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    250GB Samsung 840 - ~$76

    Ordered 4, hopefully they ship!
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    reading 500 mb pdf on ipad 1 or 2

    Btw, you might consider opening a huge PDF and saving it into individual chapters. This could allow for many smaller PDFs that the iPad could easily handle...
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    reading 500 mb pdf on ipad 1 or 2

    I was unable to open a 480 MB PDF on my iPad 1. I doubt you would be able to open a 500 MB pdf. Keep in mind that the iPad 1 only has 256 MB of memory and the iPad 2 only has 512. I would suggest someone else that owns an iPad 2 chiming in with their experiences, though...
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    GoG just called me out...

    GoG has been selling Castles and Castles 2 for some time ;) http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/castles_castles_2
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    Crucial C300 in desktop-how did you mount?

    Mine are dangling by their SATA cables :D
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    Parallel Programming Course Project

    This is for an undergraduate level course. We will not be reading any scholarly papers in the course. Concurrent programming does fall within the courses definition as the syllabus says it covers "programming techniques applicable to concurrent, parallel and distributed programs." I have more...
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    Parallel Programming Course Project

    I am currently enrolled in a course for parallel programming that involves a group project. We are free to choose are own team members and what we want to do for the project. I've teamed up with two good friends and we are trying to brainstorm ideas for fun and interesting projects. I am...
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    Name your favorite "classic" PC game ...

    Master of Orion (I'm surprised nobody else has voted for this)
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    Thoughts on the Crucial C300 SSD? Anyone using them?

    I have yet to own any SSDs, but from what I've read on forum posts here, people seem to say that its hard to notice the difference in speed between Indilinx SSDs to Intel SSDs (let alone the newer C300 and SandForce drives). They point out that the difference in random writes is quite dramatic...
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    SSD partition on 2008 hosted on ESX4.0

    Windows Server 2008 R2 has TRIM.
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    SSD partition on 2008 hosted on ESX4.0

    I'll soon be building a similar server using 2 100 GB SandForce SSDs (with ESXi as hypervisor). I posted about this here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2060516 I plan on doing tests using VMFS, both with the drives full and not full, in order to get an idea of the used...
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    SSDs and Virtualization

    "The more spare-area we ship with, the longer our performance will remain at its peak level. But again, you have to pay the piper at some point. Intel ships its X25-M with 7.5 - 8% more area than is actually reported to the OS. The more expensive enterprise version ships with the same amount...
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    SSDs and Virtualization

    OWC got back to me and told me that their drives are perfect for my intended use, so I ordered 2 of their 100 GB SandForce SF-1500 SSDs. Does anybody have any idea how I can try to put the drives in a used state when running ESXi on them with some virtual machines? I'd like to do some basic...
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    SSDs and Virtualization

    I've sent a similar question to OWC's pre-sale customer support department and I'll post here what they say. Additionally, I've found a forum post where somebody called SandForce and asked about TRIM and said: "Just got off the phone with a 'Consumer Sandforce Rep' ... seems like the TRIM...
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    SSDs and Virtualization

    I read somewhere a while ago that one of the reasons the Intel X-25E was such a great drive was that it had a large amount of reserved space (I am trying to find this source again but have as yet been unable to find out exactly how much space is reserved in the X-25E 32GB). I know that the OWC...
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    SSDs and Virtualization

    I am very interested in purchasing two or three SSDs for use in a server. I am concerned about the reliability of SSDs in my intended application use, however, as I will be running VMWare ESXi off of a RAID0 array of these drives. On top of ESXi, I will be running multiple Windows Server 2008...
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    How to boost weak wireless signal

    Any suggestions on a directional antenna? I have absolutely no experience with such things. Do you have a suggestion of a model router to use with a directional antenna?
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    How to boost weak wireless signal

    I can get a very weak wireless signal from the tall building that I can see from my back porch. Is there any product that I could buy that might help me strengthen the wireless signal? At the moment, it is 1-2 bars out of 5 and I get lots of dropped packets. Thanks!
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    Good web based games

    Good luck
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    Irq / option rom conflicts after upgrade

    I am having a similar problem with an Adaptec 3085, ATI Radeon 4870 512 MB, and the ICH9R on my Asus Rampage Formula. It looks as though we have the same motherboard... what Adaptec card do you have? Are you able to use the GTX 260 with just the Adaptec card?
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    RAID 5 Disk Failure Help

    I built a server about 5 years ago with 4 WD 74 gb Raptors in a RAID 5 array on a Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 with 128 MB of Non ECC memory. Today I received an email alert from the Promise Array Management that SMART failed on one of the raptors. What should I do to replace this drive? I...
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    Javascript performance in rendering

    This dances for me in FF3, IE7, and Google Chrome: <div id="canvas_1" class="canvas_1"></div> <div id="canvas_2" class="canvas_2"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var cols=50; // Canvas object function Canvas(div) { this.div=div...
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    Javascript performance in rendering

    And go figure, the only thing I had to chance to get this to work in IE7 was to change your divs to the following: <div id="canvas_1" class="canvas_1"></div> <div id="canvas_2" class="canvas_2"></div>
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    Javascript performance in rendering

    <!-- var cols=50; // Canvas object function Canvas(div) { this.div=div; this.temp = ''; this.drawImage = function(imgSrc, x, y, w, h, a) { this.temp += '<div style="position:absolute;'+ 'left:' + x + 'px;'+ 'top:' + y + 'px;'+...
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    Javascript performance in rendering

    Do not modify div.innerHTML each time you need to add a square.. Add another variable to the Canvas function that handles all the string concatenation -- this is what you should update or clear in the drawImage and clear methods of Canvas. Then add another function to Canvas, say...
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    PHP's ereg_replace

    Might I suggest that you save the un-replaced source in your database and call a function that converts all http:// strings into HTML links when the page source is queried and displayed? This way you are only needing to write code to convert from http:// to an HTML link and not the reverse.
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    Suggestions on new ASUS mobos

    That looks like a solid choice in a motherboard. I would recommend this memory to you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231145
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    Suggestions on new ASUS mobos

    If you plan on doing SLI, skip both motherboards as you have to choose an SLI chipset to use SLI. Look at either the 780i if you want to use DDR2 memory or the 790i chipset if you want to use DDR3 memory (and pay a hefty premium). 790i boards...
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    Is your processor Running slower than you think it should be ? Or at a different multiplier than it should be ?

    A friend of mine just recently purchased an E8500 and an EVGA 780i motherboard. He had to enable a setting in his BIOS to enable the 9.5 multiplier of his CPU. Before he made the setting change, it was using 9.0 and when he tried to overclock his options were only the integer multiplier values.
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    Hard drive issues

    Don't jump to hasty conclusions: I am a technet subscriber :-P
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    Hard drive issues

    Well, before I replaced my SATA DVD+RW drive, I decided to re-download and burn Vista x64 Ultimate w/ SP1. This time, I burned it at 2x and verified the disc afterwards. After doing this, my computer is now rebooting into Vista to finalize installation.
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    Hard drive issues

    The following two pages state that the problem is related to my DVD drive: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930984 http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=16500 Why in the world would I be able to install Vista without a problem when I first built this computer 3 months ago, and then...
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    Hard drive issues

    Same result... Windows Vista x64 Ultimate fails to install. I also tried replacing the SATA cable on the DVD drive and plugging it into a different SATA port. The installation still goes to 3% of decompressing files before I get a message which states: Windows cannot install required files...
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    Hard drive issues

    Thank you three for your replies. I spent last night with memtest. I tested each stick individually in slot 1 and had one error occur each time I tested stick 3. I then tested 2 and 4 in slots 1/3 and 2/4 to make sure there were no bad slots. The memtest on the pair ran fine in both...
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    How do you copy files off laptop if WinXP crashed? (No A:\ or cd rom drives)

    I recently purchased a USB floppy drive @ Best Buy for about $40. It works great for loading RAID drivers for computers w/o a floppy drive. It should also allow you to insert a boot disk just as if the laptop had an actual floppy drive.
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    Hard drive issues

    Beginning about two weeks ago, my boot times have been very long for my install of Windows Vista x64 Ultimate. My full computer specs at the time the problems started were: Asus Rampage Formula Q9450 (@425*8=3.4 ghz) 8 GBs of g.skill ddr2-1000 @ DDR2-850 X800GTO2 WD 640 GB WD6400AAKS...
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    Keep my OCZ PowerStream 520W for new Q9450/Rampage Formula build?

    Thank you for your help, Nade! I'm glad I can save that money until I need to upgrade my video card.
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    Mobo for Q9450?

    Runaway, Can you please explain to me what this strap control issue means for my new Rampage Formula? Does it mean that I should not attempt to use a FSB around 440-450 but instead go for 451 to hit a new strap? OP: Tomorrow my Rampage Formula will arrive for my Q9450. I'll post my...
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    Keep my OCZ PowerStream 520W for new Q9450/Rampage Formula build?

    Will my current power supply, an OCZ Powerstream 520w with +3.3V@28A,+5V@40A,+12V@33A, be enough to power my new build: Q9450 cooled by TRUE w/ 2 Noctua NF-P12s in Push/Pull Asus Rampage Formula 8GB DDR2 800 WD 640 GB HD SATA DVD burner X850 XT PE I have not gamed in a while so I plan...