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No, all things being equal... The only items the fan speed will effect, is the movement of air around the case. (In a properly ventilated system, it'll bring in cold air, and expel the warm air). All this will stop your systems chip from overheating, or essentially cooking the electronics. (not...

They will be missed...

I've had DVDShrink running on Win7 x64 for a number of years without issue... (I only run it in ISO mode though). And DVD Decrypter has worked on everything I've tried... But we don't rip a lot with it, so hard to tell how effective DVD Decrypter is these days on modern DVDs. The only trick...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html (This also does other MS software as well).

What's wrong with DVD Decryptor -> DVD Shrink -> <insert favourite ISO burning tool> ?

Re: Minecraft - I didn't realise Minecraft was delivered as an Applet? I thought it was a standalone desktop Java application? (If the latter, Java can still be installed, but the browser plugin removed). I don't play Mindcraft, so not sure? Re: Blackboard - Having used Blackboard whilst at Uni...

It'll be peak STR... or peak rate from platter to drive controller.

In order to answer your question, I have to question the mere definition of a vomit box... My personal understanding of a vomit box, was one of low quality and underperforming for the price paid... A decent spec'ed box from a major OEM, at a low price could not be considered a vomit box IMHO...

Re: the clock: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/CustomizingTheClock

It's because the Flash installer (or package manger you're using) only installs the plugin for found installations of supported web browsers... eg. 1. Install Firefox... 2. Install Adobe Flash. The installer/package manager only sees Firefox installed so only installs the flash plugin for FF...

Dave, you have my wife's sympathy... (I'm from a Ukrainian background, and my Mum can be the mother-in-law from hell sometimes.).

Poor or lucky guy depending on which way you look at it...

My thoughts as well: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia You'll need either the nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 driver or the older nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 driver. (Not too sure when the GF2MX series was dropped in driver support).

Doubtful Solaris does, but A quick Google search shows modern Linux distro's do...

Most likely even more so, as the shipments of retail boxes are not only to PC shops, but also to the likes of Walmart/Costco/KMart/Target/etc... And we know how well general retailers treat electronic gear during shipment...

Looks like a house from SIMS... (the game).

Our of interest, how did you confirm it supports the NX bit? It's just that every piece of literature I have, says the first Intel x86 CPU to support the NX bit was the Intel Pentium 4 based on the Prescott core...

Umm... Every Intel x86 CPU since the Pentium Pro supported PAE?

If it's an original socket 478 Willamette based Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.9GHz, then most likely Windows 8 will not run as the CPU is missing the CMPXCHG16B CPU instruction and doesn't support the NX bit... (This CMPXCHG16B instruction was introduced with the x86-64, and IIRC the earliest x86 CPU to...

When we got the scorpion for Isaac, we got a proper enclosure designed for spiders and scorpions. (Australian rainforest scorpions are excellent climbers)

Isaac started to name them, but when he got to 14 named, he lost track of which ones were named... (We've counted 21 babies)

Baby Scorpions Mum and her babies

Congratulations, is it for any site we may have heard of?

Isaac's pet scorpion gave birth a few weeks ago... We haven't seen any of the young a day or two after the event. Today, mummy scorpion has 13+ babies on her back... (I'll take some pictures soon).

+1. Very interesting to see. And yes, The SunOS would be me. Interesting to the count is only 4? (I visit SF daily). Mind you, that could be an artifact of the tracking system being used is blocked/subverted by my Ghostery/NoScript setup... (Or do these stats come directly from the Apache...

Very surprised not to see Solaris on the list of OSes? (Considering that's were I access SF from most). But there are 14 visits not listed, so guess it's in the bottom of the list... Very interesting that Linux is ahead of Mac as well! @Dave, The resolutions is not a complete list, but the top...

Are you able to get the same sort of report showing OSes used to visit? (Assuming the user agent the browser is using hasn't been faked).

The only decent BT headsets I've seen was a Plantronics headset a number of years ago... (This was at a tradeshow, but the audio quality was excellent for a headset being used in a noisy environment). I doubt they make the same model, but expect they have upgraded their range since...

I'm a Firefox user at home simply because of NoScript, AdBlock Plus, Ghostery and Lightbeam (aka Collusion). I've also got YouTube Downloader, FireBug and SQLite Manager for their various functions, but these are really used... Work has mandated Chromium (on Linux)...

As Dave said, welcome... Also, if you do Folding@Home or interested, SF has it's own team (in case you weren't aware). Coug is attempting to get new people on board at this time, so expect him to mention it.

The Intel i5-2500K officially uses DDR3-1066/1333 ( http://ark.intel.com/products/52210/Intel-Core-i5-2500K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz ) however most Z68 boards do allow DDR3-1600 to work as well... (Kingston has certified their DDR3-1600 on your Gigabyte board). (PS. Your setup allows...

I thought that as well when watching... The ultimate question: How many WD HDDs does it take to stop a .50cal? (expand for 5.56mm, 7.62mm, .30cal, etc).

Random destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dvWGY2bAd0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skRhhawU5Ys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_nxpKqRiD8

Mubs, see if Kyocera-Mita is an option in your area of the world... Cheaper than HP (both printer and toner), never had an issue with print quality, and PCL support (and PS for those models with Postscript support) is excellent. But AFAIK HP no longer do the toner thing on most models of printer.

Also, based on personal experience I see most failures within 6months, and mostly not until 3+ years... which fits in with their report... (All drives have typically had active cooling in place, and treated well by the technicians). But in interesting observation made by a friend who works in a...

Here is a research article by Google Engineers from back on '07, mainly for comparison. http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf Unfortunately, publicly available peer-reviewed research on large numbers of failures and their conditions is very rare... (even hitting up the IEEE CSDL...

Yes, there is, provided you stick with Inkjets that are targeted towards the Office environment and not home users. (Like Dave mentioned, the OfficeJet Pro series, or the Epson WorkForce series).

+1. This is what we do, even though we have an Epson Inkjet (that prints very good photos), it's cheaper to use KMart/BigW/Officeworks for printing photos. When our LaserJet 1200 failed recently (worn parts, that it was cheaper to buy new than replacement parts), we found that most low-end...

I think my thoughts are along the same lines: 1. Files and folders, including navigation. 2. Printer management. (You'll be amazed how many people don't know about printer settings or even that a print spool exists). 3. Windows/Mac/Linux, etc ll have different applications for doing the same...

Saw this linked via Slashdot... Nice intro article on drive failures... http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170748-how-long-do-hard-drives-actually-live-for

The one thing I liked about the Win7 backup, was the backup itself was a dynamically sized VHD, which could be booted using VMWare/VirtualBox on another machine... (Most people didn't realise the backup file itself was a VHD, that literally was a block for block copy of the existing harddrive).

My favourite was how backup sets created with NTBackup on Win98 was incompatible with NTBackup on Win NT4/2K... (and vice versa).

Thanks for the info. As I said, the documentation doesn't make it clear. (And I only have Win8.1 in a VM solely for using "remote assistance" with the rest of the family who lice interstate, so certainly not a big user of Windows these days).

IIRC. NT4 -> XP needed a registry setting to enable, Vista + enabled it by default.

Just something I've noticed... A lot of the complaints here are similar to what people whine about switching to Mac or Linux... eg, file copy being slow, wireless not working as it was (or should be), ZIP file extraction painfully slow, Library information being screwed up... Not boasting...

There are a couple (as already mentioned). Additional ones are: 1. Backup and Restore has been deprecated in Windows 8. It's now File Versions, if you are using the integrated backup solutions. (Backup and Restore can use network shares as a backup source, and looking at the documentation (and I...

My thoughts as well. To make that meaningful you would need at least 1000 units of each drive, and test them all to death before you could draw any correlation or conclusions.

However she did ask me, that when she needs a mobility scooter (many years in the future) that I get her one like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqdDjzIjTlE

I thought it was a way to reduce the weight of the drive, making laptops lighter... (lighter than air), get it? never mind...

There is a workaround for that... (assuming the local account is the primary account you used to use prior to the update). When prompted enter your local account password when displayed. Next it will display the Live login account screen, either, a) Enter incorrect details, or b) disable...