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I'm not really all that upset. It's par for the course for me at this point. Their marriage has only lasted about five and a half years. Like I said, women have come and gone through my dad's life. Just an FYI, there is no possible way my dad is going to be working -- he has Parkinson's...

So this is a thing now. My parents are splitting up. A bit of background: I live with my dad and step-mom, whom I refer to as my mother for all intents and purposes. My real mother is really nothing more than the egg donor for me. My dad and I left her when I was 5 and the last time I even...

Those shots are beautiful. The technical specs whizzed right over my head though. Now I know how people feel when I talk about computers.

That looks amazing. I'd love to have one of those open air cases for my own, but alas, I have small animals and a little sister who likes to touch EVERYTHING. Anything I put out there is guaranteed to be fried in the space of a few days. By the way, is there anyone out here who ever actually...

I can't really participate in the whole 'sharing memories' thing mostly because I don't have a lot of them to share. I came in here in the very last few months of Mark's being around, and I only ever really ran into him in the Folding forum, where he was always willing to help. That's all I can...

I actually think the quad-core Atom in those tablets outperform the dual-core Bay Trail Celerons in most of the Chromebooks. Rarely do you see a Chromebook with user-replaceable RAM. I'd probably be in the same boat either way, except I would have no touch screen and it would be bulkier. Touch...

If I was going with something I planned on keeping longer than a year or two, I would. But as it stands now I don't really see myself really keeping ANYTHING I have right now for all that much longer. The Core 2 Quad, lovely as it is now, is starting to show its age -- nothing urgent, but I am...

Actually, I may forgo the Stream 7 and it's assorted things and go with a WinBook T802. Double the RAM, still cheaper than a ChromeBook (but not by much) from MicroCenter itself, full USB 2 compatibility, microSD support, and a micro-HDMI port from what I've found. The price from Amazon is out...

Hm. Cool. I'm really looking at an HP Stream 7 tablet -- the touch stuff is kinda meh to me but it's cheap and really portable. And it runs full Windows. And it has a quad-core (!) Atom. Keyboard cover and bluetooth mouse is cheap too. Altogether, I'm looking at ~$127 for the whole thing, KB/M...

I have a small question. Why do most motherboards these days still ship with PS/2 ports, but the only kind of mouse/keyboard that's commonly sold anymore are all USB/wireless of some nature? Are they expecting people to use their old keyboards and mice with new hardware? I can't say much, of...

Same. I really hope this is all just a coincidence. Side note -- my last name is Turner as well.

Well, my old Radeon 9550 card worked beautifully for what it was used for. I had absolutely no troubles with it besides a single blue-screen during driver installation on Win7. Though as a result of that, I'm always waiting for AMD drivers to blue-screen during the install process now. ... But...

Swapped the Radeon HD 3650 for my trusty old GeForce GT 610. It isn't quite as fast, but it works with far less troubles and is actually supported for GPU folding. On one of those Ars Technica stories I was tempted to say something to the effect of, "Everyone's all on about these Broadwell i5s...

I finally have a little bit of money, but alas, I need to keep it back for driver's training this summer. Not like I have any USB 3 hardware anyway, not that it's terribly expensive or anything, but nothing I own has it and nothing I regularly use has it. You'd think that for $850 apiece in 2014...

I think I managed to force it to fold on the GPU here -- but being a Radeon HD 3650, I'm not expecting anything stellar. Still, I looked up the specs on this card, and wouldn't you believe it... they completely obliterate the GeForce GT610 in every area but one, VRAM size. 256MB vs 2GB. I still...

I don't necessarily care if someone's gay or bisexual or whatever, it's not my business. Less so is it the business of... Well, businesses. I support gay marriage through and through, because no one's getting hurt by it and everyone should have the same rights as anyone else. This law in Indiana...

So I figured out how to map my user libraries (can't think of a better name for them, but they aren't the libraries that shipped with Win7+ -- I'm talking about the ones you find in the This PC folder in Windows 8.1) to the hard drive by right clicking the folders and hitting Properties. I'm...

There was a minor scare involving the graphics card and Windows 8.1 x64 drivers, but I got that ironed out and it looks like we're in business. I'm torn between spending the cash I've got on a GTX750Ti or a 1080p monitor, or simply holding on to it. I've got nothing but the 15" 1024x768 panel at...

Today was a good day. Picked up a Dell Studio 540 for free without a hard drive. Works great. It's got a Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHz, 6GB DDR2-800 RAM, and a discrete Radeon HD 3650 or so. The grep output for lspci wasn't particularly specific, narrowing it down to anything from an HD 3650 to...

Well, honestly, now I just feel inadequate. ;-) I completely understand how that kind of data just piles up for you guys, but on my own with no setup files to worry about (seriously, I've got about 130GB of setup files sitting on the NAS) I have serious issues filling up 250GB. My videos folder...

All this talk of multi-terabyte systems and I have trouble filling 500GB. What do you guys run in your personal systems? Daily drivers, that is, not home servers or whatever. ddrueding and Santilli are the only two people I can think of off the top of my head who detail system specs in their...

Yeah, Flint's apparently the murder capitol of the world. I learned that today, when discussing a subject unrelated to this.

The latency would be terrible for me, definitely, seeing how I'm still using an 802.11g router.

I can get Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter. I'm grabbing the Datacenter version now. That's what I will be running on the A10 build instead of Windows 8.1/10. I looked at a chart detailing the differences between the versions, and while I will probably never use the virtualization features...

Vivaldi is shaping up to be pretty cool. It seems to be aiming to replace the Presto-based versions of Opera, in terms of features aimed toward power users. It's based on the same rendering engine as Chrome, so expect roughly the same amount of speed as with Chrome. It's got just about no addons...

I might actually do that on my A10-5800K build when it's done. I honestly don't do anything that needs a server release of Windows anyway, but hey, it's a free, genuine license for Windows that isn't an OEM version.

I'm of the same mind as Lunar. Why was it made illegal? Actually, scratch that. I don't think I'm even old enough to legally talk about this stuff yet.

I'm salivating. Is that normal? I... think I'm getting dehydrated over here...

Yikes. Is it responsive after it boots up? What's kind of funny is that I could get a free license for Server 2012 R2 (any of three versions, Essentials, Standard, and I can't remember the third one) through the DreamSpark program. That's how I have VS 2013 Pro, and Office 2013 ProPlus (though...

Yikes. No thank you, I'm not dancing this dance today! I have to say that I'd be surprised if the asking price was anything below $1250, as you said. But I imagine that to someone that can use it, it'd be worth it. Also, I will probably never be able to use flagship hardware to its full...

Might just have to grab this one. Maybe if I turn the settings down far enough it'll run favorably on this laptop! On another note, I've got a couple months before this happens, but I'm getting a new desktop. I'm not building it specifically for gaming, but that will be a facet of it. I'm going...

Thanks for the clarification, guys. I agree with Merc. With the hype that Windows 10 is getting, in combination with the actual improvements (that people other than power users/sysadmins care about, because let's face it, even though Win8.x's task manager is nice, do you really think grandma...

I have to agree with Tannin here -- there is just no excuse for completely dropping support for a line of otherwise perfectly functional machines just because they don't support a single feature that rarely if ever actually gets used in any meaningful capacity. For example, the NX bit is of...

Figured out the issue. The NaCl plugin wasn't set to always allowed, for some reason. Fixed it. At it's finest, I can only expect to get maybe 5-10000 ppd from this Sandy Bridge i3, as GPU folding isn't an option for Intel HD chipsets. And that's if I let it run at full tilt all day, everyday --...

What he said! I had to go back to using the desktop F@H client -- for some reason, the NaCl client does not work in Chromium, which I chose to install instead of straight Google Chrome, which doesn't appear to be in Linux Mint's stock repositories, and I'm not too certain that I want to add...

I imagine these are marketed to the people who see a big, impressive number that isn't entirely incorrect and want to buy it, no matter the cost. Same deal with the 3.0+ GHz Pentium 4's, although those at least had some real merit. They had nothing on an Athlon XP/64 in normal use, of course...

I love how such high capacity hard drives are getting so cheap, but PCs are still being sold with 500GB hard drives as standard. You'd think 1 or 2TB would be standard by now.

I'm just imitating his style for the posts in this particular topic so it seems more cohesive with the others. I'm not about to start my own thread about it, that'll just make me seem like even more of a copy-cat. Also, I'm pretty sure most of the things I'm learning about and find useful are...

WindowPad (scroll down in the first post and click the attachment to download) is a neat little utility that enhances Windows 7+'s Aero Snap capabilities to do snapping in quarters and in the center of the screen. It will also run on XP/Vista, giving them Aero Snap functionality. Yes...

Where did I say that it wouldn't be public? :confused:

I have a QuakeNet account and a IRC client that I have set to autologin and autojoin a couple channels. I use it for chatting with a few people from another site. Lunar, just in case you weren't being sarcastic, IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. QuakeNet does have a webchat thingy made in...

Out of curiosity, do we have an IRC channel?

So would I! What's the seeming obsession with mechanical keyboards over here about? I can't say a whole lot, because I've never used a mechanical keyboard, but rubber dome keyboards do the job alright for me. From my perspective, for what they're asking for mechanical keyboards, it better be...

Apparently, it's going to be a free upgrade for 7/8/8.1 users for the first year after release. It's kind of vague about what happens after that. Does it switch to a subscription model? The readers at Ars are having it out in the comments of the story as we speak. Link.

I'd imagine, being three years old, that it's out of warranty at this point. And yes, it is better. Very much so.

Why is that?

A friend wanted to trade me his Satellite C655, specs detailed in my signature. He wanted the HDMI and USB 3.0 ports that were provided on my machine that I didn't utilize, and I wanted his obviously faster CPU. The RAM is a bit slower than I'd like, but I figure it really doesn't matter too...

The saddest thing of all? CNet's been like this for at least the last 5 years.

Yeah, except the Linux version only has 1 GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. And it comes with Ubuntu, which is decidedly NOT light enough to run on such a small amount of RAM or even such a small amount of storage. It'd be very cramped, to say the least. Now, if it came with something like...

I was referring to the flash drive that he might have been using, which I do often see formatted in NTFS these days. I remember taking my old 1 and 2GB flash drives and formatting them in NTFS (they came to me in FAT32) to get a little extra space. Remember, these were 1 and 2GB flash drives...