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I had a duron 600 where - I kid you not - I chipped off the SSE instruction set. The processor itself would run great, but anytime the PC tried to render a jpeg the jpeg would come out garbled. Win2k ran great on it but the only web browser I could use was firefox because it didn't make use of...

I don't always recommend installing Windows. But when I do, it's 7.

I think hardocp looked into scaling between different numbers of lanes but my google-fu failed me. x4 PCIe doesn't actually hurt too bad either For the brave, you could likely nip the plastic off the end of a x1 connector and put a graphics card in if you really wanted (and had the clearance...

Not trying to pick nits, but there were no 64 bit p3's, but you are right that it was discovered via trying to compile a linux kernel with a p3. As far as I know the 3.8ghz p4 wasn't recalled, but probably should never have been sold with the heat it put out.

There are several applications that won't run as root by default.

I've seen enough of the story with MS trying to break into the mobile market to see that they won't do that well. They had a small degree of success in getting Windows CE into things like barcode scanners, but they have a long history of trying to (unsuccessfully) break into the mobile segment...

Personally, I use Gentoo myself, but it requires a Man-Computer relationship to maintain that may not be legal in all states. From most accounts that I am aware of, Suse is a great distribution but I am wary of it from the point of view of being a "corporate" distribution. I don't file Red...

I went from a [email protected] to a [email protected], and while the performance increase was nice (not as much as I expected, tbh) but I have a very clean upgrade path to an Ivy Bridge processor which I believe will be a very noticable upgrade.

I would recommend that you work on contributions to Gentoo. They have the most bare metal attitudes and could certainly use any contributions towards the project that you could muster, whether it's ebuild maintenance or coding for any packages. Honestly, I learned more about linux/*nix in...

The thing that bothers me with CrimsonKnight13's list is that it seems that the UI and usability elements that make the systems on that list successful don't always seem to make it's way upstream to trickle back down to standard Linux distributions. I've been a desktop Linux user for some time...

Ivy bridge will be a drop in replacement for Sandy Bridge. Worst case scenario is that you have to update your BIOS. Google "intel tick tock"

Stuff like that gets buried away in the small print of the TOS, very interesting!

Just poking my head in this thread to say that Intel Pro 1000 cards > *

I'm running 64 bit firefox for some time and my addons work just fine without getting special versions. Flash works (as well as it normally does on linux).

The biggest problem with providing a solid internet connection is that it is a moving target for both sides of the transmission. The area of focus for the dishes that would provide this connection is incredibly small in relative terms. I would presume to make up for the difficulties in...