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As dd, mentions older X series are nice... A modern direct replacement for the older netbooks are the HP Stream 11 and the Asus x205. (both are MSRP US$199) I'm personally not a fan of Chromebooks due to their reliance on Google infrastructure from the productivity aspect, and whilst tablets...

Some of the stuff I got to play with today...

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasant holiday period. For all others who also celebrate other events at this time I also wish a: Happy Hanukkah Io, Saturnalia! Happy and Joyful Kwanzaa Happy Constitution Day PS. Apologies if I missed a holiday...

sd and Bozo, I think you just made my point about the possible future of Anandtech...

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work in these cases. The problem is they are using an automated dialer and only places the call through to an operator if they get a pickup on the other end and the pickup talks and says active for a number of seconds. (This is a telltale sign of a scam call...

We get them call about once a month, and they seem to be using the public phone book to obtain numbers, names and addresses... The calls are typically mid-day when most office workers are at work... hence I why I guess you see a lot of older people getting hit by the scam... There was one...

The aim is either: 1. Install some PC Support software that randomly crashes the PC, and you call them with Creadit card details to get it fixed... (Several hundreds at a time). 2. Install keyloggers to gain access to online banking and email systems. 3. Install other malware and since they have...

Trying to get me to install them... The reason I posted the list, I know a few of you do tech support for bothn small/large companies and knowing which tools they are using, you could block the use of the tools on the PCs...

Hi Guys, I just had one of those phone calls from "Windows Technical Services" (aka pc support scams), and managed to get my personal best of 34mins before they hung up on me. That was after they started abusing me, saying I couldn't speak English correctly, that they would cut off my Internet...

FYI, If I go to TomsHardware with Adblock off, I get 26 different ads on their homepage...

FYI, If I go to TomsHardware with Adblock off, I get 26 different ads on their homepage...

FYI, Anandtech has posted on their homepage, that they have been purchased by Purch. When Anand made the notice to stand down, offers were made, and today Anandtech announced the purchase. Purch also own Toms Hardware, so it'll be interesting how Anandtech evolves over the coming year. Full...

FYI, we've encountered this a few times at work. If an internal drive volume is created and formatted using Windows 8.1, then Windows 7 will refuse to mount the volume claiming it's unformatted. (This is for internal drives, not for USB/Firewire/Thunderbolt drives). We haven't worked out...

agree 100%. What is the use of doing a backup using the builtin stuff with such a severe limitation? Or is it a case that the backup is not really a complete backup as all, but just a backup of the critical stuff like the registry, applications and user documents?

FYI. ASRock just released a X99 motherboard with 2x 10GB LAN onboard and includes support 4x SLI... http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99%20WS-E10G/index.us.asp

FYI, just got: 11-Dec-2014 12:36 +10:00 Had this happen yesterday once, but have had it 2 times today...

I was just reading through the Java JRE/JDK license and in accordance with the license, the JRE/JDK is bound by US export laws (as one would expect since the JRE/JDK includes cryptogrpahics based components)... The Oracle Export Regulations document (...

The CPU you have (IIRC formally called BayTrail and is a Silvermont core) has 2 DIMMs channels available via the IMC (integrated memory controller), but there is only 1 physical DIMM slot connected, which Windows doesn't seem to be able to determine correctly. This is either a bug in the UEFI...

@sed, according to Kingston, the C55-B5298/B5299 only has 1 DIMM slot... (You can use their memory finder tool to look up via laptop model number and it'll tell you how many DIMM slots there are).

I wouldn't be worried about the no longer manufactured part, but the fact that many current SSDs use flash of smaller feature size which results in flash that has less PE cycles overall. Would a modern SSD that's using TLC based flash with a lowly 1,000 PE cycle count fair as well as the models...

Coug, sorry to hear about your back. Hope it's getting better.

I enjoyed the Lego movie, but I took it with the expectation that it was a kids movie. I did rather like some of the subtle hints at the adult audience as well... The new Star Wars movies will certainly be a visual treat, but the story... that's yet to be seen. Also there has been no...

In case you haven't seen it, blah, blah, blah... Star Wars ep VII trailer...

Also a curved screen can have a wider viewing area than the actual physical width required, ergo fit a 55" curved screen in the same space as a 50" TV

Reminds of a time many moons ago (NT4.0 Wkstn/Server days), that users had roaming profiles enabled, and logging on at 8:30-9am at the start of the work day would result in 30min login times due to the fileservers being so overloaded... (typically log in time outside of the peak was typically...

Speaking of weather, we didn't really have spring and are now truly in summer... See the attachment (left in sun for 5 mins)... We are expected to have an average of ~40C this weekend... I hope all the visting delegates for the G20 Summit are enjoying our beautiful summers day!

That's just the CIFS announcement information as given out by samba (which is what FreeNAS is using to share via CIFS/SMB). The actual values can be controlled via the samba configuration (smb.conf) via : [global] announce version = 4.9 announce as = NT From the documentation...

In Australia we have Movember ( http://au.movember.com/ ) to help raise awarness for Men's health (particularily prostate and testicular cancer, but also others like mental health including suicide prevention). I assume NSN is similar. But since I normally wear what some call a circle beard...

I've used OpenVPN a few times in testing and it does what it's meant to do, in the scenario of connecting remotely into a work LAN and accessing LAN resources... However the sticking point was trying to find client software that would connect to the OpenVPN server for all the remote devices...

I assumed for the OS/HyperVisor installation...

That sounds like a good idea. My only concern is the age of the existing system...

Thanks for reminding me. Knew of Gog.com but hadn't checked them out yet.

True, Stunt Rally is more visually appealing... The appeal of TORCS is the refinement made in the physics engine, being very true to real life. PS. Stunt Rally also has the Batman Rumbler and the Battlestar Galatica Viper as drivable vehicles, for those so inclined.

Hi Guys, Since building my new system, I've started playing some games, notably Warzone 2100, TORCS, SuperTuxKart (the kids love this one), Pingus and Astromenace. About to buy Doom3 BFG as well... (I haven't played Doom3 yet, as never had a system that could play it well, until now). The kids...

No issues with the noise of the 212 Evo, in fact the front 18cm fan of the TJ08E is quite loud on high setting, barely audible on low setting, but still louder than the 212 even on the low setting... The loudest I've had was my old dual Opteron 242 system... 6x 80cm fans (3 front, 3 rear) and...

Just as a follow up, I ended up getting: Intel i7-4790 CoolerMaster 212 Evo Silverstone 12cm fan 2x Kingston 16GB Kit(2x8G) DDR3 1866MHZ (HyperX Black) ASRock H97M-PRO4 Silverstone TJ08E SeaSonic G-550W 80Plus eVGA GTX760 SC 2G Intel 530 24GB Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm HDD (existing). LG BluRay-RW...

That depends, is he going to keep the new one for the same period of time? I recently upgraded to a new box (see: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php/10393-Small-case-build ), and I would consider the parts the best bang for buck at the higher end... There is a decent amount of...

Specs look good for the money, but can't offer any reasonable suggestions without knowing the number of VMs, what the VMs will be running and how hard the server will be hit... Any possiblity of outsourcing (aka using cloud based services) via GoogleApps/Office365, GMail, etc to lessen the...

I would guess,. something is lying... According to Intel, the max turboboost for your processor is 2.4GHz, up from the normal 2.16GHz... http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz To see what is really going on, from the terminal run: $ cat...

Illustrator or Visio are about the closest. It's mainly for generating vector based graphics. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors The nice thing about Draw is that it can generate EPS correctly/easily, which allows very easy insertion into LaTeX documents...

Sorry, was a typo, yes docx was '07. For simple documents docx is safer, as the document is a XML document in a ZIP file, so there is less to go wrong. Also do you have the MS fonts installed and selecting those as the default font (don't think this is the problem, but you never know). Hint...

Do you get the same when you save as: doc? (Word 97) docx? (Word 2003) odt? rtf? or export as PDF? Have you checked the margins and paper sizes, are they what you expect in both applications? I've been using LibreOffice since it was StarOffice 4.0 and haven't personally seen the issue you're...

Glad to hear you got the rest sorted out. What are the issues you're having with LibreOffice?

I'm sure most of the regulars are ex-SR, with myself being one of the most recent to migrate. I migrated at a time when reviews on SR where very few, and the forums literially become "What drive do buy?" and "What is the most reliable drive?" threads... Shortly after SR was purchased by the new...

ROFL.... Oh... so much broken code out there!

I had concerns on the height of the 212 Evo, but triple checking, it'll easily fit, and will use that. Thanks for the prompting. FYI, The GTX970s are over $200 more than the GTX760 here... PS. I was looking at HSF, and my wife goes, "looking at naked computers again"? So I fired up google...

All this discussion on a new PC, my beautiful wife has given the ok for me to finally replace my 5yr old system (yep, the one I was going to replace 12mths ago, but funds fell through at the time). I like the idea of a smaller case and my new desk only allows for a 420mm deep case (The in desk...

Just like to thank everyone for your input, he decided to go with the build as last detailed, except swapping the BR-RW for a DVD-RW.

Crucial MX100 128GB = AU$85 Crucial MX100 256GB = AU$148 Crucial MX100 512GB = AU$269 My only concern with the Curcial, their MX500 has TRIM suppoort blacklisted in the Linux kernel due to it being broken (as in brick the drive broken)... Wonder if they've fixed that? PS. The MX100 prices are...

Thanks guys... The full story with my wife was: Approximately 2yrs ago she was diagnosed with bowel cancer (complication resulting from Crohn's disease) and at the same time benign lesions were noted in the lymph nodes around the breasts. She underwent biological treatment for the bowel...