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scuz posted:How are you liking the liquid cooling on the CPU? That's been on my "to tinker with" list for a while but haven't been able to find anything that I like.
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Computer chat again, haha... I'm running a quality c. 1992-2008 build, myself. Intel Q9450 (4 cores yo!), 8GB RAM, Asus P5E64 WS Evolution motherboard, like an 80GB HDD because I don't even have a torrent program on my system (seriously, it's got like 60GB free), and five, count em, FIVE Quadro NVS290 video cards*. Each dual output. All y'all who have less monitor outputs on their computer than they have fingers are loving scrubs  And it's all stuffed into a hugenormous InWin Q500 case from the early 90s that I'm pretty sure will survive a nuclear attack. * I don't game, so I don't really need 3d acceleration. All I need is monstrous amounts of screen real estate for my electrical engineering CAD software. These cards are $25-30 each refurbed on amazon and you can get them in PCIe x1 and x16, so you can use drat near every slot on a modernish motherboard.
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Nov 30, 2015 22:07
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iwentdoodie posted:Thanks man. Yeah I posted a bit in there You gone to a doctor yet? I got hit by a car on my bicycle a few weeks ago, and I felt mostly fine other than impact damage. Now my neck is on fire, my back can't stand for more than 30 minutes without pain, and I have to go to physical therapy. Take care of yourself, use ice, and keep motrin handy.
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Nov 30, 2015 22:14
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kastein posted:Computer chat again, haha...  Gonna request of a photo of this, yup.
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Nov 30, 2015 22:46
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kastein posted:InWin Q500 Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.
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Nov 30, 2015 23:03
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Just had a 2 hr interview for a great job. The job is basically mine once they do a background check and piss test. However this company is loving insane. I'll be on call 365 24/7. IDK if I can do that. Maybe it is just the kick in the rear end I need?
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Nov 30, 2015 23:03
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Just had a 2 hr interview for a great job. Decide how great it really is to you.
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Nov 30, 2015 23:12
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nm posted:You gone to a doctor yet? Yeah, they had my rear end in an ambulance within five minutes. Xrayed and ultrasound on everything. Feel mostly fine still other than the road rash, which feels like fire. About to take a muscle relaxer and knock the gently caress out
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Nov 30, 2015 23:14
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Well it's basically the best job you can get in my field -- fiber optics fusion splicing. I'm trying to think long term and considering how poo poo my back is, it might be a good idea to take up a trade where I sit on my rear end all day anbd is always in demand as opposed to being a cable monkey sweating my balls off for peanuts. I basically talked to the boss and the head splicer and then he went over all the equipment and poo poo with me to make sure I wasn't totally full of poo poo. I tend to be honest on my resumes and interviews so they don't catch me lying later on. EDIT: Part of my pops' Christmas gift came in the mail today. He used to have a gold '78 with a black bird but this was the closest I could find. 
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Nov 30, 2015 23:16
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They probably want you on call so that if they get a gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress SOME INCOMPETENT DICKWAD JUST PUT A BACKHOE THROUGH THE 500 STRAND CABLE BESIDE I95 AND NOW ALL OF EASTERN MASS HAS NO LINK TO WESTERN MASS gently caress gently caress gently caress FUCKFUCK call at 3AM due to a construction zone screwup, they can wake you up, have it fixed before business hours, and roll in a vast lake of money, scrooge mcduck style. As long as the pay rate makes up for it that'd be fine with me. I'll see what I can do about pictures of the computer, my desk is a disastrous pile of broken jeep and computer parts right now and needs cleaning badly and I've only got 4 monitors hooked up to it till I beg/borrow/steal/buy more.
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Nov 30, 2015 23:22
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That's exactly it. They are owned by the biggest fiber optics company in America and strictly work for Comcast. I'm gonna see what they offer me for pay and weigh the pros and cons.
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Nov 30, 2015 23:24
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scuz posted:How are you liking the liquid cooling on the CPU? That's been on my "to tinker with" list for a while but haven't been able to find anything that I like. It's nice, but it's significantly more expensive than a decent copper tower air cooler like the Noctua NH-D15 without actually being better at cooling the CPU by any consequential amount. I got it because the case supports it and it's kind of neat and i've never used an AiO CPU watercooler before. mariooncrack posted:Are you thinking about overclocking? It's not really needed unless you plan to. Not even then. Copper tower cooler will cool just as well for ~30% less money. The Locator posted:Thanks for this, I had no idea. Maybe I'll put the new SSD in my existing system and make it the boot drive with a clean install on it, upgrade to 10, and then transfer it. Although I do have a CD/DVD drive in both the old and new system, so I could do it like the article says also. The Locator posted:Follow up on this - Why does it really matter if I don't have USB support during the install as long as the keyboard and mouse work? The only USB devices I have are things I don't need during the install, can't I just install 7 from the CD/DVD drive which is SATA, and then do the upgrade to get the USB support enabled after it's upgraded to 10? If you're installing from disc, that'll work OK as far as I know, and as long as your motherboard came with a drive disc like it ought to. (7 doesn't have built in drivers for... pretty much any of the hardware at this point, ethernet included) Darchangel posted:edit: My old desktop just prior to the upgrade:  Power Mac G5 case gutted with an mATX PC board backplate kit installed  it was neat and won me a casemod competition for stealthiness but was a bit capped out on GPU power while running a 1440p monitor.
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Nov 30, 2015 23:28
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literally a fish posted:If you're installing from disc, that'll work OK as far as I know, and as long as your motherboard came with a drive disc like it ought to. (7 doesn't have built in drivers for... pretty much any of the hardware at this point, ethernet included) Thanks. Motherboard arrives tomorrow supposedly, so I'll know for sure then. I can't imagine it not coming with a driver disk.
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Nov 30, 2015 23:35
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stump posted:Will they not need run for about 500 miles to scrub the mould release compound off? iwentdoodie posted:Yeah, they had my rear end in an ambulance within five minutes. Xrayed and ultrasound on everything. Feel mostly fine still other than the road rash, which feels like fire. Super Aggro Crag posted:Just had a 2 hr interview for a great job. The job is basically mine once they do a background check and piss test. However this company is loving insane. I'll be on call 365 24/7. IDK if I can do that. Maybe it is just the kick in the rear end I need?
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Nov 30, 2015 23:37
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NitroSpazzz posted:Don't you drink a bunch? That's going to have to stop if you're going to be on call. I'm probably on call about 3/4 of the time over the course of a year and it's not bad but it's always in the back of your mind that you could be called at any time and have to rush to work. Depends a lot on the job whether you'll get called once a month or a couple times a week. Yeah and I do enough drugs to kill the average man. I've always lived my life with the mentallity that I would kill myself or die at an early age so I never really gave a gently caress. But it's funny how your perspective changes when you get older and start to settle down. EDIT: I told my roommates about the on call situation and they all started laughing their asses off. 
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Nov 30, 2015 23:42
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Got a call from my insurance company. It was not the call I wanted. The guy that hit me is claiming I intentionally hit him (and still claiming I turned from the middle lane). He's also claiming "severe injuries". I've put the same video on a different Youtube account (one which has no other videos and no online presence whatsoever) as unlisted, and given the links to both my adjuster and Geico's adjuster. Already has 3 views in the past 10 minutes. I know the Geico adjuster was on her way out of the office, so the views are likely from my claims adjuster. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to view the domains that the views have come from tonight or tomorrow.
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Dec 1, 2015 00:59
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some texas redneck posted:Got a call from my insurance company. It was not the call I wanted. The guy that hit me is claiming I intentionally hit him (and still claiming I turned from the middle lane). He's also claiming "severe injuries". Seems like his own claims should pretty much hang him when the adjusters look at the video, where you clearly turned from the outside lane (and stayed in it). The 'severe injuries' is just a giant joke based on the video, where he can't have felt it hardly at all except as one of those 'oh poo poo' bumps where you know you just hosed up. Does that moron not know that you have video of the accident after you showed it to the police on scene? I'm pretty damned amazed that the cops didn't issue him a citation either, such bullshit.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:07
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That's the thing, I SHOWED HIM THE VIDEO when he started arguing with me. Then showed the cop the video in front of him. Then he tried to argue with the cop, which resulted in the cop shutting him down really quick. He even tried to claim I had edited the video (that would be some loving ninja editing right there, especially given the fact that my tablet has an Intel Atom processor - I think it would take about 20 minutes just to load the file into Windows Movie Maker on that thing). He's also claiming the accident happened at highway speeds (... coming out of a turn? really?) and that he was alone. He had his wife with him. I probably barely touched the striped line during the turn (that city paints the turn lines really wide for some reason), but the impact happened just outside of the intersection, and well within my lane. I'm pretty pissed at the cops myself - especially since the cop stated "damage is under $500, so I won't write a report" (just repainting a bumper is $300ish, and my bumper needs to be repaired or replaced due to a crack in it, so add at least another $200 to find a used one, sand it down, and prep for paint - and my headlights are now pointing different directions, so there's damage behind the bumper).
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some texas redneck posted:Got a call from my insurance company. It was not the call I wanted. The guy that hit me is claiming I intentionally hit him (and still claiming I turned from the middle lane). He's also claiming "severe injuries". This is making me prioritize hard wiring my dash cam and getting them for the other vehicles in the scuderia.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:19
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Based on my own experiences with minor crashes, there is no such thing as an "Under $500" crash anymore. I had a guy bump into my '12 Fiesta on the freeway (traffic was bumper to bumper, maybe 5-10mph). The only visible damage was a gouge in the plastic quarter panel, and a broken tail lamp with a slight visible bend to the frame where the light mounts. The panel alone was $850, and the supporting structure under it was bent (because the plastic flexes you know), and the repair ended up costing over $2500.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:23
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If I ever get in an accident I don't think I'll tell the other person I have a dashcam. Then they can make up ridiculous lies and look like an idiot.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:25
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gently caress I should get and hardwire a dashcam.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:36
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Dashcams on every vehicle in the fleet, except for the Enfield. CB650 1998 Explorer Bus Beetle The Enfield hasn't been ridden in nearly 10 months. I'll get around to it.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:39
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Welp, finally saw some white foam under the oil fill cap--looks like the Mazda's afflicted with a bad head gasket after all. I wish it had just done that right off the bat instead of playing coy, then I wouldn't have done the valve seals. My bad for not doing a leakdown test I guess but the drat things are notorious for seal problems so I went for it. At this point I figure I'll try and sell it, see if I can get better than scrapyard prices. gently caress me.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:39
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CharlesM posted:If I ever get in an accident I don't think I'll tell the other person I have a dashcam. Then they can make up ridiculous lies and look like an idiot. This. Never tip your hand until the police arrive.
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Dec 1, 2015 02:54
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I need to replace my current dash cam with one that I can do playback on the spot. Right now I have to get the memory card home and extract it on the desktop, which is fine I suppose, but it would be nice to be able to show it to an officer on the scene if it was an issue.
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Rhyno posted:This. Never tip your hand until the police arrive. I know better... now. Either way, the guy filed a claim knowing full well I had a cam. A very, very fraudulent claim. Just got another call from my insurance adjuster (guess she's working late?). She and I both acknowledge I went over the line slightly during the turn, but she said it's very obvious that the guy fully intended to take my lane, either through stupidity or.. who knows what the gently caress, and my crossing the line briefly didn't contribute to the accident in any way. She also mentioned she wished everyone had dashcams so that she wouldn't have to do the he said/she said poo poo. She's going to get approval from her manager in the morning to deny the other guy's claim 100%, she just needs an actual copy of the video to put with the claim instead of a youtube link. So I'm putting it in Dropbox for her, hopefully she can get it from there.
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Dec 1, 2015 03:03
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some texas redneck posted:That's the thing, I SHOWED HIM THE VIDEO when he started arguing with me. Then showed the cop the video in front of him. Then he tried to argue with the cop, which resulted in the cop shutting him down really quick. He even tried to claim I had edited the video (that would be some loving ninja editing right there, especially given the fact that my tablet has an Intel Atom processor - I think it would take about 20 minutes just to load the file into Windows Movie Maker on that thing). sounds like the cop sided with the straight dude 
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Dec 1, 2015 03:17
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The cop sided with me and ripped him a new rear end in a top hat when he kept trying to argue.  Cop just didn't feel like filing a report.
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Dec 1, 2015 03:19
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some texas redneck posted:The cop sided with me and ripped him a new rear end in a top hat when he kept trying to argue. Oh I must have missed that part 
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Dec 1, 2015 03:27
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some texas redneck posted:I know better... now. Didn't mean to come off as a dick, just something I've learned from 10 years of bouncing. You should probably track down the officer and ask him to provide a written statement as well.
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Dec 1, 2015 03:47
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Rhyno posted:This. Never tip your hand until the police arrive. Yup, don't ever give the other person the time and opportunity to think of a bullshit rebuttal. Then you look sane and they look like irrational idiots stumbling trying to pull a half believable lie out of their rear end.
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Dec 1, 2015 03:54
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Last time I was in accident, I was on my bike and the officer wrote up a "Record of Collision" which is definitely not the same as an Accident Report. Chick's mom called me up saying that I was harassing her daughter and there's no way that damage to a bike could manage to be $500. I learned my lesson; always get an accident report.
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Are there any good rear view mirrors with cameras built in, or is that not a thing yet
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