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It looks like the same technology that were demonstrated at Comdex Fall '00 more than seven years ago - so the integrity after some 7-8 years should already be known. I also have a faint memory of reading something about a fluorescent multi-layer disc somewhere around fall 1997, so it's possible that some discs have already hit ten years!

That also raises the question; if the technology was announced 7-10 years ago - how likely is it that we will see something released this time?

You'll love this. I once ran a Pentium III 450 and a Celeron 300A dual CPU system (Shuttle board) using Windows NT4. Because Windows 2000 was able to use the more advanced MMX on the P3 450, I couldn't run that setup with Win2k and newer OSes.

[Microsoft] is not a monopoly

The United States Justice Department disagrees with you. Here's a simpler roundup of the facts. While the enforcement of Judge Jackson's ruling was overturned (mostly because of his stupid spouting off to the press), his Findings of Fact were not. Microsoft remains a convincted monopolist. Once a company is deemed a monopoly, a different set of business rules apply to them.

So it should be just as reliable as the underlying processor, or any other piece of solid state electronics. This isn't really a cooling solution for a processor, you will still need those in the form of heatsinks, fans, heatpipes, etc. This is just a way to make sure heat can actually get to the processor surface and not get trapped in the middle. Comparing this use of the Peltier effect and traditional overclocking Peltier devices makes no sense - the only thing they share in common is their use of the same underlying physical phenomenon for heat transfer.

The real question in my mind is whether the fundamental efficiency limitations of Peltier junctions will make these processors even worse power-eating, heat dispersing beasts. But it sounds like there must be real heat buildup issues with Silicon On Insulator technology preventing them from ramping speeds up to the point where it would be competitive and ready for the mass market. And this sounds like a clever solution.

In my opinion, Microsoft's legal "war chest" was built up by overcharging. This massive amount of overcharging for poor quality software was only made possible by abusing a market monopoly. This is not just my opinion, perhaps you have have read about what the DOJ had to say about this.

You, sir, are an idiot.

No linux company (that I've ever heard of) copied another companies code and used it as their own.

No linux company (that I've ever heard of) has created a 'free' web browser to undercut another like MS did.

No linux company (that I've ever heard of) has been convicted of software piracy.

No linux company (that I've ever heard of) has been convicted of being a monopoly.

(I didn't read through all of the above link about NS vs IE article, but the skimming I did seems to cover much of it).

I could keep going, but you get the idea. MS *IS* an evil corporation. There are many *many* valid reasons to hate them.

Do us all a favor and crall back under your rock. Thanks for participating.

They could not but implied that it was common knowledge.

It's not like they never had problems in the past.

I'd heard about Fluorescent Multilayer Discs years ago, but what's happened to them since? They were supposed to hold almost 20 times as much data as a 4.7GB DVD. So, where are they?

Not that I really want a new format or anything. I just think FMDs are cool. DVDs are a-ok for me, and I just bought a DVD burner (which supports all the damned various formats), so why are they making something new, again. Can we just have some media technology that lasts for more than 10 years?

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I am currently at work using 4 monitors all run by the Colorgraphic Predator video card. I don't know the technical details of the card (IANAT - i am not a techie) but i must say the setup i have kicks ass. the card is described here

>And MS isn't trying to sell hardware in addition to software.

Sorry, I must have missed that.

those things did actually exist, as the story goes amd had versions of the old 5x86-133 they were going to release clocked at 150 and 160, then they realized they would be competing with their own k5 line of chips, so they just remarked them all as 133's. there was however a way to tell the heat rating (corresponding to speed rating) from the serial number on the chip. apparently amd had gone as far as releasing clock info to the mb makers before the pulled the plug, i actually had a board that supported one of these at 160, that was quite possibly the coolest pc i ever built. i was one of the few loonies on earth to run a 486 at 160mghz.

I heard that many people had reliability issues. Kenwood appears to have discontinued theirs, even though it's the only product listed on their computer peripherals page. I think their webmaster needs to wake up!

Also, Sysopt has a great site with user reviews of products, if you're not quite sure about X-brand cd-writers, or the newest NVidia video card.

The case came with a stick-on logo like the "Intel Inside" logo, except that it said "Antec Outside" .

Here's a review.

Does anyone here know anything about loadqm.exe? Microsoft is tight-lipped and evasive regarding it, and there doesn't seem to be more than vague speculation as to what it really does (in full). It uses GUIDs and connects to MS on a regular basis. Here's the most extensive thread I've found:
Microsoft QMgr

The socket for the CPU, whether on the adapter board or on the mainboard, will still have tabs for mounting a heatsink. The adapter could even, itself, be attached to the mainboard via the mainboard socket tabs.

Look at the design of PGA-to-slot adapters made to allow use of Socket 370 CPUs in mainboards designed for Slot 1 CPUs. You mounted the CPU on the board, the heatsink on the CPU, and the board in the slot. Worked fine. Look at the products to adapt CPUs from one family to another. These support voltage regulation and the use of a heatsink. (They are a stupid waste of money in almost all consumer PCs, but they point out the mechanical viability of such a solution.)

In fact, this would be a particularly easy one as there would need to be no significant offset between the two sockets. You only need to connect to four pins (3.3v, gnd, 2-pin thermal diode). The "output" could be a jumper to the two-pin power switch connector the motherboard. Problem solved.

"Here's why Constellation 3D succeeded: instead of using a reflective CD surface, FMD media appears totally transparent to the human eye. That's because each layer is coated with a fluorescent dye instead of a reflective coating" And to quote further, "the cost to manufacture a 15 layer FMD disc is only 76 cents." Sounds better to me.

Not forgetting Infiband either.

It may not be in the same package, but I would imagine a slotket (aka slocket) will be available for these pretty quickly...

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Some great sites out there for hardware reviews and news:

• The Tech Report
• Ars Technica
• AnandTech
• HardOCP

Also, I like to check the user opinions at Cnet and Sysopt. Its always nice to know what the average person thinks of the product after they've bought it and used it.

just my $0.02

I have an AMD Athlon 700, 192 MB PC100 RAM, and 13 GB Ultra ATA 7200 RPM drive. These results are from my workstation system running RedHat 6.1.

Apache 1.3.9:
less than 30 seconds (25-30 sec. on three different runs) to compile Apache 1.3.9 from source with DSO support the only configuration option.

Tomcat 3.0
42-47 seconds to build Tomcat 3.0 from source (three different runs for comparison). Compiler used was javac shipped with Blackdown 1.2.2rc3 JDK.

2.2.13 kernel
Just under 2min 30 sec. to compile with a pretty standard config for my system (no sound, no SCSI suport) on two runs.

Here are some enlightening links on AMD Athlon performance and benchmarks:

• ars-technica.com Linux compile benchmarks
• sysopt.com Athlon 700 review (excellent)
• CPUReview.com review of Athlon 600 running RedHat 6.0
• compiler optimization benchmarks with Athlon 600

Note: none of the benchmarks I gave above used any custom compiler optimization settings.

It makes me a little worried about making a mail order purchase when, even with a high-rated company that's very good at satsifying customers, you have 27 people returning merchandise out of 63 total respondants (see Transcend Technologies ratings).

Just wondering. Incidentally, I don't mean to pick on Transcend - pretty much all the highly-rated companies have similar stories to tell.

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