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The claim: "The copper-graphene composite is also low-cost and easy to produce," Kasichainula says. "Copper is expensive, so replacing some of the copper with graphene actually lowers the overall cost." Of course, that's "actually" in the research sense.

Researcher finds faster, cheaper way to cool electronic devices. Mix graphene with copper in a heat spreader. Coming soon to a Zalman near you?

How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million

I don't trust /tmp or /var/tmp not to be flushed at random; this is a work environment. But speaking of school days, in the mid-70's in math at Berkeley, I did take a few computer classes as well, using their "dumb" terminals (I don't even remember what kind, VT52s?). Submitted for your...

I'm just a lowly end-user, so I don't know what tools the admins have (or could get). But as I thought about it some more, I might modify it somewhat. It was originally intended to check the main "/home" kind of directories for users' usage, but for some other file systems, it might be better...

Greetings, all. "At work", I recently got an Email that a 1 TB file system was 96% full on a UNIX server, and I had one of the largest 10 files. But it was way under 1% of the total space. It occurred to me that instead of the system admins reporting a few real big files, it might be better...

Sorry I don't want to try to look this up, Santilli, but do you have another PC on your network that can print to the Xerox? Years ago, I had to set up my wife's new home Mac to print, and after some google-ing, I found that I could install "ghostscript" on one of my Windows PCs, and set up a...

They thought they had accelerated some Higgs porons beyond the speed of light, but then figured out that their meter had gotten into an over-excited state, which bent the scale disproportionately. But they are anticipating exciting results in wave/particle duality with vagon entanglement.

Tried to search for a reference, but the words are too short. The "What's New" button at the top is handy (as is the alternative New Posts link just below it), after a round or two of my preferred old-style meandering through the forums (fora?) But the message should be changed from "Sorry...

That was an interesting google. I hadn't heard that one, just the seemingly minor variant "Antidisestablishmentarianism", with a fairly unrelated meaning.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis BTW, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious "defined".

ATA Secure Erase instead, such as HDDerase on the Ultimate Boot CD?

Seconded, IMHO. I like the new icon-ing. "Hottness" is of secondary interest. (Also, my personal preference as a "minor-leaguer" here is for smaller icons.) But overall, a very nice upgrade! And per Bing's suggestion, the "New Post" button is very handy, and may also become my default. The...

And that's if your "lucky"; if not, it's a water dribbler.

iostat for Linux?

I tried pulling all the RAM, and then putting just 1 DIMM in each of the 3 sockets, and still no response, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. Re-seating the AGP card didn't help either. I didn't see any bulging caps on it or the mobo, in a closer inspection. Oh, well, I guess I'll get...

Thanks very much, but if I have to pull out the mobo, I'll replace it with something that can support 3 cores or more. CPU replacement didn't fix the problem, but I did notice that the MB didn't seem to have any bulging caps, FWIW. My apologies for the glibness; I should have just said "Happy...

Thanks for your advice; I don't want to put much effort or cash into a revival effort, and I'm barely handy with my hands, much less a soldering iron. I didn't look at the MB too intently, but my guess is that it might be from before the crap-cap issue started. And I don't want to trouble a...

Checking the status of my PCs on the World Community Grid, I found that my 8.6-year-old FIC Nforce2 PC had "No Reply" for some workunits. Looking at the box, "the lights are on, but nobody's home." I tried powering it down for hours, and jumpering to clear the CMOS, but there's no response...

I'm afraid for your physical and fiscal safety, even if most of it's in a sock drawer. Please consider getting to know a cute teller who'll be impressed by da roll.

CRN: "Likely To Cause Widespread Hard Drive Shortage" Forbes: "Deepen Crisis at HDD Companies" (... 60% of WD's drive volume, ... Toshiba shuts down plant)

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Maybe so. But AFAIK I never had this issue before, even when there was a second page with just 1 new post on it. Prolly just a fluke. Or a feature. Cheers!

Yes, and now I see Bookmage's post, first on the second page. And the thread no longer shows as having new posts in the Computers sub-forum, nor does the main page indicate newness in that sub-forum. Back to normal for me (at least on this fabulous forum). Thanks for everything!

Yes, I am. I just tried (twice) on a 4th box, a Vista laptop, in FF, first clearing cache before having to log in. What th? But again, no big deal, just "interesting".

Interestinger (but no biggie). Had the issue on my Ubuntu box in FF; cleared cache, logged out, cleared cache, logged on again. Still have the issue, and, don't see the final Bookmage post in the thread - I have to specifically search for it. Same general symptoms on my Vista PC in FF, and on...

This thread in Computers seems to indicate new post-age, for the past 10 hours or so (at least for me). But the last post is "old" (2nd thumbnail).

This Popular Science article claims potential wider applicability, to refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.

Yes, much of the south and midwest in the U. S. is having a heat wave, and indeed feels like a Sauna.

"Hitachi Data Systems to spin of storage division" thread in the Computers/News section. Yes.

from Computerworld:GFI apologizes for false alarm on Samsung keyloggers 'It's just mud on our face,' says security firm exec Eckelberry's surprise at Samsung quickly turned to acute embarrassment when he began getting reports from colleagues that the evidence for the supposed keyloggers was...

Ars Tech: "Samsung laptop keylogger almost certainly a false positive".

I think he got on the wrong thread, and was referring to this one. Do you think that, after powering off, if he just made sure all the cables in the old board were plugged in to the exact same sockets in the new one, he'd be OK? That's assuming it's the same model except for the fixes on the...

Thanks, Chewy, that article is "interesting": "using a P67 motherboard with a discrete graphics card, Ubuntu 10.10 or any other modern distribution should work just fine." Oh, good, I can order my parts right now and build the box next week, while I wait for the numerous job offers to flow...

That is indeed an interesting alternative, Bing. But we know it's not really a doubling of the cores, just a hyper-ing of the threads. The effect on WCG HCC may be somewhat difficult to quantify; the Re: i5 2500K or i7 2600K? post in the WCG forums claims "up to 25% greater throughput...

Thanks for your kind responses so far, all. In the interim, the emphasis has shifted more strongly to the "budget" part of this subject - I recently quit my job, and I'm looking for another, so far without success. So the extra $100 for the 2600K over the 2500K is currently too rich for my...

Thanks for your responses. I had my qualms about the Hydro H50, and introducing liquid into a PC (other than caps :-D), so I'll probably go with air cooling. An SSD would blow about ⅓ of my budget, so I can't realistically consider one. I'm hoping that 8 GB of RAM would help cache a fair...

Hello, storag-ers. I'm considering the components for a new PC build in a couple of months. Primary usage would be the World Community Grid Help Conquer Cancer project, and taking over as my utility PC (browsing, E-mail, Open Office) from my current WCG-HCC box (Gigabyte 965P mobo, Core2 E5200...

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You could do it without having to create the thumbnail(s), like this:<A HREF="FullSize.jpg" target="_blank"> <IMG src="FullSize.jpg" height="10%" width="10%"> </A>

Comcast's "speedboost" is in for my uploads as well. "Now" (kids home from school, but not the 'rents): Best:

Basic Comcast, from Richmond, VA, closest dslreports.com sites: ; closest speedtest.net site:

No wait? eWiz seems to have them at $85. with free ground shipping. Limit 1 per customer. X-bit review

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Oh, great, just when I got my Nforce2 motherboard, VIA jumps ahead. I like the fact that the vt600 chipset has separate native support for both 4 parallel ATA devices and 4 serial ones (and RAID 0, 1 and 0+1). Possibly eliminating the need for a PCI ATA card.

Oh, great, just when I got my Nforce2 motherboard, VIA jumps ahead. I like the fact that the vt600 chipset has separate native support for both 4 parallel ATA devices and 4 serial ones (and RAID 0, 1 and 0+1). Possibly eliminating the need for a PCI ATA card.

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Thanks for the replies so far. I have a Belkin Omniview F1DB102P already, and I'm looking at the F1DJ102P-B model ($59 @ BestBuy). That one comes with the cables, and claims to support video resolution of up to 1920x1440@65Hz. I've also seen KAVM switches - audio included. That would be nice.

I have one 2-way KVM switch already. If I get another, can I hook the outputs of the old one to one of the inputs of the new one, and another computer to the other input of the new one, to create a 3-way KVM? Of course, I can do the connections, but will it work correctly for all 3 computers -...

Okay, I may be (carbon) dating myself with this, but how about a TV show, "My Motherboard, the Car".