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THE Dutch tweakers/news site http://www.tweakers.net/ forbids blocking of ads in any way.
Maybe they should team up with Philips, with their unskippable ads TV.
My screen does NOT dictate me what I have to see or not.

Rules for ads are simple: Does it move/blink/make noise? Bye bye ad.
One further rule: Does the ad appear somewhere in the middle of the page I'm trying to read? Gone.
I won't even go into the overlay, pop-up and -under junk.

I won't buy anything from web ads anyway, so they won't lose a sale by not reaching my eyeballs.

NO NO NO

Did you know: X1x00 series of ATI cards don't have drivers yet (3 months after release!) and won't for the next 3 months?

Did you know: ATI driver's performance on Linux is ~ 1/5th driver performance on Windows?

Did you know: ATI's DRI driver is based upon outdated docs ATI released along time ago with all the performance stuff torn out (no pixel shaders, for example).

At least Nvidia's closed source driver tends to work. Have you tried the latest nvidia drivers? They do list support for your NX6200. Perhaps try sending them a bug report, or posting on NVNews.net's forums (official Nvidia Linux support forums).

Nvidias drivers are closed source, but they are 98% feature complete with Windows. ATI's drivers suck, both the open and closed source ones.

Sony has done that. http://tweakers.net/nieuws/40654

very easy... set the following url as you startingpage:
http://www.google.com/|http://slashdot.org/|http:/ /www.tweakers.net/
and forget the crap slashdot inserted behind the links. The clue is to sepparate the different urls with the pipe character.

Here are some alternative reviews and piccies while the site is slashdoted: dutch site, uk site, toms hw, japan.

ok its a google search, but usefull

Hmmm, I don't know the promise cards. I've been using a HighPoint PCI-X RocketRAID 1820A (~210$), and it's been working pretty well. Here's one review that recomends it for desktop: tweakers. I'd do some more research before purchasing a RAID solution, though. What you basically want is a "smart" RAID card - one that does all the work by itself, without asking the main processor to compute stuff (like RAID 5 XORs).

Well, here's another review:

tweakers.net

It's in Dutch but it has some nice benchmarkresults which should be clear to anybody, benchmarked next to an AMD dual-core 4200+ and a AMD 3800+ (and I know for a fact those results are correct cause it's all been benchmarked on my own desk :-))

Try: Comparison of nine Serial ATA RAID 5 adapters

You might also have noticed the content of all the sites is nearly identical. Just a rewrite of the ati press kit is suppose. They all miss benchmarks (the whole purpose of sli is speed).

Here is a list of some more sites:
beyond3d
techreport
tweakers.net (dutch, but the content is identical to other sites
the faq from ati

Next in line: these same sites (i left anand tech and tomshardware out) will bring the benchmarks all the same day the nda on the benchmarks expires

Only three out of nine are not hardware RAID. And the article does mention which are which and it spends a whole page (page 3) on discussing the differences.

All of them support at least RedHat. Some of them are binary only. This is listed on the feature charts:

http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/13
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/14

All of them support at least RedHat. Some of them are binary only. This is listed on the feature charts:

http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/13
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/14

http://print.tweakers.net/?reviews/557

Areca ARC-1120 looks better on each and every page except for the sequential read/write tests where it tends to come in third [I'm just reading off the graphs].
The RAIDCore BC4852 seems fastest for sequential reads/writes.

BOTH of these have linux support. The Areca supports: Mandrake (9.0),Red Hat (7.3, 8.0, 9.0, AS 3.0), Fedora Core (2, 2 AMD64), SuSE (7.3, 9.1 Pro, 9.0 SLES, 9.0 SLES AMD64)
The RAIDCore: Red Hat (9.0, AS 3.0), Fedora Core (1)
The Areca also supports Windows XP and Server 2003 64-bit versions and BSDs: 4.2R, 4.4R, 5.2.1 (incl. source).

Also, the Areca ARC-1160 (they finished testing after the original article was written, so it didn't make it into most of the text) appears at the top of all of the Index/performance tests, except for "Fileserver - Large Filesize - RAID 1/10" and "My SQL - Data Drive - RAID 1/10".

Areca ARC-1120 looks better on each and every page except for the sequential read/write tests where it tends to come in third [I'm just reading off the graphs].
The RAIDCore BC4852 seems fastest for sequential reads/writes.

BOTH of these have linux support. The Areca supports: Mandrake (9.0),Red Hat (7.3, 8.0, 9.0, AS 3.0), Fedora Core (2, 2 AMD64), SuSE (7.3, 9.1 Pro, 9.0 SLES, 9.0 SLES AMD64)
The RAIDCore: Red Hat (9.0, AS 3.0), Fedora Core (1)
The Areca also supports Windows XP and Server 2003 64-bit versions and BSDs: 4.2R, 4.4R, 5.2.1 (incl. source).

Also, the Areca ARC-1160 (they finished testing after the original article was written, so it didn't make it into most of the text) appears at the top of all of the Index/performance tests, except for "Fileserver - Large Filesize - RAID 1/10" and "My SQL - Data Drive - RAID 1/10".

3ware Escalade 8506-8 is lagging far behind the competition. Moreover, it misses important features such as online capacity expansion, online RAID level migration and RAID 50 support.

http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/6

What they say in the article is almost damning really...

After 32 pages, it's probably just best to skip to the conclusion:
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/32

Where it has the executive summary:

Areca ARC-1120: highly recommended
RAIDCore BC4852: recommended
HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A: recommended

For several reasons, we will refuse recommendations on the remaing adapters in this comparison

I think that pretty much covers the jist of the article.

Well according to some we don't... LOL!!!

This seems to be the post that hit the news:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/2 2383398#22383398

"The Itanium was built for a niche market"

Then why did Intel release a roadmap in 2001 predicting that Itanium would have 90% of the desktop market share by today?

http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/204/6

Maybe it's not the first trojan targeted at Linux users, but together with the official sounding domain, it could trick some users into downloading and running the binary.

This is an unfortunate reality today. Back in my day, the only way to be a real Linux guru was to compile and build your system from scratch using a dev box.

Nowadays, any average person can easily install Linux and instantly become "31337". Today's typical Linux user has no idea what half the files on his system do, or where they came from. Unforunately, the majority of you with moderator points fall into this category so my post is doomed!

I would advise those who are new to Linux to visit the Linux From Scratch website and set aside a weekend of learning. There is no better method for gaining useful knowledge regarding the reduction of hard drive clutter and increasiong optimization, and security.

Since the site is /.ed:
Picture One

Picture Two

The Inquirer: "A plan by the European Council of Ministers to force the continent wide adoption of the Directive on Software Patents suffered a blow yesterday when the Dutch Parliament ordered a minister to withdraw the country's support".

Groklaw says "The Dutch parliament is making news. It has just withdrawn its vote for the Directive on Software Patents. It's a proof-of-concept vote, you might say, the first time such a move has been taken in the history of the EU, demonstrating that other countries are free to do the same, as we reported on June 22.".

In Germany, Heise covers the story. In the Netherlands, the story is making headlines all over the place, lik e for example on webwereld and Tweakers.net.

This sudden change of direction is a long story, in which a classic case of desinformation of the Parliament triggered a whole process of debates and motions.

That is not the proposed theme! This is. Much too Luna-specific to my taste. I think this is going to scare away many potential users!

Yeah well Laurens-Jan is getting a bitchslap by parliament and the small/medium companies' lobbyists according to this article and he should be :]

I've heard that BBNe(d|t) is starting to roll out ADSL2 in the Netherlands (see Tweakers.net (Dutch))
This might be an option on sites which have a long distance to the ADSL point-of-preseance.

They've been there, they've done that. It was not terribly popular though. :-)

(Could the way 3dfx used several chips working in parallel be considered "video card RAID"?)

Tweakers.net is a great (in Dutch) resource for those of us in the Low Countries. It's similar to Froogle, but limited to the Belelux area. (and some German results too!)

Excellent stuff

Here's a thread about doing this: GoT thread

It talks about using the vesa feature connector, found on some (older) graphics cards, and has an example. It's in dutch however.

A dutch forum post constructing VGA to old TFT They use an old vesa connector of an old isa-card, a floppy cable a tft screen. Only 16 bits, but looks pretty cool.

No, you don't have to:
Tweakers.net
Webwereld.nl

This same article says that no action may be taken against consumers who act in "good faith" and download music. Of course, we must see how this works out...

Making legislation to protect copyright rights is okay for me, making legislation to limit the use of legally licensed (equals bought) copyrighted material is what's really wrong.

On an Dutch tech forum some guy has posted his Mama Cabinet.

Wich is also pretty awsome. This guy added 6 joysticks and 7 buttons per joystick.
For more pictures look here.

Voor diegene die dit nog niet kunnen volgen:

Telstar 4: Een TV sataliet (Afbeelding hier maar de echte slashdotter kan hem in het echt zien zolang je maar weet Waar en waneer)

"CW carriers up on 11700 MHz V & 12200 MHz H": Een CW carrier is niet zomaar een draaggolf, het is een draagolf met een morsecode er op! (foei mister berg CW staat hier voor continuous wave), de V en de H geven de polarisatie aan.

Loral Skynet : Uitbater van de Skynet satalieten die een groot deel van de wereld van TV voorzien.

"orbital slot": Een locatie op een baan boven de evenaar (voor geostationaire satalieten)

I assume Wouter (The parent poster) and I are both equally delighted te be have found a home away from tweakers.net, which carries mainly bad translations (To dutch for those still wondering) of slashdot items... I better shut up now, voor ik een bende power-koeien achter mij aan krijg.

DHTML Lemmings is awesome!

So after reading this book, would I be able to do something like this ?

DHTML might be a good altervative to Java in the future for some web based interfaces, considering that a decent version of Java does not come with Internet Explorer anymore.

The mouse will come in 2 flavors:
Genuine leather and vanilla plastic

So what would I need to pay for my Hewlett Packard Vectra XU 5/90, which I guess is eight or nine years old now, runs SuSE Linux 7.2 with a 2.4 kernel, and has TWO Pentium 54C's running at a meager 133MHz?

actually here's a third article I found with a few pictures of the device, which actually looks pretty bulky...can anyone translate this?

RCA LYRA RD2780

- 20GB HD
- 3,5" LCD
- 5.2 x 3.14 x 0.98 inches
- MP3, MP3PRO, WMA, MPEG4, JPEG
- USB 2.0 or flash card
- video in/out
- 15 hours battery time
- Available in summer 2003
- $399 in suggested retail price

Picture + specs

Preview:

Pressrelease from RCA

Pressrelease from thomson

pics

The design is of course not at nice as with ipod, but still quite nice compared to archos. The screen is by far better than the one on ipod and is larger than the one on archos. I would go for this gadget because of the big screen and the overall design.

I never thought I would see the day (perhaps a feeling many share on this card, but not this subject) that I would have to point to a tweakers.net article not only for being sooner but also being more in depth. The tweakers.net "news" posts tend to be bad translations of ancient slashdot posts, with believe it or not, even more braindead comments, but the geforce FX benchmark post is even updated citing doubths about the trusthworthiness of these benchmarks! Doubts which I share given the importance of the succes of this card to not only nvidia but also the card manufacturers.

Lets hope someone posts the slashdot distributed x-box private key cracking project posts on tweakers, you may get dump posts there, but the dutch power cows provide great power to such projects [insert statement about brains and brawns here].

I never thought I would see the day (perhaps a feeling many share on this card, but not this subject) that I would have to point to a tweakers.net article not only for being sooner but also being more in depth. The tweakers.net "news" posts tend to be bad translations of ancient slashdot posts, with believe it or not, even more braindead comments, but the geforce FX benchmark post is even updated citing doubths about the trusthworthiness of these benchmarks! Doubts which I share given the importance of the succes of this card to not only nvidia but also the card manufacturers.

Lets hope someone posts the slashdot distributed x-box private key cracking project posts on tweakers, you may get dump posts there, but the dutch power cows provide great power to such projects [insert statement about brains and brawns here].

Network traffic rrdtool graph.

a'ite, that was probably the funniest thing I have ever read on slashdot. i remember somwhere on this friggin' site ppl were bashing trolls (it might have been in the faq), anyway - a question was posed "why don't you just ban/block known trolls?", the response was something (quite awfully paraphrased) like 'well, in the beginining trolls were some of the most intelligent, funny, posts, and now the meaning has been taken out of context... since then I have been browsing with a threshold of 0. now I know why. gems like this are completely hillarious, and poke fun at our very nature... like c'mon folks -- if this gets a negative score i'll be very upset. let's look in the mirror, smell the coffee (since it's so close, and grow the hell up... there's such a thing as an anti troll i believe... most of the users on this site are anti-trolls, which are just as bad. MOD PARENT UP BECAUSE I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO HARD IN WEEKS!

kthxbye

Good link for picture
http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/22475
Site is not english though.
link

...until clients find alternative solutions.

Mind you, KPN (which owns 40% of KPNQWest shares) has several Really Big Contracts with rather big companies, such as Schiphol Airport (which also has a very big hosting colo), guaranteeing that the network will ALWAYS run, or they'll have to pay the damages of breaking their contract.

So, as long as 'cost to keep the network running' < 'cost to piss off biggest customers REAL good', the network will keep running.

You can check this article (in Dutch), which says at least the Belgian network will keep running. Short translation of the article: employees where working for free to keep the network up and running, now they have a temporary contract for a few weeks, guaranteeing them they'll get paid if they keep the network running.

You're real bright aren't you? Tweakers is a dutch web site, you think the dutch version of the story would have more comments atached?

tweakers.net routinely handles about one million hits a day, go check their Statistics page, or check out some pictures of their servers and server room.

Ofcourse the text is in Dutch, but I think you can read stats and view pictures in Dutch right :)

tweakers.net routinely handles about one million hits a day, go check their Statistics page, or check out some pictures of their servers and server room.

Ofcourse the text is in Dutch, but I think you can read stats and view pictures in Dutch right :)

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