Posts by sco

I've just installed one... works just fine.

Flash memory has a limited number of writes before it fails. It's quite large (tens of thousands of writes or more these days) butthat's another good reason to not use it as a swap file instead of your hard-disk. Vista has some...

Actually there's three versions of the framework out... 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. I have them all installed. .NET was designed to avoid versioning issues and it's perfectly safe to run more than one version side by side. Applications will...

There is an option in the nVidia drivers (on the User Interface tab) to turn on Gridlines. You can then assign gridlines however you want (I have one vertically down the middle of my screen). Also turn on Grid Area maximise in that...

I'm lucky enough to have a Colorvision Spyder to calibrate my display and I can see the bars clearly. So I second the recommendation to calibrate your display. There is a free utility from Praxisoft you can use to calibrate your...

Get the latest CTP if you can.. has drivers included out of the box and is much closer to the final product. B1 doesn't have much to play with except looking at the aero glass chrome. Dual booting works well so you could run both on...

Yep, do development on mine. Love the wide screen. If you enable the quickzoom feature in the NVidia software you can easily zoom the screen up when you need to do fine tuning work. So far I haven't needed to do that though.

If mine was that bad I'd be asking for it to be looked at.

XP Pro and Home are effectively the same operating system, so I expect patches that are released for XP Pro will be able to be applied to XP home. Similar to what happened to NT4, I expect critical updates will still be available for...

Great post Cutters My 1 week old i9300 (time to update my sig ) has an SEC5557. For the record, happy with it... no dead/stuck pixels. It has a little bit of light leakage at the bottom but not enough to bother me. Happy...