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  1. Re:The Savior of an Inept SQL Author on Samsung Mass Produces 128GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Or throw 64GB of ram at your server :)

    SSD will only help when the DB is too big to fit into the largest amount of ram you can cram into one box, see EVE Online for an example, they use a 300GB SSD to store their game DB on.

  2. Well, it should be ok.... on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:He duped the great majority of us... on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Thats because the OP used it in an incorrect manner, its supposed to be for subjective proof.

    The remnant proof is of course within your mind, that the pudding did indeed, taste good.

    What sort of pudding btw? Not a black pudding I hope :P

  4. Re:Fucking Awesome on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 1

    Except there is strict rules on how long you can take per turn, 2 warnings and you get disqualified :)

  5. Re:Seriously? on In Japan, a 900 Gigabyte Upload Cap, Downloads Uncapped · · Score: 1

    80GB/month internode here, and loving it

    10mb/s download and 500kb/s up

    They mirror sourceforge and all major linux and freeBSD and to top it off, give free giganews service to all broadband customers :)

    And if you call them for support, you speak to someone in your own country AND who knows what they are talking about.

  6. Re:Be thorough! on What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    You didn't read it did you?

    Piranha Solution is a particularly strong mix of sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide, it will eat through most anything, it even has an effect on glass (mostly good however).

    Good for getting rid of bodies in a hurry :)

  7. Re:God Bless America! on Lt. Col. John Bircher Answers Your Questions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can see what moderations have been applied (including modifiers because of personal preference and anonymity) if you click on the "Score:#" link in a comments header.

    Go on, mod me informative, I dare you :P

    In this case (so far as I get):

    Moderation +3
        20% Informative
        30% Offtopic
        30% Underrated
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier 0 (Edit)
    Anonymous Modifier -3 (Edit)
    Total Score: 0

    Yes, I am harsh on ACs, but then, its not hard to be anon AND post under a user name we can remember :)

  8. Re:Here's a bit of advice on Latest PS3 Firmware Update Requires Hard Disk Wipe to Fix · · Score: 1

    Check a prev post, they revealed that the PS3 does indeed keep the latest and the last 2 bios updates, it first tries to post one, then if it fails goes back through them till it starts.

    At a guess this is something they fubared further up the tree than just bricking the post.

  9. Re:This is probably good news on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    So, to put it in a way people on here might actually understand ;)

    The T-cell fakes its md5, HIV comes up, checks to see if this is the right cell to corrupt and finds the hash doesn't match what it wants, and ignores it.

    See, and no cars or tubes :)

  10. Re:RAID5 is stupid, RAID 10 or no RAID on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    Kinda goes without saying, since a raid only does 2 things

    Protects from drive failure, and only drive failure

    Modifies throughput and latency (although the latter to a lesser extent)

  11. Re:RAID5 is stupid, RAID 10 or no RAID on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    [blockquote]Um, no, try again[/blockquote]

    Re-read the parent, they state that it takes 3 failures to get a data error, not that you are still safe with 3 failed drives.

    As for the topic, I use a raid5 array and have one drive as a cold spare, just have to push a button on the cage and it spins up and the array rebuilds.

  12. Re:Gaming Router on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, basic VIA board, under clock the cpu and remove its fan, thumb stick booting Monowall.

    Never get any issues with that, and the cpu (even heavily under-clocked) never passes 5% usage.

  13. Re:Hulu? No thanks! on TV and Movies On YouTube? · · Score: 1

    So its basically Vuze with less torrent features?

    As for the political stuff, I am sure it would be fascinating if I was in your country, as it is I don't mind browsing on Joost (10mb/s dsl with a great shaper on my end, so bandwidth is never an issue) and when a show I find interesting finishes it usually grabs something from the hottest selection, so some free soft core porn, everyone wins :)

  14. Re:Hulu? No thanks! on TV and Movies On YouTube? · · Score: 1

    If you want to see streaming video that "just works" and has little country restriction Joost is the way to go :)

  15. Re:PhysX? on NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs · · Score: 1

    The number of people in this world you speak of, is not as large (or indeed any substantial subset) of the end users of the devices in question.

    As I said in another post, fire up all your games one at a time, and look through the start credits, TWIMTBP shows up a lot now on the "big" titles.

    And I am not even going near their new CUDA processing array servers, which stand on their own merits with this tech.

  16. Re:I called it on NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs · · Score: 1

    Of course not that NV were packaging a GPU accelerated Havok engine with TWIMTBP for developers (look at company of heroes for that kind of thing), their plans with Havok dropped out when Intel brought the engine tech, so NV secured Ageia so that this time its tech can't be yanked out from under it.

    A fun thing to do, load up all your favorite games, and actually watch the intros, how many have TWIMTBP, how many of the new games from these makers will require a NV card for their games physics to run well?

  17. Re:PhysX? on NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs · · Score: 1

    I did hear in an interview with an NV engineer recently that they are working to have a CUDA environment under a standard x86 cpu, just with reduced speed (since there's only 1-8 CPUs).

    This stuff they designed specifically for their gforce shader unit (or vice verser), why should they do the work to key in AMD or anyone else to be able to do it, when AMD built their own GPU processing API do you think they offered to port it to NV cards?

    The big question, how hard are NV going to push TWIMTBP (The Way Its Meant To Be Played) affiliated game producers to use it.

  18. Re:So, practically who bought 9800 on Hands On With Nvidia's New GTX 280 Card · · Score: 1

    You must be new to the whole "computer part" thing...

  19. Re:Power Consumption on Hands On With Nvidia's New GTX 280 Card · · Score: 1

    This is why NV came up with their new trick, build an integrated video adapter into all boards and let the high end cards use the pci-e 2.0 bus to move the framebuffer over to that when playing games, then when just doing normal windows tasks use the SM bus to turn off these electric heaters.

    Works in vista only though, and of course, that OS is still showing signs of flop in the games area, despite DX10 and SP1.

  20. Minimum framerate? on Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Quoting min-max isn't what's needed, minimum is all that's required, my rig can, if looking directly at the ground, clock over 1000fps in some games, but that is of course a useless measure of the machine.

    Minimum usable framerate is around 35fps, if a fps drops under this, don't bother. Particularly don't bother if its going to cost 10 times the price for one tenth the framerate :P

  21. And furthermore... on eBay's Plan to Force PayPal Rejected Down Under · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... we would like to add, on behalf of the Australians who you are trying to blatantly extort:

    *ahem*

    "Like fuck you will"

    That was an extract from the actual brief, word for word, honest :P

  22. Re:awesomebar on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 1

    Ok, for those unable to opperate google.com

    Add a custom entry in about:config named "browser.urlbar.richResults"

    Set it to false

    Restart browser

    Hard isn't it :)

  23. Re:Treadmill Kittens on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 1

    You win the thread, congratulations.

    Getting a post with a youtube link of kittens on a treadmill marked informative...

  24. Re:Grr sidebar history on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but once you use it, and get really used to just having it there, THEN go and use a machine that only has IE7 on it, you will admit, it is, indeed, awesome :)

  25. Re:fp on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't be anally retentive without an anus :)