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The last Duron 1.6GHz I bought looks suspicious to me. I remember a news not too long ago about remarked Duron CPUs. Could someone please tell me where to find pictures comparing a fake and a legitimate Duron 1.6GHz? There are obvious signs of thermal paste on the core and the characters on...

Their servers are pretty busy, but I've been able to download the Net installer after about 30sec. of waiting. Release notes. Download.

Intel will come out with 4MB L3 Xeon processors this quarter, according to this old news item from the Inquirer. The price will probably be sky-high. I hope AMD follows, as these increasing cache sizes usually give a nice boost to DB servers etc. News source Submitted by The_JoJo

After the Novell acquisition of SUSE is done, Novell will offer some legal protection to it's SUSE customers. You will have to sign up for support etc., but that is not surprising. More resistance against SCO again. News source Submitted by The_JoJo

The eternal Apache vs. IIS battle is still raging, although according to these news Apache is still leading and widening the gap to IIS. Apache market share, according to Netcraft, has grown last year from about 62% to 67%. News source

To pay the auction I won this evening, I planned to use PayPal and pay from my banking account. Problem is : I forgot to confirm my banking account to PayPal earlier. The confirmation is supposed to take 2 or 3 business days and that delay will surely piss the seller. Last time I used PayPal...

I have a slight problem. I was interested in a cheap LVD SCSI controller on eBay, but the seller wrote that he would only ship in the U.S. (narrow minded I guess). But, surprisingly, no one seemed interested in his controller. With only seconds to go (9, to be precise - I remember the auction...

See this auction. The seller only offers the "Buy Now" option, so it is and it will stay 73.99$. Card only, but still a good price IMO. Shipping is low and it's unclear if he is willing to ship outside U.S. (divergent info at two places). I need a SCSI controller to format two or three...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20040107114451.html This is bad for people (like me) who were looking to buy an nForce2-based motherboard from Abit. It doesn't look good for further optimizations and overall support of the boards that have already been sold either. Sorry Doug, we...

While I don't think the latest iPod is an item of great interest among our membership, I'll give Apple its minute of glory on our front page since I rarely pay attention to them. BTW, did the original Mac has really been released only 20 years ago? That was written in the newspaper here this...

I'm talking about a boxing ring. I've never seen a circular "ring". To me, it would make more sense if we would say : "The boxers enter the square" instead of : "The boxers enter the ring". Explanation?

I don't think many among our membership still use this old operating system, but many of our customers surely do. Warning the concerned folks that it's their last chance to update their system might be a good idea. News source

I've been disassembling my slowest system this evening, moving it to another enclosure. When I arrived to the motherboard, I decided to check if a) I was able to remove the north bridge heatsink and b) to verify if ECS did the odious of putting double-sided tape to attach the heatsink to the...

I've seen that motherboard appear on one of my suppliers' list and I wonder if it worths a small premium over the NF7-S (the one we gave to our kind webmaster). It features a so-called µ-Guru set of overclocking utilities, but if it doesn't o/c better than the NF7-S, this means next to nothing...

Those with some post-Holidays cash to spare can offer themselves the latest and greatest Athlon64 (except for the FX-51) right now. At 440$, it isn't much more expensive than the 3200+ was (which cost ~400$ IIRC). The store with the lowest price so far is ZipZoomFly (ridicoulous name, but...

Seen in a PC Magazine article : Find the mistake that made my jaw drop. Hint : it's easy and obvious. I can't believe it passed through proof-reading or the supervisor.

Brought me a smile. AMD should consider it. Would draw more attention than other recent ugly nicknames given to their offsprings (Duron, someone?).

Until Dec. 27th. I'll be taking a computer break for a few days, so any news submission from now until then could take longer than usual to appear on the front page. You might be lucky and catch Doug's attention, but I don't expect him to be on alert 24x7 either. Merry Christmas for those who...

...ships everything for free on orders above 100$. This includes enclosures and some of their prices are very good. I've never seen an Antec SX835-II at 110$CDN before, for instance. I stumbled on their site this afternoon and (affiliated to Yahoo! shopping engine) I think their current...

Does it really makes a difference if you use 800 grit paper after you're finished polishing off with the 600 grit paper? I mean, I feel the 800 grit is more for aesthetics than for actually cooling benefits. Not that the freak wet-sanding his north bridge gave me ideas, but I wanted to prolong...

Now if they can just find a way to run the FAH client on one of those damn graphic cards, I'll be quite happy. Since the research is being done by stooges from Stanford, we can hope that this is what they have in mind. Source

They must have had serious problems to have almost completly missed the Holiday season. Let's hope everything has been fixed now. News source

This is what I call a débile profond in my language. http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=70&var2=0 Spending what seems like an entire day sanding a chip, not a heatsink. You gotta wonder about his mental health.

We've discussed about this software before in the forum, but now that it's been released, we can test instead of speculating. You can download Maxboost here. News source

On this page. I knew MS often offered discounts on their popular softwares, but letting them go for free is rarer. You can also order a CD with VB .Net on it, 60-day trial version on this page. If any of you is interested...

I remember that this chipset stinks, but I don't remember exactly how much. I'm considering it (although not very seriously) for an extremely budget box where the focus will be placed on the CPU and few things else (guess why?). I don't care for the onboard crappy graphic lame performances...

http://www.beau.org/~jmorris/linux/whitebox/index.html I'm not sure what it is, but it looks like a free version of RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0. Don't know how it can be legal, but some of you who were pissed by the vanishing of RedHat vanilla Linux version might be interested.

Just in time for Christmas. Linus and his assistants seem fairly confident in the stability and maturity of the 2.6 branch at this point, so the scandinavian #1 nerd gave the green flag for the official version to get out. You can download the kernel at Kernel.org. News source

Just saw that on this morning's news. I think the name of the robot is QRIO and it's similar to Honda's Aibo (is it Aibo?, something like that anyway), although it seems about 2/3 the size and is looking more like a finished product than the other (the backpack is hidden within the body of the...

Na Na Na Naaa! Na Na Na Naaa! Hey Hey Hey! Goodbye! Glad to see the end of a bad design that should have never made it out of the design lab. News source

To be honest, I first spotted the news on Ars, but Hannibal didn't provide any link to the official announcement so I had to look elsewhere. I'm not sure if solid state storage devices would be more appropriate for drives this small. News source

Although that now I prefer the foobar2000 player that Doug linked a few weeks ago (much lower resources need), Winamp 5 offers a much nicer interface and should be a better choice for people looking for applications with a nicer look and feel. The memory eating habits have been lessen compared...

No, not something from Microsoft. It's worse, it's Unixware 7.1.3 from...SCO!!! Someone from OSNews gave it a shot and relates his experience on the OS from company who's only true patent is probably on pure evil. Read the review here.

Alive too. Or at least that's what they said at the news this morning. More later.

This news is so sad that it brought me a smile. Me thinks SCO is so close to being totally ruined that it cannot afford to protect itself from upcomming DoS attacks. I'll have a lot of fun to read similar news in the future, since it's likely to happen again quite soon.

This Chieftec case seems like a great deal for only 55$ shipped. Doesn't include a PSU though, but still. Free shipping if you're in the States (well, they only ship in the States :( ). The fan holes are well made and the enclosure surely offers a good enough air flow for any ATX platform.

After months of battling with browser settings that simply despised SF's news submission feature, a little help from SF's webmaster Doug "Handy" Handruin went a long way in enabling CityK to finally manage to overcome the restrictions enforced by his web browser. Doug quickly latched onto the...

You can read the release notes if you have too much spare time. Personally, I'll just download the thing and experiment it first hand.

www.kazaalite.tk has been shut down www.kazaalite243.com and www.kazaalitesite.com now both lead to Google. Is it the end of KaZaA lite? I'm quite pissed about this, since I find it totally unacceptable to have as only solution to resort to the regular KaZaA which installs shitty spyware...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/unixproresources/freesfu30.asp I don't think I'd have a use for this, but I'm sure many among you would.

So our PC audio solutions will be mono. This is no good News source

Beginning today, I see a "warn level" bar aside to my name at SR. Yet, I haven't received any message from the moderators complaining about my posts. Anyone else sees that when they log at SR? With all the mental retards posting freely in their forum nowadays (there's a fair share of worthy...

The article is supposed to be a comparative review of budget processors, but the results are so much in favor of AMD that in the end, the article is more a warning against Celeron than anything else : I knew Intel's budget CPU was bad, but I wasn't thinking it was that much. Shameful. BTW...

In some places, even if you arrive drunk at the job, carrying a gun and looking for your manager, your union will defend you if you're laid off. No comments, except that I think JTR1962 will love this story.

News. IMO, they do this because the Chinese have annonced earlier that they also plan to send a yellow dot on our satellite, so the Americans will now need to do more than video-hoax in Nevada if they want their claim to be the first ever on the moon to hold up in the history books and not be...

Athlon 64 still seems more appealing to me. But AMD will have to introduce cheaper versions of the Athlon 64 in order to compete against Intel in the lower end by February. News source

Don't know what's changed, don't care either. Get it here.

Great, I was tired to swear about 2.4 and I needed a new scape goat. I really hope the claimed improved responsiveness is true. News source

Yep. Only 7000$. See it for yourselves if you don't believe me. IOM, perfect companion for people driving Hummer in downtown areas.