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Flyby: My point is simple: The value of a stock has little to do with the actual company. What it is controlled by is the amount of money someone sinks into the stocks. PERIOD. You are playing a rich man's game, and, they have no care for the company, only making money on trading the stocks.

Udaman is raving about Apple stock prices. I thought I'd bring up my experience with stocks. Prior to 2000, I put some money in stocks, and, with the crash, pretty much lost it. My memories are: Apple: 3 bucks a share, almost bankrupt. Maybe less. It was trading like a penny stock, and, no...

No problems now. The 9.3 ATI drivers dropped it to about 50%

What a fun morning. Newest flash player helped. My 1650 now has the 9.3 driver, that shows up as an 8.59 driver on checking. Stupid and confusing numbering system. I must say, everytime someone says change drivers with an ATI card, it's usually a pain in the arse, and, not a huge difference...

Anyway to play flash with another player, through Firefox?

What type of media is this? It's playing reasonably well on the Dual Xeon box, with ATI 1650. Using between 75% and 99% processors. Appears Ad Blocker was using quite a bit of CPU as well, and, it's better after removing it.

It appears to be a software problem. Neither Firefox 3.5.2 or Internet Explorer 8 are capable of playing a downloaded 1080p file from MSFT's website. I'm using the 1080p version of Step into Liquid, and, it plays fine with Windows Media Player classic, slide shows with Firefox, Internet Explorer...

Hi I've been trying to run this site: http://www.cbs.com/hd/video.php?cid=&pid=3v5CZ3DSDFwFEwtQITsTVHLREJdJM6o0&play=true&offset=4&show=csi_miami in HD it's running about 83-100% of the processor. It's ok, seems to be pretty good. When I try and run at 1080p it runs at pretty much 100%...

No, as a former Mac 10 year user, I can remember many 3rd party software writers put out of business by Apple. Write a decent ap for the mac, they would either copy it, and modify it just a little, so they could put it into their software, either OS, or for sale, and run you out of business...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/01/AR2009080101074.html Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone Saturday, August 1, 2009; 6:27 AM Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T...

Anyone found a test that puts SCSI 15k'S, in raided configuration, against the SSD's?

When I shut everything down, and back up, it still shows the same IP address. Is the firefox add on showing my IP behind my router firewall? How would I see what addresses are present outside our firewall, or, what the router firewall presents as an IP address?

That would be my thought. However, a cheap electronic item, and, everyday you aren't really turning off, your blacking it out by pulling the power plug out, or turning off the power source. Can't be real good for it??? My understanding was they lasted longer protected by a surge protector.

For example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/21/critical_ddwrt_router_vuln/

Time: I went with the 9600GT. Some good reading in there. Keep in mind ATI has a class action lawsuit against them. The class action suit is settled by pretty much you get a free ATI card if you bought one in the time period they advertized the cards worked for HD, since they didn't, IIRC. In...

Hi I've been wondering how to hide your IP address from outside probes. http://www.ip-adress.com/hide_my_ip/ ? Seems expensive. Use a proxy server? Suggestions?

Welcome back Buck! How's life? Greg

Quick cure? Just look at Intel pricing on the SSD's. Also, look at the prices on the highend Xeons. Without AMD, they would be twice or three times the current prices...

For some reason, after install, everything was faster...

Thank you Doug. I would also like to apologize to all of you for my posts last night. You have all been wonderful, for a VERY long time, and, I'm sorry I let my personal situation get involved in our discussions. I thank you all for your tolerance, and love. God Bless. GS

Good call, Sam. Thanks

Thank you.

Have you tried a Raid 0 with 15K's and compared that?

HMMM. I've been looking for something that would show the source of some of the annoying Flash adds, etc., so I could block them in Firefox. I gather I can do this with this program, and Firefox?

Timwhit: What does that add on do? It makes stuff load pretty much instantly. Amazing...

I despise Berkeley, and, I have relatives, and I've taken a class or two there. Be glad you didn't go... For once, however, it appears they judged talent correctly, and, were not blinded by the color of your skin...

St. Mary's Moraga, California.

HMMM. We had some guys that lived in our apartments when I was in High School that went to St. Mary's. One of the guys got really drunk, and, woke up with a Mallard duck under his covers, male.

I kind of nailed those tests, but, they were on a 1200 point scale. SAT 590/English, 595 Math(I missed one? WHY?) 1195/1200 Achievement Tests: 590/595/600. The 600 was in math, and, that was more like it. I'd already decided to go to a JC, Cabrillo, and then transfer to UCSC. My GPA was 3.5...

No, this hit a nerve. One of the richest, most liberal, and corrupt schools around, and, they are getting other people to pay for their computer cycles. Please delete my obscene language. Also having a few other problems right now. Sorry for the flip out. Sincerely GS

What really bugs me is the very high tuition, and, then they have the audacity to get other people to pay their electric bills, not to mentions the billions donated by alumni.

Well, I used to bowl in Berkeley/Albany with an IT guy from the school. He was pretty good, but David's FAR better. On the otherhand David doesn't have to try and make Mac Pluses work for a starting programing class. Did you check, and do they have, a night school? Berkeley Extension is...

I've had really good luck paying about 100 bucks a drive, and, getting 15k or 10k drives for boot and storage respectively. They last an average of 5-7 years each. The real problem is finding tests that work on the SSD's.

Sorry folks. It just REALLY hit a nerve. Feel free to delete the posts, or the obscenity. Should not have posted this in a good thread. HOW can David NOT get in? It's SO arbitrary at this point, it's a joke. I'm just thinking my legal education would not have been any better, but, I'd have...

Recently sent to Stanford admissions: Hi folks Just want to say thanks for not admitting me to law school. My uncle, Leland Smith Jr. and his father, Leland Smith Sr. attended S... and graduated. They made a LOT of money in construction, and, I hope they never paid you a dime, after graduating...

I hope that when I die AA action dies with me, and, that my debt is passed to the fucking government that made it happen.

I'm sorry. Let's get this straight. My uncle, his father, both went, and graduated from Stanford. Both my uncle's sons, and myself border on genius, at least according to our test scores. None of us have been admitted. I guess my uncle, and his father didn't pay the bastards enough fucking...

LSAT is a test designed to perpetuate the status quo. As a older, wiser, experienced person, I didn't fit the profile, or limited life experience to do well on the LSAT. I did OK. If I was 23 when I took it, I would have scored in the top 3%, and, they would have been chasing me. Truth is, age...

There is no reason, other then affirmitive action that I don't have a law degree from Stanford, instead of JFK. I should say, that's not true. My uncle, and his father should have contributed more money, then I'd have a frigging Stanford law degree. So, I'll die in hell before I run folding @...

If they want to pay my PG&E bill, I'll be happy to run my dual Xeon rig with their program...

By the way, f...k stanford. My uncle, his father, all went, and graduated. They paid the bastards too. Did I get in, applying Magna Sum laude, 3.73, from St. Mary's, to their law school? No. Guess I need to play the tuba....or be black...

I guess the specifics are what cpu usage are you getting with DVD Shrink, DVD Dcripter, NERO 9, etc.? while I'm typing this, I'm running about 8% cpu usage, with a DVD playing LOUD, Rolling Stones, What's MY NAME?

OK: First off, the dual xeons have been REALLY fast, since when most people where using 30 mb/sec 5400 rpm drives, I was using 2 X 15's in raid 0 for a boot drive. SSD's represent the first time, in a LONG time, like 12 years, that actual desktop top systems can surpass that setup, or, the SCA...

David is doing well since I'm sure he doesn't save any expense in doing it. SATA 3.0 excellent grade RAID controller, Raid 0 to increase cache, etc. Mercutio is probably pretty much the same. Intel seems to be the way to go, but, they are as they always are: ripping the profit on their topend...

I agree. The only thing is, I'm not going from a 7200 rpm drive with a 16 ms Random Access time to a SSD. Sustained through put does have an effect on speed, and, is noticeable, when the numbers are fairly large. I notice a large difference in Seagates 7200's when one is working at 60 mb/sec ...

http://www.behardware.com/articles/742-3/mtron-mobi-3500.html Looks like this generation of SSD's just aren't that fast in sequential reads.

I guess what I'm getting at is after checking these benchmarks, here is what I come up with. Access time is .02 ms for a SSD. For mine it's 6.0 ms. So, 29 times faster. From the tests on that website, the highest sustained read is 144 mb/sec. Seems like not a bunch different. Take the raid...

Here is mine:

I went through an article about SSD's here http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=11 "...but EVEREST Disk Benchmark will become the primary indicator. This makes our Solid State Drive product reviews seem very limited, but at...

Anyway you can quantify why you think it's not as fast as you were expecting? Which SAS drive did it replace? Access, random, sequential read speed for the drive it was replacing? Thanks Sechs