If I'd buy a new mobo, and could pick betweenECS, Gigabyte, PCWare/Mega, AsRock, Asus, MSI and Intel, which ones are good brands and which ones should I run from?
@ThatBrazilianGuy get a motherboard that is 120% of your monthly salery then :-) it is the entire base of the whole computer , dont skimp on it unless your planning on replacing it every 2 years.
how much is spending 1/2 a month picking the right one, from reading 500 pages of user forums about them, to see which problems are the least of your worry, then analising the electronics for best chances of working in a few years
A friend of mine bought a fancy laptop on the US (USD 1.5k I think) and opened the box and installled stuff to say it was used, and inverted the lid to pretend it was "just some tablet"\
A lot. Not all the time, but when I want to upgrade my systems, yeah it does
If I could buy a raspberry pi for USD 35 I'd buy 10 and start classes for kids that wanted to learn computing
would have to find a place for that, might not be so easy... (In fact, I am currently trying to find somewhere to teach WordPress pro bono, an NGO or something, and it's a bit difficult to find and organization interested.)
almost all these board brands mentioned come in about 4 flavors. The Flagship models , one for overclockers with deep pockets, one for gamers who add the name game to it and suddenly they have deep pockets. Then there is the Made just about the same way, with the same basic electronics, a few less features boards that many people buy (and has a lot of user support because of it) . then there is the Weakend versions of them, that are not designed for overclocking and will work . . .
. . For just about anybody. then there is the super economy models, that are built like crap, and the cheap minies. which are good for the purposes that suit them, but bad long term investments.
besides the quality of the board, the software they supply is next, most of it unneeded , some of it needed for special purposes. it all sucks , so if a person is actually needing any of this software, it would be good to check with users for just how badly it does suck.
The software is only important when you see these long featured lists of stuff it can do, and begin to be swayed by it, when the software supplied is less important than the hardware build quality
Man, OOO Man.
THIS IS AN ISSUE IM HAVING W/ THE ROACH NEIGHBORS.
DOING RESEARCH AND AM GETTING SUCH AN EDUCATION. WHAT APPEARS ON MY BT SPEAKS IS THE HK AND ANOTHER SEQUENCE OF #'S and the u d name of the minimav
mini mac they are using to turn off my speakers - which I rarely even use. Im al...
If there is a way to reconnect and block them from shutting down my BT CONNECTIONS. Right now when searching and ttemt i ng to reconect the speakers purchased keep geetig device no found, or ONLY thier: "Rosenmy Mercado mini mac", OR, "HK ONYX STUDIO", OR # Sequence; 01:4F:,etc
They also do this...
Tor exit server “opened and an unknown USB device was plugged in only 30-60 seconds before the connection was broken”
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.tor.user/34619
There is a nice program written in php5 that displays
a lot of system info on the running system.
Visit: http://linfo.sourceforge.net/
Is there a comparable tool that runs in a linux console
and displays the info directly on screen?
I know about lshw or lspci but that is not what i'm looki...
I was told many years ago to do this by someone who at the time knew more than I did. The CPU was a celeron in the Pentium 2 era. It ran cooler with the toothpaste between the chip and the heatsink than what it did with nothing between.
Has anyone else ever heard of or tried this? What were t...
"With physical access to the machine" potentially a person could write a new firmware for any machine. or they could take it to the freeway overpass, and drop it on someones head Killing people :-)
I think we should worry more about how terrorists would be able to use these computers as weapons of mass destruction, with physical access, and all computers in skyscrapers should be bolted down in steel cages.
Not really sure why I'm concerned about endurance on my SSD
Samsung's warranty is capped to 150 TB TBW on all capacity versions of the SSD 850 PRO, and that's just so that write-heavy enterprise workloads are not covered
Exceptions may be granted if this limited is exceeded under a client workload
Given that, and disregarding the warranty, the bare minimum expected endurance on my SSD is 600 TB TBW
@DragonLord because of the tiny numbers that the specs have for the actual parts, are rediculous compared to a HD. Because failing in any way sucks, and it being "able" to move stuff that is about to fail, or to keep stuff from failing, does not define edge case scenarios. A fault based system can have more fails.
In reality, considering the endurance of 3D V-NAND, that number is probably closer to 5 PB (!) TBW host writes, or more than 30 PB (!!!) TBW on the NAND (after write amplification)
...and it's not like I'm going to put multiple full drive writes on the SSD every single day for 5+ years
Sure but the system will put tens of thousands of writes on it for you every day :-)
Certannly a person can open the resource monitor and see what kind of psycosis of the windows OS is about writing stuff endlessly. Course it is more prevelent in the "pro" and server systems, where logging & tracing is a constant.
I can see myself putting up to 10-15 GB of writes on the drive each day (and usually less), but that's nowhere near the warranty's 40+ GB per day for 10 years
There are critical hidden file items for the file system, that get heavily abused, and will require wear leveling shifting as a constant. One error moving this stuff around, or one actually failed Bad guess of the transister charge states, and you have error.
@DragonLord but everyone is thinking BIG, if i put 50 movies on it, and read them for the rest of my life it would never fail. but if i have to change whole blocks over 645bit pieces repeating 10 times a minute for 24 hours a day, then that is something.
Nickle and dime somone to death, and they have no money :-)
@DragonLord And we know that computers determining the state of a piece of hardware , works right everytime. even though stuff like "SMART" actually only adds at most possible 20% fact that your drive is going to die before it does without it telling you. Smart being another hope and pray system, that a person could believe reduces thier need for a backup, putting them at even higher risk than not even looking.
So IMO it is not so much that it will die tomorrow, it is that it will fail, and MAY not always patch itself up correct. and Little tiny changes in files big and small are barely noticable, but can become hugely annoying and destructive. I would far rather something not be able to BE stored, than for it to be stored changing 1 tiny bit in there off by 1 binary 0or1
Because ya dont SEE tiny errors until it is to late :-(
So now backups should include full bit comparisons, so you know if any aspects of things are collapsing internannly and corrupting single bits, otherwise the backup itself is invalid.
And like re-reading the file out of the caches ? :-) not all checking methods actually check
So far the testing users have been doing have not actually proved anything other than the car can drive 1,million miles, I am still waiting for the proof that all the passengers arrived with thier cells intact
We wouldnt want this new fangled stuff to be party to the collapse of the system, In That Way. because the little tiny errors that are never figured out, are the worst kind.
When a hard drive started relocating sectors around it was "Its Dead Toss it, run for the hills" even though the system was designed to do exactally that.
When somone would assemble 4 hard disks together people would say "oh my that is highly unstable any aspect of it could fail at any time, and the whole thing would go" but when the new technology raids together 16 nand chip units in a box , where were all the Raid0 haters?
It just seems that if treatment of the new technology was the same as the old stuff that has been around and has not been sped up for crap (hd speed advancements have been density) that we really never would have "accepted" MLC and 3D and expected the manufactures to stay with a binary SLC cells method.
now SLC is mostly dead right? people (i mean ME) are not going to fork over $1100 for the same size as the $200 one even if the numbers for the internal components are ?? 100times longer?
I put the SSD in for pure speed, and testing. my raids are just as fast, but not when it comes to all that tiny stuff, and the whole system is little parts and pieces now, so the SSD still blows away the raid , even defragged, and cached and short stroked , and anything else i could think of.
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if the dog wakes me up at 4am again, I am going to eat all his food, at 4am this sound like a good idea.
@Boris_yo internet phone? voip? "Magic Jack" is one of them plug into a computer and do phone over the net. never used any of these services including skype. Now i have unlimited cellphone (calling not data), sooo i am unlikely to ever try them either.
the devices often hook to the computer itself, with the computer connected to the web, except "vonage" type devices which were a small computer of sorts doing the same thing. highly impractical to power computer, or attempt multitasking this way, watch movie play game, make phone call at same time :-) so i never messed with it, although skype users do that and more.
The whole situation is a lot of despendencies, and the TOUs and determing actual rates vrses claimed rates were very confusing. then for some time there was no 911 ability, as that is a localised service. I could see though that people doing $$$ international calls would want to find some method , any method, other than paying the usual phone service or even cell phone for intl.
@Boris_yo better is to have dedicated things, that just work always , even after a few drops on the ground, that nothing else (full screened) . What do real business people do to make expencive internaltional calls?
@Boris_yo and is perfect for "If you have friends and family living all over the world - Callcentric is for you" like it says. Ok mom can you hear me now? let me fix the mic, oh wait i need to check my gateway address. hey mom can you call me back while i reset my router. O- h-- i- C--n Hel-- , you the--- , oo--pps
But once you get it going, and you know how it works and all, a person might even advance to making calls with people who wouldnt put up with BS to save 20cents a minute.
@Boris_yo must find people who actually use these things. MagicJack requires a computer for the web connect, then is a USB to phone adapter, it is popularly sold in electronic stores cheaply claiming easy and cheap. resellerratings.com/store/magicJack But here are wholly negative reviews for it. (meaning this would be a place to find mostly negative reviews only)
so at the least you would have to be very carefull. make sure your getting products that will do the task well. making sure you have the right equiptment (not in use for other things) that can do the job smoothly. make sure your not signing up for stuff you cannot walk away from easily . amazon.com/s/…
"Unlimited calling availabile only to residential customers located in the USA or Canada. No business use allowed" plus loads of other caveats, and closedowns and restrictions and some of these things (general) will give you 500 minutes, then when you go to use them they are not "real" minutes they are "credits" and to talk from bangladesh to bengori , it takes 5 "minutes" for each one. and soo on and so on, until you wonder where is this savings. Free phone numbers $5 to transfer them?
At least that site does provide enough information, that 2 weeks reading through it all, and consulting with your lawyer :-) you would know what your getting into. some other site would just have all the fluff, and you would not know until you actually do it.
and if that is the price savings? and way the freak more people are effectivly using skype, then i would want to ask skype users. there is a pretty large base of skype users. you could even end up with contacts that already do use it.
@Boris_yo i cannot get to spoken at this time, the certificate is invalid according to my browser thing
oh because it was https,
@Boris_yo interesting how spokn will route a call then send it to your phone(s) or devices. but on the other hand how long would a business person put up with having to call a services (dial 50 numbers) every time they want to make such (cheap) calls? How much would it cost to get the same type of calling put on your normal cellular plans?
spoken also talks in minutes, but again when it comes to suck your minutes UP :-) suddenly they are credits and this takes em and that takes em, and looking funny costs you a minutes :-)
@Boris_yo to add international calling (or whatever of it you needed) to your regular cell plan?
I was told many years ago to do this by someone who at the time knew more than I did. The CPU was a celeron in the Pentium 2 era. It ran cooler with the toothpaste between the chip and the heatsink than what it did with nothing between.
Has anyone else ever heard of or tried this? What were t...
