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Hi Guys, This is more a rant, than a ask for help... My dad is flying up from country Victoria to visit this weekend, and he has finally admitted defeat and is getting a new laptop for home. (Current PC is hitting 5 years old, running XP, etc + plus no current internet connection). So, I...

A German company Metro AG has claims to the name Metro, so currently, it's called "Modern UI" or "Microsoft design language" when referencing to the language markup/environment.

<very funny> or. A. They're missing so many needed features, that calling them an application can't be justified? (eg castrated POS as you put it). A. Apple has tried to trademark the word "App" so everyone has to pay them to use it? (Seriously, Apple did try to trademark it). A. Calling...

IIRC, having worked with HPs rebranded drives, the most likely only firmware change is a change to the reported number of sectors on the disk. eg All HP 73GB drives irrespective of the OEM, all had the same number of sectors on them. (as you know IBM, HP, WDC, Hitachi all 73GB drives had a...

Don't worry, we're all getting old here... (as the grey hairs are starting to show). Never had a lot to do with Zip disks, not until the Jazz drives where on the market.

Liam, IIRC it only came in with 2008R2, so in some respects not surprised some admins don't know about it. ;)

With much sadness, I must report that my very first dual-shock controller finally died whilst my son was playing Gran Turismo. (GT on a first gen PS1 - the big grey box - with a first gen dual shock controller). It was 15 years old... RIP. (In addition to our PS1, we still have a functional N64...

Yes, Windows can do it via the Resource Manager, using Resource Allocation Policies. It's a PITA and not as thorough as most UNIX solutions. (It certainly doesn't give you the same level of protection as UNIX based solutions). http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771472.aspx

And all I thought emacs needed was a decent text editor?

Ummm... 1. It's the "One" no one buys? 2. It's the "One" that finally puts a nail in MS's coffin? 3. It's the "One" that an interface that unifies MS desktop, tablet and console offerings? 4. It's the "One" that gets modded to death and runs Linux within the first week of release because MS...

FYI, The Acer has an Intel Celeron 847 (Sandy Bridge). http://ark.intel.com/products/56056/

I thought it was a ViperJet, but the engine exhaust was all wrong... Mind you a Yak-130 (in mil config) is only US$15M, much, much nicer than the L39 ... (comparable to other aircraft in it's class). (Yak-130 is rated to -3G +8G flight envelope and comes with a 30mm cannon to keep those pesky...

Aero L39 Albatros

Umm.. 1. It's Adobe... 2. It's subscription.... 3. It's cloud based ... 4. It's ???? ... 5. It's Profit... (for Adobe).

I love programming in x86 assembler as a hobby, but my day job and most Uni work is Java. (I started my coding in 6510 assembler on the C64). I have nothing against Java (I actually quite like the language - except no unsigned int's - that pisses me off), and believe the JVM is a really good...

Hi Guys, So I sit here at work waiting for some unit tests to complete (they take about 5 minutes) after doing some code modifications, and I wonder about how resource heavy our modern software is. (Disclaimer: these thoughts were sparked after reading an article on /. today on a ray tracer...

Congratulations on the new bike. Those certainly are a nice bike. After 9 weeks in the bike shop and stuffing around with the insurance company, I finally got my bike back last night! Oh what a joy to ride to work instead of catching public transport. (I've had more colds in the last 8 weeks...

They still do, but aimed at embedded markets. You can still purchased stand-alone cards, but are very difficult to find. IIRC, their latest chipset has full hardware acceleration for H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV-HD and AVS, OpenGL 3.0 and DX10.1 support, all in roughly a 2-10W power envelope.

Looks like the BIOS has forced IDE/ATA emulation mode instead of native SATA. (Some BIOSes will auto configure AHCI vs IDE on boot depending on the installed media and what is recognised). Assuming you have the latest BIOS, under "Onboard Devices" should be a "SATA Operation" menu that lets...

And what Merc said.... (reboot all machines and try again).

Do any of the Windows machines have HomeGroup enabled? HomeGroup enables additional parts of the SMB/CIFS protocol that some Linux OSes can't handle (these are part of the SMBv2 suite). Also samba.conf depending on the version on Linux (and I don't know about Ubuntu in particular) as zero...

D'oh! please don't do that... I like knowing where people grow their pot... so the police can raid a location based on GPS co-ords in the "look at me pot collection" photos on FaceBook... Joking... I thought this was common knowledge? (It's a good power saving tip to turn off GPS/WiFi/Mobile...

Since you have Active Directory, any reason not to use DHCPv6 then, if your router isn't handling the autoconfiguration correctly? (Your WAN address will be derived from the MAC address, but the network prefix, DNS addresses and gateway should all be handled by DHCP)...

Which aspects are troubling you? IPv6 addressing works as per CIDR addressing with IPv4? And you have 3 addresses: your local address (::1), your LAN address and your WAN address. The first 32bits help you define what the address type is, and if a publicly routable address, gives you the route...

We sometimes wonder Courtesy of my beautiful wife.

Cost to build The Death Star Courtesy of my beautiful wife.

I can confirm the Thrive (AT100/AT1S0) is for storage only with stock firmware. The recommended method for the Thrive is to use the hotspot functionality on your Android phone, or use one of the portable WiFi hotspot devices. (We personally just use our phones for hot spot functionality). (If...

My only thought is that by keeping it cheap, IPv4 addresses run out quicker, so we move to IPv6 quicker...

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Have her try to enter via the keypad/screen, and see if it censors... IIRC, it's only on speech to sms that it censors...

No idea how to turn off the censoring if that is the case.

Is she by any chance using the speech to SMS functionality? Handcent on Moto's will censor in this regard...

Can't be sure... you would need three different phones, hopefully with different OSes to determine the source.

Muahahahahahaha

Typically on the phone... I highly doubt the carrier is filtering all messages... (tinfoil hat: or it's the NSA/FBI/KGB/CIA/Other super secret data collection agency (aka FaceBook) doing the filtering).

I think this is a major point, a lot of people like you and myself are happy with our older monitors (I'm still using 2x BenQ FP202W (20" 1680x1050) monitors I purchased in '06). Over the last few years, there's been little compelling reasons to upgrade them to 1920x1080 units. (My desk only...

FYI, Windows compression uses LZNT1, a derivative of LZ77. Therefore has the same performance as any other LZ77 implementation. Here is one comparison of common tools: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/winrar-winzip-7-zip-magicrar,3436.html (short answer: 7zip). Mind you, ease of use...

Since I don't see too may reviews on the higher spec NASs I thought I'd share this one: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6922/qnaps-tsec1279urp-12bay-flagship-rackmount-nas-review

Dealing with life in general - working parttime, maintaining a fulltime study load at Uni and spending time with the family leaves little if any free time. Just glad I have 6 weeks left in my degree, and lucky for me, where I am working part time has offered a full time permanent position when I...

Hi Coug, Basically, these days, there are a number of techniques that let you boost rankings in a Google/Yahoo/Bing search. All of these techniques come under the umbrella of "Search Engine Optimization". Google has their own one published here...

In most cases it's not, heck most small-medium scale Hadoop clusters run on stock 1Gb Ethernet. Would InifiBand be an option if you needed low-latency high-throughput? 40Gb InifiBand HBAs are available price competitive to 10GbE?

It's interesting you're looking at OpenStack: at University (7 weeks before I finish/graduate), I'm working in the HPC (High Performance Computing) lab on a project, primarily looking at Information Retrieval systems that can handle complete genomes of bacteria (approx 10M base pairs) and...

Hi Coug, Some items to consider: 1. Like the idea of a two node setup, for redundancy reasons. 2. You've got 4 CPUs, and 8 DIMMs, which I assume is 2x DIMMs per CPU. Both the AMD and Intel CPUs are quad-channel CPUs, so there will be some performance loss as you're running them in dual...

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IIRC, some of the more expensive SCSI based CD-stackers/changers had very large RAM caches (512MB), and some even featured internal HDDs for caching as well... (This was before DVDs came out).

As Clocker said, the worst part of it is over. (We didn't have to deal with jaundice with our two, but know of many cases that it was quite severe). Words of advise from my better half: 1. Trust your gut, and take everything anyone (whose not a medical professional) says to you with a grain of...

Thank for doing the math, it certainly brings things into perspective... (The old saying, of flying/spinning rust is certainly true) As a side note, aren't most modern 10K/15K discs only 1.8-2.5" internally?

Most artists I know have a setup on http://www.deviantart.com/ ... But if they want a dedicated page, no idea about the Canadian offerings sorry.

Back in the ye'olde days, the heads could only determine state changes (between a 1 and a 0) at certain speeds. As processes improved the frequency at which the head could determine a state change, meant they could use faster spindle speeds and thus improve performance without improving bit...

@Clocker, glad you son is over them, they really are a terrible experience. (Isaac had them only for a few weeks, and that was enough).