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Rage I thought this was assuming post on [H]: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037840623&postcount=682 Also, no RAGE Linux client until 2012... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2OQ

The new way of modern business: If you can't out innovate, then out litigate...

Interestingly, the Solaris version is stuck at v10. Only Windows, Mac and Linux got Adobe's special love this round...

Anyone else see this: http://hardocp.com/news/2011/10/02/aliens_colonial_marines_shows_off_ten_minutes_gameplay/ Aliens: Colonial Marines? Just watched the clip, and am in two minds about it... Also, RAGE (id Software) was released today... ArsTechnica doesn't give it the best review...

A quick google shows the Athlon II 170u to be equivalent to the old "Athlon 64 3800+" cpu, but runs in under 20W TDP. Not fantastic, but should be better than any atom providing single threaded applications. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+II+170u And yes, that...

Got it solved. I basically create a dummy signal handler for SIGUSR1 in Thread A, and signal thread A with SIGUSR1. Since I'm handling the signal, accept() will be interrupted, but the default action won't take place.

Assignment criteria says that all threads must exit cleanly, and not be killed... I've currently got 1 thread accept()ing, and 30 threads in a thread pool which take the connections as needed. (which is how it mst be done in accordance with the assignment specification). Basically: Thread A...

Just got my final assignment for my "Systems Programming" class. Need to write a multi-threaded webserver, that can handle GET, POST and CGI applications in plain C99 w/pthreads for POSIX environments (aka Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux). I have a little over 3 weeks to get it done. :( The HTTP...

Not anything that matters to a normal consumer whose always lived with single socket systems. What the extra $$$ gets you: 1. Dual/quad socket installations. 2. Reg ECC RAM Support. 3. Additional validation at the factory (so they are less likely to develop faults). And in some instances: 4...

dd, virtualbox can do those things you mentioned... (at least on any *nix host).

Trust me, I've used lots and lots of diagrams... especially for the last task in the assignment (network packet packet and explaining HTTP). That one came in at 1050 words on first attempt, so culling 50 words was easy! Also I'm submitting as PDF (the other option was docx), so there is no...

Yep, and most of the big electronics retailers here still have them on shelf. Heck, even BigW and KMart have them on shelf. But yet a store that began life as an electronics store for hobbists (selling kits or bare parts like resistors, capacitors, etc, and had staff that could help you with...

My little bike needs a replacement choke cable, and plunger/spring kit for the choke assembly. (The return spring has died and needs to be replaced, otherwise the choke is stuck in a half-open position, so the bike runs rich and at a higher idle RPM). The kit may need to be ordered from Japan...

I'm beginning to really despise my "networks" class, especially the main assignment.:cursin: eg. Task 3, design a 3 network WAN, and demonstrate RIPv1 with routing in Cisco Packet Tracer. In a written report, explain the network setup (including all network IP address allocations), explain in...

To second Merc, the 3-4 people I know who do home video editing all use Sony Vegas. They all say decent things about it.

Walked into a Dick Smith store today to buy same canned air (to clean out my wife's laptop, mainly the HSF), and apparently the store (and most DSE stores) no longer stock it! They recommended I go to Jaycar? ** Dick Smith is similar to the old Tandy/Radio Shack stores here in Australia.

Actually I don't see this being enforced too hard... Big corpoare buy 10Ks of boxes from OEM and want to install their own Win7 image... and they can't do that. Big corporate changes OEMs... As I said, not going to be enforced too hard. (At most, just go into the BIOS, and disable it).

That was the whole purpose of the CIL and CLR with .NET. (Apps written against .NET are compiled to bytecode like Java, and the CIL compiler compiles it to native code at runtime - hence why for most .NET apps you get a severe lag when starting them for the first time). Any app written with C#...

I understand the paradigm being used by not having a 'close' button, eg same as mobile phones, however what's the policy on Windows killing applications? My concern is when Windows get's it wrong? Will it kill your main business app, that you had minimised for 30mins, just because you were at...

I just showed my wife Win8 with Metro, and she threatened physical violence against me if I even dared to install it on her laptop... Having played with it for about an hour, there are a few very poor human interface decisions being made... even to the point of how to close an application (one...

In what respect, bad?

Sorry to hear things haven't picked up for you. Hope it doesn't take too long to find suitable work. ;-)

Kids and Star Wars Thanks for the input. My wife and I have decided that Star Wars can wait a few years for him. He seems to be happy with Finding Nemo, Cars, Open Season, Flushed Away and other Pixar (and similar) kid movies. Also since our daughter is still under 2, it's not good for her to...

Just like to ask a quick question of the parents, or others who look after nieces and nephews in the forum... At what age do you think it would be acceptable to let a child watch Star Wars? (Not ep2 or ep3, but the original ep4, 5, and 6). My wife were talking about what we should be letting...

Hi Coug, Any update on this? Have you managed to get this sorted out? (Hope it's gone well, and your business has picked up a little).

Surely you jest? As it is widely known that Cricket at one time was Canada's official national sport! :mrgrn: http://www.canadiancricket.org/cricket-canada

Haven't had any snakes yet, but with all the property development and associated land clearing going on in our area, we're expecting to see a few brown's to come out this summer... (the last one I saw on a walk was just over a 1m long). Most of the land around us is farm land, but a lot of this...

On aspect of IVB I'm interested in is the power saving coming from the die shrink to 22nm, and the way it will trickle down to other CPUs including Celeron's and Atoms. Would be nice to get an i3 based Celeron in the same power envelope as a current generation Atom (that is under 10W), since the...

Also don't forget this will be very handy for web servers as well for SSL operations. It means for each new session won't have to spend as much time generating a new key to handle the encryption between hosts, and couple that with the AES-NI instruction set, most, and if not all crypto is now...

PNRG in high volume are typically in different crypto systems that use aged or cyclic keys.

Crikey! but alas unlikely...

Must be our week for saving little critters. We pulled a 35cm long blue tongue lizard from our rock wall next the house and needed to relocate him to a more suitable location... They're not poisonous, but can give a nasty bite. (and we didn't want our dog attempting to take it on)...

Yep, just ask those in Zimbabwae. When they got paid at the start of the week (which was enough to cover rent, fuel, food, etc quite easily), the value of the same amount at the end of the week would barely buy a loaf of bread... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar

Nice article on Anandtech with some details on the upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs from Intel. Main points: These are built using a 22nm process, which leads to improved power consumption. Better onboard GPU. Backwards compatible with current socket 1155 systems (may need a BIOS flash), but will will...

This one. For Exchange based connections the server holds all the client configuration.

Not intentionally. However, since WinXP is nearing EOL, I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of testing and quality control would start to lapse slightly...

Happy Programmers Day Just like to wish all the programmers amongst this group a "Happy Programmers Day"! ;) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Programmers%27_Day

You're correct, AMD introduced the IMC with the original Athlon64 and Opteron (Clawhammer and Sledgehammer CPUs) back in 2003. I've never seen just the IMC fail, it's always been the entire CPU fail. Mind you, if the IMC is flakey, the internal POST (within the CPU) should have picked that one up.

They did it a few years ago the introduction of the Core i-Series (i3, i5 and i7).

Besides the smell, quite good. Very quiet, easy to deal with, and doesn't ask for much. And it kept the kids excited for the evening.

I had a turtle stay in our bath last night. He is now safely at the local duck pond.

Anandtech review of the GoFlex version of it... http://www.anandtech.com/show/4758/seagates-goflex-desk-4tb-external-hdd-review

Samsung is a Korean based company... ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

The last company I worked for, one of their software products output raw PCL for printing, before passing it onto the printer (the software has legacy components that go back to DOS 5 era). The 1 printer model that the company refused to support was Samsung printers - apparently their PCL...

Sure can... ;-)

I'm sorry tugless, but without more information it'll be hard to give you an answer. What make / models are we talking about and what storage system including fs?

Unfortunately corrupted data is corrupted data. The only time not compressing your data will save you is when dealing with plain ASCII text files, but since the majority of files these days are in some form of binary format, you're hosed either way. In one respect using some form of compression...

And that is one of the reasons why I won't touch Samsung products anymore. (And I'll starting to sound like Merc in relation to certain drive manufacturers and S*nym, but my bais is againt Samsung). Mind you, Samsung have managed to p*ss off certain companies that they make products for, namely...

None that I am aware of. The software in windows won't, this all has to be done in the BIOS... This is contra to most other hardware based RAID cards...

Same answer as above. Since it's got an OS instance on itm it'll have the boot loader partition there...