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46 degrees Snowhiker! Hoolie Doolie that's hot! And only the start of summer too. Nasty! I've gone through a couple of 46 degree days, one of them at home the other in outback Western Australia, and a single shocker of a 47 degree day (all without AC) and they are seriously difficult to take...

V20s were great! Went like the proverbial off a shovel. Mr Grumpy remembers them well. (I'm a bit hazy about them myself, I was only seven at the time.) Interesting that the Wikipedia page has been nobbled such that it completely fails to mention all the trouble Intel's bastard lawyers went to...

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Coug, yep: it's those little tricks that make all the difference. Sometimes a tiny little trick can save you many hours and endless frustration.

Help! I'm stuck on 7!

It's good to be back, Merc. :) Only wish that P5 was here too. On a more cheerful note, we have used quite a few Toshiba drives over the last year or two. Well, quite a few by our current standards, which is to say only a handful. (Mr Grumpy has been semi-retired for a few years now and only...

Cheers Merc, that's a useful summary. Clearly I'm better off with drives. I only use 10-12TB per backup set at present, plus or minus a bit depending on how much of the unimportant stuff I do. Just out of curiosity, are those 800GB - 2.5TB tape capacity numbers real TB or the phoney "with...

Sedrosken is probably the only member of Storage Forum who runs hardware older than he is.

Interesting, Merc. For my primary application (archival backup) it already takes around 24 hours to fill a 4TB drive. (I haven't timed it as it really doesn't matter, I just start the job and leave it running, then unplug the drive when I next happen to think about it and don't mind a reboot...

Interesting post, Chewy.

Neither, you dummy. It's all about the main game, which is of course the quality of the press release, and the effective massaging of the press corps so that they spin the headlines just right. Don't you know nuffin about running a business?

Hey, it worked for Microsoft.

That's the thing, isn't it Snowhiker. How can you trust the password manager?

I didn't know HGST and WD had similar products. Interesting. Thanks Buck, I'll look them up. By the way, why does HGST still exist? I thought they were sold to WD (notebook product) and Toshiba (desktop drives).

Thankyou gentlemen! That's very useful advice. I've passed it on to my customer. Not sure what he plans to do yet.

I've been looking at Seagate's new(ish) shingled drives for archival storage. Has anyone used them? Any thoughts? My primary application is for off-line backup of large, seldom-changing datasets. Performance is almost immaterial for that purpose as the backup task can run in the background for...

Rainbows are shy. They hate having their photo taken. Nearly always, they come out very pale and unimpressive. I'm not sure why. Is it psychological? Or optical? This is one of the very few I've ever had look OK. According to my arcane file-naming system, it appears to be a slightly cropped...

Just as well that there will apparently be a clean install path (haven't read Sdbarwick's link yet, get to that in a minute), 'coz my reinstall routine would have been a super-shocker. (1) Install Windows XP. (2) download Windows 8.0. (3) Install 18 zillion updates. (4) Sleep. Eat. (5) Install...

A customer has two Nvidia GTX 690s in SLI. One of them just failed. For now, he is operating with just the remaining one, but it occurs to me that things have probably moved on since the time he bought them, and that he could perhaps get similar performance with a single card these days at a...

Good thread. My cleanup routine varies with the circumstances, but it typically goes something like: 1: quick & easy stuff to make it usable while I do the real work: take out the most obnoxious start-ups with MSCONFIG and add/remove programs. (Some machines are too bad for this, but it's OK...

Wow! What a place!

Hey! Great thread! As you know, Australia has a new, business-oriented, go-ahead government which is revolutionising our entire public transit system. Here it is in action:

Brilliant! Thanks guys. :)

I have a friend who runs mapping software with huge datasets which trash hard drives. He's been using cheap consumer SSDs for his boot drive (storage on big rust drives, SSD just for boot and temp files) and this works well for him from a performance point of view, but he keeps blowing them up...

I've had boards back from ASUS, Merc, albeit seldom and with difficulty. In my life I've had two ... no, three boards back from ASUS after RMA. Not one of them worked properly. One still had the same fault - I sent it back again and they lost it for three months, which was long enough to let...

Why is it so? Because Asus boards are carp. I hate the bloody things. There are only three things you can always be sure of with an Asus board. (1) It will be overpriced. (2) It will be carp. (3) The warranty service won't be carp because there isn't any warranty service. Next question please.

Not so! Every word of it is 100% true!

No I didn't.

No worries, Coug. Not necessary now, Merc has provided the answer and - I hate to admit this - I can now remember finding out that exact same thing for myself by experiment back when 8.1 came out. First thing I did was try using an 8.0 product key, and it wouldn't take it. Then a few months went...

If you need to be closer than 1000 metres to take a picture, it's not an Ostrich. :)

Cheers, Mangy One. Ingram Micro say they have no stock till the 4th August, hence this thread. I closed my accounts with the other two a few years back. Hell, I barely use the IM account these days for anything much other than Thinkpads and sometimes hard drives; I nearly always buy everything...

Chewy, that's a very comprehensive answer. Thankyou. I've ordered some 8.0, but as small a number as I dare, 'coz it will be a right pain in the human.

Doh! On the other hand, California is in the USA where there are no gun control laws worth mentioning, so it'll be down to ~26 million by about Tuesday.

More detail here: http://superuser.com/questions/650019/how-to-use-windows-8-1-rtm-with-8-0-key/650055#650055 Worthwhile reading it, but the short answer seems to be "just waste the time and bandwidth at the MS $tore". What a stupid way to run a software company! PS: how can the biggest...

I found this workaround: http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/how-to-download-the-official-microsoft-windows-8-1-iso/ But it's messy! Some posters say that it kills all your application software except the Metro rubbish. Of course, that wouldn't matter on a fresh install.

Brilliant Coug! (a) Oh .. I just realised - they are out of 8.1 32-bit as well. I thought they had it but it turns out to be 8.0 32-bit. (b) Surely this would be legal for actual upgrades though? What else is an "upgrade" Windows for? (c) That would be great, Coug. (Actually, I have a vague...

Winter has finally arrived here. he last two weeks we have had bitter cold (by Oz standards) and some snow. After the longest, warmest autumn over recorded, temperatures in sunny Ballarat (coldest city in Victoria, probably the coldest in Australia if you exclude a couple of places in the...

Tannin has left me in charge of the shop again and the wholesale chain is out of stock of Windows 8.1 64-bit OEM product and I need stock ASAP. Should I and can I - (a) Purchase Win 8.1 OEM 32-bit (yes, they have stock) and install using normal 64-bit media but the product key from the new...

Cheers mate. Primitive, as you say, but I'll pass that on and she will be grateful for the tip. Mind you, it's not about "feeling fussy" - she likes to see the links highlighted because it's a good way to spot errors. She looks after the correspondence for several organisations and there is...

Cheers Merc. Thunderbird dos not show the formatting in the compose window. It does do font styles like bold and underline, but it does not show the message as it will look. Here is an edit window screenshot: Now, send that message and look at the result: It all works correctly now...

My customer has upgraded from Outlook Express on Windows XP to Thunderbird on a current Windows system. She is uncomfortable with the Thunderbird composition window as it does not show the message as it will look to the addressee including (for example) coloured or underlined links. She is...

Well, it should be - it doesn't have to keep stopping to phone home to report your sock size, number of children, and current savings account balance.

I have a Linux subscription. Every year without fail I have to pay the greedy bastards $0.00 plus another $0.00 tax, and I don't even get a long-term customer discount!

That's because there aren't any graphics editing programs other than Photoshop. Well, not unless you count Paint Shop Pro, which I don't. Adobe bought out and shot down all the others. They haven't bothered doing that with Paint Shop Pro 'coz they always reckoned that Corel could do a better...

Of all the user interface experiences in the history of the world to date, the very last one any simian in her right mind would want to emulate would be that of Photoshop. I've seen better user interface experiences vomited on pavements.

Yep. And here it is....

Cheers lads. All good info there. Why not an SSD? Capacity and price, the usual reasons. We might swap in an SSD later if the system is too loud, but I don't expect it will be.

Thanks Mark! A standard drive it is then.

I'm building a silent PC for a customer who does a little music recording. We have selected a silent PSU (fanless in normal operation, but has a fan fitted for overload if needed) and a whopping great fanless heatsink. We are not looking at an SSD - it's only an 8GB i3 and an ordinary HDD will...

Sorry about that. I just hit Tannin over the head with an elderly ASUS netbook, that being the closest blunt implement that came readily to paw. He seems to be sleeping peacefully now. (Err ... is it normal for sleeping humans to bleed from the ear? I may have overdone it a little. Not to...