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Also, here's an amusing find I came across while digging up that other stuff -- you can mod the older mini PCIe based SSDs into mSATA SSDs : http://www.thejoojooforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=776&p=4961 I guess that it would be useful for those trying step up to an SSD on the cheap and/or...

Okay, some follow up. I was remembering correctly that there were some problems. But I'm still not certain about whether a whitelist is in effect or not for the varying laptops. See for yourselves if you wish: intel 310 in x220 and W520 issues: -...

Yeah, pretty sad. One of the things I get a chuckle out of the whole impact that the Thai floods have had on the HDD market is that I remember Mickey (WD) say, several years ago on SR, that they had a measure of redundancy built into their platter supply chain. hehe -- looks like everyone's...

Why you! (shakes fist wildly in air at Intel) For the record, I clone my / and /home partitions on my SSD to a mechanical drive for backup purposes using gparted. Nice an easy. I do recall running into a partition size mismatch after I first started doing this -- I believe I changed around...

The Lenovo whitelist issue definitely still applies to WLAN and WWAN cards. I don't know whether they are doing the same with the mSATA SSDs. I tend to think they aren't, because I have seen posts from users using Renice cards etc. Though, I also seem to recall that users initially had a...

Note that Intel offers a free Arconis thingy too that will work when one of the drives is one of their own: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19324

happy birthday doug

its mSATA cause the mini PCIe slot they plug into has to be "special" (i.e. not any old min PCIe slot will do, it has to be able to support mSATA signaling) ... and currently I don't think too many laptop manufacturers opt for that Samsung just announced the introduction of more (...

You will likely enjoy "You've got to love London" http://vimeo.com/12816238

Holy cow -- that was rather fortuitous on my part!! Had no idea. Well there you go -- don't say I never gave you anything for your birthday LOL

here's one for JTR: A Year in New York http://vimeo.com/31159101

Interesting device (didn't like the video though ... full of fluffy mkt'ing speak) http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-computer-turns-any-screen-into-an-android-station

BMO has a large presence in the mid-west, operating under Harris Bank. They purchased someone else not that long ago (don't remember whom), and I believe they are going to rebrand all US ops under a BMO Harris moniker. Off the top of my head, I don't think Scotia has any US presence ... they...

Sounds a lot like an issue I had with an A64 (Via based chipset?) system a couple of year's ago. After troubleshooting as best I could with that, my guess then was that its a capacitance issue with the video card ... Best clue to that conclusion was that I could generate the reboot quickest...

From what I saw in ViDock user reports (which obviously encounter similarly constrained usage scenarios), they seem to indicate that they achieve 50-70% of a card's expected performance under normal usage conditions (i.e. stuck into a x16 slot). Anyway, here is an interesting tangentially...

For a less "powerful" solution, have a look here too: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195099

I had seen mention of ViDock before on a number of occasions, but, for whatever reason, had never really checked it out ...either that, or, it never register with me what it was for (I probably just thought it was an external harddrive enclosure or something). Anyway, was checking the stuff...

Looks like the aforementioned issues were all due to de-installation errors and/or built-up system crud. After running ccleaner (thanks Bozo) in safe mode, the system works as expected again. Just some further notes for posterity: - I had mentioned javascript and Bozo mentioned java...no...

Screw the iPhone, what you guys need are some iCats --- guaranteed to wake you up every morning! ... (though, unfortunately, their tummy clocks can't be shut off, so every morning literally means every morning .... including weekends and holidays....and, most of the iCat models don't travel very...

I was asked to look at a computer running XP that is exhibiting the following behaviour: - opening a jpg attachment in Outlook Express results in a window/box begins to open up, but it never goes beyond just the initial stage of rendering the box -- remaining grey or semi-transluecent in its...

I formally observed it on a Gigabyte AMD 785 board and it was indeed related to storage detection...IIRC, the solution was to not use cable select on PATA devices, but, rather, jumper them accordingly as master and slave. SATA devices didn't seem to have any impact on the problem.

Manufactured ! Fear mongering ! Manipulation ! Oh my! I see all is well in Washington. And now for some light, afternoon special, humour: I'm just a bill...

the relentless march of progress ... I suspect that in a few years they'll have it down to a strip of gauze and some duct tape :p

Did you mention this previously Bozo? If you had I completely missed it. Anyway, welcome to the zipper club! (Long, long, time member here).

hmm, I think I may have just contradicted myself in the other thread*. So let me restate it -- the crappy panel isn't the worst you can find out there in the wild, but it certainly seems like they are using the worst ones they could find at the cheapest price point. Sucks to see that on the T...

I can vouche for the L412 -- good build, nice machines (especially like the docking availability). Again, like my comment about it several eons ago, as well as just now in the other thread, the panels on the 14" models definitely aren't the best (not the worst you can find, but come on Lenovo...

Heads up on the T420s: Batterius Suckis Found this link earlier in the week literally two hours after I helped someone walk through and place an order for one (loaded to the gills; great discount deal plus it was going to be picked up on a corporate tab). The only reason I happened to come...

External enclosures are so hit-or-miss its not funny. Damn cheap controllers are buggy as sin. I did have success with 2.5' Iomega eGOs I got from Dell on sale last year (sorry, I forget the drive and controller combo ... but they were cute as buttons!) and ended up giving them to some people...

Not true! Why, just yesterday I saw four - count 'em - four squirrels on my front lawn, instead of the regular two. Sure as heck one of the most pandemoniacal moments I sures cans remembers around these parts.

And then, soon maybe none

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsung-considers-sale-of-hard-drive-unit-report-2011-04-17

Oh, right .. the operating system :P (I have no idea why, but when I saw DOS, I immediately thought of Das Boobs!) PS the above links are work safe.

I don't know what all the fuss is about, as all current hardware will play old Das Boobs just fine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc4r4oaGs7A - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-Lbf4jGjc

I LMAO with this humourous explanation of QE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k

Sandstorm :mrgrn:

OCZ is evil... always has been. Yep, I like them too. I believe Tony likes them a lot too IIRC.

Oh. Well, in that case, I'll just give it ba....Hey, wait a gosh darn dog gone second! I think you've just tried to use that reverse psychology thingy stuff on me. You wouldn't do that to a nice guy like me who is trying to steal your thunder now, would you?

Evidently he did. But I'm hell bent on stealing his thunder.

sorry for the delay (was on holidays) yes, have tried changing DNS in the past (was ineffective at the time). Will look into it again soon.

A little humour. Language Warning: lots of F-bombs are dropped, so not suitable for all playback environments. Round1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg Round2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOtC9QfXac I think I need some Gee Bees :drnk:

rcnscd restart is ineffective in regards to the "problem" hmm, I'm wondering if my dd-wrt based router is doing something wakey with the address .... I do have an issue with Google (and a couple of other sites) periodically that I know is related to the firmware ... [just don't know exactly...

timwhit's supplied address has worked fine, every time ... the regular way/address -- not so fine

Well, that's what I was thinking for the past year or so, but once you rebooted the server, it became a speed demon again. I just don't know how highly coincidental the two events could be. yep, no one seemed to report the same problem I had been observing over that year and a half, so I was...

Apparently so ... I don't think I've ever seen a 1394b port/connector, so I wouldn't have known offhand, but the point is fair, as it is certainly a reasonable assumption that they would differ from the older one I have no idea.

ugh ... seems to have slowed down a far bit again -- took about 10s again just to get on the site...first couple of page loads were also slow ... though, the last couple of page loads have been fine :dunno:

Yep, as mentioned, its "1394a". For verification, see the tabook

Personally, I think the only draw back on the Lenovo T's is the screen quality -- for the price, it would be nice to get a higher quality display. Nonetheless, the Tx10s, are very nice. Incidentally, got a L412 for a relative last week for $683 CAD ... opted to stay with the base i3 330M (sure...

No, he meant what he said -- he was comparing the Intel devices: 40GB X25-V v.s. the 80GB X25-M

wow! For over a year and a half (maybe more), the site has been dog ass slow for me* (just getting to the site would take ~10s). Now its back to how it used to be, and as fast as all other sites. Note to Doug: reboot server more frequently. * I really don't understand the expression "dog...

to be clear, the above obviously applies to a forex based carry trade. ... a carry type trade, in of itself, need not be forex based. For example, a US bank borrowing from the Fed for next to nothing and then lending to the US gov't (by purchasing US Treasuries) can do quite well pocketing the...