Nothing bores me more than someone going on about their latest bloody cellphone! Don't get me started. I have a friend who's just acquired an iPhone, and it's now his one and only topic of conversation, mainly the latest spectacularly pointless "app" he's downloaded. Worse, because I know a little ...

I see that Orochi is now in B rev. and comes with what appears to be a real bolt-through kit. If they send one of those, we might reconsider after close examination. Speaking as someone who was frightened even by the original Ninja, I have to admit I'd be interested in seeing how the Orochi perform...

Personally, I simply encrypt my more or less "interesting" data (which is mandated by my emplyer's rules anyway) and do one overwrite with zeros, which will thwart all non-professionals. And if the latter are interested in my letters to my grandma... well, then they can waste their time reading the...

you'd be suprised just how much survives if you are persistent enough and have the right gear - the three letter acronym agencies certainly have enough of both gear and persistence. The US DoD have a standard for disk wiping which calls for at least three passes (and up to seven IIRC) with differen...

Yes. ...of course not. However assume yes, is there way for me to erase hard disk and be confident of result, YES or NO? Say the same hard disk is give for FBI/CIA/NSA and each get opportunity to investigate hard disk. How likely is it they can recover data from hard disk? Personally I'd be pretty ...

mr. poopyhead wrote: i can't think of any more right now, but i KNOW i'll hear at least a dozen more at my departmental meeting tomorrow... hey, i'll make a point to take notes on corporate jargon that annoys me.. maybe it'll help me stay awake.

May I suggest a game of Bullshit Bingo to make things a bit livelier?

The management of the taskbar and quick-launch icons is annoying, to say the least. Like you, I absolutely hated the new taskbar at first, but if you stick with it, it all starts to make sense. The whole point as I see it is to forget the whole idea of a separate "quick-launch" bar (which has been ...

CA_Steve wrote: For general browsing of unknown sites, I'd rather have it enabled than having unknown scripts running. It's your PC's latex cover

Just came across this: http://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users

Bad NoScript.

Here is how to remove those pesky "Google" adverts that may lead to inexperienced "googlers" installing malicious programs onto their PC's. Been using Adblock/Adblock Plus for years, what are these Google adverts you speak of... :lol: Since the only difference is whether you have No-Script installe...

Note: I've always felt Samsung drives read cooler than they really are. There's no way the drives are 2~4 degrees warmer than ambient when the drive light has been on solid since after lunch (I'm creating a bunch of massive tar balls). That's always been my feeling also - maybe the sensor is in a d...

Ya, I remember the same thing when I got my Minja. I thought, "Man, this is huge! I thought it was a Mini!" I really wish I could be in the same room as the Orochi, just for giggles. On the subject of the Orochi, someone showed me these on YouTube: Stability of PushPins Stability of PushPins Reload...

Yes, excluding the right to appeal. I am not saying that it is going to be right in every case (this story has already proven that), but in that murder case my ideas would not have changed the outcome, merely the sentence. They would have changed the outcome, because if your ideas had been put into...

My point exactly. Murderers, rapists and violent criminals loose all rights. Thieves, burglars and fraudsters loose all off their money rights (no fancy lawyers, no money, no house, no possesions). So this guy to whom you alluded earlier should have lost all his fundamental human rights at the time...

No need to apologise, I was just pointing out a thread with links to more recent statistics, which might be helpful rather than having to google it all again - it's certainly not my place to try and stop you discussing what you want wherever you want. I lost interest in that particular thread at the...

I keep hoping for some decent alternatives to the usual worthy-but-dull Antecs, but where so-called "quiet" cases from other manufacturers always seem to fall short is in their HDD mounting methods - so far, only the Solo and to a lesser extent the P18x seem to have got it right. I know there are pl...

Really, even if guns are banned, everyone will still have them. I know multiple people who bought loads of guns when Obama was elected and they aren't going to let go of them any time soon. http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html Back in 1993 (could not find anything later), according to t...

Here's two scenarios: Scenario 1: A Madman carrying an ILLEGAL AK-47 walks into a store and starts unloading his clip into the crowd. The people panic and run around trying to find cover but can't get out of store. When the madman's clip runs out, he calmly reloads with a fresh clip and starts syst...

...the lower PSU/HDD chamber is brilliant. Also, it's a treat to have so much room to work in, as compared to a Sonata. At the moment, I have a single HDD installed. I can't hear it. On the weekend, I will add 5 more drives... I like the P182 as well, but you may find your positive impression sligh...

Its a shame to think you would send Benjamin Franklin and JFK packing based on their lack of grammatical prowess. Misfits do have a history of thriving in this country, maybe it because we give them the chance...? :cry: I wouldn't claim that very poor grammar and spelling necessarily precludes abil...

"That one is quiet to." Anyone see any problem with that sentence? It's in the same category with "quite" I think. It can't be a typo because it's way too common. Don't get me started. When I come to power, these people will also get a night-time visit from my specially assembled band of educators,...

I'd guess it's a simple typo, rather than a genuine spelling mistake. What drives me into a homicidal rage is when I see "should of/could of/would of" instead of "should have/could have/would have" - I find it genuinely painful to read, and it actually puts me off visiting the distressing number of ...

I doubt if the IDE interfaces (ATA/100) would have been a limiting factor - even ATA/66 gives you 66.6 MB/sec. I think you're right about the CPU offloading feature though, at least according to the specs for the VT6122 GigE controller used in the EN12000EG. I guess it would need somone who actually...

* Does anyone have experience w/ the Eden 1.2GHz CPU? Does it have the oomph to process 60 MByte/s SMB or NFS traffic? For what it's worth, I recently built a small FreeNAS server using an old 1.2GHz Pentium III box - transferring big video files via FTP, it maxed out at 25-26 MB/sec, with 100% CPU...

thanks for the input, tephras. I guess i'll have to get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999141 Unless someone has a better suggestion The Coolermaster 4-in-3 module gives you an extra bay over the Thermaltake item. It's not the quietest solution around - the fan isn't...

I'm not a great networking enthusiast either, but maybe it's something to do with the way XP searches for scheduled tasks and resources by default on local network machines which share data - if it's constantly trying to get a response from the switched-off PC (and failing, obviously), it might keep...

For +ve pressure filtered set up you need to account for the resistance of the filter (huge). Exactly - to combine low resistance (necessary for slow fans and low noise) with effective filtering, you need a huge filtered area, which probably requires a custom design using pleated filters. I've look...

I like the idea of positive pressure in theory, but I've never been able to make it work very well in practice... whatever the fan setup, temps always seem to be higher than in an equivalent negative pressure system. You also need a case design which enables you to remove, clean and replace the filt...

I have my onboard Intel ICH9R controller running in AHCI mode (P35 chipset), with an Asus SATA DVD-RW drive connected to the 6th port. No problems at all installing and running Vista, the drive was recognised out of the box and everything works perfectly. If you wanted to do a clean install of XP fr...

Now, that is on a very personal, micro level, but you can take that to more involved situations in communities, countries and regions. No, no, you can't. Highly complex political issues are very rarely solved by reducing them to simplistic black-and-white metaphors, except in the non-minds of Sun r...

Sure it's all there in front of you naked and your two GeForce GTX 260 SLI will surely make your gaming sessions much warmer than when putting them inside a typical case (exhaust fans especially at the top are good in blasting hot air up faster than it would get up with just ventilation holes). err...