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I've been tinkering with running FreeNAS in a VM for a while - ESXi 5. But I cannot get the throuput I want. As a standalone Athlon 64 2.4GHz (754), 1GB DDR 400, NVIDIA Gigabit NIC, Samsung 2TB 5400rpm drive, I get 40+ MB/s writes and 80+ MB/s reads. On either and Athlon X2 4000+ (2.1GHz) 3GB...

In every case I've experienced that symptom - PC may, or may not turn on when the power button is pushed - the culprit has been the power supply.

Saw John Carter with the kids. It held my attention for the 2:12 runtime, and held my kids attention, despite being 30~40 minutes longer that what they are used to. It's a better movie than a lot of the reviews I've read. But it's still not great. I'm disappointed that Disney murdered the...

:) That's where my Delta came from too... I ended up lapping it and using a fan from a FOP-32 because of the noise...

Ooohhhh. Delta Black label fans, circa the birth of overclocking. I still have one somewhere. Plug it in and it's a little hovercraft. A little, screamingly, annoyingly, loud hovercraft...

I saw a couple of reviews (Xbit, TechReport I think) on low power rigs where using a "brick" power supply - like a notebook external adapter I assume - makes an appreciable difference to Intel T series or AMD Brazos platforms. IIRC, the difference was 2/3rds or less of the power draw at...

Australian and Pilsner. I'm thinking oxymoron. My favourite pilsner was Schwelmer Pils (which I believe is German). Dan Murphy's used to stock it but no longer. Most Australian pilsners taste too "lagerish" compared to Pils. Tried Cooper's 62 pilsner and wasn't impressed at all. But I agree...

That's gold Chewy, thanks. But why is it in that funny language no one speaks? :-D

Check your HDD activity light. I bet it's flashing like mad. It's probably the slow drive holding things up. Funny you should mention FreeBSD. I'm going through my own learning curve with it because FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD. And I want to install FreeNAS in an ESXi 5 VM. But I cannot...

In case anyone missed it, treat the Metro screen as you would the run command under XP or the search box under Visa/7. The metro screen is one big run command :) Works well Also, If you go to the desktop (via the Metro icon) you can then open up explorer and there is a control panel icon in...

Been using 0.7 for years. CIFS/SMB needed a little work to get good performance out of, but I get 80+ MB/s (big B not little b) on large files, which is probably getting close to saturating a GigE network link. For the last twelve months or so, this shouldn't be an issue either - the default...

Who needs LOLCats when we have you? :) You made my day. Actually, that's disappointing that Hitachi did that.

Get a better car. :-D

+1 for EAC/lame. I've had EAC generate a rip (or even a new CD) from horribly scratched CD's.

Tropico 4 has got me hooked at the mo. There's just something about being a dictator that appeals... :)

My son bought me Duke for my birthday. I just installed it. Yeah it's old skool, yeah it doesn't have the realism, or accuracy of MW3 or BF3. It doesn't require a 990X overclocked to 4.5GHz and a Radeon 6990 to play at medium settings. It's cartoonish. And has a lot of toilet humour. But...

My upgrade from Android 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 has seen a huge improvement in battery life. My phone used to need charging every second day with light use. Life since the upgrade seems to have doubled.

Just got the Android 2.3.5 OTA update for my phone. Some nice graphical improvements.

Given that Sandforce, Marvell and Intel controllers have all had issues lately, that leaves .... Samsung as being reliable. Funny that.

Quirky brings to mind Twin Peaks

I laughed at the Sandforce haters holding up Crucial & Intel as the bastions of reliability. They all have bugs. SSD's, by the nature of the controllers will be buggier than mechanical for some time to come.

Aldiko can read epub and PDF on Android, and is free. I use that on my phone (Incredible S) and find that quite usable.

I wasn't suggesting you were, hence the smiley. Nuance is hard to convey in text.

Heinlein? I'm fairly certain that the Romans were practitioners of citizenship being earned just a tad before Robert H. :)

Looks like today will be my last day for a couple of months. Summer has been delayed here in Aus, but it's getting into the 30's now.

This seems similar: http://techreport.com/articles.x/20512

Bought Super Mario Bros. for the kids for Xmas and they love it (neither are teenagers yet). Another vote for Sports and Sports Resort.

Sort of watched Trpoic Thunder last night. Was Tom acting or just being himself?

You da man C!

Am I using the wrong product? ESXi 5. I want to virtualise a Linux app that needs a dedicated NIC, and I can't find a way to dedicate a nic to the VM. Likewise, when I try to virtualise Freenas, I cant find a way to add the separate disk. ESXi/VMs are running on an IDE disk, the freenas disk...

So a person is banned and can't play single player? What do you think they will do? Har, har me hearties... Stuipd move.

I used Zalman 7000/9500/9799 NT coolers for quite a while because they (at the time) good for the price. But time moved on and better/cheaper products arrived. My last two coolers were Noctua 12cm jobbies (not the über ridiculous 14cm ones). The areas where Zalman fell down were the fan...

Some preliminary numbers with a yum-cha power supply, X4 635, 4GB DDR3 1600 (G Skill) and WD 400JB. Defaults to 1.3 V and at Windows XP desktop idle, ~90W at the wall 2.4 GHz capped (down from 2.9 GHz), 1.05V, and Radeon 4250 down clocked to 300 MHz (from 560 MHz) and 1.1V (down from 1.45 V), I...

Asrock 88GMH-LE/USB3. I'll let you know after the weekend how it goes.

Is anybody getting A5's? I haven't had one in weeks.

AMD and Nvidia are due to refresh their respective lineups just before and just after Christmas. AMD will probably do a trickle down approach (high-end first) and I believe Nvidia are going for a mid-range part first--but not sure about this. The AMD mid-range/mainstream card will come a month...

Bummer, it excludes 99.9 % of countries in the world (as usual).

Watched Green Lantern the other day. Just OK. Glad I didn't pay cinema prices for it though. I thought they could have chosen a better story arc than Parallax though. The wife just got back from seeing Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - can the title be even more ridiculous? She went with a...

I'm about to build a VMWare box for hosting 2 VM's. I was going to use an Intel G620 Pentium, instead of an Athlon. Then I heard that the i3 xxxxT processors were very power efficient. Cool! Then I found out that low end Intel chips don't support the Intel virtualisation extensions, and that...

Oh I don't know. I kind of liked Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand theme... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme.html For about 15 seconds...

My current thinking is that this is more a sign of blunt blades than bugs lurking in the cartridge. The blunt blade pulls at the hair and nips the skin near the base, allowing bacteria into the follicle. When I suffer from the same, a fresh cartridge usually makes the problem go away. I...

I don't get this multiple blade thing. I have a heavy beard. Shave every day, twice if I want to go out out night. Because of that, multiple blades clog on my beard with a lot canned shaving gels. Foams (old skool!) work better for me. And so does sorbolene cream in a pump pack (very runny)...

I used to live in Kingscliff and thought nothing of buying all fruit & veg fresh from local growers. Years later I bored my wife and kids to tears with rubbishing how tasteless Supermarket vegies were. A few years back, I took the fam to Kingscliff/Gold Coast/Byron and bought them real fresh...

I didn't. Does that make me a geek, or just socially undesirable to women?

Guys and dolls. Sometimes I think life is getting a little tough, but compared to what you are dealing with, it pales. My sympathies and I hope life treats you a little better.

I only had one or two A5's in the last week or two. All A3's. And it's getting hot...

Good and bad news http://www.anandtech.com/show/5036/new-mechwarrior-coming-in-2012-will-be-freetoplay http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/31/meet-mechwarrior-online-piranhas-free-to-play-tactical-mech-sim/

Typo on my part. 150GB, not 15GB

If I was a contractor on this project I would be earning a decent salary :) I'm not though. It will look good on the résumé. I've already had to clamp down on who does what. I've got a guy on the team who has high blood pressure, and another who has type 2 diabetes. Both are dedicated...

Nothing so nefarious. We are three days out from a new SAP system rollout - ERP, SRM, CRM, Portal, PI, BI, BobJ, PS-CD, SolMan, TREX and Productivity Pack, and I am the Basis team lead. I've been doing 65~85 hour weeks for the last three months and I don't think I've done a "regular" amount of...