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Newegg doesn't. Lots that come up in an Amazon search don't. FuturePowerPC does. Are they any good? What's inspired this is the grinding futility in trying to find components in Australia, let alone New Zealand. Or finding them, but having to pay 2 times as much as in the US. I was...

Wikipedia says LiamC is correct, although the roadmap also shows it may be 1st quarter 2012 ...

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I don't suppose you could save time and post a picture or diagram? It would save us the agony of trying to guess what you mean, eg. were you trying to use the remote to fix a wall socket behind your back?

It may surprise you to learn that there are different types of 'radiation'; lead is useful for X-rays and Gamma rays. You can bury your equipment, that's 100% effective. Conversely, the problem is many times worse in an airliner: Cosmic rays were recently suspected as a possible cause of a...

No, most are stopped by the atmosphere. You're confusing them with neutrinos. The cosmic rays don't travel a kilometer through the ice, they're stopped when they collide with atoms in the ice and give off "fleeting flashes of blue light" - that's what the detectors underneath the ice are...

Sorry, I looked it up and misread it - it seemed wrong but I was tired. Even at 900mA, the load is still more than 5 ohms. I'd be confident that even little wires have considerably less than 1 ohm resistance with such small lengths, so still nothing to worry about.

An odd couple indeed. This is a marriage between a marketing machine and an engineering shop, with the marketers calling all the shots. Just looking up specs highlights how opposite are the corporate cultures: Hitachi (née IBM) publishes just about every parameter you could wish for, while with...

Although the story has been inspired by Apple, the principle applies to all bricks and mortar retail outlets: $1 million bet that Apple will abandon 3rd party retail Original letter the story is based on Of course this is a publicity stunt, but for years I have questioned the future of much...

Interesting point, Lunar. USB 3.0 only officially increases current by 50% to 150mA, so it should be fine. Even Gigabyte's presumed 300mA or more should be okay. CougTek: Yeah, I worried about that, but it's hard to get Ddrueding's attention. ;)

Standard Windex contains ammonia and is absolutely NOT suitable for cleaning LCD screens. Once shouldn't kill it, but repeated applications introduce a slight cloudiness to the surface. Haven't you guys seen the results? Windex makes a different formulation for plastics: Windex Electronics...

Funny you should mention that, I'm trying to overcome my own allergy. Anything recent to reinforce that?

BTW, it manages okay without LED backlighting.

I ogled a Dell U2711 just the other day; it was pretty impressive. The U2410 next to it paled in comparison. Locally, you can get one for as little as $700. I really, really, really doubt that you can buy anything else anywhere near that good for that kind of money.

The specs claim it will take a cooler up to 167mm; the Atomic MPC article I linked says: "inside its mATX-compatible frame lies enough room for a 160mm-tall heatsink". Scythe lists the height of the Mugen-2 as 158mm. ;)

It really isn't practical or affordable for us to use our own hardware. Rack space at an ISP ain't cheap and they may not allow anyone onsite to maintain the hardware.

i.e. you were inadvertently trying to cast a SmallInt as a TinyInt. Out of curiosity, is the value 128 because it's part of a sequence for all possible poll options in the data? Cause on the face of it PhpBB is using a compound key of topic_id + poll_option_id instead. I guess it shouldn't...

Casting problem?

Doug, vBulletin upgrade pricing is $175 + $80/year for email support. I'm guessing that you've become increasingly unhappy about the product or the company over time?

Yep. At least one person on the second last page of that thread successfully converted from VB3.82 to phpBB3. HTH.

Why am I not surprised at your suggestion?

We're finally starting to see cases with USB 3.0 connectors on the front panel. Here are some really interesting microATX ones. Lian-Li PC-V352 31 liter Shoebox. 280mm depth when turned sideways as designed, 3x 3.5" HDD, slide out m/b tray. Like all Lian-Li it's expensive. Silverstone ML03...

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I've stopped bothering with it. It's just spam bundled up as a product. For CD/DVD mastering I just install ImgBurn. Far superior design and free.

Y.A.S.H. or possibly Y.A.S.H.F.A.H.P. Yet another Santilli Hijack fretting about his PC.

BounceBack does this for you. The only snag is that it insists on partitioning the backup drive first, after which you can just resize the boot partition and use the rest for your data. I set this up and tested it on a PC with a 120GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. BounceBack does not require a working...

For just the motherboard and part of the CPU, that sounds about right. :p You need a 5xxx chipset and they don't come cheap. The significance lies in the fact that you can't find any 8GB sticks that aren't registered. In practise, the ECC is a given once you walk down that (incompatible) path...

So why can't you build a server with an AMD X6 on an Asus M4A88TD-M/USB3 or M4A88TD-M EVO/USB3? Six cores, 6MB L3 cache, five or six SATA 3 (6.0Gb/s) ports, USB3, 16GB of ECC RAM - all in a microATX form factor for not much more than $500. Maybe half the price of an equivalent Xeon s1156...

Here's some definitive research that blows away some popular preconceptions regarding memory errors: a) Soft errors aren't that important after all, because hard errors and datapath errors are a couple of orders of magnitude more common than previously thought. :errr: That is, most of the...

So in the Intel world, if you want any kind of error checking/correction at all, you need a Xeon. If you want something better than simple single-bit ECC, you need a first generation i-Core socket 1366 system. Socket 1155 and 1156 won't cut it, so tough if you want second generation. If you...

Stargate Franchise Primer Stargate movie - B grade sci-fi with 2 leads: action man and geek. Stargate SG1 - team of 4 is sent through the stargate each episode to explore yet another new world. Action man has morphed into the wisecracking partner of a straight man (think Kirk + Spock) while...

I can't find the perfect charger, but looking around Oz at the moment, I can see Maha Powerex. This guy has really good refs on Whirlpool; I think he also gives a discount although I don't know where the code is. I can also see an Enecharger from Master Instruments which is somewhat cheaper (I...

Given that no-one here has even mentioned it, I presume that Stargate Universe doesn't appeal to your tastes? For what it's worth, after a slow start, it's the best SciFi drama I've ever seen. I suspect the complicated SciFi backdrop stops it appealing to a wider audience.

At 6 minutes to midnight, gold bullion might be a good idea for savings.

This is a serious question for thinking minds. :) We've all been raised on the principle that servers need error-checked RAM but client PCs don't. I've seen papers that point to a PC with 8GB RAM experiencing a soft error (due to cosmic rays at sea level) about once a day (some claim much more...

Jesus. Are you sure? I was planning on booting from a USB image as an emergency backup. This has worked when the drive is internal, but I need it to work when it's USB-connected.

Despite the constant promotion during the review, why on earth would anyone bother with it? It under-performs all Sandforce and Corsair on SATA 2, needing SATA 3 to open up any advantage. Even then, it fails to impress on some key benchmarks such as 'database'. :roll: I'd like to believe in a...

If true, I find that statement very depressing.

Well obviously they don't generate much heat with 500mA: 25mW in fact, if the battery is normal. But you're making it very difficult for the charger to detect the increase in the temperature delta and particularly the drop in the voltage delta. So your risk of overcharging at 0.25C is very...

Yes, that's where I was heading. C/6 is too slow for reliable -ΔV and probably even for Δtemp, and timers often rely on C/5, so I deduced Chewy must rely on trickle to finish the job. The trickle current in that style of charger is usually too high for maintenance charging, so you may have...

In a subtropical climate, self-discharge is probably running at 30% a month, so yes, Eneloops are still the ones to get. Anecdotally, you are more likely to be able to rely on Sanyo's capacity claims - especially with Eneloops - and traditional NiMH can lose 10% just in the first day, so you may...

Not that I take much notice of Passmark, but: Isn't 911 about the same as your newer CF-51? That's a T2500, right?

Movie Studios lose case against Australian ISP. Two courts down, one to go. I see that the studios went for straight entrapment while 'gathering evidence' against ISP customers. That is, they wanted action against people who took the 'stolen' stuff that the studio employees offered them.

If you're not going to install huge software like games, you should be able to make do with a 60GB SSD as your boot drive. Newegg has G.Skill for $118, Corsair and Patriot for $130 - all Sandforce drives. I just had a quick browse of the WCG-HCC forums. Given it's one of the few things that...

The review you linked says the GT440 pulled 81W at default clockspeed (like I said, +3% over NVidia standard). As I also said, I question their assumptions in arriving at that figure. I think it's far more likely that power consumption is only passing 75W when overclocked to the limit. Even...

Not unless you include the default 3% overclock that Asus likes to give their stuff so it wins fanboy comparisons. :p But seriously, I reread the review and realized that their assumptions were dubious. A different review recorded only about 65W, which is what NVidia claims. And in any case I...

I went back and looked at your posts about this in 2006/2007. Looks like other people had the same problem, i.e. worked okay for a few months, then started crapping out when heating up under load. Surprised we didn't hear more about this, perhaps it was just the Sapphire and perhaps they didn't...

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I briefly became enthusiastic about Stereodude's GT440 - until I realized it cost more to buy and used more power than the AMD equivalent (HD5570-HD5670?). In fact, one review managed to push it past the PCI-e power limit with Furmark. On top of that, it's unclear whether you're buying a the...