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Comment Old PCI vga cards (Score 1) 347

Search your local cleanups for motherboards with integrated gfx.
Or find some really old PCI vga videos cards on cleanups.

The key here isn't so much power usage. It's reliability.
And you DON'T want a card that needs a fan or large heatsinks.
A cool running old pci card (s3 trio, ati mach64 etc) is going
to still last longer than a hot running card with or without a
heatsink (eg nvidia 5200 etc)

Use a cheap vga switcher to switch between multiple boxes.

This method is best for quick local logins & maintinance.
When your machine has a problem, you don't want to be
rooting round with serial links etc.

Comment Re:Beyond the Alien (Score 1) 336

Exactly!

I see it as the Aliens/Eggs are in fact just a bio weapon. Even the ship - With it's built in alien was manufactured for war.
This ship was perhaps hit in part of the bio egg weapons storage and infected the crew/pilot of the ship.
ALSO - The TRUE aliens that created these bio eggs - May be Acid blood. As may well their enemy(s) they produced them for.
And infection/gestation is very rapid - And can locate itself anywhere in the body. BUT for humans - There's not much acid to gestate in, And it's only located in the stomach. Hence the slower gestation and the only target area being the stomach (via mouth) for infection - It knows it must keep the recipient alive long enough to gestate with what little acid is available.

Comment Safest home backup solution (Score 2, Informative) 611

Safest home backup solution

Use standard commodity parts for easy replacement/reconstruction.
ie. Consumer grade writable disc's and external hard drives.


Backup Home data to DVD/BR/CD regularly (Monthly)

Backup Bulk data with 3 Hard disks!!!!

1) Use one Live HD

2) Use one to backup Live

3) Use ANOTHER to backup Live again

The Reason?
If your backup is large, You will probably need to erase the target drive.
At this point you are VERY vulnerable.
With your only backup erased,
You had better hope your live drive doesn't fail while backing up again.
Or you may accidentally delete something from the live drive WHILE backing up.

With a 3rd hard drive, At least you can recover from your last backup if your current backup somehow nukes itself.


Dangers....
1) Don't have a live drive and think your safe with another live drive synced, You really want to keep hard drive backups IN
STORAGE. If it's live it can and probably will die. It's just a matter of time or circumstances. This goes for raid too.
2) This is home storage, So 6/12 month hard disk backups should root out any bit rot or hard disk seizures.

Comment Re:2 Months is very fast (Score 1) 436

>> So if any of these [dekalbmugs.com] people or these people [gwinnettmugs.com] need a liver transplant, they should be front and center in line to get a brand new liver, well ahead of a supportive member of society that regularly pays his contribution to society?

Why not?

Please note the following on that (1st) page........
"Keep in mind that the people listed below were only admitted to the county jail and that they are innocent until proven guilty"

America is really FUCKED IN THE HEAD to be posting mugshot pictures of people who have not even been found guilty of any crime (WTF!)
And are those the addresses of these people..... YES THEY ARE!
Jesus Fucking H Christ. Posting pictures and Addressed of people not yet found guilty.

If I was unduly (mistake made) arrested and had my mug shot for all to see as if I were ALREADY a criminal. I would be FUCKING PISSED OFF.

Comment Re:Open source. (Score 1) 330

Correct me if the status of code to audit has changed etc.... Now Australia has 100 of these fuckers on order... We can't audit the code. We know it has kill switch code in it. Now china has info on this fighter. (Possibly even the kill code) If Australia needs to defend against China - We are fucked. (We also need around 20-30 subs but thats another story!) Cue the 1st scenes of battlestar galactica where we go to intercept and are blown out of the sky! I hope Australia tells the US to go shove it's now worthless planes up it's ass. (AND we don't buy any at the same time - Stupid politicians would still buy based on previous contract - Not current security/usefulness)

Comment Re:3D glasses suck. Head tracking is the right way (Score 1) 341

Using the Wii remote (or Webcam) and headband with some IR leds seems the more natural way to do this.
You must have the head tracking for true 3d.
Using glasses with two separate images is just "Stereoscopic" vision - Not full 3d at all.
Im not sure why there is so much attention to Stereoscopic images. To me Headtracking is 80% of 3d vision, 10% is the stereoscopic part and 10% is other (Balance etc)

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