Recent content by elkein

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    Windows 7 getting stuck while operating

    I done a 7 x64 build with 4gb memory, and it would regularly run out of memory and freeze the desktop in place indefinately. Add more memory.
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    OCZ Vertex 4 Review: A Flagship SSD Powered By...Indilinx?

    This is the first SSD release in a while that's made me sit up. Better performance and lowewr price, it's not a secret to make the sale. Idle power isn't a personal breaker when we are talking 1 watt that for me equals little more than a $1. I want to see these things in the wild, without...
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    Microsoft Packs Mustang With Windows 8, Kinect, Xbox, More

    I was going to buy a my little pony car next year, but I don't think my wife would go for that version.
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    New iPad 4G 16GB Costs an Estimated $310 in Parts

    magaapple,apple,apple,apple....,again its everywhere ,just STOP it i had enough OK . Wakey Wakey, the world is passing you by. I love my homebuilt machine, I advocate and tech support other people. But at work I'm tearing out numerous PC terminals, because iPads are replacing them. When one gets...
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    Microsoft Store India Hacked, Passwords Stored in Plain Text

    That is a facepalm, but this is what happens when you let foreign divisions have their own ways. My line of work is all government/domestic. My wife however manages a has a significant roll in outsource management for her company (to India and China.) Truth be told it gets very old and expensive...
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    Anonymous Hacks Syrian President; His Password Was 12345

    OMG I instantly snap the thoughts about spaceballs. With lameness like this around no wonder I've never had hacking issues on my servers, there are easier targets around.
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    Mouser Sells Classic 6502 "Antique" Processor

    lightbulbsocketNo. The question is, will it run Oregon Trail?!I wonder what kind of effect those 13 extra MHz would have on one of those old systems. I wonder if it would have an effect like overclocking. My wife freaked the first time I ran Oregon Trail, (apple IIe version) and she was the...
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    Report: Apple Does Not Care Enough About Workers in China

    It's so good to know that Adnriods are made in so much better conditions!
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    In Pictures: The Best Graphics Card Values In History

    I've had three cards off the list, 7600 GT (still deployed in my wifes computers, she's been doing dragon age of late, it's getting the job done for her resolution.) I'm running two SLI 9800gtx+ they have done a adequit job on Skyrim bundled in my system. I think my system specs are in my profile.
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    In Pictures: Getting Connected To Next-Gen Home Security

    So lets see if you are once of worst case scenario baddies, the perp cuts the phone(no effect, my phone wire was decommissioned years ago) Cuts the power, that has an effect of automating a text message, but does kill the system or my cameras that are on UPS, cuts the internet cable (that does...
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    In Pictures: Getting Connected To Next-Gen Home Security

    Lights are automated to come on with the alarm, all lights and all cameras record at once.
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    In Pictures: Getting Connected To Next-Gen Home Security

    Gah, nice set of typos there...
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    In Pictures: Getting Connected To Next-Gen Home Security

    Vinvt in okay, couple of pics from a camera. iPhone screenshot of camera in cation http://www.elkeinland.com/img/vivint1.PNG Looking at camera same time (hidden in basket) http://www.elkeinland.com/img/vivint2.JPG
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    HDD Prices are Increasing Rapidly; 50% in One Week

    Good thing my seagate died two weeks ago... I WD cavier black was rather cheapat $74 for a 1tb.
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    One Million Robots to Take Over Jobs of Foxconn Workers

    NewWorkForcefor a bunch of geeks you all seem to think robots = unemployment, i have worked with manufacturing for a long time, what i know is robot = different workforce, someone will have to install the robots, maintain the robots, program the robots, not sure if foxconn thought this out...