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It is a dinosaur, considering my Tyan K8W motherboard (which is 5.5yrs old) has the Sil3114 controller on board for SATA connectivity. (The 3114 is the 4port version of the 3112).

What about a 'pong' clone, or a simple 'Hangman' (or is it hang-person these days) game?

Re: Glassfish, I was thinking of WebDAV plugin for file management.

If you're a Windows only shop, and I shudder as I say this... but have you tried Sharepoint? It has decent integration with Office applications, and you can host it all you self, and there is a very large 3rd-party add-on community. But if you want an FOSS solution (that works like...

They're pretty much the same. From what I've read, some SATA drives just don't like being connected via a port expander/multiplier. So was interested in your case.

At home looking after the kids... waiting for Uni to start so have no real news, other than I'm attending o'week next week and classes start the week after.

Why didn't you look at an entry level SAS card and use port expanders? Or don't all SATA HDDs support or like being used with port expanders?

Just upgraded Firefox and Thunderbird on my main box, and got a waring that the flash plugin was old... Pretty neat. (I had Flash v10.0 installed, but v10.1 is the current version). Also, for those in *nix land, to enable Java (and the Java plugin) in Firefox v3.6.4+, you need to softlink...

Words cannot describe that image... :hurl:

IIRC, I read somewhere that comparing the result of using gcc to build 32bit x86 code vs 64bit x86 code, the 64bit code was in general 10%-15% larger than the 32bit code. This was mainly to do with the larger pointer sizes for absolute pointers (most 64bit x86 code still uses 32bit addressing...

Good to know, thanks for the info.

Short answer, you download it... (same as Office 2007 OEM PKC) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/try-office-2010-FX101868838.aspx?WT.mc_id=MiG_HomePage Or as an OEM, you can get the OEM media kit, which you are meant to copy/install onto the PC before shipping to the client.

I've heard this a lot, but so far for my 1st semester I need a grand total of zero textbooks. All course materials will be provided electronically via PDFs as needed.

Sorry to hear? Anything worth noting on why? Simple redundancy or something more notable? Hope you find something quick.

Agreed. A 3yr degree would set you back $90K! (assuming $15K per semester).

Nope, grades (other than actually passing) are not a primary condition on the job offer. I'll be starting the job in 2 yrs, and completing my last year as a part time student. The only downside to the role is relocation interstate. For the degree I'm doing, it's roughly $3K-$3.5K per semester...

Don't want to jinx myself...

I just can't believe my luck recently...

I've found it very rare to see FW800 onboard on any motherboard. Mostly if FW is even available, it's some *^%&%& VIA FW400 chipset.

I certainly don't have an issue with general public owning firearms, however there are a lot of idiots out there... and that's the part that scares me. For quite a while, the Oz gov has been making it harder to obtain a firearm license as well as own firearms. For general public living in metro...

dd, congratulations on the new house!

MS has blocked most of the unofficial 3rd party tools that could do patch management. For major components like IE, Media Player, .NET, etc, you can download those components manually by going to their respective sub-sites on www.microsoft.com. eg...

He was until last night. At a last minute meeting within the party last night, Julia challenged Kevin for the leadership of the party, and asked for a vote amongst the party. Kevin seeing the writing on the wall didn't contest her challenge, and stepped down as leader of the Australian Labour...

Kevin Rudd has stepped down as Prime Minister, and Julia Gillard will be sworn in as Australia's new Prime Minister shortly. See: http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/tearful-kevin-rudd-steps-down-as-prime-minister/story-e6frfllr-1225883710732

It's looks like Australia may have it's first female Prime Minister in the coming hours... Julia Gillard has challenged Kevin Rudd for the top position. More news to follow.

If Apple and the like can get away with it, then expect it to become more normal than not... I guess one could always 'live off the grid' and become a ghost in modern society. As long as most people deal in cash only, and certain shops offer free 'wifi' (aka MacDonalds, Starbucks, etc), and...

High failure rate for the ones supplied by Telstra here in Oz. According to local contacts some retailers are seeing up to 20% failure rate within 6 mths, with the most common problem being poor reception, dogdy keyboards or random hard-locks. (The manager we've been dealing with due to problems...

Yep, the manager at the local telstra didn't like me, but I ended up getting both handsets replaced. Was offered the choice between a Nokia E71 and a Samsung Ultratouch... Went the Samsung due to known problems with that model of nokia. So far the phone is working quite well. My only nitpick...

Same. I got a call from my manager today asking if I was coming into work, since on the current law lists says that I'm not required to attend couort today...

Neither do I. I'm lucky enough to be on Jury Duty this week, but have yet to be called to court for Jury selection. (basically a week off work so far, as while on Summons to court for Jury Duty you're not allowed to go to work until you are discharged from court, or not called for selection by...

Both handsets have come back from repair... Their fix: reflash the firmware on both units and perform a Master Reset. (That's been the same thing they did the last 2 times). They also mentioned that bluetooth and WiFi were on as well, (which is complete BS). After a good discussion with the...

Maybe it's time to start looking at replacing the Orions with fast movers, since they have the range and therefore longer loiter times over a target area? P-8A maybe? But that's based on an older 737 design.

P3C Orion has an public-known range of 8,900km? Doesn't leave long for loiter time, but a P3C was desgined for maritime hunting and could've quite easily picked out her boat at some distance? Just glad she was found, and still in good health.

Well, I would happy to take a speed drop, if it meant my entire working dataset could live in RAM vs being paged out to disk in a swap file... It's just one of those tradeoffs, with getting more DIMM slots. Assuming 8GB RegECC DIMM (dual rank) x 18 DIMMS = 144GB of RAM in a single box... :D (...

$220 is for just the mainboard, still need to buy chassis, PSU, RAM, HDD, etc... A complete chassis + mainboard is $360 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101332 ), still need to add RAM and HDD.

Oh, and another thing I hate about SE at the moment. While their PC Sync software always you to back up your phone and restore it. The backup/restore function will only let you extract any media (mp3's and pics) from the backup file, and not any contact data if you do not have a phone connected...

The sad thing is, who are you left with? Blackberry? Too expensive and not geared towards for non-business user. Apple iPhone? LG? Never been a fan of them. Nokia? Just discussed. Best thing to do is to buy a model just about to be superseded, do a firmware update on it and hope. Samsung? Flip...

Was just browsing the SuperMicro website and stumbled upon these: http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/atom.cfm Low power Atom based servers and mainboards! The interesting thing to note (besides the avg 3x price of any other Atom based mainboard - around US$220 ea.) are PCIex16 slot (x4...

Yep... I've been off sick for a day due to some dodgy Subway, but otherwise just dealing with Telstra due to ongoing mobile phone issues. Both current handsets have been sent away again, (telstra have given me 2x loan handsets and will waive all repair fees). The manager of the store I'm...

With Xeon 5500 series, triple channel will work with any module (Reg ECC / non-ECC does not matter). It will however drop a speed level if you install 6 or 9 DIMMS per CPU. For 9 DIMM installations, Reg RAM is required, but not for 3 or 6 DIMM installations. eg - 3 DIMMS - 1333, 6 DIMMS - 1066...

Don't know if this is available in the US (or something similar), but I've used this on occasion: http://www.hydralyte.com/home Details are as: Ingredient Hydralyte Sports Drink (approx) Sodium 45-55mmol/L 10mmol/L Potassium 20mmol/L...

Latest email from SE, indicates to return both handsets to the retailer for repair/replacement at the retailers discretion. Now to convince Telstra to replace with a different model and not repair. So SE are simply passing the issue to the retailer to handle. That's what I call standing by your...

Telstra will send the phone back to SE 3 times for repair irrespective of the fault before they allow a swap. I'm hoping SE will swap it first time, or acknowledge that it can't be repaired in which case I'll get SE to do the swap or go to the local Telstra shop with evidence in hand and get...

With Merc's "do NOT buy Sony" attitude, Time's recent support hell with SE and my current issues with SE products, it wouldn't be one on my list to look at.

Sounds like you covered all bases... Holey crapola, I guess I may have a fight on my hands then... (and no more SE products for me then). That's the angle I'll be taking in seeking a replacement model. So far in all contact with SE I haven't spoken to anyone who has been able to show...

You do realise that they should have replaced the phones on the 3rd repair? (Lemon clause of the Trade Practices Act). Otherwise ACCC has significant documentation on handsets faults and the correct way to handle a claim. (The TIO and ACCC will do the legal fight for you if you can show SE has...

If SE gives me the run around, I'll simply get Telstra to do the swap. They were the retailer that sold me the phone, but thought it would be easier to do it through SE first.

I guess I spoke too soon. Both W705s we have now have constant amd severe battery issues. Have logged a support case with SonyEricsson as it appears to be a not-so-isolated case with these handsets (approx 25% of all W705s have this issue). Asking for replacement handsets of a different model...

For socket 1366, there's only X58 and 5520 chipsets. The former for desktop and the latter for workstations/servers.

An absolute yes. Virtualbox can do just about anything VMWare can do including 3D acceleration for supported guests/hosts, usb sharing/support, every LAN combination, etc.