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by colm
Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:07 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Is it illegal to download free remixes?
Replies: 5
Views: 3981

Re: Is it illegal to download free remixes?

not illegal.. displaying it as your own work for your projects is a problem however. I still get the notices on you tube.. no song says what it is or what the rights are until you find out the hard way. remember tape deck days recording local radio songs.. it is still like that today, but with a pc....
by colm
Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:42 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Diagnosis? Fluctuating vCore
Replies: 1
Views: 1113

Re: Diagnosis? Fluctuating vCore

if it was stuck at one volt I'd be nervous..add a few years to that one. light bulbs become hdd lights and a mouse click rings the neighbors fire alarm... :roll: the newer the cpu the more that changes..the last rock stable cpu volt I saw was in the 233mhz days..and it cracked its own bios eventually.
by colm
Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:20 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: No hot-dogs in Washington DC?
Replies: 16
Views: 7781

Re: No hot-dogs in Washington DC?

hot dogs are not all that popular... in fact it is a poor persons food. some things linger in other places, about america, for reasons unknown. I do find hot dogs in all the markets, and there is some nice brands.. but for the most part, it is a food to question integrity. I used hot dogs, a particu...
by colm
Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:53 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Merry Christmas!
Replies: 4
Views: 3393

Re: Merry Christmas!

...and a new year
:P
by colm
Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:49 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Hard disk SMART status: Power On Count lower than average?
Replies: 5
Views: 5470

Re: Hard disk SMART status: Power On Count lower than averag

wibla: that coincides with my western digaital at 31962 hours the number is at 57.. seems right to me. must be working towards some scale just under 100k hours. HD Tune: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (01) Raw Read Error Rate 200 200 51 68 Ok (03) Spin Up Time 166 16...
by colm
Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:29 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Electronic Noise and Tinnitus
Replies: 60
Views: 148070

Re: Electronic Noise and Tinnitus

I am glad someone is pursuing a better way. I thught of myself as having tinnitus, working with old jets, tractor trailers (maine extreme versions) and of course electronics. my silence was broken after learning wedling on my automobile. The weld changed a thing called "resonant frequency", and I si...
by colm
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:33 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Consumer SSD Battle
Replies: 58
Views: 31834

Re: Consumer SSD Battle

just got to reading article. great stuff. I am slightly frowning at load times on regular hdd.. altho, what I compare to is my 80gb, (wd800jb - pata) @ 31000 hours right now. I am way way under a minute loading win7. It has been my favorite late model pata since I began in the 90s. the stuff about "...
by colm
Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:59 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Coincidence?
Replies: 7
Views: 4114

Re: Coincidence?

of course coincidence. if he was in a deeper frame of accepting militant.. he would not be backwards with out loud thoughts. I grotesquely have a relative like this.. I call it naturally anti-life. I have slipped on my own a few words. In 2001 I ranted on how the pc for home users was even allowed, ...
by colm
Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:35 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Hot lan card
Replies: 0
Views: 1244

Hot lan card

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/other/heatsinklan003web.jpg heatsinks inline with front fan. this is a netgear 310tx. Some call it old. I call it a lan card that is the same as today as it was yesterday. 8) This time of year for me is torture on electronics...until next may. the mid...
by colm
Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:37 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
Replies: 1664
Views: 1645221

Re: SPCR Folds Team Blog

I be backing out again for the time being. My purpose was to spark up an old one to life it never used... 2.5 weeks for 7564 points. :roll: I always wanted to be a regular but it has outrun the machines I do not need to upgrade. the 875pbz has not even come close to getting replicated... ecc for eve...
by colm
Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:15 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: 6 years since upgrade. Now a virgin.
Replies: 4
Views: 1738

Re: 6 years since upgrade. Now a virgin.

I don't know if the seller is trustworthy and if the price is good in your country (it would be very good in mine) but this combo can idle quite low with the right PSU... probably lower than anything that's not based on an Atom or laptop gear. These are among the best chips out there, it looks like...
by colm
Fri Oct 22, 2010 1:46 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: 6 years since upgrade. Now a virgin.
Replies: 4
Views: 1738

6 years since upgrade. Now a virgin.

ok. now I am lost. the facts to forward: *I have matx case, power is old version of 250, does p4. * TDW TDP or whatver the theory number for heat is... not to exceed the heat of a p4 prescott at 2.8ghz.. that is quite hot for a matx case. * I want graphics onboard. heat reasons... again matx suffoca...
by colm
Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:54 pm
Forum: Consumer Advocacy
Topic: TT Elements V case, probably not for us (just for laughs)
Replies: 11
Views: 22400

Re: TT Elements V case, probably not for us (just for laughs

NeilBlanchard wrote:Damn -- I was going to use this for my new system; but I need 240.97 CFM...
:lol:
I could mount this on top of my old subaru engine as a supercharger.

not even the carburator uses that much. :roll:

didn't the 1999 pc-pocalypse fade away into eternity? where does this stuff come from....
by colm
Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:56 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
Replies: 1664
Views: 1645221

Re: SPCR Folds Team Blog

Wow, colm -- I've been Folding almost 7 years (I started 1 Jan 04) and I thought that was a long time! keep on Foldin'! can't quote all the replies, not smart enough. I did walk away for some time...a couple of years at a time. It is indeed areason I found spcr.. the machines were crazy hot loud, e...
by colm
Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:56 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
Replies: 1664
Views: 1645221

Re: SPCR Folds Team Blog

fahmon has an update if anyone uses it. I seem to be levelling off at 600ppd, takin it easy. no record breakers for me. this month marks ten years of folding. if an original nick list existed, I am in the first couple of hundred ever to fold at home. bd something. bd1973? cannot remember. it was sig...
by colm
Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:10 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: interesting letter regarding "global warming"
Replies: 4
Views: 3054

Re: interesting letter regarding "global warming"

you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.
by colm
Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:32 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: So who likes the new format?
Replies: 18
Views: 9364

Re: So who likes the new format?

I like. seems light.
I run old sir prescott, it likes it.


cpu is one hundred years old and still kicking.

I do get confused with the draft button and post. sent me on a whirl finding what just happened.
by colm
Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:20 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: ECC Support (offshoot of Silent Server Build)
Replies: 62
Views: 55599

Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide

a good point about ecc. I am just regular user with photos, and video... As the routine goes, ecc is nothing to notice at first... but then the same vids in experimenting in compression get WAY smaller for the same compression routine. It is no mystery to me.. there is a pile of crap with every file...
by colm
Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:40 am
Forum: The Silent Front
Topic: "best" temp monitoring software
Replies: 9
Views: 10901

mbm5 no fan throttling. speed fan is good for that.. mbm5 has an alarm, records highs and lows no interference, and can registry start. speedfan does have a goof in registry starting. using the startup folder is like a secuirty gap and it hacks itself... this goes back to 1998 BTW... I wish someone ...
by colm
Sun Oct 10, 2010 2:13 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: SPCR Folds Team Blog
Replies: 1664
Views: 1645221

I added an older p4 dell to the folding.. I think it is less than 200ppd 8) no keyboard, mouse, sitting in a corner. last I checked it, it was at 15min intervals. 2.4ghz, I added some old ddr sticks I was using for testing.. now 1.2gb the 845 likes anyhting in the two slots.. as long as there is two...
by colm
Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:46 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: News: 80+ Fakes; Gigabyte in Tibet
Replies: 13
Views: 14870

So all my Seasonic certified PSUs are fakes? Who knew?!? Seasonic isn't on those lists, that I can see - does that mean none of them have ever passed any tests?? Seems unlikely. EDIT: Sorry - I was looking for "Seasonic" and they have it as "Sea Sonic". - Tim that would get many brands thinking, li...
by colm
Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:16 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: One cover story in the NY Times Today on Green Energy
Replies: 19
Views: 7423

too funny.

:lol:
I wonder what a pc fan company would do. (I should say would not do)

cars, they make noise too, going through the wind. I guess outer space is a quiet place.

I have even heard wind making wind make noise. amazing.
by colm
Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:26 pm
Forum: The Silent Front
Topic: ecc memory chat
Replies: 0
Views: 3125

ecc memory chat

I decided to go back to 2gb just to turn on ECC, and leave my other 2gb -non-ecc on ebay. 875pbz, intel prescott 3400..getting old, but some hellacious priceless values. I am old school anyway.. I even stop windows like win98 from loading unnecessary stuff, beyond services shut down that I do not ne...
by colm
Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:59 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The return to church rule
Replies: 3
Views: 2062

that went into effect in 1954...

add that to kennedy's blunt ending.

They even worked homosexuals into mans jobs incorrectly...
this religious stuff is silently easy, as it should be.
by colm
Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:56 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 8 gigs beats 4 gigs [thread on probabtion]
Replies: 44
Views: 25910

Continuing off-topic...I cut the landline cord over a year ago. I opted for a Verizon femtocell with backhaul though my broadband and a bluetooth enabled cordless phone. I set my cellphone on my desk, and then use my cordless phones thoughout the house for calls. Works great. The great irony is whe...
by colm
Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:33 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Rolled-up rug speaker enclosure
Replies: 11
Views: 4460

what you described sounds like a bass tube you can find at radio shack in 1987. :roll: I think aborigines have been playing with the concept since....before the bass tube at radio shcak. there is some tricks to gaining nice sound. I just put an older delco in an older subaru, and subaru uses shared ...
by colm
Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:36 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The Pope's visit to an unreligious country
Replies: 40
Views: 24374

why get uptight over the pope.

english stuff has the craziest supremacy leaps ever...so secretive.
:roll:

I lost religion too, maybe it just goes deeper. Not gonna complain about a groups peace, if it does not hurt.
by colm
Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:26 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Silent car suggestions?
Replies: 14
Views: 5761

I found american needs to shell out big money or get an older bigger car... the inbetweens (the hypermilers beyond electric- or performance) they need a good old fashioned tear down and a thing called steel ADDED. if you go new they got them so pigged in recycling they sound like they are bearely ru...
by colm
Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Longest UPTIME on your destop PC?
Replies: 57
Views: 28329

I gave up that stuf fon the 90s..
unix kernels of course were impressiveon simpl machines.

today it is better, but no long runtimes, I choose no to.

windows 7 even logs a "boot optimization defrag"..
at least it is honest.