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For someone that works on some of the fastest computers IN THE WORLD (you better have read that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice) I have poo poo for personal use. Work supplied Dell 6430u ultrabook for work and light gaming then some barely adequate media pc for netflix and browsing. I keep thinking about building a decent one but always back out right before ordering the parts...funny I'll spend that money without thinking on cars or travel but not on a nice pc. Need to start playing with my Raspberry Pi at some point, think it's in my suitcase.
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T1g4h posted:Since we seem to be doing NerdChat, any of you guys try alternate shell options for Windows 7? I'm currently using Emerge and it's super slick and actually pretty easy to tweak and adjust. Back when I had XP I had bbLean installed but it was a complete pain in the rear end to edit and dress up since it was basically CSS editing at points. Does cygwin count?
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Oct 23, 2014 23:05
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NitroSpazzz posted:For someone that works on some of the fastest computers IN THE WORLD (you better have read that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice) I have poo poo for personal use. Work supplied Dell 6430u ultrabook for work and light gaming then some barely adequate media pc for netflix and browsing. I keep thinking about building a decent one but always back out right before ordering the parts...funny I'll spend that money without thinking on cars or travel but not on a nice pc. Same, ish. I work on clusters and such, I've even mucked around on BlueGene (L and P), but my personal computers consist of: * 4 year old desktop that I tried to build semi-decently with a 6 core AMD and (finally upgraded) 16GB of RAM. Sees a lot less use now that I'm married. Finally moved the root disk from a 200GB IDE to 500GB SATA. * 5 year old netbook that mostly serves as my "oh poo poo, I need a Linux prompt" system when my desktop is booted to Windows; screen stays off, I just ssh in. * 4 year old ARM netbook that I keep on the coffee table. Probably gets as much use as anything else because I can ssh to my VPS. It's a bit too wimpy to run X well, and the company seems to be out of business these days so there's no kernel updates, so I just leave it on the console.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:13
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Brigdh posted:Does cygwin count? I know nothing about cygwin, so... sure? 
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Oct 23, 2014 23:16
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Pham Nuwen posted:Same, ish. I work on clusters and such, I've even mucked around on BlueGene (L and P), but my personal computers consist of: Just for comparison, I don't work on anything very high end, some very large SAN arrays, but that is about it, but I have a Core i7 powered laptop with 32GB of RAM and 3 hard disks.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:17
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T1g4h posted:I know nothing about cygwin, so... sure? Cygwin is a port of all your normal Unix/Linux commands and programs to Windows. Basically it turns the Windows shell into a Unix/Linux shell environment. Since I do a lot of Linux development, not having to remember how to use Window's neutered shell when I'm on a Windows environment is a big plus to my productivity.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:24
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CommieGIR posted:Just for comparison, I don't work on anything very high end, some very large SAN arrays, but that is about it, but I have a Core i7 powered laptop with 32GB of RAM and 3 hard disks. I don't keep up with computers any more, I didn't even know you could get a laptop with multiple hard disks. Or 32GB of RAM. Basically where did you buy your laptop, drat.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:25
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Brigdh posted:Cygwin is a port of all your normal Unix/Linux commands and programs to Windows. Basically it turns the Windows shell into a Unix/Linux shell environment. Since I do a lot of Linux development, not having to remember how to use Window's neutered shell when I'm on a Windows environment is a big plus to my productivity. Ah, gotcha. That actually sounds pretty cool! The only Linux experience I have is a few weeks worth of dabbling about in Kubuntu, and that alone was enough to break my brain after being used to XP for so long.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:28
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Pham Nuwen posted:I don't keep up with computers any more, I didn't even know you could get a laptop with multiple hard disks. poo poo, I was catching up on this thread and missed that he has 32gb in a laptop too. Since it's Dell, I suspect we have very similar rigs under the skin. I've got a 256gb ssd, 1 tb platter and 32gb msata internally. Sound familiar Commie GIR?
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Oct 23, 2014 23:48
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Terrible Robot posted:gently caress the United States Postal Service So I guess they unfucked themselves because the package that was "undeliverable" yesterday suddenly appeared in my mailbox today. Still, gently caress the USPS.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:49
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Terrible Robot posted:So I guess they unfucked themselves because the package that was "undeliverable" yesterday suddenly appeared in my mailbox today. I've had a package that has been in "Pre-shipment" since the 21st. All my tracking info shows is that it was picked up in Cleveland, no info since. So yeah, gently caress USPS. (Yes, I know that it's only been 2 days, but you'd think they could at least give me some sort of update.)
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Oct 23, 2014 23:50
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Any one I snap chat with has just saw the horror unfold in my life. WHAT HAVE I DONE????!!!
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Oct 23, 2014 23:52
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You Am I posted:Those who haven't seen this year's Bathurst 1000 live, make it your job to get your hands on a copy of it. Car race of the year Just now got around to watching it. gently caress me that's one way to finish.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:55
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CommieGIR posted:I'm the fucker that carries a 10 lb Dell M6800 Precision, netbooks and ultralights go home.  I have a M6700 with 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and whatever the mechanical drive it came with 300GB? I've got a 1TB SSD I could put in it but I haven't decided if will be more useful in my workstation (T3600) or not. No real need for much internal storage besides VMs.I also just got issued a top spec macbook pro because this place loves handing out hardware but I haven't done anything with it other than getting Citrix working. Need to work on getting all the linux tools I run in a VM working natively on it.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:55
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Any one I snap chat with has just saw the horror unfold in my life. first thing that popped into mind when I got the snap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bRJxNpPj6Zc#t=153 Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 23:58
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Any one I snap chat with has just saw the horror unfold in my life. I saw the snap but couldn't actually read the key, what did you do? 
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Oct 24, 2014 00:02
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T1g4h posted:I saw the snap but couldn't actually read the key, what did you do? Stockholm syndrome. Or rather Solihull syndrome.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:08
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T1g4h posted:I saw the snap but couldn't actually read the key, what did you do? 07 LR3. This can only end in flames.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:10
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BrokenKnucklez posted:07 LR3. This can only end in bouncing on bumpstops. I corrected the issue.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:12
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BrokenKnucklez posted:07 LR3. This can only end in flames. Oh boy. Eagerly awaiting updates on how this goes
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Oct 24, 2014 00:16
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Oh my loving god, now my "wife" feels threatened by the friend whose wedding I'm officiating in two days. She could have expressed this jealous/possessive/suspicious bullshit any time in the last 4 months since my friend, who happens to be female, asked me to officiate. I tried explaining that we've known each other for 20 years and see each other basically as siblings and there is no way we'd ever gently caress, not to mention the fact that it's her loving WEDDING, but none of that matters apparently. If she'd asked me over for a barbecue or to watch a movie, I could see being suspicious about her motive, but I think officiating her wedding is about the most chaste thing she could ask. She seems to think that just because I have a dick and balls, I'd gently caress anything that moves, forgetting the fact that she's the only person I've ever been with. This is all from the person who has been yelling about a divorce for months and how she can't wait to be rid of me. I'm really struggling to find a reason to care about her issue with my friend.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:25
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bandman posted:Oh my loving god, now my "wife" feels threatened by the friend whose wedding I'm officiating in two days. She could have expressed this jealous/possessive/suspicious bullshit any time in the last 4 months since my friend, who happens to be female, asked me to officiate. I tried explaining that we've known each other for 20 years and see each other basically as siblings and there is no way we'd ever gently caress, not to mention the fact that it's her loving WEDDING, but none of that matters apparently. If she'd asked me over for a barbecue or to watch a movie, I could see being suspicious about her motive, but I think officiating her wedding is about the most chaste thing she could ask. She seems to think that just because I have a dick and balls, I'd gently caress anything that moves, forgetting the fact that she's the only person I've ever been with. Come on, you're obviously going to marry her to another man so that you can steal her from him.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:28
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meatpimp posted:Come on, you're obviously going to marry her to another man so that you can steal her from him. drat! You've stumbled on to phase 1 of my insanely stupid plan to marry my friend by marrying her to another dude! Seriously, we kissed in high school and it felt so weird that we swore it would never happen again.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:35
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Tell her it's her problem if she feels threatened, and then you should probably stop giving a gently caress about what she feels.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:07 LR3. This can only end in flames. bandman posted:She seems to think that just because I have a dick and balls, I'd gently caress anything that moves, forgetting the fact that she's the only person I've ever been with.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:47
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Pham Nuwen posted:Same, ish. I work on clusters and such, I've even mucked around on BlueGene (L and P), but my personal computers consist of: Man, and I thought I was the only one with a wrecked old laptop set up as a headless SSH box.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I don't keep up with computers any more, I didn't even know you could get a laptop with multiple hard disks. The laptop was my bonus, company was struggling with IT and I came in and cleaned everything up and simplified management and reliability within a month. They were quite happy. I'm running two 1TB Hybrid disks and a 256GB mSATA SSD, alongside the Inte i7-4800MQ and 32GB DDR3L, with an AMD FirePro M6100 PCI-e 2GB graphics card, fully upgrade-able to a Nvidia Quadro down the road. Its been awesome, as I can copy troublesome VMs and take them on the road with me for troubleshooting when I leave a clients office and have even had to run it as a temporary server until we go a replacement CPU for a server. Liquid Communism posted:Man, and I thought I was the only one with a wrecked old laptop set up as a headless SSH box. Nope, you are not alone  But now I run a Dell PowerEdge 6950 Quad AMD Opteron server with 128GB DDR2 RAM and 16TB PowerVault array at home. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 01:13
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At the risk of sounding a bit like Bucephalus, is that Missoula?
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meatpimp posted:Alienware M17x R4 here. Complete desktop replacement, and can run games. 32gb of ram? Seriously? Why? lol how's the hinge doing? My bedroom netflix/music/porn device is an M11X R1, the one that was most famous for hinge/lid separation and had a lid replacement program which I couldn't take advantage of because... well because Dell Support. Yeah the lid is held on with JB Weld. My T500 is actually slight a step back from the alien in hardware spec for everything but screen size and RAM (and only because I swapped the AW's RAM into the Lenovo) but it's so worth it for the build quality.
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Tommychu posted:lol how's the hinge doing? It happened to the M11x R2 as well, I solved the problem via drilling and miniature bolts before I gave it to Cursedshitbox
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The obvious answer is to officiate the poo poo out of that wedding and do your best to hook up with a bridesmaid.Magnus Praeda posted:At the risk of sounding a bit like Bucephalus, is that Missoula? Yes.
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Anyone heard of the Shocker Hitch? A guy I know that trailers cars from FL up north said it's the best thing he's ever bought for his towing rig, that it completely eliminates any jarring from the trailer. I was checking it out on his truck and wished I came up with the idea. Linky for the trailer goons: http://shockerhitch.com/
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jamal posted:The obvious answer is to officiate the poo poo out of that wedding and do your best to hook up with a bridesmaid. I fully intend to officiate the poo poo out of the wedding, and were I not trying my best to keep things as civil as possible to foster a good co-parent working relationship with my future ex-wife, I would absolutely hook up with a bridesmaid. If I get really sauced, I might still do it out of spite. Who knows?!
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Oct 24, 2014 04:30
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God loving rear end poo poo cocking cunting bitch gently caress. That rubbing noise my rear wheel was making? A loving wire (ABS, speed sensor?) was tapping the rim. Discovered this after the 5th time taking the loving brakes apart.
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leica posted:Anyone heard of the Shocker Hitch? A guy I know that trailers cars from FL up north said it's the best thing he's ever bought for his towing rig, that it completely eliminates any jarring from the trailer. I was checking it out on his truck and wished I came up with the idea. Their site is down, however it looks like an awesome thing for a tweaker to steal off your truck when you leave it parked somewhere. Also, I just found out that the resume I've been sending out for like the last year has had the phone wrong number on it. I dunno who decided I could be an adult, but they should be fired. 
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Oct 24, 2014 05:40
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Elmnt80 posted:Their site is down It's bushings and/or airbags damping the link between a trailer and a truck, applied to the truck side, so both the 'why didn't I think of that?' and the 'tweekers gonna steal it' thoughts apply. No-slack pintle hitches kind of addressed this issue but pintle hitches are kind of a medium duty thing and these guys have solutions for every hitch style that can be applied to a pickup truck. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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The Ariel Tram at Palm Springs is pretty neat. Its a completely different space in the massive basin at the top of the hill. Edit: Its Mount San Jacinto State Park. Anphear fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 07:41
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Pham Nuwen posted:* 4 year old desktop that I tried to build semi-decently with a 6 core AMD and (finally upgraded) 16GB of RAM. Sees a lot less use now that I'm married. Finally moved the root disk from a 200GB IDE to 500GB SATA. Hexacore AMD with 16GB RAM bros  Mine's a Phenom II 1100T, the fastest CPU my AM3 motherboard will support. 125W TDP, baby!
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Any of you guys have experience with powerline ethernet adapters? There's one computer in the house that just refuses to get good speeds, even sitting on the router. Plug it in and it nails 85mbit, but on wireless it's only doing 5mbit in its usual location, 10 in front of the router. Everything in the house is 802.11n, and the router is set to N only. There's a TP Link 200mbit set that's cheap and looks like it'll do the trick. We need to be able to pull about 15-20mbit through it, at most. It'll be a lot easier than pulling cable across the house. -- So I had a phone interview set up with a major retailer. It was for Saturday. Woke up today to 10 missed calls. From 6 stores within this retailer. Only 2 people bothered to leave a voicemail - one was clear, polite, and easy to understand, and the position I want. The other was a lot of mumbling that I couldn't understand. Going to call the person who left the polite, easy to understand voicemail back first thing in the morning. I slept in today, she was gone by the time I tried to call back.  KozmoNaut posted:And yet somehow ChromeOS (Linux with a Chrome UI), runs perfectly well on Chromebooks that max out at 4GB. Odds are that most of the memory usage shown on your desktop is used for disk caching and buffers. I can verify that a low end Chromebook with 2GB is quite painful to use. It's... usable for posting (on it now), and the occasional YouTube video. But between the 2GB and the 1.1 GHz cpu.. I tried putting Chrubuntu on it, and it was drat near impossible to use. Got hotter than poo poo, and the log was full of CPU temp warnings. So it's back to a beta version of ChromeOS (the beta has Bluetooth support for headphones/mice, I don't think the stable does yet). Tommychu posted:There's a small chain of shops in town that buys factory refurbs and old corporate laptops on wholesale and resells them retail. They're kind of skeezy in that they love to sell warranty and financing options but if you opt out of all that it's a great place. They've always got a few 2 or 3 year old Toshiba or Lenovo business class laptops around in good shape as well as some of the more interesting consumer level poo poo. I imagine there's a bunch of places like that in different cities. Micro Center sells refurbs and off-lease, both in-store and online. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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You need two outlets on the same circuit for the ethernet over power adapters to work, and hopefully the wiring in your house isn't dodgy. I'm using a pair of netcomm units (not sure of the exact model) and they work pretty well, haven't had any complaints. I've got no experience with the TP Link units but they seem to be pretty decent. Also, I got snapchat set up cause everyone seems to be using it. Add me as thelettereph and make me regret it .
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