Hi,

I'm a little bit behind with the current cpus and DDR2 & DDR3 ram.

I use to build quite a few machines back in the day but have been out of the
industry for a couple of years.

I'm looking at upgrading my current PC (amd64 3000+, ddr400 ram). I havent
decided what cpu to get yet (Been looking at "AMD Phenom Quad-Core 9750" and
"Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600" ) but I'm a little lost as to what Ram I need.

Back when I was building with DDR ram, for AMD cpus you would multiply the
FSB x2 for AMD cpus and x4 for Intel. So my current AMD64 has a 200mhz FSB,
so I am running ddr400 ram.

What is the deal now? Is there a good article around explaining this? Or
on the latest motherboards is the ram speed not directly related to the CPU
fsb, as in the mobo can under/overclock the memory speed so suit?

thanks for your help.

Hi,

I work for a corporate property firm and will do weekly or more often
word documents that refer to calculations in excel. How we do this is
by copying in excel and pasting special a linked excel object/table/
field.

The reason for this is we will often need to change a variable in
excel and need the word document to update through without manually
having to check it. We would have 20-30 linked bits in each document.

Now in theory this works fine, but the reality is that since the files
are located on our slow network, the updates or the process of pasting
a table/link will often crash word and or excel loosing any unsaved
changes and locking up our slow computers for 5-10 minutes at a time.

Anyone have any suggestions of how to do this better? Upgrading
network or computers is unfortunately not a short term option. We use
Office 2003. We've thought about doing the whole report in Excel like
a mock word document, but think this would be a bit clunky and
average.

Thanks.

I wondered how long it would take before someone would come up with
this idea - www.howgood.co.nz

It's about time we got a chance to tell politicians how we think
they're going. I'm off to review Helen & co now ... should be
interesting to see how they all rate. The integrity rating will be a
good one - what a laugh!

I've got two items I need to buy but don't really know what to ask for.

A new dvd player for a laptop. I have a thinkpad and a HP Pavillion. Both
dvd's are buggered. Both have exactly the same form factor and would be
interchangeable except one has a male IDE(?) plug and the other is female.
Is there a name for this beast? 'Half height DVD and specify the connector?
Can I get a cheap generic product for either?

Other is something I read about in a tone magazine. A usb device for
porting sound out with zero crosstalk from motherboard. About 70- bucks
apparently.

Mother of God, Grisoft seem to think that, if you install AVG, you give them
the right to do what they like with your PC.

I'm trying to re-apply a patch that raises the limit on half-open
connections (from 10 to 50) in XP after installing SP3. It's something I've
been using for years that speeds up torrenting.

http://www.lvllord.de/

However, after having it sitting ignored in my downloads folder for a long
time, one day AVG decided that it's a virus, or malware*. Now I can't run
the programme. Why you ask? I can't kill AVG!!! I can click the icon in
systray and hit exit. However, when I open taskmanager there are still
several processes running that start with avg. When I highlight those and
try to stop them they instantly start again. I just spent 10 minutes trying
to exit all AVG processes and then, when going to AVG in the start menu it
seems I was only able to stop the "Resident Shield". "Anti Virus" is still
active!

I don't want to have to uninstall the whole programme, then re-install and
update just to do this one thing, I just want to turn it off for a couple
minutes.

Ihug helpdesk told me this morning that they have not supported 'news'
since vodafone took over (2 yrs ago) and the fact I was still able to
use this facility until recently was just good luck. But it's no
longer working fully so it seems I have to post through google.

I have two dinosaurs, but usable, reliable dinosaurs.

I have two Sun Microsystems Ultra 1 machines. These are blindingly fast 170
MHz machines in good working order. They have mice and the nicest keyboard
you have ever used. 20" monitors. There is an external disk drive data
library which can take up to 7 additional disks. I think there are four in
it now with huge storage capacity (4 & 8 GB).

They are running Solaris 5.2, an operating system which has been around
since about 2000. One machine now has an uptime of 488 days. The other one
has been quietly in reserve, waiting for the first one to fail, which it
hasn't.

I am willing to part with these gems for the grand price of - wait for it -
nothing! That's right, free to a good home if, and only if, you pick up in
Nelson.

How can you pass up such a deal?

Cheers,

Larry

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Freesias" typed:

Sigh.
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I'm with Actrix Cyberjet and they don't have any notices about it on their
status page but I'm finding non-NZ pages take longer to load than NZ pages.
It's been like this for a few days, I wondered if anyone else is noticing
similar problems?

Cheers,
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I don't know if this is news or not, but Mozilla Firefox 3 is
available for download.

I more or less found this out by accident, trying to google on
a firefox plugin or such that would allow zooming the whole
page rather than just text size which often led to problems.

Firefox 3 has this feature. Since getting a new monitor I had
been using Opera 9 because it scales the whole page, rather
than just text like the old Firefox. Unfortunately, Opera 9
just shat itself on my computer. Tabbing no longer works in any
predictable fashion. Even after more than two months I still
don't feel that navigation in Opera is as easy as it was in
Firefox. So I was looking to see if I could return to Firefox.

The problem however was, that each and every tab on Firefox 3,
as it installed, opened at 100%%zoom level, and there's no
visible way of changing this in the preferences, in fact
there's not even any visible indication what zoom level you're
at, that I've been able to discover, unlike Opera.