Quad SLI with 9800 GX2: Pushing a System to it’s Limit
AnandTech takes on Crysis and others with a 9800 GX2 x2 Quad SLI setup.
Archive for March 27, 2008
AT&T’s Spam Filter Gets A Bit Too Aggressive
You can certainly understand why ISPs offer spam filters. It’s a service for users who don’t want to be totally bombarded with spam. But what I’ve never understood is that these ISPs rarely give the user a chance to circumvent the spam filter themselves. If most people want to ignore it and assume all spam is spam, then so be it.
The Fedora Project releases Fedora 9 Beta
The full release notes are available at: http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes
Help Azureus to Fight BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently this turned into a political issue. The BitTorrent client Azureus has now developed a plugin through which you can help distinguishing the good from the bad ISPs, data they will use to strengthen their argument in the ongoing Comcast debate.
Canadian ISPs furious about Bell Canada’s traffic throttling
Canadian DSL resellers learned the hard way this week that Bell Canada now runs traffic-shaping hardware even on the lines it resells.
Why doesn’t Linux need defragmenting?
. . . That is a question that crops up with regularity on Linux forums when new users are unable to find the defrag tool on their shiny new desktop. Here’s a brave at giving a simple, non-technical answer as to why some filesystems suffer more from fragmenting than others
