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  1. CougTek

    Something Random

    While waiting for a huge download to complete, I won 18 FreeCell games in a row. If I reach 20, do you think I'll deserve a life achievement award? Damn I bored.
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    Schooled by a Coffee cat

    We should create a sock puppet accessible to all members, who's sole purpose is to correct spelling/grammar mistakes : Woody Nitpicker.
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    Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6L V6 engine

    Lunar likes to leave us in the mist.
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    Something Random

    It rarely snows at Vancouver. It's the same climate as Seatle (both cities are quite close). You could ask Groltz about it if you still have his contact informations. And with the retard that Harper is as a Prime Minister, Canada isn't such a decent country. He's like a tall G.W. Bush with a...
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    Something Random

    I read somewhere that Santilli is looking for a new room-mate.
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    Something Random

    Vancouver and Victoria city on the Pacific coast of Canada also are very expensive spots.
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    Something Random

    The cost of living near Silicon Valley is supposed to be quite inflated. New York city is another good candidate.
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    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    I can be very persuasive, especially in person.
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    Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6L V6 engine

    I don't think it was a car since there must not be a lot of Taurus SHOW for rent. He must have driven a Ford Flex or maybe an F150 with the V6 engine. They are both more common than the SHOW. An F150 limited at 80mph would make more sense than a similarly crippled Flex.
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    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    I guess I just needed to complain for them to release a motherboard with a single CPU socket and two CPU fan connectors. Right form factor and chipset too. Expensive, but not exceedingly so.
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    Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6L V6 engine

    80 what, mph or kph? 80mph is reasonable, but 80kph is dangerous as it's so boring to drive at that speed that you're in danger of falling asleep.
  12. CougTek

    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    Yep, that's what I need. Thanks. It would be simpler it the additionnal header was directly on the motherboard though. And I agree with Bozo that both drive rails and motherboard standoffs should be standard for enclosures of the same company.
  13. CougTek

    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    It's not only for a personal build. I have a few customers who want silent yet powerful computers and having two CPU fans could help achieve that.
  14. CougTek

    Something Random

    I'm very literate in my primary language, but I admit I'm partly illiterate in english. This forum is one of the only places I communicate in english so please be forgiving. That and sometimes with some of my stupid Chinese moronic suppliers, who are too retarded to understand that you have to...
  15. CougTek

    OTA TV

    You were probably in the moon when you posted that link.
  16. CougTek

    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    I need a 4-pins model. Fans will otherwise turn at their maximum speed with a 3-pins connector.
  17. CougTek

    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    What can I say? Not everyone can be in charge of saving lives. I'm just busy at ruining my own.
  18. CougTek

    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    Thanks, but the shipping from Tennessee to the Great White North would be more expensive than the part itself. Thanks for the suggestion though. There must be places closer than UK that sell that splitter.
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    OTA TV

    Plug her on Hulu.
  20. CougTek

    Fanless CPU cooler

    "Only" 500$ with the chassis and bundled PSU. Forgot to mention that it weights two pounds. Thanks, but I'll pass.
  21. CougTek

    Why motherboards don't have two CPU fan connectors?

    I'm pissed. My dream of building the perfect computer cannot be realised. I cannot find a motherboard, ideally a reasonnably-priced motherboard, with two 4-pins CPU fan connectors. Why do I need this? Well, the most efficient coolers on the market need two fans in order to achieve top...
  22. CougTek

    Something Random

    I hope none of you Aussies had a website with Distribute.it, because if you did, you no longer have one. A hacker deleted 4800 sites hosted there and the company didn't make backups.
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    OTA TV

    Isn't she Russian? I think Mama Mamoochka would be a lot happier if you'd get a satellite dish to watch free international channels. Some of them must be russian.
  24. CougTek

    Televisions as monitors: What are you using, and why?

    Maybe it's for watching TV in bed or when lying down on the sofa?
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    Something Random

    I'm using LXDE on my Linux box. I haven't check how much memory it uses, but I'm sure it's less than either Gnome, KDE or Xfce. At 210MB, Xfce isn't that bad. It has nothing to envy to Gnome. Same functionality for an 80MB lesser memory footprint is ok.
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    Search Conduit : what a plague.

    If you search something on Google, is it redirected?
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    Firefox 5, Opera 11.11 and Chrome 12 all equal...

    Yeah, TeaTimer is quite a ressource hog. Way too heavy for the protection it offers. It looks like softwares made by Symantec.
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    Windows box directly on the 'net

    Using nothing is not an option when you don't have a hardware firewall in front of it and even then, it's not a good idea.
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    Firefox 5, Opera 11.11 and Chrome 12 all equal...

    ...in SunSpider javascript benchmark at least. On my modest main computer (Core i7 950 with Win7 64b), their scores are the following : Firefox 5.0 : 316.4ms ± 1.1% Chrome 12 : 316.4ms ± 2.1% Opera 11.11 : 309.5ms ± 2.2% So considering the margin of error, we can safely say that they are all...
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    Televisions as monitors: What are you using, and why?

    I know the FirePro 2460 I sold a month ago for a financial analysis system supported 4x 1920x1080. It's a fairly low-end card.
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    Folding@Home

    Not just your setup. The client will generate errors well before visual artifacts appear on the screen. Despite your issues, you're about to have your best month ever.
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    Televisions as monitors: What are you using, and why?

    I doubt that. It is not a supported definition according to the list you posted above.
  33. CougTek

    Windows box directly on the 'net

    You're in Australia now?
  34. CougTek

    Something Random

    Don't worry ; you have backups. You do, don't you? Please don't tell me you've made a Eugene of yourself?
  35. CougTek

    How to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?

    Apparently, cheap LGA1155 boards don't have any IDE ports on them. Oh well... There's always cheap AM3 boards and something like an Athlon II X3 450. Still better than paying 140$ for an old board.
  36. CougTek

    How to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?

    I thought you wrote that the board was dead. So right now, it doesn't play movies, much less blu-ray movies, just fine. It played movies and old games...when it was working. Paying 140$ for a vantage motherboard when you can get a decent new Sandybridge-based CPU, motherboard and 4GB of DDR3...
  37. CougTek

    How to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?

    Are you insane? Of course you are, what was I thinking? Yes, you buy another board, along a new CPU and new RAM. Don't pay 140$ for five-years-old technology. A new Pentium G620 or G840 would be faster and consume less electricity than anything fitting a socket 754/939.
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    Samsung intro 2-platters 2.5" 1TB drive.

    It was about damn time you notice it. I practically made that thread for you.
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    Greg Santilli Memorial Babe Thread

    Experience comes from mistakes and it should make you wiser, but you don't appear to be wise yet. Check your brain's firewall setting ; it might be blocking the wisdom port.
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    WTB: s754 mainboard

    The seller from your link says he'll only ship within U.S. and Taz is in Australia.
  41. CougTek

    Something Random

    What's the socket of your motherboard? There are extremely goood heatsinks out there, many of which are not very expensive. What's your budget?
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    How to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?

    Time, ALL socket-754 motherboards use DDR SDRAM, so his Elixir stick would fit. And yes, that case is relatively clean. Also, anyone who's been doing computer repairs for a while has a pile of socket-A/754/939/AM2 processors waiting for a motherboard. The mainboards simply don't last.
  43. CougTek

    Greg Santilli Memorial Babe Thread

    I'm sorry but I read your last post just after leaving the "favorite game" thread and what came to my mind when I read "head shot" wasn't what you were expecting when you wrote it. Search Google for "Unreal tournament head shot".
  44. CougTek

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    In 200 hours, you cannot make any of these games (excepts perhaps Starflight). You could try Wolfenstein 3D with simplistic level designs or a platform-based game, but nothing with complex textures and physic effects. Making a game is supposed to be very time-consuming. But hey, you're the...
  45. CougTek

    Something Random

    You should have gone with a GE T58-8F. It's a jet engine and produces 11000 cfm at full throttle.
  46. CougTek

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    X-Wing, but with modern graphics and faster gameplay.
  47. CougTek

    netbook hard drive replacement

    I will deny that I wrote what you'll read next but... Just hack the BIOS and install a SLP Win 7 on it. Search Ulead on Google. ...I never told you that.
  48. CougTek

    Search Conduit : what a plague.

    Got another of those infections this week. After scanning with the portable version of Superantispyware, the Antivir rescue disk, Eset online scanner, Combofix, Spybot, Smitfraudfix, Malwarebyte's, Microsoft's MRT, the userinit.exe still gets re-infected after each reboot. The file...
  49. CougTek

    Samsung intro 2-platters 2.5" 1TB drive.

    Source
  50. CougTek

    PSYCHO CLIENT

    Ok, the prank has lasted long enough.... Greg, after all those years, there's something we need to tell you : there's a "kick me" sticker on your back. Now let me take a closer look and help you to remove that...eh, wait a second...WTF, it's a tatoo! ;)
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