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Hi Guys, As it were, my wife's laptop died 1 day after my Dad and I purchased one for him. (That's another thread). So we ended up getting a HP laptop for my wife as a replacement for her 4/5yr old HP 4510s laptop, and am in the process of installing all the software on it. Just want to get...

Hi Guys, This is more a rant, than a ask for help... My dad is flying up from country Victoria to visit this weekend, and he has finally admitted defeat and is getting a new laptop for home. (Current PC is hitting 5 years old, running XP, etc + plus no current internet connection). So, I...

Hi Guys, So I sit here at work waiting for some unit tests to complete (they take about 5 minutes) after doing some code modifications, and I wonder about how resource heavy our modern software is. (Disclaimer: these thoughts were sparked after reading an article on /. today on a ray tracer...

Since I don't see too may reviews on the higher spec NASs I thought I'd share this one: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6922/qnaps-tsec1279urp-12bay-flagship-rackmount-nas-review

Hi Guys, This is mainly for time, LiamC and others who reside in Oz... My wife and I are heavily consider changing from Helstra to iiNet for our Landline, ADSL and 2x mobiles. Does anyone have any issues or stories they would like to share about their experiences with iiNet? We are looking at...

Hi Guys, Having a lot of trouble getting through a lot of BS marketing material regarding 4Kn HDDs. From what I've found all internal HDDs use 512e logical formatting, despite being 4K physical sectors. (which is a PITA). However there have been mention that some external HDDs actually do...

Just saw on Slashdot that Adobe has made available the complete CS2 suite free for download? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/08/1648227/adobes-strange-software-giveaway-goof-or-clever-marketing http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html No idea why, how long, etc... Make of...

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasent holiday period. For all others who also celebrate other events at this time I also wish a: Happy Hanukkah Io, Saturnalia! Happy and Joyful Kwanzaa Happy Constitution Day PS. Apologies if I missed a holiday you...

Hi Guys, Looking at replacing my aging ADSL2+ router (some Thomson crap supplied by Telstra) as the wireless part of it can't handle the amount of interference due to neighbours, etc. (Range is half was it was 12mths ago). A quick survery shows no-one using 802.11n equipment in the area so am...

Hi All, Does anyone know of software that can do packet analysis besides Wireshark and Network Miner? The capture files are all pcap files, so it should be able to handle those and ideally be based on the idea of forensics quality analysis... eg generate SHA1/MD5 hashes of complete streams...

Hi Guys, This is a question for those that actually develop Android apps. Besides JUnit for underlying business logic code testing, what test harness/software do you use for UI testing? And can the UI test harness results be used/integrated with Hudson? (FYI. Hudson is running on a headless...

Hi All, As part of a team project this semester at Uni, I setting up a team server that has: 1. Apache + MySQL + PHP installed (classic LAMP stack). 2. dotProject Project Management Suite 3. Subversion Server 4. Hudson for CI 5. SSH 6. IM Server. I've got most things running (still need to do...

Hi Guys, As would have it, our TV in my wife's and I bedroom is slowly dying (a 12yr old NEC 68cm CRT TV), and am trying to decide what to do. The current plan is to replace our son's TV (51cm LG CRT), with a new 19-24" LCD, get our daughter the same TV, and we replace the 68cm CRT with our...

Just like to wish Coug and all our friends from Quebec a Happy St Jean-Baptiste Day...

Hi Guys, A quick question for the programmers among us. Does anyone know of a suitable pattern recognition algorithm that returns a probability of match, when the input patterns are a string a compass bearings that define a shape. (A bearing of direction is sampled every x time). eg shape 1...

Hi Guys, NVIDIA has announced the new batch of cards for the entry level and low mid range in the GT600 series. (I know we all want the Quadro 6000 or the GTX680, but out wallets (or wives/partners) tend to disagree). More info...

Reviews are hitting the various sites.... Good if you need the space, but I think with the SSDs on the market fulfilling most enthusiast needs (but with a lack of space, necessitating a second data drive), I'm unsure of the potential market for this one...

Since this SSD is coming to market, reviews are starting to crop up: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5719/ocz-vertex-4-review-256gb-512gb Performance wise, it's very fast (beating most models on the market benchmark wise), but Anand says there are some early firmware issues that should be...

Hi Guys, Just was quickly browsing the following paper called "Optimizing NAND Flash-Based SSDs via Retention Relaxation". The basic premise is that in order to store data for a long period with NAND flash, say hold it's contents for 10yrs (being the current industry expectation or there...

but any chance of some different skin/style choices? A dark theme like one of these would be nice? (In order preference)... http://www.completevb.com/product/44 http://www.completevb.com/product/45 http://www.completevb.com/product/19

Hi All, I thought I might start a looking for this type of app thread, for those of us that don't seem to have the google-fu working. I'm looking for a free world map application and supports zooming and possibly searching by city and has some country facts attached, that doesn't show ads...

Hi All, My significant other has surprised me today saying that she happy for me to get an eBook reader. (I tend to read a lot of books in bed, and it would make it easy to get books that interest me, without having take up shelf space). Additionally, the local library now has ebook lending...

Hi all, I've been tasked to reinstall Windows XP Home on a eeePC netbook, and have pretty much everything sorted out how to install XP via a USB key, etc... However, I don't have a Windows XP Home CD nor ISO. I've checked both of my MSDNAA accounts, and neither offer XP Home, just XP Pro...

Just like to wish a Happy New Year to those around us... May 2012 be a better year than 2011 was for you.

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasent holiday period. :-D For all others who also celebrate other events at this time I also wish a: Happy Hanukkah Io, Saturnalia! Happy and Joyful Kwanzaa Happy Constitution Day PS. Apologies if I missed a...

Hi Everyone, Hope you holiday season preparations are coming along. My wife surprised me yeasterday by mentioning that she wants me to get a new laptop/netbook for Uni, and give my current Asus 1001HA netbook to our daughter... (Short story, my son is about to start school, and has a netbook...

Hi everybody, I would like to ask for some assistance from those SF members that speak another language, particularly to provide translation for one of the applications I'm writing. In my part time, I've been developing gMTP ( http://gmtp.sourceforge.net ), which is a general purpose...

Anandtech has a review of the refresh of the Netgear ReadyNAS line of products... http://www.anandtech.com/show/5071/netgears-marvell-based-readynas-nv-v2-review/1 Not bad performance, up to 89MB/s in certain scenarios, but I find the price a little steep for what you get. ($399 for the NV+ v2...

Hi all, This month sees passing of another great personality of IT. Dennis Ritchie, co-developer of C and UNIX passed away earlier this week! Another true computing engineer and founder of many technologies has left us. :crap: :sad: "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have...

Looks like the NDAs have been lifted, as there are a few reviews out: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-review-amd-fx8150-tested/1 In short, the top end one is equivalent to an i5-2500K (despite having 8 cores running at 3.6GHz), but is priced slightly less. AMD only certify the...

Nice article on Anandtech with some details on the upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs from Intel. Main points: These are built using a 22nm process, which leads to improved power consumption. Better onboard GPU. Backwards compatible with current socket 1155 systems (may need a BIOS flash), but will will...

Saw this linked elsewhere, but: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/94082-ibm-builds-120-petabyte-cluster-made-out-of-200000-hard-drives Now that's a lot of pr0n... ;)

Hi Everyone, I'm adding import/export playlist support to an application (gmtp), and am pondering on the which playlist format to use for the process. I don't see a point in creating my own format, when quite a few already exist, and also makes importing playlists from other applications a neat...

Hi Everyone, I must start this post with, we are having a royal PITA time with electronics recently, and am getting sick of having to replace our stuff... Anyway, long story short, our current LG 42" Plasma TV (which is a 480p panel) decided to not play nice anymore. It's 3.5yr old, and the...

Jus saw this on Anandtech... http://www.anandtech.com/show/4383/computex-2011-ocz-zdrive-r4-88 So who's up for buying one?

Just wondering if anyone has tried MeeGo yet? https://meego.com/ Recent news articles point to a new release, and recent benchmarks report it boots in half the time as most other Linux distributions, and is more small screen friendly. (15secs on a netbook, vs 30sec for Ubuntu on the same...

Hi all, As many of you are aware, my wife and I sick of our current Samsung mobile phones (plus hers' is starting to die), and have put together some $$ to purchase 2 new mobiles. Unfortunately, we still have 12+ mths on our current contracts, so can't change carriers, or get new phones as part...

Hi all, This is just a for your information... I found out last night that NVIDIA no longer bundle the OpenGL and VDPAU header files with the 260.x (and 270.x) drivers for UNIX (Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD). It means that you can't build OpenGL based software or software that uses VDPAU! (But...

I'm starting this thread as a vent due to the poor customer service I've received over the last few weeks, and to announce that due to extremely poor customer service I will not purchase any of their products in future... 1. Panasonic. (My wife has been dealing with this one). The in-laws split...

Hi Guys, Doing some research on the origin of 127.0.0.1. I know that 127.0.0.1/8 is the IP address assigned to the loop back device/driver as defined in RFC 1122 # 3.1.2.3 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122#page-29 ) and in RFC 5735 # 3 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735#page-3 ), and is...

Was just browsing the SuperMicro website and stumbled upon these: http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/atom.cfm Low power Atom based servers and mainboards! The interesting thing to note (besides the avg 3x price of any other Atom based mainboard - around US$220 ea.) are PCIex16 slot (x4...

Following on from this thread: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8188 After using Ubuntu 10.04 a bit more yesterday and today, have come across a few gripes. 1. XMMS is not available in any repository. I've been using XMMS for years, and is an excellent music player. 2. SAMBA...

G'Day, I've been looking at getting a netbook for myself (due to going back to Uni, and don't want to carry a heavier laptop, since I'll be riding a bike to Uni). However I'm having trouble finding the exact spec's on many model netbooks, in particular what LAN and WLAN adapters are fitted...

Hi Guys, Elin and I are pleased to announce the safe arrival of our daughter Gabriel at 9:26pm, 15 Jan 2010. She was bright eyed and looking around the room the moment she was born. Wt 3.09kg (6lb 13oz) and 51cm long. Mum and baby are doing great, and Isaac is intrigued with his new baby...

As I'm going to be busy with friends and family over the holiday season (and won't be online for a week or two), just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasent holiday period.

Since my wife's PC is acting up, and following up on the other thread "Laptop for kids", I'm in the market for a new laptop to replace her desktop. (I get to inherit her 20" LCD, so I'll have dual 20" LCDs for my PC :bglaugh: ). Primary use will be web, office, email, education games, and...

Why it often that will compromise for no given reason, other than "because they want to". Case in example, A friend of mine is building a new i7 setup for himself. 1. Buys a new i7 based Xeon 3520 CPU. (cheaper than a i7-920 and in stock at supplier, runs at same clock speed as a i7-920). 2...

Hi Everyone, Some quick background: My son Isaac, who is nearing 2 yrs old, has been classified as being "extremely gifted" with an estimated IQ of 179+. As such whilst being under the physical age of 2, has the same mental capacity and capability as a 3yr old. (For fans of the TV show "Big...

Does anyone have a ODBC driver for a Sculptor 4GL database engine? Googling comes up with little information about Sculptor 4GL, even less about ODBC drivers for 3rd party systems. I'm basically after the driver, so I can extract data from a legacy system that is written in Scupltor 4GL, and...

Hi Guys, Does any one know of a site that reviews Camcorders? (Like dpreview.com, but for camcorders). My wife and I are looking for a new camcorder, and have narrowed it down to the following models: 1. Sony DCRDVD610 2. Canon DC310 3. JVC GZ-MS100 4. Samsung VP-DX100i Basically, we want to...