GENEVA (Reuters) - Two major scientific research centers said on Wednesday they had set a new world speed record for sending data across the Internet, equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD film in seven seconds. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, said the feat, doubling the previous top speed, was achieved in a nearly 30-minute transmission over 7,000 kms of network between Geneva and a partner body in California. CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss b...

(INQUIRER) TESTS PUTTING an Athlon 64 FX-51, and a 2GHz dual Opteron up against a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 and two PowerMac G5 systems have AMD's 64-bit offerings mashing up the Apple and pulping the Pentium. The Athlon 64 FX system outperforms the 64-bittish G5 systems in most of the benchmarks, including Premiere 6, Word, and Quake III. Apple-friendly Photoshop, still performs best on the platform, though, the dual G5 managing a 15 per cent performance lead over the Athlon 64 FX-51. The dual Opt...

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The following list of hardware prices have been found on PriceWatch, October 23, 2003 at 10:20AM EST. I've highlighed some items that may be of interest. CPU's $475 Xeon 3.0GHz 533FSB $327 - Xeon 2.8GHz 533FSB $269 - Xeon 2.66GHz 533FSB $228 - Xeon 2.4GHz 533FSB $230 - Xeon 2.0GHz 533FSB $449 Xeon 3.0GHz $310 Xeon 2.8GHz $252 Xeon 2.6GHz $208 - Xeon 2.4GHz $229 - Xeon 2.2GHz $129 - Xeon 2.0GHz $162 - Xeon 1.8GHz $95 - Xeon 1.7GHz $82 - ...

Last night I was checking my email when I was rudely interrupted by an ad window prompting me that my 10 hours of free internet had expired. I was a bit bummed out since I'm forced to even consider using dial-up as my only internet option. I can't use Cable internet, since the apartment complex that I live in has its own cable service but no internet. DSL has not yet come in to my area and satellite is simply to expensive for casual internet use. So, there I sit, reading this unsightly error. Wh...