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Either APC Smart-UPS or most EATON models are generally ok from what I've seen (and that's pretty all I see around these days)... Most EATON UPSes can be LAN configured/monitored, and most of their rack setups support ESXi as well.

Because their engineers plugged some numbers into a computer, and that's what the software they use told them it may be... Often the calculations assume near-perfect manufacture of all components and assembly, which know is not the case. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures

This gave me a good laugh

Thanks for the feedback, i'll give the demo a play tonight (if he's been good today).

Hi Guys, My son has seen trailers for Portal on Youtube, and was wondering despite having a teen rating, are there any issues for the younger players? Just trying to work out why it has a Teen rating, rather than a more general G rating since it's a puzzle game? The youtube clips I've seen...

Thanks for the link. Greatly appreciated.

I would hope they provide the option... but it'll mean the MS will have to make freely available installation media for all the different OS versions (something which they haven't done), and the product key entry algorithm would have to accept keys for Win7+ and handle those correctly, including...

Not using regular 802.11 gear... But if both sites have clean line of site, then could you consider FSO (Free Space Optics) instead? You can get 1Gb links, but a 100Mb links are very cheap these days. Since most FSO based technologies rely of lasers you don't need to worry about interference...

Sorry for the late reply... But did you read the Arch guide on ZFS? (Arch has been systemd based for a while now). https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS#Configuration

That's a problem that has affected some of the Telco edition phones here as well... (IIRC Telstra branded HTC One M8 is one affected). But having been burnt by Telco "enhancements" in the past, was one reason my wife and I insisted on and purchased phones direct from Sony. (They have no carrier...

While I agree resetting a phone is a PITA, there are not too many OSes that upgrade cleanly between major component upgrades. Just look at going from Vista to Win7... Both are very similar, but have not heard anyone being able to upgrade from one to the other without issues... And it's similar...

I've recently updated to Lollipop on my Sony Z3 Compact, and so far it's been quite good. Battery life and UI performance is on-par or better in some cases (the phone dialler is better in Lollipop) than KitKat on this device. Not overly impressed with the new UI style (WTF is with the flat look...

But the problem is the M2 Group own "Dodo" which IIRC is about the 4th largest ISP in Oz, but it also run like an extreme cut-price-no-frills, and forget any customer service or support type ISP. There is a lot of fear that if iiNet is purchased by M2, that the support quality (which IMO is...

What timwhit asks... But you should be able to start in single user mode (see you distro's docs on doing this), umount the zfs /home, thus you should be right to access the old /home folder (if it's part of the root filesystem). Since you're logged in as "root" you don't need access to the...

@Sed, sorry to hear the news. Can't provide much advice, however having witness my ex-wife's parents go through a divorce, and having been divorced myself, but the best things to do is to keep an open mind and take everything said about the relationship (and especially why it failed) with a huge...

A guess, but a bug in the application causing it to set those options? For a more complete possible explanation. When performing tests, the application is most likely attempting to set some power options to ensure the device and HDDs do not power down during the tests, and unfortunately on your...

Oh the days of going to a LAN, and spending the first 1-2 hours reinstalling/updating to ensure everyone was on the same installation/patch level... Fun times (note: sarcasm). But about the only games I'm playing at the moment are the Lego themed ones, eg Lego: City Undercover (a real cool game...

H, very funny! As a side, note: Installed Steam on my son's laptop and purchased Lego: Marvel Super Heroes and Lego: The Movie game for hime, and admittedly the process was very straight forward. The only downside was downloading 8G of game files (which took a few hours as I throttled the...

Certainly aware of that, but knowing that cut-scenes are capable of being made to that quality, it may only be a few years until we get in-game quality like that... But I guess that's just me dreaming, since we all know consoles will keep gfx quality stagnated for a number of years since they...

I know it's EA game... but still worth a watch...

Yes, he was...

Sad if it is him... However, if he was unwell for a few years prior, that could explain the reduced involvement in forums, selling of equipment, etc. PS. I first meet Mark on the 2cpu.com forums**, very helpful with my Tyan K8W setup and understanding the AGP issues with AMD-8151 chipset...

Thanks for the work, working really well... The only problem I had was when accessing the new site, attempting to login would show the "thank you of logging in" message, but then get an immediate logout. Fixed it by deleting all cookies for this site in the browser, after doing that, login...

For those with Sony TVs/BR players, here is the official list of devices to lose YouTube on 20-Apr... https://esupport.sony.com/US/p/news-item.pl?news_id=487 Panasonic hasn't issued a list yet... And Google themselves have said that earlier generation GoogleTV devices (honeycomb or ICS based...

Hi Liam, Most of the stuff I know that will do HFS+ costs $$$$, however FTK Imager should be able to read HFS+ partitions/filesystems assuming the MBR/GPT hasn't been overridden. However I don't know if the free version will let you extract the data needed, but it should at least let you see if...

Any problems with newer BR discs not working in the older BR player? (due to DRM/key changes over time)

Unsure about Roku, but I've got 2x Chromecast that we use with different apps on our TVs (mainly Presto and Youtube). Whilst we've got a Sony TV that is most likely affected (KDL40CX520 - approx 4yr old), we have found the YouTube app on the TV is limited compared to using a tablet+chromecast...

Exactly... I've got a friend who works at a regional ISP on the Gold Coast (OnTheNet), and even he admits both Telstra and Optus are putting a lot of financial strain on their wholesale users, where Telstra and Optus are not just quite undercutting their own wholesale pricing plans, making...

This exactly... What you could see is that general consumer based models are locked, but corporate models are not (due to HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc support RHEL on the corporate models). For those of us that build our own desktops, I don't see Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, etc locking the BIOS down for the...

Secure Boot It's becoming widely reported that the option to turn off Secure Boot will be optional for OEMs under the Windows 10 partner program... http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windows-10-to-make-the-secure-boot-alt-os-lock-out-a-reality/ Not nice for those of us that...

At work we've been looking for mini-ITX motherboards with onboard SAS, and opions are very limited. The nice thing about the ASRock board, is both the SATA and SAS ports exported via 8087 mini-SAS connectors, allowing easy connection to hot-swap bays...

For those that are building your own NAS, are you aware of this little motherboard from ASRock? ( http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C224D4I-14S#Specifications ) Extended mini-ITX Socket 1150, i3/i5/i7/Xeon E3 upto 32GB DDR3 RAM LSI 2308 controller + Intel C224...

For those Australians using iiNet, Internode, Westnet or Adam, iiNet is set to be purchased by TPG... fun times ahead for all... http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2382526

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-8/upgrade-from-windows-vista-xp-tutorial and http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-8/upgrade-assistant-download-online-faq

It's okay for Youtube, TuxPaint and GCompris which is what my 5yr old daughter does with it... (The 2GB RAM helps, as Win7 will use 700MB for itself). I've still got another Asus 1001HA netbook kicking around (Atom N270, 2GB RAM) running Arch Linux, and besides the slow startup is still very...

User data for me is approx 800GB; documents, home movies, photos, source code, application assets, etc. Home 1 (mine): Intel i7-4790, 32GB RAM (4x 8GB DDR3-1600), ASRock H97M-PRO4, eVGA GTX760 OC 2GB, Intel 530 240GB SSD, Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm HDD, LG BluRay-RW, Hyper212 Evo HSF, SilverStone...

Interesting, but for a drive that is really designed for near-line backup/archive (write once, read many), it's not surprising that such a low sustained performance was seen with 1 application. I did note, that raw IO write tests did show 180MB/s+ sustained, so could be an artefact of that one...

Install one of the kiosk mode add-ons, eg http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/articles/107735.aspx

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Very said news indeed. Leonard did lead a full life and did bring joy to many people, and for that we should be greatful and not mourn the loss, but celebrate the life and joy he gave us all.

Review of the ARM based NAS... 8x 3.5" bays, 2x 1 GbE RJ-45 + 2x 10GbE SFP+ http://www.anandtech.com/show/8985/synology-ds2015xs-review-an-armbased-10g-nas

Just no more security updates for the core OS... You may still get updates for things like IE and other shared/common components like .NET, etc after this date, but nothing for the core OS itself. IIRC, the MS policy is to stop support for a version once the next service pack has been released...

Actually, implementation of the NX bit solves a host of issues with exploit mitigation, stopping both remote and local exploits from occurring... Whilst NX won't stop trojans, it can and does stop a whole range of other malware of performing the initial infection... And with AV solutions being...

Using all available bundle options and discounts: iiNet: OffNet Home - 3 Turbo w/300GB (150GB peak/150GB offpeak) ($59.95) + landline ($29.95) + call pack ($20) = $109.90 pm. No further discounts available, unless current sale offer (there is an offer to double quota for new customers)...

Out of interest, how many of you are just using the OEMs installation on mass deployments and not your own OS image? If you were using your own, then crap like this should never be an issue...

@time, thanks. I've looked at Internodes offerings, but my wife is pushing for us to switch back to Telstra... Mainly for a number of reasons: 1. Telstra appears to be the only provider to offer Priority Assistance on landline repairs. (iiNet stopped offering this 12mths ago). She's undergoing...

Quick follow up. Coug how are you liking the Moto G? As mentioned in another thread, my wife and I are looking at switching ISPs, but since we tend to keep all services with one provider will need to switch carriers and hence may require a new handset. My wife is looking at the Sony Xperia Z3...

Sorry for the necro thread rebirth... For the Australian members, are you still using the ISP you may have mentioned above? Or any recommendations? For the long story, When we first joined iiNet, things were much, much better than Bigpond, support was responsive and issued corrected quickly...

Both Intel and AMD can issue a microcode update to include new instructions (LAHF-SAHF, CMPXCHG16B and PREFETCHW), BUT it'll require support from motherboard vendors (CPU microcode updates can be shipped as part of the BIOS image or as part of the OS) and OS vendors. In reality, both AMD and...

@Tannin, yep it sucks for those with viable and working hardware to be stuck on an EOL platform... But their version won't stop workling on the EOL date, and they also have the option to move either Win8.1 32bit or GNU/Linux (choose your poision) to remain with a supported product. Or they can...