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This seems to be the official New Year thread, so here goes. 2010 sucked for me and most of my family. The main exception is daughter number 2, who graduated with first class honors. In 3 weeks, she'll be moving interstate to commence a Master's degree. Here's hoping things improve in 2011 for...

Ermmm, don't worry about it. There was some sort of problem with the connectors. Move along now, nothing to see here ...

I want to try replacing the controller card on a suddenly dead Samsung 320GB drive. It's an F1_1D, Rev. A. Anyone have one?

At least you were consoled by your 6500K fluorescent lighting. :diablo: The End comes soon enough. I realize you wasted your youth in hedonistic pursuits, but perhaps you should still try to smell the flowers? :) Step outside for two minutes every couple of hours, or go for a walk in the...

Yep, plumb crazy. What were they thinking? If it's good enough for moles ...

I thought it was funny. You shouldn't take what little kids say too seriously. By implication he gets books at other times, and I felt he was playing to his audience. I'd say he's actually a pretty polite kid, notice how he asks if he can open the other present. I do have some experience in...

They stand out as having possibly the poorest write performance of any current SSD. Sequential throughput is good, transactions per second is low. Why would you bother?

A small cyclone just crossed the coast about a thousand miles north of here; weather stations there recorded >150mm (6") overnight. Apparently, they received nearly 800mm (31") last month. Australia is the driest (inhabited) continent - believe it or not. Having a relaxed Christmas with the...

I couldn't resolve this. From the documentation, I believe it's a HAL issue, but I was unable to install the correct HAL by performing a Windows repair/upgrade. I was able to create a fresh Windows 2000 installation in an pre-existing VirtualBox VM - the correct HAL installed okay - but that's...

Sorry, I was thinking further back than that. Does that mean there was probably only one panel (Samsung?) ever available in that size in MVA? I thought there might have been an NEC PVA as well, but it was always a tiny market.

Well, it's now the 25th December in the important parts of the world, so Happy Christmas to everyone, regardless of whether or not you celebrate it. Here, it rained yesterday, it's raining today, it will rain tomorrow, the day after and for a few days after that. The airport weather station has...

And all for nothing - crabs can jump.

Yep. I'd guess there were at most two panels available, all PVA/MVA.

Check the weight. Higher grade foam - and possibly more springs - is heavier. If you can barely lift it, it's likely to contain expensive (= durable) materials.

I figured that a mention of the now infamous NEC would bring Lunar out of the woodwork. ;)

Ditto.

I can find a Philips, an Apple and an HP, all apparently using the same LM230W02 IPS panel. All were available 5 or 6 years ago and none were cheap. Buck prefers value for money propositions and 23" 16:9 has been the standout for the last couple of years. Q.E.D., Buck almost certainly has a...

Thanks to m'learned colleague, CougTek, the prosecution rests.

Fixed that for you.

Do you guys have any in RAID 5/6? I'm wary about a controller dragging down performance too much.

All internet porn to be blocked in UK WTF?

"Unexpected Kernel Mode Trap" trying to run a Windows 2000 image. Last line in SafeMode is crdisk.sys. Works fine in vmWare. Looks like I'm not alone with this, but no solutions that I can find. Has anyone here experienced something similar?

1. $1200 pA is peanuts compared to half a dozen other expenses that any business faces. 2. What on earth do they need >2TB for? That is, given they're a small enterprise, what file types are they storing that take so much space? Of course, online backup isn't much use if you want to use it for...

We all get together for a gathering once a year. The centerpiece is a cake in the shape of a clock. At the stroke of midnight, we all resynchronize. If I've had fun, I catch a plane home.

Interestingly, I don't seem to be having much success with jumbo frames on the Asus gigabit switch I've been playing with. File copy throughput drops when I enable 4 or 9k frames at each end. I suppose it might be the network adaptors - does anyone know how you can tell?

An absence of graphics drivers is what forced me off Win2k over the last couple of years.

$0.50/GB/month would be way too expensive for a personal user with lots of video, but I can't see why it would be a problem for most businesses. Sounds overpriced for such a basic service, though. You're mainly paying for the provider's traffic costs, they average it as a function of the...

Wow, sounds exciting! But no. Sorry. :(

In Moscow, escalators to carry the city Found this Washington Post article quite interesting, wondered if this was a bit like how the US was in the fifties?

Sorry, I was basing that on the fact that 3 other members here (plus CougTek!) have reported satisfactory operation. The only differentiating feature left was hardware. Concerned, I researched the problem and noticed that in your D-Link forum post, you happened to mention that your hardware was...

Doesn't sound like a firmware issue to me. If possible, I'd try to get it replaced.

I don't trust Google either, but I'm more worried about their competence rather than any deliberate misuse. The left hand and right hand can no longer see each other.

The whole thing is turning out to be an historically significant event. How famous is Julian Assange? Try googling his name as a quoted phrase. Less references than Oprah, Michael Jackson or Angelina Jolie, but more than Katy Perry or Brad Pitt and neck and neck with Barack Obama. How famous...

A friend who works for our IRS made a valuable distinction here. She pointed out that her personal correspondence was indeed private, but all client-related communications and notes had to be beyond reproach; they could be reviewed by many different officers and even cited in court. She...

SSN's or credit card numbers are not morally questionable per se, but their publication would be mischievous or even malicious. That's because there are people out there who would use the information to steal identities or credit, so there needs to be a third party who will abuse the publication...

If the cable came with fitted plugs, I'd assume that it's multi-strand and therefore not really suitable for a 100ft run. AFAIK, the standard only supports stranded cable up to 10 meters - at triple that you may be pushing your luck. Even if it works initially, it will likely degrade over time...

A published letter from Julian Assange. Probably his last. It occurs to me that I probably have a fair bit in common with him, eg. raised in Queensland country towns, fondness for plain speaking, mistrust of big government, IT background ... hang on, maybe I am Julian Assange? :) Fortunately...

Meandering and wandering are fine, but in your case it's always the same well-worn track. It's become so familiar, I suspect it's circular; you have become a broken record, a tape loop. Think twice before climbing on your favorite high horse at every opportunity, save the repetitive rants for...

I'm sick of this. How about you create your very own tea party thread so you can stop contaminating other threads with your rants?

It's more complicated than that. While it was unplugged, I checked resistance between the two mains pins and both sides of the output plug. On my cheapo multimeter's full scale setting of 2 megohms, it showed infinity, i.e. too large a resistance to measure. I also checked my powerpoints, and...

Oh I agree entirely. I'd prefer to stick with a 'nix server.

Squeaking noises?

None of those run MS SQL Server. Also, it's a hell of a lot easier to find someone to help out with a Windows server than any of the 'nixes.

I had a warm, fuzzy moment and bought an Asus 8-port gigabit switch. The fuzziness disappeared when I brushed my fingers against the ports and the bloody thing bit me. Not hard, mind, but a nip nonetheless. There's a metal shield surrounding the ports. I found that touching it lightly was...

Please see this blurb to explain the importance of aligning SSDs (other than Sandforce). As they say, this tool is bundled with their flagship products; I just managed to score a copy with a trial download of Partition Manager Pro (hint, hint). With regard to normal partitioning, I've seen a...

I believe that is normal behaviour for Indilinx-based drives. A single pass of a write benchmark test will degrade performance. You see some of this effect with all SDDs, the least-affected are supposed to be the Sandforce-based models. This is why Anandtech recommended people stick with...

We live in interesting times ... I just paid US$86 for the F4 today. In Oz.

Oops! Sorry, the one I linked to is no longer free except where bundled with another product.

Stereodude, is this any good to you? It's free.

List Prices CMS BounceBack SBS Software (boxed) $295 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition $499 Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition "from $891" Backup Exec for Windows Small Business Server "$1003-$1045" What are you smoking?