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BraveUlysses posted:I am not (yet?) well then just email me damiancurry at gmail
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May 15, 2014 00:08
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some texas redneck posted:
Well i"ll be a son of a bitch. I swear my drivers ed teacher told us that.
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May 15, 2014 00:14
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I just want to read the drat thing. I can't even find a copy to borrow from the library. Have you tried talking to the people in the interlibrary loan office at your library? That's how I got my hands on a copy to read. It's a really cool book with some great stories and pictures but not hundreds-of-dollars good. An ILL request usually costs a few bucks at the most.
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May 15, 2014 00:17
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My bald rear end head is sun burnt as poo poo. Logged 30 hours since Monday. Got tomorrow off for an interview for a telecom company. Called the solar panel place I had an interview with on Saturday today and the receptionist said they haven't had time to go through all the applications yet. Another telecom company that my buddy works at is hiring. Called them today and they said to call back on Monday.
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May 15, 2014 00:41
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Terrible Robot posted:Have you tried talking to the people in the interlibrary loan office at your library? That's how I got my hands on a copy to read. It's a really cool book with some great stories and pictures but not hundreds-of-dollars good. An ILL request usually costs a few bucks at the most. My local library system can't get it at all. I used to volunteer there and still couldn't get a copy no matter what. Apparantly there used to be a copy in circulation but with the prices that book commands its no surprise it was stolen long ago. I did get a kick rear end parking placard from my time there that saves me a few bucks in meter money whenever I go there though. I really, really want to read that book though. All the excerpts I've read from it are awesome. It really is the coolest airplane ever created.
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May 15, 2014 01:04
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You know I never thought to check for it at the library. I imagine the lab library has a copy or two, they seem to have every other hard to find military/technical/historical book out there. I think I can check out books...guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow morning.
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May 15, 2014 01:06
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some texas redneck posted:
The cop that gave me a lecture on that in Michigan years ago gives me doubt as to the accuracy of that. And TBH, riding a motorcycle in thongs (FOOTWEAR) or in bare feet just..... ugh. That has sooo much potential to go wrong in a painful way. Rules against bearefoot driving do make sense tho. It's def. illegal here not to have approriate footware while driving, not that it's ever stopped me from driving with just socks most of the time.
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May 15, 2014 01:08
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Sooo I have a question for the more knowledgeable and up-to-date computer guys in here. I've been (trying to) build a gaming computer for the last year. Back in the day when I was more involved in the computing scene AMD was King poo poo of gently caress Mountain when it came to processors and I love the hell out of my old Athlon XP based rig, which I still keep around for running older games. I intended to go with an AMD FX- series processor for my new system and purchased a mobo with that thought in mind. But all I seem to see in SH/SC and YOSPOS is post after post about how much AMD and their FX platform is utter garbage. I've tried actually wading through the SH/SC thread to get more information but I left with a migraine and feeling even more confused. Bottom line this poo poo for me: will I hate life and my new computer if I get an AMD chip? This system would be primarily used for gaming and general-computer-fuckery.
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May 15, 2014 01:37
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NitroSpazzz posted:You know I never thought to check for it at the library. I imagine the lab library has a copy or two, they seem to have every other hard to find military/technical/historical book out there. I think I can check out books...guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow morning. there are lots of  out there for it if you can't find it just want to read it.
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May 15, 2014 01:46
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About a month ago, a bunch of departments got moved around between the two buildings at my work, and all the QA office staff moved over to the new building. One of my coworkers used to do all the calibration for the calipers and mics and depth gauges and poo poo that all the machinists use to check parts out in the shop. And by calibrate I mean he put a sticker on them every 3 months and did literally nothing else. So when he moved over to the new building he passed off all the calibration duties on to me. He left me about 60 tools to calibrate because he was several weeks behind doing even his half assed poo poo, and there is no way I'm just going to stick a new sticker on something without checking to make sure it's actually accurate. I'm already busy as hell with everything else that I do in the QA department so I pretty much only get time to calibrate stuff if I stay late or work on Saturday. About a week ago he comes over all officious like and asks why I haven't caught up on the calibration yet and updated the spreadsheet and poo poo. Told him I was busy and I'd get to it when I had the time, etc etc. I get an email today from the lady doing our internal audit, that had an email chain from my coworker. In it he basically throws me under the bus and says something to the effect of, "maybe an internal finding on our audit will make him/them (my coworkers in the lab) understand the importance of the calibration schedule." What in the actual gently caress? If you want to be lazy and poo poo at your job and not do anything all day, cool as long as it doesn't prevent me from doing my job. You want to try and backstab me because I don't shirk my job duties, there's going to be some serious issues.
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May 15, 2014 02:01
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Just nabbed the last Baja Blast at the Shell next to my house. Sweet sweet goon nectar.
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May 15, 2014 02:19
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My  librarian girlfriend just texted me this: Thanks for the book recommendation! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 15, 2014 02:31
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Obligatory "that's one big book LOL" joke.
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May 15, 2014 02:39
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It's the large-print edition.
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May 15, 2014 02:42
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Terrible Robot posted:Sooo I have a question for the more knowledgeable and up-to-date computer guys in here. I've been (trying to) build a gaming computer for the last year. Back in the day when I was more involved in the computing scene AMD was King poo poo of gently caress Mountain when it came to processors and I love the hell out of my old Athlon XP based rig, which I still keep around for running older games. I intended to go with an AMD FX- series processor for my new system and purchased a mobo with that thought in mind. But all I seem to see in SH/SC and YOSPOS is post after post about how much AMD and their FX platform is utter garbage. I've tried actually wading through the SH/SC thread to get more information but I left with a migraine and feeling even more confused. In realistic benchmarks, the highest end AMD chip (the $329 FX-9590 with a loving 225W TDP that requires water cooling at an additional cost) is roughly two thirds the speed of the i5-4670K ($239 with a 85W TDP). That is stock versus stock, and the i5-4670K overclocks much better than the FX-9590, as the FX-9590 is essentially a factory overclocked top bin die. tl;dr: loving buy the Intel chip.
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May 15, 2014 02:44
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Terrible Robot posted:Sooo I have a question for the more knowledgeable and up-to-date computer guys in here. I've been (trying to) build a gaming computer for the last year. Back in the day when I was more involved in the computing scene AMD was King poo poo of gently caress Mountain when it came to processors and I love the hell out of my old Athlon XP based rig, which I still keep around for running older games. I intended to go with an AMD FX- series processor for my new system and purchased a mobo with that thought in mind. But all I seem to see in SH/SC and YOSPOS is post after post about how much AMD and their FX platform is utter garbage. I've tried actually wading through the SH/SC thread to get more information but I left with a migraine and feeling even more confused. Once Intel gave up on the Pentium 4 and went to the Core processors AMD lost their competitive edge for desktop processors. I don't know if you'll hate life though. I haven't bought any computer parts for a few years. Edit: I'm slow.
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May 15, 2014 02:44
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Terrible Robot posted:Bottom line this poo poo for me: will I hate life and my new computer if I get an AMD chip? This system would be primarily used for gaming and general-computer-fuckery. I'm late to the party, but absolutely go with Intel. I jumped ship from AMD a bit over 2 years ago and haven't looked back - AMD's fine for low end stuff, also for space heaters; but their high end stuff just doesn't hold a candle to the i5/i7.
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May 15, 2014 03:03
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Terrible Robot posted:Sooo I have a question for the more knowledgeable and up-to-date computer guys in here. I've been (trying to) build a gaming computer for the last year. Back in the day when I was more involved in the computing scene AMD was King poo poo of gently caress Mountain when it came to processors and I love the hell out of my old Athlon XP based rig, which I still keep around for running older games. I intended to go with an AMD FX- series processor for my new system and purchased a mobo with that thought in mind. But all I seem to see in SH/SC and YOSPOS is post after post about how much AMD and their FX platform is utter garbage. I've tried actually wading through the SH/SC thread to get more information but I left with a migraine and feeling even more confused. I've only had AMD chips for the past decade but my current PC just poo poo the bed and I went Intel* without even looking at what AMD has these days because god drat the hosed up bad with that last architecture. *Can't wait till Friday when my parts arrive 
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May 15, 2014 03:28
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The only reason to go with AMD is if you're really penny pinching. AMD's stuff is usually $10-20 cheaper in the under-$100 range, and for a super budget build they're competitive. On the other hand, if you actually want performance and have a little bit of a budget, an i5 is going to blow anything AMD has at a comparable price point out of the water, and consume less power doing it. If you want to overclock, make sure you get a K version; Intel locks the multipliers on the others. I've got a 3-year-old Sandy Bridge machine that is plenty fast still, and I haven't needed to overclock it to stay competitive. For what that's worth. Not that I play many games anymore.
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May 15, 2014 03:34
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some texas redneck posted:AMD's fine for low end stuff, also for space heaters; but their high end stuff just doesn't hold a candle to the i5/i7. The problem is that they hold way too many candles
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May 15, 2014 03:42
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Raluek posted:If you want to overclock, make sure you get a K version; Intel locks the multipliers on the others. That's one thing that's fantastic about K chips - all you do to overclock is change the multiplier. No playing with hundreds of toggles, no playing with voltages, no playing with FSB speeds. It just.. works. You CAN play with voltages to squeeze out another 200-300 MHz, but at that point, it's just  waving.Sandy Bridge here too - i5-2500k, was at 4.4 ghz for nearly 2 years until I made the jump from BIOS to UEFI, won't boot above 4.3 anymore. This PC is massive overkill for what I do (except for RAM, I could use more).
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May 15, 2014 04:06
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some texas redneck posted:That's one thing that's fantastic about K chips - all you do to overclock is change the multiplier. No playing with hundreds of toggles, no playing with voltages, no playing with FSB speeds. It just.. works. You CAN play with voltages to squeeze out another 200-300 MHz, but at that point, it's just I've got the same CPU. Mine'll do 4.5 on stock voltage, but I got it up to 5.0 by bumping the voltage way up. I keep it at stock, though; I don't need it to be any faster really. I'm bottlenecked by other components in the machine as it is. I agree that it's great that you just have to play with the FSB and occasionally voltage; no FSB or timings or anything to futz with. Really straightforward. Set BCLK and leave it.
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May 15, 2014 04:13
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some texas redneck posted:That's one thing that's fantastic about K chips - all you do to overclock is change the multiplier. No playing with hundreds of toggles, no playing with voltages, no playing with FSB speeds. It just.. works. You CAN play with voltages to squeeze out another 200-300 MHz, but at that point, it's just I run my i5 2500k is 4.8ghz, it's over 3 years old now, and there's really no reason to look for an upgrade at this point. Maybe when there's an affordable 8 core with same performance/core.
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May 15, 2014 04:14
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I wish I still had the screenshot I took back in 2011... taskmgr.exe performance tab showing 4 rows of 16 CPU graphs each and 137GB (well, 137 billion, 128 actual GB) of RAM, around 30% in use. Those were the days 
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May 15, 2014 04:19
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May 15, 2014 04:29
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I was planning on using an Intel chip on my gaming/HTPC/Mediaserver build (first PC I had built since the Barton core days), but my brother had just thrown an FX-8120 and some sort of watercooler-in-a-box at his big ridiculous LED-filled  box so I got his old FX-6100 along with the stock 8120 cooler (copper base/aluminum fins with a bunch of heat pipes, the one that came with the 6100 was basically identical to the old Vantec AeroFlow II) for free, so gently caress it I built off that.I'm glad it was free, and I'm goddamn glad I got the heatpipe cooler. Load temps are low-mid 60s on the chip and low 30s in the case (Silverstone ML03B with 4 80mm Panaflo L1As, undervolted to 1500rpm). I haven't actually put a real graphics card in it yet so I don't have first-hand gaming experience on the chip but it did pretty drat good in my brother's computer, and it seems to be doing really well on FAH. But gently caress me I thought 50 degrees was hot for a CPU, I poo poo my pants when I saw how hot this thing runs. I remember reading something about AMD switching to some really lovely design and manufacturing processes shortly after the 64-bit stuff rolled around, and that's right around the time they started blowing rear end. Intel still does poo poo right apparently. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 04:36 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 04:32
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A few years back we sold my brother's '94 Civic to a friend. It's in need of some work but she's scoring a new car from her parents and she was just gonna junk it. I've just made a deal to buy it for the scrap value of $350. It needs a hood, exhaust and some TLC but it runs strong as ever. It's a 5 speed so it'll give me a car to finally teach the girlfriend on.
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May 15, 2014 04:35
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My old Athlon 64 X2 5200 ran at 80+ under load, 45ish at idle. That was with a Hyper212 cooler. I have the Hyper212+ (basically a 120mm version of the same cooler) on this; I've yet to see it break 50C unless I fire up Prime95 (it'll peak around 70C after about 30-45 minutes). Idle hangs out around 28-32C, though it pretty much never sees idle these days. Always recording something from the TV tuner, always recording from 3 different cameras, etc. Right now, with 1 live TV stream and 1 TV stream recording, plus the camera server, torrent client, and a billion chrome tabs, has the cpu bouncing between 32-36C. That's with 2 case fans (1 intake, 1 exhaust, both 120mm). The case temp is a hair above room temp, and thanks to the top-mount exhaust fan (which sits literally directly over the CPU cooler), pretty much always stays that way. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:46 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 04:39
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lol the last-gen Pentium in my laptop hits 83c just loading a youtube video and idles at like 54c. But, it's a Pentium so that's normal. Thanks for all the good replies (and thanks to Phone for the IRC help), looks like I'll be dumping the mobo I have and going with an i5K of some kind.
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May 15, 2014 04:42
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Why would someone start weed wacking at 8:40pm outside my window. ARRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Terrible Robot posted:lol the last-gen Pentium in my laptop hits 83c just loading a youtube video and idles at like 54c. But, it's a Pentium so that's normal. My Chromebook's CPU fan sounds like a hair dryer if I even sneeze at YouTube. Or Netflix. Or even Google Maps.  It's a Celeron of some sort.When I had Linux on it (Chrubuntu), it would regularly throttle way down and log a bunch of stuff related to CPU temp.
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May 15, 2014 04:47
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CharlesM posted:Why would someone start weed wacking at 8:40pm outside my window. ARRRRRRRRRRRRR The grass has barely started growing here, and my neighbor has already "mowed" their lawn at least 4 times. in the last 2 weeks. some texas redneck posted:My Chromebook's CPU fan sounds like a hair dryer if I even sneeze at YouTube. Or Netflix. Or even Google Maps. my rmbp is the exact opposite. It sits at 90*c, but the fans don't turn on.
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May 15, 2014 04:51
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I share a wall with someone who thinks blaring Intergalactic at roughly the volume of a jet engine taking off at 9 PM is appropriate behavior. Edit: I don't mean the album Hello Nasty either, just loving Intergalactic on repeat over and loving over for at least 15 minutes now. That's like 5 plays. Sinestro fucked around with this message at 05:08 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 05:06
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Powershift posted:The grass has barely started growing here, and my neighbor has already "mowed" their lawn at least 4 times. in the last 2 weeks. What the gently caress man, it was snowing just two weekends ago. It must be a crack den, call the RCMP.
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May 15, 2014 05:59
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Initialdave, check your PMs please.
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May 15, 2014 09:47
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Sinestro posted:I share a wall with someone who thinks blaring Intergalactic at roughly the volume of a jet engine taking off at 9 PM is appropriate behavior. Crank up No Sleep Till Brooklyn and drown them out
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May 15, 2014 13:36
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E: ^^^^ Or buy a huge subwoofer and crank some Ryksopp ("So Easy" is particularly good) and/or Trentemller (I recommend "Vamp").Sinestro posted:I share a wall with someone who thinks blaring Intergalactic at roughly the volume of a jet engine taking off at 9 PM is appropriate behavior. Intergalactic is by far the best track on that album, I'd say it's completely justified. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 13:45 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 13:41
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We lost a bunch of phases of power so most of the shop has no power, the server room is out since it's on 220, half the offices are down. The internet works but literally nothing else. Wonder how long I'm going to be sitting here until they send us home.
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If you have a micro center near you, consider going there for your motherboard and processor. They have really good bundle deals on those and overall pretty good prices.
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