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Thanks Piyono. I like it.

I make it about 17% 40 or over. Define hot. This is consumer grade hardware we are talking about, and a quick scan of WD spec sheets reveal operting temps (consumer) of 60 or 65 max. Sure operate a drive in summer flat out in a porrly ventilated case and the drive will be operating at the top...

You've made this claim before, and I've asked you to back the claim up, and so far you haven't. Just because you keep asserting it, does not make it true. If anything, it most likely would have been a Soviet, and/or Communist world if the U.S.A. had not entered the war. And that event was not...

And just stumbled across a 750GB drive roundup http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/750gb-hdd-roundup.html Hitachi made and impression--Long live the Deathstars So did Samsung, and selected Seagate & WD models

Some relevant quotes: ..."The data in this study are collected from a large num- ber of disk drives, deployed in several types of systems across all of Google’s services. More than one hundred thousand disk drives were used for all the results pre- sented here. The disks are a combination of...

Read the paper. It's hard to argue with (the) data

The Google white paper on hard drive failures in their data centres from a year or two ago did have a very, very good sample size, and they came to the conclusion that heat was not an issue in drive failure... First I've heard that one. Do you have any references? Agreed. This replace...

Apparently AutoPatcher is back up. What it now does is build a list of updates which it downloads directly from MS, which is then bundled together in the usual AutoPatcher way. Yay for portability. http://www.autopatcher.com/

Minefield is interesting, but along with Chrome it suffers from beta speed. It's easy to make a beta version fast because it doesn't do any of the error checking that a hardened release version has to. Check out Safari

My comments were directed at Clocker, who was going to watch SD FTA. HD source is completetley different. Also, it's immaterial if you watch sport or not, it is just a good & easy way to detect some flaws in the TV's stream processing.

Not a Dell (Sony actually, HP and Tosh), but dude; Deja vu http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24580747-23109,00.html

Just in case you missed it http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q9400.html And unless you're running the latest and greatest, selected software, the Q6600 still looks awesome performance wise...

I'd go to a store and get them to display SD sport on a number of LCD's. Every store I've visited used HD slow pan demo's. This will make HD look it's best, but won't show you how good the set is at upscaling the SD signal. Fast sport SD will show you how responsive the panel is and what...

Context is everything :):oops::eekers:

+1 to JTR

Lo, and it was fscking funny http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/28/vista-doomed

Have at it http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15730/1 Some good, some bad

A comparison: http://www.linux.com/feature/140734

Jumped to conclusions. I had set the router/AccessPoint to Channel 1 when chasing other issues a long time ago. Set the channel to 13 and things are back to normal. Guess it was an interference issue, but I don't know what it could be. Black helicopters?

That's a steeper drop-off than the continental shelf. Bah, I may go back to a wired connection. On another note, the HTPC automagically installed SP3 for XP and now my wireless is toast. I really detest wireless technology....

Does anyone have any good new to relate using draft n wireless technology? I've got a couple of G nodes, but I want more speed

I'm am sorry about this as this post will be partly a call for help and partly an interesting find in my search for an answer to said help cry. Firstly, has anybody come across this issue. At work, our disks are partitioned into three—system, util/recovery (tiny) and data. Here's the slightly...

Man, Mercutio will be annoyed. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/400gb-raid0510-2.html Mind you, he would probably sniff at a mere 400GB

Ooohhh. You mentioned QT and real. Keep it up and you'll have Tony posting. Not bad, it's good to see you back. I haven't been posting much lately either. I just don't seem to have enough time, nor much to say.

I can't believe you used "fix" and "Adobe" in the same sentence... :O

Heh, I wonder how long all those folding x800GTx's will last? The thermal stresses...

According to XBit, 45nm Phenoms have been delayed (seems to me by about a quarter) until Jan 2009. It's interesting because a quarter is just about the time you need for a new stepping...

It's still a tough sell. I built a HTPC and could have gone the 4850e/690G route, but went the E8400/G33M-DS2R/HD 3850 route instead. The kids can game on it, it can encode FTA HD TV and play back anything I can throw at it. AMD video cards are looking good. Sure, I paid a little more than...

Congratulations Mark on hitting 5 000 000 points

And this is the downside of the whole activation model. If the person wasn't as switched on as you Merc, the license would have been "wasted". And if I'd "wasted" the $$$ for a server license, I'd be mighty pissed-off. The flip side is that if it is easy to ring Microsft and explain what...

You can use the /3G switch, and it is usable, *provided* all the applications that will run on the box are *aware* of the /3G switch. The software has to be compiled for it especially. If it isn't /3G aware, I suggest Ibuprofen+codeine.

More woes it seems. Though I can't help think that TSMC is involved in this, they fabbed the chips after all... http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/nvidia-g92s-g94-reportedly If this gets bad, the ATi aquisition may keep AMD afloat until they can get their CPU house in...

My money is on customisation. Never bet against a company that gives users the ability to personalise their toys. Windows 3.1 gave them colour schemes like Hot Dog. Windows 95 gave them Dangerous Animals themes. Vista gives them Aero. Nokia gave people clickable covers in any colour you...

Don't get hung up on high efficiency power supplies. They are only 80% efficient @ 75%~90% load for the most part—you'd need to see a load/efficiency graph over a wide system load. Most "high efficiency" power supplies have their touted efficiency drop off a cliff outside of a narrow band of...

My 5c worth A post I read on Tech Report from a Linux user was interesting (quoted below). It also gels with comments from Intel posted here a while back about the need to develop a different controller for SSD's. I'm guessing that what they meant was a different software stack and hardware...

I hate delayed write http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7082 Changed/added any hardware lately?

I was having this problem with Foxit as well. I used the in application update procedure to update to v2.3 and problems went away. I suspect Adobe has been playing around with their formats... Competition is bad M'kay...

SSD v Mechanical 2.5" Two years before crossover I'd say. The $ per gigabyte isn't there yet, and in a lot of tasks, the performance isn't either (yet). 1 year warranty versus 3/5. No thanks. http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15079

Both AVG and Avira slowed the system noticeably when I had my SATA drives configured as Legacy/IDE, but that is the nature of the ATA subsytem--disk accesses are sequential. PC-Cillin was no different. When I configured the SATA drives as AHCI (allowing Native Command Queueing support), it was...

I used AVG from v 6 through 7.5. Tried 8 and it lasted less than a day. Switched to Avira because of success rates in one of the Virus tests posted on this board. Avira comes up with more false positives--maybe one every three weeks or so. Avira caught more than AVG. It found a couple of...

Mark, I've been reading up on the F@H forums about the Q9450/Q9300/Q6600 and the consensus seems to be that the Q9450 is only about 5% faster clock-for-clock. Yours seems to be 60% faster (comparing the SMP ppd--1900 v 3000 for a single client). What gives? Your Q9450 is clocked a little...

In my experience, Gigabytes support/customer service is appalling. I'll post the (rather extended) email to-and-fro one day and you will see how it took Gigabytes customer support 4-to-7 days to reply to an email enquiry, and then to ignore the thread completely and keep asking me to do things...

I thought today's UserFriendly was poignant and pertinent: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080623 :)

According to this article, that's a GPT partition: GUID Partition Table. Did you use XP-64, W2K3-64 Server, W2K3 SP1 (32 & 64), W2K8 server or Vista to partition the disk? I'm betting yes. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457122(TechNet.10).aspx...

It's not that scary. Just open the disk MBR and change 1 hex digit. What could possibly go wrong? :eek

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5956&highlight=dynamic :) DiskProbe is your friend

Welcome back Merc!

TGDAily is reporting that the NVIDIA client is going to be some serious whoop-ass. ..."The unveiling of the client is set for the next week as part of the launch of Nvidia’s GT200 GPU series. Owning such a card will have its benefits in Folding@Home and will outrun Radeon 3870 cards. The new...

I got the machine yesterday and bumped the RAM to 1GB. Before that I had a play around with it to see how it operated. Gods it was painful, think Win98 with 32MB RAM. W2K with 64MB was more responsive. After the bump, though, it was usable. Vista with 512MB is simply not usable. The...