| n17ikh | and software |
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| diktal | yep |
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| n17ikh | catalyst media center is the biggest turd I've ever seen |
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| Armand | n17ikh: I can't say I've ever had a problem with NVidia.. aside from my own stupidity. :P |
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| Armand | I knocked a surface mount resistor of a GPU.. >_< |
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| n17ikh | well, only problem I've run into with nvidia I can think of right now is a really annoying one |
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| Armand | *off |
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| n17ikh | the "use nvidia scaling" options in the control panel just don't work |
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| n17ikh | no matter what I set there, the application's resolution is what it sets the output resolution to |
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| diktal | it also had some issues with the video zoomings |
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| diktal | or.. maybe the scalings? |
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| diktal | umm |
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| n17ikh | which drives me nuts with applications that don't support the native resolution of my screen |
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| n17ikh | or worse, the aspect ratio |
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| diktal | haha |
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| Armand | I would blame Zalman's design, as the contact surface is far too large for a GPU. |
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| diktal | but they should read out from monitor then vga |
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| Absolute0 | does linux work well with some of these tv tuners? |
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| n17ikh | well, that's why I recommend Hauppauge |
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| n17ikh | they always do |
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| n17ikh | http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Video_capture_cards |
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| n17ikh | a lot of cheap cards have a generic chip that's somewhat a pain to get working |
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| Absolute0 | this one looks appealing: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116028&cm_re=Hauppauge-_-15-116-028-_-Product |
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| Absolute0 | "Great Option for Linux/Mythtv" |
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| n17ikh | apparently that one works good on digital TV |
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| Absolute0 | for $50 more you can buy a tv :) |
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| n17ikh | not so much if you want analog on linux |
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| n17ikh | http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1250 |
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| Absolute0 | and have them side by side with your computer |
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| Absolute0 | work on one watch on the other.. |
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| n17ikh | nice thing about digital TV is that you don't need very much hardware to capture it |
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| n17ikh | you just have to write the stream out to disk as-is |
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| n17ikh | so good digital capture cards can be cheaper than analog ones eventually |
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| Absolute0 | how good is the resolution on the hauppauge cards? |
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| Absolute0 | can it go to you monitor's size? |
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| hawk | Absolute0: I would guess it produces same res as the source? |
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| Absolute0 | aha |
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| Absolute0 | if the source is rabbit years? |
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| Absolute0 | ears |
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| n17ikh | you can get ATSC in resolutions up to 1080p |
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| n17ikh | it depends on what the broadcaster does. |
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| n17ikh | Most will be 480p |
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| n17ikh | which ain't all that great |
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| mysgroda | What the freaking heck is "Intel Celeron Dual-Core"? |
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| mysgroda | I thought Celeron was Intel's "worthless piece of shit" CPU line. |
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| anamal | can i just ask why laptops these days have glossy screens? |
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| mysgroda | Because they are completely insane. |
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| mysgroda | It looks like crap and is just horribly bad in every way. |
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| anamal | every review i read critizes them, so why did they put them in every laptop out there |
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| foobarz | that gloss is not a big peel-off layer? |
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| LSD` | Colour brightness and reproduction is better on glossy. Mattes are dull and lifeless. |
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| Absolute0 | anamal: you can request for a matte display. |
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| ||cw | mysgroda: there's a core2 based celeron now |
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| ||cw | it's still reduced cache |
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| anamal | ah i didnt know that |
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| LSD` | Yeah, Intel have gotten so good at making dual cores there's not enough faulty ones to make single core celerons anymore :P |
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| anamal | but those must be the 'bsiness' versions of the same model, then? |
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| Absolute0 | LSD`: well if you sit near a window, its pretty bad |
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| ||cw | Absolute0: no worse than a CRT |
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| Absolute0 | do they still make CRT's? :) |
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| ||cw | and a matte screen sitting in a place where glossy glares will look very washed out and be hard to read anyway |
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| mysgroda | WHY have they started putting 2 GB RAM in all laptops when they used to use 4 GB over a year ago? |
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| Absolute0 | mysgroda: you can request more ram |
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| DixitDominus | missgorda because of power issues? |
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| Absolute0 | :-D |
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| LSD` | probably because they've moved to DDR3 and DDR3 prices haven't quite stabilised yet |
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| DarkED | mysgroda, because if it only has 2GB they don't need to load it with a 64-bit OS |
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| DarkED | mysgroda, plus... 2GB is cheaper than 4GB |
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| mysgroda | Power issues? |
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| mysgroda | Hrm. |
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| DarkED | mysgroda, money issues. |
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| DixitDominus | missgorda DDR3 uses less juice, and the new one's from Samsung about to hit the corner will sip even less. |
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| DarkED | 64-bit copies of oem windows are slightly more expensive than 32-bitr |
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| DarkED | bit* even |
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| Zathraz | Hi. Is this a good channel to ask about raidcontroller issues? (I have a 3ware 8006-lp2 with a serious issue) |
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| mysgroda | Windows 7 costs more than a computer with Windows 7 on it. |
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| DixitDominus | oh yeah, that too about the 64bit thingy |
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| DarkED | for example they might pay microsoft $2 per key for 32-bit and $2.25 per key for x64 |
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| Absolute0 | newegg doesn't carry CRT displays |
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| Gyndawyr | what is QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter? |
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| ||cw | Zathraz: I have a 7400 and a 9500, they work better if you don't use their raid features |
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| DarkED | Absolute0, that's cause CRT displays are obsolete :D |
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| mysgroda | Does Microsoft provide downloadable CD/DVD images of Windows 7 on their Web site for free? |
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| Absolute0 | DarkED: not in the graphic design world.. |
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| ||cw | Gyndawyr: do you know what Fibre Channel is? |
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| LSD` | mysgroda: OEMs pay a hell of a lot less for Windows than retail customers, abotu USD$50 per licence |
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| DarkED | Absolute0, if you really need a good CRT just try your local Goodwill. sometimes to luck up and find a good trinitron or diamondtron |
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| mysgroda | The first thing I want to do when I have bought a new laptop with a Windows 7 license is to nuke the box and install a fresh copy with my license. |
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| LSD` | mysgroda: If you're a Technet/MSDN subscriber, sure |
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| mysgroda | I am not an anything subscriber. |
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| Zathraz | 1 disk fails in a raid1 setup after reboot. Now detaching and reattaching the disk from both cli as well as the webgui states that is going to rebuild. But rebuiding never takes place |
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| Gyndawyr | I dont know what Fibre channel is.. |
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| mysgroda | I am 99% sure that I won't be getting a physical DVD with Windows 7 when I buy the laptop, and I don't want to rely on a pirate copy being "clean". |
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| Gyndawyr | Im trying to cut the windows folder size down, and to do that I can remove it's support, but I dont know what it is, so I came to find out |
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| ||cw | Zathraz: check the verify window options |
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| mysgroda | I just want to use my legal serial key on a clean copy. |
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| DixitDominus | the first thing I do with m$$ is to get a pirated copy. |
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| ||cw | Zathraz: under schedualing I think |
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| Gyndawyr | I will use a legal serial key and then activate it offline so I can use it an infinite number of times |
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| mysgroda | Or does the agreement state that it is only allowed if I use their pre-installed bloatware? |
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| Gyndawyr | I obtained it legally I may as well use it |
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| DarkED | Absolute0, also if you're interested i have two identical black 19" sony trinitron flat-CRT's. they're rebranded as dell but it's the same fucking monitor |
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| Zathraz | (0x0B:0x0048): Invalid verify operation for the given unit mode : Failed to start Verify on Unit 0 |
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| DixitDominus | I obtain legal copies on torrents |
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| LSD` | I gave up pirating Windows when they introduced WGA. Became too much hassle to be worth it. Luckily I was able to get XP for free and then came the Win7 beta, but once that's up I'll be buying a legal copy |
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| Zathraz | when looking at the scheduling menu: (0x0C:0x0017): Scheduling is not supported on this controller model |
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| DarkED | LSD`, there's no effort in it at all |
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| DarkED | there are copies of windows 7 floating around on the torrent sites that need no key and no activation |
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| DarkED | they 'just work' |
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| LSD` | DarkED: Until MS change WGA again |
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| DarkED | LSD`, no, because the WGA has been taken out of the image entirely |
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| DarkED | it just isn't there |
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| ||cw | Zathraz: the new disk is at least as big as existing right? |
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| mysgroda | So... I can't download a DVD image from Microsoft.com somewhere, burn it, put it in my new laptop and use the serial key I just got included? What is bad about that? |
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| ||cw | hey if you guys wan't to argue about WGA take it to ##windows ro something |
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| LSD` | DarkED: Until MS put it back |
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| mysgroda | Damn. I thought I was in #Windows. |
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| DarkED | <mysgroda> So... I can't download a DVD image from Microsoft.com somewhere, burn it, put it in my new laptop and use the serial key I just got included? What is bad about that? <-- you can if it's the same version of windows (i.e. windows 7 ultimate and you have a win 7 ultimate key) |
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| DarkED | <LSD`> DarkED: Until MS put it back <-- yeah. like that's gonna happen. |
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| mysgroda | There is only one disc... |
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| mysgroda | I assume that each serial key is tied to one edition. |
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| DarkED | it is |
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| mysgroda | So what are you talking about? |
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| DarkED | it has always been that way |
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| LSD` | DarkED: It has in the past and it will again in the future. Easier to just buy a copy. |
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| Zathraz | ||cw both disks were bought at the same time and are identical |
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| Zathraz | (same brand, type, size that is) |
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| DarkED | mysgroda, i think you misunderstand. there are different keys for all the different editions of windows. home basic has it's own set of keys. home premium has it's own set. professional or whatever has it's own set, and ultimate has it's own set |
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| ||cw | Zathraz: can you connect the new disk as JBOD and use it OK? smart tests pass and such? |
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| DarkED | you can't activate home premium with an ultimate key |
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| mysgroda | DarkED: What the hell are you talking about? |
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| DarkED | mysgroda, what the hell are you talking about? |
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| mysgroda | DarkED: What the hell are you talking about? |
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| DarkED | mysgroda, just forget it |
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| Zathraz | ||cw, jbod is not an option on that card afaik. Have not tried any tests on it though. Just found it weird that the GUI reports the disk as ok yet does keep the disk in degraded state |
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| Zathraz | never knew a disk could be degraded. An array ok.... but a disk... |
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| ||cw | Zathraz: really, jbod has always been an option, and still is on my 9500S |
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| ||cw | I the degraded disk is just due to abstraction |
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| ||cw | it doens't care that it's a disk, it just knows it can't use it right |
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| vn- | how do you use polycom videoconferencing solutions/cams? say its on the same network, you just type in the name of the other host or..? can you connect to someone with another videoconferencing solution/product such as a single quickcam? |
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| Zathraz | Port 1 ST31500541AS 1.36 TB OK <---- seems ok, (however when I add the drive to unit0 : outch --> error). No idea what error btw as the log does not seem to be readable for some reason |
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| maslen | How much is a fair price for a no-name stick o f 2 GB DDR2 RAM |
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| ||cw | Zathraz: run smart tests on it? |
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| steve | hi all |
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| steve | is it normal to have dark patches on a laptop LCD? |
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| steve | not shockingly dark... but noticably so |
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| steve | kind of like patches where the backlight isn't uniform |
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| Zathraz | no errors were reported by: smartctl -a /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,1 |
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| Zathraz | so the disk seems ok. I could try to format it/zero it. Yet that seems a bit weird as a way to force a rebuild of the array |
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| ||cw | steve: on a new one, no. on old, yes. CFL backlights will become non-uniform with age |
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| steve | ||cw: this is new |
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| steve | it's about the 6th panel i've had from the manufacturer and they are _all_ like this with differing degrees of severity |
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| steve | especially noticable when the backlight is dimmed |
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| steve | only laptop i've ever had which does this |
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| ||cw | what brand? |
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| steve | toshib |
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| steve | a* |
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| LSD` | buy one with LED backlighting then :P |
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| ||cw | huhg |
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| ||cw | toshiba are supposed to be decent |
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| steve | yep, i've had toshibas for years... this is the first laptop i've ever had which is so badly malfunctioning |
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| steve | I can only conclude that they are throwing crap into them to keep the price down :( |
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| ||cw | or you are in the middle of a bad batch |
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| ||cw | it happens, and I doubt most people even notice |
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| Cyber_Akuma | Is there anywhere I can lookup bookmarks/comparisins on how well or bad a drive setup would perform vs another? like two 7200rpm drives in a raid0 vs a ssd or whatever? I have never used a raid or ssd drive |
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| steve | well it's been repaired since lsat june, they just gave me a brand new machine and it's just as bad |
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| ||cw | but it's the kind of thing that once you do notice, you can't see past it |
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| steve | had about 1 new screen per month |
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| n17ikh | Cyber_Akuma: http://www.google.com/search?q=hard%20drive%20benchmarks |
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| Cyber_Akuma | ive tried googling it before |
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| ||cw | Cyber_Akuma: tomshardware and anandtech both have those kinds of reviews |
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| LSD` | storagereview probably will too |
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| ||cw | though modern ssd vs hdd is no comparison if raw overall speed is the goal |
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| Cyber_Akuma | Hmmm, ill try tomshardware, though will I be able to find comparisins of two different setups? like I said for example: raiod0 7200 or 10000 vs a single ssd |
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| ||cw | short stroke 10 SAS hd's you might come close to an ssd |
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| Cyber_Akuma | By the way, do you gain much performance increase with a Raid0 ssd setup over a single ssd? |
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| n17ikh | http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-SSDs-RAID-0-A-Case-Study-In-Speed-Take-2/ |
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| ||cw | Cyber_Akuma: an ssd is basically a raid0 of flash chips with a special controller on it, raid0 them more is more channels and more speed |
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| ||cw | hdd's suffer from seeks, so raid only helps so much |
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| Cyber_Akuma | Hmm, so raid0 is mostly helpful for getting speed out of magnetic drives then? |
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| ||cw | an ssd with 10 flash chips can theoretically access 10 different sectors at the same time |
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| n17ikh | you gain a lot running SSDs in RAID |
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| n17ikh | but, there's not that much point to it |
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| ||cw | well, up to 10 anyway |
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| n17ikh | an SSD like the X25-M is already "fast enough" for most purposes |
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| ||cw | X25-M is fast enough to push the max read rate of sata300 |
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| ||cw | max real world rate |
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| Cyber_Akuma | X25-M is a SSD model I take it |
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| Cyber_Akuma | ? |
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| ||cw | intel's |
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| ||cw | read the anandtech article on ssd's |
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| ||cw | then we'll talk :) |
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| ||cw | it's very informative |
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| Cyber_Akuma | och, $300 for a 80gig? |
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| Cyber_Akuma | Thats a bit too much for me |
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| Gyndawyr | how does one connect a regular surround sound system like that used on a television set to a computer?? |
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| gnubien | Gyndawyr: hdmi tv? |
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| Cyber_Akuma | does your sound sytem have digital in or your soundcard optical out? |
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| Gyndawyr | The computer I've got has one Aerial Input, that yellow coaxial connector thingy, HDMI cable, and some other minijack poorts seen here; http://www.adeltek.com/images/products/sd-com-pci8_2.jpg |
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| Gyndawyr | it also has a single optical out |
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