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    Mini Wireless keyboard

    I was planning to steer clear of those. From my searching on Amazon I think I will try these three mini keyboards with touchpads. They should all be backlit & not be BT. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KGMG3SK/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Z81U3YY/...
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    Mini Wireless keyboard

    Time to revisit this thread... My Lenovo N5902 w/ backlight (the 2nd gen model) met it's timely demise yesterday after pissing me off for the last time. It never could work reliably within a 10' range (with basically direct line of sight to the receiver). You would have to move it around to...
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    What to do with a problem like VGA?

    I don't think that helps him if he needs to get into the BIOS or see anything before the OS is loaded.
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    Tesla doomed

    I bet you're not as happy with what The China Syndrome did to nuclear power are you? I guess using movies to tug at the hearstrings and shape public opinion as propaganda is great when it aligns with your beliefs and not so great when it doesn't.
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    Tesla doomed

    Yes, just imagine how much better things would be if we all rode horses, didn't have refrigeration, and had to live off food we raised ourselves. Everyone would be living past 100 in harmony with everyone else. The industrial revolution ruined everything! PS: Let me know when JTR joins the Amish.
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    What to do with a problem like VGA?

    Maybe if you don't have a lot of concerns about the image quality and want to keep your x16 PCIe slot free for something else. If you want a pixel perfect sharp image when you use that machine go with the video card with DVI output.
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    Tesla doomed

    Not that I'm in the EM RDF, but rockets are expensive. If you treat them as disposable you have to subsidize their cost into your payload costs. If you could reuse them after refurbishing for a fraction of the cost of replacing them with new every time you could significantly lower your...
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    What to do with a problem like VGA?

    Well, that was is cheaper than I was expecting, but I didn't look too hard to find one.
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    Nichia Develops 60 Lumen Per Watt White LED

    So use an Internet browser that works, or continue along in your current state of confusion. It's up to you.
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    What to do with a problem like VGA?

    Some DVI-I connectors accept analog. I understand VGA to DVI/HDMI isn't cheap. A cheap graphics card with DVI out will be less expensive.
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    What to do with a problem like VGA?

    VGA to DVI or HDMI converter?
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    I didn't pay anything for it. It said something about losing some functionality after 2 weeks when I installed and ran it. No idea what functionality that is.
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    Nichia Develops 60 Lumen Per Watt White LED

    This flashlight seems pretty interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theorb/mule-light-v2-the-only-flashlight-you-will-ever-ne
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    networking from a wireless dongle

    I was going to suggest nuking it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. By they way guys. Thanks for the laughs.
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    Thanks for the tip. I hated how ES got all bloated.
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    The storageforum Audi S4 Thread

    So what ever happened with your wheels Handy? In other S4 news I made an appointment to get the 48K8 steering TSB, airbag recall, and my windshield washer fluid sensor fixed for Friday since my warranty is about 300 miles away from being expired. Apparently Rain-X washer fluid will corrode the...
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    Something Random

    It's generally suspected that eBay kicks in some of the discount of their Deal of the Day offers. So eBay is most likely subsidizing the price. Hence why it's lower. AFAIK, Costco has the lowest in store price at $19.49.
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    Something Random

    I haven't seen it yet. I wanted a 3D release, but it doesn't look like there will be one. $18 after tax and shipping is more than I normally pay for Blu-ray movies, but I want to see it and am splurging.
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    Something Random

    Get it while you can: http://ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens-Blu-ray-DVD-Digital-HD-/272201169716? $16.99 for the new Star Wars on Blu-ray
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    Something Random

    Sometimes it doesn't want to play nice with Firefox. In which case you need to try a different browser.
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    question Where'd the X79 motherboards go?

    Well, the RAM arrived. All 8 matching DIMMs from Natex are in my Intel S2600CP2J and are getting memory tested now. I'm not expecting any trouble.
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    Something Random

    Not that I really expect much of the WebEx clowns, but really... They don't support MS's new Edge browser? They detect it as Chrome... I mean I totally get that it only came out last year, and they couldn't have possibly tested with the betas, but c'mon... :skepo:
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    Media Player Appliances

    Android can mount password protected shares? I thought there were issues with that with regards to Kodi.
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    question Where'd the X79 motherboards go?

    So I'm pretty sure the explanation is AVX instructions. The Linux version of P95 was an older version that doesn't use them and the Windows version was a newer version that does. Intel CPU's increase their voltage when executing AVX instructions which increases heat and power consumption. I...
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    Proposed NAS build

    So I don't understand the logic behind it, but the IBM ServeRAID cards I have for some reason default to running weekly patrol scans of the drives as well as weekly consistency checks. At the same time... The consistency check supersedes and cancels the patrol read. I'm not really sure why...
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    Media Player Appliances

    Do you want to store the music on the appliance? IMHO, Kodi works pretty well for what you're asking for. You can map your music from the NAS or have it local on an external (or internal) drive to the Kodi box and control the Kodi box with Yatse from your Android phone. Kodi also has a web...
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    networking from a wireless dongle

    In the US you can get something like this: http://www.verizonwireless.com/internet-devices/verizon-mifi-4g-lte-global-usb-modem-u620l/ Some of the routers with a USB port can use them (may require alternative firmware) for the WAN side connection.
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    Torrent Client

    Are you running it under Windows?
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    Torrent Client

    What torrent clients are you guys using these days to download your Linux distros, Libre Office, etc? I last used uTorrent 2.0.4
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    networking from a wireless dongle

    My wireless N network gives me about 10MB/sec copying files using 5gHz.
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    networking from a wireless dongle

    Why didn't you get a 4G cellular USB adapter instead of a wifi based one? Then you could plug it into the router and use it just like a wired connection.
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    Something Random

    That's the key on the keyboard man. That's just how it types.
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    Something Random

    KeyboaГd came on FГiday. I opened it up and tested it out today. I've got it glowing Гed with the keys tuГning white when they'Гe pГessed. It's goofy, but I like it. So I wГote this post with the keyboaГd in question. You'll have to let me know if you can undeГstand what I wrote or not. I...
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    Something Random

    Well, I was bound to notice it eventually since that's the only thing my old server is really still being used for. I need to pull the drive from the old server and put it in the new server and make the cameras save their to footage to it. Then I should be able to pull the old one. I would...
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    Something Random

    So I discovered today that when I plugged in my new server/NAS into my gigabit switch 11 days ago I unplugged the uplink to my 10/100 PoE switch that my security cameras are connected to and used that port for the new server/NAS. So, I haven't been recording anything for the past 11 days...
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    Something Random

    No one is asking you to post less. How hard would it be to add an extra sentence or two so people would have some clue what you're attempting to ask about?
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    Something Random

    Yep, I have a mm wave radar scanner like they use at the airport in my basement. You know, your posts are immeasurably frustrating... The same guy who can write a post like this: Full of specific and exact details and no ambiguity (aside from the technical error), can't write a cogent and...
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    Windows 10 gremlins: Reboots from bugcheck 0x000000d1

    I mainly interact with the system over remote desktop so it doesn't really matter regardless. Random reboots aren't acceptable though. I have to say RDP Win10 to Win10 box is very nice though. Even over the Internet using the less than stellar upload via my cable modem.
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    Free DVD Copying options

    Those exist. A few LG drives made after a certain date have BD 4.0 support and can read them. I think a firmware update could add support for them to other drives if the manufacturers see any value in doing so. There's a thread on AVSforum on which drives can or can't read them.
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    Windows 10 gremlins: Reboots from bugcheck 0x000000d1

    I was using the Win 8.1 x64 driver from the v1.01 driver package from ASPEED. I tried installing the driver for Win 8.1 x64 driver package, but Windows says that driver was disabled due to problems with it. They don't have a Windows 10 driver. The driver on ASRock's page for Server 2012r2...
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    Windows 10 gremlins: Reboots from bugcheck 0x000000d1

    So I followed the instructions found here and got a 32kB debuglog.txt file, but I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. However these lines lead me to think it's the driver for the ASPEED video "card" in the BMC. MODULE_NAME: astkmd IMAGE_NAME: astkmd.sys PROCESS_NAME: dwm.exe
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    Windows 10 gremlins: Reboots from bugcheck 0x000000d1

    Well, I knew my happiness with my new Server/NAS wouldn't last very long. It seems to have gremlins. I don't know what's wrong with it, but I've got a bad feeling about it... Sunday was a bugcheck: Monday was a bugcheck: Yesterday was a bugcheck. Based on my Googling 0x0d1 is...
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    question Where'd the X79 motherboards go?

    I've bought a lot of stuff on eBay over the years, and this is the first time I've had this sort of problem. I have had two flaky RAM sellers who sent me one bad stick of RAM and then couldn't replace it with good RAM. The one is taking it all back. I'm still fighting with the other. New...
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    Something Random

    The one you find on DVD and Blu-ray.
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    Free DVD Copying options

    I'm pretty sure that's not quite accurate. The whole thing is rather convoluted. AFAIK from trying to figure it out... Your existing key will work with basically entitle you to decrypt any disc that is handled prior to 4/30/2016. Discs that are "fixed" after 4/30/2016 will require a new...
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    Windows 10

    Can you take a screenshot of what you're talking about? Internet results? I must have that crap disabled because I don't see internet results.
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    question Where'd the X79 motherboards go?

    The seller is trying to refuse my refund for four DIMMs (1 bad and 3 good). He only wants to accept the one bad DIMM back. I pushed back, and asked why I should pay for three DIMMs I can't use because he's unable to fulfill my entire purchase. If he had listed only 7 I sure wouldn't have...
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    Windows 10

    What sort of search are you referring to? The search in File Explorer seemed the same to me in my brief messing with it. I don't use any metro apps, so I don't know about that one.
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    Media Player Appliances

    I thought Kodi was heavily favoring using UPnP instead of shared MySQL databases for content sharing between boxes in the newer versions. http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Share_libraries_using_UPnP
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    Windows 10

    I have a hard time believing that anything that works with 8.1 won't work with 10, but I suppose there could be some corner cases. 8.1 and 7 have just about as much spying nonsense in them too unless you are super vigilant about what updates you install. I'm sure eventually MS is going to...
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