I'm still on my now long in the tooth C2Q. Really due for an upgrade, but the house took priority so I don't have the money for it yet. :rolleyes:
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I heard a motivational speaker named Zig Ziglar once say, "Now take money... I've had it. And I've hadn't had it. ... It's better to have it."
:D
I also have another EVGA GTX 560 Ti coming. That'll be 3 of those, a GTX 260, and an 8800 Ultra. My XPS M1730 has dual 8700M GT's. I don't live close enough to the fire department to max out the XPS at the moment!!
And here's a photo for techwise (heheh... be careful what you ask for!) Not too bad, I reckon, for turning 58 this year. (I shoulda wore my hat!) ;) And really, I ain't lying, I have an external 120mm USB fan sitting on the desk blowing directly on me while I'm sitting here. I have two cigar humidor hygrometers in the room. One says 82 degrees and the other says 84 degrees.
I came across this source of FAH news. BS it looks like they have their own network issues to contend with as well :)
http://folding.typepad.com/news/
je_fro... Yeah, that's kinda old news now. That was sorted out, but I still have upload issues... however, even so, I'm recently averaging about 50,000 points per day from mostly the GPU folding!
:eek:
:cool:
So . . . . I will be shutting down my systems over the next few days in anticipation of a move back to Texas north of Dallas. It will probably be May before I come back up to full speed. And, look out, because I will have broadband internet access there! I hope to get a house in an area that has Verizon FIOS at 35/35 Mbps! My uploads will be finished before the Uploading message finishes writing to the screen! :eek: Heheh...
(oh, well, we'll see how it goes. I'll have to pay for my own electricity then!)
It's currently like this:
Uploading: 0.16% (that's not 16%, that 16 one hundreths of 1 percent!)
Uploading: 0.27%
Uploading: 0.46%
Uploading: 0.68%
Uploading: 0.85%
Uploading: 1.20%
etc....
After the move I hope for this:
Uploa.....: 100%
;)
Be safe in the move. I've got a 6-pack of Shiner waitin' on ya.
Welcome back to the main land. I just moved to the DFW area myself, though I'm out of the FiOS range (SW Arlington). AT&T U-Verse isn't the 50Mbps cap of FiOS, but 24Mbps works fine. I'm still waiting for my first electric bill before I cut the farm on so I can get an idea of my monthly cost.
Hit me up when you are settled, don't know too many people here yet.
have a safe trip, and welcome back
Here's what I'm getting from my FIOS here in NJ.Quote:
I hope to get a house in an area that has Verizon FIOS at 35/35 Mbps!
http://dev.forums.justlinux.forums.r.../2012/02/2.png
BROADBAND SNOB!!!
:p
Heheh.. J/K
edit: Out here on dial-up, that would be about 3.6Kbps down and 1.8Kbps up...
I wanna be a broadband snob!! :(
LOL. Guilty as charged. :D
I hate you.... :cool:
I'm :just: out of range of FiOS, so I have to go with AT&T U-Verse. The problem is they put a 250GB cap (that is upload and download COMBINED), so I opted for a mid level 14Mbps. No point in getting their 24Mbps so I can get to the cap faster and have no Internet the end of the month. :mad::mad::mad:
Don't be hatin'... :rolleyes:
Note to self: Avoid AT&T
Not that I might ever upload and/or download 250GB of stuff...
but if I -need- to....
He||, out here it would be a stretch to even do 1GB of traffic in a month!
But, I did sign up for TechNet. My new job will involve Windows Server 2008 and Sharepoint and Exchange... etc. So, I'll have a few gigglebytes worth that I'll need to download for my home lab/network.
Oh wait... back over there in the land of shopping malls and automobiles.. you can download movies and stuff too! :eek:
I agree... the only problem is my only other option here is Time Warner which had two plans:
$30 for 768Kbps (THAT'S Kb!!!!) and a 5GB cap, or go up to $55 for 15Mbps with a 40GB cap.... :rolleyes:
AT&T is $30 for 14Mbps 250GB cap, and $50 24Mbps 250GB. Lesser of two evils, and who knows I may shell out the extra $20 after I monitor a couple months of usage.
You would be surprised how fast it adds up if you are online a lot. Remember, it is upstream and downstream combined (including protocol packets). So a 150MB file counts for more than 150MB of your limit after handshakes, acknowledgements, and packet resends, etc. There are also things like Netflix - stream a PAID for service of HD video and watch your ticker fly. Of course that is the point, ISP's fear services like Netflix will do just what it did for me - make me cancel my cable TV service. So to recoup cost, they limit how much you can use these new services.
I'm waiting for a class action lawsuit to come about in the near future. It's only a matter of time before their caps gets smaller and a lawyer sees easy money.
EDIT => Also, you may be limited on how many flavors of Linux you can download and try (assuming you DL the entire repos)... :p STOP SELLING BANDWIDTH YOU DON'T HAVE!