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That's the reason I ditched Avira for Avast! I will resurrect an Athlon 3400+ to see how a custom install of Avast! works. Probably doesn't need all the "shields" and other security "products" installed.

Yep. Saw that. Didn't work. I referred to it as file system errors above.

Thread necro. I had the need to use ViVard again over the weekend. A computer wasn't backed up and the disk had developed a couple of bad sectors. Macrium couldn't clone or image the drive as the bad sectors caused a read disk failure. Telling Macrium to ignore file system errors didn't...

Don't bother with RAID for your boot/OS drive. Get all your OS/applications installed and configured. Take a snapshot with Macrium Reflect or something similar. Copy the image to your data drive/RAID solution and to something portable that you can take offsite. Redundancy is great. Redundancy...

Are you asking if anyone has tried Cyanogen 10.1? Or Cyanogen 10.1 on an S4? If the former, I'm running an unofficial Cyanogen 10.1 on my Incredible S. I linked to the ROM in one of my previous posts. My S4 I will leave at stock for a little while longer (maybe when the year is up) before I...

One nice thing about Cyanogen is the stock performance utilities were you can do things like overclock your phone. The Snapdragon S2 is specced for clocks up to 1.4 GHz, which makes the 1 GHz clock in the Incredible S seem rather conservative. I've been running the clock @ 1.2 GHz for the...

I've tried Firefox on my Incredible S (Single core Snapdragon S2 1GHz) and it's too slow compared to the default Webkit or Chrome. Chrome is the best on this device. On any dual core chips or better it works a treat.

Windows 7 44.5% Windows XP 37.2% Windows 8 5.4% Windows Vista 4.24 Aug 1, 2013 11:32 AM http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045743/windows-8-grabs-more-market-share-but-so-do-older-versions.html And this despite the impetus given by being shipped on all new machines.

O.K. Was rocking a HTC Incredible S for two years, and then upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S4, primarily for the bigger screen - I read books and PDF's a lot. The SGS4 is much better for web browsing as well. After a few weeks, I thought "hey, this phone doesn't feel much faster than the Inc...

I swapped from an Incredible S to a Galaxy S4 because I read a lot on my phone, and I like the bigger screen. Still thinking the new Nexus might be my first tablet though. Plus, I can now put Jellybean on the Incredible S. Not bad for a phone that started out with Froyo (2.2).

I just replaced my 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 with a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro. Made no perceptible difference speed wise in general use. Benchmarks indicate that the Samsung should be at least twice as fast as the OCZ, but I can't see it. If anything, returning from resume feels a little slower. A...

I understand your issue vis a vis support. My issue though isn't with support. Why are people turning to alternate shells, in numbers that are causing your support headaches? If there was nothing wrong with the standard interface, people wouldn't be searching out alternates in such numbers...

Seriously, why do we need a common UI? If you have a Windows (pre Win 8) computer and an iPhone or Android phone, did you have crippling issues dealing with UI differences? People adapt and learn. I get it that Microsoft are trying to leverage their installed base to get a leg up in the...

Given the sales figures, or lack of, it would appear that Windows 8 is a failure. Certainly if you measure success via Windows 7/XP. The question is why? And given the sheer number of replacement/overlay shells, then the Modern UI is not doing Win8 any favours. Is it the default? Yes. Can...

Because if there isn't a debate, Microsoft, Google or whoever will assume that what they are doing is fine. Vista was a raging success. Oh, wait. It wasn't. And people bagged it mercilessly. But that debate lead to Windows 7 which was a definite success. Windows 8 on the other hand is, or...

You like it - fine. It isn't about "getting over it". For my working style it's just plain inefficient. I like the minimum if clicks/keystrokes to get a task done. Scrolling, tabbing, clicking and nesting which is the direction MS has headed in works for for some. Control Panel is an...

I hear what you are saying, but it seems like a lot of mucking around for something that should just work. I've installed it though and I'll see how it goes. I counter with this though http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/28 Nailed it!

My HTPC which has done sterling business is an E8400 + GA-G33M-DS2R + Radeon 5670 was giving me grief so I started investigating options for replacing it. I wanted to use the 65W AMD APUs, like the A10 5700/6700 - except the 65W parts have never been available in Aus. If you don't sell 'em...

I like some of the new stuff in Win8. But I don't like the new things enough to overcome my dislike of the Modern interface. Sh!te, if I wanted a screen full of individual icons to programs I could always re-install Windows 3.1. And at least Windows 3.1 it was easier to group them! It's like...

The kids wanted to see Dispicable Me 2. If anything, a little better than the first. Also caught The Impossible on DVD. One of those "based on a true story" movies about the tsunami in SE Asia. Pretty good.

I'm surprised you don't have some old hardware lying around. Page two of this thread has my explorations of what old hardware will do.

My understanding is that ZFS needs gobs of memory for the the caching, block lists CRC and such. This is why it is robust and you can do things like dedup. My question is why you want to use ZFS on something that looks like a single volume? Why not just use CIFS/SMB? On a single drive you can...

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Thanks. That works a treat.

And back on topic, I am thinking of an AMD 8320 build at the moment. But it will be used as a VMware box, so it's a specific use-case. In this case, the AMD build should work out significantly cheaper than a VT-d enabled Intel build. Even finding all the requisite parts for a IOMMU support on...

Agreed, but very few people build there own laptops ;) So power is likely to be of lesser consideration.

Given that Haswell is at best, 5 to 15% faster than Ivy Bridge, and in a lot of cases only a little bit better than Sandy Bridge, you can extrapolate from any Sandy/Ivy article. Just go a model down compared to the previous gen or two. Multi-threaded performance shows the most gain. Single...

OK, that didn't work. Installed the Windows Desktop Search add-in. Rebooted. Cannot add network drive to a library. FWIW, I right-click, drag the network location to the Libraries -> Documents library, drop and select Include in library. "This network location can't be included because it...

Many thanks for that. I'll give it a try

I don't think you can separate Win8 and Metro. I agree that Apple chose their niche very well, but Microsoft is still trying to be jack-of-all-trades, whilst attempting to push Metro/Windows store. As a result, it's doing none of the things well, and it's pissing people off. And I'm not sure...

I thought libraries wouldn't work on network drives? Or will it work on Windows network shares?

The thing I don't like about cloud storage is that the terms of service make it very unclear as to what who can do what with the data. My data is pretty useless, but my wife takes lots of photos. They're her work, and she should decide who sees it, and who can use it. As for the shortcut...

OK brains trust, how would I do this? I have three desktops (could end up four) and two laptops. And it's getting to the stage where one or two of the desktops are occupied all the time. What I want to be able to do, is logon to any of the machines and see all my files (i.e. centralised...

I don't think there is anything wrong with Tannin's analysis. Nor your's Howell. The question is, can Microsoft sell to the same niche as Apple, and charge the same prices in a fragmented market (Apple, Android, Windows)? I don't think they can. And why did I drag Android into this? Because...

Are you dead set on Microsoft Office? LibreOffice is enough like Office 2003, that anybody from the XP world should have no trouble adapting. I've recommended to a number of people, and no one has had trouble opening or saving Microsoft documents. You just need to remember to turn off the...

Skyfall. Best Bond ever. I thought the ending of Iron Man 3 a bit chintzy, but loved the movie. So did my children. Dredd was a shocker.

I disagree. Mostly yes, but I thought Romeo + Juliet was the best Shakespearean adaption that I've ever seen.

How did one as young as you become so cynical? :P

I have three Sandforce based drives, two in laptops similar to yours: Sony S Series 13" with i5 2410 (Win 7) and Dell Inspiron 6400 with T7200 (Core 2 Duo - Vista Home Basic). OCZ did have some issues. I have a Vertex 3 (desktop) and Agility 3 in the Sony. The Agility 3 had a weird issue...

I must be showing my age because when I read "Zip performance", I thought Howell must have been playing with an old Iomega drive for shits and giggles.

Thanks Chewy, that's exactly what I was looking for. I was told by a couple of Windows sysadmins at work that there wasn't anything equivalent.

Hi all, long time since posting, but haven't had much to contribute. I have been lurking though. I have a question about Windows server. In Solaris, you can protect applications in a shared environment with projects. The projects command can limit the amount of memory an application can use...

Freenas 0.7 has changed it's name to NAS4Free, presumably to avoid confusion with FreeNAS 8. NAS4Free has seriously updated the FreeBSD kernel and a lot of the base add-ons. http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php

Is 760-860 lumens in an MR16 replacement, @ 15/18W (LED/system) good, bad or indifferent? Ditto a CRI of 85? I would like to replace a lot of 50W halogen downlights. What should I be looking for, and are there gotchas if you want to make them dimmable. We are about to embark on renovations...

SAw it with the kids today. No clapping and cheering, but a lot of laughs. The bit where Tony/Robert/Iron appears with a background track of "Shoot to thrill" was just grin inducing. Well worth the price of admission. I felt a little strange about the whole thing as my daughter has been...

I'd forgotten all about pif files :) Showed someone today Windows 3.1's Hot Dog Stand "theme". Syncronicity...

Synchronicity. I think I've only replaced one windscreen in my entire life. I've had two stone chips in the last month, the second one about 40 minutes ago...

Congrats Coug. What Chewy said +1

Congrats to Mark! What's the best - most productive - SMP client to be running on Windows? 6.34 or the new 7.x What's the best/most productive SMP client on any OS?. i7 2600K

Yup, the NIC is type E1000 - I don't think VMXNET3 is supported under FreeBSD64 clients (FreeNAS). I managed to get vmware tools installed on FreeNAS, and that was a chore :) - I should write that procedure up - but it made no difference to the throughput.

ESXI and guest OSes are installed on one disk. The FreeNAS storage as on a separate disk, but it's allocated to the FreeNAS guest as ESXi virtual disk. Is there a better way to do this?