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I've heard similar with Samsung, it depends on the product division and how dead it is. If the product is dead, Samsung are generally pleasent to deal with, but if you have a minor fault, they don't seem to give a sh*t.

Does Diamond still exist?

I'm starting this thread as a vent due to the poor customer service I've received over the last few weeks, and to announce that due to extremely poor customer service I will not purchase any of their products in future... 1. Panasonic. (My wife has been dealing with this one). The in-laws split...

Slowly getting back to normal for those not directly effected, most supermarkets have stock of most things (some lines at higher than normal prices though due to importing them from interstate), most public transport is back up and running, petrol stations have fuel again. For those areas...

I just did a quick comparison between the i7-2600 and the i7-2600K to see what else is different in addition to the different gfx cores. It's interesting to note the the K part is missing VT-d and Intel TXT support, which are very useful if you use any virtualisation technologies or software...

Which BIOS? IBM, HP, Dell, AMI, etc all have different meanings... In a book I have, 1 long beep is DMA controller error but thats for AST and AMI BIOS only.

Sorry, I thought it was the other way around? That certainly is a WTF, as it'll be the low end using the internal gfx, not the high end unlocked parts.

To place in different gfx cores based on the K suffix, may be result of the unlocking of the chips multipliers to allow overclocking. The older HD2000 may play more nicely with high overclocks than the new HD3000 gfx core. The other thought is, most people buying a K suffix chip will most...

GIF will support any resolution, but is limited to just 256 colours... Could always try APNG (Animated PNG)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated_Portable_Network_Graphics

Yep...

Still living there, and we're doing quite well as we're on top of a large hill. We still have general road access to the Pacific Motorway**, so are not in any danger of being locked in. My Uncle who lives in the Brisbane Valley area on the other hand has been flooded in. His property is still...

From what I've personally seen, yes that's the case. But it's certainly not the standard that everyone follows as dd mentions.

1. Technically yes, but many RAID controllers will write metadata to the drive that describes the array that may confuse other RAID controllers. If using the same drive controller, then you won't have any issues. 2. Yes, it should work. (But may not due to differences in BIOS/firmware).

Any reason for not holding out a week or 2 for Sandy Bridge and getting a i7-2600K?

Likewise, in one of my classes at Uni last year, it was asked who had did not have a FB account and about 5% of people (out of roughly ~150) put there hand up. It was asked why... The most common answers were: 1. I have no intention of signing over all my personal details to some faceless...

The IMC on Sandy Bridge is limited to 32GB. (4x DIMMS slots x 8GB DIMMS). http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214&processor=i7-2600K&spec-codes= What may be interesting is the Xeon version of the Sandy Bridge. Will adding Reg ECC support double the RAM to 64GB supported, as it did for...

Oh, and the i7 uses triple channel RAM configuration with a maximum of 6 DIMM Slots, utilising 4GB DIMMS. 6 slots x 4GB = 24GB. Intel only validates 8GB DIMMS using Reg DIMMS, which AFAIK only Xeons can utilise.

Why would it be a chipset limitation considering the memory controller is on the CPU? As a guess, it would be more due to limits on the i7 IMC and what Intel is validating as the max number of DIMM slots vs DIMM size for the i7 and not the limitation on the chipset (unless there is an issue...

Happy New Year! I hope everyone's 2011 is better than their 2010 was...

Add in my congratulations as well!

Don't get me wrong, I saw the funny side of it. But I certainly don't condone such behaviour.

Some disrespectiful brat who didn't like getting books as a present for xmas.

And for Merc, for the 26th - Happy Kwanzaa!

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and hope you have a safe and enjoyable holiday period.

I thought Saturnalia was on the 17th Dec? In any case, Io, Saturnalia!

Without seeing a detailed Change log, it could be a fair assumption. Also could be for compatibility issues (aka poor implementation with HDDs) in regards to the new sector size, especially for those drives that don't report either physical or logical sector size correctly. (ATA-8 spec includes...

I have to agree with that. LBA48 addressing which has been around for quite a while now (ATA-6 added LBA48 addressing in 2003, which SATA is a superset of) can address 2^48 sectors, and even with 512byte sectors that's 128 PB (aka 134217728 GB) addressable. So if you say your controller is...

I'm running 2x 20" LCDs at the moment, and I agree - I would be hard pressed to go back to single monitor. I don't have a recommendation for the second monitor, but have noticed that anything under or around 20" is limited to 1366x768 or 1440x900, to get a higher res (1680x1050) requires a 22"...

Anyone heard of or using CHDK? For Canon P&S cameras, this is custom firmware that lets you do motion detection shooting, remoting operations, RAW output, and has scripting support via LUA, plus a heap of other features... Seems like an interesting extension for Canon cameras...

No one offering a dcraw driven front-end? Interesting? PS. 'dcraw' is the main RAW converter for Linux/UNIX based systems...

I agree. I'll use NTFS over any version of FAT anyday. IIRC, NTFS being logged/journel based is generally better for fault tolerance.

If not under warranty, junk it. PS. Seagate took over all maxtor warranties, so check with Seagate - http://support.seagate.com/customer/en-US/warranty_validation.jsp?form=0

Who knows? But I'm sure some exec got a nice big fat bonus for that one brain-dead idea.

Put up the Christmas tree today, the kids had fun with the decorations. Started on toilet training the oldest one (2yr 10mths) this week - so far so good. (he's only a few accidents so far). And the youngest (11mths) is now proficient at walking around holding on to things to get around, so...

I think most people use: 'root', 'admin', '1234' or 'password' for their home router (or whatever the factory default is). Nice and easy to remember

There were rumours that Ubuntu was going to as well - but they have been dismissed by the lead project team. With Novell recently purchased, I wonder what the future of Suse will be (despite what the new owners are saying)?

I like it quite a lot actually, it's certainly better than Fedora or Ubuntu I tried just installing Arch. The big plus with Arch - you start with a very small core install, and you only install what you need. eg. X is NOT installed by default. All the packages are exactly as published by the...

I know that sucks... IIRC the last major reason was 3D and some new stuff Avatar was doing.

IIRC Linux could read them back in 2002-2003 quite easily. BSD followed about a year later, and Solaris a year after that. For Linux, all that is needed is the correct kernel module to be loaded. (It's called LDM). See: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.3/0878.html

I would just like to wish my main PC 'Hellfire' a happy 6th birthday... Current config: Tyan K8W motherboard 2x AMD Opteron 242 @ 1.6GHz 2GB RAM (4x 512MB Reg ECC DDR 400) 4x Seagate 10K.6 36GB in RAID 10* Adaptec ASR-2120S RAID Controller 1x Seagate 500GB IDE** Adaptec AHA-39160 SCSI...

Australian F-111 entering retirement Today, the RAAF bid farewell it's F-111 fleet, officially placing the RAAFs F-111s into retirement. Acquired in 1973 they have served the RAAF well for the past 37 years. Such a sad day to see the 'pig' being retired. I remember the first time I saw one...

As far as I know there is no strict requirement for any blu-ray player to be connected to the Internet, if you are only watching movies. However an Internet connection is needed if you want all the extra stuff. All Sony Blu-ray players can firmware update via CD-ROM negating the need for an...

Happy Birthday JTR. :b-day:

Saw it on a t-shirt one day down at the local markets...

Blu-ray players? Most are online now, and offer downloadable content... XBox360 and PS3? Heck some TVs are Internet enabled to allow you to watch YouTube, NetFlix, Amazon Video on Demand, etc... In a nutshell, anything that is directly connected to the 'net is a potential target.

An even better target would be the larger number of commercial routers out there. Most are now running Linux in some form, and most rely on MIPS or ARM CPUs. Excellent staging point to act as a DDOS node, to sniff network data, launch DNS redirection attacks (most people set their DNS to be the...

@paugie, Here's a drink for a speedy recovery! :tgif:

We purchased our last washing machine about 3yr ago, and went with a Whirlpool 7.5kg commercial grade**. (We have 2 young kids and that means a lot of washing). My only recommendation is to avoid ones that use an extensive amount of electronics (our has none, it's all mechanical baby), as a lot...

Where at? And has Marina aged well?.. I remember the super tight outfits she used to wear in ST:TNG. Made any nerdy 15yr old happy. I saw Bindi Erwin (daughter of the croc hunter Steve Erwin) at Brisbane Museum a few days ago when taking the kids there for the dinosaur exhibit. Otherwise the...

Sure, while there are workarounds, I don't believe there is any excuse for not being RFC compliant in regards with basic IPv4 network configuration especially from a tier 1 provider and in a premier product. Mind you, don't get me started on my Samsung mobile phone and it's wonderful quirks...