I thought that with my last case purchase, a Corsair 800D. I do love the case but now I'm thinking I would quite like to attend a LAN event or two at some point, and this thing is huge and weighs a ton. Just taking it out to the workshop to blast the dust out a few times a year is enough to make me think an aluminium or even plastic case might be a better idea. Maybe something slightly smaller too. It does look the part sitting under the desk mind, and has brilliant cable management and has to be the easiest case I've ever had the pleasure of building with.
My previous case lasted over ten years, kinda... I made another build in a cheap case and there wasn't the space to run two graphics cards, as the gfx power cables and the hard disks clashed. I reverted to the old AT tower from the 90's for a while, which I painted black and blue from its old beige that was yellowing. I have no problem paying many times the cost of the cheapest cases... I don't consider myself crazy. I don't think she meant to say crazy. We are enthusiasts and to some it might seem crazy but to us it's a sense of pride and enjoyment to own such a product.
I can't help but think that sort of case would garner a lot more respect if it was one the owner had designed and built themselves rather than just have bought and built it, but there would still be a fair amount of kudos to anyone that did buy it; just as a demonstration that their PC means more to them than just a tool to access Facebook.
I would just start downloading something via torrent. When his ping goes to hell and the rubber-banding makes it worthless playing, tell him that when he can afford his own internet connection he can have his latency back.
I'm in the UK and driving an S14a 200sx (aka a Silvia or a 240sx in the US) which I've had on axle stands for two years treating all the rot and swapping out most of the standard stuff for better parts. It's running around 300bhp now, and is a lovely car to drive although the standard ones weren't bad 17 years ago, and I guess it really isn't a terribly old car but it has none of the traction control or stability guff that modern stuff comes with.
Anyhow, this probably isn't of much interest to you being a Japanese car knowing the reputation the import tuning scene can have over there, but I know a guy who has one of those little Corvette lumps in his Silvia... supercharged and putting down around 650bhp. I still dream of a Corvette myself, but there isn't much that will touch his old Nissan that isn't seriously exotic!
It seems rather a lot of people quoted that one sentence but it upset you the most so I'll apologise here. It was a light hearted rhetorical question (head full of paint thinner meant my grammar was missing in places in that post so do please excuse the missing question mark) and a bit of casual national stereotyping isn't something I'd wish to offend people with. I know most people here can easily take that joke on the chin, but it seems you can't, and I am sorry for that. I am indeed Eurotrash too!
Speed of sound is 330m/s yes, but thats a kilometer in ~3 seconds. You Americans still don't get this metric stuff do you. In a third of a second, you are looking at 110meters, so a third of a second delay in starting is still higher than I would have expected.
Well since it is played near constantly on TV in the UK, you could probably set your recorder to record every episode that airs and have the whole lot in a week or so anyway. They are currently filming a new series too:)
Last time I used Slackware I used it with NetBSD's pkgsrc as the package management tool. It worked reasonably well. Even a traditional BSD UNIX has a more modern package management system.
I used Stampede for a while, and it was pretty much Slackware but compiled for 686 processors, where Slackware was still using 386 as the target. You could achieve a similar speed up to Stampede's level by just compiling your own Slackware packages for the most heavily used libs and applications.
With current fuel prices being so high, will some lucky person in the area have hit the jackpot when they check their pool for the stuff? They could skim it off the top and run their truck for a week or two. I really should Google aviation fuel, for some reason I have it in my head as being pretty similar to diesel.
I sit three feet away from my 40inch screen, and I prefer 1080p to be fair. When gaming, I like plenty of anti aliasing switched on too, as it is quite noticable without it, even at 1080p. I would like to get a bigger screen in a few years time, but I'm waiting for HD3DHDTV as unless I move my seat back it is just going to annoy me without a good increase in resolution.
I'm sure I'd hit their fuck you, err, activation limit in 6 to 8 months.
Until December I used an 18 month old graphics card, then bought myself an early x-mas present to improve my BF3 experience. Within a few weeks it seemed to develop a fault so got RMA and put a spare card in (~4 years old) which could still play more than I thought. Anyway, on getting the new card back, this would have been my 4th change, (although back to an old hardware setting).
A) When you get sick, it opens other ways for you to get sicker. Like increased susceptibility to bacterial infection. You had a chest infect, the chance of you getting pneumonia became much higher.
Cheers, and others. Seems I had the wrong idea about this.
B) You might want to get your nerves and heart tested, preferably a stress test. the numbness is not from antibiotics.
Most likely it's normal result form certain physical activity, but now that you are looking for hits to confirm your bias, you notice it more.
And no, you are NOT AN EXCEPTION TO SUCH A BIAS.
And now you are just trying to scare me I think. My heart is fine... I smoke a few cigars a day, have a beer or a cider, maybe once every 6 months or so indulge in something a little stronger. I stop smoking for a few months now and again and get quite fit before I go on my winter holiday snowboarding, but my job is fairly demanding and... say, would the occasional dizzy spell, light head as I stand up have anything to do with this? I'm only 30...
I've had chest infections in the past, and the doctor has told me it's viral, and then that he's going to prescribe me some antibiotics. Wait... what? "It won't cure it, but it might help you get over it" or something along those lines was his attitude.
So after getting prescribed antibiotics a few times for various things, I then developed an allergy to penicillin and my face went numb and my lip welled up during a course of treatment. Well, that's just great that is. Now I am screwed should I ever catch a real disease and need such things, although as I'm a dairy farmer my immune system is pretty good comparably.
I think I'm allergic to something else too which I haven't figured out yet, just my lip goes a little numb from time to time. Maybe just the traces of anti-biotics in my day to day diet...
The single player Bad Company 2 isn't too bad, and you feel a bond with your squad mates that you don't often get... not bad at all.
I think it was the latest Medal Of Honour however, that actually brought a tear to my eye in one part of the story. This is certainly one of the few games ever to have this effect. Maybe I was just feeling tired or something.
I attacked the problem from another angle. My single screen cost was around £1300 (~$2k) when I bought it a few years ago... probably cost around half that to buy one similar now. I have this 40 inch 1080p LCD on a desk I built myself so the screen is a better height. I turn the FOV up a little above standard in first person shooters, not terribly high but just what feels right to me. I am happy... I would like a few small screens to go around my main screen now though I think.
Really? I have an Asus board and although it has lots of features, it takes longer to POST than it does for Win7 to boot from an SSD harddrive. When I go into setup, it doesn't look much different than the BIOS of twenty years ago. I had a board back around '96 which gave me a pseudo WIMP environment. For 2010 when I bought the board, this is poor.
Maybe Asus have awesome BIOS's compared to most other manufacturers, but it is still a turd.
Never underestimate the ability of a cow to get people interested in whatever you have to offer. I'm a dairy farmer. I somewhat overestimated, but hey, cows are really cool and all that.
Seems rather obvious to me... I've always had my / on the first part of the fastest disk, and had/usr,/home and/var elsewhere. It makes it far easier to upgrade or mess around with multiple distributions when its partitioned like this, but Linux distributions often dont encourage it as much as they should.
You probably just have one or two directories that are huge, such as your Southpark collection and maybe some porn. Just put everything on the SSD, and have the few large directories of rarely used sequentialy accessed files on a cheap green drive. If you don't already have all these sorts of files grouped together, changing your way of working won't kill you.
I'm currently using Windows7 off an SSD, and won't ever be without one in the future. There is no way that 200 quid spent on a processor or ram or graphics card can make a system so responsive as only 100 quid spent on an SSD. My other drive in this system is a Velociraptor, but in hindsight I'm thinking perhaps I should have bought a slower larger drive. Then again, I guess that is what NAS is for:)
I think we should nuke it just to see what happens. This wouldn't be with the intention of killing it, but rather helping it to evolve faster... and just in case it is intelligent, let it know who's boss.
I hear black pudding (congealed blood sausage) is off the menu over in the US... they class a lot of things as offal that really are quite delicious. Am I right in thinking you don't eat kidneys or liver either?
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I thought that with my last case purchase, a Corsair 800D. I do love the case but now I'm thinking I would quite like to attend a LAN event or two at some point, and this thing is huge and weighs a ton. Just taking it out to the workshop to blast the dust out a few times a year is enough to make me think an aluminium or even plastic case might be a better idea. Maybe something slightly smaller too. It does look the part sitting under the desk mind, and has brilliant cable management and has to be the easiest case I've ever had the pleasure of building with.
My previous case lasted over ten years, kinda... I made another build in a cheap case and there wasn't the space to run two graphics cards, as the gfx power cables and the hard disks clashed. I reverted to the old AT tower from the 90's for a while, which I painted black and blue from its old beige that was yellowing. I have no problem paying many times the cost of the cheapest cases... I don't consider myself crazy. I don't think she meant to say crazy. We are enthusiasts and to some it might seem crazy but to us it's a sense of pride and enjoyment to own such a product.
I can't help but think that sort of case would garner a lot more respect if it was one the owner had designed and built themselves rather than just have bought and built it, but there would still be a fair amount of kudos to anyone that did buy it; just as a demonstration that their PC means more to them than just a tool to access Facebook.
I would just start downloading something via torrent. When his ping goes to hell and the rubber-banding makes it worthless playing, tell him that when he can afford his own internet connection he can have his latency back.
So long as it still works on my Amiga...
I'm glad I'm not the only car geek on here...
I'm in the UK and driving an S14a 200sx (aka a Silvia or a 240sx in the US) which I've had on axle stands for two years treating all the rot and swapping out most of the standard stuff for better parts. It's running around 300bhp now, and is a lovely car to drive although the standard ones weren't bad 17 years ago, and I guess it really isn't a terribly old car but it has none of the traction control or stability guff that modern stuff comes with.
Anyhow, this probably isn't of much interest to you being a Japanese car knowing the reputation the import tuning scene can have over there, but I know a guy who has one of those little Corvette lumps in his Silvia... supercharged and putting down around 650bhp. I still dream of a Corvette myself, but there isn't much that will touch his old Nissan that isn't seriously exotic!
It seems rather a lot of people quoted that one sentence but it upset you the most so I'll apologise here. It was a light hearted rhetorical question (head full of paint thinner meant my grammar was missing in places in that post so do please excuse the missing question mark) and a bit of casual national stereotyping isn't something I'd wish to offend people with. I know most people here can easily take that joke on the chin, but it seems you can't, and I am sorry for that. I am indeed Eurotrash too!
Speed of sound is 330m/s yes, but thats a kilometer in ~3 seconds. You Americans still don't get this metric stuff do you. In a third of a second, you are looking at 110meters, so a third of a second delay in starting is still higher than I would have expected.
Well since it is played near constantly on TV in the UK, you could probably set your recorder to record every episode that airs and have the whole lot in a week or so anyway. They are currently filming a new series too :)
Last time I used Slackware I used it with NetBSD's pkgsrc as the package management tool. It worked reasonably well. Even a traditional BSD UNIX has a more modern package management system.
I used Stampede for a while, and it was pretty much Slackware but compiled for 686 processors, where Slackware was still using 386 as the target. You could achieve a similar speed up to Stampede's level by just compiling your own Slackware packages for the most heavily used libs and applications.
With current fuel prices being so high, will some lucky person in the area have hit the jackpot when they check their pool for the stuff? They could skim it off the top and run their truck for a week or two. I really should Google aviation fuel, for some reason I have it in my head as being pretty similar to diesel.
I sit three feet away from my 40inch screen, and I prefer 1080p to be fair. When gaming, I like plenty of anti aliasing switched on too, as it is quite noticable without it, even at 1080p. I would like to get a bigger screen in a few years time, but I'm waiting for HD3DHDTV as unless I move my seat back it is just going to annoy me without a good increase in resolution.
I'm in the UK and get 41 to 8.8.8.8 and 124 to slashdot.org. 30ms to my ISP.
I'm sure I'd hit their fuck you, err, activation limit in 6 to 8 months.
Until December I used an 18 month old graphics card, then bought myself an early x-mas present to improve my BF3 experience. Within a few weeks it seemed to develop a fault so got RMA and put a spare card in (~4 years old) which could still play more than I thought. Anyway, on getting the new card back, this would have been my 4th change, (although back to an old hardware setting).
A) When you get sick, it opens other ways for you to get sicker. Like increased susceptibility to bacterial infection. You had a chest infect, the chance of you getting pneumonia became much higher.
Cheers, and others. Seems I had the wrong idea about this.
B) You might want to get your nerves and heart tested, preferably a stress test. the numbness is not from antibiotics.
Most likely it's normal result form certain physical activity, but now that you are looking for hits to confirm your bias, you notice it more.
And no, you are NOT AN EXCEPTION TO SUCH A BIAS.
And now you are just trying to scare me I think. My heart is fine... I smoke a few cigars a day, have a beer or a cider, maybe once every 6 months or so indulge in something a little stronger. I stop smoking for a few months now and again and get quite fit before I go on my winter holiday snowboarding, but my job is fairly demanding and... say, would the occasional dizzy spell, light head as I stand up have anything to do with this? I'm only 30...
I've had chest infections in the past, and the doctor has told me it's viral, and then that he's going to prescribe me some antibiotics. Wait... what? "It won't cure it, but it might help you get over it" or something along those lines was his attitude.
So after getting prescribed antibiotics a few times for various things, I then developed an allergy to penicillin and my face went numb and my lip welled up during a course of treatment. Well, that's just great that is. Now I am screwed should I ever catch a real disease and need such things, although as I'm a dairy farmer my immune system is pretty good comparably.
I think I'm allergic to something else too which I haven't figured out yet, just my lip goes a little numb from time to time. Maybe just the traces of anti-biotics in my day to day diet...
I thought he was joking actually... but no-one has moderated yet. Could somebody please moderate and tell us whether this is supposed to be a funny?
The single player Bad Company 2 isn't too bad, and you feel a bond with your squad mates that you don't often get... not bad at all.
I think it was the latest Medal Of Honour however, that actually brought a tear to my eye in one part of the story. This is certainly one of the few games ever to have this effect. Maybe I was just feeling tired or something.
I attacked the problem from another angle. My single screen cost was around £1300 (~$2k) when I bought it a few years ago... probably cost around half that to buy one similar now. I have this 40 inch 1080p LCD on a desk I built myself so the screen is a better height. I turn the FOV up a little above standard in first person shooters, not terribly high but just what feels right to me. I am happy... I would like a few small screens to go around my main screen now though I think.
Really? I have an Asus board and although it has lots of features, it takes longer to POST than it does for Win7 to boot from an SSD harddrive. When I go into setup, it doesn't look much different than the BIOS of twenty years ago. I had a board back around '96 which gave me a pseudo WIMP environment. For 2010 when I bought the board, this is poor.
Maybe Asus have awesome BIOS's compared to most other manufacturers, but it is still a turd.
Never underestimate the ability of a cow to get people interested in whatever you have to offer. I'm a dairy farmer. I somewhat overestimated, but hey, cows are really cool and all that.
When we're discussing Southpark, they are called God Damn F-cking Jews.
Seems rather obvious to me... I've always had my / on the first part of the fastest disk, and had /usr, /home and /var elsewhere. It makes it far easier to upgrade or mess around with multiple distributions when its partitioned like this, but Linux distributions often dont encourage it as much as they should.
You probably just have one or two directories that are huge, such as your Southpark collection and maybe some porn. Just put everything on the SSD, and have the few large directories of rarely used sequentialy accessed files on a cheap green drive. If you don't already have all these sorts of files grouped together, changing your way of working won't kill you.
I'm currently using Windows7 off an SSD, and won't ever be without one in the future. There is no way that 200 quid spent on a processor or ram or graphics card can make a system so responsive as only 100 quid spent on an SSD. My other drive in this system is a Velociraptor, but in hindsight I'm thinking perhaps I should have bought a slower larger drive. Then again, I guess that is what NAS is for :)
I think we should nuke it just to see what happens. This wouldn't be with the intention of killing it, but rather helping it to evolve faster... and just in case it is intelligent, let it know who's boss.
I hear black pudding (congealed blood sausage) is off the menu over in the US... they class a lot of things as offal that really are quite delicious. Am I right in thinking you don't eat kidneys or liver either?
A convicted fraudster, in the uk, becoming educated in business studies. What could possibly go wrong?