Another vote in favour, these Dells are good... my requirements were; 16:10 at least, real buttons... a bonus was the USB hub and the rotate/height/pivot... it really looks huge when you put it in portrait... fantastic for web browsing.
Running Windows 7 64-Bit RC here... installed on a 750GB Samsung drive formatted using defaults via the installer.
Opened the C:\Windows folder, typed "size:<=4096" in the search box, found 23,347 files, selected all, right-clicked properties, I get: Size: 43.0 MB (45,126,095 bytes) Size on disk: 91.1 MB (95,563,776 bytes)
so they are slightly more then twice as big, these "more, smaller files"... personally 45MiB of a 698,000MiB is not bad wastage...
Yep I noticed it however windows doesn't always refresh the short cut icons immediately so some might have missed the new shiny icons.
If you're on Windows XP or similar and it has not refreshed the icon just go to the shortcut properties and click change icon and click ok... it will update automatically.
I always thought replacing a laptop LCD would be costly and difficult, but having done it the other weekend for a friends laptop it was (relatively) cheap, and very easy, only took part of a morning
(In New Zealand,) a replacement 15" 1280x800 screen cost NZ $350.
Without any instructions (Asus laptop... hard to find service manual)... I was able to take out the old screen and insert the new one within about 1.5 hours, using simple tools like a small screwdriver.
Get over the "it's too hard" problem, and just replace the screen... or just use it as a controller for your robotic toaster.
I prefer quiet keyboards, but obviously not at the expense of key layout and feel...
I can appreciate the quality of the old keyboards, and the fact that they last for a long time, but the noise factor is fairly important for me too, I prefer the relative quiet of my MS Comfort Curve 2000...
The main thing with keyboards is just having a consistent layout, to this end I've purchased a Comfort Curve for work to match the one I have at home so I can be productive either end.
The main thing that irks me about keyboards in general is that the design remains relatively unchanged, for example the MS Ergo keyboard remains one of the few widely-available "Slightly" different designs... and the little feet are at the *back* of most keyboards... which seems counter-intuitive, as I would expect you want the keyboard sloped *downwards* instead of up...
yep my thoughts exactly, I've tried to use Brasero to burn data discs and after arranging and moving files around a bit it almost always crashed on me... kinda like using an old version of Nero... although the nero drag-and-drop-into-random-folder bug is not there there are enough unique bugs that I'm unimpressed... I'll have to try the latest version and see if it's any better...
Well yes you can "hobby" linux on your PS3... sony even provides some help... but if you think you're going to get anything cool out of it, think again, it's just going to be a hobby...
1. No HD... wow SD is so "cool" 2. No GPU... wow my PS3 has such cool 3d graphics... or not!!
So basically you get a low end computer with the inconvenience of PPC (so you can't use the majority of binaries) it's non-usefulness as a slick media player (no HD etc) or a "Game machine" (no x86 or GPU) basically means it's a big fail and thanks to Sony for a hobby "yes it runs linux" -- but no cool features.
In fact, one of the "reasons" for having a computer, e.g. playing copied games of course will not work as that's not what Sony wants you to do with "your" hardware... they would prefer you use their OS, their software etc
yeah, I used to follow the rule, then with the upgrade from 1GiB to 2Gib, I changed my rule to 1x so a 2GiB swap..
Then just last month I got annoyed with the whole idea of swapping and just disabled my Windows XP page file and seeing that my peak only ever hits roughly 1GiB (this is with SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio.NET 2003 *and 2005*, Firefox 3, IE7, Outlook 2003, Excel 2003, and a few other programs, all at once) So far I've been pretty safe (never had a BSOD or out of memory error yet)
So to summarize if you really run lots of large apps, maybe you should have a swap file.. (if you can't afford some cheap memory,) if you want windows performance to be "snappy" disable your page file... I have yet to test linux, but I would assume it's similar, you can just disable the swap file and get slightly improved performance.
Anyway, my personal opinion is that Virtual memory is a hold back from the $20 a MiB pricing from the old days of RAM.. these days at $20 a GiB (or much less) it's just a 32bit problem I guess...
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SecuROM is the name of the offending software... EA is the name of the offending organization...
SecuROM is a pointless program that does not provide any additional functionality for the user, it silently installs a system driver and basically doesn't follow any good software design philosophies
Well I downloaded it, and I have to say it's fast and simple... pretty much all they said it would be... I like it, might have to "Sidegrade" from FF3.01 to this...
Anyways, I suggest giving it a go if you're running Windows... I found it quite slick.
The tabs at top and omni bar seem really intuitive, ripping tabs off to make new windows works smoothly, you can crash a plugin and not bring down the page...
Now I just need one thing to switch me from FF3... Chrome, Adblock Edition . LOL
Well, we've been capped since "Broadband" came out here in NZ and I still reserve my right to complain about it!
I wouldn't mind if the ISPs actually sold a decent service, and told you what you were (or were not) getting and how much money they were putting back into upgrading their service, but as usual it's opaque corporate bullshit and they're not interested in anything other then making more profits and retaining the largest market share.
Fair-ish market would be: Decent full-speed DSL with reasonable modern allowances like say 100GB or so for a basic plan with heavy plans of 150 or more.
Also the option to have no "cap" but just the theoretical maximum if you have endless HDD space and download/upload 24 hours a day at full speed: ADSL1 with ~5Mbit (625KByte) would have a theoretical max of about 54GB a day with say about 85% throughput gives roughly 46GB a day, times 30.4days a month, gives about 1400GB a month.
I think that's fair, you're unlikely to be able to watch that many movies, or even stack up enough torrents and disk space... so the average uncapped user would be using 40 to 50GB.. families closer to 100 then hardcore users on the 500+GB mark...
I dunno it's a bit expensive at the moment, I reckon about $20 for the flat fee (with competition between providers for the cheap price point) and 10cents a GB or so above that would be pretty fair... that way if you used your full 24 hour capacity you would be looking at a $165 bill...
My connection here is: ~5000kbit/s down, ~600kbit/s up ADSL 1 connection Me and my one flatmate use about 50 to 100 GB a month, I have a 50GB plan, usual New Zealand plans are 5 or 10GB with 20GB "Heavy user" plans, mine is actually a 0.5GB plan with a 50GB add-on.. total cost is $92 NZD per month (~$65 US)
If I go over the 50GB it's $2 per GB... so it's $92 a month if I don't go over the limit, and if I do, like last month (me and my flatmate used heaps and download3d movies and TV shows hard-out so) we used about 100GB and the bill is $181
Usually the speeds are fairly all right here, although if it's a stormy day or a weekend and a lot of people are on the net then it will be slower...
ISP bandwidth restrictions are rampant so your "Max" speed connection often seems closer to a 1mbit or less... usually torrents or other p2p traffic that is limited... seems a little unfair as they are charging you for the bandwidth, then not letting you use it at full speed.
I read some of the Aussie posters on here saying they had nice unrestricted speeds and lots of local software mirrors... lucky bastards, no company in NZ would bother providing free mirrors or anything for that matter, all data is the same cost if it goes 4000 miles or 40....
anyway, so yeah 50 to 60GB on average, up to 100, and cost ranges from $92 to $181+
if you get a capped connection it slows down to modem speed if you hit the limit, which I have noticed when I go to other people's houses, they are usually over their limits... it's pretty bad.
Slashdot Mirror
Another vote in favour, these Dells are good... my requirements were; 16:10 at least, real buttons... a bonus was the USB hub and the rotate/height/pivot... it really looks huge when you put it in portrait... fantastic for web browsing.
Running Windows 7 64-Bit RC here... installed on a 750GB Samsung drive formatted using defaults via the installer.
Opened the C:\Windows folder, typed "size:<=4096" in the search box, found 23,347 files, selected all, right-clicked properties, I get:
Size: 43.0 MB (45,126,095 bytes)
Size on disk: 91.1 MB (95,563,776 bytes)
so they are slightly more then twice as big, these "more, smaller files"... personally 45MiB of a 698,000MiB is not bad wastage...
Here is the actual breakdown... RANDOM WRITES people!
JMicron should hang their head in shame... 4 random writes per second... epic fail.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=8
The big picture article: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531
The follow up article: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535
Yep I noticed it however windows doesn't always refresh the short cut icons immediately so some might have missed the new shiny icons.
If you're on Windows XP or similar and it has not refreshed the icon just go to the shortcut properties and click change icon and click ok... it will update automatically.
A quick search of information on Earthlink returned this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlink#DNS_and_filtering_controversy
Which links to a page with DNS servers that are unsupported and unfiltered... might pay for anyone affected to at least try them.
I always thought replacing a laptop LCD would be costly and difficult, but having done it the other weekend for a friends laptop it was (relatively) cheap, and very easy, only took part of a morning
(In New Zealand,) a replacement 15" 1280x800 screen cost NZ $350.
Without any instructions (Asus laptop... hard to find service manual)... I was able to take out the old screen and insert the new one within about 1.5 hours, using simple tools like a small screwdriver.
Get over the "it's too hard" problem, and just replace the screen... or just use it as a controller for your robotic toaster.
amen.
I prefer quiet keyboards, but obviously not at the expense of key layout and feel...
I can appreciate the quality of the old keyboards, and the fact that they last for a long time, but the noise factor is fairly important for me too, I prefer the relative quiet of my MS Comfort Curve 2000...
The main thing with keyboards is just having a consistent layout, to this end I've purchased a Comfort Curve for work to match the one I have at home so I can be productive either end.
The main thing that irks me about keyboards in general is that the design remains relatively unchanged, for example the MS Ergo keyboard remains one of the few widely-available "Slightly" different designs... and the little feet are at the *back* of most keyboards... which seems counter-intuitive, as I would expect you want the keyboard sloped *downwards* instead of up...
I also agree with most of the points on this blog entry
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001221.html
yep my thoughts exactly, I've tried to use Brasero to burn data discs and after arranging and moving files around a bit it almost always crashed on me... kinda like using an old version of Nero... although the nero drag-and-drop-into-random-folder bug is not there there are enough unique bugs that I'm unimpressed... I'll have to try the latest version and see if it's any better...
wow I sometimes wondered what happened to the internet junkbuster...
Seems to be still as efficient as ever, currently using just 7MB under WindowXP.. servicing all my browsers (FF3, Chrome2, Safari4, IE7)
Performing pretty quick... now I don't need adblock!! sweet!
Thanks for pointing this out too me
in soviet russia, hitting imagines you.
Well yes you can "hobby" linux on your PS3... sony even provides some help... but if you think you're going to get anything cool out of it, think again, it's just going to be a hobby...
1. No HD... wow SD is so "cool"
2. No GPU... wow my PS3 has such cool 3d graphics... or not!!
So basically you get a low end computer with the inconvenience of PPC (so you can't use the majority of binaries) it's non-usefulness as a slick media player (no HD etc) or a "Game machine" (no x86 or GPU) basically means it's a big fail and thanks to Sony for a hobby "yes it runs linux" -- but no cool features.
In fact, one of the "reasons" for having a computer, e.g. playing copied games of course will not work as that's not what Sony wants you to do with "your" hardware... they would prefer you use their OS, their software etc
Ahh I see... well Vista does seem to be a bit smarter with precaching then XP.. I've not tried ReadyBoost yet but sounds fun
XP?? how did you get ReadyBoost working on XP?
Thanks for the mirror!
Picture is quite clear, can't wait for Google Earth to be refreshed.
Amen!
No swap FTW
yeah, I used to follow the rule, then with the upgrade from 1GiB to 2Gib, I changed my rule to 1x so a 2GiB swap..
Then just last month I got annoyed with the whole idea of swapping and just disabled my Windows XP page file and seeing that my peak only ever hits roughly 1GiB (this is with SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio .NET 2003 *and 2005*, Firefox 3, IE7, Outlook 2003, Excel 2003, and a few other programs, all at once)
So far I've been pretty safe (never had a BSOD or out of memory error yet)
So to summarize if you really run lots of large apps, maybe you should have a swap file.. (if you can't afford some cheap memory,)
if you want windows performance to be "snappy" disable your page file... I have yet to test linux, but I would assume it's similar, you can just disable the swap file and get slightly improved performance.
Anyway, my personal opinion is that Virtual memory is a hold back from the $20 a MiB pricing from the old days of RAM.. these days at $20 a GiB (or much less) it's just a 32bit problem I guess...
That's why you have windows freeware! :)
This program is really slick, it doesn't interfere.
http://codefromthe70s.org/perfgraph2.asp
SecuROM is the name of the offending software...
EA is the name of the offending organization...
SecuROM is a pointless program that does not provide any additional functionality for the user, it silently installs a system driver and basically doesn't follow any good software design philosophies
It's an anti-feature.
Well I downloaded it, and I have to say it's fast and simple... pretty much all they said it would be... I like it, might have to "Sidegrade" from FF3.01 to this...
Anyways, I suggest giving it a go if you're running Windows... I found it quite slick.
The tabs at top and omni bar seem really intuitive, ripping tabs off to make new windows works smoothly, you can crash a plugin and not bring down the page...
Now I just need one thing to switch me from FF3... Chrome, Adblock Edition . LOL
DOH!
Space station has 1 in 72 chance of getting hit by space junk, fires rockets to move so it's a mile away getting closer to 1 in 10000...
story at 11
Well, we've been capped since "Broadband" came out here in NZ and I still reserve my right to complain about it!
I wouldn't mind if the ISPs actually sold a decent service, and told you what you were (or were not) getting and how much money they were putting back into upgrading their service, but as usual it's opaque corporate bullshit and they're not interested in anything other then making more profits and retaining the largest market share.
Fair-ish market would be:
Decent full-speed DSL with reasonable modern allowances like say 100GB or so for a basic plan with heavy plans of 150 or more.
Also the option to have no "cap" but just the theoretical maximum if you have endless HDD space and download/upload 24 hours a day at full speed:
ADSL1 with ~5Mbit (625KByte) would have a theoretical max of about 54GB a day with say about 85% throughput gives roughly 46GB a day, times 30.4days a month, gives about 1400GB a month.
I think that's fair, you're unlikely to be able to watch that many movies, or even stack up enough torrents and disk space... so the average uncapped user would be using 40 to 50GB.. families closer to 100 then hardcore users on the 500+GB mark...
I dunno it's a bit expensive at the moment, I reckon about $20 for the flat fee (with competition between providers for the cheap price point) and 10cents a GB or so above that would be pretty fair... that way if you used your full 24 hour capacity you would be looking at a $165 bill...
meh 300 baud is slower, you can watch the screen "typing"
My connection here is:
~5000kbit/s down, ~600kbit/s up ADSL 1 connection
Me and my one flatmate use about 50 to 100 GB a month, I have a 50GB plan, usual New Zealand plans are 5 or 10GB with 20GB "Heavy user" plans, mine is actually a 0.5GB plan with a 50GB add-on.. total cost is $92 NZD per month (~$65 US)
If I go over the 50GB it's $2 per GB... so it's $92 a month if I don't go over the limit, and if I do, like last month (me and my flatmate used heaps and download3d movies and TV shows hard-out so) we used about 100GB and the bill is $181
Usually the speeds are fairly all right here, although if it's a stormy day or a weekend and a lot of people are on the net then it will be slower...
ISP bandwidth restrictions are rampant so your "Max" speed connection often seems closer to a 1mbit or less... usually torrents or other p2p traffic that is limited... seems a little unfair as they are charging you for the bandwidth, then not letting you use it at full speed.
I read some of the Aussie posters on here saying they had nice unrestricted speeds and lots of local software mirrors... lucky bastards, no company in NZ would bother providing free mirrors or anything for that matter, all data is the same cost if it goes 4000 miles or 40....
anyway, so yeah 50 to 60GB on average, up to 100, and cost ranges from $92 to $181+
if you get a capped connection it slows down to modem speed if you hit the limit, which I have noticed when I go to other people's houses, they are usually over their limits... it's pretty bad.
LOL still using one... it's trusty alright!