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  • Is it safe to run an operating system from an USB flash drive?

    - by Georg
    I've got a laptop that has a broken harddisk controller. Replacing the motherboard is quite expensive. I thought about buying a flash drive and installing & running the system from it. However, I'm concerned about some things. Speed: Are they fast enough for swap memory (I've got only 1GB RAM installed.) I'm considering buying 2 or 3 of them and making them into a RAID. What about limited write cycles? How long will it last for a system that has a filesystem with journaling enabled? I'd hate to abandon it. Are there significant differences between internal SSD which are used in modern laptops like MacBooks and USB flash drives? What should I expect in 10 years when the memory wear starts kicking in?

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  • psloggedon timeout question.

    - by user60707
    Hi guys, I have a list of machine names from my network that I have put in a batchfile to run through the list and show me who is logged onto each. psloggedon \machineA psloggedon \machineB psloggedon \machineC psloggedon \machineD psloggedon \machineE psloggedon \machineF Psloggedon works fine, however when it hits a machine that isnt actually on the network, it hangs for a good 30 - 60 seconds before moving onto the next machine...I was just wondering if there was any way to speed this up so that if it hits a machine that isnt on the network, it moves onto the next machine in the list much quicker. I have read in other places that this could be possible by adding a ping -n loop into the command but im not sure how to get that to work? any ideas guys? Many thanks in advance. Jimmy

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  • Good SMTP server on Windows for a production server

    - by Waleed Eissa
    I'm going to have my website hosted soon on a VPS or dedicated server (with Windows 2008), so I'm trying to plan ahead. I wonder whether the built-in SMTP server that comes with IIS7 is reliable enough for a production server or should I look for an alternative? I heard good things about hmailserver and best of all it's free, do you have any experience with using the bulit-in SMTP on a high traffic website. Thanks a lot for any suggestions

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  • Is there a sensible way of 'teaming' two ADSL connections?

    - by Tim Long
    I work in an office complex that has two seperate ADSL connections, which they use to provide two seperate networks (actually both the ADSL routers go into a Cisco managed switch with two VLANs, one for each ADSL connection). Circumstances have changed so that 95% of the users are all on one ADSL connection. It would be great if there were a way to join together both connections to emulate a single connection at double the speed, but the ISP doesn't support bonding. So, is there a sensible way to take two completely seperate ADSL lines and use them to provide a single internet gateway?

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  • Is SCCM overkill for medium-sized organizations?

    - by Le_Quack
    I am an IT technician in a high school with around 1600 students 250 staff and 800+ client computers mostly running Windows 7. Our team is composed of three members. My boss seems content with a network that works (just about) not necessarily a productive well maintained network that is easy to run and maintain. I'm still fairly early on in my I.T. career so I'm not up to speed on all the different endpoint management solutions that are available. I'm looking for a better way to manage clients (deploy software, track changes, inventory etc) I like the look of SCCM 2012's features but the case studies seem to be aimed at large multi-site infrastructural rather than a single mid sized site. Is SCCM suitable for a mid sized single site or is it aimed at much larger corporations? How can I determine whether or not an endpoint management solution like SCCM is a good fit for our organization? EDIT: Thanks for all the help I'll take a look at SCE and SCCM and get some proposals drawn up to take to my boss/deputy head

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  • Orbital equations, and power required to run them

    - by Adam Davis
    Due to a discussion on the SO IRC today, I'm curious about orbital mechanics, and The equations needed to solve orbital problems The computing power required to solve complex problems The question in particular is calculating when the Earth will plow into the Sun (or vice versa, depending on the frame of reference). I suspect that all the gravitational pulls within our solar system may need to be calculated, which makes me wonder what type of computer cluster is required, or can this be done on a single box? I don't have the experience to do a back of the napkin test here, but perhaps you do? Also, much thx to Gortok for the original inspiration (see comments).

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  • Does the order of columns matter in a group by clause?

    - by Jeff Meatball Yang
    If I have two columns, one with very high cardinality and one with very low cardinality (unique # of values), does it matter in which order I group by? Here's an example: select dimensionName, dimensionCategory, sum(someFact) from SomeFact f join SomeDim d on f.dimensionKey = d.dimensionKey group by d.dimensionName, -- large number of unique values d.dimensionCategory -- small number of unique values Are there situations where it matters?

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  • Hard Drive Fundamentals And Verifying Disk Performance

    - by Agnel Kurian
    Over the past few months, my Windows XP machine has slowed down to a crawl. It takes about 10-15 minutes to go from power-up to reaching a responsive state. I have reasons to believe that this is a result of the hard disk slowing down. Questions: Do hard disks slow down as a result of mechanical wear and tear ...or age? How do I check if my disk has slowed down? Conversely, how can I verify that my disk is indeed running at the speed it's designed to run at? Could drivers be at fault here? Do hard disks come with drivers or does Windows use a generic driver?

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  • MRTG: Switch Port Throughput

    - by amazinghorse24
    I currently have MRTG running in a Debian box. It currently polls a Netgear Switch for the speeds of 7 or so ports and then makes the graphs of them. It currently only records the bits/sec. I would like to set up MRTG to record and display the total amount of data that has gone through the port, not just the speed of it. I am somewhat new to MIBS and SNMP and so I need some help. The switch is a Netgear GS748AT and am not quite sure where to find the MIBS for it, or which MIBS I need to accomplish my task. Any and all help is appreciated!

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  • Live wallpaper settings not applying

    - by Steve
    I have added settings to my live wallpaper but they are not being applied when changed. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me why my settings are not being applied when changed. Here is my code: settings.xml <PreferenceCategory android:title="@string/more"> <PreferenceScreen android:title="@string/more"> <intent android:action="android.intent.action.VIEW" android:data="market://search?q=pub:PSP Demo Center" /> </PreferenceScreen> <ListPreference android:persistent="true" android:enabled="true" android:entries="@array/settings_light_number_options" android:title="@string/settings_light_number" android:key="light_power" android:summary="@string/settings_light_number_summary" android:defaultValue="3" android:entryValues="@array/settings_light_number_optionvalues" /> <ListPreference android:persistent="true" android:enabled="false" android:entries="@array/settings_speed_number_options" android:title="@string/settings_speed_number" android:key="speed" android:summary="@string/settings_speed_number_summary" android:defaultValue="10" android:entryValues="@array/settings_speed_number_optionvalues" /> <ListPreference android:persistent="true" android:enabled="false" android:entries="@array/settings_rotate_number_options" android:title="@string/settings_rotate_number" android:key="rotate" android:summary="@string/settings_rotate_number_summary" android:defaultValue="8000" android:entryValues="@array/settings_rotate_number_optionvalues" /> </PreferenceCategory> </PreferenceScreen> Settings.java public class GraffitiLWPSettings extends PreferenceActivity implements SharedPreferences .OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener { public static final String SHARED_PREFS_NAME = "wallpaper_settings"; protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { super.onCreate(icicle); getPreferenceManager(). setSharedPreferencesName(GraffitiLWP.SHARED_PREFS_NAME); addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.settings); getPreferenceManager().getSharedPreferences(). registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this); } protected void onResume() { super.onResume(); } protected void onDestroy() { getPreferenceManager().getSharedPreferences() .unregisterOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this); super.onDestroy(); } public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences, String key) { } } wallpaper.java public class GraffitiLWP extends Wallpaper { private GraffitiLWPRenderer mRenderer; public static final String SHARED_PREFS_NAME = "wallpaper_settings"; public Engine onCreateEngine() { mRenderer = new GraffitiLWPRenderer(this); return new WallpaperEngine( this.getSharedPreferences(SHARED_PREFS_NAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE), getBaseContext(), mRenderer); } } renderer.java public class GraffitiLWPRenderer extends RajawaliRenderer { private Animation3D mAnim; private BaseObject3D mCan; private SettingsUpdater settingsUpdater; //private SharedPreferences preferences; public GraffitiLWPRenderer(Context context) { super(context); setFrameRate(20); } public class SettingsUpdater implements SharedPreferences .OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener { private GraffitiLWPRenderer renderer; public SettingsUpdater(GraffitiLWPRenderer renderer) { this.renderer = renderer; } public void onSharedPreferenceChanged( SharedPreferences sharedPreferences, String key) { preferences.getInt("wallpaper_settings", 0); renderer.setSharedPreferences(preferences); } } public void initScene() { System.gc(); ALight light = new DirectionalLight(); light.setPower(this.preferences.getLong("light_power", 3)); light.setPosition(0, 0, -10); mCamera.setPosition(0, -1, -7); mCamera.setLookAt(0, 2, 0); mCamera.setFarPlane(1000); ObjParser parser = new ObjParser(mContext .getResources(), mTextureManager, R.raw.spraycan_obj); parser.parse(); mCan = parser.getParsedObject(); mCan.addLight(light); mCan.setScale(1.2f); addChild(mCan); Number3D axis = new Number3D(0, this.preferences.getLong("speed", 10), 0); axis.normalize(); mAnim = new RotateAnimation3D(axis, 360); mAnim.setDuration(this.preferences.getLong("rotate", 8000)); mAnim.setRepeatCount(Animation3D.INFINITE); mAnim.setInterpolator(new AccelerateDecelerateInterpolator()); mAnim.setTransformable3D(mCan); setSkybox(R.drawable.posz, R.drawable.posx, R.drawable.negz, R.drawable.negx, R.drawable.posy, R.drawable.negy); } public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config) { settingsUpdater = new SettingsUpdater(this); this.preferences.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener( settingsUpdater); settingsUpdater.onSharedPreferenceChanged(preferences, null); super.onSurfaceCreated(gl, config); mAnim.start(); } public void onDrawFrame(GL10 glUnused) { super.onDrawFrame(glUnused); mSkybox.setRotY(mSkybox.getRotY() + .5f); } } I know the code is long but I would greatly appreciate any help that someone could give me. Thank you.

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  • SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 HDD not running

    - by Dane411
    After a huge research, I'm stuck at the beggining of getting my HDD data back. Whats happening to me is that in the moment when I plug the power wire to my external 1TB SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000333AS HDD Fw LC15, it makes the sound like it's spinning to almost full speed and then shuts down and spins up again, and so on. It's well known that those HDDs have a bad firmware that someday randomly fails. There are like 2 main problems identified, BSY (busy) state, and LBA0 error. Last time I connected it to power nothing happened, it didnt try to start at all, is it that so called bricked state? I guess my HDDs error is the first one, but I dont really know if what I described is that BSY state or not, neither I know how to check it. How could I know it? Thank you so much!

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  • How Can I Improve/SpeedUp This FrequentFunction in C?

    - by Peter Lee
    Hi folks, How can I improve / speed up this frequent function? #include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> // Assumptions: x, y, z, a, b and c are all array of 10. // Requirement: return the value of ret; // get all elements of array c float fnFrequentFunction(const float* x, const float* y, const float* z, const float *a, const float *b, float *c, int M) { register float tmp; register float sum; register float ret = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < M; i++) // M == 1, 2, 4, or 8 { sum = 0; tmp = x[0] - y[0]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[0]; tmp = x[1] - y[1]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[1]; tmp = x[2] - y[2]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[2]; tmp = x[3] - y[3]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[3]; tmp = x[4] - y[4]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[4]; tmp = x[5] - y[5]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[5]; tmp = x[6] - y[6]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[6]; tmp = x[7] - y[7]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[7]; tmp = x[8] - y[8]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[8]; tmp = x[9] - y[9]; sum += tmp * tmp * z[9]; ret += (c[i] = log(a[i] * b[i]) + sum); } return ret; } int main() { float x[10] = {0.001251f, 0.563585f, 0.193304f, 0.808741f, 0.585009f, 0.479873f, 0.350291f, 0.895962f, 0.622840f, 0.746605f}; float y[10] = {0.864406f, 0.709006f, 0.091433f, 0.995727f, 0.227180f, 0.902585f, 0.659047f, 0.865627f, 0.846767f, 0.514359f}; float z[10] = {0.866817f, 0.581347f, 0.175542f, 0.620197f, 0.781823f, 0.778588f, 0.938688f, 0.721610f, 0.940214f, 0.811353f}; float a[10] = {0.870205f, 0.733879f, 0.711386f, 0.588244f, 0.484176f, 0.852962f, 0.168126f, 0.684286f, 0.072573f, 0.632160f}; float b[10] = {0.871487f, 0.998108f, 0.798608f, 0.134831f, 0.576281f, 0.410779f, 0.402936f, 0.522935f, 0.623218f, 0.193030f}; float c[8]; int i; int n = 10000000; long start; // Speed test here: start = clock(); while(--n) fnFrequentFunction(x, y, z, a, b, c, 8); printf("Time used: %ld\n", clock() - start); printf("fnFrequentFunction == %f\n", fnFrequentFunction(x, y, z, a, b, c, 8)); for(i = 0; i < 8; ++i) printf(" c[%d] == %f\n", i, c[i]); printf("\n"); return 0; } Any suggestions are welcome :-)

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  • Is there a faster way to deploy an OVA template?

    - by Luke
    I need to deploy vSphere Server Appliance 5.1. I have vSphere Client running locally and my internet upload is capped at 3 Mbps. It says it's going to take about 200 minutes to upload. When selecting a URL as opposed to a local file, does vSphere Client download it locally and then upload, or does it download the OVA directly to the server? My goal is to avoid waiting 3 1/2 hours for this to upload. If specifying a URL isn't any faster, are there any other methods that would allow me to deploy from the datacenter instead of my office? We don't have any Windows VM's installed on our cluster. So unfortunately I don't have a Windows machine with faster upload speed.

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  • Sorting a list of colors in one dimension?

    - by Ptah- Opener of the Mouth
    I would like to sort a one-dimensional list of colors so that colors that a typical human would perceive as "like" each other are near each other. Obviously this is a difficult or perhaps impossible problem to get "perfectly", since colors are typically described with three dimensions, but that doesn't mean that there aren't some sorting methods that look obviously more natural than others. For example, sorting by RGB doesn't work very well, as it will sort in the following order, for example: (1) R=254 G=0 B=0 (2) R=254 G=255 B=0 (3) R=255 G=0 B=0 (4) R=255 G=255 B=0 That is, it will alternate those colors red, yellow, red, yellow, with the two "reds" being essentially imperceivably different than each other, and the two yellows also being imperceivably different from each other. But sorting by HLS works much better, generally speaking, and I think HSL even better than that; with either, the reds will be next to each other, and the yellows will be next to each other. But HLS/HSL has some problems, too; things that people would perceive as "black" could be split far apart from each other, as could things that people would perceive as "white". Again, I understand that I pretty much have to accept that there will be some splits like this; I'm just wondering if anyone has found a better way than HLS/HSL. And I'm aware that "better" is somewhat arbitrary; I mean "more natural to a typical human". For example, a vague thought I've had, but have not yet tried, is perhaps "L is the most important thing if it is very high or very low", but otherwise it is the least important. Has anyone tried this? Has it worked well? What specifically did you decide "very low" and "very high" meant? And so on. Or has anyone found anything else that would improve upon HSL? I should also note that I am aware that I can define a space-filling curve through the cube of colors, and order them one-dimensionally as they would be encountered while travelling along that curve. That would eliminate perceived discontinuities. However, it's not really what I want; I want decent overall large-scale groupings more than I want perfect small-scale groupings. Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • Do I really need Microsoft Updates?

    - by Tony Wong
    When I install a fresh copy of Windows XP Home (I bought it from the store.. not a copy), my PC rocks like lightening speed. But when I start installing all the updates, patches & less .NET 4.0 client (as the .NET 4.0 Client seems to bring machine to slow crawl). The PC starts to slow down.. like there are more resources to watch or something is happening in the background. So could I not get away with an awesome virus protector and an awesome firewall set-up and avoid all the patches? The machine I have is a quad 4, 4 GB RAM and 2.3 GHz process. Tons of room and the machine can run several applications at one time.. but when the updates happen.. it's s-l-o-w!

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  • is there a way to prespecify to overwrite files with same name?

    - by Celeritas
    Connections to network drives are ridiculously slow (e.g. 15kb/sec on really good days) and when I'm copying files I leave my desk. My problem is when there is a file with the same name to be overwritten, is there a way to specify in advanced to overwrite files? I know it has the option "do same for next x conflicts" but that doesn't popup until (in some cases) a long time after the files start copying. See my dilemma? Example: copying 500 files, estimated time 2 hours, I leave, after 10 minutes message comes up about file with same name and asks if it should overwrite (in this time copying stalls), I come back 30 minutes latter to find only the files in the 10 minutes copied. Out of curiosity how could the network speed be so bad? I asked the boss and he said because it gets routed around a lot and is just bad :(

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  • What is the fastest CPU my laptop can support?

    - by Dave
    I have a Dell Latitude D830 laptop and would like to speed up compile times on it. I have confirmed that it is, indeed, the processor time that is the bottleneck. How can I tell what processors are compatible with the motherboard to pick the best available? I run dual boot Ubuntu Maverick and Windows 7. lshw tells me that my motherboard is OHN338 from Dell, Inc. If anyone has a generic solution, i.e. "For motherboard X, here is how you find out what processors are supported," that would be make this question much more useful to future visitors. But if you also know of a way to find out specific to my model, that would be great as well.

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  • Insert data into SQL server with best performance

    - by Incognito
    I have an application which intensively uses DB (SQL Server). As it must have high performance I would like to know the fastest way to insert record into DB.Fastest from the standpoint of execution time. What should I use ? As I know the fastest way is to create stored procedure and to call it from code (ADO.NET). Please let me know is there any better way or may be there are is some other practices to increase performance.

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  • Combining two UPDATE Commands - Performance ?

    - by Johannes
    If I want to update two rows in a MySQL table, using the following two command: UPDATE table SET Col = Value1 WHERE ID = ID1 UPDATE table SET Col = Value2 WHERE ID = ID2` I usually combine them into one command, so that I do not to have to contact the MySQL server twice from my C client: UPDATE table SET Col = IF( ID = ID1 , Value1 , Value2) WHERE ID=ID1 OR ID=ID2 Is this really a performance gain? Background Information: I am using a custom made fully C written high-performance heavily loaded webserver.

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  • How can I simulate a slow machine in a VM?

    - by Nathan Long
    I'm testing an AJAX-heavy web-application. I develop on a new Mac, but I use VmWare Fusion (currently 3.1.2) to test in Windows XP, using IETester to simulate older versions of IE. This lets me see how older IE versions would render the site, but I'd also like to see how the site would perform on an older machine. I see in the VM's settings that I can decrease the RAM; is there a way to also dial down the processor speed? How else might I simulate a slow machine? (I am also going to check out how to simulate a slow internet connection.)

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  • Where should I plug in my monitor -- Motherboard or Graphics card?

    - by Jeremy White
    Assuming I am using the following equipment... motherboard with HDMI/DVI & no embedded graphics discrete graphics card (nVidia or ATI) on PCI-E slot Intel CPU with integrated graphics ...where should I plug my monitor into the computer? Presumably, I'll get the fastest speed on games connected directly to the graphics card. But there is also power savings when connecting to the motherboard and accessing the Intel on-board graphics. I've read that some motherboards can switch automatically between the Intel graphics and discrete graphics. Is that something that works well, and where do I connect the monitor to enable that?

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  • How to determine the best byte size for the dd command

    - by James
    I know that doing a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb does a deep hard drive copy. I've heard that people have been able to speed up the process by increasing the number of bytes that are read and written at a time (512) with the "bs" option. People have suggested that the optimal byte size is due to sector size. I personally think it would have something to do with the amount of cache that the hard drive has. My question is: What determines the ideal byte size for copying from a hard drive? and Why does that determine the ideal byte size?

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