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No, we got the HTCs. Just an observation on the old Samsungs we had.

AMOLED Screens Hi, Just like to find out if any others had had warping issues with AMOLED touchscreens on their phones? Just noticed on my wife's Samsung phone that the screen has warped, resulting in v.poor touch responsiveness. My only thought is heat from the charging process, and poor...

Well, my current ISP STILL has not fixed the problem, and the core router upgrade has been pushed back AGAIN. (It was scheduled for April, and now scheduled for 3rd Jul - like they are going to do a core router upgrade that will take 50% of their customers offline for an hour or so, 3 days into...

Finally found it... https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar Looks like Firefox 9 will this year's Christmas release.

Reading the links time gave me, when you run 'dcpromo' to create the DC, it'll attempt to turn off write caching on the drive that houses the active directory database. It's that turning off of the write cache that may not work on some systems, is causing the issue. Now this could be a chipset...

That's because MPEG2 is the only required format, and as we know most manufacturers will do anything to reduce cost. IIRC, the only devices that will go beyond MPEG2 support are BR players (and they only add in the codecs needed for BR playback) or software driven solutions like Windows Media...

time, I don't know who you are with, but as a comparison here is the Telstra IR rates page. http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/internat_roaming/ A $29 data pack for IR gets you a huge 10MB, and anything over the 10MB will incur a rate of $15.00 per 1MB (charged per KB). A 50c flag fall is paid...

Nope, my stuff is on 110mb.com. But they freely admit, that they don't backup free accounts, and it's your responsibility to maintain your own backups.

I could, but that'll cost money. :joker: (Local pricing is about $45 for a 2GB DIMM)

I know 300MB isn't that bad when compared to a modern Windows variant, but when you only have 1GB, using 1/3 of your RAM just for the OS/DE isn't ideal. Anyway, I just learnt a cool trick in using 'udev' to automout USB keys with using any 3rd party volumn management software.

Well, xfce didn't last long. Just saw it's memory footprint, and gasped. Now running window maker instead. Also got rid of "networkmanager" and replaced it with "wicd" instead, and the WLAN connection at Uni is absolutely rock-solid. (NM would drop out after about 30mins, and would need to...

Yep, Mozilla have moved to a quick release schedule similar to Chrome. In reality, many see FF5 as merely FF4.1, as the number of new features added is nothing compared to FF3 -> FF4. According to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases , FF6 will be in BETA on 5 Jul 2011. Interestingly Thunderbird...

Reading up on it, it's capable of taking 2 separate inputs, and giving each input exactly half the screen, eg 2048x2048. But you still need a card that can drive that resolution. On the specs page for the AMD HD 6990 card, it says that: So, it even though it supports DP1.2, it still can't...

Nothing mainstream will do it. Having a quick look at the top end nVidia Quadro and Quadro NVS, they top out at 2560x1600. AMD in the FireGL series is similar, nothing above 2560x1600 for a single output. The only one I know that does cards that support that res or higher is Matrox. The MED5MP...

Agreed, Tannin you are truly a well-respected member of this community. Your insights into various matters is worth its time to grok.

Contact Samsung support, and hope they'll actually do something about it. As a quick test, try hooking up a blu-ray player to it, and see if it'll do 1080p? It'll give more weight that the problem is with the TV and not the video card when talking to Samsung. (You can tel them you've tried...

My gut feeling is that: 1. The EDID information from the TV is fubar, hence the card can't set the right mode. 2. The gfx card, doesn't understand the latest version of EDID, which the TV may be giving out. To confirm 1, can you dump the EDID information and see if 1920x1080 modes are present...

I've used this one in the past. "fcrackzip" http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/fcrackzip.html?usg=AFQjCNH8LcyleGeEU7OvY6KFFcIW-JVOIg&sa=X&ei=j5lYTdyIEcigtwf49ODUDA&ved=0CPwBEMoE Source code is available, so you can build it yourself for any platform. (It's also available in Ubuntu/Debian...

Cool, thanks.

I would recommend that you continue to use KDE. I've been using GNOME3 fulltime for a few weeks, and still can't get used to it. Also the amount of settings removed that allow for tweaking is just incredible. The killer one for me, was removal of the DPI setting. On the netbook, I use 72dpi...

Got sick of GNOME3 (and gnome-shell) and switched my netbook to use xfce instead. Good to have some control back.

Any POSIX based system, that has libSDL available. I'll be using C/C++ for it, with possibly using Lua embedded for scripting. Initially it'll be built on Solaris**, then ported to Linux, *BSD, Mac and then Windows. I haven't really thought about iOS or Andriod. I know with iOS, you're limited...

Duke Nukem Forever was given the thumbs-down by ArsTechnica. Full Review: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-review-barely-playable-unfunny-and-rampantly-offensive.ars So it's try, PC gaming does suck... At least this time PS3/X360 owners get to share the love.

Have you tried these: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320081 Or a Taz mentioned, try a using Linux to mount the filesystem and delete the folder. But either you have a corrupt MFT (which IMHO, a reformat is the best option), or the ACLs for the folder are fubar. The other option (which I...

It certainly would. Just mapping line vector drawing to 2D display can be difficult to do efficiently. (Remember the original hardware drew in line vectors, it had no idea about pixels). Something else I was considering is a top-down FPS, like a mix of "Z" top down, but with FPS style game...

Regarding Master of Orion, there's already FreeOrion: http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Main_Page I'm starting to think about a platform game or puzzle like game, due to the time limitation.

Thanks, interesting list. Having played many of them, I certainly understand why. BTW, ROTT is rumoured to be getting a reboot: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4112/20_years_of_evolution_scott_.php?page=9 (Very last question). And back in Aug 2009, it was rumoured as well, that X-Wing...

If there was 1 game from the 80s or early 90's that you would like to be remade, what would it be?

I've used Win7 and WinXP on a HP 2140 netbook (Atom N270 w/1GB RAM), and performance was about the same with either OS (the naked eye couldn't tell the difference). The one area Win7 did better was power management, Win7 always got more runtime on battery.

Well considering the average house price in Brisbane is approaching 7-8 times the average wage (for a single white-collar professional), buying is becoming a rare dream for many. Last I heard average price was just over $530K, with median earnings around $70-90K depending on field of work...

Spoke with my Dad, and he said they've had a warm 5C today. (He's in South Gippsland). And my wife was complaining that it only got to 19C today up here!

A quick check on Newegg shows quite a few SSDs (including the 40GB Intel 320) for less than $100. Alternatively, they also have a 320GB 7200rpm Seagate for $49.99, or several options at 160GB@7200rpm for less than $50. If going a full laptop, what would you consider and what type of budget?

Care to share any examples of what would be ideal?

PS. More designs: http://slipperyskip.com/page23.html and a disco ball powered PC: http://slipperyskip.com/page7.html

What about this slick little unit: http://slipperyskip.com/page29.html I know it doesn't have the drive bays, but is that more your style?

PS. That last one is modeled on the Antec 1040BX series of cases. (Similar cases have been developed by Macase as well).

So something like: or or or but with a sh*t load of 3.5" hotswap bays in front?

To answer the main question: My old machine, had fans placed in front of the drives to force air across them - but it was for 4x 10K SCSI drives plus a 7200rpm drive squeezed into 6 bays, so there was a need. (The drive bays had fan mounts included). My current box, the case is designed for...

If one want's to see a good cross section of gamer's hardware, then I've found the Steam Hardware Survey to be quite interesting... http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey It's very enlightening to see what people are truly using. PS. The Number of CPUs is the total CORE count, not the actual...

Looks like LSI issued a firmware update to address that... http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16481.aspx?Keywords=3TB

What OS? I'm running Arch Linux on mine, and performance is acceptable for what I use it for. (I normally use it for web-browsing and using LibreOffice or Lyx). I even run Windows 2003 Server in a VM on it, running Visual Studio 2010, and performance is ok, but not great - but I think that's...

I agree 100%, it's a very poor test of storage performance. But it does highlight that total overall performance may affected in some scenarios. (But the example they used admittedly wasn't the best).

If the iPhone is that bad, why are people still buying them? (Except for the general case, that people want bling and not function). Mind you the local mobile repair kiosk at the local mall does a very steady stream of trade fixing cracked screens, particularly for anything i-something. Have...

I remember reading a while ago, a review on an Asus netbook, that compared performance between having the default 160GB 7200rpm drive vs a 80GB Intel SSD. Unfortunately, I can't find the review. (It was with one of the then-new 10" models and at launch of the Intel X25-Ms). But from memory, it...

Another one that might be on interest, but done by Micron. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4408/microns-p320h-a-custom-controller-native-pcie-ssd-in-350700gb-capacities The interesting point to note with the Micron solution is the use of SLC instead of MLC.

Re: 1000 Posts Thanks guys. This is about the only forum that I post to regularly, simply becuase it's such an easy going and very knowledgable group to be part of.

Jus saw this on Anandtech... http://www.anandtech.com/show/4383/computex-2011-ocz-zdrive-r4-88 So who's up for buying one?

My 3yr old son has become quite technology adapt recently, and has an old Nokia 6310i mobile phone for play. He let me know that the battery was flat and it should be charged, as it wasn't making the same kinds of noises that our other mobiles or home phone does. So I dug out an old Nokia...

Hmm, somethings not right here, as even with safe search off, this is all I get:

From my experience, most don't. In small organisations with 2-3 IT staff, then they know all passwords or authority to reset passwords to all key systems if needed. But from what I've seen in very large organisations, IT itself is very segregated, with you only know what you need to know to...