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Such comment makes me... out of myself. The things I would do to someone saying such a thing in front of me would not be allowed to be seen even in an adult-only movie. That's the kind of mentally I despise to no end. Believing U.S. is hovering over the World and every other nation should...

I missed my own ten years anniversary : it was yesterday (the 20th).

Greg, I sent you a PM a while ago explaining you at lenght how to install and configure the FAH GPU Tracker V2 client. It is much simpler than the command line version. Why do you use the command line version? Are you a teflon kid?

You could not run the GPU client and expect to crunch big units back when there was big units for 8-core systems, but now that they upped the big units to 16-core systems, that limitation no longer applies. I can assure you that you can run the SMP client together with the GPU client.

Still, it's almost 70,000ppd for a single computer. Since an Opteron 6128 cost only ~270$ and dual socket G34 boards can be bought for less than 400$, the ppd per $ ratio is quite good. An entire system like this would cost ~1100$. Each of my Core i7 2600 systems are worth ~800$ and I only...

Did you guys read what happened with Megaupload? Closed by the U.S. government and people arrested in New Zealand for infringments to american laws. I knew that New Zealand was a country without a backbone (no army), but to go so far as being and extention of the U.S. law department, that's a...

So no biggies then. Just 3 days and a half of your time and 1500$. Almost a non-event.

I guess the first member of our team to complete a big beta unit is SDBardwick. He sent a +200000 points unit for the midnight update. So now we know he has a computer with 16 logical cores or more. Congratulations. I'm jealous.

The customer had an attachment to his germs?

Because it's not even affordable by SSDdrueding's standards. And GPU folding doesn't seem to be that hard on the graphic cards. Your dear friend Mark has done most of its contribution from his GeForce cards and he's still going strong. I'm pretty sure that if he killed cards every now and...

I think only Stereodude is close enough of you to be interested in picking them up. IMO, the Enligh case is garbage, but the other two can still be used to put modern parts into them as their case fan provide acceptable airflow.

Watching the World time Clock, I noticed that Brisbane doesn't have the DST while the southern australian cities (Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney) do. Weird.

I decided that since -25C should be the coldest Winter will be here this year, it was the perfect time to take a walk outside. I wore uninsulated shoes, a leather coat above my T-shirt, tin pants and gloves. I didn't wear a hat. I've been outside for a bit more than 20 minutes and the only...

Why? Is the clicking noise disturbing the cats?

-8C. It is currently -25C here. They omit to mention you among the notable local residents. I should edit the Wikipedia article to add you.

It is ~-10F here right now. I bet it's never been that cold in your neck of the woods since the last ice age.

I'm sick of f*cking weirdo Windows problems. A computer I delivered this afternoon, the customer called me (yep, on a Saturday evening, criss de Tabarnack) to tell me that he can't transfer a program from his external drive to the second partition of his main drive. Pictures and music files...

If it affected the C300, it would have been all over the news a while ago since most of those drives have had more than 5200 POH.

You're probably right, I must be a 12-years-old wannabee. Please don't show me blood, I'll faint. To tell the truth, I was disappointed when I read that comment. Not that I was morally destroyed by the opinion of a guy I'll probably never meet in person, but you all know how serviceable a...

The firmware update is available.

That is a question I will not answer.

Meet the person you intend to kill like you are about to introduce yourself and invite to shake hands. When the victim avance his/her hand, only grab two fingers with your entire hand (giving you a tremendous strenght advantage) and fold them on the side they aren't supposed to fold while...

I received a Project 6900 unit (a big unit). It will probably be my last big unit on my current computers as the deadline for regular big units on 8-core systems is January 16th.

The hard drives' prices have been declining more significantly during the past two weeks. They are still far above what they were before the flooding, but it's getting there. The higher volume drives are the most inflated. 500GB drives are still 50$ above their August price. The 1TB and 2TB...

Pssfff! I could remove your entire front row, top AND bottom, in five seconds max. 5 minutes for two teeth, I'm not impressed.

You discovered tonight that it was cold in Antarctica? I guess it's never too late. -82C ; I might have put a coat before taking a walk outside... For the record, the lowest reliable measured temperature on Earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at Vostok (Russian South Pole station) on july 21, 1983.

The only forms of payment I can take from you guys would be Paypal or a money order, both of which have significant fees. I don't think my credit card/banking card machine accepts international payments. With the high fees Paypal charges, I don't think it would be worth it, either for me or...

Anandtech also reviewed it a few days ago.

Hasn't everything already be said about it? I let go any Audi desire when I learned that justin thimberlake represents them. The guy who ruined the 2004 SuperBowl. No way.

Don't get me wrong, you're a nice guy. But you must earn at least three times as much as I do, so me giving you a relatively expensive computer part ; not gonna happen. JTR maybe, because I know he also struggles financially, but I don't think that's the kind of system he's looking for. As...

I have two X58 motherboards, one new-in-box and another one that's been used for ~6 months. I don't have any CPU to put on them. I could build two relatively modern systems with them (with i7 960 CPUs) as they both have SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 ports (Asus Sabertooth X58 and GigaByte X58-USB3)...

Two of the last three Radon HD 68xx I've bought for customers needed replacement from the get-go. No DOA, but stability issues. One had its driver constantly fail in Windows 7 and the other one refused to play nice with Adobe Flash (needed to disable hardware acceleration) and sometimes drops...

I remember a link to a reliability survey or study some months ago and Samsung wasn't very good on the SSD front. I would still buy Crucial or Intel drives over Samsung's. The 5200 POH bug on the Curcial drives is odd though as it should have been easy to spot during the reliability check of...

Time, I'm sorry if I ruined your day by posting this thread. I figured that you could at least be prepared knowing what's coming rather than waking up one morning and be utterly screwed. You should contact your customer immediately to backup the drives and put replacement drives before they fail.

Apparently, the Crucial M4 SSD has a firmware bug that cause it to crash after 5200 hours of operation. I read this on a French news site, but you can always read that thread in Crucial's forum in which they acknowledge the problem. Crucial's employees are supposed to be working on a solution.

I didn't say that all Indians are piss poor, I said that Westerners in India should logically, in a very large part, be quite wealthy. I'm happy to know that you are doing well financially. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my impression that someone earning 25,000U$ in your country...

I thought Mubs was a native Indian, not that he moved there for his work. If I was (or almost any other American or European) to move there, it would primarily be for a very well paid job. The way Mubs talked about his aging computer and the relatively tight budget he has to replace it, I...

And there I thought I was the only one not to get it...

Plastic near food, particularly hot food, should be avoided as it disintegrates and sends carcinogen particles into the food. I'm sure it tastes great, but I would want to eat that too often for too long. I know I'm difficult, but I just have a problem with food that threaten my lifespan.

I forgot to underline it, but congratulations to Sdbardwick : first member to ever do 3 million points in a month.

Most politicians are lawyers.

He spent the first seven months of the year crunching units that were mostly worth less than a thousand points each. Of course he did many, many of them. That changed in August, for whatever reason I do not know. In the meanwhile, members like me and LiamC and often Ddrueding too, computed...

Here we go : CougTek : 19,311,608 points / 1335 WU P5_133XL : 18,723,465 points / 14790 WU LiamC : 15,593,864 points / 815 WU Ddrueding : 12,073,842 points / 4666 WU Sdbardwick : 6,413,227 points / 2146 WU Handruin : 3,248,633 points / 227 WU Bozo : 2,882,062 points / 1554 WU Dan_E_Shearer ...

Ditto. Happy new year to others for whom it might be realistic to think so. For the others, welcome to the boat, you're not alone.

All this lawyer crap only makes me want to bust into the headquarters of a big tech company and the law firm they hire and massacre them all while laughing dementially. Good thing I don't own a machine gun. I won't watch the video. It enrages me too much. This is New Year's eve and I prefer...

Wow, there are still people ordering PS/2 keyboards. I thought only museums did. Fascinating.

I know about the gregorian calendar (although I did not remember the year it became defacto standard). I thought he was refering to Gregorians as a certain group of people, like caucasians/arabs/Africans etc. I'm sick today (physically sick I mean, mentally I don't need to tell) so I'm not...

The standard says 300ft.

I don't know what a Gregorian is, so I'm pretty sure I'm not one. I searched it on Google and the most interesting result has been a remake of the Metallica song "Nothing Else Matters" by a bunch of monk-like singers. So even if I wasn't concerned, happy new year to you too.

One word of advice from a guy spending most of his time fixing computers : don't invest money on an 8+ years old computer. If you can't fix it by yourself, it's not worth it to give money to someone else to try to fix it for you*. A computer is designed to last for five years. After that, if...