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Comment specs (Score 1) 558

CPU - AMD FX-8320
mainboard - MSI 760GMA-P34(FX)
RAM - 8GB DDR3 1600
Video - Radeon R3 1GB GDDR5 (I'm not a huge PC gamer - mostly MAME and console emulators)
Storage - 1x128GB SSD for boot, 4TB HDD for storage, 3TB HDD for Windows Media Center OTA DVR (soon to be for upcoming HDHomerun DVR)
Optical - LG triple-layer BD burner (mainly for ripping discs)

this system is mainly used as a Plex server, WMC box for Xbox360s as extenders (going dead when Win10 comes out), and a general office computer I use for work.

Comment yup, this is definitely /. (Score 0) 148

How come it wasn't as big a deal when Apple did the same thing to Samsung? Because nowadays hating "M$" has become a prerequisite for getting your "geek cred" card renewed, but being a neckbeard-having, skinny-jeans wearing tool whose smartphone case has a cutout where the Apple logo is so other tools can see you're a member of the "club" is totally acceptable.

Comment pfSense (Score 1) 238

I have pfSense running on a dual-core mini-itx Atom board with on-board Intel GB NIC, a Intel PCI-E GB NIC, 2GB RAM, and a CompactFlash to SATA adapter for storage: this setup has gotten me enterprise level performance and reliability, no matter what I throw at it - IPSEC VPN, off-site video monitoring, a Plex server serving up to six WAN side clients at once, etc. It has never frozen/locked up, it controls my commercial grade UPS which all networking gear in my riser closet is connected to, and it consumes about 13 watts under full load.

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Hank Chien Reclaims Donkey Kong High Score 122

An anonymous reader writes "If you can say anything about Hank Chien, it's that he evidently doesn't take defeat very well. Sure, he knew not so deep down that his Donkey Kong World Record score wouldn't last forever, but he couldn't have foreseen that it would have been toppled so quickly. Twice, even. But he also knew that more Kong competition would be coming his way; namely Richie Knucklez Kong-Off in March. So Hank had something to prove, and prove he did. Scoring a massive 1,068,000 points in less than three hours, Hank has officially reclaimed the high score in Nintendo’s 1981 arcade classic."

Comment try, try again (Score 1) 413

taken from article: "Chernobyl's plant workers were testing the viability of using the reactor's steam turbine to generate the needed electricity until the diesel generators could begin providing sufficient power. This was the fourth time over the course of several years that this experiment was carried out -- with all earlier attempts having failed -- but this time it turned deadly." translation: fail, fail, fail, EPIC FAIL!!!!

Comment Wii isn't going anywhere (Score 1) 143

Nintendo did what they had to do survive this generation: If they had just released another console with a normal controller and either slightly less power than, equal power to, or more power than X360 & PS3, the hardcore crowd would have just written it off as "kiddy" like they do all Nintendo consoles. I don't remember people complaining about the high amount of crapware on PSOne, another insanely popular system, but I guess if the system is made by a megacorp people don't seem to care.

Comment Re:What is the point? (Score 2, Interesting) 199

Simple. Even though I know I'll get modded down for saying this - Yes, it does open the door for people to do what they want with what they purchased(running *nix/bsd, or coding your own program for the box) which I agree you should be able to do, but everyone I've ever known who has hacked their console has done it to play pirated/burned game software.

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