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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 ;-) )

Who knows, maybe they will try to remove the random members who spread invontarily accross many teams a while ago. I doubt it though. On a different subject, I have a good and a bad news for you. The good news is that Buck will be able to pass me without much trouble. The bad news is that...

I heard the boyscout version at least ten years ago. Too bad the little girl didn't have a second backpack for Bill Gates.

Although I have no problem to believe that the 10K rpm SATA WD will spank every other IDE drives when it'll come out, I have a harder time to see it in front of the 10K rpm SCSI champions. The actuators of the last generation 10Krpm SCSI drives like the Fujitsu MAP and Maxtor Atlas 10K IV are a...

The ghost of the dreaded BigFoot is still wandering...

My thoughts too, although I've never tried RedHat 8.0 (only 6.1 and 7.3). I liked 7.3, but found it sluggish. From what I heard and read about 8.0, it doesn't even worth wasting time and bandwidth to download and try it. RH 8.0 has apparently both Gnome and (particularly) KDE, so hwhile the...

A good idea IMO. However, the HD's enclosure would have to be tougher than the one of ordinary hard drive disk in order to insure a very high reliability and a good protection of the valuable data. Maybe not something as tough as a Zip750MB media (which can resist to be rolled over by a car)...

Here we see our Gary at his best. So CATA it will be then. Where do you get all those informations is a mystery (you go at the same pub than all the CEO of the biggest IT companies?) but you're rarely wrong when you're calling the shots in advance. Thanks for sharing the knowledge of the...

Such is the price of ignorance...

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...

UPDATE I retried the installation and it worked. I re-did the package selection and went through all three CDs with my personal choices. Like usual, it apparently hang at the end of the third CD, but instead of restarting after a few minutes of inactivity, I let it go and it proceeded to the...

No no no no NO! You have gotten it all wrong. You can't change a 9500 Pro into a Radeon 9700. The 9500Pro doesn't share the same design as the 9700. The 9500 (non-Pro), however, features the same design and therefore, can be modified into a 9700. I thought it was clear. Don't say you...

Dismiss my previous post, I missed the above.

Which version of Solaris? I have Solaris 8 on CDs here, from the time the ISO were available freely on the Web. It works on a x86 platform, no need to buy a Sun box for it.

Just in case someone planned to argue the above : http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/6-value-roundup/index2.html

Nope. The Radeon 9000, even the 9000 Pro, fells short of a GeFarce 3 and a Radeon 8500 in almost all benchmarks. IIRC, a Radeon 9000 is a 8500 with a crippled memory bus, plus a marketing name. However, the Radeon 9000 has a better 2D quality than most GF3. The Radeon 8500 used to be a tad...

Look at our team graph at statsman. Look at it carefully. We are now 32nd overall. This is the highest ranking we've ever been...and this is the highest ranking we'll ever be. Our team is now at his apogee. Enjoy it while it last (it will be short). Be proud of what we've done.

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...

Not just the link to the threads, but the entire threads (and lock them). Anyway, that's just my view about it.

While it looks like a very interesting and promising alternative, I'm pretty sure it won't catch - like most other hard drive-like small portable storage devices for consumer products. The reason? People, at large, seem to prefer the disc media to anything else for this kind of use. Even if...

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

Indeed. I'll have to remember how you did it next time I lap a heatsink. I've never had such a miror-like finish before. Impressive.

ArRRGggHH!!!! This is the first time I screw up with the T'bird and T'bred. Sorry. Tabarnack.

I would prefer to see them posted in a static way. Otherwise, people will revive them, often off-purpose and months later. Therefore, IMO, that would ruin the threads, or at least their ending.

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...

Never tried it, but I have two Volcano 7 which share almost the same heatsink design. They are ok as far as cooling performance goes, although not exceptional. They have become noisy with the time too (one year and a half). I would have bought something else (Volcano 6Cu) at the time if I had...

Now, that's low Saw this in Tom's Hardware news section : Wow, Jason must have been busy collecting stuff in his neighborhood ;-) In revenge, I think about the bunch of sore idiots who collected shuttle's debris and didn't know they might have been toxic and/or radioactive. I wish them a...

I guess she wasn't so bad afterall since they sent her back on a mission, huh?

On the contrary, it's a very good idea to post that commercial after the shuttle accident. At least now it reflects the true value of HP systems. Honest commercials are a rarity, you should learn to appreciate them.

Funny. I would be good in that kind of job too. Except I would insult and terrorize folks in French, of course.

I think I started a trend with those polls... Is it because Microsoft is so evil that you had to put it twice among the choices? I chose Microsoft. I'm very annoyed by their constant attempts to limit/violate users' privacy. I want to own my computer, not feel I'm just borowing it and...

Memory speed has no effect on F@h performances. A Duron even performs on par with a similarly clocked Thunderbird, just like your Celeron fares just as poorly as a 2.0GHz Pentium 4 Northwood would. The memory footprint of the F@hcore is very small, so it fits within the cache easily. Wheter...

This contradict everything I read and heard on the subject. I saw the images over and over back in 1986 and again today and I don't see how anything could have survived inside the shuttle Challenger when it blew up.

Thinking about it, our Gary must have had a pretty busy and awful day.

Have something against softwares that aren't virus magnets? I see you are a very versatile and open-minded person.

Because we are the best. Period ;-)

Learned it about an half-hour ago since I don't watch TV very often (saw it on Ars Technica). This is the second time I learn such a tragedy online (Sep. 11th was the first). My only wish is that it will make the NASA move its ass to switch to less drastic ways to send a vehicule in space...

Eudora here. I wouldn't hate Outlook if it wasn't a) unsafe b) made by Microsoft. Tried Netscape/Mozilla mail, old (6.x) Opera mail client, but I prefer Eudora to the others I've tried. Heard good things about TheBat!, but never tried it. I'm not a heavy mail user anyway. I also heard that...

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 wonder how many among us still use IE as our main browser. I don't say that in a negative way regarding your post BTW. It's just that your message raised the question in my mind. I'll make a Blakerwry of myself for a moment. Let's start a poll :D

No change. The Preferences were already like you wrote they should be and I cannot check "Use default forms design" when Author Mode is selected.

I'm Amiga Os just like Doug. Is it a good OS? Never tried.

Yes, that's what I mean. It sucks. Makes you wonder how can they claim that they comply with most standards when they can't render something that basic correctly.

I sold a single 60GXP last year (in Spring) and so far, it hasn't come back. Hard to make an opinion on a single unit though. However, I sold several (in the two digits, not hundreds) of 120GXP and none of them had problem either.

I did read your post at the moment I posted the news on the front page Steve, otherwise I would have given you the merit for it. They haven't fixed the frame problem when viewing our forum under their browser. Does anyone view the frame (like the nickname/password frame) while visiting SF's...

Stupid question : Did you remove all drives that were plugged to the Adaptec before flashing? Probably. But if not, bad boy, very very bad boy. No idea what it could do to let the drives plugged, but Adaptec says not to do it, so don't. If you did, it's a bit late to warn you though...

Flat taxes is a poor idea prone by people who didn't think about it long or deeply enough. The more you earn, the more you generally save. People earning around 25,000$/year spend most of their income just for living and cannot afford to save much. People earning something like 75,000$ spend...

I might mean that the price of LCD will drop, but it will also almost certainly increase the ASP of CRT to rise. With Mitsubishi (or Mitsubushi for Aussies) alone in the aperture grill market, there will be little competition to drive the price down. I'm not even sure they'll be able to answer...

I'm not sure it will help you, but using Google, I found this. Go to the section abouut "diskless setup". That's all I can do for you. I'm not a BSD guru (I haven't installed it yet).