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  1. Chewy509

    Something Random

    On most bikes, yes it's just a chip modification. Don't know about the reflashing part though.
  2. Chewy509

    IBM Planning 120PB Cluster Array.

    Saw this linked elsewhere, but: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/94082-ibm-builds-120-petabyte-cluster-made-out-of-200000-hard-drives Now that's a lot of pr0n... ;)
  3. Chewy509

    I do want to buy a used car

    Coug, since you're a business operator, any chance of a lease option tied to the company? (I don't know how it works in Canada, but suspect it's similar to here in Australia and elsewhere). That way if the company goes under, all lease debts are part of the company debts and not tied to the...
  4. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Any thoughts on what bike you'll get? I know that in this part of the world, with the recent changes to the laws, most manufacturers have introduced slightly downspec 600's that can be ridden by riders with a power restricted license. You get a slightly less powerful bike so you won't kill...
  5. Chewy509

    I do want to buy a used car

    PS. I know I ride a small bike at the moment**, but it's very fuel efficient (2.9L/100km or 81mpg), cheap to maintain, etc and with me not working, we're sensitive to monetary expenses. Once I graduate, the plan is to update my bike to something a little more "me". ** At Uni last week I parked...
  6. Chewy509

    I do want to buy a used car

    Car is a '02 Holden Frontera 4x4 w/3.2L V6 (also called Opel/Vaxhuell Frontera or Isuzu Wizard is different parts of the world - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu_Wizard). Bike is a Yamaha Virago 250. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_XV250 The only reason for getting the bike serviced this...
  7. Chewy509

    I do want to buy a used car

    That's the one. I'm about to get a 20K service on my bike. First quote was $450 + parts from a Yamaha dealer, second quote was $240 including all parts from a Yamaha service specialist... The reason it's so expensive is that valve clearances need to be tested and adjusted, otherwise a normal...
  8. Chewy509

    Windows Server 2008 needed or not?

    I would use SFTP instead of plain FTP, just for the secure transmission aspects. A bit harder to setup, but once its working, it works the same as FTP.
  9. Chewy509

    Windows Server 2008 needed or not?

    For SMB, about the only feaure would be "Direct Access". http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2-better-together.aspx#simplif
  10. Chewy509

    Windows Server 2008 needed or not?

    Could always use IIS that comes with Win7? (AFAIK Win7 IIS still has FTP server functionality available).
  11. Chewy509

    Windows Server 2008 needed or not?

    Doesn't seem that expensive at all. When I was working, we setup a 5 PC + 1 Server setup for a small retail shop. Price - AU$35,000. About $15K in hardware, and $20K in software (and most of that went to MS - especially since we needed Win2K3, SQL Server, MS Dynamics Store Operations, backup...
  12. Chewy509

    RealVNC & Windows 7

    IIRC, RealVNC only handles desktop sharing. For file sharing you need something else.
  13. Chewy509

    Viore HD 1080p 60HZ lc40vf80 for 389 at costco?

    DD, it was a Samsung unit you had... (And it just reinforced that Samsung makes very few decent products IMHO).
  14. Chewy509

    question Screen full of ext4 or smbd error messages

    Looks like a bad inode. Simply take the volume offline and fsck it.
  15. Chewy509

    Something Random

    I just assumed it was linked to consumption of one of the colourings. eg for Sunset Yellow, consumption may result in various symptoms, including gastric upset, diarrhea, ...
  16. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Most likely: FD&C Yellow No.5 Tartrazine [E102] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine FD&C Yellow No.6 Sunset Yellow [E110] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Yellow_FCF E102 has links to sleeping disorders and ADD in children. E110 has links to migraines and ADD in young children. PS...
  17. Chewy509

    Some network help if you can

    Reinstall the OS?
  18. Chewy509

    SafetyNet?

    Maybe it's their way of pleasing the masses, when their external HDDs are severally mistreated... A drive comes in, according to SMART, the G sensor reading is off the chart, and they send back a note to the customer saying "no data recoverable". Also how many customers will actually take up the...
  19. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Was forwarded these 2x Mac vs PC video clips. Mildly amusing... (some language is present by otherwise safe for work). Mac vs Pc vs Linux vs Chrome vs Solaris - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z_E0CKDloM "Mac vs PC vs Everyone" (HD) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfjocdYHkws&feature=related...
  20. Chewy509

    Something Random

    The IEEE Computer magazine for August has the summarised history of the development, as well as an interview with some of the people who actually designed and implemented it! Very interesting reading. But alas, how different would the world be if IBM had chosen a Motorola or a Zilog CPU instead...
  21. Chewy509

    Case for a Gigabyte G1.Assassin

    Another case would be the Antec Titan 650 - Takes up to EATX and SSI/CEB server boards. Newegg lists for US$180. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129027 http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=Mjc=
  22. Chewy509

    Timing of building a new system

    Does anyone know if the SB based Xeons require Reg ECC RAM, or is it optional with the E3 based models? (IIRC, "Bloomfield" based Xeons could use either RegECC or non-ECC if desired, you just had to use all the same type (no mixing RegECC sticks with non-ECC sticks. But some of the others...
  23. Chewy509

    RAID JDOG

    Ignore this, as it appears to only work on Firewire connected drives and not USB drives... (Something in the USB stack prevents Windows from seeing USB drives as "fixed" drives, so disable the dynamic disk option. But with a quick regedit, you can tell the Windows Firewire stack to see all...
  24. Chewy509

    Something Random

    My current time wasters include: Angry Birds (when at Uni, during a boring lecture). Barrage - http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage Warmux - http://www.wormux.org/phpboost/news/news.php and JSpider (A solitaire game that comes with Solaris). Unlike Freecell on Windows, this...
  25. Chewy509

    RAID JDOG

    IIRC, that's because Windows treats all USB drives as not having the option to have a MBR or GPT. eg they should only contain a single filesystem, like a floppy drive! If you use a 3rd party partitioning tool, just construct a GPT on the drive, but define no actual partitions. Get Windows to...
  26. Chewy509

    New business machine baseline

    Was using them this time last year when I was working... Many point of sale systems that use parallel based printers still need "real" parallel ports, especially those that use Epson's OPOS environment. (Thankfully most are now migrating to USB). Also had the occasional hardware security...
  27. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Why not mount your drives as paths, under a global drive? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321.aspx
  28. Chewy509

    New business machine baseline

    IIRC, that's coming with the 70-series of chipsets... (unless you meant that board doesn't use the NEC controller that has been popular recently).
  29. Chewy509

    question Not Advancing Format

    From a quick look on their website and at the datasheets, most don't. See: http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-drives/desktop/deskstar/deskstar-7k3000 These ones don't...
  30. Chewy509

    question Not Advancing Format

    No, no reason, other than botched Operating System design and drivers, which won't address more than 2^32 sectors. ATA-6/SATA both use 48bit sector addressing (aka LBA48) allowing up to 2^48 addressable sectors. With 512byte sectors that's 2^57 bytes (or 128 Petabytes) addressable. With 4K...
  31. Chewy509

    question Partitionning a 7.2 To raid 6 array

    Conventional MBR based partitions are limited to 2TB, so in order to utilise all the array you'll need to use GPT partitioning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Since you're using Linux, the builtin partitioning/formatting tools handle this natively as long as you have "EFI...
  32. Chewy509

    Nice place to visit but....

    I've always liked this map... As time mentions, within the major cities there is little to worry about... About the worst is an angry possum, but those tend to shy away from humans. Spiders can be found around the place, but the normal precautions apply... Around where I am, we do get the...
  33. Chewy509

    Java 7 released.

    Just be aware there is a bug in the hotspot compiler, so wait until u2. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/#28+July+2011+-+WARNING%3A+Index+corruption+and+crashes+in+Apache+Lucene+Core+%2F+Apache+Solr+with+Java+7 A workaround is discussed in the above link if you absolutely must run JRE7...
  34. Chewy509

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    This is my 2cents - either: 1, buy a new jetdirect adapter (or similar) : HP 300x are cheapish on eBay. And the DLink DP301P+ work ok as well as long as you stick to RAW 9100 TCP connection method (avoid the NetBEUI connection method). (These are $50 ea). With the DLink DP301P+ in RAW 9100 mode...
  35. Chewy509

    External Drives

    Umm, XP x64 does indeed support 2TB+ drives. The only requirement is, that XP x64 can't boot from one, it must be a data only drive. (Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525 ) Or are you talking about a limitation of the drive controller you are using? IIRC, any...
  36. Chewy509

    question Music Collection Playlists...

    Hi Everyone, I'm adding import/export playlist support to an application (gmtp), and am pondering on the which playlist format to use for the process. I don't see a point in creating my own format, when quite a few already exist, and also makes importing playlists from other applications a neat...
  37. Chewy509

    Folding@Home

    Montana? Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec,_Montana
  38. Chewy509

    Microsoft DHCP Server Scope Change

    Hi dd, Linky is broken...
  39. Chewy509

    Defective Seagates

    As much as I dislike Apple, at least they are being proactive about replacing the defective drives... Pity they don't give reason for the issue? Could be a bad batch, or improper shipping between Seagate and Apple?
  40. Chewy509

    New TV ideas

    LM, we had similar problems in deciding the most appropriate TV as well. It was shocking to see how poorly some TVs were setup instore, especially for some top-end models from Sony, LG and Samsung were being feed BR content via 576i component? Maybe they couldn't afford to or spare to use a...
  41. Chewy509

    Contact synchronization

    Not forgetting all HTC Android based phones come with "HTCSync" for free to do the same thing, which works well with Outlook. For TB, the situation is as Merc post.
  42. Chewy509

    Paid antivirus

    Home use or corporate use? For Corporate stuff, the Trend Micro management software is one of the better ones, and Officescan is fairly light on resources. On the other hand, I've personally found anything Symantec or McAfee to be horrible on the management side of things, with the clients...
  43. Chewy509

    Contact synchronization

    Did you want direct phone -> mail client sync, or is it okay to use a 3rd party as a conduit? Also what OS for the desktop? Windows only? Windows/Linux mix? For Android based phones, use GMail as a conduit and use the "Google Contacts" plugin for Thunderbird or "Google Apps Sync for Outlook" -...
  44. Chewy509

    Domain Controllers

    Out of interest, was the server also providing DHCP? If so, did it "just work" or did they have to fiddle with it to make it work? (My experience shows that the Microsoft DHCP service ties it's configuration to the MAC address of the NIC, and after a cloning operation or changing the NIC, you...
  45. Chewy509

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    And here is how to decipher Kingston's current model numbering scheme... http://www.valueram.com/desktop/memory.asp What I described was their old numbering scheme for DDR. Looks like they changed it recently... Apologies for the confusion
  46. Chewy509

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Umm, that's DDR2 RAM? Not DDR 1 RAM (which is what you need). Time linked to the correct RAM... (But you can only use 2 of those sticks as they are dual rank DIMMs, so using more than 3 sticks of it, will take you over the 6 rank limit). PS. On Kingston's website - here is a reference to the 6...
  47. Chewy509

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    I don't know where you got the 1.8v from, as the datasheet I found links it as 2.6V Reg ECC DDR400 Single Rank. :frowner: The problem is Kingston recently changed their naming scheme and removed all references to the number of ranks on the DIMM. (X64 is Registered, and X72 is Registered ECC)...
  48. Chewy509

    10 Year Anniversary for StorageForum

    I really like this thread: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=41 That reminds, apparently there is another "Chewy509" on the Interweb, as I was informed a few weeks ago... (Someone was looking for her, and got me instead).
  49. Chewy509

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    With Clawhammer (and Sledgehammer) CPUs, the IMC (integrated memory controller) is limited to handling 6 ranks of RAM irrespective of the speed or number of DIMM slots. So you could use 1 quad rank DIMM + 1 dual rank DIMM, or 3 dual rank DIMMS + 1 single rank DIMM or 4 single rank DIMMs, or...
  50. Chewy509

    10 Year Anniversary for StorageForum

    The recall you guys seems to have: :rambo: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/member.php?u=3 - Doug joined 13 Jan 2002 http://www.storageforum.net/forum/member.php?u=4 - Clocker joined 14 Jan 2002. There is no user id 1 and 2, well not publicly accessible at least.
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