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Wow, they had that much pron way back then? ;)

I hope my Samsung 850 PRO SSD doesn't explode. ;)

Happy Labor Day Weekend all (for us US'ers). (Isn't "Labor Day Holiday" an oxymoron? Oh, boy, I get a day off for working my ασσ off the other 364 days.) After a few days now, I checked the last 15 World Community Grid anti-cancer results for my new vBox vs the old PC, and I see that the...

Thanks for the advice, all. I got the vBox about a couple of hours ago, and installed the second UDIMM. Here are the Memtest86+ RAM speed test results before and after this dual-channeling: 10399 vs 17351 MB/s, about a 67% speed increase. I have included the (fuzzy) screenshot pix from my...

My 4 deliveries are supposed to happen tomorrow. :) (Or, I assume, 1 delivery of 4 packages.) But I was looking into an issue I thought about, how to minimize "wear" on the SSD. Specifically, the 30-50 (?) BOINC project files I will be getting daily, that could probably be kept on the...

So I got a Samsung’s 128 GB 850 PRO SSD. It comes with a 10-year warranty! I should live so long . . . Since the PC user's manual didn't have specific details, I also got a 2.5"-3.5" adapter bracket and a SATA cable. I'm hoping the power supply has a spare SATA power cable, since Dell says...

Thanks very much for the advice, Chewy. Second things first, you're probably right that the integrated GPU is sufficient for my needs. I hope that Ubuntu's drivers support the video acceleration, though. As far as that Intel PCIe/M.2 SSD, I mistakenly thought that it could be...

Apologies in advance, but I just got one of these: Dell PowerEdge T20 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 Quad-Core Tower Barebone Server for $279, from yesterday's Ars Technica/TechBargains deals list. (I'm getting too old to "roll my own" any more. This will replace my 8-year-old home-grown PC with a...

And after I saw that BBC list, I checked out Spring Breakers, as (currently) pops up first in that link. I assumed it would be some semi-enjoyable fluff. We could watch for free, and did so; it wasn't complete garbage, but pretty close.

I can't wait to tell my wife that she's been boiling eggs wrong all these years.;) I guess I'll be doing the boiling after that.

"Speaking" of passwords, does anyone here believe in Steve Gibson's theory that "padding" a base password with enough repetitive characters can make a very secure password?

Repo Man

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Maybe it's because she thought of those brilliant IBM TV commercials for Watson (or Wat-ever). Bob Dylan?

I just watched The Conformist again. It's still good.

FWIW:.

.. (Sorry, couldn't resist the wording variant of the "Seasonic Announce New Prime Series PSU's" thread.

8½

Most of us know how to disable AdBlock for a web site, or could figure it out.

Seriously, is there no way to find out how to get affiliated? Send them a list of FS links to Amazon products, discussions of Amazon Prime and items on sale, etc.? I, for one, would not object to Amazon ads on the site to support it financially.

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Native-American giver. ;-)

From ArsTechnica: vBulletin password hack fuels fears of serious Internet-wide 0-day attacks

From Ars Technica: Android security on the ropes with one-two punch from researchers

From Ars: Firefox blacklists Flash player due to unpatched 0-day vulnerabilities

Hey Moderators, can you extract the subsequent "my first/early computers" posts into a new thread? Yeah, that would be great. Oh, and Atari 800 with 48K RAM! And 1010 auxiliary Dual-Density disk drive and 1050 Program Recorder, all still in the attic. BTW, does anyone else remember the NEC...

From Ars: Apple announces recall program for 3TB hard drives in 2012 and 2013 iMacs Quoting from a comment there: Rosyna (Ars Tribunus Militum) retrospooty wrote: Its odd about 3tb HDD's. They are failing in much higher #'s than 1,2 did before it and 4tb did after it. This is all major...

OTOH, I've had a Zonet 4-way KVM switch that has worked great for years. Yes, it's ancient history - PS2/VGA, but it has supported the various PCs (and laptop docking stations) over time just fine. I got a good PS2/USB converter, Belkin F5U119VE1, that works well with my newest PC on the KVM...

Anand Intel SSD 750 PCIe SSD Review: "Intel SSD 750 PCIe SSD Review: NVMe for the Client" Yes, I NV U.

FWIW, Mushkin Teams With Newegg To Launch Fast And Budget-Friendly ECO2 SSDs.

$90 for a Crucial M550 256GB mSATA? TigerDirect??

Too many people don't bother getting their headlights' direction checked regularly.

Ars was briefly hacked yesterday; here’s what we know

I hope the lady has a backup of the laptop's data. If not, or if she wants to rescue/re-purpose the laptop drive, does anyone here have any recommendations for external laptop-drive enclosures?

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3 articles: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014...with-nix-in-it http://www.zdnet.com/unixlinux-bash-...red-7000034021 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/bash_shell_vuln From the boffins at The Register, "A bug discovered in the widely used Bash command interpreter poses a critical...

Gosh, my wife has a hard enough time working the TV with a remote. :)

But List Price: $2,310.00 Price: $829.99 Free Shipping for Prime Members You Save: $1,480.01 (64%) Did you really turn down a 64% discount on a TeraByte Kingston...

From Ars, FWIW, Lowest Price Ever: Seiki SE50UY04 50" Ultra High Definition 4K LED HDTV for $449 with free shipping (list price $1,499.99).

Evidenced by that post, not over too quickly.

Sorry, having trouble editing. OK, that post worked. When I posted just one of the quotes originally, it said I needed to enter at least 1 character. Strange.

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Asus VS247Ps? VS series - no speakers at all? But it does have that slim design. ASUS Monitor Series VB VK VW VE VH VS PA VG Panel Sizes 17" - 22" X X X X X 23" - 25" X X X X X X 27" X X X Built-in Speakers X X X* X* X* Slim Design X

Didn't feel a thing.

Approximately apropos: Tesla California sales beat Chrysler, Volvo, Cadillac, other big names

The owner has a new, cute little pet monkey that would love to play with all those colored wires. :-D

Any way you could "grandmother" her in to your health-care coverage at work, or otherwise take advantage of their presumed lower rates?

Good thing it went Priority Mail®.

It's pork, like Arby's is roast beef.

Multi-tasking - cycling with the baby? Baby Bike Seat? I recall ≈ 30 years ago, driving around semi-aimlessly in Berkeley with the baby, just to try get her to go to sleep.