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16. September 2010 @ 06:46 |
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I think the E4300 did have virtualisation, but remember Russ, none of the Core 2s ever had hyper-threading, they only revived that with the i7s.
The new CPU finder in my opinion is crap. The old one was easy to read, and it included the core names!
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16. September 2010 @ 21:20 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I think the E4300 did have virtualisation, but remember Russ, none of the Core 2s ever had hyper-threading, they only revived that with the i7s.
The new CPU finder in my opinion is crap. The old one was easy to read, and it included the core names!
sam,
None of the E4*** series had Virtualization.
http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyID=26547
I agree 100% about the new CPU finder, it stinks! My mistake on the hyper-threading. I just copied the technologies that Intel listed as not included with the E4300.
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17. September 2010 @ 04:58 |
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My mistake. I never used virtualisation back then so it's not something I researched. I just knew the Pentium Dual Core E5 series didn't have it.
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19. September 2010 @ 08:40 |
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Re blocking the adverts, peerblock isn't necessary for this, just Flashblock as posted above, though i use AdBlock Plus too, i mass-block many ads/popups on many sites, surfing is back how it used to be before our webpages were overrun with unwanted popups/info/adverts.
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19. September 2010 @ 13:51 |
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I just use Adblock for chrome. Installed it and off it went. Simple as.
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19. September 2010 @ 14:02 |
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I don't like being spied on. Peerblock is a one step solution :p For those that use it, they know what I mean. It blocks an alarmingly large number of sites. Granted not all of them are bad...
Spys on the net, are no different then somebody listening in to my phone calls. Pretty sick!
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19. September 2010 @ 14:05 |
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Meh, conspiracy theorists.
With a firewall in place, it's mind over matter. Either obsess about security with unnecessary bloatware, or just don't worry about what isn't likely to hurt you :P
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19. September 2010 @ 14:22 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Meh, conspiracy theorists.
With a firewall in place, it's mind over matter. Either obsess about security with unnecessary bloatware, or just don't worry about what isn't likely to hurt you :P
Sammy which firewall do you use?
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19. September 2010 @ 14:23 |
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Only the one built into my router.
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19. September 2010 @ 21:05 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Only the one built into my router.
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19. September 2010 @ 23:00 |
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I don't use peerblock much. I do have a software firewall installed(Comodo) but I don't have much confidence in either that or my router. The companies Peerblock does block are mostly Chinese and Government so I figure the ones that are really spying on me won't be affected by something as petty as an IP blocker.
Yeah it IS a conspiracy and we ARE being spied on 24/7. It just doesn't matter what we do about it because they're gonna spy anyway. If you don't think we're being spied on you are naive. World governments operate almost solely by spying and secret intelligence. It's not a crazy theory, it's the way the world works.
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20. September 2010 @ 00:33 |
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Every software firewall I've ever used caused more problems than it ever helped with. I only use them when I'm on networks I'd rather not be on. One of these days I'll cough up the cash for a nice firewall/router, but that isn't likely to happen for while.
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20. September 2010 @ 01:17 |
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You know...I'm great with figuring out GUI's, building computers, and what not, but when it comes to networking, firewalls, scripting, it's like my confidence goes out the window. Which isn't good. Confidence is extremely powerful. More so than most people realize. But I just can't seem to help myself :p I guess I'd be grateful to know what the theoretical best firewall is, but I wouldn't know what to do with it :S
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20. September 2010 @ 03:09 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
I don't use peerblock much. I do have a software firewall installed(Comodo) but I don't have much confidence in either that or my router. The companies Peerblock does block are mostly Chinese and Government so I figure the ones that are really spying on me won't be affected by something as petty as an IP blocker.
Yeah it IS a conspiracy and we ARE being spied on 24/7. It just doesn't matter what we do about it because they're gonna spy anyway. If you don't think we're being spied on you are naive. World governments operate almost solely by spying and secret intelligence. It's not a crazy theory, it's the way the world works.
Estuansis,
Why do you think I refuse to buy into all this "Social Network" Crap? Every word you write is saved and cataloged. emails, Text messages, Twitter, Facebook, Stumble, you name it. They are all being monitored. Google your own web site name sometime, and you will be shocked what you might find. Every page you are on, just on AD usually will show up! It all depends on what it is related to. I googled "Estuansis", and got over 1700 hits! Not all you but there a lot there that are you, in fact I just learned your last name! LOL!!
I know that I am on their "keep an eye on" list, for sure. I witnessed TWA Flight 800, on July 17 1996 get hit by some sort of rocket or missile. I've seen pictures that the public will probably never see, and I can tell you that there is a huge hole in the fuselage, going in one side and out the other, that's is exactly where I said it hit! I gave a deposition to that effect! That makes me a bad guy! Someone to be watched!
In the US these days, when someone can take you into custody at gunpoint, with no reason other than you are being held under the Patriot Act, as a matter of National Security. You have no rights for anything! Some people have been held for years, without ever seeing a Lawyer, Judge, or even knowing what the charges were. Not even your Family knows where you are! You just vanish, and you have no rights!
Think about that the next time you Twitter,
Russ
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20. September 2010 @ 05:13 |
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My point made abundantly clear and that MySpace page has been deleted. Made that a long time ago trying to keep in contact with friends. Turns out a simple FaceBook profile is all I need :P
Thanks for the heads up Russ LOL. And just for the record my last name isn't exactly confidential knowledge. I am a law-abiding American and I have the capability to protect myself and my home. Jeffery Richard Jelinski. Proud Polish-American.
But no I am not being swallowed up by all the social networking. I do like to keep in contact with a few friends but all of this MyFace and SpaceBook, and MyYearBook and other nonsense is a waste of time for me.
About your points on "national Security". You are entirely right. Too many people have unwavering faith in the infallibility of their government. So much so that when things do happen it couldn't have possibly been the government. And if you say anything you're officially crazy ;P
If you want a good idea of what might be going on under wraps, there is a free film called Zeitgeist circulating on the web. I chalk it off as a very clever example of how propaganda works, but it does raise hundreds of questions that simply haven't been answered.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I do have the firm belief that to accept the facts as the media/government presents them to you is extremely ignorant and naive. A few of my beliefs:
- We HAVE had contact with alien life
- 9/11 wasn't as simple as it seemed
- Religion is a political tool
Many might write me off as crazy. You know what? Screw all you doubters. I came up with these beliefs from facts and simple logical reasoning.
Enough hijacking now, back to computers before the mods have words with us. If you'd care to discuss further I would like to take this to PMs :P
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20. September 2010 @ 05:44 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
My point made abundantly clear and that MySpace page has been deleted. Made that a long time ago trying to keep in contact with friends. Turns out a simple FaceBook profile is all I need :P
Thanks for the heads up Russ LOL. And just for the record my last name isn't exactly confidential knowledge. I am a law-abiding American and I have the capability to protect myself and my home. Jeffery Richard Jelinski. Proud Polish-American.
But no I am not being swallowed up by all the social networking. I do like to keep in contact with a few friends but all of this MyFace and SpaceBook, and MyYearBook and other nonsense is a waste of time for me.
About your points on "national Security". You are entirely right. Too many people have unwavering faith in the infallibility of their government. So much so that when things do happen it couldn't have possibly been the government. And if you say anything you're officially crazy ;P
If you want a good idea of what might be going on under wraps, there is a free film called Zeitgeist circulating on the web. I chalk it off as a very clever example of how propaganda works, but it does raise hundreds of questions that simply haven't been answered.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I do have the firm belief that to accept the facts as the media/government presents them to you is extremely ignorant and naive. A few of my beliefs:
- We HAVE had contact with alien life and the government knows all about it
- 9/11 wasn't as simple as a mere terrorist attack
- Religion is a political tool created for the purpose of controlling a population
Many might write me off as crazy. You know what? Screw all you doubters. I came up with these beliefs from facts and simple logical reasoning.
Enough hijacking now, back to computers before the mods have words with us :P
Estuansis,
I only made the post to try and wake some people up. This is a dangerous world we live in and it's going to get more dangerous as time goes by. Once the information is out there, you can't change it or remove it! I discovered this by looking for my friend Gina, a sometimes member on AD. She's big into this Social Networking crap. I found her Address, phone number, SS number, Cell phone number, driver's license number, all by just googling her name! People need to know the risk they place themselves in with all this garbage! Cool can get you in lots of trouble!
About Gina and my search, the Nurse in ICU that was taking care of her in the hospital, told me that she had passed away, at 34. Very sad! I'll miss her.
Russ
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20. September 2010 @ 06:15 |
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Being careful is all but useless in this day and age. Every action you take from buying a Whopper at Burger King to sending an E-Mail is monitored for key words and and certain cues. Every once in a while I just like to say "I know you're listening" to an empty room. I may be crazy, but I also may have just freaked the hell out of some secret organization somewhere! LOL!
Very sorry to hear about the loss of your friend Russ. I too recently lost a friend to IV drug use and poor life choices. Seeing those younger than you passing away is hard to swallow, especially when it's someone close. This one in particular was the only person able to get my nephew/godson to sleep for the first three months of his life. We had a lot of good memories and his death was a shocking blow.
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20. September 2010 @ 07:02 |
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If it's any consolation I don't use Twitter at all, and I relatively rarely use my facebook page, I may use it to contact other people, but rarely post anything about myself.
As far as conspiracy theorists go, well aware of the stories of the Patriot Act, is one of a fair few reasons why I would only ever want to visit the US, not live there.
I'm not convinced we have had contact with intelligent alien life. As for September 11th, I'm not convinced there was much more to that either.
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This I do agree with you on.
Finding someone's address, home and mobile phone number through social networking sites is easy, if you display it. How on earth did you find the rest though?
Sorry to hear about your loss Russ, I remember the discussions about the system you were building for her.
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20. September 2010 @ 07:21 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
If it's any consolation I don't use Twitter at all, and I relatively rarely use my facebook page, I may use it to contact other people, but rarely post anything about myself.
As far as conspiracy theorists go, well aware of the stories of the Patriot Act, is one of a fair few reasons why I would only ever want to visit the US, not live there.
I'm not convinced we have had contact with intelligent alien life. As for September 11th, I'm not convinced there was much more to that either.
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This I do agree with you on.
Finding someone's address, home and mobile phone number through social networking sites is easy, if you display it. How on earth did you find the rest though?
Sorry to hear about your loss Russ, I remember the discussions about the system you were building for her.
15 posts off-topic and counting :P
Sam,
If I remember rightly, she had the same MB and CPU you had with your E4300/P5N-E. It only took 3 rounds of motherboards to get one that worked! It took her almost 6 months to get the $1600 back from Asus she had to lay out for the extra motherboards. $800 per motherboard was a little bit over the top, by anybodies standards! Newegg was out of them, so she had to deal with Asus!
I found a lot more than that! All I did was google her name!
Russ
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20. September 2010 @ 07:28 |
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$1600? What in the F**?
The dead P5N-E SLI was the last straw for me, with the prior dead A8N-SLI SE and the dodgy HD3870. It's only just amusing that even after I replaced the P5N-E with a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R (which is still working in someone else's system today) the A8R-MVP failed 9 months later, and even then my aggravations with Asus weren't done. I reluctantly bought Shaff's Maximus II off him as I had issues with Gigabytes running crossfire properly. That lasted all of about 3 months before it too went belly up and had to be replaced with a Gigabyte.
I feel for Rob/Will with their problems with Gigabyte boards, but part of me feels it's hypochondriac-ism, any fault that appears they blame the board due to past problems. That's basically the attitude I took when my system started becoming unstable with the Maximus II, but I did so because the board was an Asus, whaddya know, my hunch was right!
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20. September 2010 @ 08:03 |
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Another WTF from me on $800 a motherboard. WOW.
Currently have yet to have a single issue with a Gigabyte board. I think one friend killed his 740G board but he was trying to run an OCd Quad in it and the power hungry 940 like mine, lol. Poor thing didn't stand a chance.
Personally have never had a dead ASUS board in one of my systems. A8N-5X, A8N-E, and an M2N32SLI-Deluxe. All solid boards and good OCers. But these are also all old boards. As far as repairs go, ASUS boards make up a surprisingly large percentage of the PCs I work on. Specifically I have a running tally of over 10 dead P5N-Es. Nvidia + ASUS = FAIL. The other large majority is Nvidia chipset boards other than the 650i. After that I've replaced a few ECS, PC Chips and Foxconn boards.
Conversely the higher end Foxconns you can get in Japan are supposed to be ultra high quality. I have a long time friend on another forum living in Tokyo and he uses Foxconn exclusively. Some of the features on those boards are impressive. Such a shame the only ones I've seen personally are bargain basement boards. If they'd market more of their high end stuff in the US and the UK I'm sure they would have a cult following.
Would like to see more DFI boards as well. Not seen a lot of them in the US and know very few to have used them. They don't seem to offer as many mid-range boards as other companies which is a shame because their overall design and construction is top-notch. They do tend to have a few compatibility issues but I haven't had a single problem with my LANParty since the day I got it. I think it's mostly a RAM problem. Any stick will work but certain voltage/latency combos will give it fits.
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20. September 2010 @ 09:05 |
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You didn't see the Strikers then, 6+ dead boards per person. You'd think they'd stop at three, but given this was all within a year, it's not surprising. The average lifetime of most PC motherboards is about 4-5 years. The average lifetime of an Asus board seems to be about 9 months. The average lifetime of an nvidia Asus board is 6-8 weeks. Terribad.
You won't be seeing any more DFI boards, the brand was culled. They only produce server boards now.
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They should have called the Strikers, Failure I, Failure II and so on. I think we are on Crosshair IV now, although it's supposed to be a very good motherboard, time will tell. My biggest gripe with Asus is they are in complete denial with well documented and known problems. I mean what do you say to a Tech that tells you they weren't experiencing any problems with the P5N-E, while the pages of their own forum read like an Obituary column for dead ones? If you want to be really frustrated, wait 27 days for them to repair a motherboard, and then get it back with the same problem that you originally sent it in for. After almost 2 months without my E6750, it lasted untill 14 days past the warranty.
I've experienced problems with GigaByte boards as well, all except one, my own. For some reason I'm always shipping them out on a Thursday, so I usually get one back on Monday, so 3 day service is pretty good. Even if it was a repair, I don't consider 8-9 days, door to door unreasonable. I just got my replacement 790X-UD4P back this morning, since they were unable to determine what was wrong with it. 1 week was OK by me. They shipped my original back to Gigabyte TW, to determine what the problem was. My friend's 785G will be here tomorrow, since they were able to repair it (bad VRM). I consider the time, very reasonable.her
I won't say that I will never buy another Asus, although it would take a lot to get me to buy one. Who knows, they just might get better management next week! LOL!! My bad on Gina's motherboards though. It was $1410.88 that was owed , so that's $705.44 each, plus they charged shipping for both!
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how did they charge $800 for an RMA?
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20. September 2010 @ 14:16 |
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I'm not sure I'd never buy one, but it'd have to be a good 2 or 3 years without me hearing a single complaint against them before I'd trust them. As of now I see no sign that they're going to reverse the dramatic downturn in quality they chose a few years back.
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