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Thank you!

I've read that H170 does not support SLI and only AMD Crossfire (Eg. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H170-PRO/specifications/) But I'm thinking of installing an Quadro card (for CAD & 3D stuff) and a GTX card (for Adobe PP). Will this work, since I'm not SLI'ing?

The reason they quote for an open standard is to prevent vendor lock-in. They must have thought "What if google's loon or facebook's drone gives internet connectivity in the beginning to a remote village / hill top village where there is no other form of network and laying out new infrastructure to those places is impossible (reasons may be cost / political / feasibility / lack of proper research programs like fb and google / whatever), and those people will be fully dependent on these companies internet and there will be virtually no competition so there will be no control over how these companies offer internet. What if they suddenly turn evil after they perfect the technology and charge those poor people unrealistic tariff or sell data to a foreign government? Better ask them to make it an open standard so that they'll have competition and the parts we were not able to connect will for fall slaves to these foreign companies." I'm sure someone at the Indian government must have thought like this. After all, once you give something to the people, you just can't stop it or go below the standard set first. Eventually people will hate the government if they do not get an alternate, if for some reason google or facebook stop / monetize these services. I completely agree with this. India has previously implemented certain whistle-blower protection rules and then after few months silently brought amendments to the rules which made the rule less effective. (ps, if interested in this news item, ref this video. Have no idea if it is region locked or not. If so, apologies)

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/adopt-open-source-for-connectivity-trai/article8215930.ece The Indian telecom regulator on Tuesday hinted that technology-driven connectivity ventures such as the ones being pursued by Google and Facebook would be acceptable only if they followed an open source framework.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system This wikipedia article contains useful info behind the idea of Indian number system. It should help in understanding why numbers are grouped like that. It helped me learn a few things today . Looks like they continue to follow an ancient number system.

Another good, clean summary written by scroll.in: http://scroll.in/article/803227/trai-didnt-just-ban-free-basics-it-also-cleared-the-way-for-internet-that-is-actually-free Actual release by Indian Government: http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/WhatsNew/Documents/Regulation_Data_Service.pdf The fine amount ISPs should pay for violating net neutrality mentioned in the Govenment's PDF are Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 50,00,000 (Approx US$735 to US$73550) per day. The new regulation also allows ISPs to make certain services free / available at low tariff for the benefit of the public in case of emergencies. Quote from the regulations PDF: Mark Zuckerberg's reply: facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102641883915251

Well, that'd make a great htpc and router for me. i've always wanted a small box that does many stuff!

Looks like a timestamp to me. Not gibberish

Yeah, I agree. That statement was supposed to be a bad joke. Forgot to add a smiley. Edited the original post. Really wish all product developers take security seriously.

Yeah, but unless all satellite based ISPs secure their system, nothing prevents anyone (with some skills) to try the attack now that the basic method/idea is public.

Original article: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/how-highly-advanced-hackers-abused-satellites-to-stay-under-the-radar/ The Turla group which hit the news last year (http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/turla-spying-tool-targets-governments-and-diplomats / https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/65545/the-epic-turla-operation/) for using the usual excel, PDF, Flash vulnerabilities and the unusual stealthy Trojan for Linux systems was found to be routing traffic via satellites and using DVB-S receivers to receive data from its bots making it impossible to zero in on the location of the computer which downloads the stolen data. Even though the article says that they target only high profile targets (should linus be worried? ), the thought of everyone was able to bounce traffic via a satellite without being detected for all these years scares me.

I'm stuck with a trackpad Every affordable mouse available in my area I've ever bought died in a month.

Has 5 800GB platters. Ref: http://www.storagereview.com/wd_black_4tb_desktop_hard_drive_review_wd4003fzex Sorry for awakening long post. Might help someone looking to buy a 4TB WD Black.

I did not get any replacement as retail guy did not have any. He offered me a refund instead. Since I bought all other components & connectors, my requirement now are that the card should not be longer than 6.5 inches at the base and should have 1 full size display port out, 1 HDMI out and 1 DVI out. It should support AMD Eyefinity for running triple monitors and should run in a PC with 450w PSU. I am looking at the below possibilities: Asus AMD/ATI HD 7750 1 GB GDDR5, MSI AMD/ATI R7 260X 2GD5 OC 2 GB GDDR5, Sapphire AMD/ATI FirePro V4800 1 GB GDDR5, XFX R7 260X 2 GB DDR5, SAPPHIRE 100367L Radeon R7 250X 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5, SAPPHIRE 100368DP Radeon R7 250 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5. Am I in the right path? Cost does not matter. It just should work in the intel core2 duo machine.

I have sent it back. Waiting for replacement.