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Got back onto Arch. Running XFCE again, decided I didn't want to bother with installing MATE programs when the ones bundled with XFCE fufill their intended function and I didn't have to hunt them down to install them. Even got GPU folding working right off the bat! Thanks for the advice...

I personally loved Arch Linux. Well, love. I can't say that I don't, it's delightfully minimalistic and I have a bit of a thing for minimalist operating environments. I didn't consider it this time around mostly because I simply didn't think of it (and tried to justify my laziness afterward)...

I know, but if I don't need to then I don't particularly want to. Less work for me, y'know?

Ubuntu MATE seems a little more fully featured for a marginal requirements increase than Xubuntu, otherwise that's no doubt what I'd be on myself. XFCE is simply superb, but I found that I preferred several MATE applications to their suggested XFCE counterparts and found that the functionality...

For the Linux nerds among us, what distro are you using, and why do you feel that it was the best choice? I'm using Ubuntu MATE (though I have been known to use Arch and variants of Debian/Ubuntu/Mint in the past) because with an Ubuntu base things didn't take hours upon hours just to set up on...

Frankly my PPD count is getting a bit ridiculous given my hardware... I was getting roughly 13k PPD under Windows 10, now I'm getting almost 19k. Is Linux seriously that much more efficient with hardware resources?

GT730. And you got it right, the initial estimate was way off. Now it's saying something like 2 days, which is much more acceptable. And the credit more than doubled to almost 30k.

Hey, it works. Or seems to at least. I will hold my judgement until it finishes a complete WU. Which it says will take ten days for 13k points.

Thanks a million, trying it out now.

"sudo find / -name GPUs.txt" returns absolutely nothing. That could be a problem. Do you have a copy you could upload somewhere or tell me how to get it from F@H themeselves?

It tells me no GPU is available and removes the slot when I try to enable it.

For some reason GPU folding isn't working for me under Linux. It doesn't see my GPU. I have opencl installed as well the latest proprietary nVidia drivers.

Hmm. It seems to be working now. Odd. It was acting up for all of yesterday and the day before.

I'm having issues downloading the software. My connection to their website is very, very slow, and when I do manage to start downloading the deb files for use with Ubuntu, it fails less than a third into it. Are they having technical issues or is this something I need to look into myself?

Well, it looks like my fears have been disproven. Still, them being able to cut you off from their key services with no warning is kind of scary... if you care at all about their services.

I have read in a few spots online that, according to the new EULA for Windows 10, MS can now search your computer for pirated software and disable it, and automatically install applications of their own choosing, etc. I don't really know if this is true, and I'm not saying that's a bad idea...

No, but I was assuming you'd have me cover the cost of shipping.

I may have to take a raincheck on that, good sir. I am as broke as broke gets. In fact I'm actually pretty sure I owe money to someone.

I would, Handruin, but I'm using a slimline case so the heatsinks on Ripjaws create clearance issues for me. My DVD drive is sitting right over the memory. Normal profile memory does work alright, but heatsinks push the envelope a bit too far.

So I'm down to 5GB RAM (2x2GB, 1x1GB)right now. I'm going to see if I can scrounge up enough money for a 2x2GB kit as while 8GB is more than enough and 6GB is just about enough, any less than that and I start to feel really cramped, esp. under Windows. Memtest froze twice at the same spot and...

Ugh. So I only found this out because Linux actually USES all my memory (for caching) eventually but when it gets to a certain amount it just locks up. Windows always keeps RAM usage kind of low for me so I've never used enough that it locks up. Time to run memtest86+ and see which module is...

Rather off topic: I can get a Phenom II x6 1090T off Ebay for about a hundred dollars. Is it worth it or do I skip the upgrade next time I have the cash?

I've never been a very big producer, mainly because my most powerful machine is small fry compared to the fleet of servers you guys can make this stuff run on. I'm happy to have pushed my PPD from 400-something to over 10k in one fell swoop. Maybe I'm just used to the noise? I have had my main...

Yes. Out here in Kentucky, there is no law that school has to wait until after labor day to start. They usually start sometime in mid-August, but technically they can let out in mid-June and make us come back three days later or something. I'm still not sure what to do. I'm supposed to call...

While I admit I have no real need for these high-density storage mediums with my current consumption (honestly, though I'd complain about the speed a single 500GB hard drive would meet my needs admirably) it is rather exciting to see this stuff being made cheaper (well, less astronomically...

I'm trying out Waterfox and while it's a bit slower to start than Firefox or Chrome (even on my SSD, which is kind of weird... it honestly feels like I'm starting it from my HDD. I need to check out where I installed it.) it feels so much more responsive with large tab workloads than either of...

Local HS decided all my early college credit count for diddly-squat, so now I have to re-do my entire junior year and senior year. And I will have to take the ACT again with the rest of the juniors. Damn. It's a small consolation that they put me in all AP/Honors classes and that if I do worse...

I don't actually have a lot to complain about, tbh. It's reasonably priced, decent enough in the speed dept., my ping times are good enough for online gaming, and there's no data cap we can realistically hit.

I would kill for 70/16 service. I am stuck on 3.3/0.4 DSL now. OTOH my ping times are insanely low -- 27ms as measured by the speed test.

This is why I never aspire to go completely high-end, as the lower end parts meet my needs and don't completely wreck my wallet in the process. Makes me glad I have no need for such amazingly fast and expensive parts.

I use Daemon Tools Lite on any version of Windows prior to 8, as they don't have iso mounting baked into Windows Explorer.

These prices make me want to curl into a ball and never buy another computer again. Christ on a bike.

So I think I've resurrected another Pentium 4 machine... In the back room of the house I'm currently staying in, my aunt had an old HP Pavillion A705W. I've been acquainted with the A700 series before... but this was a socket 478 Pentium 4-based machine, not a Socket 462 Athlon XP. It has a...

I in particular use OneDrive just because its the only thing I can get to work with literally anything with a little elbow grease. Onedrive-d on linux, while not perfect, is more than good enough for me. Everything else (that i use with any regularity) has a native application.

I did. Honestly I should get rid of it, I don't have Skype on anything anymore or at the least I never use it these days.

So it's basically "Jumping Through Hoops: The Game." But I love it. Something about the atmosphere is so utterly charming that it's kept me entranced for more than about a half hour at a time, which is more than I can say about just about anything these days.

Yeah Lunar, it probably will. They have to force people onto the latest and greatest some way or another, and what better way than to force people onto older tech if using older OSes?

I'm on the full version but I am experiencing some odd performance issues in several older games that worked fine even in the previews. I'm going to try the new Windows 10 driver nVidia made available to me just a couple hours ago (release date is exactly 7/29) and see if maybe that fixes it.

So apparently sub-$100 brand-new 1080p displays are a thing now. Newegg in particular has several from several manufacturers, and Amazon has a notable entry from Acer. Of course, these are all 21.5" or less in size, but at the distances I'm viewing a monitor from (that is, 1 foot or less due to...

I just got the new King's Quest on Steam. It hasn't even started downloading yet, but I'll let you guys know what I think of it once it's finished downloading and I've had a few hours to kick it around. Full disclosure: I have never played any of the series. I have heard countless times that...

What's a normal load temperature for you guys? I.E. while folding? My core temp only gets up to 69C, and hovers somewhere in the 30C range while mostly idle. Meanwhile my graphics card always seems to run hot -- it's idling at about 55C right now. I've heard somewhere that as long as it doesn't...

Yeah, I'm with everyone else here on wanting it at a much bigger size. Given I recently cleared off my desk/table/workbench and now have over half of it free even with a 17" monitor and a slimline tower sitting there. I could definitely use a bigger monitor.

I'll give it the good ol' college try but I'm not expecting wonders.

His family doctor had him on 2 medicines (meloxicam and baclofen) for rheumatoid arthritis, each of which can cause ulcers on their own. We didn't know this until after all this. Add in all the recent stress and it's a wonder it wasn't even worse.

All that's left to do now is heal. I moved back upstairs so I can get him whatever he might need. He can walk and all that, but he's not particularly steady so he's using a walker for the time being. Hopefully once he gets off this liquid diet he can put all that weight he lost back on. A...

So I think we can say both my RAM and CPU are good. Both just ran at 100% utilization for 6 days straight (folding) while I stayed in the hospital with dad, who had developed a perforated ulcer. We just got home today, all is about as well as you could expect.

Wow, am I a dumbass. I found the Otterbox I wanted. Canceled the other orders. Sadly I can no longer buy my precious keyboard. Oh well, I'll just find something else.

I use a resolution of 1280x1024 which is the largest that my Dell UltraSharp 1703FP (Goodwill find for about $10, excellent condition and picture quality and it also has the special swivel base and the USB hub) will handle. Also, got a bit more money today. Bought a couple of cases for my Moto...

Got my card. I can play almost anything at 60fps now. Now I understand why people like 60fps so much.

I decided to go for it. And thus all of my funds but twenty dollars I have in cash were exhausted. Could have done a lot worse by my estimate.