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Since we have several senior or overweighted members, I thought it could be interesting. I'm also interested by this product, as I'm curious about my blood pressure when I'm about to reshape one of my computing device.

Been trying to stay young and peppy for years. I've trained like a professional athlete, been careful with what I eat, tried to travel, tried to follow the latest technology developments, etc. But now time has catched up with me and the verdict is unquestionable. Why am I now so sure about...

So soon I'll have the possibility to swear about SuSe just like I did in the past about Mandrake, Red Hat, Gentoo and Slackware. I'm so glad. (All this means that SuSe will soon be available freely online for FTP installation. Unfortunately, there won't be ISO file so people not familiar with...

New cooling solution for the latest RAdeon 9800XT card from Sapphire : Absolutely ridiculous IMO.

No information on the response time, contrast ratio and brightness. The screen has a native definition of 1680x1050. Not too many games should support this format, but hey, who would be crazy enough to play games on a MAC? Here are the spec of the rest of the system : All this for the low...

Ok, it's not that big of a news, but I had nothing else to do this morning. Ace's Hardware also tested the performances of Apache 1.3.26 in both 32bit and 64bit modes and the latter shows a nice boost. Especially with the speed bump announced today, AMD's Opteron is looking more and more like...

After my last visit at SR's forum, I still notice the abondance of perhaps the thing that annoys me the most on a computer-related forum and I would like to submit a new addition to our rules of conduct for my own sanity : You agree to never, ever, write about RAID 0 in this forum, especially...

It might interest some of you. PHP seems quite popular around here. News source

Saw this one at OSNews. It describes fairly well my frustrations most of the time I play on Linux and especially with beta versions : Although I haven't had major problems so far with my installation of Fedora Core 1, similar stories happened when I was testing earlier release candidates. I...

I saw this article at Firingsquad. Haven't read it thoroughly, but since it's "storage" related, good or bad, it should be linked here. Overall, their proposed system cost more than 3400$ and IMO looks more like an enthusiast box than a dedicated server (Logitech MX700???). It would work...

Oh great, just when I sold my AMD stocks. The only way AMD can succeed to compete with Intel is to increase its manufacturing capacity by a few orders of magnitude and with all the new fabs they have or that they plan to build in patnership with other companies, they might reach their goal...

And it's not all... Big Blue brother backs them up. Maybe Novell won't sink into oblivion like many predicted several times it would. News source

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Just like if we didn't have enough @$$ holes in freedom on this planet, Gator has joined SCO and the RIAA in the happy suing party. Their reason : they want (honest) people to stop calling their softwares "spyware". Well, given what the POS softwares they spread online do, I wonder how they...

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See this thread by CityK. Only 40dB/A!!!

You can read the changelog. Personally, I'm more interested by the developments on the 5.x branch at this point, but for those who don't feel too adventurous, the old 4.x might be more appropriate.

In contrast with the results posted in an article at Firingsquad, Lost Circuits found out that the performance penalty assosciated with larger-than-1GB of memory isn't as significant as previously reported. The problem seems to lie with Photoshop more than anything else.

Yet another way to toast your board. News source

Now I know why one of my LG 52x reader died about a month ago when I tried to install the first beta of Mandrake 9.2 :( News source

I tested the security of my local computers' internet connections this morning, using the Shields Up! web site. Recent Red Hat distributions have included a firewall that's installed by default. Most software firewalls aren't fully effective. They are better than having none, but rarely...

Even on a 2400+ Athlon XP. It's been going for an hour and I have no idea how much is left to go. All that for a package I won't use that much, or at least that I could have very well lived with the previous version (I'm installing the source rpm of GCC3.3.2 to upgrade my current 3.2.3). It...

In fact, according to the current Top500 supercomputers list, it would rank 135th. Awesome for a 25,000$ box. Anyone wants to make a generous effort to help our Folding@home team? I know someone talked about ClearSpeed not long ago in the forum, so that's not really new. But the...

A nice utility for people who, like me, have no burner to send their ISO files to CD medias and need other alternatives to boot into their OS installation. Useful to copy the bootdisk.img of some Linux distros to floppies. RawWrite

So obviously, I can't ./compile anything, which is quite annoying to say the least. How can I set the correct path to the C compiler (presumably GCC) in Linux so that the clueless operating system can allow me to compile new applications I need to install. Since not everything is available in...

Why, why did that old fat cleless dummy had to leave Pedro pitch in the 8th inning? Why? Please tell me! The Red Sox's bull pen has been exellent in the series and Pedro rarely pitches more than 7 innings. He did a great job in this game to give a chance to the Sox of winning the game...

Gentlemen, protect yourselves at all time.

Mozilla 1.5 Firebird 0.7 Opera 7.21 News source

The key question here is "when will I be able to buy it?" And no, the key answer isn't "when I'll finally get a well-paid job". News source

I downloaded the nforce driver for Linux, placed it on a FAT32 partition and then installed Fedora on the same drive (Fedora = freeware Red Hat). Once instalation finished, Linux clueless as usual about the integrated LAN on mainboard. Me thought "ah HA!, now have mighty driver!" I mount the...

As many moose and Québécois members know, NCIX (the northern equivalent to Newegg) makes interesting promotions every months or two. This time, it's for Thanksgiving. You can see the specials here. These specials combined to their bundle items can team up for a very overall deal. Not quite...

The latest copy protection scheme from BMG has been bypassed. This is even better than the black marker bypass. It's so funny I was ROTFLMAO :) News source Submitted by LiamC

Get it here. If you have time to kill, you can always read the release notes. I have expérienced no problem so far, but since the only thing I did since I installed it was to reboot my PC and fire up my browser, it might not be very much telling.

By X-bit Laboratories : At last! The results are interesting. I haven't compared their benchmarks to those of two-years old desktop drives, but it looks like modern 2.5" would be usable for low-end desktop systems. Having a comparative review of many current models helps to have a better...

1,2,3, laugh. No seriously, the memory bandwidth bench is quite useful. However, the drive bench is about as informative as Tony's seat-of-the-pants ranking ;-)

I didn't follow much the progression (or regression) of Sun in the past few years, so that came to me as a complete surprise : Read the complete article or more bad financial news.

I ask because I almost never had to in my past jobs. I probably won't escape it in my next job though. I hate shirts. And I also hate to shave. Both combine, they give me a civilised look that I can't stand. I'm just touting my chances to escape the shirt wrath in the future. I wonder why...

Since apparently Eugene can't decide when to publish the review of the latest Hitachi despite that the results have been in the database for something like two weeks, here's what someone else had to say about the 7K250 : Yes, I know, not quite the best benchmarking tools have been used...

More details here. Might worth investigating. Seems like a kind of RAMdrive to me.

I'm currently downloading the second installation ISO disc of Slackware 9.1 (knowing that I won't be able to install it - text mode installation sucks) through BitTorrent and I only get 1-2KiB/s download speed. Slackware, although far from being as popular as it once was, should still have a...

Since I'm looking for a job, I visit quite a few web sites from IT companies. I remember James works for C&B and I've heard the name a few times before so I went on their online portal...just to find out that they aren't present here :( They are in Cayman (probably their division where most of...

For those who are interested... Download it here. News source

Hackers to bank cutomers : all your dollars are belong to us. News Source

For those who haven't seen it before, I thought it worth mentioning. Anyone needs SR's adress or do you all remember it? STR will increase a lot, seek time will drop nicely, noise should decrease due to the use of fluid bearings and it will fully implement tagged command queuing. It should...

I'm again dying of boredom. If someone is going to watch Once Upon A Time In Mexico this evening, please tell me if it worthes the price of the entry ticket. This isn't a movie I would usually be tempted to see, but the presence of Jonhy Depp among the cast tells it might be good. His last...

Well, according to the description he made of himself, this must be pretty close to what he looks like...plus the hair : The guy above is Gabe Newell, one of the developpers of Half-Life...and he bashes nVidia too!

Insert old "Microsoft security flaw" disc in player...again. These are similar to the one that opened the gate for MSBlast worm : Get the patch here. Since there's been a few worms recently that have been developped to exploit security flaws made public by Microsoft itself, updating your...

I should have posted this yesterday when I first saw it but...better late than never. So far, I've always prefered KDE to GNOME, but I will definetly give the GNU Network Object Model Environment a shot next time I install a distro on one of my boxes. News source

Well, not on all mirrors, but at least on those. I haven't checked the changelog. I hope they have improved their support for the nForce2 chipset because the last few betas and release candidates I've tried didn't allow me to access the Net, although the LAN integrated in the MCP was...

You can update your graphic card driver to the latest version here.