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You can get a big enough sheet of clear acrylic for $10 at Lowes. http://www.lowes.com/pd/DURAPLEX-0-08-in-x-18-in-x-24-in-Clear-Acrylic-Sheet/3143519

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYbG-uv4Op4 Used to look at the stuff on this site for hours: http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l2/g30/c429/list/p1/Liquid_Cooling-PC_Water_Cooling_Radiator_Shrouds.html...

Sounds like this was a fun project and a learning experience! I know this feedback is too late to make any difference but just wanted to chime in that for my 'server' that I keep in the basement, I use a Coolermaster HAF 912. The 2x 200mm fans provided a lot of air flow at a very low sound...

Sorry Merc I didn't catch the fact that the problem is specific to one PC.

Some websites have issues with video playback when using ad blockers like ABP and/or Ghostery. If you are using any blockers, disable them, restart your browser and give it another go.

Until today I have only had to deal with a few credit cards over the past 25 years where the number was somehow skimmed and attempts at purchases were made but denied by the credit card company before anything was even bought. The result was nothing more than an annoyance....cancellation of the...

Amazon actually has an incentive to keep us on their credit card (they don't have to pay the fees to the other CC companies) so maybe the 5% will last longer than you think. If they take it away I will just switch to my Citi Double Cash (2% cash back) and they'll end up losing on the deal. I...

Ride it while you can!!

The Amazon Prime Store Card gives you 5% cash back automatically as a statement credit. https://www.amazon.com/iss/credit/storecardmember/ref=storecard_van

His needs are modest but he feels he needs a powerful machine / CPU. That's why I'm looking to a fast-ish processor and a nice SSD. If he got a NUC I think he'd feel it's under powered no matter what I told him was good enough. I like the CUK idea but their Lenovo's don't have SSDs as far...

If you want to scan in your IP look for places local to you that perform white light scanning. That should be plenty accurate for your needs.

Howdy- My old manager is looking to get a new PC (desktop machine) and asked for some advice. I'm looking for a Desktop system (w/o monitor) for around $750-$850. 8GB RAM with about ~500GB SSD. What is the best manufacturer these days of a pre-made system that comes with Windows 10 & maybe...

The only automatic payments I have are for my cable, and utilities, and cell phone but those are charged to my cash back credit card, not a checking account. Been doing it for about 20 years now without a single issue. I pay the credit cards online but I manually have to go to the CC site...

I just bought my wife a refurbished Galaxy S5. Screen is nice, it takes an SD card and has a replaceable battery. At only $170 shipped I think it was a good deal and is in perfect (like new) condition. It's also running the latest Android (Marshmallow).

I receive the same yesterday.

http://www.tweaknews.eu/en/landing/v1?target=img_info By the way, I chose the Netherlands as the VPN location.

The tweaknews VPN client seems to be pretty smart. It let's me securely download torrents at the slow VPN speed but there's no speed limitation when I connect to their newsgroup servers and I can simultaneously download from them at the same time.

To be honest, I assumed that once the VPN connection to the internet was established by the server, I would not be able to access the server from my other machines. I thought this would be the case because when I bring my work laptop home and connect to my employer's VPN, I cannot access my...

Howdy- I have a VPN service that I'm trying out. I would like my home server to use the VPN service to connect to the internet though one of the NICs in the machine (for torrenting). I would like the other NIC in the machine to be used for connecting to my LAN. Is this possible? If so, can...

Do the DIY routers offer much with respect to control over content filtering and being able to monitor usage etc?

I thought there would be more interest in this topic! I have a 2nd NIC so I will just play with whatever is easiest first and report back...

I picked up one of these ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135364 ) for $19AR so I decided to throw it in the old Bitfenix ITX case I have for a project PC. I also threw in a spare 8gb or RAM and a 120GB SSD I already had. Was considering making the machine a router...

I believe I'm running v 1.0. Anything newer than that? Timwhit - I'm using Tweaknews. Per your recommendation, IIRC.

I've been playing the game with Comcast for a few years now. This year looks like my bill is bumping up by about $20 because my old 'promo' is no longer available now. At least they upgraded my internet speed and I have all the pay channels now (only watch HBO though for Silicon Valley and...

Thanks for your feedback in trying to get this solved. :)

I'm not averse to using other firmware. I've used Tomato on the past in with my old RT-N16 and it seems that Tomato/Shibby does have some settings for static ARP configuration in addition to the 'justin montgomery solution' above. I'm not sure how well they actually work though and didn't want...

The justin montgomery solution seems simpler and more elegant. But it also seems somewhat less secure because it involves broadcasting the WOL packets to every device on my network. The initial method using the cheap old hub seems to be more secure (to me) because the only devices that receive...

This seems like a good solution: https://justinmontgomery.com/wake-on-lan-configuring-your-pc-tomato-iphone

Yes, the static arp entry would be preferred but I can't figure out how to make my RT-N66U remember it. There was a configuration file I modified but the setting didn't seem to stick.

Howdy all- Have any of you gotten Wake on Lan to reliably work over the internet? I would like to bring a PC out of Sleep mode remotely, as needed. I got it to work initially but then it stopped. After some research, I found the info below posted in some forums. Seems like an ingenious...

Thanks Merc. Definitely doesn't seem that Kodi offers much of anything useful to me now that Plex player supports surround sound. I just need something that plays our movies and would prefer it doesn't take up a lot of space on the clients (my son's Lenovo Tab2 is always is loaded with stuff...

I used to use Kodi on my FireTV because, at the time, the Plex app did not support 5.1 audio. With the latest updates to Plex & the Fire, it appears surround sound is working without having to re-setup Kodi to be the player for Plex (the updates broke it and Kodi no longer is working as my...

The Synology has been hacked before: https://www.google.com/search?q=synology+ds409+hacked&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

More of just a curiosity thing for me too. We have no plans to get any new credit in the near future so we keep both of our credit reports frozen to help prevent identity theft.

Wife and I both have great credit scores, about 810 each. My Capital One credit card allows me to monitor my credit 'score' with the 'New Transion' Method. So it is not really a FICO score but I'd expect it closely matches it and will reflect the appropriate trends. The CO website has a...

I am going to really miss Picasa as well. The facial recognition feature was really great for finding pictures of a certain person. My 75 year old Dad uses it too and I dread finding a replacement for him.

My process was, install Win7. Do the free upgrade to 10. Create Win10 fresh install media. Wipe and fresh install 10. THen Win10 will automatically know the correct key for your hardware. If you change hardware, you will need to call MS to get a new key from them, which they will provide...

I had oddities with the F@H client on my main computer (Asus Strix 970 GPU). Any time I would launch Picasa, it would cause the GPU client to start failing and then I would have to reboot the machine after an eventual lockup. Tried reinstalling the drivers 'Clean' but it didn't help...

Thanks Doug. I appreciate your effort but, for all my music, Mp3tag was perfect and actually helped me give all my mp3s a uniform naming scheme. For all the rest of my documents, image and videos, I ended up using this tool: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php with the...

All my songs are just in my My Music folder. There is one sub directory for comedians and one sub directory for stuff I got from my Dad. That's about it...everything else is just in the root of My Music. Mp3tag sounds easy so I will get it a shot. Not really clear to me how to even use...

Sterero- The large majority are MP3 files. How do you rename from the ID3 tags? I do have Media Monkey installed if that is at all helpful. Timwhit- Thanks. I will look into that!

Howdy - In the past, I used the Windows 7 built in backup utility (I think) to back up my stuff to a network drive. . Turns out, for some of my files I had to use it but the backup program created the copies of the files with wonky file names. Do any of you guys know of a way I could...

They did...to the scrap yard!

Free enclosures. Maybe big enough for Merc's collection.

Seems pretty nice for a 32" from Microcenter for $700. Too bad it has integrated speakers and is white... HP Spectre 32" 4K Ultra HD Studio Display Monitor http://www.microcenter.com/product/457807/Spectre_32_4K_Ultra_HD_Studio_Display_Monitor

Thanks!

Nice download but is that the best upload they can give you? I'm on Comcast too but have their 'Extreme 105' package. Arris TM822G EMTA (owned).

I let my son go to sleep in our bed tonight since wife was out at her company Christmas party. Shortly after falling asleep, he sat up and said 'I fight for the users.' and laid back down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5KfzyO4feo

http://www.speedguide.net/faq/what-is-the-actual-real-life-speed-of-wireless-374

Thanks sir. How much is the single line costing you ? Published rates or do that have semi-secret promos like Verizon?