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It's a little clunky, but the Belkin Conserve Insight has been bench tested and proven accurate for low loads - at 230V anyway. Most of the other cheap inline power meters can't handle Power Factor issues and give nonsensical results.

AFAIK, the 1973 Mustang was the last model to use leaf springs. Since 1979 they've used coil springs with a Panhard rod. Station wagons and 'utes' aside, Aussie Fords went straight from leaf springs to coils with a Watts linkage in 1982. IRS became standard in 2002; options at the time included...

How did you conclude that rear projection looks just as okay from the back as the front? I've only seen one used this way (a fairly big one), and it was significantly better from the front. A quick google suggests that true dual-sided systems tend to be rigid and usually glass-based. The...

The image was back from when the PC was sold, so it's no different to a format and reinstall of Windows for the customer - just quicker for the repairer. Still a big hit to the customer if they have a lot of apps. I think you should charge out 3 to 4 hours, depending on how high a rate you...

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I didn't say it was. The Legacy option virtualizes the USB devices as PS2 devices, so that you do not need functioning USB support in the OS - which seems to be your problem ... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg463435.aspx

I fumble my way through these sort of USB issues, so hopefully someone else can shed more light ... Are you sure that USB 'Legacy' is enabled in the BIOS so that low-level USB devices such as keyboard and mouse are recognized before the OS deigns to do so? Some motherboards only support this...

Press release embargoed until May 1st - whoops! :)

A bit more research suggests that the preliminary pictures (and Youtube) are of a T430u (Ultrabook) rather than the not-so-thin T430. The T430u looks like an Edge to me and apparently has a fixed battery. Whereas the T430 picture spotted on a university website only a few days ago has the...

Fixed it for you. I'm not being facetious BTW; marriage is an equal partnership that includes all assets and income. Some people never change their thinking to match, so it's best to start early. ;) A gift?

Does this mean the S4 is on hold? On the less important matter, best wishes to you and your betrothed. ;)

Chiclet ('island') keys as standard? That's disastrous news! WTF? And no word on IPS panels. It's going to be a struggle finding reasons to recommend them if overall durability has been compromised, as appears.

Lenovo has started rolling out USB 3.0 laptops, starting with the Edge 430 and 530. I assume the T series will be next; perhaps that's why they've been cheap lately - new models coming?

The e3-1260L is an undervolted, underclocked CPU that has 30% less performance than the "baby" i7-2600, yet costs about the same. If your application needs a low power CPU with 8 not very fast threads, you've found it. ;) You're looking for an arbitrage opportunity in Intel's pricing - good...

The E3-1225 is just an i5-2400 by another name, only more expensive. It's a 4-thread CPU, definitely not an i7. The only differences are an extra PCIe port (does this translate into more lanes?) and perversely, it comes with HD3000 graphic instead of HD2000 at a 23% higher max frequency. WTF...

Cassowary pushes tourist over the edge (and into the water)

Of course it's the 7800 series - specifically the 7850 - that I'm interested in. :( Apart from using less power (which I'll concede is impressive), the 7770 doesn't do anything that the (formerly) cheaper 6850 has been doing for the last 18 months.

For what it's worth, the local consumer organization tested a bunch of 32" TVs fairly recently. To me, it looks like the main difference between the BX and EX series was DVD picture quality - BluRay was comparable. In fact, the CX520 (which Snowhiker can't get) aced the BluRay tests, besting the...

Great minds think alike ... ;) But it's more complicated than that; the EX420 is only a 720p unit - you need to go to EX520 to get 1080p and EX720 if you want "MotionFlow". So it's actually the digit after the X that determines the model level; EX vs CX means LED backlit vs CCFL backlit. For...

Firstly, any peat flavor in The Glenlivet 12yr is pretty mild. I used to buy it regularly, but in the end I just found it a bit boring for the price, which seemed to be ever-increasing. I found I got almost as much enjoyment from Glen Moray ("a subtle Speyside malt with fruity butterscotch...

Before the interview, I was going to say "break a leg", but felt that might be an unwise suggestion in your case ... Congratulations, but to scale this mountain, you'll need to reintroduce sleep into your life. ;)

Scratch that, I was looking at the international Samsung models, not the North American ones. I've also noticed that the Panasonic models available in Australia DO have a headphone socket (on the side); they actually appear to be slightly higher spec than the US ones, which I guess goes a small...

The Samsung 32" TV (Series 5 and 6) specs I just checked specifically include a headphone jack, but no analog fixed output (only optical).

You're right - I missed it because I was looking for specs, searching for any mention of "phone" or "output", and reading the parts about hooking up equipment. Not good enough, apparently. :(

You should be PMing Chewy ASAP - he's a Solaris guru.

I checked the user manual, and it's definitely only optical audio out. :(

1. The NewEgg deal is not that special - Panasonic sells those direct for $500. 2. The Panasonic extended manufacturer warranty is probably worth getting for the 2nd year anyway; it's only $27. 3. Most Panasonic 32" are only 720p; I'd guess this is most likely what Greg had. I didn't think much...

Actually, I find laptops are often cheaper - but I guess you get what you pay for. Rather than just desktops, I think PCs in general have a use-by date. Look where Google (and Apple) are heading: tablets and TVs. I foresee TVs and PCs converging, so you'll end up with large but by necessity...

75GB x 31 days (worst case scenario) = 2.325TB. :-o But seriously, how do you get from <=2.3GB to 4GB? The average is actually 1.9GB BTW. Also, try Opera Mini (or Opera Mobile with Turbo enabled for WiFi) and see how much difference it makes. I'd expect it to reduce to 1GB or possibly even 500MB.

I assume you realize that a mobile i5 is only a 2-core CPU - in fact the only material difference when compared to a mobile i3 is that 'turbo' is enabled? According to Intel, maximum turbo frequency is only attainable when all cores are not in use, so does this limit it on a mobile i5 to...

Handy to know - thanks.

Same here. My tests still show about 50% less disk I/O throughput. This is why I think Virtual Box is a POS - disk I/O is at least 3 times worse again ... It's a latency issue, so I assume it would be wise to make sure your VMs have plenty of memory if they're going to do anything useful (sorry...

There appear to be errors in that table, eg PCIe 3.0 achieves 8 GT/s, not 5 GT/s, and the number of lanes should be 16, not 8. H77 and H75/B75 are limited to a single 3.0 slot (no switching), but you can still run it at x8 alongside the 2.0 slots at x4 + x1 + x1. I was under the impression that...

Cure little Puffer fish sure ain't cuddly

And now we can replace H61 with B75 and get all of the benefits of H67 anyway, while still keeping PCI.

Have you got a link for that? There's probably only a single PCIe 3.0 slot, but even the B75 has multiple PCIe slots and supports CrossfireX. The H77 allows you to change the base clock and the GPU clock, but not the multiplier. So limited overclocking, but that also means you won't see any...

The pink ball, remember?

So I'm installing Thunderbird and trying to figure out the easiest way to get it to align with a version of Lightning calendar. Calendar functionality is obviously important to many people - after all, it's standard with Outlook. Tbird version 10 includes an architectural change that required...

I haven't bothered to look up any articles on it, but I see new motherboards with this chipset are now available. The main difference appears to be that USB 3.0 is integrated rather than courtesy of a 3rd party chip. As a result, manufacturers are no longer being too tight-assed to provide a...

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Agree 100%; that's why I've always avoided VNC unless there was no alternative.

Thanks Timwhit, I didn't realize it was so primitive. Instructions for adding or removing characters such as ".", ":", "-" from the list of valid word characters Only problem is it would increase the size of the indexes by doubling up words that happened to lie at the end of a sentence. :(

Australia has LTE, just not for iThings because Apple figures their customers are too dumb to tell the difference: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 4G LTE frequencies: Australia, Asia and Europe use 1800MHz, Asia and Europe also have 2600MHz, and Europe adds 800MHz. Australia will add 700MHz some time...

I know absolutely nothing at all about it, but both of my daughters who saw it thought it was good; the one who is more into art and culture had low expectations but found it riveting. She's a pretty good judge, I'm prepared to recommend it to thinking humans on the strength of that alone.

I've figured out that you're a money orphanage: you look after it until you can find it a home.

That's great Doug, thanks. I don't suppose you have any control over the parser's selection of delimiter characters? No doubt just wishful thinking on my part that fullstops shouldn't be thrown away unless followed by spaces or CRLFs - fullstops are often used as decimal points on an english...

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Sounds completely feasible to me and a great idea, but I'm not up on the practical limitations of VMWare Player or VirtualBox.

The pink ball The condition (includes a list of alternative diagnoses such as hip impingement and osteoarthritis).

That would be because it supports PCL-6 and it was easy for Microsoft to add to their database, NOT because HP wrote a 64-bit Windows 7 driver for it. Then what's the point of keeping the printer? That's just its ID string showing up in Plug 'n Play; it's only a label, not actual software...