ddrueding
Fixture
Yup. I think the price was $1996.50.
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Yup. I think the price was $1996.50.
Do you use an alarm clock to wake up in the A.M.? Does said alarm clock have a backup battery? Have you checked said battery in the last six months?
I had a power loss today due to electric company installing some shite* on our meter and every clock took a shit and was blinking 12:00 on it.
Luckly I was awake at the time and noticed the fan stopped and heard the tell-tale clicks of the modem, router, DVR, TV, computer monitor, etc, losing power. ALL the 9v backup batteries were bone-dead. Nothing on the "touch-9v-battery-to-the-tongue" test.
If you use your phone to wake up, you are a lot safer, but check your backup batteries nonetheless.
*more on this later
I had a power loss today due to electric company installing some shite* on our meter and every clock took a shit and was blinking 12:00 on it.
Luckly I was awake at the time and noticed the fan stopped and heard the tell-tale clicks of the modem, router, DVR, TV, computer monitor, etc, losing power. ALL the 9v backup batteries were bone-dead. Nothing on the "touch-9v-battery-to-the-tongue" test.
If you use your phone to wake up, you are a lot safer, but check your backup batteries nonetheless.
I use several alarm clocks, including one on a GPS. The power failure alarms would wake me up in any event.
ddrueding
Fixture
I use my cell phone as my alarm clock (actually as my only clock). The time is very accurate (even auto-corrects for daylight savings and time zones), the battery backup can last all night, and I test it daily. No other solution that is nearly as effective.
I don't let the cell phone in the master bedroom. However, I do use it as one alarm on travel although the time only updates when there is service.
Something about the Andordis does not update time from the GPS. Perhaps I'm not doing something right.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Same thing for me. However, I often just shut it up quickly and fall back to sleep.
Stereodude
Not really a
I use a 20 year old high end boombox as my alarm clock.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Again, a massacred link by Mooner.
Oddly, it asks me to log in and then goes to the thread. Some kind of error?
My alarm clock (clock radio) automagically sets the time when it is plugged in. Does it through the the radio somehow I think. Or maybe the power line? Been years since I bought it and I forgot what the box it came in said.
This and this for me as well. I've not used a night stand alarm clock since 2007-ish.
Stereodude
Not really a
Since I know everyone cares, it's a Panasonic RX-E300. Quite swanky for a boombox. Bi-amped speakers, auto-reverse, Dolby B, & full logic controls on the tape deck.
Stereodude
Not really a
I wish I lived near a Fry's. They have a 2 day in-store only promo (with the stupid daily e-mail promo code [from Friday]) for a 64GB Samsung Pro+ microSDXC card for $25. Limit 2. They're not even in stock most places and are at least 50% more $ than that.
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
I've got two waiting for me at my local Fry's. I'd be happy to send you one at no markup ($27 + postage) if you want. PM if interested.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Same here. My phone gets louder and more obnoxious than my old alarm clock could ever hope to.
Stereodude
Not really a
Interested. I sent you a PM.
Stereodude
Not really a
Yesterday USPS decided to deliver me an errant package. It has a shipping label for me on it, but I didn't order a $400 "hoverboard" scooter from F.Y.E. http://www.fye.com/s/product/4044477/
It looks like their fulfillment center in KY, which they share with a number of other companies, mistakenly put a duplicate shipping label on the box that is 100% identical (down to the tracking number) to the one on an order from another retailer that I received a day earlier on Thursday. There is a another address label on the side of the box from F.Y.E. to someone in Knoxville, TN.
I sent F.Y.E. customer service an e-mail explaining the situation with some photos and asked for a prepaid UPS Ground label to send the box to the correct person in Knoxville, TN or instructions on what they want me to do with it.
It looks like their fulfillment center in KY, which they share with a number of other companies, mistakenly put a duplicate shipping label on the box that is 100% identical (down to the tracking number) to the one on an order from another retailer that I received a day earlier on Thursday. There is a another address label on the side of the box from F.Y.E. to someone in Knoxville, TN.
I sent F.Y.E. customer service an e-mail explaining the situation with some photos and asked for a prepaid UPS Ground label to send the box to the correct person in Knoxville, TN or instructions on what they want me to do with it.
Maybe a friend ordered it as a joke?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
You really believe U.S. Postal Service will agree to pay United Parcel Service to deliver a package instead of using their own in-house system? You're an overly optimistic person.
Stereodude
Not really a
I didn't ask USPS. I asked FYE.
Stereodude
Not really a
No, it's an errant shipment. F.Y.E. responded to my e-mail and said they're going to e-mail me a shipping label to send it back along with instructions on how to mark the box, etc.
Stereodude
Not really a
Fry's cracks me up. I see this "bargain" in today's ad. So half the size for 80% of the cost of the 64gB Pro+ deal mentioned above that they had going on Friday & Saturday. Oh yeah, it's the same price as Adorama's regular price too. :scratch:
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Yeah but Fry's definitely isn't so bad when it's selling an i7 CPU for $100 less than Amazon or at least price matching what the local Microcenter is doing. Which is really handy since Microcenter doesn't like selling anyone two of the same CPU in a month.
This is kind of fun. You know those sites which bitch when you visit with an adblock plugin? This little utility may be a way around it (possibly NSFW due to language).
ddrueding
Fixture
Nice. I also like their license.
ddrueding
Fixture
New modem and better internet at home.
I totally missed that!
sedrosken
Florida Man
Out of curiosity, I checked the current OS marketshare figures. Kind of sad to see that 10.59% of people on the web are still using XP, even a year and 8 months after they dropped support for it. I'm one of them, at least for the time being, but I chose this fate. The rest of them may not have.
For scale, that's a full two times more than OS X 10.11 and 10.10 combined. Even better, it's roughly five times the amount still using Vista, an OS that's still supported! At least XP seems to be in a steady decline. We'll probably see a sharp decrease in users once Firefox and Chrome finally drop support for it. If around that time I still happen to be using this machine regularly, I'll probably dual-boot XP with Arch Linux and use Linux for my dealings with the web at large, keeping XP installed for the various games I have on here, especially since it costs me nothing to do so as I already have it installed.
On another little random note, since S478 processors are a dime a dozen on eBay, I'm considering doing a minor chip upgrade from this 2.8GHz Prescott after Christmas rolls around and a have some money, though some may see it as a downgrade since I'm losing cache and dropping SSE3 support. I want to find a 3.2 or even 3.4GHz Northwood chip. I want a Northwood because it will run cooler, and also because the higher up Northwoods still support Hyperthreading. The board I'm using has some qualms about using Hyperthreading with Prescott chips, even though HP's official stance is that it should all just work. Lastly my 2.8 is a 2.8/533, which is why my RAM is running at 333MHz rather than the 400 that I want out of it.
For scale, that's a full two times more than OS X 10.11 and 10.10 combined. Even better, it's roughly five times the amount still using Vista, an OS that's still supported! At least XP seems to be in a steady decline. We'll probably see a sharp decrease in users once Firefox and Chrome finally drop support for it. If around that time I still happen to be using this machine regularly, I'll probably dual-boot XP with Arch Linux and use Linux for my dealings with the web at large, keeping XP installed for the various games I have on here, especially since it costs me nothing to do so as I already have it installed.
On another little random note, since S478 processors are a dime a dozen on eBay, I'm considering doing a minor chip upgrade from this 2.8GHz Prescott after Christmas rolls around and a have some money, though some may see it as a downgrade since I'm losing cache and dropping SSE3 support. I want to find a 3.2 or even 3.4GHz Northwood chip. I want a Northwood because it will run cooler, and also because the higher up Northwoods still support Hyperthreading. The board I'm using has some qualms about using Hyperthreading with Prescott chips, even though HP's official stance is that it should all just work. Lastly my 2.8 is a 2.8/533, which is why my RAM is running at 333MHz rather than the 400 that I want out of it.
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timwhit
Hairy Aussie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL It's a pretty shitty license.
ddrueding
Fixture
I still have 3 XP machines in a business environment. Currently changing the configuration so that they won't be on the internet anymore.
Nice boost. You were at 75 mb/s download before correct? You should notice the bump when downloading multiple streams at the same time. But like me, they (ISP) increased the download speed and left the upload at 10 mb/s (which usually tests around 12 mb/s).
ddrueding
Fixture
Yup. Just signed up for 250mb/s, now that my modem can handle it. The local 1Gbps fiber I was going to route in is running into LoS issues that will take some time to resolve.
Stereodude
Not really a
You can't buy a CPU with cash at Microcenter and give them an address you don't actually live at? I've never had to buy more than one of their CPU deals, so this isn't a problem I've personally encountered.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I just get a couple people who live around the Westmont store to meet me over there when I need cheap i5/i7s in exchange for $5 worth of Starbucks. Sometimes they don't have the stock I want and that's when I make the extra trip to Fry's. I don't like Fry's as well though.
Stereodude
Not really a
I don't really have a problem with Fry's. They have some good deals. They're often hard to get from the website because it seems like they have an intentionally very limited inventory. Sending the promo codes out after the sale starts doesn't help either. People who signed up for the promo code e-mails shortly after they went to this scheme get the codes hours before those of us who signed up for them fairly recently. Shopping in store seems like a better bet. The website pretty much always shows the store has inventory long after the website is out of stock. I was simply noting that some of the "deals" aren't actually deals, and there is some inconsistency. Like the Samsung Pro+ microSD__ cards. The 64gB was a deal. The 32gB, not. Or, yesterday they had a $10 promo code to get the LOTR: EE Blu-ray trilogy down to $54.99. Amazon had it as the DOTD for $28 on Monday, and Costco sells it for $45.99 all the time.
DrunkenBastard
Storage is cool
Recall on transmissions on 2015 Yamaha R1s: http://www.cycleworld.com/2015/12/1...a-yzf-r1-sportbike-motorcycles-gearbox-issue/
How does that crap happen? Don't they test the engines with it?
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