Yup, grabbed a tx2-1015 HP tablet PC recently, ran like a dog with the crappy 320GB 5400RPM hdd, 2GB ram and the crappy software from HP.
Loaded in an extra 2GB ram, 500G 7200RPM and installed vista home premium x64, pheewah, takes off like a rocket and can actually run games on the little monster (world of goo and plants vs zombies make the pen input worth the money).
Of course not, they were very good at hiding the fact that their "green" desktop drives are really just 5400RPM drives, they even obfuscated it from their own datasheets.
As an interesting note, the new line of Patriot SSD come very close to the 300MB/s speed, clocking in 280MB/s in reads.
Not sure what being around TVs has to do with RF transmission, but hell, if that's your problem, its not like you HAVE to go to electrical stores?
I am on medication that makes me sensitive to bright lights, but you don't see me visiting tanning salons for shits and giggles do you?
As someone else points out, if the 2.4Ghz RF at.2W is causing big problems, a common microwave that produces (internally) 700+W at similar frequencies should drive him bat shit insane (yeah I know not much of that gets out, but I know enough to completely kill my Wi-Fi while it is on, does).
Wait, lets think about the "bat shit insane" comment again, and re-read what he has to say... oh...
Well my comment was mainly a response to the parent in regards to what I would do.
Now having read the page at work (wrote the above comment while eating breakfast, didn't have time for the article to be read), I find all but the one nice tech to be utter arse-holes, please someone sue them out of existence, they give computer techs a bad name (no wonder we get so much work, you know, being competent and honest).
Ahh the crux of the matter:) (aside from the WGA jibe)
The point is that a tech had to allocate desk time (at least where I work, we charge for desk time, not the techs time, since the tech will be back and fourth between about 4 computers constantly) to fixing this, not to mention finding a deliberately sabotaged component (and sabotaged in a way that is NOT A COMMON FAULT) then testing to see if windows was harmed by the faulty part (usually if a machine runs for a while with memory errors it will corrupt at least a handful of windows files if you are lucky, the registry if your not).
How this diagnosis would go at my pc shop...
1, try booting 2, try booting linux live CD 3, open case, find loose ram 4, try booting windows again 5, boot from a windows CD and do at least 3 chkdsk (at least get 2 clean scans) 6, run prime95 on it overnight to make sure its all happy 6.5 if at any time a prime95 pass fails or windows doesn't boot, load windows CD and do windows repair for XP or SFC for Vista, if it still fails, load linux CD and dupe data to NAS in preparation for reinstall (we do this regardless of if the customer asks us to, the amount of times we get asked after a "wipe-reinstall" if their email is still there...) 7, charge customer $99AU for the fault.
As per one of my previous posts postulated, they are not fighting based on technical defense, but on a constitutional one, the first court case was indeed a sham to coax the jury to make the biggest most outrageous damages they could. As per NYCL they didn't even call their own witnesses or cross examine (if memory serves me correctly).
There is playing a game, there is playing the meta-game and then there is being an ass using all available cheap tricks to greif, sounds like this guy did the latter.
Oh, and there is no modified server to play on, its an MMOG, its their server or none.
.. if you can't afford to get your ship blown away, don't come.
I liked the game quite a bit, I was starting to get some seriously nasty setups in destroyers and assault ships, cheap, fun, and overall a great time.
Then the down time started to grate on me, what kind of game patches every night at the same time? (note: the time it patches is around 9-10pm each night for me, peak time)
So now I go back to daoc, it is a simpler game in PvP concept, but it is always there when I want to play it.
Just use the integrated raid (yeah, softraid or fakeraid) to do it, make sure its the chipset (intel or nvidia) that is doing the work.
Sure the performance isn't there in general (and if you raid0 more than 3 drives on the NV chipsets, not there at all) but it is OS agnostic and is relatively cheap to get the data back if your board dies (cheap mobo + celeron CPU) since all chipsets from each of those two makers support each others raid.
As others said though, what you are doing is not protecting the data, but just increasing your up-time if something bad happens, backups are your only protection.
I would be one of the first to suggest using an areca raid card (or similar quality) should you be looking for performance, but your not, so I won't:)
Select everything you want on one page, wrap it in a table tag, set table to 100% of screen height and leave a separate row at the bottom for page numbers (and a second for footnotes if there were any).
get on with writing something worth reading, not something to be treasured for its footnote layout.
Thats the main reason I used it, I could just open it up on any of the machines they had there (at the time, netscape was the main browser used on campus) and type without having to think "am I in the right font?" or stuff around with paragraph setups and crap that office used.
Of course at the time I was reasonably new to unix so it was something I was comfortable with and knew about already.
I used netscape communicator to write all my papers for uni, mainly because it was available under windows and unix (IRIX in our case) and could be read by anyone on any platform.
It was a reasonably easy to use editor, without all the useless crap most others have.
A few lecturers were quite impressed with the idea, the portability and cost were big factors.
Brings up further questions, will their netcode handle a non-uPnP router (yeah, relic, I am looking at you and dawn of war 2) ok? Will one of the PCs in the game be the host for the game or will bnet be the host? If the latter, what hope have non-Americans got of ever getting a useful ping?
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Yup, grabbed a tx2-1015 HP tablet PC recently, ran like a dog with the crappy 320GB 5400RPM hdd, 2GB ram and the crappy software from HP.
Loaded in an extra 2GB ram, 500G 7200RPM and installed vista home premium x64, pheewah, takes off like a rocket and can actually run games on the little monster (world of goo and plants vs zombies make the pen input worth the money).
http://www.fusionio.com/PDFs/Data_Sheet_ioDrive_2.pdf
This company makes pretty much the fastest device you can cram into a standard PC without messing with fibre and iSCSI.
Of course not, they were very good at hiding the fact that their "green" desktop drives are really just 5400RPM drives, they even obfuscated it from their own datasheets.
As an interesting note, the new line of Patriot SSD come very close to the 300MB/s speed, clocking in 280MB/s in reads.
Which is why I will stick to my seagate 7200RPM 500G drive :)
WD pulled the same thing when they launched their 2TB 3.5" drives, they all originally came out as "green" drives, which means 5200rpm spindle speed.
If I had mod points today...
Mind if I use that one? :)
Not sure what being around TVs has to do with RF transmission, but hell, if that's your problem, its not like you HAVE to go to electrical stores?
I am on medication that makes me sensitive to bright lights, but you don't see me visiting tanning salons for shits and giggles do you?
As someone else points out, if the 2.4Ghz RF at .2W is causing big problems, a common microwave that produces (internally) 700+W at similar frequencies should drive him bat shit insane (yeah I know not much of that gets out, but I know enough to completely kill my Wi-Fi while it is on, does).
Wait, lets think about the "bat shit insane" comment again, and re-read what he has to say... oh...
Well my comment was mainly a response to the parent in regards to what I would do.
Now having read the page at work (wrote the above comment while eating breakfast, didn't have time for the article to be read), I find all but the one nice tech to be utter arse-holes, please someone sue them out of existence, they give computer techs a bad name (no wonder we get so much work, you know, being competent and honest).
Ahh the crux of the matter :) (aside from the WGA jibe)
The point is that a tech had to allocate desk time (at least where I work, we charge for desk time, not the techs time, since the tech will be back and fourth between about 4 computers constantly) to fixing this, not to mention finding a deliberately sabotaged component (and sabotaged in a way that is NOT A COMMON FAULT) then testing to see if windows was harmed by the faulty part (usually if a machine runs for a while with memory errors it will corrupt at least a handful of windows files if you are lucky, the registry if your not).
How this diagnosis would go at my pc shop...
1, try booting
2, try booting linux live CD
3, open case, find loose ram
4, try booting windows again
5, boot from a windows CD and do at least 3 chkdsk (at least get 2 clean scans)
6, run prime95 on it overnight to make sure its all happy
6.5 if at any time a prime95 pass fails or windows doesn't boot, load windows CD and do windows repair for XP or SFC for Vista, if it still fails, load linux CD and dupe data to NAS in preparation for reinstall (we do this regardless of if the customer asks us to, the amount of times we get asked after a "wipe-reinstall" if their email is still there...)
7, charge customer $99AU for the fault.
Hrmm, mind if I use that code? :)
Would be interesting to compare said numbers to, say, what Reznor has been making from his "download the album for $5" thing.
I know he said he got more from it that he did from most of his albums, but would be good to have hard numbers :)
Link plz! :P
Just like every other 19" wide screen, from the sound of it though the OP wants a 19" 4:3 ratio screen.
As per one of my previous posts postulated, they are not fighting based on technical defense, but on a constitutional one, the first court case was indeed a sham to coax the jury to make the biggest most outrageous damages they could. As per NYCL they didn't even call their own witnesses or cross examine (if memory serves me correctly).
"I'm a freakin' blur here" :)
There is playing a game, there is playing the meta-game and then there is being an ass using all available cheap tricks to greif, sounds like this guy did the latter.
Oh, and there is no modified server to play on, its an MMOG, its their server or none.
I liked the game quite a bit, I was starting to get some seriously nasty setups in destroyers and assault ships, cheap, fun, and overall a great time.
Then the down time started to grate on me, what kind of game patches every night at the same time? (note: the time it patches is around 9-10pm each night for me, peak time)
So now I go back to daoc, it is a simpler game in PvP concept, but it is always there when I want to play it.
Just use the integrated raid (yeah, softraid or fakeraid) to do it, make sure its the chipset (intel or nvidia) that is doing the work.
Sure the performance isn't there in general (and if you raid0 more than 3 drives on the NV chipsets, not there at all) but it is OS agnostic and is relatively cheap to get the data back if your board dies (cheap mobo + celeron CPU) since all chipsets from each of those two makers support each others raid.
As others said though, what you are doing is not protecting the data, but just increasing your up-time if something bad happens, backups are your only protection.
I would be one of the first to suggest using an areca raid card (or similar quality) should you be looking for performance, but your not, so I won't :)
Try areca raid cards, they do give a performance boost on raid 1, but of course a slight performance hit on writes.
Can't have everything.
Sure it will, it will be as common as the paper-less office...
Yup, but it was better than trying to get windows 98 running in a VM under IRIX and putting microsoft office on it ;)
Select everything you want on one page, wrap it in a table tag, set table to 100% of screen height and leave a separate row at the bottom for page numbers (and a second for footnotes if there were any).
Thats the main reason I used it, I could just open it up on any of the machines they had there (at the time, netscape was the main browser used on campus) and type without having to think "am I in the right font?" or stuff around with paragraph setups and crap that office used.
Of course at the time I was reasonably new to unix so it was something I was comfortable with and knew about already.
I used netscape communicator to write all my papers for uni, mainly because it was available under windows and unix (IRIX in our case) and could be read by anyone on any platform.
It was a reasonably easy to use editor, without all the useless crap most others have.
A few lecturers were quite impressed with the idea, the portability and cost were big factors.
Or the more recent, Minefield, The Movie.
Brings up further questions, will their netcode handle a non-uPnP router (yeah, relic, I am looking at you and dawn of war 2) ok? Will one of the PCs in the game be the host for the game or will bnet be the host? If the latter, what hope have non-Americans got of ever getting a useful ping?