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Tommychu posted:Combo Primus/Tool shows are happening again, I need to start a loving separate savings account so that when poo poo like this happens I can jump on a plane and go (because shows like that never happen anywhere near here). Gwinnett arena Jan 25th. Tickets go on sale Friday. gently caress yeah.
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Closest to me (in the currently announced tour, anyway) is in Atlanta. God dammit. I will see them sometime this album cycle though, dammit. I got into them about a month after they finished the 10,000 days tour set and it pisses me off to no end. And I'm only an extremely casual Primus fan but 
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Phone posted:I'm on the fence as to whether or not I want to replace my router right now or wait until next year, but yeah... it's not 2009, the WRT54G is hot trash. I was in the screwy/old router boat until recently, I upgraded to this: https://www.asus.com/us/Networking/RTN66U/ I immediately threw dd-wrt on it, it's pretty nice. I have a printer setup on 1 of the usb ports so I can print from anywhere, I also setup a no-ip address for DDNS. Best $110 router I've ever purchased.
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Nov 17, 2015 22:28
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keykey posted:I immediately threw dd-wrt on it, it's pretty nice. AFAIK dd-wrt is actually a really lovely idea on most recent routers as they still don't have the drivers for proper 802.11n multistream support sorted out, so you'll get WAY better wireless performance on the stock firmware. YMMV and i haven't looked into this for a while but I know it's definitely the case for AC, but they may have fixed N. Phone posted:I'm on the fence as to whether or not I want to replace my router right now or wait until next year, but yeah... it's not 2009, the WRT54G is hot trash. 2009? the WRT54G hasn't been good since 2007 at best  even a $27 with free prime shipping tp-link is exponentially better than a WRT54G, not that I'd recommend the thing to anyone. The Archer C7 is pretty decent though, and the C9 is rad.Not only does the WRT54G have crappy wifi performance from factory but it also has a tendency to brutally murder its wireless chip over time; the transmit power of the thing just gradually peters out the longer you use it for, making the wifi slower and slower and slower until you just straight up can't connect. DD-WRT can help to some extent as you can go in and manually wind up the TX power, but that just generates more heat and makes it die faster, so you can't win... Geirskogul posted:Plugging a generic gigabit wired router + a Unifi AP again. Wired gigabit routers are cheap and robust, and a single unifi is a lot cheaper, by about half, than all-in-one wireless routers with the same thoroughput. Overall it can be less expensive, but enterprise level robust. I'm a big fan of using a cheap wired router (or even a cheap wireless router with the wifi turned off - Don't do this with a WRT54G, though) and a UniFi AP too, but the configuration can be a bit of a headache for someone who isn't a gigantic nerd or at least a regular nerd with a decent grasp on networking principles, and while Ubiquiti just released a few new awesome models of AP (the UAP-AC-PRO looks especially rad at US$149 RRP) they're not actually available in any reasonable quantity yet despite being released in like August - they're also so much better than the prior models that you really don't want to buy the previous ones, so if you want ubiquiti wifi gear right now you're stuck between a rock and a hard place
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Nov 17, 2015 22:41
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Oh hey 9 hours later amd we finally got everything set up correctly. Now I am only 8 hours behind on a live 1-time online course that cost $800...........
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Nov 17, 2015 22:43
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Enourmo posted:Closest to me (in the currently announced tour, anyway) is in Atlanta. God dammit. I will be there. I can tentatively offer you a couch to crash on about 30 minutes north of the venue so long as you're not some creepy rear end super goon. literally a fish posted:routers
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Nov 17, 2015 22:44
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SuperDucky posted:I was super skeptical of the Archer C9. I was a dedicated Netgear guy, but gave it a chance and holy gently caress its great. TP-Link used to get a bad rap for reliability and performance back in the day, but they've really stepped their poo poo up starting around the time of the TL-WDR4300. Netgear stuff is utter trash these days in comparison - absurdly expensive and the 2nd most unreliable brand if my recent 12 month experience on an ISP help desk is anything to go by (it probably is) Bonus points if you guess who the #1 least reliable router manufacturer is. I'll give you a hint: it's exactly who you think it is.
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Nov 17, 2015 22:50
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Previa_fun posted:You should probably just bank on going Intel. I kick myself every day for this drat Phenom X6 processor I bought because more cores = better right? Honestly if you compare it against Intel's offerings from that era it wasn't a bad CPU, it was definitely in the "75% of the performance for 50-60% of the price" category that AMD used to be known for.
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Nov 17, 2015 22:53
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My new favorite pastime at work is turning the flaming rocket envelope email header into an emoticon and irritating the poo poo out of everyone with it on IM.
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literally a fish posted:TP-Link used to get a bad rap for reliability and performance back in the day, but they've really stepped their poo poo up starting around the time of the TL-WDR4300. D-Link?
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Nov 17, 2015 23:03
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Magnus Praeda posted:D-Link?  DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER
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Nov 17, 2015 23:06
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Oh hey 9 hours later amd we finally got everything set up correctly. Now I am only 8 hours behind on a live 1-time online course that cost $800........... Online courses can be fantastic but often they're not. Due to clerical error I've had to sit and resit my asbestos course which would be fine if I could just take the exam, pass within 2 minutes and be on my way. But no, the thing has been designed to run you through a narrated slideshow which takes at best, 2 hours. So for 2 hours I have to sit with headphones half on and wait until the speaking stops in order to move on to the next section of the presentation. 10 sections, multiple parts each, it gets annoying realllllll quick.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:07
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literally a fish posted:
Yeah, I stopped using D-Link anything when 802.11b was still the best you could get. loving hell that router was a piece of poo poo.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:11
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D-links have always been poo poo.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:16
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Ubiquiti/UniFi or You-be-quittin/You-may-die. They're the most no-brainer systems and worth every last penny.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:35
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My only hesitation for Ubiquiti in his shoes is that he doesn't even have a desktop and I don't know how touch-device-friendly those interfaces are. They are rock loving solid, though.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:38
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So the Mercedes is gone and I've bought a motorcycle, just in time for winter...
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IOwnCalculus posted:My only hesitation for Ubiquiti in his shoes is that he doesn't even have a desktop and I don't know how touch-device-friendly those interfaces are. They are rock loving solid, though. Can be hard to get too. I need a new AP and their Unifi AP AC lite is perfect for my needs, but the only way to current get one is to pay 150% MSRP from a seller on Amazon who is price gouging because it's sold out everywhere else.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:47
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Man we got an N300 ~$125 router, around 2013, 99% sure it was a d-link, worked great for a little over 2 years and then bricked. Review for it showed a LOT of people with the same experience, it crapping out shortly after warranty went out. I just replaced it with the old school blue one because I knew it'd work and stay up until I unplugged it. I'll eventually go back to a fast router but really don't notice the difference in bandwidth if I'm not running a test. E: may have been a little over 1 year, whatever it was it was out of warranty Sten Freak fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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Nov 18, 2015 00:42
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Four years ago, desperate to find ANY full time work having attempted many other fields,I started as a lube tech at Sears with nothing more than a little starter socket set from Auto zone and a filter wrench. Today I can finally call myself a mechanic, and my tool guys bitch for the next 35 weeks.  Picked her up for 3500 used.
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Re: router chat, I've given up on using consumer grade routers, they all seem to ship with lovely firmware and are seemingly engineered to fail after a few years. Currently running PFsense on a slim form factor HP desktop with an i3 2100, 2GB RAM and a 16 GB SSD salvaged out of a chromebook, which is massively overkill for home use - practically any x86 system from the past 15 years that has dual network interfaces will smoke any non-enterprise router. Add your choice of switch and access point and you have a rock solid stable routing solution that's good enough for an enterprise production environment.
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Nov 18, 2015 01:38
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Router chat: I use an AirPort TimeCapsule It just ~works~ and also lets stream music to the speakers that are plugged into it and backs up my Mac
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https://cfileonline.org/exhibition-shannon-goff-miles-to-empty-from-detroit-contemporary-ceramic-art-cfile/ e. Router chat! My local OSH is moving and they've had a 30% blowout sale so I bought a Craftsman router with a mini router table. It has collets for 1/4" and 1/2" shank bits so now I just need to get a bunch. Pretty soon I'll be throwing together custom cabinets like Adiabatic's wife.
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BloodBag posted:I got the wife an early christmas present. She's been complaining that the magnetic trainer is too easy ever since she got a bike fit and they had a fluid trainer. I got her the jetfluid pro from cycleOps and figured now I can set up my bike on the mag trainer and we can ride together Gotta get a Wahoo Kickr. It is a really amazing trainer that does feel more like real riding than anything else I've tried. That combined with Zwift is going to be my go-to for the Winter. I used the Kickr and TrainerRoad last Winter, which was fine, but TR gets a bit tiresome.
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meatpimp posted:Gotta get a Wahoo Kickr. It is a really amazing trainer that does feel more like real riding than anything else I've tried. That combined with Zwift is going to be my go-to for the Winter. I just made the mistake of Googling that. Holy hell bicycle poo poo is expensive. I believe I'll stick to my $150 K-Mart tank, thank you.
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The October 30th floods here in Austin claimed my poor Mustang  OTOH I now have a CTS-V  gently caress Is there a thread for them or for full-retard-GM in general yet?
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literally a fish posted:
Mine just showed up today! UniFi AP AC Lite. I never set up the older ones, but this one was dead simple. Run their little app, set a SSID and password, set a admin user and password and your done. I didn't believe it set everything up so I logged in and poked around and everything I want it to do is setup. Never tried setting up the older ones(only admin'd existing ones at work), but I was kinda surprised the setup was as simple as it was. They are still up on amazon right now. Geoj posted:Can be hard to get too. I need a new AP and their Unifi AP AC lite is perfect for my needs, but the only way to current get one is to pay 150% MSRP from a seller on Amazon who is price gouging because it's sold out everywhere else. 150%? I think I paid $160 for mine, did I get ripped off? It was cheap enough for me not to care that much since I have been waiting for these to get released for months.
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Guys I'm sitting on the tarmac in Miami because someone done goofed with the gates. Hope customs is boring and I can get home soon. It's a very MIA experience.
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Darchangel posted:I just made the mistake of Googling that. Holy hell bicycle poo poo is expensive. I believe I'll stick to my $150 K-Mart tank, thank you. It can get really out of hand, especially if you race and have multiple bikes. I probably spent at least $500 on just tires this year.
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Negromancer posted:150%? I think I paid $160 for mine, did I get ripped off? It was cheap enough for me not to care that much since I have been waiting for these to get released for months. MSRP is $89.
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Geoj posted:MSRP is $89. eh, I'm still OK with my purchase.
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Preoptopus posted:Four years ago, desperate to find ANY full time work having attempted many other fields,I started as a lube tech at Sears with nothing more than a little starter socket set from Auto zone and a filter wrench. I had this same realization the other day when I looked at my box and cart together and saw how they were both overflowing with tooks. How full is your box??
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Negromancer posted:Mine just showed up today! UniFi AP AC Lite. I never set up the older ones, but this one was dead simple. Run their little app, set a SSID and password, set a admin user and password and your done. I didn't believe it set everything up so I logged in and poked around and everything I want it to do is setup. Never tried setting up the older ones(only admin'd existing ones at work), but I was kinda surprised the setup was as simple as it was. They are still up on amazon right now. RRP on the UAP-AC-Lite is $79US. You got HELLA ripped off. The UAP-AC-PRO is $149US...
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literally a fish posted:The Archer C7 is pretty decent though, and the C9 is rad. Even the Archer C5 is a pretty good router; the only gripe I have with mine are the "USB 3.0" ports perform like USB 2.0 when an external hard drive is plugged into them (I get 6-10x the speed by plugging it into a PC and sharing it out). mariooncrack posted:College students are savages. They don't just keep the piss and poo poo to the bathrooms. I was an RA for a few years. Somehow I managed to never get a scolding from an RA, despite some pretty blatant rule violations on my part. Probably helps that my roommate was selling weed to one of the two RAs on our wing+floor (2 wings, 4 floors each) though, and we tended to stay pretty quiet (we were next door to the other RA). I'm just thankful that building had private or suite bathrooms (depending on the room) instead of community.
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Who is the resident Land Rover guy? I exchanged some PMs with years ago and need to pick your brain.
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The whole idea of dorms seems so bizarre to me now. UCF has on-campus housing, but unless i'm mistaken they're all just regular apartments that happen to be on school property. Most people just commute, using the woefully undersized parking garages (I've only gone in mornings or late at night so far, but supposedly at peak hours you can circle campus for a half hour looking for an open spot).
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SouthsideSaint posted:I had this same realization the other day when I looked at my box and cart together and saw how they were both overflowing with tooks. How full is your box?? There will be rapid aggressive expansion to fill empty drawers.
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Tommychu posted:Combo Primus/Tool shows are happening again, I need to start a loving separate savings account so that when poo poo like this happens I can jump on a plane and go (because shows like that never happen anywhere near here). I'm trying to get tickets to the San Diego show. It's gonna be hard with so few shows scheduled so I'll be happy with nosebleed tickets.
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Enourmo posted:The whole idea of dorms seems so bizarre to me now. UCF has on-campus housing, but unless i'm mistaken they're all just regular apartments that happen to be on school property. Most people just commute, using the woefully undersized parking garages (I've only gone in mornings or late at night so far, but supposedly at peak hours you can circle campus for a half hour looking for an open spot). Back when dorms were the cheap option compared to lovely apartments in campustown ghettos, it was a good idea. Then schools raised their room and board high enough that it's cheaper to live off campus.
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