It's not a pretty sight when technology reporters don't know what they are talking about, but it is hilarious. Scanning across stories about Sun using Opteron, came across this beauty: http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3110151 Highlight Quotes: "Sun hopes to roll out several...

I think current CPUs and computers aren't really that much better than the cpus and PCs 10 years ago - they are just faster. So when do the real quantum leaps come - Quantum computers, real AI, machines that can do more than a Windows PC which really isn't more "intelligent" than an ancient Apple...

My motherboard BIOS isn't recognizing my hard drive after I screwed around with the settings(its pretty messed up). How can I set everything to default so the motherboard can recognize the hard drive from the master IDE. PS I could give you the specs and all but I in kind of a hurry but I'll post...

Adorable little Ed Stroglio rant: Hatching Eggs . . . "Remember x86-64? The stick AMD was supposed to beat Intel to death with? Then Intel got themselves the same stick, and the would-be beaters found something else to talk about. Yes, AMD is doing better now, but not because of x86-64. Indeed,...

I've this vexing problem with most of my floppies after I've tried inserting them into my Sony FDD. This dialog prompt will shows, "the floppy is not formatted. do u wish to format it?" What is wrong and furthermore, how come previously, I was able to use my FDD but it was not able to be open in...

Seriously folks. Is he always like this or what? He's going to be alright isn't he? I hope so. Get well soon Keith! AJ

Hi I'm showing my ignorance here but I wouldn't know what a Transmeta cpu is like if I fell over one. Are they any good? Would I be better off just looking at AMD or Intel? Have fun Peter Mount

I'm getting confused. I thought Intel was going to discontinue the Prescott line and switch to dual-core processors based on their mobile chips. Good idea for general desktop use, but it sounds like a loser for gamers and DVD authors. FPS games (UT2004) and video encoding to DVD compliant MPEG2...

A Crusade to Connect Children "He does have some theories, though, for the overall opposition that OLPC is encountering. "Considerable disinformation is coming from communities that do not want to see Linux on the desktop. There are also laptop interests that see us as competition," he points...

http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/003490.shtml Okay, so you guys in LA aren't allowed to label equipment with 'Master' and 'Slave' labels... what's next? Some animal activists will demand that we don't use terms like CAT and RAM because it dehumanizes animals and leads to animal cruelty???...

Intel to keep lead on notebook technology http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20410 Yousuf Khan

I remember there used to be a lot of choices in PC chipsets in the old days. You had Chips & Technologies, VIA, ALi/ULi, SiS. Then later Intel decided to take over the business for its own processors. So the smaller chipset makers sustained themselves on sales to AMD processors. Later, some big...

Just a lurker here wondering why posts have dropped to nearly zero in this group....what a damn shame. :-(

Been wondering what Cray was upto recently. They were supposed to have already released the Red Storm computer (now known as the XT3) in Sandia National Labs by now, but I haven't heard much about it. Red Storm has already been eclipsed by two other computers. So it looks like the delays are caused...

trying to decide on a cheap purchase.. ive been happy w/ both abit and msi in the past, but am out of the loop. the choices: MSI - KT6V Abit - KV7 ... both of these use the Via KT600 chipset. both have the usual crap: usb2, lan, sound (unimportant), etc. use: my gaming and digital photo rig. i...

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Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with a Pentium M 1,7 GHz: /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz stepping : 6

I'm trying to list a motherboard on EBAY, but have no idea what socket it has. It used to hold a 300MHz Celeron. Does that make it a Socket 370? Here is a picture of the motherboard. http://web.mit.edu/hyalaman/www/comphardware/motherboard.jpg Thanks. Hareendra Yalamanchili

I got too trigger-happy and bought this combo on eBay: 1x Opteron 142 1x MSI K8T ATX dual Opteron motherboard -- only one CPU has RAM slots 4x ECC Registered PC2100 512MB DIMMs -- total of 2GB I only need to make one PC out of this. Would folks recommend selling the CPU and buying a pair of...

Here's some Inquirer speculation on what to expect in 2005 for x86 server processors. AMD: -should take between 25-30% of the x86 market -likely won't bother to adopt DDR2 on servers until FB-DIMMs are ready -possibly going to Socket 1207 by end of the 2005 Intel: -Might come up with its very...