dreaMING of Fusion

Ok, make a guess. Which of the two following DIMMs are fake. Now, recently, I bought a Corsair Ultra Performance XMS 512MB DDR400 RAM from lelong.com.my (a local ebay clone) because I already have an existing Corsair RAM and getting another one should give my aging machine a performance boost with more memory and faster dual channel memory bandwidth. I was pretty excited when I receive the parcel a few days ago. I plugged it into the mainboard and it seems to work. It passes the memtest86+. However, I notice something fishy when the memory speed shows 333MHz when it should be 400MHz. I booted into the old rusty WinXP (linux lshw does seems to show much useful info), and I ran PC Wizard . The following is part of the report from PC Wizard. >> Information EEPROM (DIMM1) Manufacturer : Unspecified Part Number : CMX512-3200C2 >> Serial Number Type : DDR-SDRAM PC3200 (200 MHz) Size : 512 Mb (2 rows, 4 banks) Module Buffered : No Module Registered : No Width : 64 bits Er...

Just installed updated to KDE 4.1.1 from Kubuntu Member's KDE4 PPA. The server seems rather slow. It took me quite a few nights to download all the over 70 packages. I wonder if there are any Asian mirrors for the Launchpad PPA. Anyway, here's my desktop screen capture.

Just found out that Multimedia University (MMU) has a mirror of the Ubuntu repository and it has a 100Mbps connection and it seems pretty up-to-date. So for Malaysian Ubuntu users, set your /etc/apt/source.list to http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu for example, for hardy deb http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe main multiverse restricted deb http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu/ hardy main universe restricted multiverse Even with my 384Kbps Streamyx line, I get pretty good 40KBps downloads. It would be interesting to see what is the speed for the next major update.