1.6 GHz and 1.8 GHz Northwood chips are going to be available soon; these will likely be reaching some nice overclocks (maybe up to even 2.4) and these are the chips to get. They're also the only ones most of us will be able to afford, given the way Intel prices their chips (see here).
I'm using an Athlon 1 GHz now and getting nearly a 40% overclock out of it, on an Iwill KK266-R board (KT133A SDRAM), at 155*9; it's not worth it to me to upgrade to an Athlon XP or a DDR chipset.
Overclockers.com, probably my favorite site, has daily bits of news and a lot of information lately on Northwoods. Apparently Intel is working on a dual-channel DDR chipset which should be a treat.
...I announced that I was closing down my site. It is a pretty popular tropical fish discussion board, and at midnight I put up a completely serious announcement that replaced the main page with this page. People started panicking at once. Some good information on how they felt can be seen on this BBS thread.
I had planeed this out since mid-February and only a few other people (most not associated with the site) knew about it. I think it's pretty funny given the current dot-com climate.
I thought it was really entertaining, though I do agree with many points of the review above...
Also, I'll point you to Corona with a bit that I think was a mistake to be left out. Though Anderson was mentioned, and it showed his plane being shot down (along with a bit at near the end about it), a dedication would have been appropriate:
"I am concerned because so little attention has been given to the 'only casualty' of the Cuban Missile Crisis....Maj. Rudolf Anderson, Jr....the U-2 pilot who was brought down by a Soviet SAM.
"The missile ripped through the cabin of the U-2....tearing into the spacesuit...and right arm of Maj. Anderson.
"At that altitude...there was an immediate decompression...do you know what happens to a balloon at high altitude...as his blood began to boil...I need not go on with the gory details...I believe that you get the 'picture' (no pun intended!)
"Maj.(Rudy) Anderson made the 2nd U-2 flight.... the 15th of Oct 1962...was responsible, according to his awards and citations per Gen LeMay for locating the SS-5 missile site, most advanced Soviet missiles.
"Rudy sacrificed his life for the 80,000,000 Americans as refered to in the film...as he was shot down on Sat morning, Oct 27, 1962.
"BOTTOM LINE: I would think that this film would be dedicated to our only casualty who gave his life that ALL of us would see 'another Saturday' according to Robert McNamara....Sect of Defence...
"I have been researching Rudy Anderson for over 10 years and file of research on this subject and his role in the CMC...if anyone is interested.
"Most importantly..I believe that we all owe a debt of gratitude to Maj. Anderson...perhaps this is our opportunity to repay this debt...Dedicate the film to Maj. Anderson.
"I am not interested in any monetary gain...only a means of acknowledgeing what this pilot did for all of us!
"I wonder how this story would have really ended if not for Rudy Anderson...would we all be speaking 'Russian' now?
"You wanted a 'scoop' I can only assume that you got more than you bargained for...."
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a T-Bird 1000 MHz chip and an Abit KT7-RAID. I got home, set it up, connected the L1 bridges, and stuck an Alpha PEP66 on it. I'm currently running at 1313 MHz (12.5 * 105).
The chip (the T-Bird) is a blue core, which means it came from FAB-30 in Dresden. From the pictures at Sharky's you can see they had a green core, which mean it came from Austin (and uses aluminum, not copper interconnects).
...ripped from the link I posted just a couple of minutes ago.
It is fugu, a blow fish, that has the deadly nerve toxin in one of the
internal organs (either the liver of gall bladder, I forget which). There
are fugu restaurants in Japan, where the thrill of risking death by eating
even a slightly tainted sliver of meat is the whole point of the experience.
You must be a licensed fugu chef to work at such a restaurant, but there
are a number of "black market" fugu stands around, too.
However, fugu usually kills you within 15 minutes, not 24 hours. It starts
with a tingling in the fingers, and works its way up your arms and legs, until
you are completely paralyzed, and you die when it reaches your heart.
I'd guess that the fugu chef, and the doctor, were having a little fun at
Homer's expense.
Spage Yee {sy}: This fish is poisonous because its innards contain
tetratodoxin (TTX) which is a neurotoxin, which blocks either the sodium
or potassium (one or the other it's been a while since I studied
neurobiology) channels in your nervous system.
Michael T. Itamura refers the interested reader to the August 1984 issue of
National Geographic. Stories and photographs of the leopard puffer.
(Even a story about a famed Kabuki actor who ate the liver of the puffer
and paid for it with his life). Quite interesting.
***
I'm actually watching tonight's episode (6:00p.m. where I live), 5F11, where the model UN gets stuck on the island - and Bart goes snorkeling to retrieve a cooler of food. There's a puffer fish waiting for him in the sunken school bus.
I got my first one last fall (17" monitor), and I convinced my Dad to buy a 19" one this past Summer. It's hard to use anything else now, and I'll never buy another shadow mask CRT.
Trinitrons use aperture grille technology, not traditional INVAR shadow masks. Every Trinitron is an aperture grille. The faint black line(s) you see on the screen are called damper wires - what you're actually seeing is the shadow of a very small filament that holds together the aperture grille and prevents distortion. I completely ignore them, to the point where I have to look for them to see them, but it drives some people crazy.
All Trinitron displays are at least vertically flat, meaning the screen has a cylindrical shape rather than a bulbous one (as with traditional shadow masks). Many Trinitrons are also horizontally flat, resulting in a visually flat screen, no curvature at all. The former is an example of Sony's Trinitron televisions, and their new Wegas are an example of the latter.
Trinitron technology is used in monitors other than ones made by Sony; they manufacture tubes for any number of other compaies, including Sun, Dell, and Gateway. Some SGI monitors use Trinitron tubes, as well. In fact, you can do a search and find any number of Trinitron-based CRTs.
Yes, they're damn expensive, and many technicians don't know their head from their ass around them (last week I needed to replace the 15-pin VGA connector and the tech said it took hours, instead of minutes, because Trinitrons use different color coding on the solder points than shadow masks, and mine was the first one he'd ever worked on), but if you use one, and you like it, it's hard to ever go back to shadow mask CRTs. Trinitrons produce a more crisp, detailed picture, with richer, more vibrant colors. And if you have a Wega TV (which I hope to have sometime this Spring), just walk down the aisle of your local Circuit City and look from the side at all the TVs that don't use Trinitron tubes - see how bulbous they are!
Trinitrons rock, and as far as I'm concerned I'm through with shadow masks. In fact, I probably wouldn't go for anything else outside of a direct view HDTV.
If making cables' isn't your thing...Plycon Computers (my favorite vendor online) sells them, both ATA-33 and -66, as well as SCSI and floppy drive connectors.
Very expensive, sure, but waaaay cool and they certainly can't hurt airflow in your case.
There's a really great guide to anamorphic DVDs and their relationship to HDTV sets available online. It goes quite a bit into the emerging HDTV sets, as well as detailing why you should buy DVDs only if they are anamorphic (e.g. enhanced for 16:9 TVs), especially if you ever plan on watching them on a HDTV set (which do have a 16:9 aspect ratio).
I know two stations in my area (Washington D.C. / Baltimore, MD) that offer a HDTV signal. Best Buy has nice HDTV sets for $3500 and up, plus an extra $1000 for a box that will accept the signal. And my locla Circuty City has a $3500 HDTV set (Phillips) with a flat screen that's just beautiful...but not really practical.
I just bought a 27" Sony Wega (ruler-flat) tube TV and a I love it. Sony has finally created a set that doesn't look like a tube at all. The set uses a FD Trinitron tube and the front glass essentially acts as a lens, so the screen is both vertically and horizontally flat. I'm using component video inputs (Monster Cable Component Video 3) to my DVD player, and the TV has an anamorphic 16:9 squeeze feature - very cool. It basically squeezes the TV's 4:3 viewing area into that of a 16:9 TV, roughly 1.85:1. I have my DVD player thinking that it's connected to a 16:9 HDTV set, so it sends an anamorphic signal and the TV does the squeezing itself. Anamorphic signal = highest picture quality.
So, until there are many stations that broadcast in HDTV (don't all have to by 2006?), I'll be happy with my Wega. The picture is fantastic.
if (!defined $vote || $vote eq 'gore') { if ($voter_homeless) { push(@in, @ARGV); &am p;nbsp;$action = "give_free_cigarettes"; } else { die("ERROR: Shill is not homeless\n") } } Don't expect free cigarettes for your Democratic vote. Unless you happen to be a homeless Milwaukee resident.
It's still around. At my site, for instance, in the space of three years I went from a Tripod piece of crap to what's currently there - and along the way I've built up a strong following, now about 6000 pageviews daily and a strong loyalty of my BBS members.
I never went into it to make money, and despite the massive amount of ads on the site, I really don't. Hosting is very expensive, right, unless you're working with a stream of venture capital.
I really wish it was backward-compatible. 1.3GB is really good for an entire DVD rip encoded with FlasK into a DivX;-) AVI (most rips I do average about 800 MB @ 720x480, 29.97 FPS). I would definitely be interested if this format could be read by a run-of-the-mill ATAPI CD-ROM.
To the MPAA: I don't rip DVD movies. I like being raped for $8 at the movies and even more for a DVD disk I can't play under Linux. Thanks.
So what happened to some of the Declaration signers we DON'T hear about? What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr, noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid. Remember: freedom is never free!
...and Napster needs him. CNBC (the channel, not the site) had a piece on Napster today - it seems they go to court on July 26. Talks with the RIAA et al. have been ongoing, though nothing has realyl come out of them. The story said Napster got a new CEO (with past experience in the music industry), and something like $13 million in additional funding.
After reading through the brief, it seems Boies has some good points. Let's hope Napster comes out of all this all right - if it doesn't, it could be shut down, or even worse - it could become a pay-per-play service in conjuction with the RIAA, using some dogshit proprietary format (cough, cough, Windows Media Audio.wma files). The copying and redistribution by users would be attacked,rather than facilitated, and Napster would become a whore for the RIAA - a vendor, making higher profit margins for them even more than the already outreagous rate is for CDs.
Follow the link above so that DoubleClick will issue you a cookie with the string id=OPT_OUT. This will prevent DoubleClick from doing its "DoubleClickish" tracking and serving, and rather just serve you banner ads straight out.
And, yes, I'm aware of the irony of me making a post like this when my site is full of DoubleClick code:)
I'm a proud Pentium III (500E @ 775) and Celeron II (566 @ 993) owner, but the recent benchmarks and overclocking reports (see Anandtech review here) say the Duron is the best deal now. I really hope it will get some decent motherboard support - with the exception of the ASUS K7* and Abit KA7 boards, AMD's chips have always suffered because of quality boards - FIC SD11 anyone?
With the right motherboards, the Duron will be a real winner. Maybe stick a HighPoint chip on there, to circumvent Via's and AMD's disk transfer rates which are in the crapper...and give us some overclocking options...and you've got a great opportunity for overclocking heaven if you stick an Alpha on it!
Hopefully Soyo will make a decent Duron board - the 6BA+ IV, their flagship BX model, which my 500E is on, is the best board I've ever used. It's incredibly stable even running 1.5 times faster than normal (image here), and if they make a Duron board I can't wait to see how far people take these things.
Ed Stroligo visited PCExpo and wrote an article about it for Overclockers.com, one of my favorite hangouts. In short: "More AMD, little hardware, much unintentional nostalgia." Here's a funny bit about Linux:
This is Linux, why isn't this free?
I was bemused by the couple Linux areas. No freebies there, best I could tell. Everything was for sale, at quite capitalist prices. Get a 10-inch penguin: $20. T-shirts, sweatshirts, $20-25. Guess you have to make your money somewhere.
They had someone in a penguin suit meandering and falling down, which is what I thought Linux wasn't supposed to do.:)
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1.6 GHz and 1.8 GHz Northwood chips are going to be available soon; these will likely be reaching some nice overclocks (maybe up to even 2.4) and these are the chips to get. They're also the only ones most of us will be able to afford, given the way Intel prices their chips (see here).
I'm using an Athlon 1 GHz now and getting nearly a 40% overclock out of it, on an Iwill KK266-R board (KT133A SDRAM), at 155*9; it's not worth it to me to upgrade to an Athlon XP or a DDR chipset.
Overclockers.com, probably my favorite site, has daily bits of news and a lot of information lately on Northwoods. Apparently Intel is working on a dual-channel DDR chipset which should be a treat.
...I announced that I was closing down my site. It is a pretty popular tropical fish discussion board, and at midnight I put up a completely serious announcement that replaced the main page with this page. People started panicking at once. Some good information on how they felt can be seen on this BBS thread.
I had planeed this out since mid-February and only a few other people (most not associated with the site) knew about it. I think it's pretty funny given the current dot-com climate.
SALN is currently trading at about 38 cents per share and is in danger of being delisted.
Are you sure they'll be around for one year if you pay for the ad-free version?
Look for me in Quake 3 Team Arena, that annoying SOB railing everybody in mpterra1.bsp...wait a second, that's what I do now!
Also, I'll point you to Corona with a bit that I think was a mistake to be left out. Though Anderson was mentioned, and it showed his plane being shot down (along with a bit at near the end about it), a dedication would have been appropriate:
"I am concerned because so little attention has been given to the 'only casualty' of the Cuban Missile Crisis....Maj. Rudolf Anderson, Jr....the U-2 pilot who was brought down by a Soviet SAM.
"The missile ripped through the cabin of the U-2....tearing into the spacesuit...and right arm of Maj. Anderson.
"At that altitude...there was an immediate decompression...do you know what happens to a balloon at high altitude...as his blood began to boil...I need not go on with the gory details...I believe that you get the 'picture' (no pun intended!)
"Maj.(Rudy) Anderson made the 2nd U-2 flight.... the 15th of Oct 1962...was responsible, according to his awards and citations per Gen LeMay for locating the SS-5 missile site, most advanced Soviet missiles.
"Rudy sacrificed his life for the 80,000,000 Americans as refered to in the film...as he was shot down on Sat morning, Oct 27, 1962.
"BOTTOM LINE: I would think that this film would be dedicated to our only casualty who gave his life that ALL of us would see 'another Saturday' according to Robert McNamara....Sect of Defence...
"I have been researching Rudy Anderson for over 10 years and file of research on this subject and his role in the CMC...if anyone is interested.
"Most importantly..I believe that we all owe a debt of gratitude to Maj. Anderson...perhaps this is our opportunity to repay this debt...Dedicate the film to Maj. Anderson.
"I am not interested in any monetary gain...only a means of acknowledgeing what this pilot did for all of us!
"I wonder how this story would have really ended if not for Rudy Anderson...would we all be speaking 'Russian' now?
"You wanted a 'scoop' I can only assume that you got more than you bargained for...."
The chip (the T-Bird) is a blue core, which means it came from FAB-30 in Dresden. From the pictures at Sharky's you can see they had a green core, which mean it came from Austin (and uses aluminum, not copper interconnects).
It is fugu, a blow fish, that has the deadly nerve toxin in one of the internal organs (either the liver of gall bladder, I forget which). There are fugu restaurants in Japan, where the thrill of risking death by eating even a slightly tainted sliver of meat is the whole point of the experience.
You must be a licensed fugu chef to work at such a restaurant, but there are a number of "black market" fugu stands around, too.
However, fugu usually kills you within 15 minutes, not 24 hours. It starts with a tingling in the fingers, and works its way up your arms and legs, until you are completely paralyzed, and you die when it reaches your heart.
I'd guess that the fugu chef, and the doctor, were having a little fun at Homer's expense.
Spage Yee {sy}: This fish is poisonous because its innards contain tetratodoxin (TTX) which is a neurotoxin, which blocks either the sodium or potassium (one or the other it's been a while since I studied neurobiology) channels in your nervous system.
Michael T. Itamura refers the interested reader to the August 1984 issue of National Geographic. Stories and photographs of the leopard puffer. (Even a story about a famed Kabuki actor who ate the liver of the puffer and paid for it with his life). Quite interesting.
***
I'm actually watching tonight's episode (6:00p.m. where I live), 5F11, where the model UN gets stuck on the island - and Bart goes snorkeling to retrieve a cooler of food. There's a puffer fish waiting for him in the sunken school bus.
Here is a link to the classic Simpsons episode, One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish. Homer eats poisonous puffer fish and he thinks he has only 24 hours to live.
I haven't seen one of these before, but it does sound interesting. Do you have a URL for it?
The dmaper wires? They really bother some people, I guess, but you can't beat a Trinitron's picture, and I think they're worth it.
Trinitrons use aperture grille technology, not traditional INVAR shadow masks. Every Trinitron is an aperture grille. The faint black line(s) you see on the screen are called damper wires - what you're actually seeing is the shadow of a very small filament that holds together the aperture grille and prevents distortion. I completely ignore them, to the point where I have to look for them to see them, but it drives some people crazy.
All Trinitron displays are at least vertically flat, meaning the screen has a cylindrical shape rather than a bulbous one (as with traditional shadow masks). Many Trinitrons are also horizontally flat, resulting in a visually flat screen, no curvature at all. The former is an example of Sony's Trinitron televisions, and their new Wegas are an example of the latter.
Trinitron technology is used in monitors other than ones made by Sony; they manufacture tubes for any number of other compaies, including Sun, Dell, and Gateway. Some SGI monitors use Trinitron tubes, as well. In fact, you can do a search and find any number of Trinitron-based CRTs.
Yes, they're damn expensive, and many technicians don't know their head from their ass around them (last week I needed to replace the 15-pin VGA connector and the tech said it took hours, instead of minutes, because Trinitrons use different color coding on the solder points than shadow masks, and mine was the first one he'd ever worked on), but if you use one, and you like it, it's hard to ever go back to shadow mask CRTs. Trinitrons produce a more crisp, detailed picture, with richer, more vibrant colors. And if you have a Wega TV (which I hope to have sometime this Spring), just walk down the aisle of your local Circuit City and look from the side at all the TVs that don't use Trinitron tubes - see how bulbous they are!
Trinitrons rock, and as far as I'm concerned I'm through with shadow masks. In fact, I probably wouldn't go for anything else outside of a direct view HDTV.
If making cables' isn't your thing...Plycon Computers (my favorite vendor online) sells them, both ATA-33 and -66, as well as SCSI and floppy drive connectors.
Very expensive, sure, but waaaay cool and they certainly can't hurt airflow in your case.
There's a really great guide to anamorphic DVDs and their relationship to HDTV sets available online. It goes quite a bit into the emerging HDTV sets, as well as detailing why you should buy DVDs only if they are anamorphic (e.g. enhanced for 16:9 TVs), especially if you ever plan on watching them on a HDTV set (which do have a 16:9 aspect ratio).
The Digital Bits Ultimate Guide to Anamorphic Widescreen DVD (for Dummies!)
I just bought a 27" Sony Wega (ruler-flat) tube TV and a I love it. Sony has finally created a set that doesn't look like a tube at all. The set uses a FD Trinitron tube and the front glass essentially acts as a lens, so the screen is both vertically and horizontally flat. I'm using component video inputs (Monster Cable Component Video 3) to my DVD player, and the TV has an anamorphic 16:9 squeeze feature - very cool. It basically squeezes the TV's 4:3 viewing area into that of a 16:9 TV, roughly 1.85:1. I have my DVD player thinking that it's connected to a 16:9 HDTV set, so it sends an anamorphic signal and the TV does the squeezing itself. Anamorphic signal = highest picture quality.
So, until there are many stations that broadcast in HDTV (don't all have to by 2006?), I'll be happy with my Wega. The picture is fantastic.
Congratulations. Announced at 2:18 a.m. Eastern Time, George W. Bush will be the 43rd President of the United States.
Sorry about that bad link folks. Here is the working one, and here and here are some interesting updates.
Nader might still play a part here. Florida, though, will probably make the ultimate difference.
This bothers me.
;push(@in, @ARGV); ;die("ERROR: Shill is not homeless\n")
if (!defined $vote || $vote eq 'gore') {
if ($voter_homeless) {
 
&am p;nbsp;$action = "give_free_cigarettes";
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Don't expect free cigarettes for your Democratic vote. Unless you happen to be a homeless Milwaukee resident.
I never went into it to make money, and despite the massive amount of ads on the site, I really don't. Hosting is very expensive, right, unless you're working with a stream of venture capital.
To the MPAA: I don't rip DVD movies. I like being raped for $8 at the movies and even more for a DVD disk I can't play under Linux. Thanks.
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr, noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid. Remember: freedom is never free!
After reading through the brief, it seems Boies has some good points. Let's hope Napster comes out of all this all right - if it doesn't, it could be shut down, or even worse - it could become a pay-per-play service in conjuction with the RIAA, using some dogshit proprietary format (cough, cough, Windows Media Audio .wma files). The copying and redistribution by users would be attacked,rather than facilitated, and Napster would become a whore for the RIAA - a vendor, making higher profit margins for them even more than the already outreagous rate is for CDs.
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Follow the link above so that DoubleClick will issue you a cookie with the string id=OPT_OUT. This will prevent DoubleClick from doing its "DoubleClickish" tracking and serving, and rather just serve you banner ads straight out.
And, yes, I'm aware of the irony of me making a post like this when my site is full of DoubleClick code
With the right motherboards, the Duron will be a real winner. Maybe stick a HighPoint chip on there, to circumvent Via's and AMD's disk transfer rates which are in the crapper...and give us some overclocking options...and you've got a great opportunity for overclocking heaven if you stick an Alpha on it!
Hopefully Soyo will make a decent Duron board - the 6BA+ IV, their flagship BX model, which my 500E is on, is the best board I've ever used. It's incredibly stable even running 1.5 times faster than normal (image here), and if they make a Duron board I can't wait to see how far people take these things.
I was bemused by the couple Linux areas. No freebies there, best I could tell. Everything was for sale, at quite capitalist prices. Get a 10-inch penguin: $20. T-shirts, sweatshirts, $20-25. Guess you have to make your money somewhere.
They had someone in a penguin suit meandering and falling down, which is what I thought Linux wasn't supposed to do.:)