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Welcome Mikey! Ring the Bell - another Idiot enters the fray. "Hey Moe, hey Larry, where are ya?"

Happy Birthday, Spin! Go wild!

Now that's art, right there!

Looks like a solid, inexpensive headset. I run with a Sennheiser PC360 headset which runs more around the $150USD mark, but it's also an audiophile headset. It's also a full around-the-ear design, so I can literally wear it all day and not get ear fatigue. If you don't really care how music sounds in your gaming headset, and likely won't be wearing it all day, it sounds like you'll be very happy with the SteelSeries 3H v2 Gaming Headset. Good Luck. Hear 'ya soon!

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I get a notification that someone liked a post I made some where, and I might want to see which one, so I click the "post you made" link in the notification. It seems the vast majority of the time I do not end up at a post I made at all. It is usually someone else's post. Right thread, wrong post. This is not new (i.e., it predates the recent CDN changes on the website,) and it is somewhat random. Sometimes it will work, lots of times it doesn't. When it doesn't, sometimes going back to the Notifications popup and clicking the link again will get me to the right place. Other times it flat out fails no matter how many times I try it. Anyone else experience this? Just thought the site Admins should be aware of this if they are not already.

I have definitely noticed improvements, but it's kind of hit and miss. Lots of the time now I'm just not annoyed with the speed of the site, and that means something is going MUCH better than before. I used to HATE how slow this site is. So it's better, but there are some times that I still get that old HATE feeling creeping in, so that means there are some circumstances that are still serving up the content not much faster than before you implemented the CDN. Have you considered, or does the host offer LightSpeed Servers? My Internet radio station Girls Rock Radio (http://www.girlsrockradio.com) is a Wordpress site running on a LightSpeed Server through MDD Hosting. Recently, and mainly because of the weird behavior and incomprehensibility of caching plugin settings, I disabled all caching (other than the typical gzip protocols) and am now just letting LightSpeed do its thing. It's working beautifully. The site is comfortably fast. Here's my pings:

Happy Birthday LCB - the originator of the most gawked at forum thread on this site! May your day be truly off the fucking hook!

Uhura's reactions are the best. LOL

Way to go Chile. .

Are there 2 Ethernet ports on his motherboard? If so try the other port. This sounds like it could be an issue with the port, otherwise known as a babbling board. Does his port activity LED on the router light up a lot more than yours when both are just sitting there doing not much of anything? Another sign of a babbling board. If you go to the Networking tab on both computers when they are just sitting there, is there activity on Angus' and not on yours? Ah - wait... another though: Try a different cable. Even if you just swap your two cables. Could be a bad cable. You also said you removed a lot of malware. That doesn't sound good. Other things could be compromised, or you could have a rootkit which is not detectable without booting to a CD with a Virus scanner on it. Eset has a good iso for a CD you can download and burn. Do that download and burn on your PC, Gatorgirl, since yours seems uninfected.

NEVER do a System Restore. All kinds of shit goes bad when you do that! Unless it's a VERY recent restore-to date.

Yes, there are assholes out there, and that's one valid use of an attorney because I guarantee you, if an attorney sends him a letter to shape up or face consequences in court, s/he's going to do it.

They don't rip you off. They do need to get paid for what they do. You can't just go around building computers for just the cost of the components for everybody, otherwise how are you putting food on your table and paying your rent/mortgage. Now if by "rip you off" you mean sell you cheap, crap components, then yes - that's a shame. But many computer shops will build to your specs, or guide you in selecting great components for a build. But there's a cost to that and the service of building it for you, is all I'm saying

Happy Birthday M16! Go crazy!

Happy New Year 2014 One and All ^ 2013

I got that too, but I didn't go away, lol - my bad. Something really borked out shortly thereafter. It's like the CSS wasn't loading any more. So this morning I ended up deleting the XI cookies and that finally got things back to normal.

Happy Birthday Mikey - go nuts! It's expected.

Yeah - I saw that, along with the security certificate expiration that caused Firefox to warn me to get the heck outta here. lol. I know better.

So, you want a spanking or something?

Not redundant. Superfluous or obsolete, maybe, but not redundant. Start here: http://www.newegg.com/DIY-PC-SuperCombos/PromotionStore/ID-33 There are pages and pages of DIY kits. A good place to browse and get acquainted with what's out there and for what price. Then either choose one of their builds, of start with one and build further. As someone said here recently, "Newegg is your friend." It's true!

No, not SOP at all here. Personally, I see no reason to partition a drive. Exception to that would be a >2TB drive with intention to use it as a boot device. In that case, it has to be partitioned due to boot partition size limitations in Win7. Not sure if Win8 removed that restriction. But anyway, you can still store programs on a drive other than the typical location on C:. I find creating partitions to organize data/programs is a lousy idea simply because it creates wasted space that might have otherwise been utilized more easily. Or if you estimate low, you end up running out of space. Either way, you eventually run off to find some program, to do a non-destructive partition size adjustment. IMHO: Organize using folders, not partitions.

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