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Comment on How to disable RAID-0 on Dell XPS Studio 435MT Desktop Computer with Windows Vista by Steffen

Steffen — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:04:37 +0000

Attention please!
With BIOS Versions greater than 1.0.8 the system will not boot anymore. Neither from DVD nor USB. The BIOS will stuck on “No Diagnostic Utility Partition Identified; press any key to reboot” message.
The solution is to detach all HD drives physically. Then you can boot from DVD (e.g. Bart PE) and downgrade the BIOS.

Comment on How to disable RAID-0 on Dell XPS Studio 435MT Desktop Computer with Windows Vista by Griff Lewis

Griff Lewis — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:46:14 +0000

Ok so that’s the easy bit covered, but how do you restore your OS and drivers to the new SATA 0 drive.

Can you use the Dell rescue disk or do you have to slog it through bit by bit.

Thanks

gdl

Comment on Java programming: Backslash vs. Forward slash and Windows vs. Linux by Back to Java (for Android) | soledad penadés

Back to Java (for Android) | soledad penadés — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:31:36 +0000

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Comment on How to disable RAID-0 on Dell XPS Studio 435MT Desktop Computer with Windows Vista by Larry Miller

Larry Miller — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:34:31 +0000

RAID 0 on a desktop is often overrated. Although the numbers on some benchmarks can be quite impressive, this often does not transfer to real-world performance. RAID 0 is good for sequential access to large files, but that just doesn’t occur very often with typical desktop use.

RAID 0 does not do well in terms of reliability. If one drive fails you lose all data. A replace ment drive should have identical size and characteristics and that may not be difficult. If RAID is implemeted in the motherboard and it fails, you may lose all data.

Two seperate drives, if used properly, will usually provide performance almost equal to RAID 0. Reliability will be better and recovery in case of failure will also be much easier.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

Comment on Maximize jFrame size on startup using Netbeans IDE 5.5.1 by CopyCat

CopyCat — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:03:18 +0000

Very good, thanx for the help!!!

import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;

// construtor code
addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e) {
setExtendedState(MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
}
});

Comment on Java Hashtable: Sorted by Values by Marc_Hawke

Marc_Hawke — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:08:17 +0000

It’s me again Margaret.

Just wanted to say that in spite of my negativity in the first post, this was how I ended up doing it. Thanks for the help.

Comment on Java Hashtable: Sorted by Values by Marc_Hawke

Marc_Hawke — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:41:46 +0000

Thanks for that. I’ve done the custom Comparator route before and I didn’t want to have to do that again. Guess I have no choice.

I’ve been researching this for some time now and yours is the most succinct way so far. It’s very annoying that it requires 6 included libraries, my HashTable has to migrate through 4 classes, and when I compile it’s going to create 2 new class files.

meanwhile, the same answer in Perl:

( sort { $hash{$a} cmp $hash{$b} } keys %hash )

So sad.

Comment on Maximize jFrame size on startup using Netbeans IDE 5.5.1 by Kishor kshirsagar

Kishor kshirsagar — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:55:33 +0000

Hey !! Thanks for code it really works…..

Comment on Java programming: Backslash vs. Forward slash and Windows vs. Linux by madmayr

madmayr — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:50:16 +0000

thanks, good hint!

Comment on Convert Excel Chart to EPS/PS File for Latex by Dinesh

Dinesh — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:45:55 +0000

Thanks for your tips, it was very useful