PCgamer324

I'll have to post my Proxmox octopus in a bit...
 
Does "server room" count if it's a bunch of zombie motherboards on cardboard with cables draped across the room
 
I wish I could afford a rack...

It's difficult to sympathize with a company that, in 2017, continues to charge $60 a month for 5 Mb/s download speeds.

Please do, it's good for us buyers!!!

what? that is what you do in a competitive market environment and is essential for consumers getting the best products for the best price. 

Uhhh competition is not good you say? You know the enterprise/prosumer stuff they make now will trickle down to the consumer market later which makes it awesome.

Why is it childish? This is exactly how business works

RIP Itanium. It needs a cookie for trying.

Yeah man! You could plop in old Titans and cards for a loong ass time now. I went through several GPUs on my old Mac Pro.

 


 

I use a Maxwell Titan X with DVI

 

At least one here, since my 144z 1080p monitor took a shit, and I'm back on my old 1600x1050 monitor for now.  Dvi only lol.

Don't worry, you're not the only one that uses DVI, my 120Hz monitor only supports 120Hz over DVI as it doesn't have DP...

I have done. I have a 144 Hz monitor that doesn't have DP, so the only way to get it is over dual link DVI. The HDMI version on monitor doesn't support it.

UPDATE:
 
In response to the proposed law, Pornhub had released user statistics for South Carolinian viewers along with a statement: http://www.pornhub.com/insights/south-carolina

UPDATE:
 
In response to the proposed law, Pornhub had released user statistics for South Carolinian viewers along with a statement: http://www.pornhub.com/insights/south-carolina

Project: OLD SCHOOL
I built this MOD back in November 2012 as a result of my desire to utilize an iconic case and my desire to run OSX. It took some serious thought, a lot of hard work and a lot of time consuming elbow grease, as there were several factors that came into play with the formulation and completion of this MOD. (No true MOD is ever really completed. It is, and always will be an ongoing project)
I started out with an PowerMac G3 case (Yes, I know it has been done perhaps a thousand times before, BUT not in this fashion) as I liked the design and it has attained the reputation as almost a work of art. My feelings were that Apple may have missed the mark slightly by not offering any “Bling” or customization on this case. All of the cases that I have come across browsing the web that were painted had the paint applied to the outside of the case. Nice, but it took away from the depth of the appearance of the case. I fixed this. All it took was countless hours (over 65) of wet sanding and polishing of the original polycarbonate case. (No… you cannot use paint strippers or lacquer thinner or other such chemicals as it would fog the plastic almost instantly) I took the 4 corner pieces and cleaned them masked off the “inset stripe” areas and shot them with high gloss white and then covered it with high gloss black IMRON. (All of the painting was done to the inside of the components.) I applied 1/8th pin striping tape to the area around the relief for the apple appliqué and masked it off. I shot the rest of the inside with the same gloss black paint as before and removed the masking and the pin stripe tape and shot it with a “frost” paint to give the area a frosted look. (This is the area around the apple and leaf appliqué) so that I could give it some indirect backlighting. That was the hard part. Now I was ready for the easy stuff. I removed all of the interior components, trimmed off a corner of the CD/DVD carrier (that would interfere with the placement of the new motherboard), removed the original motherboard stand offs in lieu of new ones placed to meet the requirements of the new motherboard. I shot all of the interior and exterior metal components with flat black paint as well as the rear plastic panel. The front plastic panel was painted in both high gloss and satin black paints to give a slight contrast. Green LED’s were placed behind the front apple logo as well as on the original power button. (Both the power button and the reset button are functional with the modding to the circuit I did) Holes were drilled and cut outs made to accommodate a front panel audio out / line in ports as well as 2 USB ports. (Got this nifty little setup from an old HP that was laying around) After placement of the new motherboard standoffs and cutting out for the back plate I modded the white plastic closures slide for the new standoffs. After determining the location of the fans I made the cut outs for them and airbrushed them gloss black) (Yeah, Noctua fans are normally a hideous tan and bone color) The plastic back cover was trimmed by the power plug to allow the use of my power supply and holes were made in the plastic cover to accommodate the wireless antennas. Perform touch up paint on the case, sleeve the wiring, mod the Hard drive mount on the bottom to accommodate the SSD, Protect the wires and cables inside the box with rubber and plastic edge guard moldings, Detail cable and zip tie the whole works after installing 2 green 4”CCF lights on the exterior metal sides ONLY after installing reflective foil tape on the sides. (To reflect the green lighting to the outside)
 
That was the looks … as for the hardware; I used what I had as I am on a budget until I find employment, so it is truly Old School Retro with the components as listed below.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2L
Processor: Intel E8600 (Overclocked @ 4GHz.)
Memory: 4GB GSKILL DDR2 PC2-8500
Video: NIVIDIA 8800GTS 512
Drives: HDD1=Kingston V100 96GB SATA SSD (OSX install)
                HDD2= WD1.5TB SATA HD (Windows 7 install)
                Optical= Toshiba SATA CD/DVD
Power supply: Thermaltake Purepower RX-550
Processor cooling: Scythe Big Shrunken 2 Rev. B
Case Cooling: Noctua NF-P12-1300 120mm Fans
Wireless: Mini PCI-E to PCI-E adaptor with Atheros AR8131 chipset
USB: 10 ports (2 Front, 4 Rear + 4 via PCI interface card)
Audio: Front: Lline out and Mic in, Rear Line out and Mic in.
 
I run it a 4GHz (1.33125Volts Vcore1.3160) all the time and idle temp is 33C and at 100% load (Orthos 6 hours) it goes to 54C. (@26C ambient temp) It pulls an 11.809 1M calculation in superpi-mod v1.5. It is pretty snappy with 10.6.8 and Windows 7 x64 Pro.
Install method for OSX was found here on Insanely Mac : http://www.insanelym...e-ga-ep45-ds3l/         with the necessary changes to work on my specific motherboard as well as a custom modded DSDT.
 
This is not the fastest or the most powerful system here, BUT it is affordable and it meets the criteria of a MODDED BOX. IMHO a mod is not just spending tons of money bolting together a bunch of hardware of the latest and greatest to get a supercomputer that will more than likely be underutilized but rather the customization of a system that has your own signature on it and it works well when you need it to and does what you want it to.
 
There are systems here that would make Apple itself drool as they are very impressive and they cost substantially less than an Apple equivalent and they are exquisite in their own way. My goal was to make an affordable system that will work well with what 90% of all Mac users utilize their systems for.
 
I had 10.7 installed as well as a problematic 10.8 on this originally but neither performs as well as the 10.6; and as the almighty Apple goes, the newer software is almost forcing you to buy (Their) newer hardware. It is Apple’s way of perpetuating sales of their hardware.
Coming next will be a new build from a G4  case but there will be a few unique features found nowhere else on a rebuild/conversion of the G4 case. Can you say anodized non-ghetto brushed aluminum?
 I will now get off my soapbox….. and ask What’s your MOD?

If this goes through, I can't wait to watch Apple ignore it.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/19/south_carolina_calls_for_smutfree_pcs/
 
South Carolina is attempting to crack down on porn accessibility, starting by locking new PCs from viewing porn out of the box:
Legislators claim this a non-partisan issue that must be addressed quickly:
There is a loophole however in this proposed law; pay $20 to confirm you are "of age" if you want to unlock porn on your new desktop: 
The Bill Itself (or part of it):

as you can see there would be criminal punishments for individuals violation this law by removing the lock...
 
Opinion: this sounds like more social conservatives trying to micromanage citizen's lives while extracting a bit of cash in the meantime.  Perfect example of big government at its worst.
 
Update: Reuters has picked up the story: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-pornography-idUSKBN149251?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

Legislators were suggesting this be some form of hardware level device: anti-porn "chip", if they even know what that means...

Do you breathe?

UPDATE:
 
In response to the proposed law, Pornhub had released user statistics for South Carolinian viewers along with a statement: http://www.pornhub.com/insights/south-carolina

Go red

I still get 2-3 hours PLAYING GAMES on my 2014 macbook pro with a dedicated GT 750m. 

yeah its called arp spoofing and it used to be a rather big issue until browsers rolled out HSTS
 
basically with by poisoning the arp cache person 2 can make person 1's computer think it has to send its traffic through person 2's computer to get to the internet.  Person 2 can see where you are going but not what you are doing if the websites / apps you are using have HTTPS / SSL enabled.  Regardless, if person 2 knowns what they are doing they can proxy all your connections and serve you unencrypted connections to services (although this should be thwarted by most modern HSTS implementations; not allowing you to access previously encrypted services from an insecure connection)  It is also possible for the attacker to redirect your request to an alternate or non existent domain to thwart HSTS, of which there is no good solution at this time.
 
Bottom line, if you don't trust people on a LAN, use a VPN / Tor etc

Apple's new macbook pro lineup features a new method for interacting with first party and partner applications.  However, the concept of a multifunction, display-based function row has already been seen on laptops as far back as 3 years ago.  Case and point, the Lenovo X1 carbon Gen2: 
 
 
 
Apple macbook:
What do you know?  Is that a fingerprint reader AND a touchscreen for the function keys? Must be a patent infringement... I'm not going to get too salty here, but I did find it odd that something Apple claims to be an "innovation" in computer interaction has already shown up on Windows laptops.  It is important to add that a laptop such as the X1 Carbon Gen 2 has not and will never see the application support and functionality of the new MacBooks' touch bar, but it was still there none the less.
 
Image Credit: The Verge, Notebook Review
 

dont turn it on , tear it apart !