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I'm happy to take his money: it's a GDI printer. That would be why there is no chance of a 64-bit driver. Actually, I suspect there isn't really one for 32-bit either - it's most probably a mistake.

Fixed URL: XEROX Phaser 3300MFP/X

Greg, I know you're attached to your printer - most of us here appreciate good machinery - but please consider taking advantage of the current Xerox promo and pick up one of [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828118544]these[/url] before the end of the month for $270 (I don't...

You didn't click on the 64-bit tab ... It's not on Xerox's list of Windows 7-compatible printers (pdf).

Yeah, it's pretty clear that at least half the voters who deserted the ALP went to KAP. Despite denials, my belief is that their 'brand' is well and truly trashed. I'm now expecting a bloodbath at the upcoming Brisbane City Council elections. For our American cousins, the result we're talking...

What other kind is there? Are you confusing the term "sealed" with captive or "cartridge" bearings? That has nothing to do with resistance to moisture penetration. In any case, I can't see how there could ever be a problem unless you are in the habit of riding your bike underwater.

Okay, it seems to me that I need to set up a clean base install, activate it and keep that as a master. Then copy it each time I want to create another VM configuration. I'm hoping this won't trigger another activation. Does that sound right? I assume that the physical BIOS is not accessible...

The video is black for me too. If I look outside - yep, it's still black. Not yet midnight there though; Western Australia is GMT+8, or 2-3 hours behind the east coast of Australia (depending on whether or not the area respects daylight saving).

What about Windows 7 (Professional or Ultimate)? I used the word "tricks" deliberately, in that I'm wondering if there's any way to minimize the number of licenses required when hosted on the same physical device, eg sequence of activations etc. Ddrueding: Unfortunately, I want the VMs to...

Does anyone have any practical licensing tricks for someone without a current MSDN subscription? That is, how do you create multiple VMs without incurring the wrath of the licensing gods? Notice I didn't say use "VM" in the title because you can't search on a 2-character word. ;)

Wow! I've heard of c..a..r..s. Does that mean if I want to drive a car, I need to join a cartel?

I've heard of a new technology called "shoes" that might help in your situation. There's a specific example that is sold as "slippers" that I believe is a popular product around the home.

Coug, you have far too much faith in 'testing web sites' for your own good. Surely this isn't the same false positive that was reported nearly a year ago? Normally, I'd say report it to the publisher and a fix should be available fairly quickly, but I believe G Data is a 'multi-engine'...

A-RAM Turbo 3 benchmarks As I said, random writes suck, but sequential access and copying seem pretty decent. Does anyone have other AS-SSD Copy benchmark results for comparison?

Good pickup, at least someone took the time to check (I didn't :oops: ). Your motherboard uses something of a bastard child from the Marvell range: 88SE6102 PATA controller. There is no specific driver available for this chip; you have to use a generic driver for a number of Marvell chips, most...

That would be a great explanation, except isn't AHCI only available with SATA drives?

Since you changed the cable and ditched the DVD drive, are the drive options in your BIOS setup any different? Rather than System Devices, look under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. There would normally be an entry for the ATA controller, followed by one each for the primary and secondary IDE...

These statements are mutually exclusive. Assuming the first is true, pull the DVD drive and check its jumper settings. As BBB said, if it's set to Master, change the WD drive to Slave; if it's set to Slave, change the WD drive to Master. However, my preference is that the WD should be the Master...

AFAIK smaller displacement per cylinder = flatter torque curve, i.e. it extends higher up the rev range. Larger displacement per cylinder results in a bigger torque peak in the low to mid rpm range, but it's a ski slope rather than flat. A 1500cc 4-cylinder engine is definitely not peaky. And...

In the spirit of the Grammar Police ... should be: Subject vs Object. HTH. ;)

I was allowing 70% efficiency, so 20W DC sounds reasonable. But that's less than 5% load. This review of the 650W version of the EarthWatts Platinum tests down to 40W (look for "Efficiency at Low Loads"). Your configuration would be proportionately worse; I'd guess as low as 60% (it's a...

My understanding is that Intel 'HD' graphics is not materially different from 'HD 2000' graphics - only 'HD 3000' has significantly improved 3D capabilities. Apart from useless features that either don't make any difference or that no-one uses, the Pentiums aren't supported by Intel's fancy...

Exactly, that's why I suggested "the next step" (in a sequence). Probably short for "it follows then", which means implies. You could argue that time is still the domain because the imputation is not symmetric: A implies B so you have to make the case for A before deducing B, i.e. B follows A.

I'll pay that. :)

This configuration will pull about 30W from the wall socket at idle. Efficiency of the midrange 450W PSU will be poor because it's loaded well below 10% of it's rated maximum. You would be far better off with a SeaSonic SS-300ET. Even though I know you're trying to ensure it's quiet, the CPU...

Your explanation was pretty good, Coug. Handy's was a bit dubious: "then" isn't a unit and "than" isn't an operator. :) "Then" is a conjunctive adverb that usually means the next step. "Back then" reverses it to refer to a previous point in time. "Than" is a subordinating conjunction used to...

Thanks Doug, that's gold. I would never have guessed that.

I don't like this Quick Post crap. :oops: You can disregard that post because it was only a draft while I checked the numbers. I think Micron managed to improve from 3,000 to 5,000, ultimately making Intel's specs correct. I was thinking of 3-bit MLC, where cycles are said to be as low as 1,000...

Isn't it already worse than 2,000 cycles? the previous generation was only 3,500 (unless the same chips are in an Intel drive, in which case they magically improve to 5,000 cycles :p ).

Maxburn, I strongly recommend selecting 'Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them' under Options - Update. On the other hand, add-ons need to be automatically updated or you guarantee them falling behind the insane update cycle that the manic POS inflicts on its users.

Meh. Some lawyers (and politicians) are trying to find scapegoats for a natural disaster. According to them, water releases from the dam may have been less than prescribed by the 'operating manual' for about 32 hours. Fucking semantics, they would have had to start releasing a week beforehand to...

It's crunch time for me, I have to decide between WD and Seagate. Samsung is gone and there are no suitable Hitachi drives available. So should I go for the devil or the deep blue sea? WD WD20EARX 5400rpm unknown mS $123-$132 (WD doesn't like to reveal specifications - customers might get the...

You didn't have a chimney?

I just discovered A-RAM. I picked up one of these to try. Note the use of SLC flash. The 4kB random writes are still terrible (that's on FAT32 with 8kB clusters and Windows write caching disabled), but medium stuff (512kB blocks) seemed pretty good. I saw about 90% of the claimed figures, i.e...

Yep. ;) Forgot to mention the example of "USB 3.0" - this also fails, presumably because both tokens are 3 characters. :(

BUG If you search for a short word, i.e. 3 letters, the software returns zero results. This includes acronyms such as "USB", "IBM", "FDA", etc. If you search for a 2-letter word, the software tells the user that it is too short. So there is a bug counting letters: either excluding 3 letters...

My current neighbors have his-and-hers Harleys.

Neither do I - when you buy that brand here you're buying some locally brewed muck with a Carlsberg brand stuck on it. Same goes for Heineken (who cares), Stella Artois (this pisses me off) and Kronenbourg (sob). No, we don't have better stuff down here, or at least, not from our foreign-owned...

I don't think that's Samsung's fault. I maintain that Google is incapable of releasing quality software - the OTA update for the Nexus S is still suspended after 3 months, with no word whatsoever on when it will resume. If Google can't even get it right for their own phone, there's not much that...

If an SSD can service 50,000 IO requests per second, that's 20 microseconds per request. A fast SSD can sustain (read) transfers of 500 MB per second for very large requests (eg 8 MiB), which works out to 16,000 microseconds each or 8 microseconds to transfer a single 4 kiB block. So the total...

If you didn't have to wait for it, you mightn't value it as much? OR Microsoft sucks. Take your pick.

1. Extract the HDDScan-3.3 folder from the downloaded zip file. You could put it under Program Files if you want to use it on an ongoing basis. 2. Double-click on the HDDScan.exe file, or create a desktop shortcut pointing to it and launch that. 3. Use the dropdown combo box to choose which...

So it's a bit like going back to the good ol' DOS days, where you had to buy and install your own menu system?

I'd never heard of anyone molesting a keyboard before. Is your mouse safe?

That's great, here's hoping it continues! Just checking, it can be easy to overlook. I guess that information adds another possible cause to the mix. Look for attributes such as "UltraDMA CRC Errors" and check that "Device Power Cycle Count" is not unexpectedly high (just compare your 3 drives).

It's not the number that bothers me so much, it's that the marketing department confused(?) a theoretical projection with actual failures - 100,000 to 150,000 hours for 50% failure would surely be a more realistic field life (i.e. 2.9% to 4.4% pA). And yeah, it can't be a Hitachi because it...

Here's a sample of the truth according to WD: "With a field-tested 2 million hour MTBF" :rofl:

My daughter and I have tried several keyboard apps, including SwiftKey, but have both independently ended up with Smart Keyboard. It's just way more customizable. We're both currently using the Compact Portrait mode (she found the option), which is similar to the layout on a Blackberry Pearl...

Best comment so far. :)

If only it were that easy, eh Doug?