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Before I moved to SSD's, I used a Maxtor Atlas II 15K and Velociraptor 15GB as boot drives. I still feel that the Velociraptor + ReadyBoost was snappier than without ReadyBoost, on Windows 7 + 4GB.

I am so lucky I wasn't drinking coffee or cola when I read that :thumbright:

I've used a number of Zalman coolers, including the 9700. Get a 9700NT with a PWM fan rather than dicking around with the fanmate. Once the fan gets over about 1800 rpm, it's noticeably noisy. You can get better/quieter coolers for the same money. You can't replace the fan. But by the same...

Bugger. In a month or two I'll have to shut down for three months or more.

Android has been doing OTA/WiFi updates for ages. I've got an HTC Incredible S and now a work Desire S (basically similar, though a little smaller). The Incredible S is the same size as an iPhone 4 (my wife has one) but thinner. Battery life appears to be on par, but my wife and kids use...

Took the kids to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. They liked it, but weren't raving about it. I thought it was very much a join the dots movie. Cliched and stereotyped. Ho-hum.

That's probably because even before the Athlon 64 came out, AMD touted it as a feature. Every review of every desktop and server chip I've ever read mentions this fact at least once. The fact it is probably falls into the "common knowledge" category that is so obvious that no one thinks to...

Tried a Logitech trackball - a guy at work uses one, and it has a similar issue as the trackpads - I can't get from edge to edge on the screen without taking my finger of the ball and repeating the scroll movement. On the other hand, I picked up the A4 Tech G7-600NX-1 V-Track Padless Wireless...

Backlit screen - cool. Actually, it would be backlit screen, keyboard, case, touchpad... :twistd:

Ermm... How do you use it? Fingers on the trackball and thumb for button? How long did it take you to get used to it? Is it as accurate as a mouse?

Ah..., the mouse I have takes 2 x AA. Keyboard looks the same though. Had it a couple of years

If that lives up to half the hype (furry surfaces etc), it would be worth it. And $24 is a bargain. Thanks Time.

Thanks Time. Wireless is fine, and probably desirable. As for size and weight, I prefer lighter mouses, but larger. The first optical Intellimouse was perhaps the most comfortable I've ever used. I've been using a Logitech MK320 and it's OK, but a mouse similar to the wired M90 is too short...

Hi peeps, I need a recommendation for a mouse (or other pointing device) to use with a laptop. I've been using the notebook a lot lately browsing or reading e-books in bed (using a book as a tray to keep the vents clear). Let me just state that trackpads are a medieval torture device. I...

Funny you should mention this http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=22503 ..."To wrap this up let me summarize what I've learned: A small number of users are unable to install Microsoft Office due to a persistent .NET Framework 4 corruption issue in Windows 7. It is unclear exactly...

I think you'd be better off with the Athlon + 1GB RAM than the P4 with 768MB. If you go lean and mean (Tiny XP), then load Avast! you should be OK from a RAM use perspective. Avast! appears to be the least resource intensive AV at the moment. I've loaded XP Home and Avast! 5.0 plus a couple...

Would you believe that about a week later it just magically started working again? There were couple of Windows updates...

Yep. Intel has been aware of the issue for a while, but has yet to fix it. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21299 http://communities.intel.com/message/131623

Here, fixed it for ya boot drive (Intel 320 series 8MB - paperweight)

Coug, love your work :)

At the moment I'm using an ATX Asrock P67 Pro3 to power my i7 2600K. Before that I was using a uATX M4A785. I only use a single video card, so I've got nothing against using uATX. But when I bought the P67 Pro3 (AU$140), the only uATX P67 motherboard I could get was an Asus for $185 (with...

Thanks Coug. That might be a goer. The problem with the PS on the bottom is it's going to pick up the dust that is the reason for the filters.

Here's a challenge for ya! I'm interested in a new case that must meet the following criteria: No more than 420mm/16.5" deep At least 2 front USB, one at least USB 3.0 Washable intake air filters. Can take ATX motherboard No more than 255mm/10" wide (a little flexibility here) Optional/Wish...

PM830 will supersede the 470 (PM810 SKU), but OEM only at the moment. 500MB/s read, 350MB/s writes. http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/newsView.do?news_id=1252

4 months and a few days. 132 days roughly.

Yep.

Symptoms: I can see the Freenas box in Network. I can browse the shares. I cannot view any files. Any other box I use has the same username/password can see everything fine. A net use X: \\Freenas\Share_name will eventually return a System Error 53 or 64 I've tried a number of "fixes" on the...

And this time I'm out of luck. For some reason, possibly related to changing the boot drive, System restore was turned off, so there are no restore points to go back to.

Bloody thing happened again. Same box, just cannot connect to Freenas. All other boxes (Win 7 64, Win7 32, XP) can connect. This one can't.

Who uses parallel ports these days? Are there that many LaserJet 4 still kicking around? I remember configuring LPT ports for use with scanners and ZIP drives, and it was a fun, but painfull after a while. USB (especially 2.0) was mana. The first thing I do with any new machine is disable...

She and Beau Garrett in Tron: Legacy were absolutely stunning to look at. Van Helsing is on TV on Sunday. Mmmmm Kate...

Tourist (looking at river): Mate, are there any sharks in there? Aussie: No... Tourist (jumping in for a swim): Cool... Aussie (under breath): Crocs ate 'em all...

I've been working with Oracle and DB2 for years (and I've also done SQL Server). Microsoft advocates as a general rule (there are exceptions) are dogmatic about Microsoft because they usually have no experience working on anything else. It scares them and they are afraid to admit that they...

:) +1

10 years. Where did the time go?

No, but it works VERY well for Google

Have you tried creating a user (i.e. not using Administrator or Guest), account on both machines and giving this user the same password on both machines? This works well for me. Both users must have access permissions to the resource(s) you are trying to share (and that's better than using...

+1. What else is there to say.

IBM. 'nuff said. They have a history of promoting tech like this but have a history of not delivering. I'm not saying that research like this not good. It is. But there are large rewards a few promising technologies being trumpeted by competing companies. Whoever gets to market first...

Why don't you ask why Chrome went 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 etc? They all do it. It doesn't make it right, but the great unwashed believe bigger is better.

Firefox on Acid3 http://limi.net/articles/firefox-acid3/ http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/06/not_implementin.html

Thank you good sir! You are both a gentleman and a scholar.

So DR1 would be disk 1?

As the title says, I'm seeing this error in the Event Log. But for the life of me, I can't seem to work out which drive this refers to. Does anyone know how to map the name to a physical device? Is it hard drive, DVD or an SD card?

So ArsT were right. That's unfortunate. 2011's Daikatana.

I'm hearing you. The kids s754 PC (3400+), X1650 Pro, 2GB runs Vista SP2 more than adequately (I'd install XP, but they like have a desktop covered in "gadgets"). It plays 3D games from a few years ago without breaking a sweat (Railroads!, The Settlers: Heritage of Kings) and can even play...

Funny you should mention that, Asrock were selling (at least in Europe) s754 motherboards a couple of years ago based on the 760G with the 710 south bridge chipset :8 http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K8A780LM

Taz, I've got an EPox EP-8HDA5J with I/O plate (VIA K8T800/8237) if you're interested. The issue with early versions of the 8237 was that it doesn't like SATA-300 drives. You have to jumper them to SATA-150. I'm in Canberra. Caps are good and the board was tested working as of last week with...

Master of Magic. They're doing MechWarrior. Wing Commander would be good too. I found my old Wing Commander 3 CD's the other day.

Doesn't look like it. I've just received a couple of A3 core units