I'm not a network packet-sniffing blood-hound, so I need some help of
the mere-mortal variety :-)
I'm generally dis-satisfied with the speed of my Comcast "High Speed"
Internet connection. It's touted on the tele as being some
ambiguously huge amount faster than light travels in a vacuum.
The se
On 09/29/2009 02:14 PM, Gerry Hull wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with an i7 system and any of the retail
> motherboards out there?
I assembled this and another nearly identical (different cases, power
supplies, and number of hard drives; all else the same) i7-920 system a
bit over three
On 09/29/2009 03:45 PM, Gerry Hull wrote:
> My buddy actually suggested a memory config issue to Asus support..
> they said "Naw, i can't be that!"
>
> It goes with my feeling about calling tech support in general!
Yes, though I must say there are some [non-ASUS-employed] hardware
geniuses on the
Thanks Bill
Make perfect sense!
He actually is switching to a Gigabyte motherboard... and will fully
match RAM specs to BIOS config.
My buddy actually suggested a memory config issue to Asus support..
they said "Naw, i can't be that!"
It goes with my feeling about calling tech support in gener
On 09/28/2009 03:38 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> to degauss a hard drive, you first have to
> unscrew and remove the metal plate on top of the hard drive and
> expose the drive platters.
I read that as data density is increasing drives are becoming resistant
to degaussing. I'm not sure I really under
On 09/29/2009 02:14 PM, Gerry Hull wrote:
> I have a friend who just went through a nightmare trying to get his
> i7-860 running Windows 7/64 or Windows Vista/64 on a Asus
> motherboard... Thing would lock-up randomly, and tech support was no
> help.
On my ASUS I had to set the motherboard memory
-- Forwarded message --
From: Gerry Hull
Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Motherboard/Linux recommendation for an i7-860 running Xen?
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Hey All,
I have a friend who just went through a nightmare trying to get his
i7-860 running Windows
On 09/28/2009 09:58 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> I was hoping to get myself a laptop where I could simply try VMMs
> without having to cross-check my cpuflags against the hardware
> requirements of each VMM.
The Macbook lines are pretty good in this respect. My about-to-be-sold
2006 MBP has been doing
