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You can get internal SATA to eSATA PCI slot brackets for R30. Just be aware that they signal voltages are pure internal SATA, whereas eSATA has slightly higher voltages to combat the increasing attenuation of longer cables. If you keep your eSATA cable under or at the length of 1 meter, there's no p...

If you want I can upload the beta 2 of the divx decoder. At the moment its still freeware but in beta. It seems to be the fastest decoder of the whole lot, even a notch faster than CoreAVC. And it has the option to switch off inloop-deblocking, one of H264's relative major CPU hoggers. MPC's integra...

Try a better H264 decoder like CoreAVC or the new DivX H264 decoder. They're way better in performance than any libav offspring. Some people deem their quality worse, I personally havent noticed any bad quality. Alternatively, replace your graphics card with a cheap ATI HD3450 and let it decode the ...

ATI is faring extremely well with their drivers recently, and Avivo support in the drivers is orders of magnitude better than the purevideo support in the (nowadays) shoddy nvidia drivers. When it comes to video acceleration, ATI has won already.

Check Crysis on ultra high in DX10 and DX9 mode. There's virtually no difference.

You can try using a CAT5 cable (yes, there are hacks out there to do that) but you'll probably see some ghosting. A video booster might be your only alternative if you don't actually get any high quality silver cable for some horrendous price.

if your cpu stick under 75C at 1.6V - it doesn't matter. You'll have a new CPU by the time your current would be dying. just keep an eye on the temperature. My E4500 handled 1.5V easily with some cheapo Zalman cooler.

On that note: their billing system and accounting system is a total joke. I've had about 30 different IS logins sent because apparently they can't just reenable them. Horrible service.

The answer's quite simple: Because wireless is inherently crappy. Try using iperf to check your real throughput speeds, forget the windows utilisation graphs. On my WRT54GL I get around 2MB/s throughput with excellent signal, SNR of about 30 and close range, with 9dbi antennas. Wireless is a gimmick...

Blame it on Telkom and their monopoly on every bit of data travelling through this country. IS Business uncapped is the only serious uncapped option, for a horrendous price tag.

I think that 'pseudo'-4GB display was a serious mistake - people will be thinking that they can indeed use the full 4GB, which they simply won't. When it displays 3.something GB the users would be at least somewhat suspicious as to why it doesn't display the right size, now they get misled into thin...

Again, because classic economics forces the manufacturers to develop a nice and cheap way to transition to newer technology, those SATA optical dries are just IDE counterparts with a IDE to SATA converter bolted on (much like the SATA hard drives from 2003 only until recently also used such converte...

Lucky I don't use overrated social 'networking' sites. They're data miners after all.

Hitachi took over the hard-drive division from IBM, which intelligently decided to spin it off, realising that their Deathsta..., err Deskstars were a load of garbage. Apple switched from using IBM because their hard drives were prone to heat deaths and god knows what. I've had numerous IBMs and had...

I think it's so absolutely ridiculous for an operating system to demand 2GB RAM to be "enjoyable", least actually being economically viable. We need operating system that don't require new hardware when upgrading. And yes, I have the latest nvidia drivers installed and hardware acceleratio...

With all the gimicks and twice the number of services the system resource demand is horrid. On my old P4 3.0GHz with 512MB RAM and a FX5200 normal Xvid and MPEG2 videos lag a bit, not to speak of anything slower than 3.0GHz. I believe buying new hardware merely to suite an operating system is insane.

But your 1700+ doesn't run Vista which is so great!!!1111

well well. Some boards tend to moan after a bios flash, because the flashing procedure tends to erase the stored cmos as well. Just go into the BIOS, configure everything and save it again.

These CPU flamewars are seriously hilarious, especially because in a few months time the whole things is going to change again.

I wouldn't honestly dare touch those Telkom modems again. In fact, they're rebranded Microcom AD2730's, which are nothing less than horrid. Sure, for the normal stuff they're cool, but the packet filter is near useless. It drops states, causing some connections to get lost. The interface is somewhat...

In fact, you can connect with multiple accounts over ONE line simultaneously, you'll just be sharing bandwidth with any other logged in accounts. Antibody has developed a software which separates international and local traffic and it seems to be working rather well. Try it at http://antibody.za.net...

They should try Liquid Helium and they might enter superconductivity. Though price could be a serious problem.

Well, I am quite happy. It works flawlessly, not the fastest, but it's GPRS after all.

FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Gentoo, Debian and Slackware.

You can enable sudo to not prompt for a password, which isn't too hard. Just uncomment

# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

in /etc/sudoers and everything should be set. Off course you have to be in the wheel group.