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Need windows 7 Guru. USB hubs do not work

Aha. Thanks for the tip, I never even knew you could show hidden devices. I see the option now, and you can even stop those devices without uninstalling then, which is perfect for trial and error, Ill give that a try tomorrow, thanks!
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- Post #3
- Oct 17, 2011
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Best home server OS for x86 (no 64bit) computer

If its only going to serve as file server, pick a NAS distro like OpenFiler or FreeNAS: http://www.freenas.org/ http://www.openfiler.com/ That way you get no headaches, and nice browser interfaces and everything you need without the dead weight (and associated security risks) you dont need.
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- Post #7
- Oct 16, 2011
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Adding privilage to user in UBUNTU 11.10

Sounds you are following an outdated how-to. The installer takes care of that, but to use USB devices in the VM, you do need the closed source virtualbox version, not the OSS one in the repositories. Grab your copy here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
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- Post #2
- Oct 16, 2011
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Need windows 7 Guru. USB hubs do not work

Hi, Im looking for someone who knows more about windows than I do. My neighbours PC has a very weird and annoying problem. USB hubs do not work. Ive tried 4, some powered, some passive, all of them only work if you insert just *ONE* device. The moment you insert a second device (no matter...
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- Oct 15, 2011
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Libya: U.N. Security Council to support action short of invasion

This. Not too mention the situation in Bahrain where Saudi troops are slaughtering protesters, and that is likely to spill over to Saudi Arabia itself. Are we going to impose no fly zones there too?
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- Post #75
- Mar 18, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

Yeah, it sits smack at the ocean front, not 200m from the sea: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=205798199449714421199.00049e850137e29c7df5f&ll=37.42164,141.035743&spn=0.014826,0.030448&t=h&z=16&iwloc=00049e850138ac09b67df I suppose there is a reason they built it there...
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- Post #709
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

You have to be kidding. Of course the plant was designed with the threat of tsunami's in mind. There isnt a place on earth thats more likely to be hit. Where did I say that? Although "giant disaster" would be an appropriate word if you just take in to account the cost of those plants which...
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- Post #706
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

Not that big. The one's I saw at a local nuclear power plant (granted, a much smaller plant) where about the size of a small ship engine. Think fishing boat. They had at least 4 of those, totally redundant and independent and each was adequate to power the emergency systems of a plant at full...
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- Post #702
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

So how hard is it to build a truck sized enclosure that resists 30 foot of water? Im serious, I dont get it. Even if the generators would shut down while submerged (as if a breather or oxygen supply would be that hard), I dont see any reason why it would be difficult to make a generator or...
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- Post #697
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

Yeah so? I dont see why you cant design a a diesel generator that survives a 10 or 15 quake. We are talking about a device that fits on a truck, not a skyscraper here. And we could submerge them in 200m of water like 70 years ago too.
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- Post #690
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

Does anyone know what exactly happened to these electric generators after the tsunami? Things is, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that a nuclear plant build right at the ocean front (is that really clever btw?) in one of the most earthquake/tsunami prone area's in the world...
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- Post #687
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

Location and depth of the epicenter are more important than the richter magnitude. Back in 1995 (?) much of Kobe was also leveled by an earthquake of "only" 7.3, but in that one, just like the Haiti one, the epicentre wasnt 200Km off shore, but in land and IIRC relatively shallow. Thats not to...
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- Post #200
- Mar 11, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

You mean for the gullible. Hope your family is okay though.
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- Post #114
- Mar 11, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

The richter scale number they report, like 8.9 or whatever it is, is an exponent of 10. A 8.9 earth quake means the measured amplitude of maximum ground motion is 10 ^ 8.9 (micron). So a full point increase in richter scale means a 10x fold increase in amplitude, but amplitude doesnt relate to...
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- Post #91
- Mar 11, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

Briefly had my brother on skype, he is in Tokyo, he's fine, though a bit shaken literally and figuratively. He cant see any major damage where he is. He described the event as if he was in a high speed train that derailed. My hat is off to the Japanese building engineers.
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- Post #78
- Mar 11, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Gaddafi forces capture and torture BBC news crew

WHile that is true, Im sure Gaddafi could have quoted some documents published by US authorities to explain how the Geneva convention protection doesnt apply in this case, and why they are allowed to detain the suspects indefinitely without charges while subjecting them to 'enhanced...
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- Post #10
- Mar 10, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Gaddafi forces capture and torture BBC news crew

Well, could have been worse; they could have thrown them in jail for 7 years without charges, beat them up regularly and sexually assault them. Thats what some other regimes do to foreign journalists
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- Post #8
- Mar 10, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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We need a New Mid-east foreign policy

No, that doesnt fly. If that were the case, Saddam would still be in power and the US would be supporting regimes in Iran and Venezuela. Its not who has the oil, its who takes marching orders. China's foreign policy is closer to what you describe: dont meddle with the politics abroad, just buy...
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- Post #17
- Mar 9, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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We need a New Mid-east foreign policy

How many of the 4+ million displaced Iraqi refugees did you meet? As for the situation in Libya and what to do; some consistency in foreign policy would be nice. It makes no sense to install, prop up, arm and finance dictators around the globe for decades , and when suddenly people in a...
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- Post #15
- Mar 9, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Formula 1 2010: Extremely unoptimized or what?

You may also have noticed the settings used and compare those to the OP. Yes, his CPU is slower, but not 4x slower than a 3.1 GHz Athlon II, its essentially the same core (and what on earth does process node have to do with anything?). Moreover, the charts seem to indicate that 2 or 4 cores...
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- Post #15
- Mar 7, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Formula 1 2010: Extremely unoptimized or what?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-cpu-core-i3-2100-phenom-ii-x6-1075t,2859-6.html Ill have to assume thats a glitch though, with core counts that arent a power of two, affecting both the 6 and 3 core results. Anyway, since I saw recommended specs stipulated a C2D or a dual core...
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- Post #13
- Mar 7, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Formula 1 2010: Extremely unoptimized or what?

Ive seen F1 2010 benches where a 6 core AMD gets pummeled by quad core, I kind of doubt it scales to 8. Anyway, some people report that changing the audio driver from Rapture to software fixes performance issues on dual cores. Worth trying.
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- Post #11
- Mar 7, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Formula 1 2010: Extremely unoptimized or what?

Your cpu actually exceeds not only the minimum but also the recommended system requirements (although your videocard falls far short of recommended). The CPU may be old, but for games that dont use >2 threads like F1, it should be adequate. Id look in to the DRM as a potential cause of your...
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- Post #9
- Mar 7, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Libya

Well, lets hope that 6000 figure is a gross exaggeration, the UN seems to put it between 1 and 2000, which unfortunately is still a lot, but not more than eg the number of Gazans that Israel killed in a week during operation Cast Lead or in the 2006 Lebanon conflict. Regardless, dont get me...
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- Post #153
- Mar 5, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libya

They are definitely not unarmed. I saw tv images of them manning RPGs, anti aircraft artillery and what not. Granted, perhaps the first days the protest it was mostly peaceful, but thats kind of hard to judge from here, as is the level of violence used against them initially and whether or not...
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- Post #151
- Mar 5, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libya

I find it fascinating how these uprising are viewed so completely different from so many others. Essentially, rebels in Egypt or Libya trying to overthrow their unpopular and corrupt regimes isnt very different from other recent uprisings whether it is Sri Lanka, Chechnya or Iraq and...
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- Post #146
- Mar 5, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libya

Of course, you can also look at it the other way. If the US goes on a bombing spree in Libya, other Arab dictatorships might get the idea that they need better airdefences and buy some S-300s to deter and protect themselves against a domestic insurgency.. backed by US airpower.
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- Post #128
- Mar 2, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libya

Sure, a police action. Police use cruise missiles and fighter/bombers within your borders all the time, dont they? ;)
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- Post #99
- Mar 1, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libya

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Or in this case, when you spend more on military than the rest of the world combined, every issue seems to require a military intervention. Heck, many of you even seem to think economic problems are best solved by buying more military...
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- Post #89
- Mar 1, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libya

Nah, they just sell (or give) them the arms and training to do so. Im sure its only for 'peace keeping' and to fight insurgency terrorists. Its good to see people wake up to the reality of our western foreign policy hypocrisy, and no country I know is innocent in this regard, but singling out...
- P4man
- Post #42
- Feb 26, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libya

Yeah its only Europe. Its not like any other world power provides state of the art weapons to similar dictatorships, say Egypt, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia,.. or Iran before its revolution, Iraq before it started selling oil in Euro's. Anyway, Id be reluctant to embrace military intervention. The...
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- Post #25
- Feb 25, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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NVIDIA's Project Kal-El

I dont know (m)any people needing to either. I wouldnt blame ubuntu for hiding an option from the GUI that no non geek (and precious few geeks) needs, Id blame your PVR for not working properly with Ext. BTW, how do you do it on a Mac? I doubt you have a GUI for it, yet I havent heard many...
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- Post #111
- Feb 24, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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NVIDIA's Project Kal-El

You have an ubuntu cd from the 80s? Here is what disk utility looks like: It lets you do everything you want, in a GUI thats if anything, more intuitive than windos disk manager. Not only can you delete and create partitions, file systems, you can even check the SMART states, benchmark, setup...
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- Post #107
- Feb 24, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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NVIDIA's Project Kal-El

My mother is 75 and a happy ubuntu user for several years now. Ill be sure to tell her she is not normal and a geek. Installing can be hard with ubuntu if something doesnt work out of the box. OEM preinstall takes care of that. And installing stuff that isnt in the repository is sometimes (too)...
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- Post #101
- Feb 23, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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NVIDIA's Project Kal-El

thats only the UI; not exactly the hardest thing to change. Besides; I mentioned Chrome OS for a reason, as it will be Google's OS for anything with keyboard and mouse. Initially at least as ChromeOS and android are going to merge...
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- Post #96
- Feb 23, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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NVIDIA's Project Kal-El

You are assuming everyone wants to run x86 software. Im not convinced, especially for lowend notebooks that are used mainly for web/mail and the like. I suspect android and chrome os will not only become a viable alternative, but a more desirable alternative for many people who want something...
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- Post #94
- Feb 23, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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NVIDIA's Project Kal-El

Yes, it scores perfectly with cores and perfectly with frequency. Coremark runs completely in the L1 cache, it really only tests the core. It doesnt touch L2 cache, let alone memory or anything else. Its a useful benchmark to compare.. well, cores really, particularly for the embedded market...
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- Post #81
- Feb 22, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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NVIDIA's Project Kal-El

No way. Those arent full load numbers, those are roughly the numbers while playing HD video, but thats done on a dedicated h264 decode unit, and 150mW would be roughly around the power consumption while browsing the web. But they are not TDP or "full load" figures. ARM states 0.5W for the...
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- Post #80
- Feb 22, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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EETimes: Microsoft calls for 16-core server SoCs

I definitely expect that. Around 2013-2014 or so, or whenever project Denver arrives and integrates Tesla with their custom ARM core. Of course it wont be aimed at handheld or mobile, but HPC, servers and perhaps workstations/desktops. When it comes to mobile, I wouldnt worry too much. If...
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- Post #118
- Feb 17, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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EETimes: Microsoft calls for 16-core server SoCs

Of course not. But do keep in mind Tegra 2 is almost a year old now, and tegra 3 devices will be arriving not much later than samsung orion ("exynos" is too hard for me to remember ;) ) Dont forget the importance of software, developer tools and mindshare. If you are a handset vendor that...
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- Post #109
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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