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Core Solo is the best overall mobile processor, only because Core Duo isn't going to give you much for the cost difference. Power consumption on all the Core Solos is incredibly good -- especially the ultra-low-voltage models -- and the performance is better than you might think. By no...

I figured the Aveo was a "joint venture" with someone, but not the Malibu. That one Malibu model that's sort of a hybrid between a sedan and a wagon is quite interesting. I would like to see the Chevrolet Matiz (or the Pontiac Matiz) come to the USA. I heard that some Chinese company...

You need to install your own earth ground. Go to a Radio Shack and purchase a 1m / 3ft copper grounding rod. Drive it all the way into the earth near the power center (a.k.a. -- breaker box), making sure you aren't driving it into a subterranean gas line, water line, telephone cable, et...

WOOT! WOOT! WOOT! FIREFOX 1.5.0.5 released! As Firefox takes on Internet Explorer, Firefox becomes more like Internet Explorer. MFSA 2006-56 chrome: scheme loading remote content MFSA 2006-55 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.5) MFSA 2006-54 XSS with...

The passive cooler will work as long as you don't push the card hard and have well-engineered internal air flow around the hot spots so that one component does not dump a lot of heat onto another component. Otherwise, for most people, passive cooling of such video cards is simply not worth it...

> measily 2.33 GHz! measly 2.33 GHz. me silly

A while back, I was "allowed" to play around with a Woodcrest-based server and a Dempsey-based server side-by-side, both of which were running Windows Server 2003 R2. The seat-of-the-pants test pretty much revealed that the Woodcrest server was clearly faster at everything compared to the...

The positions of the "Submit reply" and "Preview Post" buttons should be switched.

In reference to GM, Ford, or Chysler, the 2006 Chevrolet Malibu and Aveo models are both worthy US-made automobiles -- even pitted against the Japanese imports.

Saw this on the way to work this morning.

Steve Jobs certainly knew about Core and Core2 more than 2 years ago (Itanium goings on as well). He was very likely "shown the lab" at Intel before he made any decisions. He has regularly been wined and dined over the years by Intel people. One of the people that helped start Apple (the...

This is a software project that MS has been working on for a while, what I recall was being called "Eiger." It's just MS's answer to thin clients; get a old recycled $50 PC or a *cheap* new computer designed for this sort of activity and run "Eiger" on it. The applications run in a terminal...

Is your Ethernet connection at the server not indicating 1Gb/s service? Is is running full-duplex? If you strip out all the CAT5 premise wire, replace all the CAT5 drop cables and replace everything with CAT5e cabling, it won't make any difference, unless you just happened to replace a...

3 Saab dealers here in Houston... I know the dealer where I bought a new Volvo many moons ago *used* to sell Saab, but apparently, not any more. The guy that owned (owns?) that dealership was a transplanted Swede, just like the Volvos and Saabs he sold. He also sold Lotus, Mercedes, and...

NTSC is essentially no better or worse than PAL (or SECAM), it's just different. You have the same 6 MHz bandwidth with them all, it's just that PAL used a 50 HZ frame rate and NTSC uses a 60 HZ frame rate, since both are tied to the frequency that mains power is based upon. Since the...

I think most people can easily feel a temperature change from 20°C to 21°C, but not 2°C to 3°C. For the Celsius naysayers, it's not so unusual to report weather temperatures in 0.5°C increments (e.g. -- 31.5°C, 29°C, etc). If something needs to be counted in thirds, the ratio 1/3 is as...

Even though it started out years ago on the original SR as a mistake, then a joke -- then somewhere along the way -- yet another mistake, then maybe another mistake after that, there are now 10 of me, which is probably 7 too many. Welcome to my 10 dimensional world...

A riff is simply the main theme of a pop song, or a song's "hook." It doesn't necessarily show up in the beginning of a song, but it will at least show up somewhere early. People that write riff-driven songs usually compose the riff -- usually by sitting around composing and polishing a riff...

Thanks everyone for your support. If it turned out for the worse, I was going to request a burial at sea. Instead, I'm planning on a weekend surfing trip in a couple of weeks... :o

Likely in a week or 2 at worst. But then again, who knows. This place is a lot more resilient than New Orleans (it's actually above sea level), so I doubt it will be months.

Right now it's triage with what I own, and, believe me, plenty of it is not replaceable. I wasn't completely done with my fortification procedures outdoors. I was planning on finishing fortification and clean up of missile objects tomorrow and then possibly evacuating. But, it looks like that...

I read a report once a while back about the "safest" places to live in the USA, as far as natural disasters were concerned. There were only two significant zones -- and those weren't all that large -- where you could be considered at the highest level of safety from natural disasters. One was...

That's exactly what the Firewire Direct card (mentioned above) use for chipsets: NEC for USB2 and T.I. for Firewire. Everything above is on one PCI card, one slot taken. I use a top grade external USB2 cable -- with ferrites on both ends -- for the internal USB2 connection and a spare 0.5...

The Spaghetti-Monsterism thing sounds a LOT like the "Bob" religion thing that was around about 20 years ago (and still is I susupect). As for myself, I'm a Frisbee-terian; We believe that when you die your soul flies up onto the roof and doesn't ever come down.

The captain of the Queen Mary II (using a theodolite) measured waves just over 100 feet high (a tad more than 30 meters) during an Atlantic crossing when the ship met up with a hurricane.

Piracy crackdown spurs shift in online file sharing BitTorrent is out; eDonkey is in ...Last year, BitTorrent was consuming up to a third of the Internet's total bandwidth as users traded huge movie and television files. Hollywood struck back with a slew of lawsuits to shut down Web sites that...

Ummm... this is more or less old news (at least around here). There are older subjects and threads here at SF that cover various 2½-inch "Enterprise" hard drives -- drives running at 10kRPM, Ultra320 SCSI, SAS, SATA (7200 RPM), products that were using them, etc. A few highlights (as I...

Santilli, we more or less went over this topic once in the past in The "Splash, What Systems Do You Use..." subject: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2615 Basically, if you get a combo USB2 + Firewire card, you only use one slot. The one I use, a Firewire Direct (brand)...

Even though their existence seems to swing back and forth between affirmation and disaffirmation, *both* NL drives exist on paper, just like the DB35 500GB exists on paper, and the 500GB Barracuda 7200.9 exists on paper. In fact, Seagate stealthily "redefined" the upper capacity limit of the...

BUSTED!

No, but this is... :lol:

Well, I was going to lambaste you if you turned out to be one of those who complain that Tasmania is too cold -- being of the crowd who refer to themselves as "Tazwegians" (Tasmanian + Norwegian, as in living in Tasmania must be like living in frigid Norway). LiamC's Canberra is normally colder...

The crap performance issue is likely an issue with the way nVidia has implemented buffering, not a GetDataBackNTFS problem. The GetDataBackNTFS test is pretty convincing testimonial as to their product's effectiveness. You should E-mail them your observations.

NOTE: This is a PDF file... http://www.serialata.org/docs/SATA_Rev2.5_Spec.pdf

T**n*n, no need to speak in codes. The whole ordeal with Konka and Neil Dunbar paying out thousands of AU$ to Microsoft is a matter of public record.

Not really a socket -- Land Grid Array (LGA-775). There's no technical advantage to this stoopid ass'd LGA-775 processor connection scheme over the ZIF socket design. All the LGA design does is put the burden on the mobo manufacturer if a pin gets bent -- since the pins are on the mobo.

Hell ya! I wouldn't keep it around if it wasn't. :lol: I don't particularly care for most of his later albums, though. However, I suspect I will like his recently-released album with Robin Guthrie (of Cocteau Twins fame) titled "Mysterious Skin" -- which I believe is a soundtrack to a...

Yes, this was a *hot* topic everywhere (disguised Cyrix boxes) during the Pentium Classic / "586" era. These unscrupulous jackasses would build a computer system with a cheap 486 mobo, install a Cyrix 5X86 processor in it, and call the system a "586" computer system -- fooling the fools into...

I'm pretty sure the first Pink Floyd album I heard (and subsequently bought) was the 2-LP set "Ummagumma" in 1970 -- though, I sometimes think that I might've actually heard either "Saucerful Of Secrets" or "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" before that and (for some reason) wasn't somehow impressed...

Yes., that *immediately* hit me. In fact, I was quite surprised that Pink Floyd even did that reunion show at all (i.e. -- the Waters problem). I had read more than once that the director of the movie "The Wall" declared Roger waters a giant pain in the @ss to work with. This part of the...

I kept looking every day for something (anything) newer than Mothra V1.7.7 and didn't see any change until well after Firebox V1.05 came and went in short order, and maybe a day or two after the release of Furfox V1.06. The two most recent versions of Frofox seemed to be just a tad buggy for me...

A few days old, but what the hell... MOZILLA 1.7 has been updated from version 1.7.7 all the way up to version 1.7.10. Included are the security updates that recently went into Firefox version 1.0.6. I actually like Mozilla more than Firefox, nowadays...

Hmmm... Methinks you'd sweat to death inside that aerodynamic shell. This would be a bike better suited for those near-freezing -- and colder -- days. Even though I see them around more, I believe recumbent bikes are quite expensive still.

Tazwegion: Even though your sidebar says that you hale from somewhere in the midst of Victoria, your name implies that you are/were Tasmanian. Just in case you haven't discovered it yet, our own Pradeep / Dwunken Baztard is (was?) from Taz.

San Francisco-based Capricorn Technologies has crafted, and released under an open-source license, blueprints that effectively let someone build multi-terabyte and multi-petabyte storage systems fairly inexpensively... That means that a Capricorn 1-terabyte system (which consists of 1,000...

Mousepen Zero-Tension Mouse 3M Ergo-Mouse Quill Mouse http://www.ergo-items.com/cursorControl.htm

There's no need for it to emit a puff of rose scent every time it reads/writes. The box just needs to be able to store up to a terabyte of data with good fault tolerance characteristics, allow for hassle-free rebuilds of the RAID storage volume in case of drive failure, and do all of this at...

Ya, well, they should've called it NOD64. Makes too much sense.

I've never attempt it, but, can Microsoft Backup (on Windows Server 2003) perform backups to a DVD±R or DVD±R/W?

Let me clarify what I said earlier by saying that backing up over a WAN link (or any other slow link such as a busy LAN) is best done by using disc-to-disc-to-tape, not straight to tape from the workstation's (or server's) storage disc. This way, you can stream data to tape efficiently. Tape...