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Thanks guys. The woman who looks after the machines (and asked me for help) said: ..."there is no way Vista is going on any of her machines at home"... Redmond, we have a problem. This is the first Vista machine I've played with. It looks pretty, but if you add either the Royale theme...

Vista really ins't my area of expertise so I'm after some suggestions. The laptop belongs to my son's pre-school and the teacher there asked if there was any way to make it faster. It's a Dell Inspiron e6400 with (I think) a 1.7/1.8GHz processor, 512MB RAM (less what's used for graphics) &...

Can you clarify exactly what type of nodes you are talking about. You haven't set the the upper bound and forgotten to leave space for one extra (DLM_LOCK_RES_OWNER_UNKNOWN and such) have you?

Has any had any experience with using the RAID 1+0 capabilities of the Intel southbridge? I want to set up a Solaris/Oracle box for home and play with Oracles storage sub system. What I want to set up is RAID 1+0 with four Samsung SP2504C sata drives (recommendations??) and need either a...

Sounds to me like you're after partitioning. You would partition the table on (say) month or year. In effect, you have multiple smaller tables that look to be one logical large table. Oracle and DB/2 certainly can do this, and I would assume that SQL Server could.

Could be, though according to this: http://www.theeldergeek.com/thumbnail_cache.htm it might make things worse rather than better. All I've been able to find so far indicates that Windows will always try to cache, or rebuild it on selected folders. Can't find what the "selected" criteria is...

Offhand, I'd say that the client is trying to build the icon cache, and it sounds like the default cache is too small. Not sure how to increase the default though... Ohh, tabbed browsing and Google works wonders (Aside: I like Firefox 3 RC1)...

No, the figures you've given are enough, it's obviously significantly faster clock-for-clock. Thanks. But if you'd put up the o'clocked Q6600 scores when you get them, that would be informative and appreciated.

Mark, how much better/faster/ppd is the Q9450 than the Q6600 in SMP?

Oh, tried Chimay blue. Do try it. Yummy but $$$. I'll have to track down that Coopers you mentioned Udaman

I'd agree with you H, but I can only report what I taste. Given the amount of hops flavour, I'd expect SABL to be more bitter than it tastes. But it's almost as if they added some sugar to boost the alcohol. I'm not saying that's what they did, just trying to account for the taste...

Well I dropped a 7200 rpm Seagate into the Dell to replace the 5400 rpm WD, and I like it. Where before, disk load operations used to induce an annoying, though tolerable wait, the 7200rpm drive is noticeably snappier. If I had to, I could live with this notebook as my primary system. It was...

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Samuel Adams Boston lager it is then. As for the reference, I mean compared my usual Australian lagers--James Boags being the pick. The good Aussie lagers* would balance the hops with more bitterness, and this is perhaps what I object to in the SABL, it's seems a touch too sweet for my taste...

Tried some Samuel Adams tonight. O.K., but if that's one of your better ones... The hops tasted almost like a good Pils, but its a lager. The after taste is similar to Resch's draught in Aus--which would be my pick of tap beers. The problem with Resch's is that it is either good or bad...

Is anybody going to see Iron Man? I never was much for comics, but the trailers have piqued my interest

A 2.5" 10K SATA drive in a 3.5" heatsink :eekers: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14583 ..."The VelociRaptor offers excellent performance across a wide range of applications, but its most spectacular showing was easily with IOMeter's multi-user workloads. These workloads don't simulate...

No country for old men. Those Coen boys are good. The academy (and just about everybody else heaped praise on Javier Bardem, but I though Tommy Lee Jones put in a stirling performance

I'm not too sure about ASUS or any of the manufacturer proggys, but all of them that I am sure about use the thermistor, so I would confirm temps by running CoreTemp or Speedfan

What are you using to monitor temps? I would recommend CoreTemp for C2D or Speedfan for AMD K8. If you aren't using either of these progs, then the numbers reported by them may shock you

But all reviews and that includes AnandTech's seem to be no more than fluff pieces these days. Props to Gary for writing it, but I bet it will be a one-off. Gary will toe the corporate line or leave. On the same note, for the last three weeks I have been struggling with a Gigabyte issue. I...

Dude, it doesn't rhyme, it's a synonym... :) :rotfl: /time for more medication

Yeah, Safari is fast, because it's beta and full of holes http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/25/security-flaws-found-safari ..."Web User reports that security firm Secunia has classified both of these fresh vulnerabilities as "highly critical" flaws, its second highest...

LGA775 versus LGA771. The LGA775 chips are the same as standard Core 2. The LGA 771 chips are different beasties. I can't find any (admittedly brief look) Quads on LGA775. Can find duallies though...

Udaman, are you a PR/marketer for Apple? ..."Now if I’m going to pull Apple up over anything it’s over the use of iBench. iBench 5.0 is a benchmarking fossil. It was released November 2003 and it’s safe to say that a lot has changed since then, especially as popular websites are now loaded...

October 2001? What the... Linux has come a long, long way since then.

Intel's Thermal Analysis Tool (TAT) is what you need. Failing that, CoreTemp 0.95b3 or so uses the same methodology as TAT. Speedfan 4.34b40 (beta 40)—available if you register—also uses the same as TAT. 4.33 (the latest generally available doesn't—reports too low. All three report temps...

So what has gotten under your skin?

So, does being an Oracle dba, Solaris/SAP R/3 sysadmin qualify me as a real man then? ;)

You obviously haven't played Hearts of Iron 2 have you? ;) The save game files are in an XML like format—15MB + each. It takes a while to load the save game files. On faster (sequential transfer) drives, the games load faster. Mind you, I won't be swapping out the Atlas II as my boot drive...

Ah no. The driver models (which is what you program to) were radically different in 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE and W2K. ME was a bastard case. Even XP's driver model is significantly different (1) from W2K and Vista is a whole new ball game. Don't get me started on 16 v 32 v 64 bit. Yes it could...

..."Hugely faster"... Absolute crap. Macs now use commodity Intel hardware, so everything else being equal, software will run at the same speed on equal hardware. I'd be checking for shady optimisations, vested interests or FUD. Honestly Udaman, apply a little critical thinking. BTW, the...

The consensus seems that a 7200 is noticeable then. I'll give it a shot.

Hi all, I've a question about notebook drives. At the moment, my NB has a 120GB 5400 rpm (SATA) drive from Mercs favourite company. Boot and load times are slow (as to be expected). Will I get much added oomph from a 7200 rpm jobbie? If it's any help, I had a 15K Atlas II in my main drive...

Oh, you don't know how prophetic that is. ;) :D Congratulations.

Works in W2K as well. The 'Set' command is not persistent

Check your beta's people (SMP, GPU, console). v6 Beta 1 expired. Download the Beta2's from Stanford

I use my mouse left and right handed, so asymmetrical mices (like most of the fancy Logitechs) are out. I bought a corded optical Logitech and it tracks nicely, but is a bit small. My wife and kids like it though. Funnily enough, I changed mouse pads and the Microsoft Wheel mouse optical...

We use zfs at work, but correct me if I'm wrong, zfs isn't cacheable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_%28protocol%29#Platforms You'd have to have a couple of Solaris servers at each end. You can download Solaris 10 x86. Share the nfs/Solaris mount point via Samba and your Windows boxen should be good to go

Same here. I've tested this on two "virgin" computers, and if you don't set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to 1, just hitting "show hidden devices" shows jack

Looks like Windiz isn't an option anymore. Pity, I thought it was a good site. And with the shutdown of AutoPatcher (another shame)...

That is really cool. Thanks!

How odd, I posted here yesterday about midday and now the post has disappeared. Anyway, thanks all, I'll check out some of the options, and thanks Fushigi for the info on batteries and Logitech

Not the furry kind, the computing kind. What I have been using, a Microsoft USB optical wheel mouse. I need to change this because the skates on the bottom have worn out need cleaning every day or it won't track properly. Also, it is a bit small—I have narrow/long palm/fingers. Don't like...

It was Tony/Tannin/Tea that brought me here, but it was the people on this forum that has kept me here. Thanks all and happy birthday.

The google white paper on their storage sub-systems almost conclusively proved that heat isn't an issue with hard drives (within acceptable limits). It could just have been a bad batch (mishandled in transit) or bad power. Search these forums for posts by Tannin on hard drives and handling...

Answers are in here. Basically, MS doesn't (didn't) have one. http://aceshardware.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=340&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Excellent value then is the Phenom yes. /yoda

BTW, what's the cost of a Q6600?