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How many people here understand the difference between the budget and the borrowing limit? What is happening here is that after months of argument, Congress finally passed the budget in April for the year that ends in September. :roll: It's now August, obviously the money is well and truly...

I suspect you're right. But in any case, surely the current leadership failure is within the Republican members of Congress? They appear to be a split party, something I feared when party leaders started embracing the Tea Party, despite the latter being radicals rather than conservatives.

The politics of envy. Isn't that the Tea Party angle, that just because some people are smarter and better educated, we don't want them to make decisions for us? Isn't that pretty much like telling your accountant that just because they have qualifications and specialized experience, you don't...

Yes, voltage is the killer. For the same architecture and configuration: (4.3GHz / 3.5GHz) * (1.325V / 1.1V)² = 78% more power

This is probably going to upset a few people, so I put it in its own thread. IMO, it's a pretty good summation of how the rest of the world views the US right now. The author is a former senior Australian government minister. An ungovernable America is on its knees and all of us will suffer

Thanks Pradeep, I'd noticed the far superior color gamut, but not the bit of bastardry with the 6-bit color panel. And H-IPS vs E-IPS is a giveaway. Previously, Dell also offered the smaller, 16:9 U2311. It had just two things going for it: it was cheap and it had wider viewing angles than a TN...

I'm not sure you read my post all that well? The Chinese lead the world in that a) they have already built a decently sized one (about 600m across) and b) their projections for one of comparable SIZE are about 1/10th that of this charlatan's. Efficiency - i.e. the percentage of solar energy...

The Chinese are building one about the same size or slightly bigger, which they expect to produce about 27MW, not 200MW. They have already built a proof-of-concept unit that is the current record holder with 200kW. This, and another project in Namibia, are hoping to harvest about 10W/m²; the...

The GizMag article cites a radius of several hundred metres and an 800-metre-high tower, so the area is at least 20 times too small. That's backed up by the relatively low (50kW) output from the smaller Spain prototype in the 1980's.

Okay, I hadn't realized how weak the US dollar is, so I can see how the U2410 would be over $500. Best price here is US$521 (excluding tax), the U2711 is US$628 (ex tax).

Does that mean that the U2410 is >$500 in the US? It's obviously a better monitor than the P2412. Mind you, I can get the U2711 for a whisker over US$600 (excluding tax), so that makes the U2410 a relatively poor bargain.

At this stage I'd settle for individuals maintaining their own. That's a big enough challenge, apparently.

Well, you would have had to re-register at SR (because everyone was blown away). Plus, you would have had to register from scratch here. Does that mean you're confused again?

Impostor! What have you done with the real CougTek? He would have said, "I would reattach the labels with my hammer and contact the manufacturer, explaining why this is a problem".

I initially skipped Funambol because I thought you had to run your own server, but it looks like you can use the MyFunambol portal. There's supposed to be a community-supported plugin for Thunderbird, but when I looked closer, it hasn't worked since Thunderbird 3 was released and the last...

Rest assured, you are not the only one!

I'd love to be able to answer that, but first Google would have to care enough to tell me. I can't see any impediment to my creating a txt record; their control panel supports it and they also offer direct text editing anyway. Perhaps the problem lies with Google being unable to read it? As I...

Home or small business use. I'm also raising the question whether anyone has seen paid antivirus software achieve much in the last few years. It's occurred to me that I probably get far better results from free tools like ComboFix.

I forgot the most important part: no Gmail. More accurately, I'm looking to add contact sync to a non-Gmail IMAP service. That is, if a user adds a contact in Thunderbird or Outlook, it should automatically be available on their smartphone when they're out and about. I realize that Exchange...

Anyone have something positive to say about unfree antivirus software, eg "it detected and removed the rootkit within minutes"? In other words, any evidence that a particular product is worth the money? I guess something that doesn't turn an i7 into a Pentium 4 would be worth knowing about as well.

I need a Plan B. Specifically, a service to automatically sync contacts between smartphones and desktop email clients (preferably Thunderbird, ideally Outlook as well). It can be one-way, eg. desktop is always the master, but I need it to work with both iPhones and Androids. All suggestions...

Well, this IS going well. I managed to transfer domain name hosting to a different provider, which by necessity is MelbourneIT.com.au. That took a couple of days and a couple of hours on the phone. I then signed up for Google Apps for Business, reached the Verify Domain stage, told it I didn't...

There are definitely some people who simply represent too great a risk to society to ever be freed. I think capital punishment is a rational choice in those cases, even humane. The perpetrator of the Norwegian massacre clearly falls into that category. BUT, capital punishment has been abused in...

For completeness, a short PDF from Kingston that explains memory ranks.

Kingston compatibility list Kingston 1GB DDR at NewEgg (they don't have any compatible 2x1GB kits) I don't know what the first one on the NewEgg list actually is (KVR400/1GR). Assuming it really is KVR series, I guess it might be a Retail package version of the KVR400X64C3A/1G.

Tony was the main driving force that kicked this whole thing off. His first group email was at 2:45am on January 10, 2002 local time, which of course was late afternoon on January 9 in the US. It's quite lengthy and he outlined several possible ways forward. He also suggested that Clocker would...

Wow, that's incredibly valuable information. Thanks Merc.

Greg, I thought you said you replaced the motherboard with a $60 Asus model? Are you using the original CPU that you had suspicions about, or the replacement one that you got from somewhere? The Gigabyte board that you've listed comes up fine in the compatibility databases of both Corsair and...

I don't know which motherboard you have.

Did you check the Corsair compatibility lists to see if your motherboard qualified? If not, you're just wasting everyone's time, especially your suppliers'.

With a stick in the first slot, did you try a second in all of the remaining 3 slots? There's a risk when buying new RAM for old motherboards/CPUs; there are lots of different configurations and timings that aren't revealed on retail price lists. There's also a risk when working with older...

What Lunar said. For future reference, I've replicated what I said in the P & B thread: Both those utilities can be configured to display drive temperature in the tray. According to TaskManager, HDDScan shrinks to only about 2MB (under 32-bit Windows) when it's minimized to the tray. It can...

Both those utilities can be configured to display drive temperature in the tray. According to TaskManager, HDDScan shrinks to only about 2MB (under 32-bit Windows) when it's minimized to the tray. It can display temperatures for multiple drives at once: just start a temperature monitoring task...

Definitive. And also depressing.

Does anyone have any regrets?

That erudite post is why you're the demigod and I'm just a choirboy. Cheers, Doug. :tgif:

Talk <> actual products. More's the pity. Splash, you're a 5-star premium member. Any chance of persuading your brethren to visit here A LOT more often? Forget D. Adams, you're stuck here, son.

And that's what I'm after. 1. Waste my time fiddling about with the MX record to satisfy Google. 2. Migrate each user, one at a time (we're talking up to 20GB of email per user), probably with forwarding from the existing email server 3. Go live by changing the MX record to point to Google...

Sorry, I missed this follow-up. You obviously didn't read this thread. Was there a definitive outcome to all this kerfuffle?

Erogenous?

I take it no-one has an answer to how a Gmail migration is supposed to be seamless? To recap, the Fastmail solution is to enable you to use their service BEFORE the domain change goes live; therefore you can build it a piece at a time and then just change the MX record. Does this mean that...

That was my point: they don't need this until you actually point the MX record to them, so WTF? In my case, that's a PITA I didn't need. In fact, I couldn't overcome it at short notice, so I've put the user on a free Gmail account for now until I can resolve this. Which screwed the user around...

I assume you mean Zindus? :)

So both the laptop and the HTPC are showing really low results, even next to the WAP? Perhaps you have interference problems? I mean, what are the odds of two sucky Linksys modems ... :p

Great, now you can feel sorry for me instead: Up: 812 kb/s Down: 7228 kb/s SNR: 14 dB Attenuation: 45 dB

Greg, that's a fair distance with an obstacle, so I can't be certain, but ... I tried it here with both G and N routers in different locations, and didn't drop below 50Mb/s unless I got a lot more than a plaster wall perpendicular to the transmission. Things collapsed to 26Mb/s when I managed...

That's a great price (TVs are one of the things that Aussies have to bend over to buy). I was going to suggest Sony to you, but I'm no longer familiar with the models and you were too quick for me. I persuaded my neighbor to buy a Sony 55" LCD because a) they were using the same panels as...

I'm driven to this because more than 10 years after bug reports were raised, Thunderbird still can't update LDAP address books, which is all that FastMail offers. Against the odds, has anyone found a workaround for Thunderbird, the moribund email client that even as we speak, has leaped from...

I'm a bit fed up (again) trying to get useful information out of Google's web pages. I want to migrate a domain to GoogleApps, subject to these requirements: * Existing email is POP3, so I'll be relying on IMAP to upload existing emails. * Web interface will be secondary, so connection to...

What's the distance and what's the wall made of? Also, I assume you have the router reasonably high up, and that you're more or less facing toward it with the laptop?