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Had a pleasant experience with Dell support. The battery died (Inspiron 6400) yesterday. It was 2 weeks over 1 year old. Went through some tests with the Dell rep, ad he just up and ordered me a replacement, with no quibbling. I was only on hold for a little over a minute as well. It might...

Oh, BTW I was joking about the Russians/arctic/reactors. Just something silly to account for why the ice melted mostly on the Russian side...

Priceless. A $400 notebook that has a $600 screen. Oh my eyes (gouge, gouge)

Thanks for the heads up Mark—you folding machine :) Congrats on the 3M mark

A guy I know—about six months ago—probably best characterised as a true ocker, self made man, was talking to me about selling his home in Port Macquarie (on the river) in the next few years, before rising see levels (or the clear threat of them) made the property worthless.

My first reaction to hearing about that ad, was that environmental issues must be more important to the voters than either major political party in Aus gives credit. However, without knowing how many people contributed, I'm not sure that my first reaction holds water.

Yeah! They're building gigantic nuclear reactors in Siberia, and it's melting the polar ice cap. <dons aluminium foil hat>

Except for the 1/2 closest to Russia...

Mark the prophet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6995999.stm http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Arctic_ice_levels_at_record_low_opening_Northwest_Passage

Died the lingering death of BadCaps. I'm going to try resurrecting it this weekend with my 1337 soldering skills :rofl:

:) Truly, our responsibility to spread the Gospel of the Gnu is weighty. Cleave to what is good. Remember the words the prophet Stallman brought down from the Mount MIT, graved in Lisp on tablets of crystalline lambda calculus. Only this true: Emacs is pure. All else is false. Do not be misled...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42472 more connectors: slim-line, micro and multi-lane. NCQ prioritisation and NCQ unload—The idiot has dropped the laptop so flush the caches before we hit the ground and everything is toast—umm, before the drive heads park.

Resolves to www.microsoft.com :) Saw this on the UF boards (user friendly). Apparently, some MS minion has a sense of humour. linux% host thesource.ofallevil.com thesource.ofallevil.com is an alias for www.microsoft.com. www.microsoft.com is an alias for toggle.www.ms.akadns.net...

Bringing back the "old threads" is good because it tends to keep relevant information together, and reduces "thread clutter", making searching easier

Not until the price/GB is similar to mechanical HDD

128 GB SSD review on Tech Report. Only $4 600. :puke-r: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/13163

Black William Bonney

This should be colon, left bracket, right bracket.

Yes. This may prove informative http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/221745-29-core-temperature-guide /I feel so dirty... Actually, I believe that THG, after years in the wilderness, is on the improve /I still feel so dirty... :) Would this be a frog smiley? :()

Tell us what you really think :)

The conclusion should be obvious http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/seagate-vs-corsair.html

Otherwise you'll fly around in circles? :) Sorry, couldn't resist. Back on topic, yep Howard caught Bush disease -> Stupidity, and was promptly shown up by a teenager...

We have had Acer desktops (Veritons) at work for about 8 years, through three iterations–P!!!-800, P4 1.6, Pentium D 820. Rock solid (25 000+ units). Dell briefly won the tender during the 1.6 -> 820 transition, but the failure rate in service was so high, the contract was negated and we went...

Sh!te! I didn't know I had until I read your post... Congrats to Coug as well

Poor network performance http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=83112 ..."Network throughput appears to be locked between 5% and 10% of line capacity when audio files are being played or even when they're paused. The problem apparently afflicts video playback, as well, and no amount of...

Barcelona (AMD next gen) is scheduled for a Sept. 10 launch, but this is server only. It was originally slated for July 22, then Aug 22 and now Sep. Slippage is bad. The desktop version was slated for Nov. 10. It may slip as well. Intel have just announced Penryn (current Core 2 follow-on)...

Why? As in why bother with that many nicks?

Most NDAs lifting on a Monday do so ~16:00 Aus EST (GMT +10), which is about 1:40 from this post. I'd expect the announcements then.

I like Exact Audio Copy for ripping and conversion http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Postcardware

Sounds like too many drugs to me... :rotfl:

52X the original CD spec (Red book/Orange book??) of 150KB ps ~ 7.8MB ps

Cd is an oft abused term. You should probably use cdA (A = area). For two vehicles with nominally similar cd, this looks good on paper, but if one is a mini-car and the other is AN SUV, the SUV will have much more drag to overcome == more fuel, which mean more power == larger power plant...

Agreed. Well worth multiple reads to pick up some of the nuances, though my Panther early 70's edition is looking a bit ratty. Not as bad as this one though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Roger_Zelazny_Lord_of_Light_Panther.png

..."It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps...

:( Data integrity error Double :(

Good Lord, what has Mourn done? :o PS3? Corporate net? Go you good thing! http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=58681

So far, the downward facing fans cooling the motherboard better being better appears to be a myth. ..." We have tried to keep an open mind about the supposed advantages of down-facing fans. The arguments and logic are persuasive - a fan or fans blowing down should also cool your motherboard...

Thanks for the heads up Mark

Coug, I'm feel sorry about the loss of points, but that was one funny post.

What Will said ;) Congratulations

Congrats Fushigi. Awesome milestone.

Saw Blood Diamond on DVD. Much better than I expected. My wife was put off somewhat by the violence (it was her choice of movie), but thought it was good too. Leonardo's Zimbabwean accent was a bit fake, but it was much better than movies where the lead doesn't even attempt an accent... My...

Can you post a link Coug?

Yep. Penryn, Wolfdale et.al. Actually, Intel quad core chips will have 12MB cache as they are still 2 cores on one die. Barcelona > Wolfdale? Will depend on workload and the clock speed AMD can deliver. In 4S/8S configs, Barcelona all the way. Barcelona will be doable in 8S as well.

I enjoyed it, but not as much as the first two. More action, less comedy I guess. It was long, but I didn't find myself sitting there going "When is this going to end?", like I did in Face Off. I will say that the SFX were absolutely top-notch. Better than just about anything I've so far...

Hmm. Those July 22 price cuts seem judiciously well timed...

Left-handed spanner? Ghost has a forensic mode, but I don't see how a cable could. It's just wires that transmit electricity.

:eek:

I wonder if you can overclock them... :D /joke

For quad cores, I think the larger L2 will be a huge boost. On another note, The Inq is saying that Barcelona will ship mid/end of August http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40465 That would be the server version. Every roadmap I've seen has stated desktop availability 3 months...