Ah yes, 190 million years ago. When Antarctica was one continent together with India, Australia, Africa and South America.

As for the poles moving, that mostly affects the magnetic poles and not the rotational ones. Continental drift plays a lot larger part, at least.

NeilBlanchard wrote:Stand back! I'm going to try to do some science!

Is that anything like this?

Yes, RAID0 makes reads and writes a bit quicker, at the risk of losing all the data from one drive failure.

walle wrote:Both Sweden and Finland are (as of yet) not a part of the Euro

Finland has been part of the Eurozone since the start, I know I used it when I went there in spring 2002.

Anything flashed with a 3rd party (linux-based) firmware a la dd-wrt or openwrt should be able to do that. One guide to setting this up is here. As for what routers this would work on, see their hardware compatibility list.

scdr wrote:Using VMs for trying out new programs, or for running things that aren't that important (e.g. games) or that you don't use often, you can help keep Windows running longer between reinstalls.

Running a game in a VM would kill graphics performance, though, since that's not virtualised.

~El~Jefe~ wrote:consuming a baby's body in order that some whiney schmuck can live more years to whine really isnt worth the effort or the possible evil.

Ah yes, it's so much worse than throwing away the body, which is what would happened if such fertilised embryos weren't used for stem cell harvesting anyway.

hans007 wrote:this is somewhat of a waste anyway. Max bandwidth of pci bus is no where near 1 GBps its 133MBps so its barely faster than 100 ethernet anyway.

No, PCI is 133 Mbyte per second, which is just above 1 Gbit (which is 125Mbyte/second). Keep in mind that MB != Mb, and network speeds are defined i Mb.

This seems to be a largely US-ian phenomenon. certainly, all the old people I know (80+) are basically crippled and senility beckons (these are all family members, so I am not saying that to be mean). this may be the UK climate, almost complete lack of exercise in the general population, etc. my po...

Both of those numbers are completely off, you won't be way under 10W load with any computer, period. I'd suspect the power meter, yes. Does it give good results on other apparatus in the <50W range?

470 grains. I was on level 39 or 40 for a while, but in the end dropped down to 32 or so. Not bad for a non-native speaker, but then I've read a lot of English, and many words can be traced back to Latin or Greek, and with a little luck I can guess those.

MPEG2 720p might be possible, but certainly not any more demanding codec.

My fridge has a cupboard on top! There's a 7cm or so gap with a grille in between though

I'm not saying that its bad, I am only pointing out that it not healthy not to change things, and most Americans consider that a "Holy" piece of text that can never be changed, get with the real world, it needs to be changed from time to time, and when it does, why do people still quote from it, an...

Das_Saunamies wrote:In regards to Ubuntu, it's flashy and neat and all that, just remember to take care of this: http://www.linux-hero.com/rant/explanat ... r-and-tear

Getting a bit off-topic here, but that only happens if you enable laptop mode. No worries for a desktop user

I'd suggest popping in a Windows install CD and repairing the concerned install. Failing that, try Ubuntu

djkest wrote:For some reason I remember hearing that the 8800 GTS is actually hotter than the GTX. Or at least the GTX has a better cooling solution?

Most (all?) 8800GTS have the same style of two-slot cooler that the GTX has, so with lower clocks and less memory I see no reason for it to be hotter.

I believe that should be prospective buyers in the last paragraph.

Otherwise, good review. I only have one question: Since the OC module is hardware-based, does it work under Linux too? If not I'd say it's pretty useless.

I was really close to posting something about Leviticus, but since the OP requested the thread not be hijacked I resisted.

The link here is to the Squeezebox review

I checked Longmans, and there was no mention of any line under tow, only toe. I guess that settles it.

Tow/toe the line, can a native speaker enlighten me? Toe the line is pretty obvious (stepping right on it with your toes), but is there really a way to tow it? I see this quite often, and most of the time just assume it's a mistake.

Defense of your property is a basic human right. In many places this human right is not respected or encouraged by the law. In Texas it is. In many places human life, be it of a criminal or not, is valued higher than property. Or would you argue that the right to life is not the most basic right th...

Nope, but I recently started playing OpenTTD again, an open-source adaptation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, so a bit of the same style. It also features online multiplayer

Short answer: It's not needed. Longer answer: Linux is smart enough to first attempt to guess the size of a newly created file, and hence reserve that much space for it, and then when reading re-order the requests instead of having to move the files physically. That's one of the advantages of being ...

ryboto wrote: Well, a strange side-effect of this is that the system clock in windows is off by +4 hours when I boot back to it.

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Sounds like Linux is setting the bios clock to UTC. There should be an option in /etc/default/rcS to change this, set it to UTC=no

A little searching shows that it seems to be a standard size for 3U PSUs, examples here and here

Paying more for unobtainium-braided cables, or whatever bullcrap they try to sell you (i've seen one of them try to tell their cables acted as a "flux capacitor" ! Yes the same from Dr Emmet Brown !) is just pure fantasy. Ah yes, but you're forgetting that their speaker cable could handle 1.21 giga...

However, the series II is undoubtably more efficient and also ROHS compliant. I am only running a basic machine Semprom 28000+, 512M RAM, on board video, single HDD and DVD drive. Any thoughts? The S12-380 I bought a year ago was also RoHS compliant. That seems to have been introduced when they sle...

Behardware has good, if infrequent, monitor reviews.