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Most mirrors only have the first CD available though (there are three CD overall). So far, I've only found this one to host all three CD ISOs. Mandrake wrote that they froze the list of new features after RC1, but I hope they made an exception for Xfree86 4.3.

And you can download it from here. I haven't notice much difference from 1.3 to 1.4.1. In fact, I don't notice Java much at all on my systems. But hey, better Sun's Java than Microsoft JVM, hein? Java is a language I should learn. Even if it would be just for the kicks.

From IBM press release : And as written by Hannibal at Ars Technica : Armed with such a beast, I would be a lot more tempted to try a Mac and their OS-X operating system than ever before. How well do you think this thing would fare at F@h? However, knowing the ripoff prices that Apple...

As reported by Digitimes, AMD finished year 2002 with a small increase (+2.7% in 4Q) of its market share, mostly at the expense of Intel (-2.4% for the same period). For the entire year though, Intel gained 3.6 points to end up at 82.5% of the sales, while AMD lost 4.3% for an overall 16.3% of...

Download it. No idea what more it has over 7.01. So far, only English and Japanese languages are available. Many more translations are coming in the upcoming weeks.

Seen on OCWorkbench : I'm sure you are all very excited after having read this. nForce 2 and SiS746FX are more interesting IMO.

As reported by InfoWorld : Finally, a major player with an AMD-based server. Submitted by Fushigi

I installed K-meleon 0.7 and the SP1 for 0.7 this morning. Everything's fine with this little browser, except for one thing : I don't see any place where I can manage or even see bookmarks. Apparently, there ARE no bookmarks in K-meleon. Or am I just blind? During the installation process...

I downloaded and install this thing this evening. I was sure it would be inferior to Mandrake 9.1 RC1, since most of the packages weren't as up-to-date as in the blue Linux distro. I've not been using it for very long, but I can say that so far, I've not been disapointed. First, fonts are way...

I've had great difficulties to reach most web sites around 16h00 ET, although now everything's just fine. Last time it happened, it was because of Slammer. Did the web suffered from another DoS attack today? Or is it just the tempest that's now raging outside in Québec that's causing this...

You can get the stable (1.2.8) or development (1.3.2) from Galeon's website. No real press release about them, just a mention that you need at least Mozilla 1.3a in order to run them. I hope Galeon 2.0 will come soon.

Press release. Thanks to Buck for the news.

Not as drastic of a change as the facelift that occured at Tom's Hardware, but a change anyway. http://www.anandtech.com I like it.

Version 0.2 of XPde has been released and can be downloaded from here. It's based on X11 and (obviously) looks like a Windows XP desktop, but under the Linux operating system. I'm downloading it, but given my skills and legendary patience with Linux, I probably wont be able to make it run on...

Both SteveC and Mercutio sent me the same news, but since SteveC was 2 hours and a half quicker, he's the one who gets all the glamour and champagne (while Mercutio will fall into oblivion ;-) )

Seagate's recent ATA hard drives have been so uninspiring that I didn't even fell about posting this announcement on the front page when I saw it first yesterday (or the day before yesterday). I know, I know, others love them... just not me. Here's a copy/paste from the article posted at X-bit...

After Linux from scratch, here's FreeBSD from scratch. I didn't read it, since I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD to begin with and therefore, I figured I would have a lot of difficulties to grasp everything written there. However, I know some of you are long time fans of FreeBSD (James and...

From Grey Magic News : You can and should (if you've downloaded Opera 7.00) download 7.01.

But it is back-ordered. Still, it let us see where AMD plans to place it price wise against other current CPUs : Athlon XP Thunderbird retail : 2400+ => 323$CDN 2600+ => 498$CDN 2700+ => 577$CDN Athlon XP Barton retail : 2500+ => 314$CDN 2800+ => 657$CDN 3000+ => 1023$CDN :eekers: Pentium...

Here we go again. I didn't think I would mess up with Linux so soon after my last roller coaster ride with Mandrake 9.0, but after reading this article about 9.1 beta 2, I felt maybe it deserved another try. I didn't want to jump into the FreeBSD wagon yet, since I've been warned several times...

I think such a poll has been done before, but with the recent milestone releases of a few popular browsers, I thought some of you might have switched allegiance for their main tool to visit the Web. Please only one answer per physical being, even if those with split personalities use different...

I've had a pleasant surprise when I browsed my pricelist this evening. Many of my favorite monitor models have had a significant price drop this week : NEC FE791SB 17" : -13% down to 304$CDN Samsung SyncMaster 765MB 17" : -11% to 279$CDN Samsung SyncMaster 957MB 19" (my favorite CRT at the...

That possibility stoke me when I saw the picture of the FIC AU11 : FIC AU11 EPoX EP-8RDA+ Or is this just the reference design from nVIDIA?

I have a box sitting aside of me and his owner wants to play SoF on it, but can't. The computer is an Athlon 500MHz/FIC SD11/384MB PC100/ATI Rage128. I don't know this game at all. I think it's based on the aging Half-Life 3D engine, but I'm not sure. CPU + motherboard + RAM + graphic card...

I'm stuck today with another overly optimistic customer who wants to upgrade his box for not enough money. The CPU/motherboard/memory/PSU and probably the chassis too would need to be changed. He also wants a burner into this too. He didn't talk about the graphic card (crossing fingers). All...

Saw this on Anandtech's news section. Apparently, the next version of RivaTuner will allow to make a Radeon Pro out of a Radeon 9500 64MB and a Radeon 9700 out of a regular 9500 128MB. Can't wait. The original should be somewhere on this page.

Am I the only one to be affected? I tried several times, certain that I don't make a mistake when typing my password, but I receive the message that the connection failed either because their server is too busy or because my connection is at fault. I have been on the Net since 9am this...

Since this thread is about an ECS board, maybe I should have directly pm'ed Buck, but anyway... Anyone has tried this board and is willing to emit comments? I'm more interested in the fact that it's based on SiS' new 746 north bridge than because it's made by Elitegroup. I'm curious to know...

Athlon 500MHz Asus K7M (AMD751/VIA 686B) 256MB PC100 Cas2 Guillemot Xentor 32 (TNT2 Pro) AC'97 audio Quantum Fireball Plus LM 15GB AOpen 52X CD-ROM Floppy Sturdy Mid-Tower enclosure with "war paints" Antec 300W PSU (PP303X) No OS or software included, except those that might be added for free...

Seen at AMDmb.com : Good thing to know. Just curious ; those of you who use anti-spyware programs, which one is your favorite? I had to use a few recently. I tried Tauscan and Pest Patrol. The first one is very simple to use, but the later gives more details, like infected cookies and web...

Toshiba offers UXGA screens on some of their higher-end notebook models. I would like to know if it's an old king of UXGA screen of if it's something comparable to Dell's UltraSharp UXGA (optional on the Inspiron 8200) and IBM's Thinpad A31p. The first generation of UXGA screen for notebooks...

You can get it from their FTP site. I'm still a bit bitter from my rough experiences on Linux, but since FreeBSD is supposed to have an upgrading/installation system that actually works (the ports), then I'll continue to keep an eye on it. I'll wait for James comments about the second release...

I visited my quiet little Linux box for the first time since late October this evening. It crunched 199 F@h units since then. I decided to look for updates for my distribution through Mandrake's own updater. At first, I selected all the 19 files needed to be upgraded. Quite predictably...

Read it. The verdict : 32bit PC1066 RDRAM is still faster, but not by much. Unless you need a lot of RAM (more than 512MB), the Asus P4T533 is a better value. If only Rambus wasn't so evil, I might consider buying their stuff. If only they could go bankrupt and be bought by another company...

ATI has release the CATALYST 3.0 driver for its Radeon 9xxx cards, but it requires DirectX 9.0 in order to work. Problem is : DirectX 9 is supposedly as mature as Prof...err, I mean not even stable enough to be considered a Release Candidate. The best part of the joke is : the CATALYST 3.0 is...

Title says all. A gracieuseté of Jake, JoJo and I.

I upgraded this evening the VIA 4in1 driver and ATI CATALYST driver on the latest box I built. I ran 3D Mark 2001 build 330 when I had the 4in1 4.43 and CATALYST 2.4 and it gave me a score of 7167 with an ATI Radeon 8500LE 64MB. Now, with the latest version of both drivers, the score has...

IMO, same shit differently. Read their recent article on the SiS648 motherboards? Now they place MSI as the most optimized model and GigaByte among the slowest. Microstar optimized? Old Tom must be looking for new revenue ways in these low advertizement income days. Tom's Hardware is to...

This Gecko-based browser is supposed to be a lighter version of Mozilla. Release 0.5 takes less memory than the previous releases and it fits in only 6.1MB for the Winblows version. It is pretty fast too. You can get it here (or the Linux version) Learn more about it on their home page.

The 60GB Special Edition Caviar with a single 60GB platter will soone enter my testing lab. I put it in a box with WinXP Home installed for a friend/customer. I'll run a few benchmarks on it and I'm eager to see how it will rank among the other members of the Special Edition family from...

I think it is a good read : http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137161 Interesting.

Yep, it is. I've used it for the last ten minutes and so far, I haven't notice much difference between it and the previous (1.1) version.

Both are impressive. The Deskstar for its low noise level (between Barracuda ATA IV and ATA V, while being quite a bit faster than the Barracuda ATA V. The Atlas 10K IV because it beats the already very respectable Fujitsu MAP drive in all but one (bootmarks) benchmarks. It's also not louder...

Just curious. Is this guy the same guy than this guy? If yes, then will we have another flavor of Will Rickards for forum user #225? I have nothing against the Will Rickards of this world BTW.

I rarely droll for a car, but the Z4 definetly felt in my eye. The 3.0i version is supposed to almost equal a Porsche Boxter's road handling/fun, while costing less. The exterior design repeal many (generally old) automobile chroniclers*, but I really like it. Now if I can just find the 40K...

I like that music. Anyone knows what's the title and the group that made it? Appart from the music, don't bother to watch that movie BTW. Very average.

I remember I read that someone wrote, on this forum, that Microsoft's license for their OEM copy of Windows allow it to be sold with any piece of hardware, not just with a whole new computer system. Problem is : I can't find the thread where it was written and much less where it is on...

Better than a Porsche or Ferrari, buy a MIG-21. You won't wait much in traffic jam with one of these, but MPG must be horrible. Even Supercaffeinated will be jealous.

SiSoft Sandra 2003 has been released today ;-) Just in case anyone might have doubts about my opinion of Sandra, just let me tell that this thread is very ironical.