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So is it going to be NT 7.0 or NT 6.4 ?

Apologies, wasn't haven't a go at you. ;) It sounded like you assumed I was using integrated gfx or going with the GTX660 suggestion. FYI, GTX660's are getting few and far between availability wise here. (They are typically only $30 more than the GTX750Ti, and as time notes, offers additional...

I agree... While personally I'm just unift with no major helath issues, my wife was recently diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer (was at stage 1 with it dormant for 2yrs), and has started chemo yesterday...

A aftermarket HSF was primarily due to maxing out the CPU, in both software development whilst concurrently running multiple VMs, coupled with a small case that will be placed in a in-desk cavity. At work all our software development boxes use the stock HSF (most are Intel i7's of different...

A 750Ti is in the build... As I said, it's mainly for minecraft and more casual games... His a fan of games on Myst, so unless newer puzzle/adventure games require a beefy GPU, I can't see the need for anything beefer.

Average is ~AU$360 here for this one... The 512GB 850 Pro currently listed for around AU$409!

My first thought for a case were to look at the Fractal Design cases (a company I like), but alas they're all too deep.

@Time, thank you so much for suggesting the TJ08E, excellent case. ;) Get's really good reviews on slient pc review ( http://www.silentpcreview.com/ss-tj08e ). After going back over the reviews I've found on the Prodigy-M, virtually none did thermal testing on CPU/GPU/PSU temps in the system...

A lot of online retailers have either delisted the 840 Pro's or if you call them, they have no stock of them. I can get some shipped interstate, but the shipping price largely negates any saving with going with an older model.

Quite the opposite, high-end users do typically like VMs, especially when you can do 3D pass-through and get to play older games in VMs that don't work on the Host OS. My understanding was they did it for system stability. As for why the Celeron's have it? Low end servers running Hyper-V, Xen...

When he first came to me, I started with the Zotac EN series and some of the smaller Shuttle boxes... then came the 32GB RAM want... And looking at a some of the larger shuttle bare bones kits (which can be a little hard to come by here), it was cheaper to go with the mATX mobo+case route...

Hi Time, Thanks for the feedback. 1. Was aware of this, but the new Devil's Canyon K series no longer disable VT-x/VT-d, which may help some others here. 2. In our lab at work, under Linux we're finding increased CPU utilisation and can't move more than 60-70MB/s on Gigabit ethernet, whereas...

Hi Guys, Helping with a build for a friend that requires a smaller case to be used. Due to the cavity available for a tower in his desk being only 420mm deep, I'm limited to cases that are are less than 400mm deep (due to space required for cables at the back). The cavity itself is 280mm wide x...

FreeBSD: recent benchmarks place it equal with Solaris/OpenIndiana, a lot of work has been done in FreeBSD 10 improving it's performance. Linux (FUSE): works, but is slow (unless you have lots and lots of RAM). Linux (kernel mode driver): Close to same as FreeBSD, but slightly slower due to...

I wasn't aware ESXi packged bash, I though it used busybox in the underlying core OS?

This one actually made the morning news show here in Oz... Except it was completely incorrect (noting all systems including windows were affected), that AV will pick up malicious actions, etc... But it was nice to see most Linux distro's packaging the fix very rapidly... (All our systems at...

Pretty much every where else is listing a 2048x1440 res... http://gizmodo.com/nexus-9-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-1637603393 (The image mid way down has the specs)

Hi Guys, In the market for a new 10" tablet for the wife, since our son dropped her current 10" Toshiba Thrive on the tiles and cracked the casing. The Toshiba still powers up and seems fine, except the backlight will flicker a little if held certain ways, and battery life has dropped...

Coug, congratulations on doing continued study! The way I'm seeing things in the near future, solid understanding of networking will be a hard requirement, as the industry is moving away from centralised architectures to heavily de-centralised architectures especially with the growth in the...

Actually seems reasonabled priced for on US$2.5K for the specs... But what connectivity is required eg. will it require DP MST, or will it run from a single HDMI connection?, and will it do the full res @60Hz+...

The reports were generated in the application itself via it's reporting facility... Then exported to ASCII text files via capturing the LPT port comms, and processed accordingly (resulting files were read via a custom .NET application, basically treating the imported files with fixed width...

I've got a Das Keyboard Model S Professional silent at work (Cherry red switches), and very happy with it. The Reds are only slightly louder than most membrane keyboards, but for a comparison, Das Keyboard has audio here: http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional/ (scroll down and there...

Whoa, necro -thread... No I didn't. In this case I ended up using some of the reports from the application to extract the key information and went from there...

Ps. First is the desktop, the second shows the default window borders I've got set, etc...

Agreed.

Ivy Bridge will do 4K on HDMI/DP provided you have the UEFI support and a very up to date Intel Driver and X.Org version, and the HDMI/DP ports are of the required versions. (Some cheaper motherboards skimped on the actual hardware for HDMI, limiting overall bandwidth on the wire to less than...

Interesting that the writes are quicker with the 4K tests...

Likewise, is every one affected ok?

Do you happen to the have OS Restore media for the laptop? Why not use that if you have it. (Did it come with the laptop, or did you have to burn the DVDs yourself based on recovery software in the initial install?) Either way, Toshiba should be able to provide the media (or a download link) for...

Agreed. But you could replace the vendor in the last sentence with: More than anything it had me wondering what the Microsoft people were thinking More than anything it had me wondering what the Oracle people were thinking More than anything it had me wondering what the Ubuntu people were...

Sounds like you just need Cobbler then? Otherwise you could do your own Distro based on CentOS and use the automated installation script functionality... Spacewalk, IIRC, is the open-source version of Red Hats Satellite, which has full lifecycle management, which sounds like overkill...

Seems interesting... Howewver I thought most used Puppet these days? PS. Satellite/Spacewalk use Cobbler for bare metal deployment management...

I think it really happened around the time (early 2000's), when web-development started to be done by artists/graphics designers, and not programmers largely due to the tools that made it so accessible to non-coders.

Let's see: Most web-developers were careful about the size of the final page as delivered... (bytes were often counted, including all image sizes, to ensure a page could be downloaded in under 5 secs) Hardly any use of javascript... and certainly very little inclusions from around the web...

And I'm still at 9/1 ADSL2+ (w/100GB) for $50 p/m. (only get 9MBps due to distance from the exchange)... And our glorious NBN is now "no-body knows WTF is going on" mode since change of government... **NBN = National Broadbad Network, that originally was meant to bring fibre direct to most...

So what's so wrong with Steam? Shouldn't it be possible to install w/steam and then just uninstall the Steam component, or at least disable it's service when playing the game? (Didn't realise the steam components took so much CPU/RAM doing nothing)?

Nope, it's just "business"... contracts, laws, money (maximum extraction of from "customers").

I'm sorry, but you purchased a license for the game that has restrictions, eg must be used with steam... By acquiring a copy from another source without those restrictions is not inline with the original license you purchased, and therefore can be considered morally wrong as you are following...

editions that come from MSDN (or ActionPack subs) can't be installed on client machines even with real OEM/Retail keys... breaks the MSDN/System Integrator licensing agreement...

Merc, fantastic effort on the weight loss... Re: BMI, the best advise is to ignore BMI completely (it falls apart in way too many situations), and look simply at body fat percentage. (and with many consumer grade scales that have semi-accurte body fat mesasurement, this is the way to go). I...

Under Tech Specs: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=210-ACHO&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=1&~ck=dellSearch

Hopefully... but buyers need to be aware that this is a TN panel, that can only do 30Hz refresh at 4K... Also there seems to be some missing info if MST is required if using DisplayPort...

Others have pretty much answered the questions... 32bit and 64bit keys with Win7 and above are interchangable. (This may have applied with Vista as well, but unsure). XP x86 and XPx64 were two distince licenses and can't be shared between 32bit and 64bit editions. (XP x64 was closer to Win2K3...

Anandtech review of 6TB drives: http://anandtech.com/show/8263/6-tb-nas-drives-wd-red-seagate-ec-hgst-he

Personally, I normally just rip direct from disk (via ffmepg or mencoder cli), but on occassion have used ddrescue to extract the disk to an ISO, and perform a normal conversion based on the ISO... (ddrescue is like a regular dd, but has options for skipping and retrying bad blocks, which is...

The only reason would be the BIOS won't recognise the chip, and/or power delievery requirements... Check with ASRock and their supported CPU page for your motherboard...

What are you encoding to? and what software are you using? For example, if targetting h.264, then nVidia cards can do GPU accelerated encoding via "nvenc" (uses CUDA)... Xeon's won't really help (unless you want to go socket2011, where the E5 can offer more cores/cache) but than depends on the...

The way you've described it, I don't know of any off the shelf routers that will do all that. A server that's built with 16ports and Wifi can certainly do it, with the correct DHCP and firewall service setup, but don't know of an off-the-shelf solution.

Not going to discuss actuals products, but... You don't need a router with a large number ports if you use a decent L2/L3 switch between the gateway router and their internal gateway devices... eg, the building has an IP range of 9.1.1.100/27. For example each business is on a separate floor...

Excellent news Merc.