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WTB raptor

Foxx — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:15:07 GMT

Looking for two 75 gig raptors might consider 150 g if price is right

Win 7 gpu oc progs

Foxx — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:57:22 GMT

Hi ,It has been seaveral years since I have been around and am currently having an issue finding a decent ocing utility for win7/64bit with a gf480.I checked the sticky first but there seems to be nothing recent.
I have the evga elite utility but I am finding it to be very flaky at best.
Any Ideas?

RAM wont work

djkwhile — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:26:51 GMT

Hi, I have yet another problem with my motherboard lol. So everyone was telling me my MOBO was duel DDR2 and DDR3 well i spoke to 2 different computer places and both of them told me the 4 slots, yet different colors were all DDR2. So I purchased DDR3 sticks tried them and i turned on my comp and would turn on then half a second letter shut right off.(this was before i found out about the DDR2) So i went in my closet found the other 2 sticks of my old 512 MB ddr2 sticks and tried to place them in my MOBO. Well i put them in turned my comp on and it did the half a second power on then off again. So i took the last slot out tried it and did the same thing, Took the other one out i just put in and it booted right up. So my question is what would the problem be with my board? The one guy said my Ram slots might burnt out which i dont see how i just bought this board about a month or two ago and havnt used either of those slots.

Might be moving to Europe again, how to get desktop overthere?

Poci — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:41:21 GMT

Im thinking of heading back to Europe. Im just worried about my gaming rig. How would one travel with it? Monitor and speakers forget about it Ill have to sell them here before I leave but the box itself Im afraid to check it in at airport with fear of nincompoop baggage handlers being clumsy and having something break. How can I get it over there safely?
Any ideas? Experiences?

Guess What It Is

falcon_view — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:50:23 GMT

Guess... What This Is? And don't cheat...

Hint: picture was taken in 1956...
Answer, see below...

It's a hard disk drive back in 1956... With 5 MB of storage.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.

Do you appreciate your 8 GB memory stick a little more now?

List Your Hobbies

amd5150 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:36:48 GMT

My 74 Charger
Computers
Slot Cars
MTG
and justed added, Model Rockets

Cars

ThE_MaD_ShOt — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:52:16 GMT

Well my other hobby has been cars. Wondering what you other car guys drive? I currently own a 93' Eclipse GSX track whore. A 94' Eclipse Gs-t daily driver, a 98 Dodge Durango, and my favorite the car, the one that gets pamperd my 84' Monte Carlo SS.

The E is the button for the internet!

Brandito — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:13:14 GMT

A $17000 2 CPU PC/Xbox 360 hybrid PC...

JackVancouverBC — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:02:50 GMT

http://www.originpc.com/thebigo-features.asp

I'm like, who would want a PC like this? It has 2 top of the line Xeons OCed to 4.3Ghz with a Quad 480 SLI, and a liquid cooled Xbox 360...

I don't know, what does everyone else think about this system? It was at PAX.

Bash scripting help wanted!

mdb_utphy — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:46:21 GMT

Hey all, I've got it in my mind to write some bash scripts to make my job a little easier...I'm often left with ~500 'orphan' folders, each of which may or may not contain typical user data (jpgs, mp3s, docs, etc), which is a pain for them to have to sort out, and something I just can't bring myself to do manually. Luckily, this seems like something that would be easy to write a script for.

I've written a little bit of it, and it's very basic (like my programming skills), but I seem to be having trouble understanding the 'or' functionality when used with the find command. What this script is supposed to do is look through these orphan folders, pick out files with certain extensions, and copy those files into an appropriately-named folder (ie, an 'mp3' directory for .mp3 files). Of course, for some files, like jpeg images, there are multiple extensions (.jpeg, .jpg). So, in these cases, I'd like the script to find all instances of those files with similar extensions and put them into a single directory (.jpeg and .jpg -> directory 'images/jpegs').

Here is a line from the script which illustrates my issue:

Code:

sudo find $src_path -name "*.avi" -or -name "*.mpg" -or -name "*.mpeg" -or -name "*.divx" -or -name "*.flv" -or -name "*.m4v" -or -name "*.mkv" -exec cp {} $dest_path/video \;

What I'm finding is that when I string together multiple extensions in this way with the '-or', the script does no copying. It's as if the entire script fails if a single extension does not have a representative file within the src_path. If that is what's going on, then I need to better understand how the -or and -and work. If that isn't what's going on, then maybe someone can dangle some shiny knowledge in front of my face.

I should note that without adding in the 'or's, and working only on a single file type at a time, the script works well, so I know it works the way it's supposed to some degree.

As a second project, I want to write a script (in either bash or python) that will list all attached block devices EXCEPT the boot device. I don't have anything really on this one, but if anyone can point me in the right direction, or to a good reference, that'd be great, and I'd be in your debt!

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I've also tried the following 'or's after some googling, but end up with the same lacking result:

Code:

sudo find $src_path -type f -name \*.dmg -o -name \*.iso -o -name \*.zip -o -name \*.rar -exec cp {} $dest_path/archive \;



sudo find $src_path -type f -name "\*.(dmg\|iso\|zip\|rar\)$" -exec cp {} $dest_path/archive \;

Edit 2: I tried adding multiple files of each type to the src_path and tried to rerun the script with the two snippets above. Turns out, even with all filetypes present in the src_path, nothing gets copied. Now...I'm really at a loss.

acer aspire 6530 wont boot up

terrystewart194 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:45:43 GMT

my acer aspire 6530 wont boot up. i get the message "check cable connection" the laptop gets hot when plugged in.

Overclocking Efficiency of the ECS� Newest Black Series P55H-AK with 3-way SLI

windwithme — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:01:05 GMT

Several newcomers have entered the motherboard market in recent years,
and thinking back on it, I actually miss the old days of intense competition between all the various motherboard manufacturers.
Nowadays consumers see fewer and fewer choices, many of which belong to the three major motherboard manufacturers.
At the same time, it seems that motherboard prices are getting higher and higher;
if there were a greater variety of manufacturers vying for customers within the market, consumers would be the true winners.

ECS has returned to the Taiwan market this year, and has put a lot of effort into giving its new motherboard products some exposure.
ECS seems to be on-par in terms of pricing, while ECS� current OEM line of products are making strides in the high efficiency and overclocking realms,
resulting in an additional choice for high-level motherboards.

Intel has consistently set the LGA 1156-spec P55 chipset at the mid- to high-range portion of the consumer market.
Compared to the LGA 1366, the P55 lacks SLI support, multiple tasks PCI-E bandwidth support, and DDR3 technology support.
However, some high-level P55 products are able to connect external chipsets to strengthen the areas that are lacking.
The ECS P55H-AK I obtained is one of the few P55 products with high-level specs, which I will discuss more below.

First, looking at the exterior appearance of the P55H-AK, you notice that they use the less common colors of black, gray and gray-blue.
The product looks different from other motherboards since the colors used are very similar to one another,
resulting in a stately, solemn feel without seeming to overbearing.

Included Accessories
English manual, installation guide, driver CD, and a front panel USB 3.0 port

SATA cable, 2~3-way SLI Bridge

Lower left corner of motherboard
3 X PCI-E Gen 2.0 X16, supports 3-way CrossFireX and SLI technologies, bandwidth of X16+X8+X8
2 X PCI-E X1
1 X PCI
Realtek RTL8111E dual LAN chipset, supports Teaming

Lower right corner of motherboard
6 X white SATAII, P55 provides SATA2 specs, supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10
2 X gray SATAIII, Marvell 9128 chipset provides, SATA3 specs, supports RAID 0, RAID 1
In the upper left is an external USB 3.0 Port interface, Power and Reset buttons and an internal Debug LED

Upper right corner of motherboard
4 X DIMM DDR3, supports 1066/1333/1600/1800(OC)/2000(OC)/2200(OC)/2400(OC), and DDR3 up to 16GB.
DDR3 1800 and above specs require overclocking to achieve; to the side is the 24-PIN power input.

Upper left corner of motherboard
LGA 1156 CPU installation area
The CPU pins are protected by a 15μ gold coating, providing 3x the durability and anti-oxidation and anti-scratch protection.
P55H-AK adopts a 12+2 power supply, which is a P55 power supply design that is among the top in the market.

IO
clr CMOS button
8 X USB 2.0(red/black)
2 X USB 3.0(blue)
2 X eSATA/USB 2.0 dual-usage red)
2 X RJ-45 internet port
1 X S/PDIF

IE8 for better security, finally?

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:52:35 GMT

I'm just about to finally upgrade my browser at the office from IE6 to IE8. I downloaded the IE8 file for XP and will be executing that to do this. Is it still OK to save the Favorites list somewhere else and bring it back over with no problems and, besides Windows Updates, is there anything else I need to know about or do? Thank you.

Intel RAID 0 w/o Trim: Hyperfast just as good?

martychubbs — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:13:47 GMT

I have 6 Intel x25-v's in RAID 0 (yes it is super fast) but as we all know, does not use TRIM. I just tried Diskeeper's Hyperfast and my sustained writes after a month of normal usage went from 170 MB/S to 250 MB/S ish (50% provisioned.) Should I give up on TRIM for Gen 2 intel SSD's in RAID? Will TRIM deliver similar results in theory so i can deal with (via support group)a possible intel letdown on TRIM for my setup?

Asus P6X58D
6 GB OCZ 2000mhz
i7-930 @ 4 Ghz;)

laptop hdd crapping out

cgk123 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:26:43 GMT

i just bought a new laptop, old one of 8 yrs seemed to be working fine so i sold it to my bro and less than a month later the hdd /smart feature is predicting imminent failure please backup data. it may already be too late.

so now what to do?\
i sold it on good faith for only 160 bucks but it failed rather quickly so i feel obligated to get it running again somehow.

can i get it to run and surf the net etc just off a thumb usb drive with only usb 1.0?
\
or am i better off looking for a used hdd?

its a compaq presario 2100 with 60 g hdd if anyone knows of a replacemnt hdd?