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Memory usage during those 5 or 6 seconds went from 1.88GB to 3.6GB. I have no idea what caused this memory increase - I didn't open any new programs, I didn't actually do anything with my computer, I was reading an article online. This happened around half an hour after boot. I noticed...

Does anyone still use, or stil remember the names of any of the CPU affinity setting apps that we used to use? I'm running -smp 6 on my i7 920, but I'm also running Handbrake, and I want to automatically set the affinity of all handbrakecli.exe processes to only threads 0+1 so that it doesn't...

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I've been reading about LCDs. I find that a lot of websites tend to be kind of confusing in their explanations, so I wanted someone here who knows this field to clarify or confirm I've got the right picture, so to speak. So liquid crystals have light-refractory properties. In a liquid crystal...

I need to replicate the AVERAGEIFS Excel function, but for sample standard deviations. I have 4 columns: a person's name, their gender, whether they had a certain operation or not, and their height (not really, but it's simpler this way). This is what I have for AVERAGEIFS...

I managed to lose my last USB drive somehow, so I need a new one. These are the three options: Patriot Supersonic 32GB Corsair Voyager 32GB Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 32GB. They're all roughly the same price. As far as I know all three are pretty good in terms of quality. It seems kind of...

I get this error message every time I try to play a game. The message is in white text in a grey box, on an opaque black background: Not optimum mode. Recomended mode 1920x1080 60HzI've tried this on the three games I've got installed at the moment, Crysis, Civ V, and BF3. The error appeared...

I have three options: Sapphire 6950 2GB + Free Dirt 3 - $450 Powercolor 6950 2GB - $401 Gigabyte 560 Ti 1GB OC - $374 Both the 6950s are at stock. All three have dual-fan, open heatsink style cooling. And they're all NZ prices. No, I don't want to buy a card and ship it from...

This has been going for quite some time (Atlas first, and then Mutsu), but I just wanted to point this out. The number of points that individuals are getting is enormous. For example, in regards to Angra, who according to EOC is currently top of the list for average PPD, there are only 15...

I just started running Collatz on my 4870, but it's only using ~26% of the GPU. At the moment it should take around 25 minutes per WU, does that sound right?

Got this printer about 4 months ago, installed it on my previous Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit installation, worked perfectly. I just did a reformat/reinstall, but now the printer and its driver won't work together somehow. When I plug the printer in, Windows makes that sound that you get...

I'm trying to learn Python as my first language, but the problem is the various guides I've seen only explain the syntax - after reading several pages I still don't have any idea what the point is of doing math in Python instead of just using a calculator, or a program with a practical purpose...

For some reason when I turned the computer on this morning my OCZ Vertex II SSD and 2 WD Caviar Blue HDDs are showing up in the Remove Hardware and Eject Media window (though my optical drive doesn't show...). I'm kind of worried someone will put in a USB drive or something, and then...

I want to treat myself to an SSD this year. I have a $200 (NZ) budget, and both the Corsair Force F40 and the OCZ Vertex 60GB come pretty close (one's $192 and the other's $191). But I can't decide which one to choose. On the one hand, the F40 is faster in virtually everything. On the other...

I have two questions: 1) How big are the discounts typically? I've never heard of an Apple sale with big discounts, but any would be good. 2) Is the sale available in countries other than the US? We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, and nobody does Black Friday here in New Zealand, so I would...

Some of you may have noticed me talking on IRC once or twice about how I couldn't run my 4870 on the GPU client properly. Well, I contacted AMD support, and here's what went on. Note that it's still unresolved. [Attached are the DXDiag and Belarc reports - I could see nothing abnormal...

One of the best features I found back in the day when I used Ubuntu was that windows could snap to the borders of the desktop, and to other windows. I know Windows 7 has a feature where it will snap to one half of the screen or the other, but I'm looking for something more comprehensive. There...

I have about 100GB worth of iso images, and I would appreciate it if I were able to compress them effectively. I've tried just using zip and rar compression, but neither are very good, I get a few percent out of it at most. I remember reading about Macs being able to compress images using...

I got a free copy of Daemon Tools Pro through this link: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1526591&highlight=Daemon+Tools+Pro I've never bought software like this online before, so bear with me if this sounds kind of stupid. I was thinking of doing a full reformat and reinstall of...

I don't know if anyone's ever seen this before, but I certainly haven't, and frankly, I've seen a lot of Folding@home error messages: --- Opening Log file [July 4 05:04:55 UTC] # Windows SMP Console Edition #################################################...

So, exams have finished and I'm free for 3 weeks, so I decided to treat myself to some decent speakers and get on with watching all those blu-rays that Ive wanted to watch for 3 months. I don't have much money, $100 is the absolute max (and I'd prefer it if it were kept down to $75 or so, but I...

Take a look at this: --- Opening Log file [June 17 17:58:58 UTC] # Windows SMP Console Edition ################################################# ############################################################################### Folding@Home Client Version 6.29...

--- Opening Log file [June 15 10:40:57 UTC] # Windows SMP Console Edition ################################################# ############################################################################### Folding@Home Client Version 6.29...

Let me preface this by saying that my drive worked perfectly about a month ago, and I haven't changed any components since then. I had rented out a DVD, from the third season of House. I put this in the optical drive of my main computer (it's a blu-ray reader from LG, I think) and waited...

I'm writing out notes for biochem and physiology, and I have a lot of greek symbols and degree signs that I need to write out. So on the first day, to save me the hassle of having to go the long way each time I needed such a symbol, I set shortcut keys for them - alt+shift+A for alpha...

I have a kit of 6GB DDR3-1333 running at stock timings (Cas 8 or 9, I think; they're at stock, whatever they are) from G.Skill. And I think they may be holding my overclock back. My system is currently clocked at 3.5GHz. And this is the furthest it seems to want to reasonably go. I can get the...

I have a desktop with 2 monitors, a primary 21.5" P2250 1920x1080 from Samsung and a secondary 17" 1280x1024. The 21.5" is about 6 months old, and the 17" is at least 5 years old (my dad used it at work before I started using it at home when I first built my old computer 5 years ago). I also...

And why aren't we in it?

I've got an HP Probook 4320s. The problem is that even when I have the AC plugged in, the batteries don't charge. So I'm currently at 95% charge (I was at 97 when I first noticed this problem), and I haven't found a fix. I've followed the instructions here and here; no luck. I've also done...

I've got a free laptop here, seeing as I don't have my laptop on enough for it to finish SMP WUs on deadline, and I was curious about doing a BOINC project for a change. Back in the day I used to donate for SETI@home, but that was quite a minor contribution and I was busy with other stuff so...

Last night while trying to download a new work unit it seemed that there were no servers available. It went through 9 retries before I decided to restart the client; when the client restarted it grabbed a work unit right away and got right down to it. This morning, same thing. Now it's my...

I've just bought a new laptop, with a Core i3 330M processor. (I was going to buy one with a Core i5 540M, but they were too heavy...). I'm getting about 2.2k ppd at the moment running A3 WUs. What I was curious about are ppd numbers for other processors: E8400 3GHz P8600 2.4GHz (or whatever...

Why do all the news threads link to the [H] news page for that article rather than the article itself? For example, why does the link on this thread link to this page instead of this one? Apart from the destination of the link the posts are exactly the same. I know you want to generate site...

It's a 19" Philips LCD. It's nearly 5 years old now. Basically what happens is whenever the power cable is plugged in the monitor starts crackling, and you can smell ozone coming out of the grille at the top. The monitor had this problem before, but it was intermittent and usually just...

I'm running on Windows XP SP3, 32-bit. The problem I have is that the time it takes for the PC to hibernate is much longer than the time it takes to do a cold boot: Hibernate: 12s Restore to logon screen: 1:28s Shutdown: 15s Boot to logon screen: 50s I'm running everything off a...

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD202s. They're awesome headphones, but they're obviously not so great when I'm outside, because of the size, and because I can't hear anything because of the noise of cars, buses, etc. Coupled with this, the fact that the earbuds that my iPod came with are failing...

I've set up Hibernate on my computer. The problem is, that I've set Powertools XP (or whatever its name is) to bypass the windows login screen so that on boot it automatically goes to the desktop, since I have several things that I schedule the computer to turn on for that I want done...

That's the long and the short of it. My total ppd halves when I add my 4870 into folding, from 15k-ish to about 8k-ish. I've decided to run it in -smp 7 and dedicate a whole thread tot he 4870 (in which case I get about 350 ppd extra over just running SMP). I'm running the new core, 2.15, by the...

Note: Please read the license agreement (FAH.exe -license). Further use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement. Using local directory for work files 8 cores detected Unable to connect to '%MyPC%:8676', sock error: generic socket failure, error stack...