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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 Best thing to do is to buy a model just about to be superseded, do a firmware update on it and hope.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.

I got turned off RedHat a long time ago during the RHv8 days, when they did a lot of back porting of fixes into the kernel, and they started on their crusade to make RedHat the only Linux distro by adding a lot of RH only tools... Since at the time RH did it one way, and all the other major...

Well my netbook is now running Arch, and is working better/faster than Ubuntu was... The only issue I had (and this was partially my fault), was to set my primary user id to below 1000. With the new GDM login manager (I use GNOME as my default DE), is that they use the WinXP login interface...

One could say the same about Microsoft Operating Systems... umm, actually no you couldn't. Don't work too well in the server room overall, and by god the support needed to support the desktop environment is a nightmare, I tell you... Between weekly patches, anti-virus updates, malware, rootkits...

That appears to be the trend after reading a lot more about Ubuntu. Nice and shiny on first experience, but goes downhill from there rapidly. Any suggestions for a distro then? Debian, Slackware, Fedora Core, Arch?

The big problem with Linux, is that if the root filesystem is full, it will have problems booting. Also it makes sense to separate out into different filesystems to avoid mail/logs/user data from eatting all the available space. I would rather fill /home and get errors about not being to save my...

Following on from this thread: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8188 After using Ubuntu 10.04 a bit more yesterday and today, have come across a few gripes. 1. XMMS is not available in any repository. I've been using XMMS for years, and is an excellent music player. 2. SAMBA...

Stay below 50km/h and it *should* be fine. And no hard turning either or excessive start/stopping. Insurance wise, get it towed. (Most insurance companies will deem the vehicle unserviceable in that condition, and wont acknowledge the claim in the event of an accident).

Last time I checked the only 100% secure erase (or either magnetic media or flash media) was 100% physical destruction of the device. Anything less, and some would not consider it "secure erase".

Very true. But most other LCDs developed in 2001 (which was the year the T220 was released), had a strict 60Hz limit (and the that includes the expensive 15" 1024x768 displays as well). If they decided to continue to develop the hig DPI monitors, they should have the same or very similar...

I use mencoder... Purely CLI driven, but does exactly what I want, which is normally DVD -> xvid fpr layback on laptop/PC.

Or give it to me?

Kubuntu (with KDE) or Ubuntu (with GNOME)? And in what way?

The IBM T221 I linked to has a native res of 3840×2400 for a 20" panel. (200dpi). It targetted at Medical, CAD/CAM and Defense industries, and had an initial retail of $15K (in 2001). The main problem was that DVI simply doesn't have the bandwidth to handle that res, so it used 2x DVI (with each...

Not to mention desk space... (3x 30" widescreen). Now that's bad...

I don't really see the standard TFT LCD monitor as a major issue, the issue I see is on laptops. Go back 3yr, and most 15-17" laptops had 1680x1050 displays. Today, it's the minority that have that res or above. (most 15" are 1440x900 today). Even fewer have FullHD displays? (Out of 210+ laptops...

Sure it's not just muted? I had no sound to begin with, but found the default setting was to mute the device? (I'm using alsa, not pulseaudio). $ sudo alsamixer $ sudo alsactl store to fix.

Anything that supports either PCL5, PCL6 or Postscript will work fine. Just about every printer with a network port support raw (9100), lpd or ipp which are all supported by CUPS and lp. Sticking point will be scanner/fax support on a multifunction. SANE should be able to help you there...

I have actually seen one system, where the dye they used glowed bright green under a black lighting system. Looked like the system was radio-active.

We used to have that system here, but recently they re-worked the licensing scheme to help stop people killing themselves. We now have 2 stages of licensing, R Class and RE Class. R Class is full unrestricted, while RE class you are limited to bike no larger than 660cc with a power to weight...

Reading a few web reports, Win7 gets about the same runtime as Ubuntu providing NO anti-virus is installed. Installing AV will lose you about 10% runtime under a Win7 environment. While I haven't confirmed that myself, it seems plausible. Running Win7 on a HP 2140 netbook (very similar setup...

Stupid question time? Why choose water cooling, over either Peltier coolers or Phase change cooling techniques? Peltier coolers are slient and offer very good cooling properties at the expense of electricity usage. And Phase change cooling will get temps on the CPU down to -15C with top end...

Well, I got a Asus eeePC 1001HA, and after trying WinXP, OpenSolaris and Ubuntu on it, will stick with Ubuntu on it for the time being. It came down to supported hardware from the respective kernels, and power management. I was getting: 1. 3.5hrs on battery using the default Asus installation...

ROFL!

4TB sort of makes the 36GB drives I am using in my main desktop seem kinder small... (My total storage capacity is just over 1.3TB spread across 4 systems in the household - 1 desktop, 3 laptops and external HDDs).

Answered in the previous post. But that is something my wife did (radical change)... 1st degree was Accounting when she finished high school. She has become very successful in this field, and has risen rapidly to have worked as the senior accounting auditor for multi-national Australian based...

Well, that's the plan! ;) I actually got my University placement offer 4 weeks before the normal placement offers are made, and it was made personally from the head of the department for which I will be studying. I guess my application and references impressed someone? I don't know how the...

Quit my job today... Why does it feel so good when you tell your boss that you are leaving their employment?

Solid savings, government allowances and a scholarship all help. Our current spending habits has us in the black by about $250-300 a fortnight, based on the new level of income we will receive. I've always been on the heavier scale (just my build). At my peak (at the tender age of 21), I was...

Havng 2 kids recently really put an end to my normal fitness schedule, but at the age of 32 and about to have some more free time coming up (due to change from fulltime 50hr week work to full time Uni student), getting back to what I was doing is certainly on the agenda. While the plan isn't to...