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Looking at the benches I decided to skip team red this time around. Maybe on their next refresh we'll see them touting those "optimizations" but for now it looks like an i5-7600 (non-k -- I don't overclock, ever) is a good bet. The motherboard I picked out is cheaper than the AMD one I was going...

Drive doesn't fit. Well, it'll technically go into the port, but I can't close the bottom cover over the machine with the drive in. I'm sending it back for a refund. Here's a lesson learned for next time, caveat emptor indeed. The drive works as advertised when attached to my USB converter, I...

Things are still pretty tentative at the moment but I'm looking at finishing my gen ed requirements at a community college of some sort down there and finishing out my degree requirements probably at University of Central Florida. Since I had almost filled the 2TB when it died, I decided I'd go...

You've got it right. $10.50/hr, plus they pay my tuition which is why I was there in the first place. I can't afford to get fired or that aid will go away and I'll likely get kicked out of my dorm. That said, next semester should see things being a lot better for me. I'm planning a transfer...

Just to be sure I couldn't coax my old drive to work just long enough to recover my music from it (it'll be a pain to re-rip all those CDs, after all) I hooked it up to one of those cheap USB to SATA/IDE converters. Nothing I tried could get it working again, and I tried several other drives on...

Oh please, I could toss the thing against the wall and shatter it into a million pieces. Feels like it's made of papier mâché. Or Raditz. Seriously, the damn thing's lighter than most SSDs I've had.

Sprained my ankle Monday evening/Tuesday morning, and today my hard drive finally died. It gives me the dreaded click of death. Hangs up the BIOS on trying to detect it, even. This has not been my week.

I think I've found an interesting little distro that might just serve my needs perfectly, a Debian fork called Devuan. It offers quite a bit of choice as to the init systems you can use. It's still in beta but asking around in their IRC room tells me the only thing that has been broken in recent...

Hold that thought. Phone randomly stopped recognizing the SD card one night. Thinking it's kaput. Really don't want to have to return it, but I dropped forty bucks on it and that's not cheap for a guy like me.

Interesting. That isn't the behavior I noticed when I was running systemd, but it is interesting nonetheless. I haven't used it in a while so maybe this is some new thing? I've looked at both of them and find them a little lacking. I prefer the runit init system to pure BSD init scripts and...

PPC Arch is dead. Has been since 2013. Arch for ARM is only active because the RPi exists. I have a couple PIIIs and P4s I kick around for various things under Linux. I like to standardize on one distribution. With i686 looking at getting axed (second tier support == it'll be around for another...

Sometimes I want to put aside cash and build a no-holds-barred desktop... Something with an i7, 16GB of RAM at minimum, and a 1060 or better... Then I remember I have work and classes and no time to use it for anything, so all it'd do is contribute meagerly (compared to those of you with 980s...

My 128GB that I stuck in my phone does fine. It's no speed demon but the I/O is consistent at about 20MB/s going through my phone (it's formatted as part of the internal storage) for large files and I have had no errors yet -- although all I did so far was copy ~70GB of music to it (7.5 thousand...

Messing about with the NaCL client in Chrome. Silly thing estimates my PPD to be 40,449,400!

We got a dusting of snow in early December and we occasionally get flurries but no accumulation. It being 60F here almost every other day down here helps with that.

Yeah, I have a bad feeling about Merc being missing this long. Feels to me almost like when we found out about P5-133XL. Here's hoping it doesn't turn out like that. In other news my music collection has grown to the point that I need a 128GB microSD card to hold it all. I don't know if I...

I love how Rick handled this. It showed that somewhere, he has something resembling a heart. That said, the upgrade process is basically this. The ride never ends.

I don't drink and don't have any plans to, so I'm pretty useless in these sorts of conversations. My family has a history of moderation problems in several ways so I would prefer to not even get started on it.

So my uncle put me on his wireless plan so regardless of my income status I have access to a phone. Rather than just using the phone I already had with a Verizon SIM kit, he just bought me a new phone. I don't know where he's getting that I need anything as flashy or powerful (or expensive!) as...

I never really did any work on that FreeNAS build besides the initial putting together of the hardware and leaving it to rot next to my desk, so I decided to do the next best thing with it and install Windows 7 x86 on it for the sole purpose of running the Lockdown Browser my university forces...

At home my speed now averages under 1Mbps down, 0.2Mbps up. Here at the college mI get 20Mbps down 5MBps up for free, and I'm happy with that. It's the fastest internet access I've ever had to myself and it's way faster than I needed it to be. I'd have been content with 5Mbps down, 1 up.

I actually started playing in 2007 and played on and off since then, my dad having played since late beta and my mom since not long after release. Both of them quit sometime in 2014. I just wasn't old enough to play before then and it could very well have been argued that I still wasn't old...

Asheron's Call closes down on Jan. 31st. It's a little amazing to see the activity that's cropped up in the community, both trying to save the game we have today, and those trying to resurrect a dead server emulator project for the 2004-era game. I don't know which camp I fall into yet, I like...

Happy belated holidays from me to all of you!

I run Office 365 that I got through the school. When that subscription expires I'll likely move to Office 03 with the compatibility pack, since I have a license for that kicking around here somewhere.

Accidental double post, whoever's in charge of that would you please delete this?

Because I like messing around with old crap and I needed something to do for the holidays, I secured a HP T5700 thin client, a 44 pin IDE female to female cable, a 44 pin IDE to CF adapter, and an 8GB CF card. The T5700 has a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 clocked at one whole gigahertz, 256MB of...

Very interesting tool. It should make my life a fair bit easier, no longer will I have to keep track of a dozen or more flash drives for my bootable utilities, now just one.

I'm already running out of space on the 2TB. By the way, the I/O errors stopped after i pulled the drive out and reseated it. Surprised it was that simple but it was. Out of the 1863 GB available to Windows, I only have 555 still free. If that sounds like a lot, I'm concerned because I'm using...

I run 7.1 (unofficial quark build of CM14.1) on my Turbo and it's slick, stable and speedy. The new layouts (where applicable) make everything more convenient. I use Facebook Messenger to handle my SMS (yes, I know, data mining worse than Google, frankly I'm of the mind that I never had any...

Speaking of Doom 3, I spent a hell of a time (pun definitely intended) getting the Dhewm3 source port to build on my Cloudbook. Had issues packing the data up in a way that it liked. At first I thought all was for naught as it ran poorly even at 640x480 but then I found it had advanced rendering...

Happy late birthday! The only sticking point I still have with Arch on this Cloudbook is that Network Manager refuses to autoconnect to Wi-Fi networks I've set up. I had a brief runaround with CUPS and HPLIP (turns out I need Avahi to start before cupsd, rookie mistake) but that's been solved...

Good to know.

I'd be folding if I had something that'd make it worth the energy cost. As it is only CPU folding isn't anything worth adding to the pool, it'll have to wait until if/when I build a desktop with a real GPU.

My WD Green is probably the best drive I own. Nothing compares. *hides*

In other, less worrying news, the Cloudbook is now running VoidLinux. Why? Because the RAM savings are massive, bootup times are nearly nonexistent, and I had been meaning to do a clean Arch install (in an effort to maybe fix my kernel woes) anyway, so why not mess around with this for a bit and...

I really hope this doesn't turn out like what happened with P5-133XL. :sad:

I use ePDFView here on my cloudbook. But you said for Windows. Hmm. I hear FoxIt is pretty good? I use straight Adobe Reader on the Thinkpad, occasionally settling for the Chrome PDF viewer plugin.

I personally use Anti-Beacon on the Thinkpad. I haven't had any issues.

If Bernie were on the ticket I have a feeling Trump still would have won, because the democratic vote would be fractured.

Look, how about this. If someone decides they like me enough to pursue me, I'm not going to turn them down. Now that we're done discussing improbabilities I would like to point out that I'm not isolating myself, I'm just exercising my choice in not trying to date. So what if I won't be able to...

I have friends. I do social things. I'm just not bothering with the dating game in a world where it seems all the males of my generation are interested in is casual sex and all the females assume that's what I'm after and act accordingly. Not trying to act like an emo teenager but to be frank I...

This in a nutshell is one of many reasons why I don't use dating websites. I'm undesirable and I know it already, I don't need to have it confirmed by lack of attention on the web. I get enough of that outside the matrix. I'm torn between being bitter and lonely, and being glad I won't ever...

I've been looking at SF here in the Wayback machine. The old page layout looks pretty cool, kind of funny there was a dedicated news section, and I'm strangely happy to see the forum hierarchy hasn't changed much. The particular version I'm looking at shows mubs as the newest registered user.

Testing from my Arch install on the Cloudbook running the latest Chrome, everything's fine here as I just tested. Only difference is that I'm using uBlock Origin instead of ABP. If you'd like I can set up another config of it with your addons and test that way.

I'm apathetic about the whole thing at this point. Our votes don't matter, our money does. Or would, if we had enough of it to turn the politicians' heads. The US is completely and utterly doomed no matter which of the two 'real' candidates wins, and all I can see happening is nukes hitting...

So do I. Not just for the price, though. I prefer simplistic, functional looks. If I absolutely must have LEDs please for the love of god make them white, and dim so I'm not blinded when I look at them. I have nothing against cool-looking stuff, it's just not for me. It screams "Please steal...

My concerns would be mechanical switches (whether they care or not, they'll likely learn to appreciate the tactile feel), LED backlighting (not necessarily user-definable color but it's good for more e-penis points), and a feature that I think is called n-key rollover (which means more...

Worked out why I was stuck on the LTS kernel. The edd=off, noapic, modprobe.blacklist=pinctrl_cherryview parameters, necessary to boot and have a functioning system on the normal 4.7.2 kernel and LTS kernels, are no longer necessary with 4.8+ and now actively cause it to hang while loading the...

So it's not worth it all around, then? IMO an extra 500MHz isn't worth the cash. No idea what bumping up the TDP does for it, other than consume more power.