Mr.Sommer-Hansen

I think linus should add a wallpaper of the week section at the end of each wan show. This would be a great.

Right... soo... This may not be an Otaku full thread but, hope you guys enjoy this.
 
Originally this was suppose to be a personal thing, but once i slapped dat background on there and fiddled with the shadows i knew it was something i couldnt keep to myself.
 

Click to DL as always

You kids these days have it so damn easy in building computers. It's utterly amazing how much has changed when 14 years ago at this time, I was spending hours and hours between my college IT classes figuring out why the hell Intel was getting its ass kicked by this "AMD" company and why spending the money on this new "Geforce 3" was such a big deal compared to previous versions that ran Quake 2 just fine but Unreal squashed that.
 
 
Back when I wanted to build my first computer in late 2000/early 2001 as a  young lad of 20 *God I feel old now* I had to go through a rirtual only other old, get off my lawn farts can understand now 
 
 
1. There was no Youtube, social media, flash art to give you visual refrences on how to put stuff together. You went and got a "Build Your computer Bible " Version 28 book from Barns an Noble and marked pages
 

 
 
 
2. You didn't have price search engines, you opened up multiple WINDOWS of etailers and compared prices side by side
 

 
 
3. You spent SLOWLY modem dialing across  forums for hours on end dealing with "veteran builders" who kept ignoring you
 

 
 
 
4. You had to still learn to use jumpers on your IDE drives correctly, or no booting for you. And God forbid if you bend one of the IDE pins
 

 
 
 
 
5. Make sure you didn't crush your new Athlon GPU die by putting too much pressure on heatsink
 

 
 
 
6.  USB was VERY MUCH "Plug and Pray" back in those days...
 

 

 
 
 
7.  Driver downloads took half an hour on times on dial up modems
 

 
 
 
 
 
8. BIOS'es were still big Blue and white screens of fear.  Good luck configuring boot up devices if you didn't understand with the included manual 
 

 
 
 
 
9. LED lighting? Hah, didn't exist. You spent good money on a cold cathode to show of your pimped rig through the window YOU YOURSELF cut and installed
 

 
 
 
 
10.  Dual CPUs?  On a single die? NO no, they had their own sockets. If you had a dual cpu setup, you were a farking god among men
 

 
 
 
11. Overclocking was a true russian roulette game, with a mis firing gun.  You would spend hours on forums trying to get detailed information on what BIOS settings to tweak and NOT to touch. There was no preset and "forget" oveclocking, let alone Windows versions
 

 
 
 
12. Boot to windows over USB? Whats that? 
 

 
 
 
 
13. If your Windows key didn't take for whatever reason, have fun spending half an our on hold with microsoft. 
 

 
 
 
14. Is your Soundcard or add on NIC card *most mobo's didn' thave onboard LAN* not working or crashing system? You got to play the PCI slot swapping and reinstalling gaming to find which one was the culprit
 

 
 
 
 
15. All in one, prebuilt water cooling kits for $100? Pffffaa bwaa haa!! You had to spend $300 or more from DangerDen on DIY kit with tubing like garden hoses and pray to god your seals held on your waterblocks and self made reserviors. 
 

 

 
 
 
 
16. Downloadable ISO's? Hah, you went to the store and bought your copy of Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 if you were a really rich pimp and prepared for hours long install with the CDROM drive spinning away
 

 
 
 
 
 
17. Pre painted and sweet looking cases with good airflow? HAAA!!! Nope, you broke out the spray paint cans, the dremel and jigsaw and MADE your case look good and cool well. 
 

 

 
 
 
 
18.   24-30 inch flat screen LCDs? Oh no, you were a pimp if you could afford a quality, 20" flatscreen Sony Trinitron that weighed 40 pounds that you lugged to LAN parties. If you were poor, you bought Viewsonic 19'' CRT monitor.
 

 
 
 
 
19. If your dial up 56k modem was getting you downloads speeds of around 33 kbytes a second, God was smiling on you.
 

 
 
 
 
20. Was your case getting to hot with that AGP graphics card and multiple hard drives?  You had to make your own blowhole, jigsaw style!  Or get real creative....
 

 

 
 
 
21. Presleeved power supply cables and SATA cables? Haa!!!  What are those?
 

 
 
 
 
22. If you couldn't afford a $300 CD burner, you got a Iomega Zip drive.
 

 
 
23. You wanna listen to your Blink 182 music CD in full digital? Be sure you have this cable installed
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
So be thankful you little digital rascals of what you have today. Now get off my lawn....   
 
 
And after some googling, I actually found a archieved image of my VERY FIRST computer build back in May of 2001 with my very first case modding project based off the Enlight 7237 case which was vey popular back in the day. Wow....the feels....
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

They have announced two 144Hz 1440p Gsync monitors with the difference being one is IPS and the other is not;


XB270HU Gsync 144Hz 1440p IPS Monitor;



The XG270HU 1440p 144Hz Gsync with 1MS response time (presuming it's a TN panel) with Edge-to-edge bezels;



Availability; The Acer XB270HU and XG270HU monitors will be available globally and begin shipping in March 2015. 

Source: http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/press/2015/151682

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Update; Review.

As it's an IPS panel, colors and viewing angles are as we used from IPS amazing, people were worried about the input lag/response time so;

Because then you wouldn't be able to hook it into a lamp. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

pretty cool, being able to screw it into a desk lamp is a nice idea, since then you can actually move it round on your desk

The ID of this projector is really quite... Well, I wouldn't call it good. It's neat that you can just put it into a lamp socket and be done with it. But it's not elegant at all to have a cable with a socket and this big round thing on a table. May it be in the living room, bed room or what not.
 
That is a killer for me.

"We go together like an ssd and a harddrive." wallpaper. With the metro ltt theme. 
 
Make
This
Please
 
 

This is the first Ubisoft thread I've seen in a while, so here's the obligatory gif.

Wendell can't hear Linun's pleas for forgiveness. He has too many monitors in the way. 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/12/uk-spy-agencies-need-more-powers-says-cameron-paris-attacks
 
So it looks like Cameron wants to make it illegal for any encrypted communication to happen without the government being able to intercept and view the content provided they have a valid warrant (which we all know they follow..) This would make using encryption such as PGP illegal and could even result in company's like apple having to redesign their OS for the UK market.
 
Some problems I see:
 
1. Governments can and will abuse power
 
2. Banning encryption could result in weaker overall security, the current security situation is terrible when it comes to encryption and imposing tough restrictions in the use of crypto could result in even less implementation meaning that anyone could intercept the plain text data 
 
3. apps like snapchat / whatsapp that use encryption could become illegal to use as company's would have to adapt their app for use in the UK and could prevent international use 
 
4. It doesn't solve the problem, "The attacks in Paris demonstrated the scale of the threat that we face and the need to have robust powers through our intelligence and security agencies in order to keep our people safe." even if they had this power unless they were actively surveying the suspects they wouldn't of stopped the attack. 
 
What do you guys think?

So it looks like Cameron can go and suck it.

NEW WALLPAPER HYPE!!
 

 

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awesome, too bad I don't play BF4 on PC... or console... or anything for that matter

Alright, So... PS/illistartor trial ran out... Soooooooooo..... Anyone want some BF4 emblems made by yours truly?
 
 

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It would be interesting but the discussion has been so saturated there's really no point.

you might not have known this was done months before the decision was made to relocate?

Linus tweeted about this or something and it was because he is running a video production company and that project gets a lot of views. That is basicly it. 

They were not planning to move when they planned the whole room watercooling
 
Besides they can easily move it to the new office, just set up new pipes

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/13091/ex-vap-20/Cooler_Express_2013_Design_Super_Evaporator_CPU_GPU_Cooling_Unit_w_Upgraded_Socket_Kit_-_All_Sockets_478_754_775_1155_1156_1366_2011_939_940_AM2_Xeon_CE-48-D-1C-1G.html?tl=g49&id=K8sUEmI8

 
PLEASE!
 
(I know there is a topic for this kinda stuff but I couldn't find it, even with google.
 
Lol at the manual:

I uploaded these in PNG format, im 99% sure its our monitors that cause the bars D:
 

Just whipped this up as part of the WAN Show Banner.
 
@LinusTech @Slick what do you think?
 
If this gets used as the WAN Show banner once, ill make a step by step tutorial to make some really good home made pizza. (WITH Pictures!)

 

Letting someone who can't figure out which button is an ad and which is the real download use my computer.

Welcome to the Forum!
 
basically, the i7 4710HQ is soldered on, and the MQ is upgradeable. I would go for the GT72 because more VRAM and cheaper price. 
 
BTW: If a desktop is at all an option, I would recommend choosing that over a laptop for better performance for the price.

There's some flaws here...