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No, you meant bolt, like in Thunderbolt, the real name of the interface.

Congratulations to Ddrueding :

I did not even zipped my coat all week long during my 7 minutes walk from the spot where I park my car to the metro station. I haven't seen anyone else do this though. I guess I'm the most frost-resistant person in Montréal's area. My car didn't like the -30C, but it started anyway after a...

Honestly, I don't know if there's a find function because I've never bothered using a find function in LXDE. I'll check later on. One of my systems dedicated to the F@h client is running Lubuntu.

Last night, a city located at roughly 6 hours drive from where I live (Rouyn-Noranda, in Québec) was the coldest spot on Earth. The temperature dropped to -43C. It was colder than anywhere in Siberia, colder than in the middle of the Northwest Territories, even colder than in Vostok...

For what it's worth, I prefer Lubuntu because LXDE is even more light weight than XFce and I prefer to run my window manager with the least ressources possible. LXDE is reasonably polish and perfectly usable. I do want to run a windows manager. I hate command-line-only interface. It's too...

Tomorrow, it will be colder here than in most major cities of Alaska (Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks), colder than in WhiteHorse in Yukon, colder than the southern part of Elsemere's Island and also colder than most of the inhabited parts of Groenland. Good thing I don't like heat.

Yep, we are all very grateful of the time and efforts Handruin has put in order to keep the site running. AFAIK, he's the only one maintaining the site, unless you include the moderators. I think, but I'm not sure, that Timwhit has an agreement with Doug to serve as a backup in case something...

I don't have an antenna to catch OTA channels. I haven't used my old TV for the past two years, if not more. I watch everything on my computer.

Ars Technica review of Windows 8 Start button applications. Needless to say, I don't share the author's view of Classic Shell. He sound like a snobish film critic. It might be informative to some of you anyway.

During a meeting with people from Insight, they told me that, although it's not advertised, servers' warranty only apply at the original location where they were delivered and installed. If we move (and we plan on moving our offices this summer), the warranty will be void, unless we give the...

I paid for an NFL gamepass for the regular season, but the games aired locally are always delayed by 2-3 hours. Since all the playoffs games are being aired here too, it wasn't worth it to pay for the playoff games. I follow the scores on NFL.com, but I haven't seen the games. Anyway, the...

Yeah, I just hope it will perform with more consistency than the Plextor M5 Pro which uses the same controller, otherwise it will be close to useless in a server.

Are you talking about the Elantra?

Don't try that! If the authorities see anything unidentified in New York's sky, they'll send a pair of F-22 to blast it and they'll throw its owner in jail for the rest of his life. Not a hobby for you.

For the record, my new GTX 580 is a lot quieter when running the FAH client than either of my GTX 570. It isn't much faster though, about 5% better on a unit 7623 than a factory-Oced GTX 570.

I'm running Windows 8 on two of my computers and Windows 7 on the other. I also have an oldie on Windows XP and a mini-ITX system running Lubuntu (Linux distro). My main computer is on Windows 8, so I can become more familiar with it. I've installed Windows 8 on four customers' systems and I...

Did GM designed the new Cadillac ATS to perform well on that test? I've seen the results from the latest test of the NHTSA on the ATS and it was flawless. If I had the money, that's the car I would get these days. My wallet prefers the Buick Verano though.

Happy new year to all of you too. This is the first time in I don't know how many years that my finances haven't completely gone to shit before the holiday period, so 2012 must not have been that bad for me. Wasn't great either, but a progress, I imagine. Sorry to hear about you trouble...

The previous big snowfall, we had almost 18" of snow. Last night, more like 3". I drive with Hakka R tires, but they are 3 years-old, so far from as efficient as they were during the previous winters. I need a new car. I'm able to drive in winter conditions with this one, but it requires a...

Not a bad idea. Same time last year, he posted very decent numbers for the team.

I built a system with the Prodigy two weeks ago. Don't be mistaken by the mini-ITX form factor of the motherboard : this enclosure is mid-tower size. It's easy to assemble a system inside it though. I had no issue except that the front (well, side) USB port connector was flaky. The internal...

That's exactly the card that's in my main computer right now and I have no complain about it. I've had it for about a year.

Not that it's been that cold around here, but we received 45cm of white shit during the past 24 hours and we expect another 5cm to 10cm before tomorrow's afternoon. Apparently, it's the largest amount of white shit in a 24 hours period since people started measuring this in Montréal. Downtown...

Skype seems to be down or very slow right now.

IIRC, from the video quality articles I've read, you should target a card with a bit more power, like a GeForce GT440 or GT630. The GT520 is under powered for pretty much anything above freecell.

What happens to the site when the admin leaves?

I can only speak for myself but yes.

This is a coat for -15C temperature. All you need to feel confortable at 0C is a jeans coat or a leather biker coat. I spend all my winters with an ordinary leather coat without any insulation to speak of and I often take walks at -20C or below. The worst I've had to do was to zip the zipper...

Just kill a pig and trade it for the scotch. Be sure to remove the uniform and the badge first.

I've installed Windows 8 for three businesses already. With Classic Shell installed, people reasonably familiar with computers can find their way around. The speed improvement over even Windows 7 is much appreciated. I agree that Metro is a failure, but once you find a way to ignore it...

New development I really hope this comes to drives on shelves ASAP. RAM-like performance and good capacities.

I expect it's not the case, but can you replace the HDD or SSD that comes with a Lenovo Thinkpad with one of your own and not void the warranty? Same thing for Dell Lattitude? I'd like to recommend a Thnikpad T530 for the president of the company, but I'd rather put a SSD like a Samsung 840...

No idea if they are available in Australia or how easy they are to connect to a computer, but at ~250$, the best sounding speakers I've read about are the Paradigm Atom v.5. I bought the previous generation of Logitech Z-series speakers and there was way too much bass compared to what the...

Source Those must only be rebranded Hitachi 4TB drives, but maybe I'm wrong. I still haven't seen them in stores so I've no idea how expensive they are.

Nope, I've only maintained it (more or less). Of the lead trio, I'm by far the least dependant on the GPU clients and I get most of my production from the SMP clients. So the recent points drop from the GPU units didn't affect me nearly as much as it affected Mark and you. The one who trully...

Either you don't read what I write or you have a serious attention problem. The board I talked about in my previous post has 6 SATA ports.

Just in case anyone is still unsure about it, the BitFenix Prodigy isn't a small case by any mean. Although it can only house a mini-ITX board, the case is bigger than some mid-tower cases. I also don't understand the logic behind putting two case fans with 3-pin connectors and not provide a...

SAS. I don't know what was the failure reason. I saw the front LED turn yellow instead of green and I asked HP for a replacement, which was granted without question. All I know is that the drive is still readable (and writable). Bad sectors, SMART error, whatever. The server tells me it's...

A defective drive doesn't mean the drive is totally unaccessible, hence the need to erase the data on it. We have someone here with strong neodynium magnets, but we won't need to resort to this. The HP server we have has an OS on an internal SD card. We simply booted on it and then we erased...

I have a little problem here. We have a failed hard drive that's been replaced under warranty by HP. But the failed drive has valuable information on it, so we'd like to erase it before sending it back. I plugged the defective drive in an HP server with an HP 410i controller. We haven't...

We said Ni! to the Knights! This time for good. They took us back the first time we passed them, but it won't happen twice. For those who don't follow the team stats, The Knights Who Say Ni! used to be one of the top teams in the FAH ranking and it's also a very old team. About as old as...

What were you talking about in that post? A fictional product or something that's on the shelves?

Chewy is an University student with a kid. I suspect that spending close to a thousand bucks is quite a bit above his budget. Affordable for you and affordable for the rest of us are two very different things. How's your elevator in the living room project going on?

I should have created it yesterday's evening, but it's close : Also, we should be able to keep the Overclockers.UA team at a distance and equal their production. The one that just passed us though, we won't be able to retake soon. Their member Fernandol is simply producing too much for us to...

Really? I disagree. And wrong thread BTW.

Congratulations to Bozo for passing the 5 million points milestone.

We'll be moving our servers to an external hosting site in the beginning of next year. We'll also keep a few systems in our office. We want to create two domains with two different IP segments, linked by VPN (one local, one remote). I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to do it. For...

Ok...the need for the 100K$ UCS 6248UP fabric interconnect kind of breaks the deal for us. Too rich for our blood. It seems to be great technology, but we don't need that much and our wallet won't allow it. Nice, but we can do without. In fact, since we can't afford it, we have to do...

It's just that I've stumbled on this and it got me thinking. A fully filled 5108 chassis with two fabric extender and eight of the servers linked above would cost ~60500$ from comsource.com. It's not bad. I can have cheaper elsewhere, but not by that much.