PhilPC

This was my home server for about 2 months.
I do not own a Sabertooth Z77 but the 2nd hand board came in that box
The 550Ti had a faulty temp probe, and the 6770 had red-bull spilt on it, so I decided the 550Ti was a safer bet
I Jumped the Power and Reset headers with that knife
And yes, this set-up is so ghetto two DS1 pedals, found its way into the photo

Why did the CEO of Telstra say that our copper wire network will be "perfectly OK" for Australia's communication needs for the next century? like, seriously, Steve Ballmer wouldn't even have the audacity to say that

[h=3]Vancouver
It's a pretty sick minecraft seed[/h]

I find Debian quite a bit better than Ubuntu these days.
 
Usenet clients: SABnzdb+ works perfectly, you might also be interested in Sickbeard, which you can use in combination with SABnzdb+ for automated series organisation

buying fans based on looks is what she'd do:

How to buy quality Headphones without buying into the hype

I just realized that the sewage system, which I'm pretty sure the entire community calls the poo map, is a metaphor for EA's Business model;
If you put a Water Pump next to the Sewage Treatment Plant, you can pass off poo water as drinking water and your sims won't even know the difference.
 
Genius.

A few things:
 
A mechanical keyboard where you could remove the WASD keys and replace that zone with an analogue stick, or even analogue WASD keys.
 
A slim 140mm fan with similar cooling and noise performance as a noctua NF-A14.
 
PCI-E cards that enable native emulation of consoles, even if that means each console needs a separate card.
 
2.5" 4TB drives that are affordable for consumers.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-650M.71887.0.html
 
This article here says the GT 650M takes DDR3 for VRAM instead of DDR5 (the difference is 900MHz vs 1500MHz on laptops).
 
If that's the problem (mind you, I'm just spit-balling ideas), the only thing you can really do is play around with settings, namely vsync and buffering and see if that eases off the memory.
You could also install MSI afterburner and try and crank the memory freq up, but you'll likely just get crashes instead of framedrops, as laptops don't take kindly to those kind of shenanigans.

Audio-Technica ATH-T400
they rrp for about $90, but places have them on sale for down to $20. Imo best pair of headphones under $200.

I'm a pretty heavy political guy, so if we start arguing I'm going to get pretty intense.
I think we can all agree that
Labor has proven over the past year that they're too dysfunctional and divided to properly run the country as a team Libs have very short term policies that are essentially just sweeping all the problems under the carpet, but will save us a bit of dosh in the present I think any further discussion on the election will just result in personal attacks, because we won't know who's being ironically racist, or not; That's just how we discuss politics in 'Straya, c**ts

There seems to be a lot of Aussies here, lets discuss what's going on with the two network plans, as it's something we clearly all have an interest in.
For any non-Aussies (or Aussies out of the loop) that would like to be involved, here's what's going on:

The Labor Party, which is currently in government, has started building the National Broadband Network, which is essentially a Fibre to Premise network to 93% of the premises in the nation, and satellite services to the rest. As no company (specifically Telstra, the now-publicly owned corporation responsible for the current copper network and the majority of mobile infrastructure in the nation) would have any part in this, the government created NBN Co (ironically, this was exactly how Telstra was founded). NBN co is a government owned corporation, that has designed, is currently building, and will maintain the network in the future, regardless of which plan goes ahead.

The Coalition, which is likely to be voted into power this year, intends on changing the network plan to be "Fast. Affordable. Sooner," where NBN co will essentially be building half of the original NBN to nodes, then using the current copper network to reach the surrounding premises. This plan has been backed by Telstra, whom would be very happy to see their obsolete copper network still being used for another hundred years.

If I suck at explaining it, here is a 4 minute explanation from a show on the Government station, & you can be sure as hell they don't say it like that on the commercial ones.

And to all you non-Aussies, yes, that is pretty much what all the political commentary is like over here

Why did the CEO of Telstra say that our copper wire network will be "perfectly OK" for Australia's communication needs for the next century? like, seriously, Steve Ballmer wouldn't even have the audacity to say that

Warning: Debian 8 just rolled out with systemd. Because of this, there may be stuff in this guide which doesn't work as described. This guide was written for Debian 7. Most of it should still work though...
 
As promised before to a few forum members. This will be my beginner's howto about creating your own home server. This howto is supposed to be understandle by non-linux users and beginners. You will have to have a basic knowledge of what a computer is, what files and folders/directories are. You'll need basic knowledge of networking (knowing how to connect computers to a router and knowing what an IP-address is, is enough). You also need to be aware of the difference between a GUI (e.g. windows) and a CLI (e.g. MSDOS). If you don't know the last one: try the following. Press windowsflag+r, this should open a screen which lets you enter a command. In this screen, type 'cmd' without quotes and click OK. This will open a command prompt. That a Command Line Interface (CLI), there are no windows, there is no cursor, there is only text :D

I'll be covering and explaining everything I do on my server. Because my server will have to be in a different place as yours and will have different name, you should always substitute the following:
simon, with your own user name brol3, with your own server name 192.168.1.150 with the IP-address of your server  
This will be a howto for a headless server, meaning that no monitor, nor a keyboard will be connected to the server during normal operation. Only during installation you'll need a monitor and keyboard. Because of this, I chose a CLI installation of Debian, I don't need any GUI (graphical user interface).

I'll be putting the topics I'll be covering into different posts (comments) and linking to those in the list below, that way this doesn't turn into a MASSIVE single post.
Installing base system Logging in for the first time Linux basics Setting console resolution Setting up a static IP Installing SSH and other handy dandy utilities Creating a RAID volume Creating (+formatting) regular partitions Creating (+formatting) encrypted partitions Mount a partition at boot Set up a file server (windows shares) Installing a web server Making your webserver secure (HTTPS) Installing phpsysinfo Setting up personal cloud storage Setting up Webmin Setting up SABnzbd+ (usenet client) Setting up Virtual Machines (Virtualbox + phpVirtualBox) Setting up a torrent client (Transmission) Keep in mind that I'm NOT an expert, I'm simply a very interested guy that did a lot of googling and fiddling since he was 12. If anything isn't clear, or if you feel like there's something wrong with what I'm doing/explaining, please feel free to tell me and I'll do my best to simplify/correct/adapt what I've written.

I hope this helps someone.

PS: this is a work in continuous construction. The topic list above may always expand and my howto below may always change as I find other ways to do things.If you feel like something is missing, feel free to post suggestions.
PPS: for those interested, you can find the build log of this server here

"You need to settle down"
"I never settle"
 

"You need to settle down"
"I never settle"
 

"You need to settle down"
"I never settle"
 

You make good points. I think I should also add, that whilst the network of NTTP will last for many decades, the use of it may not. Thinking about things like Google Glass, and how reliant we currently are on our phones having at least a 3g connection, it is possible that before IPv6 is even implemented, no-one will want to use a cabled connection.I know you probably scoff at the idea of wireless now, but admit that you use wireless networking on your phone, and you couldn't live without it. Of-course cable will always be faster, but it will not always be the most convenient for our culture. Someone will eventually have to scoff out infrastructure for a highspeed wireless network in this country, I think the Liberal's long-term plan (>implying they have one) is to spend money on nodes, then use the nodes for wireless when the country is ready for it.
Just playing some devil's advocate here

HI Guys, new here. I have been following politics (mainly the policy implementation, not which party is better) for some time.  I think what people forget is that issue is a lot more complicated than just which plan is better (as clearly everyone would prefer the FTTH, labor plan). Since it was announced we have had major setbacks, the roll out has been fumbled from the beginning with contractors not being paid and made to cut corners in order simply break even not to mention the asbestos debacle and the contractor who allegedly started pulling pipes out of the ground due to a payment dispute.  While the original plan to have FTTH is ultimately the best option it is not necessarily the one we can afford nor is it immediately essential. We can however afford to have the FTTN option now and upgrade the rest later when we are actually making money as a nation or more importantly making money as home owners being able to afford the service (which is what has been budgeted to repay the loan used to build it).  Also it seems some people are under the Impression the service will either be free or at least cheap however people look surprised when I tell them that to get the 100Mb connection the labor party is promising they are going to have to pay a premium for it. They don't realise that most will be paying the same amount they are now for a 12Mb connection (for the record mine is currently 16Mb on dodgy pair gain adsl2, so I am not looking forward to paying more for the same speed).  There are definitely pros and cons to both plans and I think people need to consider that a fair bit of responsible budgeting and thought that has gone into the coalitions plan, not just bag it out because... (enter personal reasoning here).  Remember they could have just do away with it like they are promising to do with the carbon tax if they really didn't want it or see a need for it.
 
Just my 2c anyway.
 
Mr moose

"You need to settle down"
"I never settle"
 

"You need to settle down"
"I never settle"
 

Why did the CEO of Telstra say that our copper wire network will be "perfectly OK" for Australia's communication needs for the next century? like, seriously, Steve Ballmer wouldn't even have the audacity to say that

The moment we hit singularity, I'm all up for that communist dictatorship run by a body of super-intelligence. It would be objectively better for the human race to have an unbiased machine make all the decisions around here. At least that way, there'd be no argument against fibre to premise.
I tried to explain to someone that it will take decades, if not centuries for an FTTP network to become outdated, because it would be bottlenecked at the node ends which can be replaced by faster processors, and more efficient software, and he kept using things like USB3 and HDMI as examples. It ended up getting to a point where I was just yelling,
"We are currently communicating using electricity through copper wire, the only difference between ADSL1 and ADSL2 was the software and the modems. The NBN will be replacing copper wire with light. IF YOU KNOW OF ANY MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION FASTER THAN LIGHT, I THINK NASA AND CERN WOULD LIKE TO HEAR IT MORE THAN I."
He didn't get it, and he will be voting in this upcoming election with the idea that FTTP is a waste of 43 billion dollars. I think everyone here knows that kind of frustration.

The NBN isn't designed to be fully effective at the moment, so it's not really fair to judge it based on that. It's designed to last for decades, if not, centuries, but be quite useless in the present (the pipe connecting us with the rest of the world will remain slow as ever).
It's hard to explain it without sounding condescending, so sorry if this feels rude, I'm also explaining this for people who don't understand how long-term this network actually is.
We currently run all our communication though a copper network (though not all technically copper, it was designed for phones, so let's just keep calling it that because it's simple) You may remember the changes between Dial-up, ADSL1, & ADSL 2, ect. The only things that changed during those network changes, were upgrades with the nodes on the ISP end, and the Modems on the premise end, the network itself never really changed. The NBN plan is to change all the copper, where practical, to fibre optics. So instead of bits travelling through electric signals on wire, they're traveling through light on glass pipes. There is a substantial speed difference between the two. From that point on, the cables are no-longer the bottleneck; The network it will only be limited by the nodes on each end of the pipe, which will be upgraded as processing technology and software get better. This kind of upgrading will happen exactly like the difference between ADSL 1 and 2, where you will just buy a faster router and your ISP will just upgrade their server rack this will probably continue going until we use something incredibly sci-fi, like bosons as a medium for binary communication. As exciting as that sounds, we shouldn't be holding our breath for it, especially when we have the technology to harness the speed of light for communication. Now I actually have no qualifications to claim this is 100% correct, if I'm wrong, please correct me

I don't particularly like the "faster, cheaper, sooner" option, the current network is seriously out of date and the half assed solution the Liberal's are proposing is going to need be updated sooner anyway. That said things look pretty bad for Labor at the moment, I can't really see them winning the next ellection especially with the seemingly unstable leadership in the Labor party. Going to have to vote for the first time and honestly both choices seem to suck.