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Hi Guys, Just was quickly browsing the following paper called "Optimizing NAND Flash-Based SSDs via Retention Relaxation". The basic premise is that in order to store data for a long period with NAND flash, say hold it's contents for 10yrs (being the current industry expectation or there...

I tend to agree with B^3. Out of all the SCSI drives I've had, they tended to fail less than IDE/SATA drives. (I can think of only 3 failures in 100's of drives - with all running 24/7 for 3 yrs). However, I will stress this, all those drives were hot-swap 80pin in proper chassis with adequate...

@Clocker, how did story time go?

The sad thing is, except for a few here, most of us have systems that "are so yesterday". Case in point, my current primary box is C2Q-Q9400, 4GB RAM RegECC DDR2-800, 250GB 7200rpm, X38 chipset, nVidia Quadro FX580, which itself is "so yesterday" even compared to your box. However is plenty...

We borrowed Gorganzola from our library not that long ago, certainly a good book. Will keep an eye out for the other one at the library - thanks for the tip. (We tend to borrow 20 books each fortnight for our two - they love their books that much). Gabriel, she's going through her fairy stage...

My wife and I ensure we always read a book each night to each of our kids just before bed, (as part of their bedtime routine). It's certainly a good bonding moment between child and parent, and we've found it's certainly installed a love of books in both of them. PS. My daughters favourite...

It sure is funny how life changes once you have kids. My wife and I have been looking at schooling options for our eldest for next year (he's due to start in Feb 2013), and will most likely home-school due not being able to find an establishment that can fully cater for our child. But on the...

Damn 'off by 1' errors, gets us all the time! ;)

Post 10,000 in this thread, and all is well... Just like to thank everyone for making this a wonderful online community... :tgif: :cheers:

I've never understood the appeal of Harley's in general? Yes they make some very nice bikes, however if I wanted a big bike I would consider something like a V-MAX, a Boulevard or a Vulcan 1700. Actually that reminds of a joke (a very anti-Harley) person me... PS. My wife says this might be a...

I thought Desktop installation was covered in the FreeBSD Handbook? For sharing files with Windows, you'll need to use SAMBA (exactly the same as Linux). If you need a hand with Solaris 10 or 11, let me know and I can be of assistance. (Are you installing in a VM or on real hardware)...

Depends on your taste, do you prefer a bitter, a stout or a lager? (My personal preference is Crown Lager). Some of the better beers are from boutique breweries, and an especially nice one is beez neez. PS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Australia

ROFL, that is so true. While my wife won't ride my bike (it's not bad-ass enough for her), it's perfect for me and my commute. PS. We use L/100km here...

I was going to recommend the CBR over the CRF, simply due to ride comfort. The other option is the Kawasaki ZZR250, due it's slightly larger size and better fit for a larger/taller person, but you should still get 70+mpg on it. I was going to suggest the Ninga 600L, but it's fuel economy isn't...

Except those in regional areas where ISPs don't give a sh*t about providing infrastructure, or simple overprice their plans including lower than before download limits. (Some low-cost plans here in Oz only include 10GB-50GB download limits on DSL services, only ehen you're willing to spend over...

Couldn't be said that most companies now have issues with releasing quality software? IMHO, most rely on the release-now, patch-later paradigm a little too much these days, with that paradigm now infecting products environments in which patching firmware was unheard of even as little as 2 yrs...

I just burnt through 12GB downloading Windows 2008 R2 Server and MS SQL 2008 R2 and then installing and updating both of those... Not to mention the 1GB I needed for updates I did the other day after installing WinXP in a new VM... Damn, Microsoft doesn't care about people download caps...

Re: App Store. I can't see it being enforced too hard that applications can only be installed from the store. There is a lot of software that can only be installed for certain customers due to either government regulations or that companies only deal with certain industries, not to mention...

The text 'Hyperlink" shoud be highlighted automatically for editing when a url is inserted... (That's what used to happen in the old vb version).

I don't know what MS is trying with Windows 8... Windows 8 on ARM won't support x86 emulation, won't support AD/Domains, etc. Windows 8 on x86, will use a tablet focused UI for all desktops (unless you turn it off via registry/GPO or know heaps of keyboard shortcuts). Have they lost direction...

WTF? I knew Windows is bloated, but seriously... On my netbook with Arch Linux + GNOME 3.2 + LibreOffice + TexLive + Eclipse + Netbeans + everything else takes just over 5GB? (Heck, even on Sol11 desktop is shy over 10GB with everything installed). While I know it's hard to get anything smaller...

Just noticed that when you create a hyperlink, it no longer auto highlights the text that the user will see as the link allowing for easier editing... The cursor is placed just past the closing URL tag. PS. Using Firefox

No idea... But to kill spiders I tend to use either Mortein or just a shoe if it's easy to get at... :wink:

The Toshiba Thrive 7, uses a 1280x800 screen in a 7" 16:10 form factor (roughly 255dpi). I highly suspect the next range of tablets will push 1080p interfaces.

So Julia is still our PM... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-27/gillard-wins-leadership-spill/3854204 I guess the public will have to wait until the next Federal Election then...

My wife actually likes the smaller display, and has no issues with it. It's not that much smaller than the 10". Mind you the 7" tablets are half the weight of the 10" ones...

A few days ago, Telstra Bigpond (one of the largest ISPs here in Oz) had over 3 million customers knocked offline for over an hour... (I personally was affected for about 2 hours - couldn't get anything more than access to the Bigpond SMTP/POP3 servers)...

but any chance of some different skin/style choices? A dark theme like one of these would be nice? (In order preference)... http://www.completevb.com/product/44 http://www.completevb.com/product/45 http://www.completevb.com/product/19

At least there is some sense left...

Yes, true with the wonderful side effects of lowered total write cycles (in some cases around 1000 writes), decreased reliability (due to die shrink), and slower performance per bit (3 bit TLC is roughly 3x slower than SLC and 2x slower than MLC - with higher latency). Truly a wonder to behold! ;)

Making another movie, but I'm sure he wouldn't last the back-stabbing that has been occuring recently...

Looks like Australia may have a new Prime Minister in the coming weeks... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-23/gillard-and-rudd-on-course-for-leadership-showdown/3846974 So, time and LiamC, whose your bet for the next PM?

The best of Bad Paid-For-Photos. Beware of the Unicorn!!!

We used to use a Crestron 4in1 remote, and it worked very well for those items it supported. For the one DVD player it didn't have or know about, it's learn mode worked flawlessly... Now that all our lounge room equipment is Sony, we get to enjoy BraviaSync and the newly acquired Media Remote...

yes...

Sony Media Remote for Android For those that have a Sony TV or BluRay player, Sony's released an official remote app for tablets and phones, that lets you control your TV or BR player from your tablet/phone. The downside is, that it only works with a limited number of TV models, and you...

Oh the days of playing GORILLA.BAS on MS DOS... Then Worms came out... (And now the Warmux clone is superb)...

My wife and I just picked up a Toshiba Thrive 7 tablet, very impressed with it... Any questions about it, please don't hesitate to ask.

Hi All, I thought I might start a looking for this type of app thread, for those of us that don't seem to have the google-fu working. I'm looking for a free world map application and supports zooming and possibly searching by city and has some country facts attached, that doesn't show ads...

Don't worry my wife doesn't get it either... It's just another scorched earth clone, in which you fling birds into the air to knock down buildings to kill the pigs...

This is the one for sale here: http://www.kobobooks.com/touch

Thanks for the input guys. I went around today and had a look at the 3 main contenders... In short: 1. It would appear that the Kindle still has sucky PDF support when it comes to graphically intensive PDFs. Simple mainly text based PDFs are fine though. 2. The Kindle works great with Amazon...

Sure it wasn't a China Blue HD disc?

MTP support is certainly not an issue, considering I tend to help maintain libmtp on Solaris, and am the author of gMTP! (gMTP is a general purpose MTP client for UNIX).

Thanks for the info. If you can remember why you didn't go for the Sony or Kobo, it would be greatly appreciated. Touch would be nice (but not necessary) since I would like make notes on some of the text books I can get for Uni. AFAIK, the Nook is not available here, and the other problem is...

Hi All, My significant other has surprised me today saying that she happy for me to get an eBook reader. (I tend to read a lot of books in bed, and it would make it easy to get books that interest me, without having take up shelf space). Additionally, the local library now has ebook lending...

I haven't done it personally, but a friend ghosted the HDD to the new HDD, installed the new HDD in the new machine, and then ran a repair off the installation CD to get it to work...

But everything is better with Bluetooth

What I think worries Coug the most, is that people are watching the show and gaining enjoyment from it... IIRC the term for fans is gleeks... Give me classic A-Team any day (now showing on 7-Mate at 2PM each day for those in Oz). Mind you, I really like the show 'Man V Food'...

H, Thanks for running the forum and attracting a good group of people...