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:cheers: Impressive SD

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/25inch-hdd-5400.html http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/mobile-ata/index.x?pg=1

Send some of that rain our way. We are on our third year of (continuous) water restrictions due to not enough rain and inept government forward planing.

I just checked and we seem to be only folding half the workload as we were in December :( Join, join up, fold for the greater good! <insert spurious Incredibles quote> Lucius: You tell me where my suit is, woman! We are talking about the greater good! Honey: 'Greater good?' I am your wife! I'm...

I guess http://www.eaglecamera.com/

That sounds incestuous :eekers: :mrgrn: Hey Cleetus, git over here!

Seagate ships DOS with every drive? :D Need to up the medication methinks...

Cantankerous and curmudgeonly in my old age you young whipper snapper! Well it was either drool or you've been spilling coffee on your keyboard again. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a hardware fault. :D Sorry! Just joking.

Stop droooolliinngg in the keyboard and the problem will go away ;) :mrgrn:

In my hunting around for laptops, I've come across HP and DELL laptops with Core Duo's for AUD$2000, though I get the impression that most here think of both brands as crud. Smaller HDD though.

Syriana. Hard going at first, but worth it. Comments. Agreed with brocksilvey http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365737/usercomments

How resistant to skipping are notebook DVD players? Are they worse or the same as the portable DVD players?

I have seen some rather large static charges build up on vacuum cleaner wands/nozzles—of course this is dependent upon what floor covering is used, shoe soles worn and a raft of other factors. Not sure if you want to take the chance...

Could it possibly be just incompatibility with the KingMax memory? The K8NS runs fine with a 3200+ (single core) in it—with Corsair Value Select Memory.

I am not sure that passenger vehicles are the first use priority. I'd expect heavy lifting vehicles (rockets) are the first target. I also expect that after much more research is done, prototypes built, early production examples, the odd crash etc. that the velocity needed for a functioning...

I hear you as well. I William Stephen Campbell, same as my father, who was named after his fathers brother, also a William Stephen Campbell. Couldn't vote for ten years because the Electoral office thought it was dodgy—my and my fathers birthday are separated by 3 days, lived at the same...

:rofl: Awesome!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?s=8f1a4d415093bf610bc9328bbdf6c743&p=1362163&postcount=13

My wife wants an in-car/portable DVD player to keep the kids amused. I started thinking that perhaps a notebook could do double duty. Has anybody investigated this? What I would need is a light laptop that could fold the screen flat (180 degrees) and had good battery life 3 hrs +. Ideally...

'Tis a Gigabyte—K8NS Ultra 939. Strangely enough, it is is stable with a single core 3200+ in it, but definitely not stable with a 3800+ X2. I am going to try other monitoring software.

HyShot IV launched today http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,18655222-31037,00.html HyShot III got close to Mach 8 under scram jet power

Or an insignificant dust mote on a platter?

Liam. A fine name! :)

This should make the resident Good Cop/Bad Cop duo—you know who I mean, dont you T and M ;)—happy. The rumour is Samsung to buy WD http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30619 :eekers:

I Tannin, you know how to make me feel all warm and fuzzy. I hope they've improved, or I get lucky. Not going to hold may breath.

Yeah, I didn't want to touch Asrock 'cause as our 1337 friends would say (about ASUS), "teh r the major suck!!!!". But I needed a Socket A board, and they were the only one I could find new (AU$65.00), like $40.00 in real money, and I didn't have any major issues with it (apart from the sucky...

I have had a string of bad luck lately hardware wise, but this has enabled me to compare/notice a few things because I've had to swap hardware around while diagnosing. I have three ATi video cards and one NVIDIA. Old GeForce (2, 4) cards were pretty crap at 1024x960 on a DVNF 19" Trinitron...

High? I think they want to inflict DRM upon us. I can see why media companies want DRM, but they are taking away the de facto usage consumers have been used to for the past 30 years.

Ever seen the movie Pitch Black? Vin Diesel? Now you know what hundreds of kilometeres around Woomera looks like. Though faintly radioavtive courtesy of the British.

HyShot III http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18601001-421,00.html 2 Million dollar crater.

Hmm, replaced a Zalman 400W with an Antec SmartPower 350W, and the 5V rails show the same fluctuations between 2V and 5.5V. The +12V, and +3.3V rails are flat as. Motherboard voltage regulators on the blink?

I ran chkdsk over all the disks last night and they didn't report any errors. However, a week ago, my 3 year old switched the machine off and it hosed my C: drive. I had to do a repair job on Windows, and it went right back to the install screen at the next boot. Chkdsk also reported a lot of...

Meh! is, are... :oops:

I always run Speedfan. Just checked the voltages. There is two +5V being logged??? Anyhoo, both of them are averaging 4V, anywhere between 3.5V and 6V. The fluctuations are quite steep. I'll check with another PS and get back to you.

Thanks guys. I knew that F@H produced the odd error, but it is a little more frequent than that. The XP 1600+ I had (150MHz == 1800+) only produced an error every odd week. The A64 3200+ I've had going since last week, has been running at 2.2Ghz, 2.3GHz and now 2.4 GHz and has yet to produce...

How many passes of Memtest x86 (3.2) would people consider necessary before ruling out memory issues? My X2 is starting to give errors in F@H, where I'm getting Error 72, which research indicates is memory related. The machine has not been overclocked for weeks. BIOS settings are standard, or...

Mark, you have the patience of a saint. But what makes you think that the little light bulb will actually light up on their end?

Thanks Merc, Buck. I asked the question after Tony mentioning "activation"—hack, gag, spit—and after being at a Sun workshop (server consolidation) last week where it appeared to work quite well. BTW, can any Joe purchase XP Corporate edition? That doesn't need activation—hack, gag, spit.

How good or bad is openOffice at opening and saving MS Office documents? Anybody have any recent experience?

The Tempest was a much better fighter

Bah! Overrated! :mrgrn:

Can you make your CF card in that adapter Read-only—if your not using the Smoothy box as a proxy?

Rackable? And I'd agree with Sol, you might want to investigate a 256KB Sempron—should be cheaper than the VIA, but I'm not sure how small a form factor you can get. Damn fine little boxes you're building there in any case. Keep us updated.

David, I'm assuming this is for a client, why not re-use some of their existing machines and use the money for other upgrades? Are you worried about reliability? Are you using them as transparent proxies? VPN? What other services have you/will you turn on. If they are just firewalls, the...

I'm hearing good things about Galactic Civizations II. They've ditched copy protection as well. GOD/Strategy game for those interested.

Maybe MS are finding the same things as you Merc. Seems it has now slipped to Q1 2007. Who'da thunk? http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=183701609

Actually, that's not strictly true. Once I logged in to SF on IE, I see a bluish tint to all SF pages rendered in IE versus FF. What I meant was, if you take the slight bluish look/tint away, then they appear to render the same.

What did you use? I just tried viewing it in IE and FF and noticed no difference.

When I read the title, I thought of this: http://www.mp3.com/features/stories/3646.html DRM protection software acts like a software vampire on your battery life. Saw the link on The Inq.

We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline... and so on and so forth... Machine Head was probably the second or third album (not CD!) I bought, right after Come Taste the band and either before or after Stormbringer :eekers: