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Isaac (my son) got a new pet on the weekend, an Australian Rainforest Scorpion (Liocheles waigiensis). Isaac named her "Sting". (He already has an Australian Selenotypus SP2 Tarantula, which he named "Teddy"). Gabriel (my daughter) also got a new pet as well, an Australian Blue Tongue Skink. She...

Not surprised with the Australian results. (Most households are typically on ADSL1 or ADSL2+, with some on cable).

Damn, should've been keeping up the the news... (I see the 4 main routes that used to unlimited are now 130km/h). FYI. An news article from a few days ago does indicate the NT government will reintroduce unlimited areas for a trial period... Also, in Victoria the allowance is 3km/h over the...

That sounds like peak hour in most Australian cities! :D If you did that, you'll end up getting a speeding ticket. ;) (Most freeway/motorway speed limits are 100km/h (60mi/h) or 110km/h (68mi/h) depending on the location**). Even though I ride on the motorway from Northern Gold Coast to...

For families travelling up/down the East Coast of Australia (between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane), a lot of people drive, as unless you're travelling by yourself it's cheaper to drive. Example, An airline ticket between state capitals will cost about AU$200-400 return per person, and...

Mind you a Mr Fusion Home Energy Reactor would be awesome to have!

Totally agree there. (most of my long range trips in the past always had a break every 200-300km for either bathroom/food/drinks). If they can get the charge fast enough, eg the typical time for a 15min reset stop, then the range becomes less an issue... but that relies on two things: The...

I personally think this is a major issue that still needs to be addressed, since there hasn't been a major break through in battery technology in a number of years. Whilst electric cars are suitable for short trips and highly populated areas, in countries like Australia and Canada where you have...

PS. Be careful with the 760G based boards, the 760G has a few quirks with supported HT link speeds and CPUs that are above 90W TDP.

Integrated should give you the lowest power usage, as you're not having to drive all the extra electronics on the discrete card. (between PCIe bridges, RAM, etc, they add up). Mind you if you want the lowest possible power requirement, nothing is really going to beat: 1. Atom based ITX/mATX...

Unless your dealing with something really old, (a 2D only card), even an old GeForce FX5200 PCI will consume 25W. (IIRC, regular PCI 32/33 slots can provide up to 25W of power, and most PCI gfx cards do use that). Also quickly checking most review sites didn't start to include TDP as part of...

See if there are any boot failure options in the BIOS, and disable as needed/available. And what do you mean by low power? I assume low Wattage... then an AMD HD5450 based solution will give the lowest TDP for a modern card. (6.4W idle / 19W max). nVidia, a 8400GS ot GT610 based will also work...

Never heard of them... (Looks likes a cheap rebrander, not an ODM/OEM).

Having a friend who works at a small regional ISP (he works in the provisioning dept), the whole mess is a lot worse than most people realise. (This is Gold Coast centric but will apply to most regional towns). As we know most exchanges in Australia are fibre connected (most have multiple 1Gbps...

A bit of food for thought about modern western society. http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/10/09/youre-a-stay-at-home-mom-what-do-you-do-all-day/

Congrats on the 10K posts LM.

for those too lazy to google it: Treacly - meaning sweet, as in sugary sweet, or candy sweet... To rephrase Merc,

Agree 100%....

More pony stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYk1DgaeZC8 PS. My little girl Gabriel has a few My Little Ponies, so am some what well versed in their universe...

That was what I was thinking, TRIM support should have nothing to do with it. My guess is that the Garbage Collector on the drive is kicking in and causing higher than normal IO latencies to occur, that the RAID controller is interpreting as a dying/misbehaving drive, which the RAID controller...

http://broniesaustralia.com.au/ Sad, but true...

Absolutely, on provision you have enough RAM on the host. I can't remember what the FreeNAS recommendation, but IIRC it's in the order of 8GB+ of RAM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia_and_the_law PS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4748292.stm

I just read a few of the reviews... and this one seems to top it off: Title of the book: Mating with the Raptor (Beast Mating Erotica) ;)

For those with kids (or nieces/nephews) Turbo is a really good movie. (Saw is last weekend with the kids).

@time, rofl...

Finding some benchmarks depending on the application between 20% and 40% performance of a desktop i7... (20% being for multi-threaded, and 40% for single threaded tasks). http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+2127U+%40+1.90GHz...

Pentium < Celeron < i3 < i5 < i7 FYI, The new top end Atoms will be rebadged as the new Pentium range... But the Pentium 2127U is a dual core Ivy Bridge clocked at 1.9GHz. (Half the clock speed of a i7-4770, Half the cores, no Hyperthreading and 2MB of cache - so about 20% the performance of...

Maybe you've been really unlucky getting two dead boards? Next thing would be contact Gigabyte and Asus support and see what they have to say? (Have you confirmed the PSU is fine in another machine)?

FYI, The GA-X79-UP4 requires BIOS revision F4 for either CPU to work... (Source: http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=4288 ) The ASUS P9X79 Pro requires BIOS revision 0802 for the i7-3820 and BIOS revision 4210 for the i7-4960X. (Source...

My sincerest apologies... ;)

PPS. Oh, for those that didn't know, even current x86 CPUs (like Haswell) boot in 16bit Real Mode... hence why we still have to deal with this s&*t.

Actually, the issue is a little more subtle than you realise. (You're mostly there though). With a traditional IBM based x86 BIOS, you only have approx 160KB for BIOS ROM space, as the first 1MB memory map is: 0x00000 - 0x9FFFFF - 640KB RAM. 0xA0000 - 0xAFFFFF - 64KB VGA Video framebuffer...

I found the ultimate mouse: http://www.laughparty.com/print.php?id=1023 ;)

Sounds like someone needs a warning about following instructions... Unfortunately I had to enforce a strict policy as people thought it was OK to install Napster (or other p2p application) and use GB's of company internet connection bandwidth for sharing mp3s. (and since this was in '03, the...

WTF, A quick question regarding policy... Is there any policy that forbids users from installing their own software? eg only approved applications are to be installed by IT only, and failure to comply is immediate vacation time whilst an investigation takes place as to whether they continue...

Personally, Hitachi's if you can get them, but at work we've been using WD 2TB Reds, and so far no issues that I can report. (The Reds are being used in very large zpools on OpenIndiana setups). PS. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236343

<nitpick>I would point out that the chipset has nothing to do with maximum RAM, as the memory controller is embedded in the CPU.... It's the IMC that defines the memory setup not the chipset...</nitpick> ;)

In addition to what snowhiker mentioned, the current theory is that the amount of energy to accelerate something with mass increases as you get closer to the speed of light (or more correctly, the speed of a photon in a vacuum, as the speed of a photon can change depending on the medium it...

First round of benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7285/intel-xeon-e5-2600-v2-12-core-ivy-bridge-ep

Along these lines as well, double check the PSU as well, as a few of them only had 180W PSUs. (Also, FYI, there were even different motherboards used in the H215 series, so may work for one, may not work for another). **. The PSU issue came around as people tried to install a new graphics card...

The quality of the Vodka. :owneddnce:

My wife and I are the same... If the app requires something that it doesn't need, then it's not going to get installed... (A good example is a lot of games aimed at children, a lot of these games require access to GPS, contacts, local awareness, etc... all for a tic tac toe, memory or guess who...

What do the Norwegians have to do with it? Nokia is a Finnish company? Also Nokia was huge here in Australia, until the smart phones became cheaper...

Actually, from a psychology point of view, all the lock downs, security measures, loss of freedom is a benefit to the cause of the terrorist. It shows that they are significant in their cause. The role of terrorist is to strike fear, uncertainly and doubt into the minds of their opponents...

Happy birthday Mark.

sd, thanks for the info/clarification... So if Microsoft is only getting the hardware side of things, that only leaves the Nokia Solutions and Networks division... Does this mean Nokia will simply become a R&D firm which will develop and license communications technology?

Re: Elop, What's to say that Elop wasn't hired by Nokia due to insistence of MS, in which the plan was for Elop to drop the share price of Nokia to a point that MS could take over, (similar to Google taking over Ericsson). The reward, Elop becomes the new CEO for handing Microsoft Nokia on a...

I remember getting my first Nokia phone (Nokia 1630 in '96), and had quite a few Nokia's since then... but they came out with a few really, really bad products which distracted from some of the good phones they had, so people looked elsewhere (Samsung, SE, etc), then they missed the smart phone...

IVB-E Reviews (i7-4960X) are hitting the various websites... http://www.anandtech.com/show/7255/intel-core-i7-4960x-ivy-bridge-e-review http://hardocp.com/news/2013/09/03/intel_core_i74960x_extreme_edition_review_roundup