wish there were more varied choices in the HDD market but it's really Seagate vs WD unless you start talking laptop HDDs, ones with active protection sensor, etc
or enterprise HDDs but those are way out of mere mortal's price range
FTR i always like mitsubishi (or is it matsushita? i forget) HDDs in my lenovo laptops, they're really reliable... but i dunno if they sell competitive desktop HDDs, their capacities always seem low
FTR i always like mitsubishi (or is it matsushita? i forget) HDDs in my lenovo laptops, they're really reliable... but i dunno if they sell competitive desktop HDDs, their capacities always seem low
The OS will be on an SSD, so im not concerned about speeds since this will be a "Write once, Read many times" type of array. it will store all my music and Blu-Rays.
Currently my whole collection is on three 2tb WD Blacks in RAID 0 and its scaring me that i have no redundancy
@allquixotic Well that's certainly interesting. I don't know if it will pay off, but I understand the idea: make a high-performing server chip that is ultra-low power. Maybe get server applications into places where they haven't previously been? Hard to read this plan, here.
can someone pleaseeee go visit my top question that hasn't already? and put me out of my misery of refreshing the page every 5 mins... it's at 999 views and has been for about half an hour now :'( lol
@sidran32 A lot of other companies are doing it too. Calderix or something made a similar server. The idea is, if you can parallelize your task (web serving, for instance), you get much better performance per watt out of many low power ARM cores. It's almost like a GPU, except the number of cores is slightly lower, and they are slightly more general purpose / better at serial processing of non-SIMD data.
@sidran32 ARM is still of the same sort of "read-decode-execute" mentality as x86, so there's not a problem with high instruction throughput like you'd get if you tried to do HTTP/HTML processing on a GPU.
@allquixotic I can certainly see that. I hope it works out well for them. They may be able to take some of that ARM IP and turn it into mobile SoCs as well, but that'd be working back into something they used to have. Not sure if they feel they can do that.
@sidran32 well... it would be pretty freakin awesome to have a tablet SoC with a highly miniaturized Radeon "Southern Islands" (HD7000 chipset) and a quad core ARM Cortex ;-)
@sidran32 I wonder if these server chips will come with a GPU, too? that's one of the big downsides of using mainstream Ivy Bridge on servers; if you aren't taking advantage of the GPU, it's wasted transistors
@allquixotic I don't know. THey may put some GPU cores in it for compute, but servers have little need for actual graphics processing, unless you want to build out infrastructure for remote gaming or something (which they may want to do, who knows)
@sidran32 well... I can imagine a few server workloads that both need parallel non-SIMD (ARM) and parallel SIMD (GPGPU), but in general, you either need one or the other.
unless you're doing something like running a game server that does server-side physics (SIMD) and many simultaneous clients (non-SIMD)
@allquixotic Well, I'm just thinking it's what their idea was with their APUs. So it might translate into server space, too.
Personally, I thought they should have doubled-down on server tech long ago, more than they did. I think with the growing proliferation of always-connected thin clients (tablets, phones, etc), it increases demand for servers too, and they could have drilled down on that and made some money.
And their server business is really their bread and butter.
yeeeeah..... it's weird because AMD servers are always very inexpensive when you rent or buy a dedicated server, but nowadays you can't find competitive AMD server processors
Wow. Stylebot is really amazing. Seems like it matches your styles against the whole URL. If I visit any site that has superuser.com in the URL it has the dark theme applied
When I create a new style for a given page, like here:
How can I make the style apply only to the home page of that site?
http://superuser.com should be affected.
http://superuser.com/questions shouldn't be affected.
I bought the Windows 8 Pro retail install disc (not the upgrade). I seem to recall somewhere hearing that you can install it onto multiple computers without having to purchase a new license key. How many computers are you allowed to install it on, before purchasing a new key?
For instance, I'm d...
technically you're only allowed to install it on 1 computer if you buy 1 retail license (upgrade or install) but you get a certain number of activations before the grace period is over and you have to call the number and say "please Microsoft, oh PLEASE great overlords of software godlihood, please let me use the software I legitimately purchased"
there are packs you can buy that let you install it on multiple computers, sometimes with one license key
but the retail has always been 1 license, 1 computer, end of story, except that technically (while violating the license) you can install it on multiple PCs... it just means they're more likely to catch what you're up to when you call them on the phone to beg for their forgiveness for having to reinstall
but you can always say you bought a new computer lol
It was a legitimate question, actually. I actually searched to see if it was posted before, and as I said, I am debating whether to install it on my laptop as well.
I was a Microsoft pragmatist / collaborator until Windows 8 hit and totally threw me off their bandwagon with a forceful kick... a good wakeup call you might say
all of my personal systems are running Ubuntu as of this moment, and I couldn't be happier with them
they did a good job of converting someone who dimly accepted their overlordship into a fanatical enemy by releasing a "new and better" operating system that totally hosed two of my boxes
I did run Linux on my laptop exclusively for about a year when I was in college. Partly because Vista ran horribly on it, but it also fit very well with my needs as a computer science student.
Steam on Linux will solve the first problem (also, Humble Indie Bundle). MS Office I concede but Crossover Linux runs MS Office 2010 extremely well at present, and I use LibreOffice for most simpler docs as well. no idea about FL Studio
if all else fails I can run Linux as a Xen dom0 and Windows 7 as a Xen domU and only boot the domU when I need Office truly native
now granted... Metro... but if you are running Metro-only games, idk, that seems like that would be reserved for casual gamers? most "REAL" AAA games should still run on win7/vista
I don't think they added in hardware tessellation features but they did say they "take advantage" of the DX11 pipeline, not merely recompile their code to link against the dx11 libs
@allquixotic Maybe the drivers forced certain modes, then? I don't think you'll get much except for a better performance, which comes with any gpu upgrade. :P
I'm talking about the fact that the developers originally released the game for Direct3D 9.0c or whatever the last release of DX9 was, and then later on they released a patch that introduced an entirely separate DX11 renderer for the game, and I'm telling you it did F all for graphics quality and performance on my system
THis talking of patches reminds me... Far Cry had a patch for 64-bit Windows XP that enabled some impressive graphics upgrades... further view distance and higher resolution textures and everything.
@sidran32 it's not the core engine; as I understand it, it's the "licensed IP" like things for facial animation, skeletal animation, tree generation, physics, etc
yes, those type of content binaries are only released for 32-bit
there are entire companies created out of the sole purpose of focusing on some specific problem in realistic 3d graphics rendering on 32-bit Windows using DirectX, and they create this nice little GUI for content studios to use to crap out these data files that create "realistic" faces, skeletal animations, or whatever
and these companies are EXTREMELY allergic to change
it's really depressing that they just can't ship a 64-bit binary because it would cost too much to start their engine over or to invade the studios of the guys who won't make 64-bit libraries and hold metal forks up to the chins of the guys who sit there saying "no we won't do that"
The answer is: Put a * after the URL!
After realizing today that Stylebot is open source, I can finally put this to rest.
The key line is in background.js
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@OliverSalzburg wouldn't it be funny if you were like "why doesn't this work?!?!? help!" and you yourself answered your own question many years ago and you forgot about it?
I want to be around long enough to encounter a situation like that, where something I'm struggling with is something I answered in a SU question long ago
@Bob I asked for the migration, it was closed because they thought it was OT, I showed them their FAQ and that it is indeed on-topic, so it was reopened
Seriously Stylebot? When you edit a style and change the URL, it will create a copy of the style with the changed URL. But the old style still exists and is active, you just don't see it in the GUI...
Until you refresh the Options menu
No wonder my changes have no effect, now that I have 15 styles all targeting SU :P
Here is the deal:
I am in the process of splitting my existing computer into 2 other computers and then replacing the removed parts from my setup. My current computer consists of an intel i7(1st gen, LGA1366) coupled with an ASUS Rampage III Extreme and 6 pcs of Corsair Dominator 2GB sticks. I'd...
This has come up a few times now: migrating old questions causes problems.
The most popular solution to this to date has been to reset votes on migrated posts. This is do-able, but frankly it feels like treating a symptom, and doing so in a way that penalizes folks who answer what are by all ap...
Gotta love OCZ... Firmware update read me says it has issues when installed to SATA port 1 or 4... So I installed it onto SATA 2, and Windows 7 finishes the install this time
Windows 8 challenge is here & live - and I can see level 1- 4 prizes have a listing for which users completed them. For tiles, however - it just mentions
Earned by n users
Can we please have a listing similar to level 1 - 4 challenges?
@r.tanner.f They are very proactive in making sure things are up and running. I've rarely had outages with them, and they always seem to be very localized, when they do.
They've got people monitoring Twitter all the time for reports of issues.
Windows 8 comes with two versions of Internet Explorer: the normal desktop version, which looks just like IE9, and the Modern UI version, which is a full-screen tablet-style app. By default, links opened in desktop mode open in desktop IE, and links opened in Modern UI apps open in the full-scree...
@Luke No we have about a million different models of Dell. I tried creating an image but apparently I borked it, and I don't have a spare machine to really build one on anyway... Was borrowing somebody's already hosed computer to do the first one.
And this guy needs his done now so... here we go again =D
I guess having an RIS server setup for each brand would be out of the question... What about a catalog of ISOs that are DVD backups of the base systems?
The ISO collection is what my last company did, cause we had 5 types of Dell laptops in use, and about 25 towers. All the ISOs available to each brqanch
@KronoS Lol. Write an application in plain English; Save As -> EXE
nevermind dependencies or syntax or semantics or version control or memory management or performance or ABI compatibility or platform integration or internationalization or... :D
This seems like it'll be a tumbleweed here on SU and I know that it'd get significantly more attention, possibly from a Canonical employee on AU, and I don't really have the information at my fingertips to answer the question on SU, so... we can migrate it to AU?
I have the motherboard "Gigabyte Z77x-ud3h" with a 3rd Gen Intel CPU with HD4000 graphics. I am using Ubuntu 12.10.
When I connect one monitor (Dell 3011) with DisplayPort and a second monitor (Iyama) with HDMI, after a while the Dell goes into power saving mode.
When I connect just the Dell mo...
nah, I know more about Linux graphics drivers than jokerdino ;) it sounds like a bug to me, so maybe it's off topic for AU after all; they close Ubuntu bugs as off topic and tell people to file a bug on launchpad
really there's not a whole lot we can do on either site except say to try newer graphics stack (newer xorg, newer libdrm, newer kernel, newer mesa, newer DDX) and if it's still not fixed then the best place to file a bug is upstream, after searching the terribad interface of bugs.fdo
if it's in fact going to sleep on him while the computer is in use, that's a bug, plain and simple
actually their ML is probably more likely to elicit a response than a bug; there are thousands of open bugs that haven't even been looked at, but if you show good research effort and show that it's still a bug in git, you can get it fixed more often
When I create a new style for a given page, like here:
How can I make the style apply only to the home page of that site?
http://superuser.com should be affected.
http://superuser.com/questions shouldn't be affected.
Windows 8 challenge is here & live - and I can see level 1- 4 prizes have a listing for which users completed them. For tiles, however - it just mentions
Earned by n users
Can we please have a listing similar to level 1 - 4 challenges?
I have the motherboard "Gigabyte Z77x-ud3h" with a 3rd Gen Intel CPU with HD4000 graphics. I am using Ubuntu 12.10.
When I connect one monitor (Dell 3011) with DisplayPort and a second monitor (Iyama) with HDMI, after a while the Dell goes into power saving mode.
When I connect just the Dell mo...
