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I agree 100%. But, money matters, and with a slow-down in desktop sales, maybe it was MS's way of scratching Intel's/AMDs back by getting more hardware sales in the pipeline... Now the funny thing is, what are most people going to do: 1. Nothing, and whinge they are stuck on Windows 8.0. 2...

To be honest, I think the number is more than most people expect... How many people how have entry-level boxes, or 2-3 yr old boxes that upgraded to Win8 to have the latest and greatest? I know Tannin is a fan some of the lower end stuff, as it offers incredible performance for the dollar, and...

I thought about this on the way to work this morning (it's amazing how the clear the mind becomes going down the freeway on my bike at 110). We now the actual kernel itself is pretty much the same between all editions of Windows. (as in respect to the IO Scheduler, the task/process/thread...

Now onto the restrictions. (This is my own speculation, but having programmed in assembler for many years and work on system level code at work, I think I can provide some insight). PREFETCHW - This allows the application to request blocks of RAM to be filled into the L1/L2/L3 caches, as it's...

According to the license info as read in the companies Action Pack subscription, the one Windows 8 key is for both x86 and x64 editions. (You can only install 1 version of either, but if you have x64 installed, and can remove that and install the x86 image with the same key). Win8 Pro downgrade...

Use DBAN to wipe... http://www.dban.org/ Also, if you need the data off it, most imaging tools (that are boot into their own environment) can handle dying drives by skipping bad blocks (assuming it's not the logic board dying).

And yet the Linux kernel only dropped i386 support earlier this year (kernel 3.8 officially the last kernel to support the i386), and the kernel team still support it running on 486SX systems (lacking FPU) or 486DX (with FPU). The reasoning: there are a lot of embedded systems that run on the...

My thoughts as well... Most of the older systems would be running DDR2 RAM as well, which depending on cost would be $$$ to bring the installed RAM to an acceptable level... From what I've read, the real issue was the requirement on the PREFECTW instruction. A lot of the "new" Pentium and...

I've only ever done it twice, and the last time was a complete reinstallation of Windows + SQL Server and then restoring the SQL server DBs... (plus some fudging the in the registry)... A good way to blow away a few days...

Sharepoint is nice (and I use that term very, very loosely) if you are a 100% windows/office environment. But it certainly breaks down if you run a mixed environment, (eg Win, Mac and Lin). The one thing to note with Sharepoint, is that it requires MS SQL server which will add $$$ to it's own...

I think I found it: It's in the link I posted: New hardware requirements : for 64bit systems a CPU that supports CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW, and LAHF/SAHF. Only early single core AMD Athlion 64's are missing CMPXCHG16b... (Clawhammer/sledgehammer based CPUs). LAHF/SAHF was introduced in 2005... AMD...

I'm also interested to know what new hardware restriction is in Win8.1, and not in Win8.0. All official documentation indicate the same hardware requirements. (SSE2, NX bit and PAE, etc as denoted here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-8/system-requirements ).

I've installed mediawiki (the wiki engine that wikipedia uses) a few times... Basic installation guide: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide Some Linux distro's even have it as a native package, so it's as simple as "apt-get install mediawiki". eg ...

I've installed mediawiki (the wiki engine that wikipedia uses) a few times... Basic installation guide: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide Some Linux distro's even have it as a native package, so it's as simple as "apt-get install mediawiki". eg ...

Most have gone from GPU based rigs to using dedicated FPGA based or purposed built ASIC accelerator cards... (GPU = 200-400MHash for top end GPU, ASIC = 10000-7500000 MHash depending on cost $300 - $15K for the card). PS. Yes a $300 ASIC based card will do more 5-6x more mining that your $500...

The stock browser on Android isn't Chrome, but is webkit based. (It uses the same renderer as Chrome)... However IIRC and AFAIK, the Google Nexus range is the only one that uses Chrome as the default... everything else uses "Browser"...

Very interested to know why plugging in a VOIP phone killed the LAN, if it was only bridging? (I assume your VOIP LAN and regular PC LAN are on two different subnet's)? Was the LAN being flooded with traffic? causing ARP traffic issues? Your switches couldn't handle loops in the topology...

Just received some photos from my wife's' cousin in Canada, and their first snow... very picturesque.

JTR, Happy Birthday... :beer:

FYI. ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. It's the standard method for the OS/drivers to control system state including power (and by extension fan control). (And most implementations are extremely buggy). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface...

If there is a bug in the BIOS firmware, that is triggered by enabling the fan speed control, then yes it could affect stability... Also could be a bug the ACPI interface, the OS drivers that talk to it via ACPI, or a number of other things... So, there is a possibility that it could affect...

No, all things being equal... The only items the fan speed will effect, is the movement of air around the case. (In a properly ventilated system, it'll bring in cold air, and expel the warm air). All this will stop your systems chip from overheating, or essentially cooking the electronics. (not...

They will be missed...

I've had DVDShrink running on Win7 x64 for a number of years without issue... (I only run it in ISO mode though). And DVD Decrypter has worked on everything I've tried... But we don't rip a lot with it, so hard to tell how effective DVD Decrypter is these days on modern DVDs. The only trick...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html (This also does other MS software as well).

What's wrong with DVD Decryptor -> DVD Shrink -> <insert favourite ISO burning tool> ?

Re: Minecraft - I didn't realise Minecraft was delivered as an Applet? I thought it was a standalone desktop Java application? (If the latter, Java can still be installed, but the browser plugin removed). I don't play Mindcraft, so not sure? Re: Blackboard - Having used Blackboard whilst at Uni...

It'll be peak STR... or peak rate from platter to drive controller.

In order to answer your question, I have to question the mere definition of a vomit box... My personal understanding of a vomit box, was one of low quality and underperforming for the price paid... A decent spec'ed box from a major OEM, at a low price could not be considered a vomit box IMHO...

Re: the clock: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/CustomizingTheClock

It's because the Flash installer (or package manger you're using) only installs the plugin for found installations of supported web browsers... eg. 1. Install Firefox... 2. Install Adobe Flash. The installer/package manager only sees Firefox installed so only installs the flash plugin for FF...

Dave, you have my wife's sympathy... (I'm from a Ukrainian background, and my Mum can be the mother-in-law from hell sometimes.).

Poor or lucky guy depending on which way you look at it...

My thoughts as well: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia You'll need either the nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 driver or the older nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 driver. (Not too sure when the GF2MX series was dropped in driver support).

Doubtful Solaris does, but A quick Google search shows modern Linux distro's do...

Most likely even more so, as the shipments of retail boxes are not only to PC shops, but also to the likes of Walmart/Costco/KMart/Target/etc... And we know how well general retailers treat electronic gear during shipment...

Looks like a house from SIMS... (the game).

Our of interest, how did you confirm it supports the NX bit? It's just that every piece of literature I have, says the first Intel x86 CPU to support the NX bit was the Intel Pentium 4 based on the Prescott core...

Umm... Every Intel x86 CPU since the Pentium Pro supported PAE?

If it's an original socket 478 Willamette based Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.9GHz, then most likely Windows 8 will not run as the CPU is missing the CMPXCHG16B CPU instruction and doesn't support the NX bit... (This CMPXCHG16B instruction was introduced with the x86-64, and IIRC the earliest x86 CPU to...

When we got the scorpion for Isaac, we got a proper enclosure designed for spiders and scorpions. (Australian rainforest scorpions are excellent climbers)

Isaac started to name them, but when he got to 14 named, he lost track of which ones were named... (We've counted 21 babies)

Baby Scorpions Mum and her babies

Congratulations, is it for any site we may have heard of?

Isaac's pet scorpion gave birth a few weeks ago... We haven't seen any of the young a day or two after the event. Today, mummy scorpion has 13+ babies on her back... (I'll take some pictures soon).

+1. Very interesting to see. And yes, The SunOS would be me. Interesting to the count is only 4? (I visit SF daily). Mind you, that could be an artifact of the tracking system being used is blocked/subverted by my Ghostery/NoScript setup... (Or do these stats come directly from the Apache...

Very surprised not to see Solaris on the list of OSes? (Considering that's were I access SF from most). But there are 14 visits not listed, so guess it's in the bottom of the list... Very interesting that Linux is ahead of Mac as well! @Dave, The resolutions is not a complete list, but the top...

Are you able to get the same sort of report showing OSes used to visit? (Assuming the user agent the browser is using hasn't been faked).

The only decent BT headsets I've seen was a Plantronics headset a number of years ago... (This was at a tradeshow, but the audio quality was excellent for a headset being used in a noisy environment). I doubt they make the same model, but expect they have upgraded their range since...

I'm a Firefox user at home simply because of NoScript, AdBlock Plus, Ghostery and Lightbeam (aka Collusion). I've also got YouTube Downloader, FireBug and SQLite Manager for their various functions, but these are really used... Work has mandated Chromium (on Linux)...