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How about something that involves random reads and writes.

My first recommendation would be not to drive. Take the South Shore downtown and get on the Red Line at State and Lake. Get off at Addison. If you insist on driving, there are very few places to park for free, you will end up paying $20 minimum. There are many pay lots in the area, it shouldn't...

I ordered the Patriot Xporter XT Boost 16GB. If I actually send in the MIR, it will be pretty cheap.

Congrats! You'll be 2 blocks from my condo...

Let me rephrase: What USB flash drive would you buy that combines decent speed and a decent price?

Fast reads are more important than fast writes, but both are nice. I'm planning on using it for booting a Linux live cd. I would guess random reads are of utmost importance here. I will also use it for transferring large files between computers, speed is less important here, I just don't want...

What's the difference between the SSDSA2MH080G2R5 and the SSDSA2MH080G2C1?

I'm looking for a cheap and fast 16GB USB flash drive. Does anyone have experience with these? I would rather not mess around with MIRs if possible.

G2?

Holy crap. That's a 74% price increase from a week ago.

The 80GB G2 appears to be available right now, the price went up another $20 to $299.99. I attached an image because this will probably change in the next 15 minutes.

I was going to buy the 80GB G2, but then the price went up $50, so I'll wait.

I got the Acer netbook today. It seems pretty solid. It's not really mine, it's the girlfriend's, but she's not here so I get to mess with it. Speed is pretty decent. Windows Vista is pretty annoying, but I was able to order a free Windows 7 upgrade from Acer. The screen resolution is good as...

Well, I won't be buying one anymore. That's a $50 price increase in one day. I guess I'll just wait for the supply and price to stabilize.

I'm starting to get pissed off. I got another alert email from Newegg saying that the new 80GB Intel SSD is available again. I click to purchase and again it's sold out. The price has gone up again to $249.99. Now it should be available 9/2. Are they getting these in batches of 5?

I just got an email from Newegg saying that the new Intel 80GB SSD is in stock. I go to the page and try to order it and it says that it's now out of stock. I go back to the item listing page and it's now out of stock until tomorrow and the price went up $10. Son of a bitch.

Nothing. I just prefer KDE. I will check out GNOME 3.0 when it's out next year.

Had some real fun tonight when I rebooted my system and found that it would no longer load X. Turns out I had installed a kernel update awhile back and hadn't rebooted since then. This new kernel wasn't compatible with the version of the kmod-nvidia driver I had installed. This should be...

CentOS is the same as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and costs nothing. We use it here for our linux servers. I don't trust Oracle. They are also a pain in the ass to work with and their support is useless.

I use some NTFS disks in Linux. Don't know if auto-TRIM would work though.

Write cache stores data that will eventually be written to persistent storage in volatile memory which will lose the data if power is lost.

Property in Cook county is re-assessed every three years.

I think my 2009 taxes will be lower than 2008 by a few dollars.

You can always turn off write caching if corruption is an issue.

Can you plug the drives into wall power rather than relying on USB power? Otherwise, there are powered USB hubs you could look at.

How about getting a USB hub?

Screw that, go for 7.5TB RAID 0.

I was joking. I'm hoping the one I ordered will be decent. If it breaks, it's not a huge loss as it's only a $400 machine. If there were another manufacturer that made a netbook with similar specs I would definitely consider it, but at this time Acer is the only option.

Yeah, I did some searching and found everyone basically saying the same thing. Firefox on Linux is just not as well supported as on Windows. I just installed Opera and it is vastly faster. I opened up fifteen tabs in a row, all pretty big pages with lots of JavaScript and experienced almost no...

Sick day?

Is this a jab at me?

That's probably true, but what happens is that when yields get good, they no longer have a crappy part bin and just use the same chip everywhere with something turned off. Think of the Celeron 300a, I don't think I ever heard of someone not being able to achieve a 450Mhz overclock with that chip.

A couple things have been bugging me lately. 1. Firefox seems slower than in Windows, If I open up a whole bunch of background tabs, everything slows down a lot more than in Windows. Firefox is configured exactly the same as it was in Windows (same version, all the same add-ons, etc). Any...

I've got to blame somebody.

I preordered the Acer AS1410 last night. If it's not good, I'll just blame Stereodude.

If I have video that is encoded in 1080p that I want to play on a screen that's smaller than that I'll still need additional processing power. Correct me if I'm wrong. I would rather not have to re-encode 1080p video to 720p to be able to play it on the netbook.

Maybe I can take some sandpaper to it and turn it from glossy to matte ;)

Also, do you know if the screen is glossy or more of a matte? I hate glossy screens.

Great, thanks. Are there any reviews published of this model yet?

The only one I can find is 599.99. Do you have a link?

Do you have any guess on when they will be on the market?

How much do you think these machines will cost?

My girlfriend is looking to get a netbook and I'm helping her. I'm looking for something with an 11 or 12 inch screen, 6-cell battery, ability to upgrade to 2GB RAM, a decent CPU, and a GPU capable of playing HD Video. From what I've read the GMA500 has hardware acceleration for most things...

Looks good, except it doesn't support ext4, which is what Fedora uses as it's default filesystem now.

I'm looking for a disk imaging backup solution. I've used Acronis for the last several years on Windows and was always impressed with it's ability to create a disk image without having to do a reboot. Does anything like this exist in the *nix world?

I tried adding this to the MPlayer config file, which I believe KPlayer is using, but I get an error when I try to open it with these options. Otherwise, the performance and quality seem fine right now. I was complaining more about how long it takes to switch between movies in VLC. The amount...

I already had the nVidia driver installed, here's what it says in X11.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia"...

That's what I figured. Plus, the prompts from SELinux look like absolute gobbledegook. I'll leave it running in permissive mode and then at least if something bad happens I can go back to the logs and try to find out what it was.

Video card: GIGABYTE GV-NX86T256H GeForce 8600 GT I will have to check what driver I'm using when I get home tonight.

What if it's a home machine and a functional server? I'm using it as a development workstation and as an db/app/web server.