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Well, it is Alpha quality... submit a bug report then...

xbone spec analysis: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-spec-analysis-xbox-one Early PS4 review: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-hands-on-with-playstation-4

For those that loved Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, here is another one like it: Planetary Annihilation. http://www.uberent.com/pa/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omg0JWIgJv4 http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/planetary-annihilation-begins-its-linux-onslaught.2089 Currently in...

Oh crap, Dave's reply is taking a while... he might actually be considering what I put up? (I was only joking).

Apologies, the 64GB DIMMs I linked are a kit of 4x 16GB DIMMs...

I certainly believe that if you want one of the next-gen consoles, the Sony is the better one on paper... I guess it'll come down to what games are available on each platform as to who the winner of this round will be. The only benefit I see with both units being based on the x86 platform with...

It was only fast because even grandma knew the DRM on xbone wasn't worth it.

This is making news everywhere, but MS has done a 180" on most of DRM and used game issues... http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/219244/microsoft-kills-xbox-one-phone-home-drm So I wonder who in MS got a chair thrown at them?

Being silly here, but why not: Supermicro X9DA7 - http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DA7.cfm 2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W ( 8 core) - http://ark.intel.com/products/64582/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2687W-20M-Cache-3_10-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI 4x Kingston 64GB RegECC DDR3-1600 -...

Anything in the Xorg log? It should give you the information on the GPU and DVI setup...

Thanks for the input. Been doing some research on a lot of the smaller NASes, and basically they all have issues (some more severe than others) but the Synology range seems to have the least issues and most liked. Any of the single drive solutions are basically POS, crippled with slow CPUs, low...

Just some reviews on newegg about the Seagate option, basically it's a POS to be avoided... Still interested in the WDC or other similar devices though. PS...

PS. I meant the Seagate GoFlex Home Network Storage System, and not the FreeAgent.

Getting back on topic Hi Guys, In an attempt to get this thread back on topic, in the next month will be looking at updating our external HDD used for backup (currently a 500GB w/firewire and USB2.0) and am considering something network attached... Options are: 1. Stick with a stock external...

I also think this should raise another question, are we seeing the end of performance improvements per core in desktop computing? Intel is now using a 22nm process on the CPUs, with a 14nm on the roadmap... but at 14nm the distances in trace width and gap width is now measured in atoms? (30...

I've heard that as well... The $10K fee was more of an incentive to ensure their games were well developed and didn't need constant patching, but $10K to publish is excessive... Even iOS and Android developers don't get stung that hard... Mind you, on the PS3 front, you did need to go out and...

Sorry for the confusion, but it was more a statement of how developers know less about server setup and the whole infrastructure picture than a sysadmin... I would expect a software developer to have a good understanding of the whole ecosystem in which they are developing more than a fresh...

Having just read a lengthy review on HardOCP on Haswell, there doesn't seem a lot in Haswell for the desktop user who already has SB or IB. As Liam said, 5-10% at most... Is it worth it for the cost of a new motherboard as well? Reading Kyle's comments on [H], he doesn't seem overly impressed...

Not this will affect too many here, but there is a lot of talk about Indie developers for the xbone requiring an external publisher to get their games on XBLA with xbone... But Indie's can self-publish on PS4 and WiiU... Seems like MS think they are losing grip on the market, and like all good...

Not to mention it's also cheaper to purchase (per unit) 30,000 of a single connector than it is to purchase 15,000 of one type and 15,000 of another type. Makes inventory management easier as well if you only have to stock and use 1 connector in place of many different types.

Be careful, a lot of companies will use DVI-I (dual link) connectors even on single link devices. (AGP cards and early PCIe cards suffered from this). Also, while the GPU/CPU support dual link, if the motherboard is missing the second TDMS link, it'll limit the whole setup to single link...

Like TW, I've found a lot of developers that only do windows programming with .NET (be it desktop or ASP.NET) to have a lower understanding of the overall architecture and how things work underneath. Even when configuring the servers the application to run on, most of less knowledge on server...

That sounds about right for ZFS. ZFS by it's very design relies a lot on cache and will use anything it can get...

Finished Uni last week (last assessment was handed in on Wed), and start fulltime work today. So that was 3 yrs at Uni, and set to graduate (all going well) in mid July.

Thank you, but fathers day in Oz is in September...

Disclaimer: Highly doubt we'll buy either, heck we're still playing our original N64 and PS One. A few things that strike me with the XBOne Kinect is always on and watching, which means power draw for an essentially ideal device. Also what are the privacy implications since it's actively...

Dave, one critical point, for a PCB swap to work you'll most likely need to copy the flash storage from the dead PCB to the live one. The onboard flash will have motor timings, dead/reallocated sector map and a few other settings to make it a 90% chance of working instead of a 5% chance of...

Start of Armageddon? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/coffee-rust-epidemic/all/

Hi Guys, I'll start by stating this is not an attempt to start a flamewar, but more of an interest in the current Intel vs AMD situation, particularly at the higher end of the scale. With the buzz of Haswell now out, most are building Haswell based systems. However is anyone here building AMD...

Saw this posted on Slashdot... Made me laugh... http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/1/4/geek-vs-nerd-infographic.html

FYI: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7051/computex-2013-asus-pq321-3840-x-2160-display-3799

Mmmmm... thermite.... fires, explosions, what's not to like? http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/

Nah, I prefer my Wild Turkey either on the rocks or with Coke...

Thanks Howell, that's all I needed.

Hi Guys, Need a hand finding some references for how to determine what storage capacity to purchase based on current demands, so that it will last at least 3 years? The old rule of thumb was, look at what you had 3 years ago, see how much more you are storing today, plot a linear trend and...

The thing is, most commodity installations are covered in great depth Tablet/Phone: Android/iOS/RIM/Win Console: WiiU/PS3/XBox Desktop: MacOSX/Win/Linux SME Server: Win (and some Linux) Enterprise Server: IBM Mainframe/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/VMS/Win/Linux Cloud: Linux mostly (and a tiny fraction is...

Some info on the Haswell PSU issue... http://www.corsair.com/us/blog/haswell-compatibility-with-corsair-power-supplies/

IIRC, Haswell has 4K support... (IvyBridge had 4K support, but not on HDMI) http://www.anandtech.com/show/7007/intels-haswell-an-htpc-perspective

Tannin, no offense at all, my Dad is the classic "computer moron" win 8 is aimed at! And for him it worked well. Mind you there are rumors of Win8.1 being more "Enterprise Friendly" in that it'll natively support boot to desktop, better GPO controls over Metro applications and the ModernUI...

As mentioned in other threads, my wife hated Win8, so I put Win7 Pro on her laptop. But seeing my Dad use Win8 was enlightening... He's no technophobe, he started with computers using IBM Mainframes in the 70's and desktop PCs right through the 80's and early 90's. But in the mid-90's, due to...

The dead laptop couldn't have come at a worse time... Anyway, not a fan of Adobe software and willing to consider alternatives.. I like Darktable but doesn't run on Windows, and I've found digiKam and RawTherapee, so will give those a shot... (no pun intended).

@sd, I was thinking of just sticking the built-in stuff, but wanted something a bit more featured, namely verification support and being able to fine tune a few settings. Thanks Coug, I'll give CD Burner XP a try.

Ended up getting 2x HP 4540s Probooks - i5's, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, AMD/Intel hybrid graphics.. very nice machines for the price we got. (The ones we got are basically the same as the HP Elite m6, but in a ProBook chassis and the business support, and most importantly, official Win7 support from...

Hi Guys, As it were, my wife's laptop died 1 day after my Dad and I purchased one for him. (That's another thread). So we ended up getting a HP laptop for my wife as a replacement for her 4/5yr old HP 4510s laptop, and am in the process of installing all the software on it. Just want to get...

AFAIK, MariaDB and MySQL use the same configuration file format, so just copy the my.cnf from the MySQL setup for MariaDB, and then update the various configuration items namely datastore location and LAN setup (eg IP address, port numbers, etc). (Those details should be obvious). If you are...

Actually, I've noticed Chrome on Android to crash a lot... Normally I can get it to fail when using Slashdot's mobile interface...

Such a beautiful bird.

Sadly, no... Our best equivalent to Newegg is UMart, and their laptop range is pretty limited. Actually, shit, at Umart, I can get a HP 4540s ProBook for $709! Decisions...

Oh, and I know he can do everything I've mentioned on a tablet, but mum has one of those expensive computer controlled sewing machines, which needs a PC to load the SD Card with the patterns, so the machine can sew them. (sorry for not mentioning this earlier)

Thanks, I've got no issue with modern integrated gfx, either HD3000+ or AMD APUs, but it was interesting to see some models still sold with 2GB RAM? Point taken on the K series then - looks like they must be made to match a feature list, and not expected build quality. His main usage will be...