Astronomer

Awesome choices. Congrats on the new gear! I picked up a K90 yesterday after my Microsoft Reclusa Kb started having issues. Love the look of the unit and the feel of the Cherry Red key switches.

So true...! Get all fired up for the game...then your team loses...

Agreed! Under stress my cards (2x GeForce GTX 550 Tie's in SLI) jump up to 64⁰C max ( 147 F) and just keep purring.

Yeahhhh...

Wow! Well deserved - your work is excellent!

I've got room for one of these in my basement...hmmmm...

LOVE this series!

Science does not have all the answers - in fact one could argue that it has none. Science is a rigourous methodology, a process for better understanding the natural world. Any hypothethesis has to be rigourous and testable. Any results must be open for reproducing by other scientists to test the validity of the assumptions and conclusions, to either prove or disprove them. Once a hypothesis passes muster and can not only explain but also predict, it graduates to being a theory (gravity, evolution, relativity etc). I don't believe that science and religion have to be naturally at odds, but if religion makes a testable statement about the natural world (i.e. age of the planet, origins of homo sapiens), it must expect that it will scrutenized against the evidence. Other than that, science has nothiing to being to the table in regards to theology and moral frameworks (Though Sam Harris and Steven Pinker are researching the origins of mind and morality and even faith from an evolutionary perspective).

I am sooooo tired of this sort of tripe. Evolution (a series of successful adaptations leading to successful reproduction) has been proven by so many independent vectors that it's just not up for discussion. It's even been observed in real-time over long-term experiments with microbes, fruit flies and birds, and so much more. Human evolution over the past several million years has been proven in the fossil record (a museum in Ethiopia has many fossil skulls covering many intermediate steps to Homo Sapiens) human DNA, DNA of human parasites etc ad nauseum. As for the know-it-all professor, Richard Dawkins recounts a story from his university student years where a professor taught that X was truth and that thus shall it ever be! A visiting lecturer to that professor's class showed that new data had disproved X and that Y was the new, tested and proven paradigm. The professor walked up to the visiting lecturer, shook his hand warmly, and thanked him for showing him the error of his ways. THAT is science in action and practice: an exacting methodology that is open to examination, to being tested repeatedly as being true or false by anyone interested in doing so, and adding to the volume of knowledge. Science is honest in that theorems are accepted provisionally, i.e. they are considered the best description/predictor until better data and better theorems emerge. Newtonian gravity will still get us to the moon and beyond, but Einstein's theorems are much more accurate and are considered better (your GPS would be miles off if it did not take Relativity into account in it's accounting). Every scientist with a Nobel Prize in his/her sites would love nothing more than to disprove currently-accepted theorems. Can any other method of explaining the natural world claim to be as honest and open to facts that contradict what is accepted and moving the goal-line forward? Discuss.

I agree on Windows 7 64-bit. It's the best Windows that Microsoft has ever put out. I'm installing a bootable Windows 8 beta on a 64Gb USB stick later today to give it a try. I've tried it briefly using VMWare workstation and I have to say that if the final release has that horrendous "Metro" interface as the only option, I'll be sticking with Windows 7 for a long time to come. My # 2 favourite OS is Linux Mint. I dual boot my personal and work laptops with it. If commercial games were released for it, it would be my #1 choice.

For the clock frequency that you're running them at, you're at the correct timings, so no worries there. I wouldn't go fiddling with the settings unless you are comfortable with manually tweaking voltages and the like.

LOVED Mojo and Skid back in the day! "Elvis is Everywhere", "Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two-headed Love Child".

Found the Youtube embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwNLji1mA0w

...is a dick. After he made several anti-gay comments (in the name of Christianity) on CNN recently, this video by his peers (former child actors) appeared: http://www.funnyordi...eron?rel=player HILARIOUS!!!

I'll add a "Me too"! Thanks for getting then out so fast. I'm looking forward to proving to my community that I'm an Extreme Idiot!

I have a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server in the basement. I took a core-2 duo PC, filled it with drives and installed Ubuntu server on it and set up shares. You can also buy off-the-shelf NAS boxes ready to go. In my entertainment unit I have an Apple TV. I bought a "jailbroke" one from a local entrepreneur - I was too busy and lazy to jailbreak it myself - so I could install XBMC on it (you can also install XBMXC on a PC, Mac, Linux etc). I can now stream all videos, music and pictures from my NAS, as well as having bucket-loads of on-demand streams to choose from. I can use my iPhone as a remote, which makes typing a search wayyyyy faster.f

Latest installment!

Great news for you! Hope to play with/against you again soon.

Nice!!! What brand & model?

Holy Crap Wizid! You host LAN parties? I have several others in my home as well - My wife's 27" iMac, couple of laptops (one a gaming rig), and 3 physical servers in the server room, one of them an ESXi host with 3 virtual servers running on it. 2 of the physical servers are built from my older Core 2d gaming rigs, the other is a HP 1u AMD Opteron-based rack server.

I agreed that it was a good idea to have a Euro server available for our Euro members/friends to play on with low pings. It just made sense. But has anyone else noticed that it's been basically empty since the move to the Euro-zone? Have I missed moments of high usage? I've looked in on it at various times and seen nobody playing, and looked at the "# of players (past 24 hours)" graph and it seems that it is consistently flat-lined. Should we revert hosting back to the Colonies, or find better usage for the resources? Just throwing it out there. I'm a data-crunching sort of guy...

Epic!

Glad to hear all worked out!

*bump* for those that missed it earlier this morning