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Thanks, I'll start looking for that one, and see what local pricing is like. @LM, one of the reasons I want 802.11n is for the 5GHz...

Hi Guys, Looking at replacing my aging ADSL2+ router (some Thomson crap supplied by Telstra) as the wireless part of it can't handle the amount of interference due to neighbours, etc. (Range is half was it was 12mths ago). A quick survery shows no-one using 802.11n equipment in the area so am...

Spent the day playing with mobile phones... Samsung Galaxy S2, S3, Nexus, iPhone 4+4S, Nokia Lumia 800, Samsung E3210 (POS) doing filesystem recovery, getting contacts, messages, etc... Holy f&*k was the Windows interface different and confusing at times. The one thing I didn't like about the...

Surface Pro - starting at US$899... http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/x86-surface-pro-899-for-64gb-99-for-128gb-no-keyboard-included/ I think the price says it all...

I read about that, and in some ways it seems a little strange. ZFS on the other hand, will simply expand/retract the zpool and all zfs filesystems on top of it when you either add or remove media, however will never "lie" about how much storage is really there... IIFC, BRTFS and HAMMER will both...

Did you want a forest setup, or a single flat domain setup... Single flat domain setup is easy: 1. Create the first domain controller. (It will hold all the FSMO roles). 2. Build the second server and ensure it can the first server via the VPN. Join the second server to the domain (it's only a...

They've been in Oz for a number of years, and proven to be a good "cheapy" product...

I totally agree, but the comment was more about it being slower than previous OS iterations, not faster. ;) (I always wonder why the OS need several hundred MBs just for itself, when on my netbook without X/GNOME running it only needs 97MB, and with X/GNOME on startup it's only using 180MB of...

I did have to call them 4 weeks after sending it in to find out what was happening (apparently nothing), so requested that a replacement card be sent out immediately as waiting 4 weeks was certainly too long. Still took another 2 phone calls and another 2 weeks to get something out, but they did...

Last RMA I did to Gigabyte for a video card was 6 weeks...

Chewy's review of Windows 8 Now that I've had some free time, I've downloaded a copy of Windows 8 Pro from Dreamspark (formerly MSDNAA), and had about a days use from it. I thought I would like to share my views on the fuss that is "Microsoft Windows 8". Before I start, I'll mention that...

Re: AV. I did a short research paper about 2yrs ago on the malware industry, and basically, most malware writers don't give a crap about AV solutions, simply becuase they are so ineffective. The best way of avoiding malware is to be thoughtful about where you go on the internet, and disable most...

I've found MS Security Essentials to be just as good as any other AV software at detection hit rates. MSSE has been my recommendation for Windows Users for a while now. PS. No AV solution will be perfect based on current techniques used (particuarily signature matching), so one just selects one...

Don't know about the 7K2000's specifically, but I'm running 7K3000's with ZFS with zero issues (Solaris 11.1 currently as the host OS).

Otherwise just use DBAN if it's a HDD... http://www.dban.org/

Secure Erase is part of the SATA specification, but alas only a few drives support it correctly. (It's available on both HDDs and SSDs, but it's up to vendors to actually implement and support it correctly).

IIRC from my military days, a physically fit and well feed person can survive at high performance levels on only 4 hours per night for a maximum of 5 days. After which, there is a rapid loss of performance (primarily mental), at which after 10-14 days of only 4hrs sleep, the person is basically...

Q6600 - http://ark.intel.com/products/29765/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q6600-8M-Cache-2_40-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB The Q6600 in most overclock tests will hit 3Ghz easily, with samples hitting 3.3Ghz on air cooling. The Q6600 gives a LOT more L2 cache which will help a lot over the e3300. (8MB vs 1MB)...

Sooooo..... dd.... did you read this: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/11/12/chip-shot-intel-unleashes-new-extreme-desktop-processor-and-motherboard New CPU and Motherboard.... PS. The CPU link in the PR release is broken, try this...

IIRC, you're in India? - the spec is "Residential power supplied in India is two wire 220 volts, permitted variation 6%, and maximum load 40 amperes." 220V + 6% = 233.2V 240V + 6% = 254.4V - I would consider 250V to be high even if the local area rating is 240V, especially if you're noticing...

Since you're on Windows, there's a little bit of work involved. 1. You need to create a copy of the HDD as a raw image using 'dd' - http://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/dd%20for%20windows 2. Convert this raw image into something that VMWare can use -...

IIRC, (from reading the PCI spec many-many moons ago), any PCI or PCIe card won't touch the legacy ISA port address spaces for compatibility reasons. USB adapters don't work (I've used just about every model out there, and they don't really work). AFAIC, that $70 card will be about it. At my...

Try this one: http://www.schatzforensic.com.au/2006/p2v/ Basically you need to create a raw image of the HDD using 'dd', then you can use this tool to create a VMWare image.

For those that want a Mech style game, ShackNews has 500K beta keys for Hawken http://www.shacknews.com/article/76513/shacknews-gamefly-offer-50000-beta-keys-for-hawken

5.5 secs from BIOS to GDM login prompt on my netbook... (Arch Linux (64bit), Intel Atom N570, 2GB RAM and 320GB 5400rpm HDD). :owneddnce: :cheers:

Not really more reliable (as that would be dependent on the underlying hardware), more about security, load balancing (between all OS instances) and separation of concerns. Boxes open to the wide world tend to get beaten up a bit (either attacks, ddos, etc), and you don't want you internal...

What H said... For VPN endpoints, (or any other world viewable box) I tend to prefer a separate box. (Keep all your external and internal boxes separate).

My thoughts as well...

My concern, is that it'll want to be everything to everyone. Between all the elements mentioned in the article, it's certainly a big undertaking...

Just two quick ones, Chris Roberts and Star Citizen: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/star-citizens-chris-roberts-discusses-upping-the-ante-on-pc-gaming/ Hmmm... love the idea, but... And for fans of the Halo series (in case you missed it, which is unlikely): Halo 4 - Forward Unto Dawn...

In some countries Apple pretty owned the education sector (Apple IIe, Mac Classic, Mac LC series), but with win95 completely died from that market segment. Also quite popular in SMB and home market when most realised Commodore was dead. May be not in the US, but certainly in the rest of the world.

Really bugs me to say this, Apple...

Exactly. You tell the DHCP server to update the sites DNS records, and in your nsswitch.conf configuration on each host, you should have something like: hosts: files dns mdns ipnodes: files dns mdns which tells the localhost to look at /etc/hosts, then query dns, etc. to configure on the...

That's certainly unusual. I would post a message to the OpenIndiana mail list and see if you get a response there. It certainly appears that your not inheriting any underlying filesystems? Basically to set writable all you would have to do is: $su # chown root:root <folder> # chmod 777...

in zonecfg for the selected zone, when you run "info" what "inherit-pkg-dir:" are listed? (and similar for all other zones on the same box). It sounds like something is locking /opt ? And when as root, the change of permissions and ownership is not working? Also, just want to clarify, what...

That's one of the factors with SSDs. Once you reach the point that you can't write to the drive, out comes the drills/hammers to destroy the drive. (Since erasure requires a write cycle).

Not too sure. Have you tried restarting the zone to flush any open/zombie file handles?

What's the view from inside the zone? (Is the container inheriting the global filesystem or does it have it's own distinct/unique copy)?

Certainly, I wonder how far it'll go before we see SSDs are yearly replacement items. (most manufacturers only give 12mths on warranty, so what do they care that the duty cycle of drive will only last 18mth by design).

Reviews of the new Intel 335 are showing up: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2061/1/ http://www.anandtech.com/show/6388/intel-ssd-335-240gb-review Same SF2281 sandforce controller, but with 20nm NAND does drop the power usage quite a bit (compared to Intel's other offerings). Similar...

I know the full Solaris support contracts are $$$$, so have no issues with going with OpenIndiana. IIRC OI uses the same run time environment that OpenSolaris 2009.06 used, and hasn't yet updated to the Solaris 11 runtime environment. I don't know when or even if that will happen, but if you get...

Stupid question? Doesn't VM Player support USB/LPT pass through? Couldn't you just install XP in a VM, and tell the VM guest to use the scanner as needed? I know Virtual Box supports USB pass through (use it all the time), but I'm sure VM Ware supports it as well for both USB and parallel...

Solaris 11.1 is now available for download, or direct in place upgrade for those already on Solaris 11.

I guess I'll have to download (from DreamSpark) it to see what the fuss is about?

Actually, battery life would be interesting? 1.7GHz CPU coupled with a very high res display, the 2 main battery killers...

exactly... Some newer versions use /etc/shadow to hold the password as well. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-etcpasswd-file-format/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-etcshadow-file/

http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/lost_root_password.html

So in other worlds to use their data center product you needed a Microsoft employee on hand so they could make excuses why s&*t wasn't working?

I just noticed that Windows 8 and Server 2012 is available on 2 of my DreamSpark accounts. Windows 8 Professional, not an issue, but the Windows Server 2012 editions I have available is Server 2012 Datacenter! Mmmm... I wonder how the feature of the Datacenter Edition compares to Solaris 11? (Or...

Well, I can tell you the official Android emulator that you can you use for development is sssssslllloooowwwww... Over the past 5 weeks I've been doing Android development for, there is a lot to not like about it. (Mainly around the testing frameworks). Overall the development model is very...