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CT: Home office is a deduction in U.S., as I'm sure you are aware. It gets into the category of spend money on computer, or pay in money in tax, you have your choice. This has always been my motivating factor. However, since doing folding @ home, and new roommate, plus cold spell, the PG&E bill...

Thanks for the lookout;-) I still have the case and power supply. Not to mention the ATI video card rocks, for an AGP card. Guess I better pull and ebay them as well. Anybody else noticed that ebay has tacked 10% on the TOTAL sale price, including shipping, handling fees, etc, on top of the...

iPhone Foxconn report: "Use women as men, and men as animals." http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2012/02/06/grant-china-sour-apple.cnn Workers rights in China? Right to die, maybe...

Hi Moderator and friends: Since this topic is "Android phones:..." Would you please move the tablet discussion to the tablets thread? I like to check on progress on phones.

Thanks for reminding me. I sold, or trashed all my SCSI drives. I think I have a LSI 320-1 raid card I need to ebay.

The more I work with it, the more I realize I don't really have or need anything much out side my ancient Panasonic laptop for this stuff. With the new Nazi laws, btjunkie going down, and I'm pretty sure the decline of torrents, I don't see much reason to invest in another box that eats more...

34 and chance of rain. Long underwear again....

http://www.rackmountmart.com/html/srCase.htm My case is essentially the SC1006 or this one: http://www.coolerguys.com/840556068044.html I'm looking for an excellent motherboard chipset, and gigabyte, lots of SATA ports, and a low powered cpu, that doesn't take a lot of power.

36 and snow this morning

BBB: The problem I've had is always getting the files from the virtual machine to the regular machine. Usually driver issues. On the otherhand, this would be the first time I wouldn't be using an archaic, or just old, like 2003 Server, install on the virtual box. Might work. Cougtek=The...

Thanks David

I think the dual xeon girl got mad at me when I was discussing replacing her with a system from Merc, or buying CT's MB;-( OS went south, when the PCI 3 Ware cards' bios failed. Two vertex Turbos appear fine, and work in the beast. She's blue screening all the time, and one of those little...

Very funny. Just feels that way right now. Legs need pain killers from running bases like I was 21...

It's my Birthday. It's early, and I have to be on a baseball field at something absurd like 7:30, and, it's freezing, literally: 32 degrees. Looks like my thin long underwear just turned thick.

HMMM. So if you change computers, they want you to unregister the computer, delete all your files, and start fresh on a new computer? What happens with a hard drive failure?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131643 Look carefully at the reviews. 57% only for a server quality motherboard being 5 stars? :eek:

Clocker: That's too sensible an approach. Plus, it doesn't have the snob factor of playing your car sound system off a phone. I'm with Merc on this one. In particular leaving the phone in the car. I'm sure that will go over very well in the area he lives in and, the guys will look in, see the...

Buying a dual socket server board from Asus????? :eek: That has to be close to the ultimate oxymoron. Reliable=/Asus

The Borg have arrived, and are quietly implanting stuff. Spent the entire day trying to s-off and gain root access, if only temporary, without loading another os. After trying everything, I've found this update has shot me in the foot: Unread Yesterday, 03:31 AM # 37 Originally Posted...

I have tried installing itunes once. It lasted about 5 minutes, and was uninstalled. My girlfriend has an ipad, and ipod. My understanding is you can only do one install of itunes, on one computer, and must use that computer for loading the ipod? This was what I was told when I suggested she...

Merc: My on sale stereo headphones from Motorola, 35 bucks, allow me to change songs and volume from the headset. The sound quality is good to very good. Bluetooth, no wires.

I am predisposed to never buy another appl product after OS X failed to support a LOT of very expensive SCSI equipment. That said, it doesn't mean the iphone doesn't have SOME merits. I mean you can fool everyone most of the time, but still, must be some good things happening to manage to get...

Whatever. I don't care if it survived being run over by a tank, I'm not getting into another appl closed system.

I was looking for something that was a bit more reasonably priced then the Alfa. Buying a wireless card that is more expensive then a motherboard-cpu combination, that then puts the antenna down behind the computer, an excellent source of interference makes me think there has to be a better way...

FULL STORY ON THE IPHONE The phone was dropped in street, in the pouring rain, at the SFO passenger loading area, as he dropped off a client. This was very early in the morning, it was dark, and the phone is black. He came back four hours later. The phone had been run over a number of times...

I've had really good luck with this: http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?categoryid=240&model=TL-WN822N Bang for the buck wise. I don't think it would do the range you are after, but it was 25 bucks from newegg. I could be wrong...

Well, iphones are not waterproof. Roommate dropped his into a puddle during the rain, and, fried phone. He now has a new, but older model iphone. It's much lighter, and thinner then the new one. All I did was enter the code for the WIFI, and, the virtual keyboard was really hard to do with big...

My gf has an ipad, first generation. Worked with it a bit. No desire to own one. Likewise the Samsung's from T-Mobile.

Merc: I argue with myself to go with your total skeptic outlook, or to go with my own, WAY worse outlook.;_)

I'm 44, and I think I have Bill to thank for that.

Well, what can I say? "I told you so!" does come to mind. ;-) Or how about, "Nothings changed." I am wondering how you find the EVO's.

OK: I'm running mine from the cmd line install, and never got that far.

The advice I was given is either use the SMP mode, or the GPU, but, the SMP is faster, and, when running it, you can't use the GPU mode.

This world gets stranger. E4HD is showing Charlies' Angels, the new version. Just watched S1 #8 and it was stunning in quality, and the show wasn't terrible either.;-)

This website is my bible for weather in the bay area: http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind/streaklines.shtml If the wind is offshore, surf is good, weather is cold to freezing. If the wind is from the south, it usually means warmer air, and a weather front is about to come in, bringing rain...

I enjoy hearing about what everyone deals with. We all have been together a LONG time, and been through a bunch of stuff. Some of us have helped others out in hard times. Ton of wisdom here, and I'm not used to such a cold year, and, as I get older, I'm trying to learn ways of dealing with it...

I'm really getting addicted to this buckling spring spacesaver Unicomp. VERY COOL.

Thermostat works. It's a very big radiator, for a very small engine. Also, it's just not tuned very high, and doesn't create that much heat, a good thing for engine longevity. The Anti-freeze solution is working. It heats up faster, and won't freeze.

31 @ 3 am, again. It's really getting old.

WHY? I was under the impression that running a video card at a high percentage is more likely to have it go south then the cpu? I'm getting good speed running the multiple CPU setup, and, if you are doing that, doesn't it preclude doing folding on the gpu? How about this for a f@H unit...

Mine is averaging two days with the new battery, easy.

WhY? It's 28 at 6 am. woke up after going to bed early at 3 am. Roomie emailed me his best friend has an apartment, and he's moving out. Not here. Watching Sherlock 3 season 2.

28 4:21.

Appears what I have is about as good as it gets. Same as the IBM Model M's. Some of these were made in 1985 and still going? WTF?:-0 One of those areas where throwing more money at it doesn't make it better.

I just spent sometime cruizing some keyboard forums. Seems the buckling spring is the Holy Grail to a lot of people who have tried a lot of different switch types. Even though some keyboards are way more expensive, the buckling springs seem to have the most loyal following, and the least bad...

It's 29 right now, at 3 am, and dropping. Yes, the weather is a hassle. A lot of the sports I do are outside. Some function even in snow, Lacrosse in particular. Surfing is almost always good due to offshore winds. Here, that means they are coming from Nevada/Sierras, and, about 99% of the time...

REALLY cold. 36 at 7PM. That means maybe, low 20'S?

5:30 am. 26.4 defreezes:-( Black ice warning was posted, and I have to drive to San Jose, ASAP. David's area should be in the low 20's as well. Felt REALLY cold this morning, and I thought I had the heat on, but, the partial setting for the HHS didn't work. Time to go.

Been a long day. Slaving away watching girls play volleyball, and ref the games. Started at 5 am, wore my heated vest, and even changing was toasty. Got done at 11 PM, and home at 12. It's 35 right now, forecast to be 27 this morning. I'll be up at 5AM, and let you know. It's going for 21...

CAT. No, but I spend a lot of time on speaker phone, and it is noticeable.