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For the Marvell 8001 controller, as found on Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro etc. Has anyone had any experience with or heard anything about Linux drivers for it?

Well, it's less than six weeks since I complained that LCD monitors were still too expensive in Oz. Since then, prices have dropped like stones (and I suspect will continue to do so). I'm now looking for 17" displays for business use (looks like 19" will be the same price inside a few months)...

I'd recommend this site to anyone who's ever tried Linux or even thought about it. Although I disagreed with some things, on the whole it's a great read and I found it highly entertaining: http://www.geocities.com/techie_moe/ A must-read for CougTek. :wink:

And they work as advertised?

I've just spent several hours over the last two days wrestling with a a couple of routers. The trick is, I want it quit being a router and just be a modem, so I can connect a real router to it. Under normal circumstances, I'd plump for an integrated unit, but that's not possible here. One of my...

Is there a way to mirror an existing Linux bootable partition/drive? The techniques I've seen on the net seem to assume you have a third partition/drive available. It looks like Suse YAST should be able to do it - you can remove the / mountpoint and create the RAID, but it fails when you try to...

http://www.rayshaw.com.au/article.aspx?ArticleKey=460

I have a client with an ISDN PABX who is trying to analyse call patterns, specifically linking incoming calls to free call numbers used for advertising feedback. He also wants summaries by time of day to help predict staffing requirements. The software effectively requires a dedicated PC that...

I'm aware that some Samsung hard drives seem to vibrate excessively, but I've got a 160GB SATA here that's worrying me. I'm actually concerned about the effect on other drives in the same cage! It's mounted on compressed rubber grommets, which may be making it better or worse. I thought these...

I don't want to start a fight here - I'm genuinely perplexed. Can someone who believes in this explain to me: why? I like to think I can put myself in a lot of people's shoes, but I'm unable to comprehend the mindset behind the protests.

I'm going crazy here trying to find decent keyboards. Is it too much to ask? Part of my frustration is the inability to test drive contenders. I don't want much, just a reasonable feel that facilitates accurate typing. That is, not too soft but not too clacky. There's tons of Microsoft and...

Looking for a networkable color printer, preferably midrange inkjet. The application is to produce the occasional glossy presentation (with photos). I say networkable to exclude those pieces of bastardry such as host based printers, as well as drivers that won't play unless the printer is...

Trying to create a mirror from two SATA drives on an Asus A8N-SLI using the 4-port nVidia RAID function. After configuring the RAID, the PC hangs at "Detecting array" every time it starts, even if you press [Del] to enter the BIOS setup. The only way around it is to use the Clear CMOS jumper. :(...

I'm considering an IBM X-series laptop for a client who craves something really light. They weigh about 1.2kg (2.7lbs) and even include a keyboard light. Different batteries provide runtimes from three to seven hours. I have a few reservations: 1. The 12" screen 2. The 90% size keyboard (so...

What does everyone think about the use of conventional, unbuffered, non-ECC RAM in 1GB modules? I'm speccing a workgroup server with 2GB RAM and wondering whether the extra cost of a Tyan board, Opteron CPU, and ECC RAM is really justified. It's never going to be upgraded past 2GB (it really...

Has anyone done this? I'm planning to fly to another country and upgrade a Compaq laptop running XP Home. With the multitude of drivers involved, I wonder if there's an easy way to just upgrade rather than wiping it and installing from scratch?

I'm looking for recommendations for email hosting, i.e. email under your own domain but hosted on some ISP's server. Minimum of 50MB per box, probably around ten boxes. IMAP or nothing. Although cost is an issue, reliability is far more important. Suggestions?

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12204297-26618,00.html Wonder if they run Windows?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1298155.htm

Had a WD400JB die without any warning whatsoever. In fact, I checked the S.M.A.R.T. values the day before - everything checked out just fine. Remind me not to bother spending much time checking S.M.A.R.T. in future ... I've been fretting about this drive for about six months; after all, it is a...

A client has a Suse 9.0 server running Samba 2 on ReiserFS. Workstations are Win2k and connected via 100Mbs. Copying an 86MB file from the server to a workstation takes about 8 seconds (~10MBs). Copying the same file in the other direction takes a whopping 410 seconds (0.21MBs), i.e. 50 times...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1283281.htm Unfortunately, the full research article is only available to Nature Materials subscribers.

The Millau Viaduct is due to be completed in the next month or so. It's likely to be one of the wonders of the modern world. At 245m above ground level, the deck is nearly four times higher than the deck of the Golden Gate Bridge. That's about 80 stories! Overall height is 336m. It's difficult...

Six days of storms and flooding. I can just see Tea and Tannin together in a beautiful pea green boat.

A customer is experiencing extremely strange behaviour on their Win2k PC. Specifically, enormous (up to 30-40GB) files are being created in their NOD32 updfiles folder. Both Eset and I are stumped. The files are not being downloaded - sometimes the system adds nearly 1GB to the size every...

I haven't used Opera 7.5 much because I found the interface irritating. In fact, I've been busily recommending Firefox to people, partly because there has been no Opera update for more than three months. I was startled when someone raved to me about Opera 7.60. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't...

I've noticed that lots of people have trouble getting VPN client software to work behind a router. Unfortunately, that now includes me. :( I could have sworn that I was successful with this Netgear WG624 about two months ago, but I'm starting to think maybe I went around it for the test. :(...

I received this query: For the last 2 days, Norton Internet Security has alerted me that this destination is trying to access data on my hard drive which I designated as 'private information'. The data in question is actually the last five digits on one of my credit cards. The destination...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been trialling a few different email clients, particularly with regard to spam filtering. I don't get much spam compared to many people, but it's a growing problem. I used Spamhilator with my regular email software for comparison. Here's my rankings so far...

A client has a LAN with an NT 4 server and several workstations - one Win2k and the rest Win9x. When they come in most mornings, the LAN is off the air. The first time this happened, we tried replacing the switching hub - to no avail. From memory, workstations couldn't ping each other or the...

Yes Buck, this thread is for you. :) An associate has been unable to establish (and keep) a VPN with a D-Link DI-808HV (804HV with 8 ports). The other end-point is either an identical D-Link router locally, or a more up-market Netopia model overseas (USA). Six months ago, he had limited...

From Australia, Jeremy Howard runs an international email provider. FastMail.fm has servers in the US and Europe, staff in Australia, the US, Europe and India, and customers in 168 countries (Australia only accounts for 6 per cent). At 11 o'clock one Sunday morning in Melbourne, he received a...

I've been looking around to see what's available for networking small businesses with more than one site. In other words, which low cost routers have internal VPN endpoints. DLink, Linksys and Netgear surprised me with their lack of real VPN support. Many of the products don't even have VPN...

Okay, what does everyone favour in the bottom end of the graphics adaptor market? I'm particularly interested in sub US$70, but under US$120 is also interesting. So far, I've noted that: o A Radeon 9600SE is roughly comparable to a Radeon 9200 o A Radeon 9200 is roughly comparable to an...

http://www.techuser.net/index.php?id=47

Cable data services in my area went out mid-afternoon Thursday, April 29. The problem was fixed about 11pm, but my Nortel CM115 still had no Link light. My neighbour with his <1year old Motorola came back up just fine. Telco tech arrived Saturday, May 1. He plugged in a Motorola 5100, pointed...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you all know what this is about. Have rape, murder, torture, beatings and abuse been sanctioned? A three-star general reported the problems were "systemic", yet it seems the fix has been put in for court martials so far. Is the US military serious about...

A man who cheated death seven times and had four failed marriages has refused to leave Croatia to fly to Australia to film a commercial because he fears it could tempt fate. Croatian Frane Selaks has been signed by Smith's Snackfood company in Australia to star in a commercial for Doritos, but...

Adware, spyware and advertising trojans are becoming worse than viruses. Like I imagine everyone else here, I have run minor-malware detectors over people's PCs, smug in the knowledge that all sorts of pests will be quickly revealed and quietly removed. Usually, the PC then appears to have a...

A site has three Win2k workstations and a server. The server and two of the workstations have printers hanging off them. The two printers attached to workstations are shared so that all the workstations can access all the printers. On one of the printer-equipped workstations, when you 'add'...

A local magazine recently published profiles of six contenders for Lord Mayor (the Lord is a carry over from when there were multiple cities making up Brisbane). Here's one of them: So, I now have no problem working out who I'm going to vote for.

I was ambivalent to the surprise election result in Spain - after all, the winners are Socialists. Mind you, as an outsider I've never really noticed whether a European country was 'socialist' or 'conservative'. Either way doesn't seem to have done the Scandinavian countries any harm, given...

Spotted this item in the news: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/hel/bleex.htm Feel free to watch the video clip. :) And for those who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the 'original' in action: It's well worth while renting this 30 minute film from your local video store if you've...

I've been thinking about what spec to recommend for PC purchases as we move deeper into 2004. I feel that a number of "emerging technologies" are on the agenda and need to be taken into consideration. My main interest is small to medium businesses (corporates will do their own thing anyway)...

From www.abc.net.au: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he does not recall British Prime Minister Tony Blair's pre-war claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ready to be deployed in 45 minutes. "I don't remember the statement being made, to be perfectly honest," Mr Rumsfeld...

Most corporates use a password on the Windows screen saver to 'protect' the session from unauthorized access. This is one of the twenty thousand less endearing Windows characteristics, due to the fact that the workstation proceeds to lock out everyone except the original user or an...

In a small environment, such as a TV or computer, how important do people believe the extra center speaker to be? It makes sense to me in a cinema, but I wonder if it's a bit redundant in home situations? I'm also assuming that the separate bass channel is not going to be of any real...

One of my neighbours (there's a bunch of us here now with home-based businesses) is an industrial designer (or something like that). He uses SolidWorks, a 3D design tool. You can spot it in one of the SPEC benchmarks. He decided to get himself a new computer (his current spec is a PII 450 with...

There are three PCs: A1 - A1600 on KT266A with WD 20GB B1 - A1600 on KT266A with WD 100GB A2 - A2500 on nForce 2 with WD 20GB B2 - A2500 on nForce 2 with WD 100GB A1 & B1 are identical except for the HDD; same motherboard, RAM, display and network cards. A2 is A1 after upgrading but B2 is a...

We have a co-located server that has had a few issues: Because of software problems (memory leak), it is set to reboot every night. Two to three weeks ago, it crashed about 9:00am (after customers had been using it for one to two hours). I think this was because a password change meant that the...