[QUOTE=Makol;38780566]My parents need to do something about the locks and security system in this house.
Today alone there have been 7 break ins in my neighborhood, and about 12 over the weekend.
I sure do love living in Atlanta.[/QUOTE]
Yikes! There hasn't been a break in as far as I know in my neighborhood in years, but that's the benefit of living in a small town with a very large police force as well as having two police officers living within 4 houses from me. Have you ever had your home broke into? I have ADT and recently my dog went into the basement when I was gone and set off the motion detector, When I got home I saw a police officer walking around my house to looking for evidence of a break in, very reassuring considering the alarm was only sounded under five minutes before I got home.
last time there was a break in in my neighborhood was about 10 years ago. probably half of the city's police force lives here
So I have the 6870 installed.
Working fine so far under Windows. I'm sort of afraid to test it under OS X, despite all the info out there telling me it's going to work.
Worst-case, I stick the old X1900 in the upper slots, and swap the DVI cable over every time I switch operating systems.
Also: this card is LOUD with the fans at 100%. And something tells me it's going to run at full a lot - it's sitting right over the RAM, which gets insanely hot. Like, hotter than the CPUs.
Also also: buying the RAM was a mistake. A 2006 Mac Pro can apparently only boot 32-bit kernels, despite using 64-bit processors. A firmware limitation, apparently. There may be ways to get around it, but for now I'm not going to bother with the RAM upgrade.
Is it just me or does America seem a bit rough?
I sleep at night soundly with my back door open and my front window unlocked.
And my back door goes straight onto the street.
[QUOTE=Itsamario;38782735]Is it just me or does America seem a bit rough?
I sleep at night soundly with my back door open and my front window unlocked.
And my back door goes straight onto the street.[/QUOTE]
america has a lot of poor people and for some reason everyone in america thinks that whatever group they're in needs a culture. as a result, we have a massive poor culture that does nothing but steal and shoot each other all day
[QUOTE=Itsamario;38782735]Is it just me or does America seem a bit rough?
I sleep at night soundly with my back door open and my front window unlocked.
And my back door goes straight onto the street.[/QUOTE]
Depends on where you live. In a major city, I could see it being rough. Out here in the rural Midwest? Many people don't bother to lock their doors unless they are leaving for the day, and that's only as a precautionary measure. Very rarely does anything ever happen, and when it does, EVERYONE hears about it in the news, etc.
Americans aren't very respectful to eachother, in my experience
[QUOTE=Itsamario;38782735]Is it just me or does America seem a bit rough?
I sleep at night soundly with my back door open and my front window unlocked.
And my back door goes straight onto the street.[/QUOTE]
Depends on what part.
Out where I used to live, there was pretty much zero crime besides speeding (pretty much everyone speeds down those country roads). I think in the 15 years or so I was there, there were three or four minor break-ins in the entire neighborhood.
Cities can be worse, particularly the, erm, low-income areas. New York City apparently averages slightly over a murder per day, and that's pretty good for their population. Just avoid Chicago and Vegas and you'll probably come home sans stab wounds.
[editline]10th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=altern;38782883]Americans aren't very respectful to eachother, in my experience[/QUOTE]
Again, visit the South sometime. There are parts where everyone addresses each other as "sir" or "ma'am", and not holding a door open for another will get you shunned.
Pretty nice, except for the racism.
[QUOTE=altern;38782883]Americans aren't very respectful to eachother, in my experience[/QUOTE]
Once again, its entirely based on where you live. The community culture can vary from state to state.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;38782893]Again, visit the South sometime. There are parts where everyone addresses each other as "sir" or "ma'am", and not holding a door open for another will get you shunned.
Pretty nice, except for the racism.[/QUOTE]
should try south mississippi instead of just the south in general. here in Biloxi we have the same southern hospitality culture but without the white pride
alabama is the worst for racism though stay away from there unless you're white as can be and at least 30% more american than apple pie
Anyways, what are some good games to see how well my new card holds up? I tried the most intense game I have installed (AIX, maxed-out settings), but it was running really weird. I suspect some other process was interfering, because it was hiccupy, not laggy or stuttery, but I suppose it could also be CPU bottlenecking (unlikely, though - dual Xeons shouldn't bottleneck on anything).
[QUOTE=gman003-main;38783135]Anyways, what are some good games to see how well my new card holds up? I tried the most intense game I have installed (AIX, maxed-out settings), but it was running really weird. I suspect some other process was interfering, because it was hiccupy, not laggy or stuttery, but I suppose it could also be CPU bottlenecking (unlikely, though - dual Xeons shouldn't bottleneck on anything).[/QUOTE]
Metro 2033, Planetside 2, Naturally Crysis, Far Cry 3.
Also
[quote=gman003-main;38783135]I tried the most intense game I have installed (AIX, maxed-out settings)[/quote]
Silly gman, AIX is an OS.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;38783135]Anyways, what are some good games to see how well my new card holds up? I tried the most intense game I have installed (AIX, maxed-out settings), but it was running really weird. I suspect some other process was interfering, because it was hiccupy, not laggy or stuttery, but I suppose it could also be CPU bottlenecking (unlikely, though - dual Xeons shouldn't bottleneck on anything).[/QUOTE]
I would second the above suggestion for Metro 2033. Pretty sure Planetside 2 is just super unoptimized though.
[QUOTE=wingless;38783150]Metro 2033, Planetside 2, Naturally Crysis, Far Cry 3.
Also
Silly gman, AIX is an OS.[/QUOTE]
Allied Intent: eXtended. Best BF2 mod ever.
I'll queue Crysis and Metro 2033 up for download, then. That's going to rape my bandwidth, though.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;38782343]* Lyoko744 has quit (*.net*.split)[/QUOTE]
did you kill yourself? plz dont
rip
[QUOTE=Demache;38782875]Depends on where you live. In a major city, I could see it being rough. Out here in the rural Midwest? Many people don't bother to lock their doors unless they are leaving for the day, and that's only as a precautionary measure. Very rarely does anything ever happen, and when it does, EVERYONE hears about it in the news, etc.[/QUOTE]
Leaving your doors unlocked is ridiculous, if you have a lock on a door how do you benefit from not using it? Even with a home security system, home protection, theft insurance and property insurance I would rather never have to use any of those even if it only a rare occurrence that something happens.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;38777730]12 inch powerbook is the best[/QUOTE]
p-p-p-powerbook will always be king
[img]http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/053/211/Keys1.jpg?1318992465[/img]
[QUOTE=Shadaez;38783264]did you kill yourself? plz dont[/QUOTE]
Nah, not that depressed
[sub][sub][sub][sub]yet, fucking Christmas is gonna suck being away from home[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]
[QUOTE=Ajacks;38782426]Yikes! There hasn't been a break in as far as I know in my neighborhood in years, but that's the benefit of living in a small town with a very large police force as well as having two police officers living within 4 houses from me. Have you ever had your home broke into? I have ADT and recently my dog went into the basement when I was gone and set off the motion detector, When I got home I saw a police officer walking around my house to looking for evidence of a break in, very reassuring considering the alarm was only sounded under five minutes before I got home.[/QUOTE]
Our house was almost broken into.
Luckily my dog was outside taking a dump or whatever and bit the guy in the leg. The guy ran off when he let him go:v:
It's tempting to get one of these, would make work much easier.
[url]http://www.asus.com/Display/LCD_Monitors/PB278Q/[/url]
Anyone got a ~2560 x 1440 monitor? Or any res higher than 1080p. I'd like to know peoples opinions.
[QUOTE=reevezy67;38783582]It's tempting to get one of these, would make work much easier.
[url]http://www.asus.com/Display/LCD_Monitors/PB278Q/[/url]
Anyone got a ~2560 x 1440 monitor? Or any res higher than 1080p. I'd like to know peoples opinions.[/QUOTE]
I have a friend with that res and he loves it.
Is there a Chrome addon that makes it so Youtube isn't just on the left half of my screen?
[QUOTE=Demache;38782875]Depends on where you live. In a major city, I could see it being rough. Out here in the rural Midwest? Many people don't bother to lock their doors unless they are leaving for the day, and that's only as a precautionary measure. Very rarely does anything ever happen, and when it does, EVERYONE hears about it in the news, etc.[/QUOTE]
As a rural midwest occupant I agree.
Nice to see you again demache.
Well that was bloody fun.
So, recently, due to my own stupidity, I got a small little virus that I didn't notice. It's nothing particularly nasty. If you're familiar with Bitcoins you'll probably know about bitcoin pools, in short you use a remote piece of software to do do the actual bitcoin load and send it back to a "pool" which then puts it in a bitcoin wallet. A good way to distribute workload. The virus simply starts a bitcoin miner which uses 10% of my CPU and 10% of my GPU for bitcoin mining and sends the results to the virus makers pool.
I reverse engineered the virus a bit, all the executables are compressed with yoda's crypter which is a pretty effective way of preventing decompilation of an executable so what I did was watched what it did. The payload of the virus is "color.exe" which pings 127.0.0.1 for -N 100, it then downloads some information over FTP, I assume it is bitcoin miner itself, but it then runs the miner and points to the creators bitcoin pool. It also sets it self to autostart in the registry. I'm not sure what "mnr.exe" is, I'm guessing it sets up the miner and downloads some information. Upd.exe and upd1.exe look like they get the latest pool information from the creator.
The pool reports back to "amdcatalyst.leet.la", a simple NSLookup gives the IP "69.162.75.155" which a reverse DNS lookup results in "155-75-162-69.static.reverse.lstn.net".
What did I do about this? Reported it to Limestone Networks. The host of the box.
I've reported the virus to Symantec, ClamAV and Avast!.
You're done, fucker. You don't mess with my PC.
[url=http://download.team-metro.net/.awayfrompryingeyes/bitcoinvirus-DONOTRUN-.zip]Here's the virus if you wanna have a play with it.[/url]
Apparently the wiiu gamepad protoype was literally two controllers taped to a screen :v:
[img]http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wiiugamepadproto.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=wingless;38784075]Well that was bloody fun.
So, recently, due to my own stupidity, I got a small little virus that I didn't notice. It's nothing particularly nasty. If you're familiar with Bitcoins you'll probably know about bitcoin pools, in short you use a remote piece of software to do do the actual bitcoin load and send it back to a "pool" which then puts it in a bitcoin wallet. A good way to distribute workload. The virus simply starts a bitcoin miner which uses 10% of my CPU and 10% of my GPU for bitcoin mining and sends the results to the virus makers pool.
I reverse engineered the virus a bit, all the executables are compressed with yoda's crypter which is a pretty effective way of preventing decompilation of an executable so what I did was watched what it did. The payload of the virus is "color.exe" which pings 127.0.0.1 for -N 100, it then downloads some information over FTP, I assume it is bitcoin miner itself, but it then runs the miner and points to the creators bitcoin pool. It also sets it self to autostart in the registry. I'm not sure what "mnr.exe" is, I'm guessing it sets up the miner and downloads some information. Upd.exe and upd1.exe look like they get the latest pool information from the creator.
The pool reports back to "amdcatalyst.leet.la", a simple NSLookup gives the IP "69.162.75.155" which a reverse DNS lookup results in "155-75-162-69.static.reverse.lstn.net".
What did I do about this? Reported it to Limestone Networks. The host of the box.
I've reported the virus to Symantec, ClamAV and Avast!.
You're done, fucker. You don't mess with my PC.
[url=http://download.team-metro.net/.awayfrompryingeyes/bitcoinvirus-DONOTRUN-.zip]Here's the virus if you wanna have a play with it.[/url][/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://puu.sh/1zCoK[/IMG]
heh
[QUOTE=altern;38784223][IMG]http://puu.sh/1zCoK[/IMG]
heh[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of when I downloaded some example wireshark logs that showed botnet activity
MSE flipped out about detecting a virus and botnets and stuff
MSE likes to plagiarize
Fanfuckingtastic.
So I now own 3 games on Steam that refuse to work on any computer I own. Brilliant use of my money.
The three games are:
Civilization IV - Friend bought it for me in hopes we could play some multiplayer and dick around. Says I do not have a valid Steam subscription for it.
WH40k DoW GOTY - Got it from the THQ Bundle. Redirects me to the store page for it.
Red Faction: Armageddon (bite me, I enjoyed it and want to play through it again) - Fails to download the actual game executables, only downloads the launcher. Verification of cache files does not fix it.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;38786208]Fanfuckingtastic.
So I now own 3 games on Steam that refuse to work on any computer I own. Brilliant use of my money.
The three games are:
Civilization IV - Friend bought it for me in hopes we could play some multiplayer and dick around. Says I do not have a valid Steam subscription for it.
WH40k DoW GOTY - Got it from the THQ Bundle. Redirects me to the store page for it.
Red Faction: Armageddon (bite me, I enjoyed it and want to play through it again) - Fails to download the actual game executables, only downloads the launcher. Verification of cache files does not fix it.[/QUOTE]
Open a support ticket, they're usually really helpful
[QUOTE=kaze4159;38786324]Open a support ticket, they're usually really helpful[/QUOTE]
already did. 3 days ago. No response yet.
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