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Same reason there was no such thing as Arctic Silver 4 thermal paste. "Arctic Silver replied to me regarding my question of why they decided to skip the name of Arctic Silver 4 and decided to go straight from AS3 to AS5. The number 4 is not very comfortable with Asians since it sounds very similar to the word d**th and therefore to keep the interest of their Asian customers, they decided to not name the next AS compound AS4 but to AS5. Being Chinese myself, 4 is very badly connotated and it was a wise marketing strategy in both the customers and Arctic Silver's interest to skip naming their Arctic Silver compound Arctic Silver 4." http://www.slcentral.com/thermal-compound/page2.php

http://www.slcentral.com/monstergecko-pistolmouse- fps/

Looks cool, but I can see it being hard to use.

The AMD price are being reworked at the same time as the launch...

So... better re-consider the whole thing

I purchased this DVD player late last summer and discovered the Linux kernel present on the upgrade BIOS disc.

This is the response I got from them:
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From: DCTW_Service@liteonit.com
Subject: Re: Request for GPL Code
Dear Sir,

Sorry at the present, we don't provide the source code.
Thanks for your understanding.

Best Regards!
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Of course, my understanding isn't important. The copyright owner's understanding is what matters.
I decided to e-mail the folks at the FSF for a follow up. I assumed that was the place to go, though I admit even today, that I'm not exactly sure sometimes.
Here was the response from them:
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From: license-violation@fsf.org Subject: [gnu.org #114549] Linux GPL Code Violation - LiteOn Phomaster LVD-2001
For some reason, your mail never reached my inbox (indeed, the web interface to our RequestTracker seems to be having a bit of a hard time with it too). So, sorry for the late response.

We've already seen a few violations which look to be the same product as this under different packaging. We will add LiteOn to the list of people to write to about this. Thanks for the report.

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-Dave "Novalis" Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation
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The whole process was really quite daunting from my perspective. It is my understanding that the Linux Kernel is not a GNU product (though much of the software in a typical linux distrubtion is). Being a linux/GPL/FSF/GNU newbie, it took me quite a bit of time to hunt down a place to submit my complaint. Does anybody know of a database of copyright owners who use the GPL, and more importantly a convenient location for notifying said individuals when a breach is found or suspected? Even the FSF site didn't have a spot that was blaringly obvious to someone who had never visited the site before for reporting GPL violations of their software.
I will say, its nice to see some attention being payed to this with regard to my DVD player. Not to advertise for the theifs, but its a great player...the new BIOS even allows one to play ogg encoded files written to a DVD or CF card. I'm interested, obviously, in getting my hands on the code and potentially flashing the BIOS with my own handy-work...maybe see if I can get the thing to take a hard drive or wireless network adapter in its PC card slot.

Yeah, you learn something new everyday. I've been in electronics for ages and never heard of it before too.

After doing a little research, it refers to the migration or "pump out" of the grease due to the pressure of the heatsink on the chip and the thermal cycles of turning your cpu off/on. Because the cpu and heatsink are usually different materials they will expand/contract at different rates, and thus will "push out" the grease.

Then this might create a space between the cpu and heatsink with the "pumped out" grease acting as a standoff, essentially leaving your cpu without meaningful contact with a heatsink. With AMD cpus that normally run very hot, this is deadly and your cpu will melt.

Thermal Insulating Materials, or TIMs have a much higher viscosity than grease, so that won't happen with them. Though arguably they don't do as well as grease (in the short term) in the thermal transfer of heat.

On the surface this seems like a conspiracy by those who make TIMs, but one user observed "pump out" for himself - using Artic Silver too.

If the AMD cpus had a heat spreader on them like many intel cpus do, "pump out" may not be so bad. Though it probably would happen to some degree, it probably would not be fatal.

Given the vast quantity of cpus that AMD (and intel for that matter) crank out, they probably see a steady stream of cpus burned out with grease on them been returned to them. So naturally they want to cut there losses and want people to stick with TIMs to prevent burn out.

It also could be argued that the socket A design is inherently flawed. Thermal grease as commonly known was not designed to operate under the high pressures that heatsink clamps put on cpus these days.

I have always dissed TIMs, but now I'll give it a second thought.

That "kid" would be me. :) ...Formerly of SLCentral.com, which is where the article is (currently) hosted. I'm going to be migrating it to private hosting shortly, though.

Oh...and naturally, Kyle and Duckman offered no credit to those who had tread the path before.

I wasn't the first, but I honestly thought I was at the time, and I credited the places where I got info from to help with the conversion. Kyle's seen my system before, as he linked to our article.

Here's the URL if you're interested in reading it again. http://www.slcentral.com/articles/01/8/g4pc

G4 Case PC mod guide

G4 Case Auction

Make A PC Out Of A G4 Case

The above URL is for instructions on how to make PC using a G4 case.

"I'm not sure how I would feel about being forced into 1600x1200 all the time"
Luckily Taco, (as you'd know if you'd read the article), you don't have to decide how to feel!
Resolutions supported:
Landscape:
720 x 400 @ 70 Hz
640 x 480 @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
800 x 600* @ 56 Hz to 76 Hz
832 x 624* @ 75 Hz
1024 x 768* @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
1280 x 960 @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
1600 x 1200 @ 60 Hz

Portrait:
480 x 640 @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
600 x 800* @ 56 Hz to 76 Hz
624 x 832* @ 75 Hz
768 x 1024* @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
960 x 1280 @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
1024 x 1280 @ 60 Hz to 76 Hz
1200 x 1600 @ 60 Hz

This monitor is over THREE THOUSAND US DOLLARS and it doesn't even have a DVI INPUT?!

What the hell was NEC thinking?!?!

If you can pick out the meat of the article through the errors, here's how one guy did it.

~Philly