limited. I'll ship anywhere, but of course it will only be cheap for Québec, Canada and United States. http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/flash_memory.html

Anyone else amazed at how low the price of DRAM (especially DDR2) has felt recently? I keep saying : "No, it CAN'T drop below that price." and I'm always wrong. Visit www.dramexchange.com. The average price indicated for 1GB U-DIMM 667MHz is about what I pay for 1GB DDR2 667MHz, but in...

I managed to find a free domain name for my company. I have two questions for people in the know : Is it useful to have a "certified" domain? I am proposed a "domain name registration" as well as a "business registration" and "private registration services". Do I need all three for a...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/vbootkit_authors_interview/ This is bad.

Is ntbtlog the equivalent of bootlog for WinXP? It's been a while since I debugged using the boot log. Anyway, the computer will always bluecreen in standard mode. It boots fine in safe mode. User can't tell me what he did to screw the installation. I have the iso CD for Win2K3 Advanced...

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/pc_case2.php?idx=118 The first generation of Arctic Cooling Silentium cases received good reviews and praises for its quietness. But it only came with a 350W PSU. Now I can get the T2 Pro model with a 500W power supply. Of course, it has Active Power Factor...

One of my good customers bought me that monitor. I plugged it to be sure there were no dead pixel and to verify that everything was working ok. Talk about creating a need. Now my Dell 2005FPW looks so pathetic. 1920x1200 is great, even compared to a still respectable 1680x1050. And the...

I included quotes in my last two news submissions and it broke the layout of the front page. Any way to fix this?

Since this web site is called "storageforum", we have to post news about storage. Does anyone have any hope that the latest 15K Ultrastar finally got rid of the recurring heat issue that have always plagued the series in the past? News source

I know the i810/i815 only supported 256MB PC133 modules. Ditto for the 440BX (that was only PC100 to make it worse). I don't remember the early VIA cheapsets for the first generation of Athlon (KT133 and KT133A). I'm pretty sure that VIA Apollo Pro 133T also supported 512MB sticks. I have...

Combine that new 24-ports 3Ware controller and two dozen Hibachi 1TB drives and you end up with a single system with enough storage to stock both Merc's and Lunarmist's collections together. I guess a kilowatt-rated power supply would be in order too. I haven't found an enclosure capable of...

I have a small (irony) problem setting up Project Server 2007 to play with an Active Directory server. Win2K3 Enterprise Server installed on an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 1GB RAM. That's my DNS server. Win2K3 Enterprise Server installed on a Core 2 Duo E6400 with 2GB RAM. That's the application...

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6404 Also, scuzzy drives with a high price premium aren't any more reliable than their cheap SATA conterparts, always according to their study. With a 100,000 drives sample, I'm quite confident that their results are fairly accurate.

I'm eager to see how much they'll cost. News source

NCIX has a great sale on the HIS X1650XT with the ICEQ3 cooling system. They sell it for 120$CAN after a 20$ mail-in rebate. My cost for a non-ICEQ3 X1650XT is 160$. I don't know how they can do it, but they do. The X1650XT has double the pipelines of the X1650Pro (24 vs 12) and is equal or...

I've seen the SuperTalent USB keys on the pricelists of my main supplier for a few months. They were cheap, very cheap, so I thought they were shit-kin. But following the 4GB USB key round-up at X-bit Laboratories, I decided to give the 4GB unit a try. ...Back home with my 39$CAN toy, I...

Problem : IBM tower (P4 3.2GHz, 512MB RAM, XP Pro), two and a half years old, boots just fine when I power it up at my lab. I return the shitbox to the customer, install it and then the Inconceivable Bunch of Morons-made computer takes more than a minute to initialize (it POST, but then hangs...

I've watched a TV report on the state of the big three car manufacturers in North America. Their situation is trully ugly. Two years ago, many thought Mitsubishi motors wouldn't survive, but now it looks like Ford will need nothing short of a miracle in order to avoid closing doors by this...

I ordered an SFX power supply (the high quality Seasonic 300W model, 80-Plus certified) as a replacement for a defective POS in a vomit box, but the customer did it in his pants and finally cancelled the repair, opting for a new system instead. So I'm sitting here with a nice but unusable...

I know (in fact, I did it a few times) it's possible to control three displays with a PCI-E Nvidia card combined to the integrated graphics that come with either the GeForce 6100 or GeForce 6150-based motherboards. What I haven't tried yet is to use an AGP or PCI-E graphic card with dual...

I moved my Core 2 Duo system into that case. That system is in my bedroom and there's no way I'mo going to be able to sleep next to it. I don't know if it's the rear 120mm fan or the power supply or both, but this thing is easily three times louder than my previous enclosure+PSU (Thermaltake...

Go to www.antec.com. This is shameful. How could a big company like Antec, one of the biggest computer case distributor, let its website go down like this? Someone, somewhere, isn't doing the job he's paid for.