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Yes, the return of the single head drive - the last one of those I remember was the Quantum Fireball 540MB. So they're short-stroking a 500GB surface down to 250GB. The applications are all DVR, so it sounds like some OEMs are insisting on drive capacity being no more than 250 or 320GB. Part of...

Unfortunately, IMAP drag and drop was almost unusable for me with Outlook 2010. Fortunately, Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook sort of worked okay - it handled two levels of folders in most cases but not in others. It's not difficult to fix in the Gmail web interface, but it's a manual...

I need to correct this - the tray icon only appears while Outlook is running. The documentation is correct, although when I set it to keep 2GB locally, I found the PST file was actually 8GB!

Classy.

Could that explain why the Intel utility wouldn't let you create RAID 1?

Wow, any clues yet?

8 minute demo video. It gets more interesting after the first couple of minutes.

Can I quote you on that in years to come? :) I predict that the only place that Apple will get serious legal traction against Samsung is the US. No-one else has such corrupt patent law. Of course, Samsung also has some prior art: Founded 1938, entered electronics industry in late 1960's...

Hmmm, interesting. I wonder what's actually shipping? Probably the 20-pin header, because the review is dated 30th August 2011. Here's the review. The first picture shows the case with a 20-pin header plug attached.

SOLVED Unfortunately, all the documentation is hopelessly out of date - there is no tray icon with the current version, and no option to increase mailbox size in the Outlook plugin or if you launch the program manually. I'm hoping the registry fix will do the job.

I assume both drives are connected to 3Gbps ports rather than 6Gbps ports, and that your SSD is connected to a 6Gbps port? Does the Intel software only work if the second drive is unpartitioned? Is the Intel software incapable of mirroring an active boot drive? Hopefully someone else can fill...

So I've connected Outlook with the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook MAPI plugin, but I can't get it to display emails in custom folders. Specifically, the upload process has created a folder (label) called Outlook.pst, and only a handful of emails appeared in the folders underneath it...

By wearing a crash helmet? Pretty sure they didn't understand the risks at all. It's the careless way they increasingly acted that inspired my comment. Would you skylark around a 100ft dive? I was just waiting for two of them to try launching together. I couldn't believe it when they continued...

Yeah, I was thinking of the inevitable spinal injuries. Pretty dumb.

I disagree, Lunar. Apart from hotswap bays, that arrangement looks far easier to change drives - especially 2.5" drives. CougTek, you're mistaken; the USB 3.0 ports end in a 20-pin header plug:

According to a related FAQ on their site, Vonage says you can just plug a fax into the existing phone port - so you don't need a separate line. Presumably, their V-Portal adapter has T.38 support switched on by default - in VOIP routers like my Draytek it's an option in the configuration. DD, I...

Westinghouse hasn't made anything for more than 30 years. The brand is licensed to whoever pays to use it. For TVs, that's a company that named themselves "Westinghouse Digital LLC". They were, or still are, under bankruptcy protection. The company lost a court case regarding breach of GPL...

That calculator still exaggerates in several ways. For instance, it claims that an IDE drive needs 19W. Speaking of which, Mubs, didn't you mean SATA? The calculator says 10W each for those. I wouldn't be worried about startup current. It's typically 2A, so even without staggering, a dozen...

SOLVED My copy of Thunderbird said version 6.0 and insisted there were no further updates, but I noticed that the website download version is 6.01. I disabled the poxy automatic update, downloaded 6.01 manually and ran the install, and everything now works again. Version reported is 6.01. I'll...

Thanks Howell, but disabling the firewall didn't make any difference. It looks like an SSL problem, except for the fact that I can happily switch a different account to use SSL witout any drama.

Whoops, I forgot the other thing that's changed: Also, when I try to setup another Gmail account in Thunderbird, it fails while trying to lookup the Mozilla email configuration database.

I have Thunderbird configured to connect to a Gmail account through IMAP. Everything has been fine for several weeks, but suddenly I get popup messages: I can still access my various other IMAP email accounts without any problem. I can use IMAP + SSL on my phone to access that Gmail account...

Sorry, I'm mistaken, the M305 takes a single AA as well. If you've had yours a couple of years, I'd suspect the desktop set might be the MK300 rather than the MK320. The mouse included with that took 2x AA.

Just a point of clarification: the Logitech MK320 desktop set comes with the little M305 mouse (AFAIK), whereas the MK520 desktop includes the larger (and IMO far superior) M310 mouse. Still not a big mouse, but not teeny either. Small downside is the M305 takes a single AAA battery but the...

MSY at Fyshwick has the A4 Tech G7-600NX-1 V-Track Padless Wireless Mouse. I had very good luck with the better A4 Tech mice a few years ago, and these look well worth a try at just $24 each.

Just in case I misunderstood, if you want a corded mouse, I don't believe you can go past a SteelSeries Kinzu for $30 or so. Excellent quality and feel. I'm a lot less enthusiastic about cheaper Logitechs.

You didn't say how much you wanted to spend, or what size and weight you preferred. Here's a selection from the Logitech range - there are more expensive options. The 5xx series add extra buttons. My advice is to avoid the slightly cheaper 305/505 models - they're a little too small. The...

The update is a PITA (bootable CD + toggling between AHCI and IDE) but there is no data loss.

Will, check your insurance contract yourself - don't rely on what someone told you over the phone. Policies are probably different between the US and Australia, but certainly storm damage is covered here, eg. tree falls on house. There is a specific exclusion for flooding from watercourses, but...

Awesome update! Results at TheSSDReview confirm about 20% improvement in read performance across the board. I'd definitely apply this to new drives, but frankly the older ones I've deployed have been fast enough already, and - touch wood - I've yet to see any problems.

And when the PC is off or asleep ... ? Here's a tip: if you really want to minimize dust incursion, don't have fans sucking air into the case. The concentrated negative pressure that creates is just a scaled down vacuum cleaner, i.e. a dust magnet. If you must have intake fans, make them spin...

Also, just a minor point about that Gigabyte motherboard: presumably you're restricted to a single monitor - normally the DVI port can be used for a second display, it's a feature of Sandy Bridge IGP. Nothing that can't be solved with a graphics card, of course.

I have some reservations about the case, but you may not be able to do much better. Firstly, I suspect that the single front USB 3.0 port is terminated with a USB 3.0 female 'A' plug that you're supposed to pass through the back and plug into the rear panel. That means you can only use 2 of the...

That's an obsolete socket 1156 motherboard. Here's the page for the DZ68DB, which is a recent socket 1155 motherboard. You will see that only the most basic server/workstation CPU does not include IGP and all desktop CPUs have it.

2.5" form factor for starters. Aren't Seagate and Hitachi the main enterprise drive manufacturers?

Why wouldn't they just use DRAM as normal?

There's never been a need for separate chipsets to support embedded graphics - obviously, you don't use it if you don't need it. But since the advent of Sandy Bridge, it's become particularly pointless because regardless of which motherboard chipset, the IGP is in every single CPU anyway. This...

I actually timed a Z68MA-D2H-B3 about a few weeks back and did not see any delay. It took 60 seconds from power on to cessation of disk activity, and only 30 seconds when the drive was changed to an SSD. POST was 15-17 seconds of that. So it must be something you're doing. :) Of course, it...

An HDMI to DVI cable will work just fine; stop stressing. :)

Eh? Which one? Buckling spring keyboards sure as hell ain't quiet. Neither are most Cherry MX switch keyboards for that matter. Sol, the DAS use MX Blue for clicky and MX Brown for 'silent' - not MX Black, which is a different feel altogether. And in case anyone missed it, the "Professional"...

Yes, that's what "they" meant. :) Dirty tricks are on the cards. Be prepared.

People here are undoubtedly aware that rather than compete, Apple has decided to pay an army of lawyers instead. They're particularly anxious about Samsung's latest offerings, the Galaxy II phone and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. The Galaxy Tab seems to give them the most heartburn, perhaps...

I guess you didn't read Mercutio's earlier posts on this saga. The fact that they're being maliciously sued (no grounds) and have been refused all compensation should put anyone on guard. Merc, I'd suggest to your boss that you beef up security. Physical security is best, but do you have some...

That's peak power. :p The user manual says 15+15W RMS or 30W RMS mono. Manufacturers have a habit of of hooking these DC products up to a big-assed bench power supply when they take their measurements, rather than the weedy wall wart they bundle with the product. The user manual gives the game...

Do you mean a compatibility dialog? Possibly. I can't be clearer because so far I've done all this over the phone. :(

I'm suspicious that this has something to do with C drive being created by an imaging program, specifically CMS Bounceback. That is, I think it was cloned from an original Windows installation on a different drive. So I'm wondering if there might be something screwy with either folder or...

I don't know if this is any help, but I wouldn't rule out using Windows 2000 if you can lay your hands on a CD. There's no activation on Windows 2000 - you can install it anywhere.

Client with Windows 7 SP1 64-bit is trying to install some software that needs to install Visual C++ 2005 and Visual C++ 2008 SP1 redistributables in both x86 and x64 versions. VC2008 fails with: Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC90.ATL,version=...

Ah, now I understand - I was thinking that was only to sync contacts. Thanks Dave. MaxBurn, does that mean you connected with POP3?

Yep, and also TightVNC.