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So? Are all you speed and capacity freaks happy with this announcement? Personally, I hope they will develop a newer firmware closer to the second one SR reviewed with the 36GB Raptor. Another interesting bit in the original news... W.D. seemed to like IBM's power-on rating. News Source

I need to get a refresh on OS/2 because I might have to use it at work soon and I don't want to look like a noob. Last time I used it was 1996 IIRC. It would be great if I could have a kind of evaluation copy à la Windows .Net Server 2003 beta builds fom earlier this year. Last time I...

At 2.2GHz, the Opteron (and Athlon 64 FX-51) should give Intel's Pentium 4 3.2GHz a run for its money. I'm still waiting for reports of the Athlon 64/Opteron's performances for Folding@home. I've eeen SETI@home benchmarks, but the Alien-oriented client is very different from the F@h one. A...

Intel launched a µATX motherboard for its acclaimed Pentium M CPU. Great news IMO, as this is currently one of the most interesting processor on the market. The memory isn't fast though, but still. For a nice low noise/low power office box, this one should be quite competitve. See the...

It would appear so! Finder's credit goes to forum member 'jamespetts'. In January this year, IBM made available a firmware fix for their infamous "Deathstar" (Deskstar 75GXP and 60GXP) series of hard drives that supposedly significantly enhances the reliability of these drives by moving the...

Read the announcement here. It is mostly a bug-fixes release.

My current car seems to have been a mistake. While it's not really old, many parts break and I'm starting to be fed up (don't ask, I don't tell what I'm driving now). Sooner or later, knowing myself, I know it will end up in a parking lot at the early morning hours and taste my sledgehammer...

I was writting my eBay ads for the Maxtor 10K III and Seagate X15-36LP minutes ago when I remembered that I forgot to format them before removing them from my former SCSI box. ...I sold the SCSI HBA two weeks ago. Although it wasn't my main box, I'm not sure what kind of personal info I left...

69.99$ minus 60$ total spread accross three rebates. Available online only, not in the stores. Offer good until tomorrow (August 16). And of course, only for US residents. Visit Best-Buy for more details.

First sample of the Lovsan worm was received at 19:22 GMT on 11th of August, 2003. This 6176 byte executable "msblast.exe" contains about 11kB of uncompressed code, which apparently exploits the MS03-026 DCOM/RPC hole. The vulnerability : Lovsan exploits a vulnerability, "Buffer Overrun...

The drive is used (two years), but it has served inside a box that's been idle almost all the time (crunching F@h for the last year and a half). It was sitting in the only of my boxes I didn't brutalize, for those who care. It is in perfect working condition and it has passed all Maxblast...

The drive was tested both inside a notebook and in a USB2 enclosure. It shows performances that are on par with those of desktop drives about three years ago. So it would be enough for a low-end SOHO box. I can't wait to see 2.5" drives inside desktop computers. News Source

Folks at Ahead.de, makers of Nero, no longer offer the latest (or any other) version (5.5.10.42) of Nero 5.5 on their web site. So people like myself, who own a legal copy of Nero 5.5, are left unable to update their software, unless paying for the upgrade to version 6. Those SOBs are a bunch...

And here is the news source. I originally saw it on OS News. Imagine how the original MS version of Windows 95 is bloated if the OS can be trimmed down to under 5MB. UPDATE : the link to the original site no longer works. :(

Official price is 794$ in 1000 quantity...more than my last whole computer system. News source

Read the whole article. It's a great idea, except for the fact that the author seems to ignore that Microsoft is there to make money, not for the good of humanity. So forget the rewrite in reality. Although the computer world would need it, Microsoft, itself, doesn't.

Here's the auction : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3425803147 I listed United States and Canada, but that's only because I didn't want to break my head with all the shipping costs worldwide so I kept it simple. In reality, I'm whiling to ship anywhere...except Italy and...

From X-bit Laboratories : Don't put your finger on it. This kind of power requirement starts to feel a tad insane to me. Submitted by CougTek

Monkeyboy's dance : http://www.stenstad.net/storage/ballmer_dance.mpg http://users.pandora.be/bonte/forumafbeeldingen/dancemonkeyboy.mpg http://www.ntk.net/media/dancemonkeyboy.mpg Three links in case some become broken. Everyone saw it, but it's good to see it again from time to time.

I found no link on Microsoft's DirectX page for it, but it is linked in a news at Anandtech. You can download the web setup installer here. I just saw what The Inquirer had to say about it.

As read in this article. No wonder why then the small guys behind the formerly-named Phoenix browser had to let go the name.

For those interested, two of the most important players of the Linux world have released new betas this week. Red Hat 9.0.93 (Severn) can be downloaded from here, while Mandrake 9.2 beta 1 is available there. Servers are very busy for both (especially Mandrake's), so expect delays while trying...

From X-bit Laboratories : Very interesting. Depends on the selling price as usual, but a midrange card with a 256bit 750MHz RAM sounds good to me. All in all, it seems to be a lower clocked FX 5900. Enough for 99% of gamers. I was disapointed by the FX 5600, but this one should replace nVidia...

User (far away, cannot visit him for now) has a problem when writing (or at least trying to) cheap Memorex CD-R with its Lite-On 32x/10x/40x. He receives the message "Session fixation error" and "Could not perform Fixation" at the beginnig of the writing session. He had a virus not long ago on...

Seen on The Inquirer : Makes me happy and I bet it will please several of you too.

News admin note : I think the author of the article looks like the nerd stereotype : News source Submitted by Blakerwry.

I bought a respectable amount of computer parts last week in order to upgrade/replace/sell my computer park. Among these parts was a Barracuda ATA IV 40GB (there was a sale on it and I only needed storage, not speed). When I received my order, I was gladly surprised to see that my ATA IV was...

FRAM invasion has begun. I think it's great. We've been talking about FRAM for years and now, finally, we see it appear in a commercial product for PC. Read the entire news at X-bit Laboratories

Unsolicited commercial e-mail costs U.S. companies $874 per employee per year in lost productivity, according to a report released yesterday from independent research company Nucleus Research Inc. The report, titled "Spam: The Silent ROI Killer," details the results of interviews with...

A closer look at an outstanding example of an external hard disk drive from Western Digital. It is a 250GB model supporting USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces and boasting impressive design and superb performance. You really need to check it out! News Source Submitted by Prof.Wizard

Some interesting anomalies - the drives tested (purchased retail) perform on par with the BETA drives tested by SR and X-Bit - which raises the question, did some BETA models make it into the wild, or has WD supplied SR and other review sites "optimised" drives (a la NVIDIA)? Hmmm... I love a...

What's the damned Linux command people use to copy a partition (or entire drive) to another, as Ghost does? And does it work with NTFS volumes? I forgot it and I need it. That, or another way to copy a NTFS partition to another. Ghost/DriveCopy/Partition Magic out of question. I don't have...

Read it right here. It's well made for a heatsink review IMO. Their conclusion is pretty much the same thing as Mercutio has been killing himself to tell us during the past year or so.

So, is it a good case or not. I've never played with a Lian-Li enclosure. I generally read good comments about them, but I don't know how they compare to the Antec like the SX600 for instance. I just need the enclosure, not the PSU. I'm very tempted to go with the Lian-Li instead of buying...

Saw it first at X-bit Labs. From the press release : <blockquote>The Maxtor 300GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive Retail Kit offers the following: * 300GB of storage - enough for up to 462 games, 75,000 4-minute MP3 tunes or 300,000 high-resolution digital photos * * Maxtor's exclusive Ultra...

Just saw that ten minutes ago on the price list of one of my suppliers. Maybe I missed something, but I wasn't awared of any previous SATA drives from Western Digital except the 10Krpm 36GB Raptor. Model numbers are WD1200JD and WD1600JD for the 120GB and 160GB respectively. Both features 8MB...

Yep, already a decade past for the most popular BSD operating system. You can see how fine their OS has become by downloading version 5.1 from their web site or by ordering the CDs from online stores like FreeBSD Mall. ...and James and Ishan will provide the technical suport for all us BSD...

Bow System S-6000. No PSU, but 57$ shipped but only in USA. Too bad, I would have needed just that these days.

StorageReview has results for the Samsung V80 (5400rpm, 80GB/platter). This indicates that a review is forthcoming. This will be the first review of a Samsung drive at SR in over 15 months. Preliminary results: It's in-line with the WD 800AB on most benchmarks, right at the top of the 5400rpm...

Since a @£¤¢#!!!! lame b@$[@Rd prevented me to win Clocker's auction for his GigaByte 7VAX BRAND NEW motherboard for 62$, I have to look elsewhere now to satisfy the need of one of my customer looking for a low cost motherboard. His old motherboard became unstable since he blew up the USB ports...

News source. Sumbitted by Prof.Wizard

From X-bit Laboratories : Hopefully, ATI's cards prices will drop in result. However, we'll have to be vigilant regarding the quality of the "Powered by ATI" products, as some manufacturers might be tempted to make cost-cutting shortcuts that ATI wouldn't have made on cards sold under their...

Take a look : http://www.visiontek.com/ Warning, there's flash involved.

Read that at WinInfo : And yet there are still people using IE by choice (doesn't include those who are forced to use it at work)...

Just want to let the northern members of our forum that you can get free shipping from Monarchcomputer.com just like our I-hate-them-all-caused-they-get-free-shipping-all-the-time American neighboors. Barton 2500+ OEM, is 94U$ (~129$CDN) shipped...and shipped HERE! Ok, it's only 9$CDN better...

MicroStar couldn't keep up with the rest of the pack, so what do they do? Overclock the FSB dynamically. Once CPU load reaches 100%, the FSB jumps from 800 to 860 and then back to 800 once the load is reduced. Read MSI's pathetic excuse on Tom's site. Submitted by NRG = mc²