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    my daily laptop is windows 7 64bit and its fooking poo, i need to reinstall.

    my laser laptop is xp works perfect
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    yeah yeah i know... But i reinstalled and all is working again.
    Arrived @ the hackersspace (www.bitlair.nl) and installed laser (first inside, after the BBQ outside for some laseroids, lasertennis etc...
    I didn't fail !
    I just found out 10,000 ways that didn't work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hobbybob View Post
    yeah yeah i know... But i reinstalled and all is working again.
    Arrived @ the hackersspace (www.bitlair.nl) and installed laser (first inside, after the BBQ outside for some laseroids, lasertennis etc...
    pic?

    what time u finish tonight?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gashead View Post
    One of the coolest Kernel oopses you're ever gonna see
    I personally think the coolest one was the: Blue Screen of Death - Christmas Edition ^TM

    While I was working at the lab last Christmas, the jobs were thin on the ground, so I hacked around with some of the hex values of the kernel in the RAM... end result:

    Green Screen of Death, with red text ...
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    I took a laptop to a gig with a particularly sensitive HDD "fall protection" sensor in it. DIDN'T get on well with the 30k sound system one bit.
    Constantly parking the head "to avoid damage"...
    It ran slow as shite
    You bring up a good point Dan. do you recommend deleting or disabling this service? i have it on my dell and i sometimes see weird things happen at shows with my puter that i cant explain and cant replicate outside of a club show.

    Is this a legit service to have or just a gimick?

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    SSDs highly reccomended with high SPL

    Absolutely love W7 64 though, not had any troubles (touches wood).
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    Quote Originally Posted by gottaluvlasers View Post
    You bring up a good point Dan. do you recommend deleting or disabling this service? i have it on my dell and i sometimes see weird things happen at shows with my puter that i cant explain and cant replicate outside of a club show.

    Is this a legit service to have or just a gimick?

    -Marc
    It's a function built into the hard drive controller. 9/10 it's great.
    Main application: You knock your laptop off the desk; accelerometer detects the sudden change in 'g' and tells the drive to immediately park the read head in a "safer" place. Chance of data loss is reduced...

    But not so great for really loud clubs!
    You can't turn it off as far as I'm aware, it is in built on the controller chip.

    If it really is an issue... like Doc said, go SSD; Fast and nothing to park.
    (or try a HDD known not to have a freefall sensor)
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    Quote Originally Posted by gashead View Post
    Dude, ignore that crap.. Linux has it's flaws too..


    Now, if we were talking Mac OS X! Well... that kicks Windows arse!!
    mac has flaws too but we could keep this argumenting going for long :P
    I prefer windows, mac is good as well. There isn't a superior OS

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    Quote Originally Posted by masterpj View Post
    There isn't a superior OS

    There are definitely inferior ones!

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    Quote Originally Posted by danielbriggs View Post
    I personally think the coolest one was the: Blue Screen of Death - Christmas Edition ^TM

    While I was working at the lab last Christmas, the jobs were thin on the ground, so I hacked around with some of the hex values of the kernel in the RAM... end result:

    Green Screen of Death, with red text ...
    My hero

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