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  1. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Can't be sure... you would need three different phones, hopefully with different OSes to determine the source.
  2. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Muahahahahahaha
  3. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Typically on the phone... I highly doubt the carrier is filtering all messages... (tinfoil hat: or it's the NSA/FBI/KGB/CIA/Other super secret data collection agency (aka FaceBook) doing the filtering).
  4. Chewy509

    4k TVs and Monitors

    I think this is a major point, a lot of people like you and myself are happy with our older monitors (I'm still using 2x BenQ FP202W (20" 1680x1050) monitors I purchased in '06). Over the last few years, there's been little compelling reasons to upgrade them to 1920x1080 units. (My desk only...
  5. Chewy509

    Zip performance

    FYI, Windows compression uses LZNT1, a derivative of LZ77. Therefore has the same performance as any other LZ77 implementation. Here is one comparison of common tools: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/winrar-winzip-7-zip-magicrar,3436.html (short answer: 7zip). Mind you, ease of use...
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    QNAP's TS-EC1279U-RP 12-bay Rackmount NAS Review

    Since I don't see too may reviews on the higher spec NASs I thought I'd share this one: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6922/qnaps-tsec1279urp-12bay-flagship-rackmount-nas-review
  7. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Dealing with life in general - working parttime, maintaining a fulltime study load at Uni and spending time with the family leaves little if any free time. Just glad I have 6 weeks left in my degree, and lucky for me, where I am working part time has offered a full time permanent position when I...
  8. Chewy509

    Building a website and linking it on Google

    Hi Coug, Basically, these days, there are a number of techniques that let you boost rankings in a Google/Yahoo/Bing search. All of these techniques come under the umbrella of "Search Engine Optimization". Google has their own one published here...
  9. Chewy509

    Best server for Openstack

    In most cases it's not, heck most small-medium scale Hadoop clusters run on stock 1Gb Ethernet. Would InifiBand be an option if you needed low-latency high-throughput? 40Gb InifiBand HBAs are available price competitive to 10GbE?
  10. Chewy509

    Best server for Openstack

    It's interesting you're looking at OpenStack: at University (7 weeks before I finish/graduate), I'm working in the HPC (High Performance Computing) lab on a project, primarily looking at Information Retrieval systems that can handle complete genomes of bacteria (approx 10M base pairs) and...
  11. Chewy509

    Best server for Openstack

    Hi Coug, Some items to consider: 1. Like the idea of a two node setup, for redundancy reasons. 2. You've got 4 CPUs, and 8 DIMMs, which I assume is 2x DIMMs per CPU. Both the AMD and Intel CPUs are quad-channel CPUs, so there will be some performance loss as you're running them in dual...
  12. Chewy509

    Something Random

    This is the tightest I could make while staying HTML 5 compliant. ;) <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>David Drueding</title> <style> body {background-color:black;text-align:center;} h1 {color:white;margin-bottom:45px;} a {text-decoration:none;color:white;} </style> </head> <body> <h1>David...
  13. Chewy509

    Seagate does not have a News Thread

    IIRC, some of the more expensive SCSI based CD-stackers/changers had very large RAM caches (512MB), and some even featured internal HDDs for caching as well... (This was before DVDs came out).
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    Something Random

    As Clocker said, the worst part of it is over. (We didn't have to deal with jaundice with our two, but know of many cases that it was quite severe). Words of advise from my better half: 1. Trust your gut, and take everything anyone (whose not a medical professional) says to you with a grain of...
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    Seagate does not have a News Thread

    Thank for doing the math, it certainly brings things into perspective... (The old saying, of flying/spinning rust is certainly true) As a side note, aren't most modern 10K/15K discs only 1.8-2.5" internally?
  16. Chewy509

    Web hosting

    Most artists I know have a setup on http://www.deviantart.com/ ... But if they want a dedicated page, no idea about the Canadian offerings sorry.
  17. Chewy509

    Seagate does not have a News Thread

    Back in the ye'olde days, the heads could only determine state changes (between a 1 and a 0) at certain speeds. As processes improved the frequency at which the head could determine a state change, meant they could use faster spindle speeds and thus improve performance without improving bit...
  18. Chewy509

    Something Random

    @Clocker, glad you son is over them, they really are a terrible experience. (Isaac had them only for a few weeks, and that was enough).
  19. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Speaking of kids, my son loves his pet spider (Australian Tarantula** - SP2), and my daughter got her first pet today - two fresh water crayfish, and she's named them Peppa and Flash! (nope she didn't want gold fish, she wanted the yabbies). ** Australian Tarantula's shouldn't be handled...
  20. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Sincerest congratulations to both of you... Now the fun really begins! (mind you, my wife always ask: why is it the husband gets congratulated, when it's the wife whose done all the work, eg 9 months of pregnancy, x hours of labour, the late nights feeding to come, etc? All the husband did was...
  21. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Working fine for me as well. Channel 9 (here) has been advertising the show a lot, and premieres on Wednesday night at 8:30...
  22. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Some food for thought: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/gallery-fneszy80-1226595505403
  23. Chewy509

    Surface Pro

    Either OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress or Beamer. But way back when I was in the Army, we had "Death by Powerpoint" and some suggested that Powerpoint should be banned under the Geneva Convention as some believed it was a form of torture! Muhahahahaha! (I agree with Merc, Powerpoint is WAY...
  24. Chewy509

    Wide format multifunction laser?

    I just thought of all the photocopier brands that I've dealt with in the past, as most if not all also had wide-format copiers as well. (Modern copiers are really just a flatbed scanner with paper feeder and one big arse printer underneath). So for me it was "ricoh wide-format", "canon...
  25. Chewy509

    Wide format multifunction laser?

    Is the Ricoh MP WP7140 an option? (not a fan of Ricoh in general, as the local support company are a joke, but the hardware seems to be decent quality in general) http://www.ricoh.com.au/products/wide-format/aficio-mp-w7140-specification
  26. Chewy509

    MP3 player rant

    ;)
  27. Chewy509

    MP3 player rant

    Does anyone know if iRiver is still competitive in the portable player market? I still use my ancient iRiver Clix 2GB, does pretty much everything a modern portable media player does (it even has the capacity to play flash games, in addition to audio, video, fm radio, audio recording and has a...
  28. Chewy509

    dSLR thread

    Re Software: Darktable seems to be gaining steam as a lightroom alternative. (But it's Linux/BSD/Solaris/Mac only).
  29. Chewy509

    Windows 8

    Nope, certainly not waiting for MS to come up with a decent operating system... Jumped ship long ago and couldn't be happier... Side note: had a lecture today on the current state of IT business, and it was clearly noted that MS is losing market share (missed tablets/smart phones), and is...
  30. Chewy509

    Photo editing software for Windows 7?

    I second the Canon's recommendation. I currently have an Epson all-in-one (Print/Copy/Scan/Fax), and while the flatbed scanner is excellent, Epson's software takes some time to get used to.
  31. Chewy509

    ZFS on RAID 5 - WTF?

    As Merc said, he's in for a world of trouble... I can find the reference for you, but there is a white paper (from back in Sun days) that clearly details setting up ZFS for performance applications, and one of the key points was that ZFS must be able to interact with the disks directly to...
  32. Chewy509

    Photo editing software for Windows 7?

    Yep, just gfx card manufacturers write their own OpenGL drivers, sound card manufacturers write their own drivers, etc. IIRC, MS wouldn't sign drivers for hardware less than SCSI U320 or SAS on the SCSI side of things, with Windows 7 / Server 2008. Might be time to upgrade... Both Epson and...
  33. Chewy509

    Photo editing software for Windows 7?

    Mostly crap - I've seen too many instances of malware to consider them.
  34. Chewy509

    Photo editing software for Windows 7?

    IIRC, VueScan includes it's own scanner drivers, and only requires direct access to the device... I know SANE supports your scanner, so unless you're willing to run Linux or find a Windows application that uses SANE as a backend on Windows, I think you're out of luck. (Most applications just...
  35. Chewy509

    Home NAS

    I've RMA'd a few laptops with Asus, and admittedly at the time it was quite pleasant. However, I will stress this, the RAM process was done by calling the local repair centre in Brisbane, speaking to one of the technicians directly to do a quick check over, issued an RMA number, and then the...
  36. Chewy509

    Something Random

    I was going to ask how does being a US citizen equate to be a religious zealot?
  37. Chewy509

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Seconded - you don't know how much your life is going to change! Best of luck!
  38. Chewy509

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Considering making this my new sig! ;) (Since when did you have a budget)? (j/k)
  39. Chewy509

    Remember this stuff?

    Oh, the memories - even remember having to try and source HDDs that had particular "Type" information that matched what the BIOS had (since the BIOS didn't have autodetection, nor CHS overrides, nor CHS user defined aka Type 47). eg http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hdtypes/hdtypes-3.html The...
  40. Chewy509

    New phone time

    Hi everyone, just like to say we ended with the HTC Desire X - very happy with the handsets - vast improvement over our older HTC Wildfire's. Battery life has been good so far. (Only had them a just on 2 weeks, and even with heavy use due to playing with the handsets, still am getting 4-5 days...
  41. Chewy509

    Cloning a disk

    Re: SATA card. Does the card have a BIOS that is bootable (supports hooking int 13h for boot services)? (Cheaper SATA cards don't have the right software to support booting from them). Does the Dell BIOS support booting from external cards? (It should, but you never know). Also to go from IDE...
  42. Chewy509

    Server farm aberrations : is it normal?

    Assuming NWAM is disabled. # ifconfig e1000g0 unplumb # ifconfig e1000g1 unplumb # dladm create-aggr -d e1000g0 -d e1000g1 1 # ifconfig aggr1 plumb # ifconfig aggr1 192.168.0.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 up The rest of the LAN config is as per normal, (eg gateway, DNS, hostname, etc). IIRC, there...
  43. Chewy509

    (Australia) iiNET services, mainly QLD

    Thanks for sharing... I've heard similar from a friend who works at an ISP... but what they don't mention, is that some services are going from 5-10Mbps (on ADSL2+ due to distance from the exchange) to 100Mbps at a very similar price with the same/similar download limit. I just don't get the...
  44. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Actually, only have about 4 left... :rambo:
  45. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Still going to get another bike, just waiting on insurance - should know something by next Wednesday if it's going to be repaired or if it's a write off and I need to go shopping. Bus is not an option where I live (there is only 1 bus service daily for the school kids in the area), and travel...
  46. Chewy509

    (Australia) iiNET services, mainly QLD

    Tannin, thank you for extremely informative posts. (Hope it gives some of our international friends some insight to what our network is like).
  47. Chewy509

    (Australia) iiNET services, mainly QLD

    Tannin, thanks for the update... it just feels like they are still being run like a government department. So what are your thoughts on the oppositions anti-fibre stance as part of the NBN? (Malcolm Turnbull was on The Project tonight). Anyway, placed my order with iiNet to switch over all...
  48. Chewy509

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    <points finger at dd> Muhahahahahaha.... <runs back under my bridge>
  49. Chewy509

    Something Random

    This... agree 100%.
  50. Chewy509

    Something Random

    The big problem with the iPhone 4 and 5, is that Apple used thinner materials to keep weight down, which has had the effect of a less robust structural integrity. My boss went through 6x iPhone 4's and his iPhone 5 only lasted two weeks before it's screen cracked. According to him, it only fell...
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