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  1. Chewy509

    Strange

    To be honest, you're probably the first person I heard actually have a good/decent remediation plan if something dos go wrong. Kudos. :cheers: Besides Google Apps, do you have anything else in the cloud? (If you don't mind me asking)? If so, how are you getting your data, and what alternate...
  2. Chewy509

    Strange

    My other favourite one, is that this "cloud" stuff is new technology... despite the fact people like IBM were renting mainframe space back in the 1960's, 1970s and 1980's... Heck even Tripod.com where offering web hosting (what is termed PaaS today) from about 1994... I've certainly seen the...
  3. Chewy509

    System Recommendation

    Also don't the newer Intel chips have a PCIe bus coming directly off the CPU in addition to the memory slots and DMI/QPI links (depending on model), where with AM3 the only thing coming off the CPU are the memory slots and a single HT link?
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    System Recommendation

    Strangely I can't locate the AM3 socket pin out, but found the i7 (both socket 1366 and 1155) easy enough: Socket 1366: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/320834.pdf (Chap 4) Socket 1155: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/324641.pdf (Chap 8 ) But since AM3...
  5. Chewy509

    tsunami

    A small update on the reactor incident. A recent report delivered to the Japanese gov by Tepco confirms that both reactor 2 and 3 suffered partial melt-downs within days of the 11-Mar earthquake. Not good... But as the article (below) mentions, the President of Tepco will stand down from his...
  6. Chewy509

    Strange

    Shhh, you'll wake the neighbours...
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    Failure rate statistics

    And why are the stats rounded to the nearest 10% ?
  8. Chewy509

    Welcome to Armageddon

    No idea - got sent back through the Chapai'ai onboard the ship because I contacted the undeserving. Apparently we weren't meant to do that. :nono:
  9. Chewy509

    Outlook PST Hell

    Thanks, I was starting to wonder if I was the odd one out?
  10. Chewy509

    Welcome to Armageddon

    Either JC, or in reference to Matthew 24. ( http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24&version=NIV ) Mind you JC never did announce the date, but rather the conditions to which it was to occur. PS. JC = Jesus Christ.
  11. Chewy509

    Outlook PST Hell

    Part of the point is, that your reply should only contain the minimum of the original message to gain context, thereby minimising the size of the whole email. It is completely wasteful to include the complete 10-20 other replies to the thread in the single email.
  12. Chewy509

    MeeGo

    Just wondering if anyone has tried MeeGo yet? https://meego.com/ Recent news articles point to a new release, and recent benchmarks report it boots in half the time as most other Linux distributions, and is more small screen friendly. (15secs on a netbook, vs 30sec for Ubuntu on the same...
  13. Chewy509

    Welcome to Armageddon

    It's currently 12:25am Monday morning for me? (I'm UTC+10). Bozo is either in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji (or other close island), or far-east Russia? Time to go to bed though, since I have Uni in the morning.
  14. Chewy509

    Welcome to Armageddon

    And lets us never forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz16xjeBAA
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    Outlook PST Hell

    This is a little off-topic, but one of the reasons I dislike Outlook is not having the ability to default having your reply below the original text. Heck even RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines (published in 1995) has: This makes what you are replying to, to be in proper context of the original...
  16. Chewy509

    Welcome to Armageddon

    Hi Guys, Sorry for not posting sooner, but the connection latency from this spaceship is a killer. We're just passing Neptune at the moment and will enter hyperspace once we get passed the outer planets. Something about engaging the hyperdrive and a mass gravity well? I'll post again once we...
  17. Chewy509

    Something Random

    As I said, I would love to use alternate transport, be it walking, bike or mass public transport. (my waist line would like it as well). However in order to move to an area that has those facilities and be close to Uni (as in my case) would see a significant increase in my rent or a significant...
  18. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Our last one use just over $600... (for 3mths usage). But that one is typically high due to use of the air-con. Over the winters months, it's down to around $400 for the 3 mths.
  19. Chewy509

    Something Random

    jtr, I would love to take public transport to/from Uni 3-4 days a week. However, these are points that must be considered in my personal case: The nearest train station is 6km from my house. I live semi-rural, so the only local bus service is 6 times a day mainly timetabled for K-12 school...
  20. Chewy509

    Outlook PST Hell

    My personal experience with Outlook falls into 2 categories: With Exchange - the most common problem (which is extremely rare) is a corrupt profile on the client PC, and haven't seen that in 5 yrs. The only other problem I've seen is when using the "RPC via HTTP" option in Outlook 2007+ to...
  21. Chewy509

    Failure rate statistics

    So you're going to be buying Seagate from now on? Or alternatively ditch spinning disks altogether from now on?
  22. Chewy509

    FF4 and IE9

    Since I don't/can't run IE9 I can't give a comparison, but at the moment: FF 4.0.1, with 9 tabs open, I'm seeing 144MB usage. (2 being SF, 8 being Slashdot, and 1 on the Uni Website with a PDF open via the Acrobat plugin). The highest it's been is around 900MB, and that's after watching YouTube...
  23. Chewy509

    OCZ Talos : enterprise-class 3.5" SSD

    Granted. But when someone touts "Enterprise" I immediately think 5-10+ drive arrays (at the smaller end) and decent RAID controllers. These might be useful for smaller installations in the SMB sector where there is no RAID controller present (thinking single server situations, with everything...
  24. Chewy509

    OCZ Talos : enterprise-class 3.5" SSD

    Interesting, but I wonder how good OCZ "Enterprise" support is, based on passed experience? How much testing will they do with large OEMs to ensure that their drives work without issues on the more popular RAID controllers out there? Or will they simply blame the RAID controller for issues?
  25. Chewy509

    Linux Mint+Virtual Box+MS Mouse

    Digging through the X.org 7.6 downloads for input devices, Microsoft Mice (on USB) may be supported using the following protocol options: "Auto" - Let X.org attempt to work it out (the default) "usb" - X.org will just use the default/generic USB HID events. No special device handling...
  26. Chewy509

    Linux Mint+Virtual Box+MS Mouse

    Some MS mice need to have a different protocol defined for them to work 100%. http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.1/doc/mouse.html mainly in regards to http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.1/doc/mouse6.html#26
  27. Chewy509

    Linux Mint+Virtual Box+MS Mouse

    Can you post your xorg.conf in particular the section related to the mouse? (Should be in /etc/X11/ ).
  28. Chewy509

    Canada

    All this talk about Canada, made me watch the South Park movie again...
  29. Chewy509

    Linux Mint+Virtual Box+MS Mouse

    Are you passing the raw USB device to Mint, or are you letting VB emulate a mouse, and it in turn is just passing on the mouse events?
  30. Chewy509

    Your home Stereo/sound system/s? What did you buy, how much, and why did you buy it?

    Have nothing in the lounge room with the main TV, but my desktop has a Logitech Z-2300 2.1 speaker set. (200W - 2x 40W + 120W for the Sub, THX Certified, etc).
  31. Chewy509

    Outlook PST Hell

    From my experience with Outlook. The PST is not upgraded as part of the running the new version, you need to create a new PST, and import your old one into it. Did you clean out the Users registry entries for Outlook. That contains a bunch of settings including PST location, POP3/SMTP settings...
  32. Chewy509

    East Tenessee storms

    The only issue I may see, is that some birds use the magnetic field for navigation, so may see some decline in their population, but overall I don't see any mass effect on the ecosystem.
  33. Chewy509

    iPhone syndrome

    These people love their iPhone so much, they posted it on YouTube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcnQ72sPZAI
  34. Chewy509

    East Tenessee storms

    Hopefully this will answer those questions: http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/magnQ&A6.htm#q109
  35. Chewy509

    Smoothwall on a VM

    If using Windows as the Host OS, and have it usable as a workstation environment, I do not believe this is possible. The only way to hide physical hardware is to run the workstation environment as a guest OS on top of another virtualisation product. Be it VMWare, VirtualBox or HyperV.
  36. Chewy509

    question Mobile Phones

    A small update - we stopped by a few phone shops today (AllPhones, Fone Zone, T-Life store), and all recommended the HTC over the others. Second place was either SE, Motorola Defy or Nokia. None recommended the Samsung or cheap Nokia range of phones. My wife even liked the HTC Desire, and now...
  37. Chewy509

    East Tenessee storms

    I take first dibs on working in sector 7-G!
  38. Chewy509

    Something Random

    I've been looking website designs to emulate for an assignment on cssmania.com, and came across this health instructional website for CPR. Why couldn't the last CPR video I watched been like this one! Definitely NSFW. http://supersexycpr.com/
  39. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Local media reports that US used a surgical strike against a compound in Pakistan, killing several members including bin Laden. No US forces were injured during the mission. There are rumors that Navy Seals formed the greater number of operators on the ground, but from experience the truth will...
  40. Chewy509

    question Mobile Phones

    Thanks for letting me know. We're not in that much of a rush, but sooner the better.
  41. Chewy509

    question Mobile Phones

    Don't worry, I won't believe it until I see it with my own eyes. If we do end up with the Wildfire, and only get 1 day before a recharge, then that's something expected (as with any smartphone). But if we get more, then that's a bonus!
  42. Chewy509

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    Did you forget that we are the arse end of the world? Big item stuff, especially movies in the theater we get in line with the rest of the world, but anything else like books, DVD/BD releases and even electronics we take a back seat and wait for the boat to circumnavigate the world a few...
  43. Chewy509

    question Mobile Phones

    Interesting enough, the Wildfire is listed as having 600+ hrs on standby, mainly contributed to the lower spec'ed (and slower) CPU and smaller screen size. Browsing forums indicates that with average call usage, but no internet access or excessive gaming/app usage, over 1 week on a single charge...
  44. Chewy509

    question Mobile Phones

    Thanks guys, In regards to data allowance, we get basically nothing (5MB), but can up that to 1GB per mth for a small increase ($10) in our monthly plan rate. Not something we want to do, but will if we have to. dd, I ddi read about BB shaky future, but I doubt various agencies will let them...
  45. Chewy509

    question Mobile Phones

    Hi all, As many of you are aware, my wife and I sick of our current Samsung mobile phones (plus hers' is starting to die), and have put together some $$ to purchase 2 new mobiles. Unfortunately, we still have 12+ mths on our current contracts, so can't change carriers, or get new phones as part...
  46. Chewy509

    Happy Easter

    I just googled that, and now my head hurts... On article seems to think it's 11 Sep 3 BC. http://petragrail.tripod.com/page5.html Others indicate multiple valid dates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus
  47. Chewy509

    Are there any Issues with Lenovo B560?

    I'm glad that's not the case where I'm attending. 8-) I think most lecturers/tutors would look at me strange if I said my main word-processor was Lyx,and that I only have OpenOffice installed so I can open the stuff they produce, or to make a presentation in Impress.
  48. Chewy509

    Happy Easter

    And Happy Easter to all as well.
  49. Chewy509

    Are there any Issues with Lenovo B560?

    I personally use a netbook at Uni, but have a regular desktop at home which has dual 20" LCDs attached. However most students I've encountered, the laptop is their only PC, and as a guess 95% are running either Windows or Mac OSX. (In my programming classes, only 3 studets out of 96 are running...
  50. Chewy509

    Are there any Issues with Lenovo B560?

    From what I have seen, most are used for either facebook or gaming. Those that are actually paying attention are still using (like myself) pen and paper to take down lecture notes. For just about all the subjects I have taken, lecture notes or at least the presentation slides are available for...
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