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Solaris 10 u9* (9/10) is on zpool version 22. (which has triple parity RAID and deduplication support). Solaris 11 Express is on zpool version 31. (which adds encryption support). FreeBSD 8.2 is on zpool version 15. FreeBSD 9.0 is/will be on zpool version 28**. Linux w/ZFS kernel module is on...

With some sadness, I must report that Hellfire has been decommissioned after serving as my primary PC for 6yr 5mths, as I have been given a new HP xw4600 Workstation as a gift. The parts will be offered for sale shortly, so if anyone is interested please PM me. FYI, the HP xw4600 specs are...

That's the thing, it won't effect those that use the packages provided by their distrobution, as most distro's have either added the headers back in, or make just the mesa headers a dependency. But for those that run less popular OSs and install the drivers manually, it's something to know...

I thought they were? http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2010_12/pr1401.htm Seems to indicate 2TB 7200rpm drives?

Do Toshiba still make drives? (IIRC, Toshiba purchased Fujistsu storage)...

Hi all, This is just a for your information... I found out last night that NVIDIA no longer bundle the OpenGL and VDPAU header files with the 260.x (and 270.x) drivers for UNIX (Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD). It means that you can't build OpenGL based software or software that uses VDPAU! (But...

The call was to home... I knew it was a scam about 10 seconds into the call, but kept them on line for about 5 minutes. What little information I did get has been passed on to the local police, but doubtful anything will come from it. At best, it'll be another incident to add to the rap sheet...

Had an interesting phone call today from some in the "Windows Operating System Support Service" wanting to do some maintenance on my home PC. I played along up to the point they wanted to me to visit a website, were I informed them that I don't run Windows and wanted to know what they wanted to...

I actually enjoyed watching Cars? And my 3yr son loves it. I do agree though, Monster's Inc is one of the better if not best one they've done. Having seen the trailers for Cars 2, I am a little hesitant in seeing the final movie...

Nice to see... but I was unhappy to fill the bike up tonight paying 152.9c per litre. (It was 137.9c/L this morning). Mind you, to fill the tank only cost $8.20. (I get an average of 2.9L/100km on the bike).

I'm not going to name them, as they have been honest the whole time with the problem. The only BS part is the time it'll take to fix the issue. Being a core router that's the problem I can sort of understand the time needed to fix, but 4 mths for a fix is a little too long in my book.

I think he means the CCC - Catalyst Control Centre. (which needs .NET 2).

Hi, good to see you back! :cheers: I certainly agree. Telstra gets another vote due to the extra crap they put onto their supplied mobile phones... Optus has always been on my wife's list, since they refused to acknowledge a court order to terminate a mobile phone contract with no penalties...

Did you happen to install or update Windows Live 2011? There is a known issue with the "Windows Live Sign In Assistant" component that breaks CIFS/SMB sharing with non-windows clients/servers. (The current git version of SAMBA does provide a work-around for it - it related to that component...

SAMBA can mimic a NT4 domain controller nearly 100%, and for Active Directory it's also nearly there. I know Sun had documentation that let you use a Solaris Server w/Samba and OpenLDAP to act as a Active Directory server, but from memory it could only hold the FSMO roles, when those roles were...

Due to the nature of the keylogger, the only way to be sure is to clean install the OS. (Nuke it from orbit, in other words). Some say it can be removed, but some things you just don't risk. Reading through the comments on ./, it seems some Samsung Andriod based phones have similar software...

If this is true, then it's certainly another reason not to purchase any Samsung products: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/30/2148244/Samsung-Plants-Keyloggers-On-Laptops PS. There's related articles on all the major news sites as well...

Well said.

AFAIK, the ipad ues the same transfer protocol as the iphone and ipod, eg you need to use iTunes.

Installed SP1 via Windows Update on my wifes laptop, only succeeded on the 2nd attempt. Also installed IE9, which is certainly a little different to previous version.

Maybe poor/bad EDID data from your display? Using HDMI, DVD or VGA?

I'm in the same boat, having 2 young kids means getting every cold/flu that seems to make the rounds. I'm off at least 3-4 times a year, however being at Uni fulltime makes things a little more flexible.

The magic ingredients for SB onboard video are: Linux 2.6.37+ , Mesa 7.10, and xf86-video-intel 2.14.0. or newer... Unknown if 11.4 will have those included? (One would hope so). PS. This will be of interest if consider SB video in the interim...

lack of physical room, lack of power outlets (already have filled a 8 point surge protector with stuff), and like to keep it simple. And 1 less device means less power and heat.

Sounds like the best plan so far! Then just run NFS across the board, avoiding CIFS (which searching the interweb, sees lots of performance issues with CIFS and Linux). As a side not, I just copied 15GB of music from my Solaris box to my Linux Netbook via NFS, and was getting 11.1MB/s on a...

Out of interest, what version of Windows and Linux? I know some Ubuntu 9.x had CIFS performance issues, but newer kernels have fixed most of those. Also is the firewall on in Windows? Try turning it off. If using Windows Vista or Win7, try to use SMB2 from your Linux box if you can, or...

Some vendors offer WORM options with their tape libraries, eg: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/wormdps/index.html Contact your prefered vendor for their options, assuming tape is a viable platform, otherwise I know back a few years again some vendors even had WORM options with...

Not to mention, that depending on the video card installed, he may lose 512MB-1.5GB of the 4GB ram due to PCI Address Space reservations/overlays.

You have to dig through the specs, but most do include some cache in the order of 16-64MB. The new Intel 510 SSD has 128MB cache onboard, so would expect all new SSDs coming out will be similar in that regard.

Re: Chipkill is available on any AMD Opteron based system. Even my 6yr old system has that available. (Tyan K8W motherboard and AMD Opteron 242's). Soft error rate with detected ECC errors on my system is about 1 every 6-9months, but since I had no choice but use Reg ECC it wasn't a debate I...

@Time, LM and SD, thanks for the input. I'll get a new charger at the same time. Recommendations? (If I get the Sanyo Eneloops, would the matching charger be fine for them. eg: http://www.sanyo.com.au/products/batteries/rechargeable/ncmqr06a4s#keyfeatures )? Reading the specs on the charger I...

Thanks for the replies, I'll get the Sanyo's. (The local camera place has the Eneloops for the same price as the INCA 2700mAh batteries for a 4 pack).

The charger I have can charge single batteries, doesn't require 2 or 4 in place for it to work. Yes, that's correct - it's a timed model not a fast charger. It normally takes 5-6 hrs to charge and will trickle charge if batteries are left in. Typically, if I know I need the batteries the day...

Just to revive an old thread. My current AA rechargeables are starting to decline in their ability to hold a charge, (INCA 2700 mAh) after about 4 yrs of semi-regular use in a digital camera. The ones I have used to last a full day out and about with the camera taking around 120-150 shots (with...

From a HP document I once saw, on a 1GHz Itanium 2, you would roughly see performance akin to a Pentium MMX @ 233MHz. Recently models dropped hardware emulation in favour of software emulation, since the same 1GHz Itanium 2 could emulate quicker in software (closer to a P2@450MHz).

What I find interesting with Itanium, is that I can't find anyone selling Itanium based workstations? HP discontinued theirs in '04, Dell in '02, Supermicro (all Itanium based products) sometime in '06... IMO Doesn't spell great news for the longevity of the platform... Mind you same could be...

W00t, for common sense! As far as I see it, an ISP is a carrier of a telecommunication service and shouldn't be responsible if they someone else doesn't like the message being sent... I also like to see it this way, can a telco (eg Telstra) be held responsible if someone uses their network to...

It was, anything we did on it was instant. I've never seen MS Word (v2 for Win) open so quick! We even installed the Trumpet TCP/IP stack and got it on the 'net! (We found a really old PCI 3Com card that had Win3.1 drivers available so used those, and a copy of some ancient version of Netscape...

The last DOS + Win 3.1 box I built was a IC2-Duo w/Q45 chipset (HP DC7900), and the one previous to that was a P4 on a Intel D845G motherboard. Both worked fine.

I would have thought any modern system that has a full legacy compatible BIOS should work... (aka no i3/i5/i7 boards with UEFI). Remembering that MS-DOS strictly uses BIOS services to do stuff like access HDDs, keyboard, etc, it doesn't access hardware directly. (That also mean you can use USB...

There's nothing in the MPEG2 spec that defines max res, just max bitrate, so you can do 1920x1080 with MPEG2. But it will use more HDD space than one of the newer codecs, and may look like crap as you hit the bitrate wall...

Thanks time, I wasn't aware that it was that bad out there... Anyway the Sony 32" EX710 supports via DLNA: Photo (JPEG), Music (MP3, LPCM), Video (MPEG2, AVCHD) And AVCHD supports 1080p @ 60fps... Source: http://www.sony.com.au/product/kdl-32ex710 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD

What's the HTPC currently running OS wise? Why not just share the media via DLNA (Media Sharing in Windows 7 or miniDLNA for Linux), and use a TV in the bedroom that can use/view local DLNA content?

I've used VS and C# quite a bit in the past, and do like some of the features that the IDE and language have, but as someone who first learnt to code on the Commodore64 with Basic and then straight to 6510 assembler some of these new tools I've fond just get in the way of things. Unfortunately...

A sad day it has been - for the first time in 3.5yrs my main desktop has MS Windows running on it. (I've had to install Windows + Visual Studio for my two programming classes at Uni this semester as they both focus on C# and ASP.NET). However it is running in a VM, so at least it's not touching...

What's the complete setup hardware wise? CPU, RAM, Motherboard, OS, etc... Also are you using the latest LSI driver for the controller and have the latest firmware loaded onto the controller. How much RAM does the LSI controller have and what is the internal cache setup? Also does the...

If it's putting out 1080i vs 720p, then there are a few instances where 720p will look better, namely sporting events and other high/fast action scenes.

It's a shame due to the price of it... but do wonder what the performance would be at higher queue depths? Is that where this product shines?

Review of the LSI Warp Drive: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1535/1/

Adobe, Symantec, Apple and OCZ - yes I know why, they make crappy products or it's their buggy way or no way. Why WDC, S*ny and GJC? I've always had decent products and decent support from S*ny... GJC has always given decent coffee (except the local store - they are crap), and I haven't bought...