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Clocker has an overclocked system that continuesly ships invalid units. Around 390 failed units per 3 hours periods. It is screwing our stats an preventing him from getting valuable points from that system. Lower the clock of that CPU please.

One computer, one hard drive. Daddy wants to have his own Windows installation that his kids can't access. Daddy wants to have a Windows installation just for his kids so they can screw it up with their kazaa/lamewire P.O.S. and not affect daddy's own Windows installation. Both installations...

Some weirdo from Indonesia requested a quote for a few systems from our store. We are a 6 employees store with annual sales in the six figures, not a multinational corporation dealing with millions. He asked if we take credit (from Indonesia???) and also asked for delivery periods. Someone...

With the insane Vista hardware requirements and the increasing difficulty of hacking a copy of Windows (by users, of course), our store has to offer a cheap alternative to the OS of the Evil Empire. Both cost 50U$ per license. I have a Linspire Five-O iso that I've never burned and used. I've...

How proud the old guy must be to have beaten a five years old at something...

KDE looks great on the DVI input of my Dell 2005FPW. We are planning to start bundling a yet-to-be-decided Linux distro with some of our cheapo computer systems at the shop. Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.06 will officially launch in June. Juging by its Flight 7 release (kinda like a beta 7), it will...

It's mid-May and there still haven't been a major hurricane in the Atlantic! Have evil Texan rednecks stoppped driving polluting SUVs or what? When will I finally be granted the pleasure to see Floridians fly and crash on concrete walls? Global warming anyone? Where are those doom-day...

I've been given an HP Vectra XA with a Pentium MMX 200MHz, 32MB of puny RAM and a 2.5GB hard drive (oh lucky me). The system is quite limited on ressources. It now has Win98SE installed on it, but the OS is out of shape and I don't currently have a Win98SE CD lying around so f**k to M$...

Canayantire offers 80W panels for 700$CAN. I don't know what size they are, but I'm sure they are quite competitive on the W per $ ratio. There must be something better on the market though.

Someone I know has a camp far away to the North (8 hours north of Montréal). He wants something to power a fridge there. Needless to say, there are no power lines anywhere near. Someone told him a UPS (not a skimpy one for computers) would be the best thing for him. He doesn't want to pay...

A rather clueless she-customer arrived yesterday with a computer infested with spywares and a broken WinXP firewall. She had a good anti-virus program (Avast), so no virus was present on her system. After using three different spyware-removal tools under safe mode, I'm fairly confident that...

I had a deal for a lease-return Thinkpad A30. It's a P3-M 1.13GHz with 256MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive. My first impression when I opened the box was that the thing was big, so I was a little disappointed, but when I lifted the screen and started to play with it, my deception dissappeared...

I was asked about a screen capture program today, but last time I checked that was what, four years ago? I need something a bit better than Alt-PrintScreen and copy to a drawing program. I did a quick research on Google, but I don't feel like trying a few tens of softwares to evaluate the...

My suppliers have increased the price of the DDR SDRAM modules by some 20% in the last week only. Will we see 512Mo memory sticks around 200$ like some 5 years ago? Is this the end of the party? Or is the increase simply caused by the market shift to DDR2 modules?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311 Some say IIS is a swiss cheese, but to me it looks more like a spagetti meal.

Because the front USB connector isn't standard and it will bust your motherboard. I toasted three freaking boards today before realizing this. That plus a customeer that must be the missing link between ape and man made my day a bad one­.

Our current bottom-of-the-pit boxes are unacceptable, but unfortunately, they are the ones that we sell the most. Before developping a depression, I'm re-making our entry offerings. Currently, I'm hesitating between Intel and AMD for the best bang-for-the-buck at the extreme low-end of our...

The cases we currently sell are, IMNSHO, pieces of crap. They bend in every possible ways when we try to replace the side panel, are made of paper-thin metal sheets and are finger-hazardous areas (I cut my finger badly last Monday). Bottom line : I'm sick of it. Tomorrow, I want to make a few...

I have a customer who complains that since he installed (himself) his DVD drive, his favorite game (I think it's CoD) no longer works. When he starts it, an error message appears saying that this game detects that a CD emulation program is installed and that it is not compatible with it. I'm...

Avoid this brand at all cost for wireless devices. Both their routers and their PCI cards (I tried the 423) are flaky and unreliable. I had one on the shelf and I installed it in a customer's PC who wanted to link his machine to an SMC router (the 7004something). While the drivers included...

A pre-9 Opera build is now compliant with the web standards and it displays the Acid2 test properly. Our Brisbane delegate will be happy to read this.

I've done many things to earn money in my life, including being a stock broker and running my own company, but because I was my own boss, I don't count those for "jobs". And being my own boss hasn't given me enough money to live on for the last few years, so I've had to work elsewhere to join...

Manufacturer link. How does it compare to an Antec SLK30000B? I have no first hand experience with the Thermaltake chassis, but from the spec., it is lighter, so probably flimsier. The fan is supposed to be more quiet than the one that comes with the Antec. Anyone here has tried the Mambo?

With a picture included. :mrgrn:

A computer that needs a 700W PSU is excessive, unless it's a mainframe or such. SLI and Crossfire shouldn't exist.

I learned this evening that a young man I've known died in Australia on February 25th. News are scarse. He apparently drown. He was only 27 years old and he was visiting Australia and working from place to place to earn money to continue his trip. From what I can understand, he was near a...

I'm just beginning my researchs on this topic, so help would be appreciated. I read a lot this evening about the various Wi-Fi security means. I knew WEP was crap and that WAP was better, but it had been a while since I touched that, so I needed a refresh. I've found this article among many...

Same size as before, only more powerful. The 1.5GHz Single Core version sells for 600U$ while the 1.67GHz Core Duo goes for 800$. Both come with 512MB of 667MHz RAM by default and both use Intel's GMA950 integrated graphics. There's a DVI output. IMO, you pay a lot for the small size...

I doubt Paugie has been affected in any way by this because that village didn't look like it could have internet access, but I would appreciate a little "Hi, I'm ok" from his part. Here, I've had report that it was a village of either 1700 or 3000 persons and that so far, only 200 have been...

The Hinderburg didn't kill enough people, so they are giving it another shot. Even if I had the money, I sure wouldn't set foot on that terrorist attack magnet. link.

Another Bush-related attrocity. There are no words to describe my despise of these imbeciles. They're screwing up the entire humanity and whole planet just for their own personal monetary benefit. May they end their lives in boiling oil or in liquid manure.

...can all be found here.

I first thought about posting those at the end of my last post in the G6-bashing thread ( ;-) ), but since they weren't related to the mid-size Pontiac, I figured they deserved a new thread. So : The EPA rating will be changed this summer to better reflect real driving conditions (it will...

Read their review here. Their unit is PATA, SATA is not yet available for the 5400.3. No performance benchmark, but a good read if you're interested by the noise and vibration of the drive.

Hairy Aussie will be happy. SeaMonkey 1.0 page on Mozilla.org. From the few tests I've seen, SeaMonkey and the old Mozilla branch is a tiny bit faster than fireFox for browsing because it is based on a newer gecko engine.

Tom Pabst steps down from CEO title. His editor in chief (David Strom) does too. The first comment of the short news post is comic too.

This store has awesome prices for Seasonic power supplies. Too bad their script doesn't work when you want to order something online (at least it doesn't work under Firefox and Opera : I refuse to use IE). 69$CAD for an S12-380HB is a great price (even if it's 3% discounted for cash). We have...

Specifications You can pre-order your drive directly from their web store for 350U$ (free shipping). So maybe Eric will finally be able to buy some half-terabyte drives?

A former customer told me that he has BSOD when he's playing some recent games. He has Win2K and he receives the message that ntoskrnl.exe causes the problem. ntoskrnl.exe is the Microsoft Boot Up Kernel. I searched briefly on the Net for a possible explanation, but I haven't found anything...

If The Inquirer is right (flip a coin), Opteron for dual sockets will see huge price drops in three weeks.

Press release. DailyTech short artcile with pretty pictures. They also post links to a few reviews. Personally, I'm no fan of dual-slot cooling solution and I don't like to deal with an external cable to setup a Crossfire configuration. So I'm fairly unimpressed with ATI's recent high-end cards.

http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ca&CS=CABSDT1&l=en&oc=OC3007FP_ADVENT Free delivery. Who wants one? This screen cost 2200U$, but with this deal, it's 1400U$ for Canucks and Québéçois.

The capacity is achieved with perpendicular recording. The areal density is very high at 1.35Gbit per square inch. Unfortunately, the drive will only be offered with the PATA interface in the beginning, but SATA will come this summer. News source. P.S. Wasn't that drive already announced...

Source. Of course, his idea will be bought and drawn by some oil company as it would cut their profits. Still, if there would be people with a spine, that could work great.

When I tried to load the forum stats page (http://www.storageforum.net/forum/statistics.php), I was greeted by the following message :

Forget Canada Merc. This country will also have a redneck leading it. Steven Harper, leader of the clueless farmer party (they call themselves "conservative"), should win the upcoming January 23rd election. He's for guns, plans to triple the size of the army and he's against Kyoto and any...

Where is that guy? I was looking for a cartoon like the one he uses for his avatar and then, when I searched his profile, I saw that he didn't visit in more than a year. Sad, he was appreciated.

Customer wants new big shiny display. Me sees Dell selling the 2005FPW at 561.75$CAN and another online store selling the Samsung 204T at similar price (~5$ difference shipped). Me has the Dell and me very satisfied with the picture. Me knows that the Samsung packs even more pixels...

Palpatine rules the catholic Church! We are doomed. P.S. I know this one is old, but I needed a place to compare pictures of both.

So far, the lowest coefficient drag I've heard about was the one of the Corvette at around 0.27. You can't carry anything inside a Corvette. This one is spacious and it has a significantly lower drag. I hope many manufacturers will copy this shape and introduce cars featuring <0.20Cd. I...