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I need a program that can tell me the bandwidth between two points of a network. Copying a large directory with a stopwatch isn't precise enough. What are you guys using for measuring the bandwidth of your networks?

We've had 35cm of white shit so far today and the meteo man told me that we still have some 5-10cm coming on us untill the end of the afternoon. I don't even think they've had more in Buffalo. Too bad I don't have a camera. I would have had some very good shots to do, like my car. People...

I've been unable to access SF for most of the day. I'm sure it's the CIA, alarmed by Flagreen, that shut it down because of my (and Merc's) anti-Bush comments. Damn conservative rednecks!

This could interest the Canayans and Québéçois members of the forum. Both the S12-500HT and the S12-600HT are available at discounted price. 138$ for the 500W and 180$ for the 600W mammoth. All prices in maple leaf money­.

Honda's new pickup is receiving positive reviews from everywhere. Its fuel appetite is certainly one of its strongest points, but there are a few others. In collision tests, it received the best rating for side and front impacts, something that no other truck can claim. And it also seems to...

I own and like a Logitech MX700. One of my friends wants a wireless mouse. I told him wireless mice are battery-sucking devices, excet for those with a rechargeable base. I tried to find a few models to give him a choice, but the only such mouse I can find is the Logitech MX1000. I can't...

Maybe I ate something that had oestrogen in it or I just felt weird, but I decided to do some housekeeping today. I did a short inventory of my old, unused computer parts : Duron DHD1600LV1C (I thought Duron stopped at 1.4GHz, not 1.6GHz) Athlon Thunderbird 800MHz Asus A7N266-VM (nForce220-D...

I need to add Hi-Speed USB ports (at least two), accessible from the front panel of an aging computer system. The computer is a P3 866MHz on a VIA-based motherboard that hasn't integrated USB 2.0 ports. The enclosure doesn't have front USB ports. The OS is Win2K. I am considering this Sagent...

While I still don't own, or plan to own, a laptop, a couple of my friends would like to get a new one in the upcoming months. Mainly for office work, no great requirements. Not too bulky would be a bonus. 8-9 pounds is too much. I'm looking 7lbs or less. I quickly browsed throuh the...

Look at the schedule and try to find FC5 test 1. Nowhere it is. It's the second time FC5 test 1 is delayed. It was originally supposed to be released on November 13th. This looks bad. Ugly. Almost Condoleeza Rice'd.

Really. Like a strong odor of...you know when you first get a card out of its anti-static bag? I guess it's an odor of silicon. It just started minutes ago. The temperature probe shows nothing special, the temperature hasn't changed in a while. I guess it might be the power supply. My FAH...

I received an invite to join this network from someone I believe is a visitor of SF. Now, I don't want to turn off members of my fan club (;)), but I'm quite unsafe with social-type networks. I'd like to know if this Hi5 thingie is a spyware spreading network or if other folks here use it...

I wasn't sure if I should have just pm Tony about this, but in case anyone else still has an interest in OS/2, here's the link.

Oh no! This non-sense is spreading to AMD. After having messed with a few motherboards featuring this insertion mecanism, I'm not too happy to learn this : [list:447f71e10b] [/list:u:447f71e10b] Like we say here : Ah bin Tabarnack! News source

I wasn't sure if this should be posted in the Computers or in the Pub & Brewery section. Here you go : Source I hope it lit up your day like it did to mine.

I did it here and I have absolutely no regret about it. Don't look at me like that, he asked for it. That's what happen when you start threads with generic titles.

Info. In theory, it should be quite secure, but I'm worried about the performance of such an OS. If each program isn't allowed to share memory, multitasking on this system must suck. OpenBSD already exists for those for whom reliability is paramount.

Great. I can already hear Mercutio laugh. I'm happy not to have bought a motherboard based on this chipset. I hope previous nForce chipsets aren't affected as I own and sold quite a few nForce 2-based systems.

According to this news at Ars Technica, IBM's BlueGene/L is capable of achieving 280.6TFLOPS, while the entire F@H contributors can only reach 178TFLOPS. The numbers of BlueGene/L are impressive. The supercomputer has 131072 processors. The whole F@H community has 186172 active CPUs. I'm...

I heard the name LimeWire before, but only a few moments ago did I learn that it is a P2P file sharing software (I went to download.com in search of an old game). Morpheus 5.0 is also listed among the most popular downloads and the reviewer wrote that it protects privacy and is free from any...

I'm so sad when I read this ;-) http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20051024PR206.html The most notable drops occur in the Turion family (low-power mobile CPUs). The dual core Athlon X2 models also become a bit cheaper, so that doesn't hurt.

Read the full press release. Download it.

This is the kind of news that gives me the temptation to hunt an FBI agent and beat him until his skull opens. Just temptation, I don't plan to waste my time to actually do it. Clearly, this data isn't used to protect the safety of ordinary citizen but the interest of powerful lobbies backing...

Not the release candidate, the official 5.10 is out. I tried Ubuntu once and I thought it had a clean layout. I'm no Linux expert, but Ubuntu seems to gather quite a lot of attention among the community. Ubuntu 5.10 info.

It was about time Supermicro includes their Opteron boards into their official lineup. How long had they been selling those in the OEM channels? Something like 6 months I think. At least now their customers will have official support from the manufacturer, like obvious links to drivers from...

Their boxes suddenly cost 30-40% more than they did a few weeks ago (maybe even compared to yesterday, I haven't checked). I don't think this is going to help them to improve their market share. Maybe it has to do with their complain about their low average selling price. A Celeron 2.4GHz...

According to this brief news at Digitimes, AMD will start manufacturing 65nm cores as early as mid-October. Intel won't before January. How's that possible? I can't recall AMD ever being ahead of Intel in their manufacturing process. Better chip designs, yes, but more advanced manufacturing...

The article in question. Unlike Eugene's latest benchmarks, enabling NCQ on TR's testbed leaded to noticeable performance gains. TR's didn't use light office applications though, but tasks that put a significant workload on the storage system. And according to their test, Maxtor's DiamondMax...

Someone had to mention it. www.storagereview.com for those who might have forgotten the address. Oz's orange fur ball will be happy to see how the Samsung fares.

I still didn't try to power it up, but I'm pretty sure I've bent a few pins when I placed the processor. Now I understand why several among you cursed Intel for their socket 775 design. Next time, I'll read the instructions first and put the processor and heatsink afterward. Also, last time...

Read the announcement : announcement I post it just for your general knowledge. The thing is surely expensive as Hell.

Not rare as a blue moon, but it doesn't happen everyday either. The 2005FPW is now 759.20$ and the 2405FPW is 1119,20$ (the lowest it has ever been to my knowledge here). The prices will probably stay like that until thursday next week. I'm freaking tempted. How nice's the 2405FPW Pradeep...

Press release News source Wow, I don't give a shit

Ok, maybe it's me who didn't take my pills, but what the Hell is that : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103546 I thought all Athlon 64 X2 were made for socket 939.

In another US ONLY DEAL :cursin: , Dell will offer a substantial rebate to its US :cursin: customers, starting 9am tuesday morning, during an online-only notebook sale. More details here. You better hurry tomorrow morning for this sale because there's only about 15000 units to be sold and...

I'm talking about this XPlite. The way I see it, it's a tweaking tool, not a complete OS, so I still have to own a separate copy of WinXP and then apply the XPlite miraculous diet to remove MSFT trans fat from the OS. It's not very expensive (40$ per copy, less if many copies are purchased)...

I asked for an advanced replacement for a defective WD400JB through their web site and the drive arrived just two days later. Dunno about their service elsewhere on the globe but here, it cannot be better. I see no reason to complain about them.

I downloaded and installed (well, tried to) FC4t1, but I ran into some issues. First, although I get a correct SHA1sum for the iso files I've got, the media check always fails during installation. This is on disks that are known to be good. I've checked Fedora's support list and others are...

There's a thread for the deals on the 2005FPW, but the 24" beast needs one of its own too IMO. For Canadian and Québécois customers, the 2405FPW is on sale at 1349.10$CDN with free shipping this week.

From Asetek. I guess this might be the next retail Intel CPU cooler for their roaster Pentium 4 CPUs.

Weight: 22.1 lbs Image Max H-View Angle: ±89° Image Max V-View Angle: ±89° Color Support: 16.7 Million Image Aspect Ratio: 16:10 Image Brightness: 500 cd/m²(typical) Image Contrast Ratio: 1000:1 (typical) Max Resolution: 1920x1200 (WUXGA) Max Sync Rate (V x H): 76 Hz x 81 kHz Power Consumption...

I know the new Dell 1905 uses the same panel as the Samsung 193P and the specifications of the Dell 1704FPV greatly resemble those of the Samsung 711T. Here I could save around 40$ by opting for the Dell instead of buying the dearer Samsung unit. I'm not convinced that it is worth the 150$...

A Western Digital drive (WD400JB) was sitting in my previous main system. Previous, yep... Because of FAH, I overclocked it a little too high, I suppose, until four days ago when it started to freeze every now and then. I then tried to lower the frequency of the CPU, but apparently, the...