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IIRC, Yes. The Intel graphics drivers support everything from the i810e chipset and above. IIRC, The SoundMax integrated audio was first supported in IIRC Ubuntu 10.04... Windows 7 will work, but will be very slow due to only having 1GB of RAM. (I've personally seen many GX270's running Win7...

@Merc, My wife loved the pics, especially the first one!

Luckily, we: 1, have a really good air con unit, so we experienced about the same temps as you indoors, and 2, went to the cinemas and saw Frozen (which as a cool 22C/71F indoors)... Surprisingly the cinemas weren't that crowded... (like they are in summer). Besides the record temperatures...

Actually I wonder how Time is doing in the heat?

Nope, just lying on the ground for 10 minutes in the sun. It was above 45C in the shade... Even for us it was hot.

Speaking of cold, anyone want to swap? (That's outside at 2pm today). PS. We don't need a hot water unit today, the water from the cold water pipes is piping hot... (We need to run it for a few minutes to get the cold water).

Replying to self... Have had F-Secure installed for just over 2 months and have removed it due to DNS client issues. From what I can tell, F-Secure hooks into the DNS client and on occasion will cause DNS lookups to fail for no apparent reason, but only for a single domain. eg, for 24 hours, my...

How is the premise flawed? He initially suspected the OCZ units were failing due to power loss, however through testing found the real root cause for their failure. He continued to test his initial suspicion on further units to ensure that they actually did what they were supposed to do... The...

Agree 100%, and most Enterprise targeted models already do... but most consumer orientated SSDs do not (eg the ones that most people purchase), all to save a few dollars per unit and/or to justify the higher price on enterprise models.

Having had more time more time to read the report over (and a few similar reports/papers on the IEEE/ACM websites), there appears to be a fundamental issue with some SSD designs, in that they make no guarantee that the underlying storage will remain consistent in the event of a power failure...

IIRC, Write cache was disabled, and Linux

Saw this on ./ , so thought others would be interested... Might explain a good number of data loss failures in SSDs that have been seen... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/27/208249/power-loss-protected-ssds-tested-only-intel-s3500-passes

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...

Nuking them from orbit is obviously the only way to be sure... But I think you certainly highlighted the points of failure... 1. Users with admin rights... 2. Code can execute from %AppData% (This is were Flash has read/write access to in it's default setting)... And this probably wasn't even...

@Merc, so where is the failure? 1. Yet another Flash exploit? 2. The web-browser sandbox didn't exist? Or was easily bypassed? 3. The user were running with admin privileges? (eg needed to create user accounts, registry modification (to avoid the login screen), install a JVM, start services). Or...

While I can't speak for others, my main desktop runs Solaris 11.1 and my netbook runs Arch Linux (32bit). Both of these systems in their default configurations have a very-very small attack surface... I also run Firefox with NoScript, AdBlock and Ghostery. The only plugin for Firefox I have...

Have you contacted AVG Technical support regarding your issues? I haven't used AVG for over 8 years, dropped it when memory/CPU resources requirements went silly there for a while. (It was at the same time, they introduced the safe-link scan in IE/Firefox that would download and scan content...

I hear Bora Bora is nice this time of year... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_Bora ) Everyone complains about Global Warming, yet few ever mention Nuclear Winter...

Sorry did miss the sarcasm I remember when the Amiga came out, that was drool worthy. (and some of my friends had Amiga 500s, and one even had an original model 2000, and later getting the 4000T).

I'm a little surprised, no Trash-80's, Amstrad CPC's, Acorn's, BBC Micro's, Amiga's? Or even shock, horror, a Macintosh. (later called the Macintosh 128K or Mac Classic).

And how much time did it actually run CP/M or even in it's native mode? (most C128 owners I know spent about 95% of their time in C64 mode).

Yes, Ikea, but avoid them... (at the ones we get in Oz are not the best).

Digging through some notes, the Amstrad PC3286 also had a SoundBlaster 2.0, and the HDD was a Miniscribe 8051A (40MB)... Thinking about HDDs in the old systems, I basically had: 1. 286 - Miniscribe 8051A 40MB, 2. Cyrix P120 - Maxtor 120MB (can't remember the exact model, but 100% sure it was a...

I was a good little geek yesterday, I stripped and cleaned my keyboard.... It's all nice and clean now... (and if I knew how bad it was before I started, I would have thrown it out and purchased a new one, it was that yucky).

Same, that and Civilization and Dune 2... sooo many lost hours...

Like Doug, my first "family" computer was a Commodore 64 with tape drive, later getting the floppy drive. What fun times those were, especially all the hours lost to F-15 Strike Eagle. Second "family" computer was an Amstrad PC-3286 (i286@16MHz, 1MB RAM, 40MB Type 17 HDD, 14" monitor) later...

FYI, rdesktop 1.8 and FreeRDP both support NLA...

Also, try FreeRDP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRDP) as it supports newer RDP protocol features than rdesktop...

I use rdesktop with server '08 and server '12 quite a bit... All I did was make sure I was on the latest version... Otherwise check the security policy re RDP on the server, it may have something enabled that your client doesn't like. A quick google shows rdesktop is not installed by default on...

Umm... http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/12/11/1819227/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram

@Merc, very well said...

How many BitCoin is that worth? ;)

For shit's and giggles, I replaced sha256sum with sha512sum, and now it says: 127 octillion quinquagintillion years (aka 127 * 10^180 years).

For any of my passwords: It would take a desktop PC about 31 sesvigintillion years to crack your password Oh, my mine are really easy to remember: $ echo <insertmypassword><site> | sha256sum PS. sesvigintillion = 10^81 years

PS. The Cisco routers, were part of a whole-infrastructure upgrade timed at the same time, so I'll note they weren't purchased specifically for the installation.

Depends on the laser units, and speed. The unit I deployed was just under AU$4K for 2x 100Mbps transmitters/receivers, fibre-to-copper converters and installation. IIRC The transmitters/receivers units themselves were only about AU$900 ea. (This was about 9yr ago). The distance was just under...

If you're looking for point to point links, and have clear line of sight between site, Free Space Optics (FSO) based technology can provide up to 1GigE for far less cost than microwave based systems. I've personally used 100Mbit FSO between sites (about 1km apart), and it worked extremely well...

I myself am waiting for 4K monitors in the 20"-24" size... My 7yr old 20" LCDs (1680x1050) are still doing well, and looking at replacements means about the only thing to look forward to would be an IPS panel (as my current ones are TNs). The resolution hasn't changed, or gone backwards as far...

Lubuntu i386 (32bit), yes, just, Lubuntu x64 (64bit), no, unless you have CD media supporting 710MB ISO, Fedora with LXDE, yes, but not the KDE or GNOME editions of Fedora. Also, the kernel with CentOS is heavily patches as well and includes many features from 3.x kernels... not to mention it...

Debian Stable CD sets (you only need the first CD to install): http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/ Also, there are a few variations on the first CD, each with a different DE... CentOS 6.5 CD sets: http://wiki.centos.org/Download Arch Installation CD...

The Atom C2750 supports VT-x (as do all the C2xxx Atoms), so Hyper-V should work... http://ark.intel.com/products/77987/Intel-Atom-Processor-C2750-4M-Cache-2_40-GHz

I thought everyone in the US worked for the US military machine in some capacity?

Not to mention the PCIe SSDs work fantastically as ZIL and L2ARC caches in ZFS setups...

Agree. Windows 7 should be fine (but tight on memory). If it's an original Pentium4 (not a PentiumD), then no, Windows 8.1 most likely won't work. Noting: your motherboard uses an ATi Xpress200 chipset, and is limited to 2GB DDR-400 maximum. Also be aware that AMD does not support that chipset...

Not necessarily, a number of C2D/C2Qs and most Xeons (based on the C2D/C2Q cores) have that required functionality... (VT-x being the main one for HyperV in 2012). If your C2D/C2Q has VT-x, I would surprised if Win8.1 doesn't work on it. (As VT-x includes PREFETCHx, LAHF/SAHF, NX, Intel64 and...

Interesting, the only question I have is: Are the PCIe models bootable? Or are they like the current PCIe versions, where they can only be a data drive in the system?

So, vote with your dollars and don't support companies that don't or are too arrogant to care about their users... okily dokily...

Sorry, poor wording. Typically single license for Windows 8 is valid for both x86 or x64 editions of the OS. You just choose which one to install. If you need to switch between 32bit and 64bit editions, just wipe the machine and install the other edition. IIRC/AFAIK the only requirement is that...

Isn't that the mantra for most manufacturers these days... ship it now to bring in more $$$ and we'll fix the bugs if/when they complain? Glad it's also fixed.

I agree 100%. But, money matters, and with a slow-down in desktop sales, maybe it was MS's way of scratching Intel's/AMDs back by getting more hardware sales in the pipeline... Now the funny thing is, what are most people going to do: 1. Nothing, and whinge they are stuck on Windows 8.0. 2...