the Show method that takes a location doesn't check if duration is >0 before throwing an exception. the one that doesn't take a location explicitly checks and allows a value of 0 to mean no timer
The thing is, there is really nothing wrong with what he's doing. His answers are always great. He's not whoring for rep. He's often flagging questions with bounties as dupes, where he could have easily gotten the bounty. He has thousands of answers under his belt, so why not go for those that have high reward?
I am using a ToolTip control on my form, but have discovered that even though my cursor is on one control, the tooltip is showing somewhere else. I would like to show this within the control my cursor is on.
As shown in the image above, when my cursor is over Textbox3, the tooltip is showing o...
I have bought Seagate Barracuda 3tb hard drive. When I start to install windows 8 x64 on that it tells me that you can not install windows 8 x64 on a GPT (GUID Partition Table) type disk, it tells me that at first you must convert disk type to MBR (Master Boot Record) type which does not allow yo...
Also, you cannot "install" a UEFI system, neither will a BIOS upgrade help. If you need UEFI, you'll need to replace your motherboard which means replacing your entire system - RAM, GPU, CPU etc. I'd grab Gparted live CD, and split the hard drive into smaller partitions & convert to MBR type. — Sathya15 mins ago
> which means replacing your entire system - RAM, GPU, CPU etc.
that's.. not right
depending on the age of the CPU, there could be a UEFI MB available for it. RAM is pretty upgradeable, and DDR3's been standard for quite a while. video card normally just works (probably the most standard interface)
> Gigabyte tried to address the limitation with what it calls "HybridEFI", which is nothing to do with UEFI, but is rather an address-space tweak for existing AwardBIOS code that allows you to boot from large volumes. That still leaves out the problem of Gigabyte's notably slow and convoluted CMOS setup program navigation. One genuine upside of HybridEFI is that Gigabyte has been able to provide BIOS updates to many of its older motherboards with 16 Mbit EEPROMs, that give them the feature.
> Gigabyte is hence the only motherboard vendor with socket LGA775, LGA1156, LGA1366, and AM3 motherboards that can boot from >2.2 TB volumes.
also,
> There are even LGA775 boards from Intel that supposedly support EFI.
I have no idea how accurate any of this is :P
Can't find an actual model number anywhere...
Ah, looks like there's the GA-G41MT-S2PT with the 'hybrid EFI'
:S
looks like maybe the Intel D945PLNM too, but that's EFI, not UEFI
Why doesn't Amazon understand that people don't buy certain items every day like food and water?!
> Customers who have shown an interest in computers might like to know that for a limited time, select notebooks, desktops, and tablets are eligible for 12-month no-interest financing using the Amazon.com Store Card.
No joke. I just bought a computer. Does that mean I need another one on Tuesday, another on Wednesday and one more on Thursday? No. Stupid amazon.
@HackToHell because JS can be compiled by LLVM into native code; didn't you know? JS is the new lingua franca of the entire operating system ;p soon the kernel will have emscripten in it
jQuery for mathematical operations in the kernel. yum
So this is probably one of the weirdest PC issues I have ever experienced. I built my PC in the winter of 2011, so about 1.5 years ago. Here are the stats:
ASUS P8P67 (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit...
@JourneymanGeek I love such questions. a million people will comment on a billion things they find 'best'.... based on shit they tried years ago & then never bother to update
that part annoys me. we should use "Protected" more aggressively on certain popular questions which belong on the site but attract a lot of views and answers.
Yay, I received my personal business cards today. They don't have any phone numbers or address on it, just all the URLs to my profiles and stuff. I hope they'll have a longer usefulness period than the normal ones
Does anyone else feel that? That's the feeling of a herd of non-technical users with Sandy Bridge "Cougar Point" chipsets with attached SATA 3Gb/s devices, stampeding onto the help communities of the internet (including SE), reporting weird symptoms like OS hangs. It's starting to be about the time when degraded SATA controllers with PLL overvolting would experience significant malfunction or total failure of the controller.
The articles I've read said that it should take more than a year before the symptoms are noticeable. So that's real soon now if they got their system in '11 or '12.
Apparently Intel and downstream vendors did a poor job of notifying consumers with defective chipsets.
I'm going to code up a Win32 executable with no dependencies that pops up a messagebox saying either, yes, you are affected by the cougar point chipset flaw, or no, you are safe
not while at work, but once I get home
ROFL
CLASSIC!!!! :D
my workstation at work is affected by the PLL overvolt flaw aaaahahahahahaha
I was just testing the command and, by God, I'm afflicted! :D
@OliverSalzburg I think it is a good thing to know, because there are bound to be thousands upon thousands of installed systems with this bug (such as the one I am using to type this message) and the symptoms are pretty easy to detect.
What it means: Intel "Cougar Point" H67 or P67 motherboard chipsets which were manufactured before a certain date have a flaw that slowly, over time, degrades the capability of the SATA II / 3Gb/s controller, until after about a year or two of normal use, it will stop functioning entirely
Not affected: non-Sandy Bridge chipsets, or Sandy Bridge chipsets manufactured after the problem was identified. Ivy Bridge is fine. Nehalem is fine. Core 2 is fine.
Also not affected: systems which ONLY attach to the 6 Gb/s ports on the motherboard, and never touch the 3 Gb/s.
Hello. Could someone recommend me a better WLAN adapter than an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205? I have poor reception quality especially in very large networks (eg. university).
How to detect: Random whole-system freezes or gradually falling I/O performance. Then identify the chipset revision; if the chipset revision is in scope (see the Softpedia article in my answer to the Q above), then the problem is likely the chipset.
How to fix: Get your chipset replaced for free by Intel or your manufacturer if you have a name brand box
also, if other clients on the network don't have support for RTS/CTS, it can seriously interfere with your own adapter and there's not much you can do except hope the uni network requires RTS/CTS at some point
@gbag The antenna runs along the interior of the LCD screen on one side, if I recall correctly from taking apart my X61
@gbag: basically your laptop comes with a pair (or more!) of antenna built in, I've a X220 with a even lower end card than yours and it works ok at home, and horribly in school
assume that I come from a territory that speaks "English", but the colloquial term for "Left" is actually what most people call "Right", and vice versa.
If you're driving and I tell you, "Turn left!" imagine my surprise as you turn in the direction that you consider to be right.
At uni, it's that I sometimes get disconnected or can't establish a connection at all. At home, when I'm 2 rooms further away from my WLAN adapter, my speed drops from 75 MBit/s to 15.
You're also suggesting that even if I were to replace my WLAN card, my reception quality would probably not increase because my WLAN antenna might be shitty, right?
@gbag it's a possibility, but another possibility is that you have a software problem, or a protocol problem rather than a hardware / EMF problem
for instance, you could hold your laptop right up to the base station (a few inches away with no interference) in a clean room and still get dropouts and crap signal. I've seen it happen. that's protocol, not EMF.
your 6205 is not Draft N; it's Final. I wonder if your uni installed APs before final N came out ;p
I really love it when I start a machine and the first thing that pops up is the "You have to restart the computer for your changes to take effect" dialog
@OliverSalzburg Price is the main issue; also, one of the central tenants of digital circuitry is that something that runs faster is also going to run hotter, which is why very high-end RAM comes with heat spreaders while slower RAM doesn't
So if price is a non-issue for you, and thermal profile (amount of heat dissipation) is a non-issue for you, go for the faster RAM as long as your motherboard supports it
Yeah, I want to upgrade the RAM from 16 to 32 GB (which is the maximum for this board). So I thought, why not also max out the frequency, then I can sleep better
I want the ones with the cool name, like Dominator!
@JourneymanGeek if it's not made to proper spec, that makes perfect sense. run something hotter and use the same low quality parts as a chip rated for a slower rate, and yeah, you're going to see more cooked chips
1366 MHz quality RAM overclocked to 1866 is folly; it's going to die an early death and shouldn't even be sold that way (although unfortunately it is)
1866 MHz quality RAM at its factory speed (not OCed) will probably work well, given proper heat dissipation
car analogy incoming: it's like using very harsh acceleration in a casual consumer vehicle like a toyota camry or something; the high RPMs will wear out the engine sooner than a driver who accelerates more modestly. whereas, if you accelerated at the same rate (in meters per second) in a performance-oriented vehicle, it could stably achieve that performance without being sent to an early junkyard/grave
@JourneymanGeek if they're binning it based on an assessment of the fab results, that might be okay, but you have to figure that they want to sell RAM at enthusiast prices despite it being technically graded at a lower bin rate :P
i also have excellent experience with Corsair products (RAM and PSU), extremely high build quality, they don't cut corners and the support folks are nice :) only downside is cost, whew, cost
I am using a ToolTip control on my form, but have discovered that even though my cursor is on one control, the tooltip is showing somewhere else. I would like to show this within the control my cursor is on.
As shown in the image above, when my cursor is over Textbox3, the tooltip is showing o...
So this is probably one of the weirdest PC issues I have ever experienced. I built my PC in the winter of 2011, so about 1.5 years ago. Here are the stats:
ASUS P8P67 (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit...
