Astronomer

HA! American Mayors ain't got nuttin' on the Canadian Mayors in regards to corruption and stupidity. They have much to learn from us.

Ah! So you've seen his acting skills!

True enough. We do, however, claim ownership of the Shat!

Canada is going to Hell in a handbasket. This, Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto, Mayor Fontana of London, All the mayors of Montreal and Environs, Stephen Harper, Celine Dion, Toronto Maple Leafs ...

I'll chime in and say that nVidia cards are good value, tend to equal and/or beat AMD in apples-to-apples comparisons, and the drivers are much more stable over-all. I've owned several nVidias and AMD/ATI's over the years and nVidia have given me the least problems. Intel processors consistently beat AMD in benchmarks, overclock better, and Intel is way ahead in their processor fabs and chip design. AMd's lead engineer has left, and they've been bleeding talent. Very sad to see, as competition is a very good thing. - Good processor! I like the fully unlocked "K" series. - I'm a fan of Corsair memory, so good call. - I've got essentially the same motherboard, the Deluxe version. Very stable, tons of features. I've had good luck with ASUS mobos. - Good video card. Maybe bump up to the 770, otherwise add a second 760 down the road when budget allows. I had 2 550's for a while and the 2nd card made a huge difference. I'm running 2x 680's now. Overkill, for sure, but I Haven found a game yet that truly taxes their capabilities. :-) - All other components are solid products. The only suggestion I'd make is jump to a bigger SSD if you can. I have a 126Gb, and even though I install my apps on another mechanical hard drive, a lot of apps (iTunes, games and their maps etc) copy a lot of files to your hard drive. I have 35Gb free at the moment. Be sure to move your Windows swap file to another drive as it will consume a hefty chunk of that SSD.

Nice work! Always more satisfying to build a solution yourself.

You eeeediot!!! Welcome aboard!

So very sincerely sorry to hear. You're in my thoughts tonight.

Some very good work there. What app(s)?

Canadian political scandals are almost quaint.

"Moron Aspires to Be An Idiot". Film at 11. Welcome to the forums! I'll agree with the folks who say it's about time! See ya in the game!

Happy birthday, Jar-head! LOL!

Good to see you here, sir! I enjoy playing COD WAW with you. Love you Avatar icon, by the way; it's MUCH nicer than Belted's!

Awseome job there! I run OwnCloud as well on a Virtual Machine on my other server.

I use a RAT as well. LOVE that fucker! Best mouse I've used. no question.

I've been using a Corsair Vengeance K-90 for over a year now. It has blue backlighting, has "clicky" Cherry "red" mechanical switches for most keys (except the programmable keys, function keys, and the Insert, Home, etc. keys), a Windows key lock, volume wheel and more. I love it. I bought another when a glass of wine ruined my first one.... I highly recommend it. http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/keyboard-mouse-combos/1295269/corsair-vengeance-k90

Hi Fireurza. In my home (just the two of us) we have an iMac, a Hackintosh, a Windows 7 rig, and a few other odds and sods. I have a couple of servers in the basement (HP ML350's, G5 series), and one of them, my file server, is running Ubuntu desktop. First, there is no difference between the Desktop and server versions other than the graphical interface. The Kernels are identical. A GUI makes it easier to manage. I have 2 RAID volumes plus a direct attached storage box with 4 drives in it. I simply launch the File Manager, and select the volumes/drives that I want to share. The first time a message will pop up telling you that you need to install Samba, with instructions. Once quickly done, select your shares, check the box to have the drive's share remembered on reboot, and away you go. All shares are visible and accessible on all of my systems with no hassle. I also installed Ultimate Media Server (a fork of PS3 Media Server) and my music and audio files can be played on-screen on the big TV via my PS3 (and likely via my hacked Apple TV running XBMC). Let me know if you have any questions.

"OCZ, one of the first commercial solid-state drive (SSD) makers has been blaming a shortage of NAND for its woes for some time now, but things have taken a precipitous turn for the worse: 'For its second fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2013, revenue was $33.5 million, a huge drop compared to revenue of $55.3 million for the first quarter of 2013 and revenue of $88.6 million for the second quarter of 2012. The net loss for this quarter was massive, $26 million, a doubling of the $13.1 million loss in the same quarter last year.' The company has burned through cash, its stock collapsed, and now so have sales. Meanwhile, other SSD makers are doing well. So what is happening here?" They had higher failure rates (north of 7% vs %.5 or so for Samsung and Intel, and apparently shitty customer service). I have one of their Vertex 4 128Gb SSD's as a boot drive and a 60Gb Vertex 3 as a cache drive. So far, no problems 12-18 months in respectively. Apparently, they've been sourcing parts from cheaper suppliers and pulling a few dirty tricks i.e. if a drive's I/O exceeds thresholds, there was a built-in limiter on some drives that would slow them down so they wouldn't fail before the warranty period was up. Tech support would recommend flashing the drive, and if it bricked, they'd say flashing the drive voided warranties. And on and on and on.

So sorry to hear of your loss, pwrcrazy.You and your family are in my thoughts today.

Ummm...this is a recording from the satirical show "This is That". It's written and improvised by Oldring and his partner Pat Kelly. They skate on the border of reality and plausibility in a cutting satire of a radio news magazine so closely and ironically aligned to reality that their voice messages and letters from outraged listeners who think it's real is almost the funniest part of the show. It's easily the best comedy show on Radio, and I can't wait for it every week. http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/ Download a podcast or 10. You won't regret it.