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Nah, I prefer my Wild Turkey either on the rocks or with Coke...

Thanks Howell, that's all I needed.

Hi Guys, Need a hand finding some references for how to determine what storage capacity to purchase based on current demands, so that it will last at least 3 years? The old rule of thumb was, look at what you had 3 years ago, see how much more you are storing today, plot a linear trend and...

The thing is, most commodity installations are covered in great depth Tablet/Phone: Android/iOS/RIM/Win Console: WiiU/PS3/XBox Desktop: MacOSX/Win/Linux SME Server: Win (and some Linux) Enterprise Server: IBM Mainframe/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/VMS/Win/Linux Cloud: Linux mostly (and a tiny fraction is...

Some info on the Haswell PSU issue... http://www.corsair.com/us/blog/haswell-compatibility-with-corsair-power-supplies/

IIRC, Haswell has 4K support... (IvyBridge had 4K support, but not on HDMI) http://www.anandtech.com/show/7007/intels-haswell-an-htpc-perspective

Tannin, no offense at all, my Dad is the classic "computer moron" win 8 is aimed at! And for him it worked well. Mind you there are rumors of Win8.1 being more "Enterprise Friendly" in that it'll natively support boot to desktop, better GPO controls over Metro applications and the ModernUI...

As mentioned in other threads, my wife hated Win8, so I put Win7 Pro on her laptop. But seeing my Dad use Win8 was enlightening... He's no technophobe, he started with computers using IBM Mainframes in the 70's and desktop PCs right through the 80's and early 90's. But in the mid-90's, due to...

The dead laptop couldn't have come at a worse time... Anyway, not a fan of Adobe software and willing to consider alternatives.. I like Darktable but doesn't run on Windows, and I've found digiKam and RawTherapee, so will give those a shot... (no pun intended).

@sd, I was thinking of just sticking the built-in stuff, but wanted something a bit more featured, namely verification support and being able to fine tune a few settings. Thanks Coug, I'll give CD Burner XP a try.

Ended up getting 2x HP 4540s Probooks - i5's, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, AMD/Intel hybrid graphics.. very nice machines for the price we got. (The ones we got are basically the same as the HP Elite m6, but in a ProBook chassis and the business support, and most importantly, official Win7 support from...

Hi Guys, As it were, my wife's laptop died 1 day after my Dad and I purchased one for him. (That's another thread). So we ended up getting a HP laptop for my wife as a replacement for her 4/5yr old HP 4510s laptop, and am in the process of installing all the software on it. Just want to get...

AFAIK, MariaDB and MySQL use the same configuration file format, so just copy the my.cnf from the MySQL setup for MariaDB, and then update the various configuration items namely datastore location and LAN setup (eg IP address, port numbers, etc). (Those details should be obvious). If you are...

Actually, I've noticed Chrome on Android to crash a lot... Normally I can get it to fail when using Slashdot's mobile interface...

Such a beautiful bird.

Sadly, no... Our best equivalent to Newegg is UMart, and their laptop range is pretty limited. Actually, shit, at Umart, I can get a HP 4540s ProBook for $709! Decisions...

Oh, and I know he can do everything I've mentioned on a tablet, but mum has one of those expensive computer controlled sewing machines, which needs a PC to load the SD Card with the patterns, so the machine can sew them. (sorry for not mentioning this earlier)

Thanks, I've got no issue with modern integrated gfx, either HD3000+ or AMD APUs, but it was interesting to see some models still sold with 2GB RAM? Point taken on the K series then - looks like they must be made to match a feature list, and not expected build quality. His main usage will be...

Hi Guys, This is more a rant, than a ask for help... My dad is flying up from country Victoria to visit this weekend, and he has finally admitted defeat and is getting a new laptop for home. (Current PC is hitting 5 years old, running XP, etc + plus no current internet connection). So, I...

A German company Metro AG has claims to the name Metro, so currently, it's called "Modern UI" or "Microsoft design language" when referencing to the language markup/environment.

<very funny> or. A. They're missing so many needed features, that calling them an application can't be justified? (eg castrated POS as you put it). A. Apple has tried to trademark the word "App" so everyone has to pay them to use it? (Seriously, Apple did try to trademark it). A. Calling...

IIRC, having worked with HPs rebranded drives, the most likely only firmware change is a change to the reported number of sectors on the disk. eg All HP 73GB drives irrespective of the OEM, all had the same number of sectors on them. (as you know IBM, HP, WDC, Hitachi all 73GB drives had a...

Don't worry, we're all getting old here... (as the grey hairs are starting to show). Never had a lot to do with Zip disks, not until the Jazz drives where on the market.

Liam, IIRC it only came in with 2008R2, so in some respects not surprised some admins don't know about it. ;)

With much sadness, I must report that my very first dual-shock controller finally died whilst my son was playing Gran Turismo. (GT on a first gen PS1 - the big grey box - with a first gen dual shock controller). It was 15 years old... RIP. (In addition to our PS1, we still have a functional N64...

Yes, Windows can do it via the Resource Manager, using Resource Allocation Policies. It's a PITA and not as thorough as most UNIX solutions. (It certainly doesn't give you the same level of protection as UNIX based solutions). http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771472.aspx

And all I thought emacs needed was a decent text editor?

Ummm... 1. It's the "One" no one buys? 2. It's the "One" that finally puts a nail in MS's coffin? 3. It's the "One" that an interface that unifies MS desktop, tablet and console offerings? 4. It's the "One" that gets modded to death and runs Linux within the first week of release because MS...

FYI, The Acer has an Intel Celeron 847 (Sandy Bridge). http://ark.intel.com/products/56056/

I thought it was a ViperJet, but the engine exhaust was all wrong... Mind you a Yak-130 (in mil config) is only US$15M, much, much nicer than the L39 ... (comparable to other aircraft in it's class). (Yak-130 is rated to -3G +8G flight envelope and comes with a 30mm cannon to keep those pesky...

Aero L39 Albatros

Umm.. 1. It's Adobe... 2. It's subscription.... 3. It's cloud based ... 4. It's ???? ... 5. It's Profit... (for Adobe).

I love programming in x86 assembler as a hobby, but my day job and most Uni work is Java. (I started my coding in 6510 assembler on the C64). I have nothing against Java (I actually quite like the language - except no unsigned int's - that pisses me off), and believe the JVM is a really good...

Hi Guys, So I sit here at work waiting for some unit tests to complete (they take about 5 minutes) after doing some code modifications, and I wonder about how resource heavy our modern software is. (Disclaimer: these thoughts were sparked after reading an article on /. today on a ray tracer...

Congratulations on the new bike. Those certainly are a nice bike. After 9 weeks in the bike shop and stuffing around with the insurance company, I finally got my bike back last night! Oh what a joy to ride to work instead of catching public transport. (I've had more colds in the last 8 weeks...

They still do, but aimed at embedded markets. You can still purchased stand-alone cards, but are very difficult to find. IIRC, their latest chipset has full hardware acceleration for H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV-HD and AVS, OpenGL 3.0 and DX10.1 support, all in roughly a 2-10W power envelope.

Looks like the BIOS has forced IDE/ATA emulation mode instead of native SATA. (Some BIOSes will auto configure AHCI vs IDE on boot depending on the installed media and what is recognised). Assuming you have the latest BIOS, under "Onboard Devices" should be a "SATA Operation" menu that lets...

And what Merc said.... (reboot all machines and try again).

Do any of the Windows machines have HomeGroup enabled? HomeGroup enables additional parts of the SMB/CIFS protocol that some Linux OSes can't handle (these are part of the SMBv2 suite). Also samba.conf depending on the version on Linux (and I don't know about Ubuntu in particular) as zero...

D'oh! please don't do that... I like knowing where people grow their pot... so the police can raid a location based on GPS co-ords in the "look at me pot collection" photos on FaceBook... Joking... I thought this was common knowledge? (It's a good power saving tip to turn off GPS/WiFi/Mobile...

Since you have Active Directory, any reason not to use DHCPv6 then, if your router isn't handling the autoconfiguration correctly? (Your WAN address will be derived from the MAC address, but the network prefix, DNS addresses and gateway should all be handled by DHCP)...

Which aspects are troubling you? IPv6 addressing works as per CIDR addressing with IPv4? And you have 3 addresses: your local address (::1), your LAN address and your WAN address. The first 32bits help you define what the address type is, and if a publicly routable address, gives you the route...

We sometimes wonder Courtesy of my beautiful wife.

Cost to build The Death Star Courtesy of my beautiful wife.

I can confirm the Thrive (AT100/AT1S0) is for storage only with stock firmware. The recommended method for the Thrive is to use the hotspot functionality on your Android phone, or use one of the portable WiFi hotspot devices. (We personally just use our phones for hot spot functionality). (If...

My only thought is that by keeping it cheap, IPv4 addresses run out quicker, so we move to IPv6 quicker...

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Have her try to enter via the keypad/screen, and see if it censors... IIRC, it's only on speech to sms that it censors...

No idea how to turn off the censoring if that is the case.

Is she by any chance using the speech to SMS functionality? Handcent on Moto's will censor in this regard...