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I'm doing fine. (I'm in South East Queensland - nothing but sunshine, 30 degrees C and 80-90% humidity here). Thanks for the concern. However, my parents live in Gippsland, VIC near Leongatha. And thankfully, they're fine as well, as the closest fires are still approx 30km away from their...

Just like to wish SF a belated Happy 7th Birthday...

Nothing, just udaman trying to state how superior Mac's are in comparison your standard Windows PC. While having 2TB drives are nice and all, I seem to be doing okay storage wise with my 100GB array (4x 36GB drives) in my pc, backed with 500GB of storage (which is about 75% full) in an...

HP still offers the downgrade/upgrade option, but only for the business range of laptops.

I've found BSG to very good if you can watch a few episodes in a session without interruption. Otherwise you may miss or forget a small detail which may impact on enjoyment. One of the better sci-fi shows IMO recently. Otherwise I've been watching Family Guy (on DVD) and re-runs of House and...

DD, it happened during the first IT boom, and then all these IT educators that run the boot-camps have continued to foster the idea among the general population. I know the pay I'm on is a little better than the true average for my position, but it's still not that great that I can retire on...

I think there may have been a misunderstanding somewhere. We're certainly not after a full-time DBA, but a good installation technician for our the companies software and supplied hardware. Sure, part of the role is deploying MS SQL server, including data conversions from competitors systems...

That is very true. Congratulations BTW...

I've read the same, where certain 1TB and 1.5TB 7200.11s are bricking themselves during their startup sequence.

It's currently 32°C outside with a relative low humidity of 50%. (We avg 60-80% this time of year). It only got down to 20°C last night...

Well, we've interviewed a few more people, and frankly, I've been disgusted with the level of candidates we seem to be getting from the employment agency, considering we culled 75% based on their resumes instantly. (And it's not the $$$ being offered, as we are offering about 10% above industry...

Just my 2cents... As Merc mentions, you need to find that lone server that Milton is still using, and highly recommend (if financially viable and time permissible) to visit each site. At least the visit should be a meet-greet session with remote office staff so they can put a face to a name...

I don't know if this suggestion is in the ballpark, but a Chenbro SR-103 meets all your requirements. The only problem is, I'm sure they've stopped making them...

Well, we thought we found someone, and unfortunately he didn't work out for a variety of reasons, including lack of basic knowledge (I guess he got lucky with his answers on the tech questions in the interview), had a habit of placing blame or fault on others when it was clearly himself at fault...

I had to read that line a second time, I thought he said boobs older than you are!. Note to self, get mind out of the gutter.

Awesome, congratulations!

A Merry Christmas to all as well.

By offering better performance per dollar... until Intel does a price drop to match a few days later. I'm coming up to looking at a new box (since my current one is 4yr old now), and seriously, nothing is looking that promising from either Intel or AMD. Heck, I might as well as spend the $$$ on...

We use USB Floppies all the time, but you need to modify the *.oem file with the driver set to load the UMS drivers at boot, so when it's installing the drivers it can see the floppy drive. <cut'n'paste from email> Here Goes the Fix: Create your Storage device driver disk and open...

dd, Congratulations!

I guess it's time to ditch the 4 drive RAID 0 array I've been running, since it's beating that! (Running 4x 10K.6 on a U320 controller). I'm lucky to 180MB/s read STR! Just petty about the lack of space. (I would be going from ~144GB down to 36GB). Hmmm... Looks like SSD will be in my next system.

Thanks, but since we use Windows (wifes) and Solaris (mine), iMovie isn't really an option. I do have an older copy of the ULead suite (which exports to DVD fine) so will use that on her system, and for mine, either Kino or Cinelerra.

Hi Guys, Does any one know of a site that reviews Camcorders? (Like dpreview.com, but for camcorders). My wife and I are looking for a new camcorder, and have narrowed it down to the following models: 1. Sony DCRDVD610 2. Canon DC310 3. JVC GZ-MS100 4. Samsung VP-DX100i Basically, we want to...

You can either go with the Linux/*BSD/Solaris route using SAMBA for filesharing/authentication, etc. in a AD environment or for the easiest solution, just stick with Windows due the whole AD permissions thing. (How much is your time worth learning a new system if something goes wrong, just to...

Speaking of large chain restaurants, me wife and I don't mind "Lone Star" which is a Texan style restaurant which has decent steak meals. Otherwise Toscani's (Italian restaurant). I personally can't stand Pizza Hut or any of the other large US-inspired chains. As for Sizzler, forget that place...

I'm not a big fan of it either!

Short answer, no. While we do have the "chiko roll", and "four-n-twenty meat pie" and a few other unique dishes (like Pavlova), there's not really a unique style. PS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_cuisine

It really depends on the household and its heritage. I don't believe there is a set Aussie cuisine per se. (I know we as a nation don't sit down to a hearty meal of kangaroo every night). In my home, it's typically north-western European (Danish, German, Polish) with some Russian/Ukrainian. We...

I've personally come across a heap of Windows only printers, and myself ensure anything I buy is PCL capable. If you're after true PCL and networkable, a Kyocera Mita FS-2000DN is an option. It is limited to 1 additional tray, so if you need more than 1 additional tray, then look at the...

Windows Media Encoder v9. (Just use your favourite program to decrypt the DVD first). And XMPEG w/DivX codecs for *.mpeg stuff... Hint: Transcode the DVD to a single MPEG2 file, and use WME to convert to WMV. (It's all in the FAQ). PS. WME v9 is free and from here...

That's MS Dynamic's though. Dynamics is aimed at more than your small business, and will scale upwards to multinational setups (accordingly to the MS literature) and is priced accordingly. The company I work sell and support Dynamics RMS, and the base license starts at $2000, (not including...

I've "played" with Powershell a little bit, but haven't found a good reason to get right into it.

While there is nothing really wrong with FoxPro/Visual FoxPro, it's a dead end as far as development is concerned. MS is pushing all current VFP developers to either VB.NET or C# w/.NET and using MSSQL as the DB engine. AFAIK VFP 9 is the last version of FoxPro from MS. That's not to say...

Thanks for everyone's answers, they've been helpful. Like the US we can't ask too many questions about personal stuff. But I know of a few ways to get people to volunteer information. :diablo:

Hi Everyone, The company I work are looking at hiring a new technician to assist in support and on-site installation of our products, and I've been asked to sit in on the interview to help ascertain technical knowledge of the candidate. The candidate will be working directly with me, so...

I think you may be a little under-estimating. At work, I recently coded up a few data conversion systems for our Point of Sale system (to convert from other vendor's POS to ours), and on average it took 1-2 days to work out how best to migrate the data across, let alone coding up the...

While I don't know about the major retailers in the US, however I know for the best deals, always offer cash... forget using in-store credit services for payment of white goods. On the clothes washing machine, dryer front. Stay away from the all-digital units and stick with the slightly older...

Spore I've been reading some of the reviews, and despite all the DRM issues with the title (which EA could fix in a heart-beat), IMHO it seems like a really boring and tedious game for little result. Most sites I've read reviews on are giving 1 star (out of 5 or 10)... I don't think I'm going...

With all the new SSD's coming out, it's a little surprising that AMD hasn't mentioned anything considering they produce a bucket load of flash memory and have good relationships with various OEMs, etc?

Most likely due to the APC driver not supporting "detach" correctly for USB devices. I have seen this a few times before myself.

While I don't know which chips are affected, this site can show you the cards that have a certain chip... http://www.gpureview.com/nvidia-g96-chip-155.html eg for the list of all chips that feature the nVidia G96 chip...

Most onboard USB ports have individual controller IDs. (Look in device manager, and you'll see a huge group of USB controllers). Since (according to Windows) you are connecting a device to a "new"/different controller, it has to redo the drivers...

Any SCSI or SAS controller that features external connectors is a DAS controller. All that's needed a drive chassis to house the drives, and a cable(s) to run from the controller to the drive chassis. El' cheapo chassis's expose the individual drives to the controller, with high-end ones let...

After my wife and I were selling an unneeded Queen size bed in the local paper, I've come to the same conclusion. The normal scenario is, they call with interest, we talk about the details, I send them a few pics on the mobile phone (via SMS/MMS), and if interested they come out to see the bed...

I agree, especially since you are settling down (and with possibly little-ones on the way). Go for flex time, and additional holidays (like an additional week over the state/federal standard). At the company I work for, you have the option to take a short lunch break (30min instead of 1hr)...

Related to this, it really appears that AMD is focusing on being the value provider rather than being the biggest, loudest and quickest, ala like back in the K6 days. I see nothing wrong with this approach, as many claim that the budget segment is also the largest segment. And if you're number...

My wife and I purchased the latest "Raggs" CD for our son to listen to in the car. (He has all the DVDs). We ended up listening to it all weekend whilst out and about. And now I can't get the songs out of my head!!!! grrrr... PS. www.raggs.com.au or www.raggs.com (for the US version).

That's good to know. Paris Hilton as US President! What a scary country the US would become.

This has to be fake! http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/celebrity-gossip/2008/08/06/paris-hilton/makes-white-house-bid-with-net-video.html If not, the world certainly won't be a safe place if she gets any votes!

I don't think that's the right question. Actually what did MS do right to get people to move from *nix/VMS to Windows? I can guess at a few answers: Cheap Hardware Windows OS is/was cheap against commercial *nix/VMS Decent developer tools and documentation