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  1. Re:NewEgg handled it well, on NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s · · Score: 1

    from what i read, they were told by their distributer that they were demo units. Newegg of course releasd its innital statement with that info, and said they were going to look into the matter farther. TBH I'm not sure what more newegg could have done in this case, except make the products(or be a direct authorized distributer for all of the stuff they sell. I'm assuming that they did not knowingly ship these units out. The people packing these things probably don't carefully inspect every unit that ships.

    I'll still try and buy most of my next order from them. but they don't really carry much in the way of mini-itx stuff, although there is that nice 1156 socket DFI mini-itx board.

  2. Re:It can be confusing... on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    how old is AM2+ now? all the AM3 chips work just fine in that socket(no ddr3 though) I expect AM3 to be around quite a while, or at least that the AM4 chips will work in it. AMD has been very very good about that.

  3. Re:It can be confusing... on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    could you suggest the equivalent nVidia card? not all of us get working ATI drivers(linux users).

  4. Re:It can be confusing... on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    and what is the future of socket 1156?

  5. Re:Set a budget on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    sorrta, but i submit;
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115131 - Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 - $189.99
    and
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115058 - Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400S 2.66GHz 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 - $259.99

    for those to lazy to look, the second should under perform the first. and costs $70 more, but it is the 65W chip. Just thought i'd point out that speed is not the only factor that effects price.

  6. Re:ISP's hate bittorrent on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    not only to that, but i really don't care if my bittorrent packets have a 2ms ping (to the other peer) or a 2000ms one. All i care is that the bandwidth is there. Now I care that I have just enough bandwidth to make a SIP phone call, but the closer to 0ms ping it has the better, even if that means making my torrent more laggy. Now I just need a router with enough grunt to handle this on my end, but it would be much nicer if my ISP handled this for me somewhat as well. Not only that but my normal HTTP request should fall in the middle. I'd like to be able to flag my own traffic with flags that mean something like "low/normal/high" bandwidth. and each of those would then get "low/normal/high latencies(buffered, que'd, throttled, etc) to allow for room on the network for them all. The problem here is that lots of things would just flag everything as normal even if it wasn't needed.

  7. Re:It's *my* CPU you're using on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    leave a site that is loading random ads in via JS from a third/forth party server open for 2-5 days in firefox. come back and let me know how much CPU time and RAM firefox is now using. do the same in opera/chrome/etc. I do not need to be giving 50% of 1 core to firefox when it isn't even loading a new page that I requested. Now I have the /. browse without ads checked, and i run adblock+ with easylist.

    1471 user 20 0 1977m 949m 7480 S 0 24.0 33:43.14 chrome
    4478 user 20 0 829m 24m 13m S 1 0.6 0:01.03 chrome
    4482 user 20 0 832m 23m 12m S 0 0.6 0:00.68 chrome
    4824 user 20 0 825m 7612 3836 S 0 0.2 0:01.94 chrome
    6222 user 20 0 813m 147m 11m S 1 3.7 1019:31 chrome
    10737 user 20 0 835m 18m 4972 S 0 0.5 0:39.42 chrome
    14741 user 20 0 967m 172m 13m S 0 4.4 12:59.65 chrome
    26431 user 20 0 912m 51m 6416 S 0 1.3 1:56.36 chrome
    31026 user 20 0 897m 137m 17m S 0 3.5 56:59.07 chrome
    31027 user 20 0 162m 2056 1632 S 0 0.1 0:01.59 chrome
    31028 user 20 0 179m 1272 928 S 0 0.0 0:00.20 chrome
    31050 user 20 0 838m 29m 4536 S 0 0.8 13:35.87 chrome

    Thats just chrome on my machine. Yep the web uses way to many of my resources already.
    09:57:45 up 22 days, 21:05, 23 users, load average: 0.28, 0.37, 1.13
    So yes I don't really ever turn this machine off, I'll start doing that when i get the resources together to build a fileserver. Last time it was rebooted it was because the wifes "helen of troy" dvd borked my dvd drive requiring a hard reset to make it work again.

  8. Re:It's the freeloaders time on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    Any ad with motion is too much, i won't be able to leave your page open and not watch firefox/chromium eat at least 20% of my cpu. Static text ads relevant to the content on the page/site are useful.

  9. Re:An iptables recipie on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Passwords? on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    or that laptop they are on gets stolen, or the USB key. Your best bet would require both. you could maybe intagrate one of those random password fob things. like the bliz authenticator.

  11. Re:fail2ban on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    fail2ban, key-auth

    +1

  12. Re:Received Used Hard Drive That Failed on Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s · · Score: 1

    was it an "open box" item? if so yes that can happen. They have a refund policy for that too.

  13. Re:Hypocrites on Why Paying For Code Doesn't Mean You Own It · · Score: 1

    With a work for hire, like TFA, there is a discussion before hand. when I buy a CD i expect to listen to that music however i like. Now sendding it to 30000000 people on the internet is clearly not allowed, do i need to buy 3 coppies if i want one in each car and one at home? how about my home(4+ devices), 2 cars, 2 places of work(mine and the wifes), the kids devices(2 atm). so a bit of math says that as a family if we purchase a CD we'd like ~10 copies of each song, seeing as i bought it and i'm not handing it out outside of the imediate family unit i don't see a problem. The RIAA/MPAA on the other hand would like to see me buy 10 copies of the song(ignoring the fact that not all the devices are CD players.). Who is morally right? do we compromise and buy 3 copies under the assumption that no more than that are likely to be listened to at the same time?

  14. Re:Incorrect on Why Paying For Code Doesn't Mean You Own It · · Score: 1

    idk when you got married, but 1.5 years ago that was rather easy to find, but was about double or triple the price of the places that were keeping rights.

  15. Re:Use "em" not "px" when defining the UI on Where Android Beats the iPhone · · Score: 1

    but i thought all android apps were java based apps that wwwere being run though the same JVM, how would chipset quirks effect that? apart from making the OS not work correctly in the first place, which means that it isn't the apps problem but that model.

  16. Re:So... on Typical Windows User Patches Every 5 Days · · Score: 1

    the way to make an installer for linux is to make sure that you have a correctly working ./configure, makefile with install target. Let each disto package your software for that distro for you then. ohh wait? you don't want to give out your source? too bad for you then. Also bundling libraries seems to be becoming something of a no no these days(see the recent security issues with expat). So yes, the installer problem has been fixed already. If you are trying to distribute binary software for linux, you are going to need to do something like make it staticly linked and install it into /opt/foo/. even there you can still have a ./configure and make && make install work just fine. :P

  17. Re:Seems to be automatic on Typical Windows User Patches Every 5 Days · · Score: 1

    granted i'm not out of the loop, but the last time i really used windows machine, the boot time was close to 1-2 minutes to the login screen and 2+ to be able to start working. The shutdown times depending on how much i had open at the time. but even from nothing but the desktop with no patches, it was around 2 minutes. IME thats more like 6 minutes for a full reboot cycle.

    You could have even longer times, gentoo anyone? but there the only time i have to reboot is because i rebuilt the kernel to get some sort of new feature. Can VLC really use windows updates to push updates if they wanted? is it free and easy to get in the updater thingy? firefox? pidgin? gimp? etc.

  18. Re:Huh ? on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    that was solved in the first sentence, drive manual. most if not all will forever be linked physically to the the transmission components. now if those fail you have problems yes.

  19. Re:Lone voice of reason... on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    The law was written to prevent dirt or un maintained yards, any yard that shows an active owner shouldn't lower property values, and in this day and age, you would think being able to cite the eco-friendliness of your neighbors lawn would be a selling point. So we sort of agree. There is no reason that grass and this shouldn't both be viable options. The only property value that this lowers is the homeowner, and then only for some(most?) buyers. It's not like the fact that they clearly have thought out landscaping in their yard, and it is being maintained, whats the difference between this and a yard full of lilacs(except i'm quite allergic to lilacs)?

  20. Re:Dumb Government Abuse of Power on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    look i agree with the flaming crosses thing. the problem i run into is we don't know how or why the city added these laws, or in the case that this wasn't the city the HOA. HOAs with longer than a one sided list of short bullet points will lower the value of your house much faster than "broken windows" or "Purple lawn gnome" even would. I shall not mow my yard 3x a week to keep the grass between 1" and 1.5" long. Like the artical, i'd love to have a mostly arid yard, or natural prairie grasses. Pine forest sounds good too.

  21. Re:Free software and owned infrastructure on US Government Begins Largest IT Consolidation in History · · Score: 2, Interesting

    despite my better judgement,
    How in 10 years do you plan on reading those closed format autocad files of the long ago built government building? or moving them to the new system?
    How about all the training docs in pdf reader 10 format when the current version is 293?
    how about using that critical piece of software that needs activation servers, from a company that disappears suddenly in 4 years from now?

    Now I would agree that allowing the free market to participate is a good idea, but if you are biding it should be a work for hire that gives all the source and toolchain requirments(sources for those too), source for any other software dependencies(their build chains, etc etc) and it should provide some way to output the data in a easy to parse format. Otherwise how can "we, the people" ensure that our government remains viable into the future and is able to archive the data.(no a laser printer output on bleached paper won't cut it).

  22. Re:"many developers are so intrigued" on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    see threading, okay no JIT i give you, but python does have threads. http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html http://docs.python.org/library/thread.html

  23. Re:Umm... yes on Should I Take Toyota's Software Update? · · Score: 1

    but the car in neutral, or push the clutch in. Then, who gives an F what the gas peddle is doing, you still have control of the car, and have time to push and hold the power button?

  24. Re:You're looking at it wrong. on Should I Take Toyota's Software Update? · · Score: 1

    the clutch or the neutral position should allow these people to remove power from the wheels.

  25. Re:short version on Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others · · Score: 1

    also this would seem to only be an issue for downscaling, an increase in size by 100% in both directions should yield the expected result.