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  1. timwhit

    MP3 player rant

    I was able to replace the battery on an iPod mini about 8 or 9 years ago.
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    Super Flower 2000w PSU.

    Idiots?
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    6TB Seagate Hard Drives $199 Shipped Free

    Do you know if it is the same archive drive that will be released in March?
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    6TB Seagate Hard Drives $199 Shipped Free

    Does this have just one disk in it?
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    Phone Dying

    I have the LG G3, I've been happy with it. I compared it with the S5 and there was no comparison.
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    "Preview Post" button shows correct preview but completely erases the message!?!?!

    Could you just copy it and then paste after clicking advanced?
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    i3 GPU weirdness

    Get a soldering iron?
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    i3 GPU weirdness

    Can you try swapping the CPU and see if that fixes it?
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    Crap selection of laptops

    I have a Dell Precision M4700, the power brick is quite heavy.
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    Crap selection of laptops

    What's the model, Clocker?
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    Crap selection of laptops

    It's a Dell Precision.
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    Crap selection of laptops

    My laptop has 32GB of RAM. Yesterday I had it completely maxed out and was using a bit of swap space. 8GB would be unusable for me.
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    Folding@Home

    The servers are somewhat unreliable at times. I have the same issue.
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    Folding@Home

    Sed, I get about 125 points per NaCl WU, I think it is a flat value no matter how long it takes to complete one. You should be able to calculate your PPD with that.
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    Folding@Home

    You should really try the NaCl client, it's much better for slower hardware like your's. I bet you could hit over 1000 PPD with the NaCl client. I get around 55k PPD with two i5 CPUs on the NaCl client. I don't have the exact model numbers handy. I also have 1 GTX650Ti folding that does ~40k...
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    What is an Active member?

    Our servers are all large instances. We're only running a couple Tomcat app servers and ApacheDS on them. Our QA server was a m3.medium, but I am impatient so I upped it to a large.
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    What is an Active member?

    The real power of Chef is provisioning large numbers of servers. For what you're looking to do, I don't think you really need the Chef server. Our reason for using Chef is so that we can automate the creation of development servers. For example, if we need to spin up a new instance of a server...
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    What is an Active member?

    If you need any help let me know. I manage multiple EC2 instances for my current project. I setup Chef standalone to provision instances.
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    What is an Active member?

    You can install anything on your instance. So, yes, you can install MariaDB or MySQL. Amazon RDS has some benefits over running/managing your own DB server.
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    What is an Active member?

    Have you looked at hosting with AWS EC2, you could do a m3.medium server for about $50/month. If you want to use AWS RDS, that would increase the cost.
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    Folding@Home

    Nice Doug. Our team production has been quite good for the last few weeks.
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    Smartwatches

    When the Pebble came out I considered getting one, but they are just way too big and thick. If Pebble or someone else could make an e-ink smartwatch about 1/4 as thick as the Pebble that got a week of battery life, I would consider getting one.
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    Smartwatches

    That's nice to know. I'm guessing it gets more than 10 hours of battery life as well.
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    ArsTech pwned

    Salts guard against rainbow table attacks. If I can dump a database or LDAP with a bunch of unsalted hashes, I can compare them all to my trusty rainbow table and retrieve a whole bunch of passwords pretty quickly. This exact thing happened to Linkedin because they weren't using salts.
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    Best movie you've seen

    It would be even better if they only include the parts and characters that are in the book.
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    Slow site performance?

    vb 5.1 still fucking things up even after no one is using it anymore.
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    Something Random

    They could still use OpenJDK, the crypto keys are removed.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    I consider consumer electronics to be disposable. If something breaks, I'll just replace it.
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    Something Random

    How much will it cost for an extra 4GB?
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    Something Random

    I saw the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform the score from return of the King last summer at Ravinia.
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    No Shave November

    I'm growing a mustache because it's classier.
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    Private VPN endpoint

    The vulnerability in OpenSSL was fixed. If you generate a new certificate it's not vulnerable.
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    Windows 10

    If MS doesn't write a frontend for it, someone else will.
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    Something Random

    If it's anything like the laser eye surgery I had, it's not terrible. They will give you a valium if you are freaking out.
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    Cheapo Server For Piss-Poor Company

    There is a cost involved in maintaining the infrastructure. I'd argue that if they can't be profitable using EC2 or another "cloud" provider they have bigger problems to worry about.
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    Cheapo Server For Piss-Poor Company

    Why not use EC2 or Azure? You only will pay for what you use and it's essentially endlessly scalable.
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    Something Random

    I had laser eye surgery about 8 years ago. No issues.
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    Media Player Appliances

    I think you're giving my Dad too much credit, he has trouble operating his Android phone and his Chromebook. It would probably be best if I set it up and then shipped it to him. The only issue then would be getting it connected to their WiFi.
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    Hillbilly-ish Docking Station

    XFCE is my preferred choice of WMs.
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    The G3 does have an IR blaster, I've just never gotten it to work.
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    I tried it with my LG G3 and couldn't get it to control my Samsung TV or Denon receiver.
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    Media Player Appliances

    Is it easy to setup and use for extremely non-technical people?
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    Hillbilly-ish Docking Station

    I think you'd be much better off acquiring a 1080p monitor than trying to jam extra content into 1366x768.
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    Media Player Appliances

    My Dad has requested that I find him a set top box for Netflix. What is the simplest device available for this purpose.
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    Hillbilly-ish Docking Station

    If it's the Toshiba Satellite, then you're going to be maxed at 1366x768. You can't arbitrarily increase the resolution of an LCD, it's set by the number of pixels on the panel. CRTs don't work the same way.
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    Hillbilly-ish Docking Station

    Is the display an LCD?
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    Small case build

    If he's doing software development, he will be maxing out the CPU quite often, however, I would probably skip the aftermarket HSF also.
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    Something Random

    Plenty of time to study for the CCNA then.
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    Something Random

    How is the Linux support?
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    Folding@Home

    Try refreshing the page or restarting the browser.
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