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Well my tenth unit will be up in about 4 and half hours...

The bonus is that big?:confused: That's huge! :owneddnce:

Too late. :) The heatpipe unit that ships with the X6 is actually very good. I fired up the Phenom with the stock all aluminium unit that shipped with the single & dual core Athlon 64's, and after everything was installed, fired up a single instance of F@H. After about 15 minutes, the temp...

Windows XP on one, probably 2 notFred clients (Linux) in VM's under XP on another, and probably Kubuntu 64-bit on the Phenom. Not sure yet about that one, may go Windows 7. Anybody know how the X4/X6s perform? Similar to Core2?

Windows XP on one, probably 2 notFred clients (Linux) in VM's under XP on another, and probably Kubuntu 64-bit on the Phenom. Not sure yet about that one, may go Windows 7. Anybody know how the X4/X6s perform? Similar to Core2?

All my wide screens have the Task bar on the left...

You can't ignore manufacturing cost, because a higher pixel density (resolution) is inherently more expensive--defect density, bell curves etc. More pixels, more chance of defects. The manufacturers are driven to minimise BOM costs. That measn no high res displays for you. You can buy 'em...

Kubuntu--KDE. With previous versions, changing system settings, such as enabling or disabling proprietary hardware drivers (I like using the Radeon proprietary) has been a snap. Even the jump to KDE 4 didn't phase me. But I can't for the life of me find a way to change it in 10.04. Yep, the...

Love your domain time... :aok: Bad joke I know. Couldn't resist. :-?

Got accosted by some Vietnam vets selling MS (Multiple Sclerosis) raffle tickets with a Hog as the prize. Told the bloke "No thanks, I'm too stupid to ride a bike." Like any good salesman, he got me talking, so I bought a ticket. Told him I had an RZ 250 in my early 20's, and the fourth or...

You could try DVD Flick. Open source, multi threaded, though I did run into a audio synch issue

It's getting colder so I might have to start up again. Anybody want to give me a run down on the latest clients? Tricks, traps? I was using notFreds VM distro, plus the SMP client on a couple of Windows machines. Only have Core 2 Quads, and soon a Phenom X6

When I play with Linux, it's always been Kubuntu since version 7.04. But I must say, 10.04 LTS is just wrong...

With all due respect. 1. Granted, large pixel count (for arguments sake, by this I mean > Full HD) are purchasable, but only for an inflated cost. 2. The manufacturers have gradually changed aspect ratios, from 4:3 -> 5:4 -> 16:10 to 16:9. There is where slick marketing has come into play...

Dammit, I can relax this evening, and I'm enjoying a Taylors 2007 Shiraz Cabernet (about AUS$14/bottle) right now. It went pretty well with the Spaghetti Puttanesca I cooked for the SO and I. Taylors make reasonable honest wines, but I think this one is very good for the price. When the kids...

Islay malts don't "punch you in the face"--well not only that. They then rip out your tongue, slice open your throat with adamantium claws and shit down your neck! They then sew things back together again and pat you on the back. "have a nice day". It's a tonsil assault with an AK47, held by...

No GPUs are coming out of GF. GF are just starting to sample their 40nm bulk Silicon. All of AMD/GF previous processes have been Silicon On Insulator. Supposedly, the first AMD GPU fabbed at GF will be the on die GPU as part of Llano late this year

Yes indeedy. Both use TSMCs 40nm High Performance.

www.semiaccurate.com You'll find out all you need to know. It looks like ATi will have their next gen parts out before NVIDIA is finished getting all their current gen parts out.

Hmm. Just an update, might have to merge this thread with the other one... I thought the bottleneck was processor in the SiS 630 system, so I upped it to a 933 (Instead of 733), and that made zilch/zero/nada difference. So I stuck with the Athlon II 250, but that seemed overkill. On a whim...

I have been going through this with my Win98SE box (built for old games). IE6 works OKish, Firefox was much the same. Opera works best. Flash was a no no. I've also built a couple of Tualatin boxes to upgrade people with P!!! era Celerons. 512MB is a minimum, 768MB is much better and that...

I forget how sanitised my computing environment is, thanks to Merc and his posts in useful software. K-Lite, Foxit, Quicktime Alternative & Real Alternative (only ever needed this once)

Haven't been by the forum in a few days. Thanks for taking the time to run the numbers Handy, they are mighty impressive.

Can you give us some throughput numbers from devices connecting to the NAS please?

I'm not going to get into the whole browser thing, but this kind of behavior is only worthy of contempt. Trying to sweep it under the rug isn't going to stop it. Vote with your browser.

Handy, timwhit, everytime I've rebooted the modem, I ended up on the same IP. But I've never tried a release/renew from the Smoothy (or just leaving it off for several minutes), so I'm going to try it, it's always handy (thank you, I'm here all week) to have these little tricks in the arsenal.

That's a cool piece of information there Sol. Thanks.

Yes, it affected the entire network. I thought I made that clear, but obviously not. I originally thought my notebook was unaffected, but I wasn't sure. Further checks revealed that my notebook was also Affected. Apologies.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I did try to ping the IP and it was blocked as welll. I checked the laptop and it is also blocked. I also tried changing IP as you suggested but forgot to include the results of that test. I was still blocked. Thank you for your help/suggestions time. But tried just...

hmmm. I can get to it via a cloaking/masking site: http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html Now it's getting weird. I can get to it via my laptop (wireless connection--just need to check that it wasn't in offline mode). I can't get to it via any other PC on the network, unless cloaked.

Flushed the Smoothy DNS cache which didn't fix the problem killall dnsmasq dnsmasq -r /etc/resolv.conf.dnsmasq

Found out that the only DNS server I can use with this machine is the Smoothwall box If I set the DNS to any IP other than the Smoothy, I can't access any of the internet. Maybe the Smoothys DNS is FUBARed?

Hmmm. Turned off firewall. Still can't reach it. Ping: C:\Program Files\Support Tools>ping autosport.com Pinging autosport.com [195.225.217.194] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 195.225.217.194...

I would have thought so. I tried three different DNS servers and every time I changed to a fixed (rather than automatic) DNS, I couldn't get out to any internet address. I should point out that I originally thought this was network wide, but my laptop works fine, so it looks to be more machine...

No, Optus. I just posted this from my laptop, and it can go there just fine. A rogue HOSTS file entry?

I can't get to www.autosport.com from my home network. "... The following error was encountered: Connection to 195.225.217.194 Failed The system returned: (110) Connection timed out"... I know it's alive, because I can get to it from work. It's been happening for a few days...

Yep, you are right. And that is as they say, how politicians survive by more or less telling the truth, it's all in the figures they present. Damn. You've brought out my cynical streak.

Bird watching? Oh, it's dark. "Bird" watching at the local pub? Chasing somebody's sister? :dunno: :rr: :diablo:

Hey, Australia is great. We are awake when everyone else is asleep, and Vicky Versa. Stuff costs far more here than in the US or Europe (MSI Wind12. US $480. Exhange at 90c to the dollar puts it at about $540 here. Cheapest I can find it $780. :(). We have seven of the top 10 deadliest...

Have I monopolised this thread or what? :) 'Hello...? It's cold, and there are wolves after me.'

BTW, I built a few AM2 based systems with DDR2 over the years and they always felt a bit sluggish compared to 939/DDR systems or Intel C2D/C2Q systems. Almost like the memory performance was a bit off. But I was really impressed with the Athlon II 250/DDR3 combo. Very snappy.

OK, got some numbers Systems 733 P!!! on SiS 630 with 512MB RAM. 10/100 onboard or PCI Gigabit. 1TB Samsung connected via ALI M5283 PCI SATA card Athlon II 250 on GigabyteGA-MA785GPMT-UD2H with 2GB 1333 DDR3 I tested with FreeNAS i386, W2K minimal and Win XP System OS Write MB/s...

I know a guy who was asked to describe what he knew about SDLC in an interview. He went into quite a lot of depth about SNA (mainframes--look it up), OSI and layer 2 protocols. SDLC--Synchronous Data Link Control The interviewers wanted to know about the Software Development Life Cycle. He...

Strange. I used a 3650 (PCI-e) in my HTP without any ongoing issues for nearly two years. I've just upgraded it to a 5670. Any issue I did strike was usually solved by upgrading the codecs (K-Lite)/application used to display content (Media Player Classic/MPC Home Theatre). I have content in...

I can actually see the PCI bus as being the performance limiter on this. Both a PCI gigabit NIC, and the PCI SATA controller are on it. I might try to compare this with something more modern with PCI-e connected gigabit and SATA to see how much throughput you lose.

You've got to love old hardware... Fired up one of those motherboards Tony/Tannin loves to hate, a PCChips GFXcel PC133 SiS630 based thingy, added the SATA controller and the d*mn thing just worked. I'm going to add a PCI Gigabit card shove it in a box and forget about it. FreeNAS has a...

I'm very happy with my Dell 2209WA E-IPS panel. If you don't mind 1680 x 1050. When it's on special it's good.

Thanks for the offer, but I think postage would kill me. I might try Openfiler. FreeNAS is moving to a Debian/Linux base precisely because if FreeBSD's lack of hardware support. From what I understand, the project to do so only kicked off last November or so though.

Well I was going to use P!!! I had lying around, with a VIA Gigabit PCI card FreeNAS doesn't detect the VIA card at all. Swapped it out for a RealTek 8139 fast Ethernet, and get the dreaded rl0 watchdog timeout. FreeNAS doesn't like RealTek (guess it's smart) :) On top of that, I was using...

It took me a couple of months :) One or two here and there. A whole bottle of spirits these days would take me out of action for three days :/