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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 SP1 released
« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 22, 2011, 03:37 PM »MSDN seems a bit busy - transfer not starting... (hehe)
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Zoiks! That is a bit of a disturbing revelation. Apparently the only truly safe way to dispose of an old thumb-drive is with a hammer...I wonder if thumbdrives employ over-provisioning? The recent fast ones might have taken a few clues from how SSDs work, but I wouldn't be too worried with older/slower drives.-Stoic Joker (February 22, 2011, 07:00 AM)-f0dder (February 22, 2011, 09:49 AM)
Right now, SSDs are most often encountered in USB thumb drives, and it's not unusual for them to hold as much as 32 GB of data. An increasing number of laptops by default ship with SSDs installed as the primary storage mechanism. Flash storage underpins that vast majority of smartphones, as well.-From the Article
I've rather assumed that it's because those companies are hardware oriented and see user interface software as just a last minute chore that has to be undertaken before rushing to market.-cranioscopical (February 22, 2011, 10:45 AM)
I always assumed it was to be flash, i.e. you couldn't possibly interact with our shiny new hardware through some drab efficient interface, here use our custom UI.-Eóin (February 22, 2011, 11:05 AM)
Maybe they need to have the women stare at the men's crotches to have the same effect.-app103 (February 22, 2011, 01:25 AM)
But what if we say that everyone who donates (either a new donation or sending existing donationcredits to site account) can enter into a drawing to have an idea turned into an application?-mouser (February 21, 2011, 05:39 PM)
Let us not forget the fact that Chrome forced every major browser to have an overhaul in their interface in the attempt of mimicking Chrome's slightly more screen real estate-Paul Keith (February 21, 2011, 10:45 AM)
http://cynic.me/2011...d-lady-church-jokes/-Renegade (February 21, 2011, 10:36 AM)
Content seems to be unviewably (behind the "fence")DonationCoder is my home online and facebook is about as relevent as some celebrity gossip from ten years ago.-nudone (February 19, 2011, 04:10 AM)
At the moment I'm running the new PHP installation under FastCGI with the php-cgi.exe instead of the ISAPI DLL. On my other server I use the ISAPI. Both are the ZIP file and not the installer. FastCGI is supposed to give far better performance (20x?), so that's why I'm running with that.-Renegade (November 23, 2010, 01:34 PM)
20x?!? (Damn) ...I'll have to investigate that one myself. I actually don't recall why I went the ISAPI route originally, but it was several years ago when I first set up an IIS5 (Win2k) web server and I've just been replicating that config ever since.-Stoic Joker (November 24, 2010, 08:17 AM)
I do. Because the CGI extension just didn't work reliably!
Seems ok now though. Microsoft is recommending FastCGI and the php-cgi.exe binary. They've got a whole truckload of open source stuff available at the MS site. Have for a while now actually.-Renegade (November 24, 2010, 09:58 AM)
Hereafter referred to as the cranioscopical prize optimizer randomizer, for simplicity.-nosh (February 17, 2011, 11:32 PM)
CraPOR?-Target (February 17, 2011, 11:35 PM)
Once you know those two things then what I would do is:
1) BIOS settings for the particular ports should already be AHCI but it doesn't hurt to check.
2) Download the 7 x64 AHCI driver for the Intel SATA ports from ASUS and copy the contents of IMSM_V8901023\Driver\Disk to a flash drive.-4wd (February 17, 2011, 07:00 PM)
I thought that having one life to live at a time was enough. It seem that many want to also have a virtual life.
The hunter that follows 2 preys, catches none.-rxantos (February 17, 2011, 12:41 PM)
Or is until your pacemaker becomes dependent on your owning an iPad.I would totally jailbreak my pacemaker and have it do some cool shit.-40hz (February 17, 2011, 09:08 AM)-superboyac (February 17, 2011, 09:15 AM)
Then Apple would simply disable your iHeart and let you die.-Deozaan (February 17, 2011, 11:57 AM)
@40Hz - If only it were that simple...-Renegade (February 17, 2011, 07:35 AM)
It's as simple as you let it be.-40hz (February 17, 2011, 09:08 AM)
yet the Apple fans mock it because they feel IBM is lumbering and "so yesterday."-40hz (February 17, 2011, 09:28 AM)
I put a Blu-ray burner in my desktop for optical backups.What, there's still people using optical media for backups? O_o-Renegade (February 17, 2011, 06:33 AM)-f0dder (February 17, 2011, 07:31 AM)
Also, I see a guy in the comments recommending a single defrag after you installed all your apps. Don't do that - if you want the SSD defragged, start by installing to a mechanical disk, defrag that, and move the install to the SSD using, for instance, Paragon Virtualization Manager.
Similarly, if your SSD ends up heavily fragmented, create a disk image of it to a mechanical drive, defrag that image, do a single-pass wipe of the SSD (to let the drive know allsectorsblocks are blank, useful for the reallocation algorithms), then transfer the defragged image back.-f0dder (February 17, 2011, 04:12 AM)
Modern SSDs even lie to the operating system. If the operating system tells the drive to save a file in blocks 728, 729, and 730, the drive may decide to write it to blocks 17, 7829, and 78918 instead, if it determines that those blocks haven’t been worn out as much yet. The drive keeps a lookup table of all its blocks, so that when the OS wants to read blocks 728 through 730, the drive reads blocks 17, 7829, and 78918. With such drives, defragmentation software can’t possibly work. The software will think and tell the user that file X was nicely defragmented and stored in blocks 728, 729, and 730, while it actually has no idea where the data is stored physically on the drive.-From the Article
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"provider"=""
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\di]
@="http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=%s"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\g]
@="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\gi]
@="http://images.google.com/images?q=%s"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\kb]
@="http://support.micro....com/?id=kb;en-us;%s"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\mw]
@="http://www.m-w.com/c...bin/dictionary?va=%s"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"
Why, yes! That just might do it ... As well as require a tourniquet for the stump of the lost limb!That would most likely take multiple bytes ... But I like the way you're thinking.-Stoic Joker (February 16, 2011, 04:54 PM)
Or maybe just one gigabyte.-Deozaan (February 16, 2011, 04:55 PM)
Blu-raybies maybe...
- O shyan-JavaJones (February 16, 2011, 04:46 PM)
