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Wow. It was obvious that the shares of AMD were a tad high lately, so traders would just wait for a little bad news to make it drop, but 22% in one day is silly. Damn, the company is still profitable. Just less than before. Very happy I am not to own any of their shares.

http://www.apple.com/macmini/ 500$ to 600$ for a nice-looking 6.5"x6.5"x2" polished bx with a 1.25GHz-1.42GHz G4 inside and MacOS X. 256MB of RAM may be a downer though.

PHP version older than 4.3.10 or 5.0.3 are plaggued by an errata that could leave they database wide open to malicious minds : News source Are we safe?

I think the only wireless technology for eMac (colorful shitbox with a G4 inside) is bluetooth, but I'm not sure. The customer has cable modem. His PC is in the same room as the cable modem, but the eMac is on another floor and he needs to get internet access on it. Passing a cable through...

I saw it coming and now it's done. Today, AMD's stocks closed at 24.85$, while Intel's finished at 24.01$. It is the first time since I follow the stock market that I see this. I'm not saying that it never happened before, but it's the first time I see it. Of course, the fact that Intel's...

I'm probing the mirrors since midnight to try to catch one that's letting us download FC3 test 3, but so far, no luck. No idea at what hour today they are planning to open the gates.

Hi guys. A guy I know asked me how much it would cost him to get a .com and a small online space for a low traffic/small size web site. He plans to do it in Java and he has a few pictures, but everything should be quite light weight. I haven't been on the Net and in the tech field much...

This could be the beginning of the end for mechanical hard drives. News source Submitted by JTR1962

But the article is still being written. The performances are in line with what should be expected from a larger version of the 7K250. Its best showing IMO is in the gaming benchmark. Notice that the transfer rate are exactly the same as those posted by the 7K250, so it's quite obvious that...

I'm sure all our American forum members will be glad to learn that part of Bush's overweighted military/defence budget is to finance this : U.S. army : "Be All You Can Be" news source

According to Micron, at least : So people like me waiting for the Athlon 64 on the 90µm process (coming in late Fall) will have to spend a lot for the RAM of their new system :( News source

It seemed to me that Fed 2 final was just released yesterday, but Test 1 of Fed 3 has already arrived. A list of the the download mirrors is available here. I haven't found what has been updated since Fedora Core 2 yet.

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I have found the article quite interesting. Some of the results were surprising (at least to me) and thus have lit me on the advantages and differences of new TCQ-capable and current/old TCQ-deprived SATA controllers and drives. Here's the conclusion for the impatient readers. So for my own...

What an astonishment! SR posting the evaluation of a drive the same day as it is announced. I almost kicked my jaw when it felt on the floor. News source

Starts at 1999$...for the 1.8GHz model, but if you want the dual 2.5GHz G5, you'll have to let go 2999$ of your hardly-earned money. Fortunately for Apple, there's always Photoshop to use as a benchmark. Objectively speaking, a G5 offers about the same performances than an Opteron at similar...

Storage in decline? News source

This can't be bad for AMD. First ServerWorks' chipset for AMD's Opteron is expected for this Fall, according to X-bit Labs. News source

These drives have the potential to seriously threaten USB flash drives IMO. News source

Another thing that will make me work in overtime to pile cash. News source

The box will feature a motherboard based on the NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 250Gb chipset. Overall, a very interesting product and I'm sure many are looking forward to see how well it will fare. News source

No, not about DB, but there is a new virus making its way through Europe under the name Sober.G Update on May 16th, 2004 News source Submitted by Buck

...So I can shoot all the motherfockers on our roads. All those who don't know how to use they rear-view mirrors and cut my way when they drive 30 miles per hour slower ; all those bastards who don't care crossing full lines instead of waiting for hatched lines ; all those imbeciles who...

It's been sent to the mirrors, but the repertory is "access denied" everywhere. Aaarrgghh! I hate to have to wait three days for something that's ready right now. Fedora Core 2 Test 3 doesn't feature the latest kernel 2.6.6 with the supposedly much better memory handling. Come Monday, come.

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A vulnerability exists in hardware implementations of the IEEE 802.11 wireless protocol that allows for a trivial but effective attack against the availability of wireless local area network (WLAN) devices. News source Submitted by Senior Bebedor

Download it here. Press release. [daily dose of PR mooseshit] [/daily dose of PR mooseshit] Anyone told them that there are other browsers out there except IE and them? Not that I care ; I prefer Firefox.

I think it deserves to be mentioned here since there's been so much hype surrounding this game and so many efforts deployed by graphic chipset manufacturers to try to become the fastest platform for Doom 3 that I feel that this game is what has been driving a good part of the graphic industry...

This is the first Linux distribution I've tried that didn't screw up the entire setup when I updated the kernel. For once, it didn't blow up the LAN connection has well has some drivers for hardware components. With this release (or test release, although most Linux distro version seems like...

Intel is abandoning the Pentium 4 architecture that gave us Willamette, Northwood and Prescott. Instead, Intels next core will be based on the Pentium-M (Banias)/Pentium !!! core - possibly dual core as well. The stated reason is that power consumption is too difficult to control in a timely...

AMD HAS CONFIRMED that it will not include support for PCI Express for future Athlon XP processors. We asked Via whether it would produce chipsets supporting PCI-E for XPs, and it said it has no such product in its roadmaps. This might leave Athlon XP owners with no hope of future graphics...

Seems finally like an interesting alternative to Intel's chipsets. The performance results were surprising considering the lame state of ATI's first chipset for Intel's Pentium 4. Main disapointment is the lack of overclocking features on the reference design. Let's hope that manufacturers...

My business partner needs a too expensive box and he has to choose between the two servers mentioned in this thread's title. Both have very similar equipment, except for the L2 cache amount of the Xeon processors. The HP has an option to get Xeon with 2MB of L2 cache while the IBM only offers...

Simple question, isn't it? My old Altec Lansing ACS56 speaker set died last month, with a little help from my hammer (one of the rear satellites ended up being at the wrong place, wrong time), so now I need to find a replacement. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, but at least I make the economy roll...

Release notes. You can download the BitTorrent file here. There are ISOs for both CD and DVD formats. I'm, as usual, dowloading it right now.

...that comes bundled with a LanParty motherboard. I bought one over an Infinity Ultra something (with an nFarce2 Ultra 400) because it was on special and I tought the gagabit ethernet would be nice to have. But the retail box of the LanParty motherboard comes with so much stuff that I think...

Quadro FX 4000 for nVidia and Wilcat Realizm for 3DLabs. People here using workstation-oriented graphic cards could tell us if there's a reason to drool or not. Personnaly, spending more than a thousand (or two) for a graphic card doesn't excite me much.

I've seen the above on my price lists for a few months already. They dissipate 45W and fit regular socket-462. I've decided to give one a shot (will use it on a DFI LanParty Infinity Ultra B that I got on reduced price). I hope I will be able to reach at least 2.3GHz with it. Kingston PC3700...

I guess the advertised 90GB per disk size is with compressed data. Hope for them it catches a little more than their Peerless failure... News source

I'm not very familiar with DVD writers. A potential customer wants one in his box. And he wants one with a black face plate. My options are quite limited. I've found an older Pioneer 4x model, a Sony drive (Mercutio's horror story discouraged me regarding S*ny) and the 8x NEC ND-2500B. Is...

It seems that at least part of their source code is now floating around the net. Interesting... News source Submitted by The JoJo

Tested applications were MySQL, Samba, Static and Dynamic web pages. The new kernel shows impressive gains over the old one in several instances. I would seriously consider a switch if I were using a 2.4-based linux server. News source

I received today another motherboard from ECS, but this time based on the KT400 chipset instead of the SiS735. It's a LVT7A, rev 1.0. I removed the north bridge (and had even more misery doing it than on the K7S5A Pro I sent to Handruin) just to see if they fix all their heatsink the same poor...

For all you Mac lovers out there, and here (Greg?), here's a 2 part review of Mac OS X Server 10.3. I wouldn't have bothered otherwise, but as it is Unix based....;) News source Submitted by The JoJo

I read this light review (light because it's from Firingsquad) comparing the DFI LanParty NFII Ultra B (please, a glass of water after pronouncing this) and the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe. Not swallowing everything that was written there, but still got interested in the DFI board, I started browsing...

This is the first time in quite a while that AMD doesn't declare numbers in the red. While a profit announcement for Intel would be quite ordinary, a profit for AMD is news-worthy IMO. If AMD can post profits for several quarters in a row, it might stop being so fragile against arch-rival...

Gamepc has a comparison of the two processors mentioned. Aaaahhh, some SMP lovin'.... News source Submitted by The_JoJo

For those doing/planning to do video encoding, here's a comparison of the processors worth using for that task. The 13 processors are tested with Divx, Xvid, MPEG 1 and MPEG 2, just to name a few. News source Submitted by The_JoJo

They are bastards. First, they send me an invoice (for a graphic card - item less than 1lb) with a shipping fee of 11.99$ and a handling fee of 1.99$. Their auction clearly states that the handling fee is 1.50$ for all items. Plus, they write that international buyers should visit their...

Please someone, wipe Blakerwry : he's drooling everywhere. News source