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Welcome to MSFN!!! You're not too far away from where I am - Vancouver, Canada.

Welcome to MSFN, jojobrituk! I'm also a big fan of DS9 - I'm trying to work my way through all of that again, from start to finish. I'm also waiting for season 4 of BSG to come out... can't wait. Have you looked at the Dune book series by Frank Herbert? I think that you might like them, considering your list.

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Hi there!!! Welcome to MSFN! Ask away - we're always willing to help.

So... my cellphone is on it's last legs, and I need to get a new one. I've been wanting a decent smartphone for a while now, but I'd want to be able to synchronize my personal data with my computer (contacts, tasks, etc). Does anyone have any experiences with current GSM smartphones, and something that would easily sync with Outlook 2007?

That's awesome.

Yep - that's a G92 series card. They're easy to tell apart - they've got 256, 512, or 1024MB of RAM, while the previous (G80) generation had 320MB or 640MB. Those were also decent cards, but the G92's run cooler and perform much faster.

Wowza... that's a rare sight. Hopefully/thankfully nothing else in your system was damaged. The EVGA 8800GT is a great card. The G92 series cards run very cool, and I doubt that you'd run into a problem like you've just had.

Have you tried installing a non-custom version of XP? If you're using nLite to strip out components from XP, then that's likely the cause of your problems, and you should be asking your questions in the nLite forum.

Sure.. it'd be nice. Two problems though. DDR2-1000 is not a standard DDR2 speed, and therefore would never be used in a production environment. Secondly, why would you get DDR2-1000 (which would cost more to produce) when DDR2-667 works just fine? I've got 20 Dell servers here in my research lab, all running 8GB (4x2GB) of DDR2-667 FBDIMMs. I can think of plenty of people within my research group who would LOVE to get another 8GB per system (myself included), but at current FBDIMM costs, that's just not an option for us (you wanna buy us eighty 2GB FBDIMM sicks at $150 each? ). At $200 per stick for 8GB, that upgrade suddenly becomes MUCH more viable.

If you have shell access you can use the tar command to create an archive. tar -zcf outfile.tar.gz <sourcedir> This is of course assuming that it's a linux server...

DDR2-667 is what you'd still get with many server setups. For certain applications, the bottleneck is not the speed of the RAM, but rather the quantity.

I leave my computers on for several reasons. First off - all my "maintenance" work is done during the evenings. All of my personal files are synced between my computers, and any updates and defragging occurs at night. Secondly, I help seed several torrents - mostly linux ISOs, so my file server stays on at night. Furthermore, I've usually got a number of DVDs that are being encoded to XviD so I can easily watch them on my HTPC. My computers are quiet enough that I could sleep with them running, even if they were in the same room as my bed.

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Source - ars technica

Check your nVidia Control Panel options for display scaling. I remember that when I set mine to nVidia's scaling technology, things looked horrible, even at native resolutions, but when I used the devices built-in scaling, everything was fine.

Eew... 32-bit. The only reason I've got that on my laptop is because my CPU doesn't support 64-bit... all my other systems are getting moved to 64-bit Vista SP1 when I get some free time this term... likely in May.

Any more word on this? Another couple of things to try, just so we get some more data... - Have you tried starting the system in VGA mode, so that Windows loads the default VGA drivers? - Have you tried running your monitor using a VGA cable instead of a DVI cable? Perhaps the DVI connection on the Acer monitor isn't properly providing EDID to your graphics card (something broke maybe)?

There's something else going on there. You can't say that a whole operating system is garbage because of one incident. I copy multiple files back and forth and haven't noticed any major slowdowns when it comes to that. Startup on my laptop is comparable to XP SP2, and shutdown is actually quicker. My laptop is by far less powerful than that system (Pentium-M 1.86Ghz, 2GB DDR2-533, 128MB ATI X300 mobility, 5400RPM notebook hard drive) and Vista handles the limited hardware better than XP ever did when I put the machine through it's paces. Vista with 1GB of RAM is slightly limiting, but shouldn't be causing the problems you describe. The extremely slow file copying and slow shutdowns indicate another problem, either with the hard drive subsystem, or some other hardware related issue.

Now we just wait for the DNS to propagate through the internet...

Vista SP1 does seem far more responsive on my laptop than RTM did. It's a Pentium-M 1.86Ghz, 2GB of RAM, and 160GB 5400RPM drive. At times when RTM would pause while catching up with all the things that were going on (I multi-task a lot), SP1 is much snappier.

I've got two 20" monitors at 1680x1050 a piece at home... no eyestrain here either... but I still hate you.