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@Dashrender said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@travisdh1 said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@Dashrender said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@travisdh1 said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@Dashrender said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@Grey said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

I always check out http://www.pcper.com/hwlb for the latest on the gaming parts for my PC upgrades. My current system is an ASUS GENE motherboard with an i7-4790, 16gb of RAM and an nVidia 970. It's not the greatest, but I can still play everything just fine. Using the pcper site, it's easy to pick and choose where to upgrade.

The monitor from HP looks nice! I wonder how it will compare to the Dell monitor (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&sku=210-ADTR)?

Nice site, I love the decisive recommendations, something I always felt was missing from Tom's Hardware.

I quit building my own rigs after I found a couple sites like Cyber Power PC. The prices are about what I can put the same components together for, they ARE standard components, and I have a 1 stop place for warranty work for a year or two. Most of those systems have lasted a long, long time because they do use industry standard motherboards/cases/power supplies/etc. So upgrading down the road is super easy.

Industry standard? What's that when it comes to components? If you want just some random collection of components, why not buy a Dell or HP? When you're building a white box, it's normally for power components, for gaming or other high intensity stuff. I'd want to pick out my components, or at least take higher end recommendations like pcper.com mention.

Have you ever replaced a Dell or HP power supply or motherboard? Good luck.

Yep but only with OEM parts.

OEM sure, but they're generally more expensive than the standard ATX models. If they're still under warranty it's easy, send me the new part!

@travisdh1 said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

@johnhooks said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

@travisdh1 said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

@johnhooks said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

Ya we def couldn't do CFD Solves with GPUs. Our new cluster has 20 nodes with 20 cores each.

Clustered?

They use a job scheduler to read and spread the load over free nodes. So they can be used together or separately.

They all have an infiniband backplane too.

MMmmm, good stuff. Any sort of job scheduler means they are being used as a cluster. Really all a cluster needs is something to tell everything where to run what. At least as I've always understood them.

Infiniband is just good stuff.

Right. I didn't want people thinking it was like a RHCS or something like that. It's a separate scheduler.

Ya we have a couple guys that will generate around 450-500GB per day of solves. We need the speed lol.

@Dashrender said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@Dashrender said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@Dashrender said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@wrx7m said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller Why do you "need" iOS?

Because I travel internationally and the ability to get repairs and support and for the devices to be reliable are critical for safety. I've made the mistake of switching off of iOS to Android while travelling before and was left dangerously out of touch. A mistake that I won't repeat.

when was that? Android is much more mature today. I'll definitely give you that Android 2-4 years ago could leave you wanting compared to the "it just works" of the iPhone.

That's exactly what everyone said at the time. I've heard the rhetoric ad nauseum. Android "used to be bad", but it is good now. No one has problems... until you cant get one that works and then everyone comes out and says "well except for X problems on any device not made by Y" and that info always conflicts with what all the other Android people say. Hearing it today just reinforces my concerns about Android. It's the same statements repeated now as then.

But you can say the same thing about iPhones - features that simply don't exist. Who knows.. I might just be blowing smoke up my own ass right now, I haven't been on a modern Android in nearly 2 years.

that said, my wife has a S6 and likes it just fine, never complains, it does what she wants - but then again, like me she barely uses its. She has email, calendar, texting, calling and words with friends - she's happy.

This is the same conversation every time. Yes, even at the time I knew lots of people that adored their Androids. But none of them could get me a device that was reliable and, it turned out, most of them simply didn't use theirs enough to know that they were missing calls, texts or emails. In case after case the people who raved about their phones simply weren't in situations to notice or care when communications channels went out for a day or two (until the phone rebooted) and so they felt that they worked great because, for them not needing them to do anything, they did.

Oh I know I'm not that out of touch. I might be able to go a few hours without realizing, but never a whole day.
But I'm sure there are others who are.. hey - they kids using instagram.

Problem is... it's all three. We tested Android after Android and normally one or two functions would work. Only if you consistently get calls, texts AND emails all the time would you notice. Most people do not, so pretty much everyone thought that their phones were working. Like me right now, I could go months without getting a call and not notice at all. I accept no voice calls and my phone is set to not ring. So I would never know.

@Jason said in CIO.com on What We Can Learn from ownCloud's Collapse:

Has own cloud officially made any statement? I thought that were still running for now

ownCloud, Inc. the company that we have dealt with and know was gone immediately (twelve hours.) Literally the company just closed down and everyone was fired. So we have no contacts there now. All of the people that we knew are gone.

ownCloud Germany is still limping along but has no communications channels as ownCloud Inc. handled all of that out of Boston. So no one has heard from them and there are questions about their ability to provide American services.

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Yeah, That's hard to believe unless the 2FA system was compromised - i.e. more likely disabled.

I saw a few reports they were asking for compromised users to contact them, and it turned out no one actually had 2FA turned on as they said they did.

But I've been away from a screen for a few days, so we'll see what my searches today find me.

They have other security features as well.

There was a recent trojan going around that uses TeamViewer to do the dirty work. I wonder if that is what caused the issue.

But, no need to talk about that here since I've already discussed that in the other thread. (Which I have not seen any updates on.)

@s.hackleman said in Notebook 9 versus the Macbook Air:

Touch is gross IMHO. I don't understand why you would spend money on a High Def screen... then fingerprint the hell out of it trying to use it.

Exactly how I feel.

@scottalanmiller said in FBI Raids Security Researcher for Exposing HIPAA Violation:

And, of course, Texas, too.

Everything's bigger in Texas. Including the bad?

Never saw that. And it doesn't seem to make any sense. And certainly doesn't make me want to use Linux. What a freaking weird ad.

Hope that we see NVidia running with this to make an awesome follow up to their rocking X1 processor.

Cool tool, I have no used this one before.

So I guess I should have specified in the other thread. I use KeePassx and it's updated through yum. And the Android version of Keepass2Android (the one I use) isn't maintained by the same people.

A better point would be, they bought Nokia for $7.3 Billion, and wrote it all down, and recently paid out over 930 Million more in layoffs for the remaining Nokia staff.

This $1 Billion for cars would be nothing!

Sigh - again - NOT HACKED!

those accounts were compromised because the account owner didn't follow best practice and use a different password for each site, and a lesser site was compromised.

@Dashrender said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:

@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:

@Dashrender said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:

@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:

@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:

Mostly popular with kids I believe, where not keeping a record is considered a key selling point.

Yes, it's purely for kids. It's the hipster middle schooler messaging platform. For people that any record of what they said would be embarrassing.

I think that these kids are going to seriously regret Snapchat when they get older. Taking all the effort to record their lives... and burning it as they went. It's the scorched earth policy for your own life.

I'm sure they will be a little unhappy to not have all the cool photos - and those who do have a half a brain are taking a second picture in a more permanent app - but really, do you think most tweens/teens want to keep that crap around forever? Don't you think that they will migrate away from snapchat as they get older/wiser and realize the childness that is snapchat? But I think it could be fun/etc for the ability to blast something for a short time. But what crazy teens don't realize is that anyone can make it permanent by capturing the screen on the phone.

Clearly they don't WANT to keep it around, but they will want to HAVE kept it once they realize that they literally threw away their childhoods.

Really? that ass picture you talked about? they will want that in 10-20-30 years? What I don't know - are kids ONLY using snapchat, and never taking any more permanent pictures? or, are they smart enough to use both?

Well I have no idea, but Snapchat users tend to be of the "only Snapchat" from what I can tell. And for obvious reasons... if you know what you are doing you'd never use Snapchat, if you are using Snapchat, chances are you are not thinking through the consequences. So the use of it nearly always creates the later situation.

And ARE you taking pictures of your butt? I'm not aware of that being a big problem. It's all the selfies and parties and high school graduations and such. And, in case you've never tried to do something like this, if you are taking pictures of an event for Snapchat, the opportunities to take those pics for something else are likely lost. Things rarely happen over and over for you to "capture the moment" again. So using Snapchat throws all of that stuff away.

@Nic said in GOG Connect Has Released: Connect GOG to Steam:

@scottalanmiller no, on Steam. But you'd figure more than a dozen would match up.

Oh okay. I'm like 1,400 on Steam and 300 on GOG and only maybe a dozen matched up.

@Nic said in Looking for a new TV here are the top picks under 2000:

I've always had good luck with Samsung TVs and monitors.

That's what I went with, the new 8000 series model.