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  1. for productivity I have always been a fan of the landscape 16:9 + portrait 16:9 which I guess emulates 21:9 aspect ratio so I m really interested in this ... I have played around with the cheaper (around $700) 30inch 21:9s from LG though and thought there was something missing so I haven't pulled the trigger on buying one, the extra 5' will probably make me do it
  2. will it need your own personal nuclear power plant to run?
  3. ocz SSD tshirt with an Intel SSD product plug reel is fail
  4. No I am not talking about embedded devices, I am talking about random servers sitting on a rack someplace serving webcontent on a gigabit line being taken over by botnets. And no, don't be silly, no botnet actually buys a server and racks it just to DDOS, they take over other people's servers. What I mean by convoluted experience is simple. X is the thing that death forgot. It needs to go away, it's awful, someone needs to finally kill it with fire. Snag is wayland is way too immature, so nobody seriously runs it. Instead everybody relies on a thing that was pretty much obsolete 10 years ago, and persists on random updates that introduce nothing new instead just break compatibility. That's one. Two is simple. Gnome. Unity. KDE. Completely different user experiences. Then the eleventybillion gnome forks trying to emulate Gnome 2 all in a slightly different way. Load up the last 3 LTSs from Ubuntu (and I am using ubuntu cause it's the more popular distro, same applies to all the others). Forget bleeding edge etc, just focus on the user experience, it's freaking convoluted jumping from one LTS to the next stuff changes, for no apparent reason, menus move around, for no apparent reason, what you did 3 releases ago with 1 click now you have to make your mouse run a marathon over your screen to achieve. So you say funk it, lemme go try another popular distro. So you load up Mint and the user experience is completely different. This might be cool for a person interested in computers etc, but the Joe Q Average that just wants to surf the net, watch some videos, use libreoffice and whatnot it's not cool having to waste time adapting to a moving user experience. Think of it this way ... people went ape$hit over MetroUI on windows ... the user experience jumps in linux within the various WMs, and from one "major" release to the next are bigger. Joe Q Average want's a stable user experience. I wanna click here for the next 30 years and have it do the same thing, not go read a wiki to get up to date, I don't care about being up to date, it's just a stupid computer, that's their thought process. Linux doesn't get that, they don't get that everyone is not interested in running arch grabbing a core install and building up their system package by package to the point it's super tailored to them, the bulk of the people want a thing that just works in an intuitive fashion (= the same way it worked a year ago) and just lets them do whatever they want to do on their pc, cause after all that's is all they see their OS for, as a conduit that allows them to run x y z software. And after all that you have packaging ( rpm? which rpm? RH or SuSe? or source? or deb?) blah blah blah .. The point I am trying to make ... you want to appeal to the masses you need a gold standard. Look at android, what makes android successful is google building a core user experience. What breaks android is Samsung adding it's own crap on top, LG doing the same blah blah. Android's problems are smaller, because the stuff LG, Samsung etc add is bloatware you can hide from, but beneath it you still have Google's gold standard, Linux on the desktop doesn't have that, that's its problem. It may have it on the serverspace, where there is not X running and user experience has different requirements, but on the desktop it doesnt.
  5. yet linux machines feature as prominently as windows machines on botnets ... Linux (and Macintosh) are very good at one thing, preventing dumb users from doing dumb things locally on the PC. That's awesome but that doesn't automatically make them secure OSes. Security is factor of what services are running on your pc, what vulnerabilities these services have blah blah blah, it's not just about the OS. Flipside of that is that dumb users have a much more convoluted user experience on Linux (and Macintosh) .. which is precisely why linux (and Mac) will never be "mainstream" ... forget the nerds that love their computers, the average real life person wants a computer that just does a b c and d for them with the least amount hassle. That's what windows tries to do. The knowledgeable nerd can be as secure using windows as they are using linux
  6. yeah I was talking about RAM and forgot to switch over to cpu mode IMO though I wouldn't go much over 4Ghz on a 212
  7. Well it's matter of aesthetics isn't it? I 'd go for the 750 cause I prefer the clean aesthetics of it and have a deep seated hate for LEDs and all that jazz ... the Enthoo though is marginally easier to to work with when you 're doing water (PSU location)
  8. For a minor overclock it will do fine, if you 're looking for 4Mhz+++ then no buy a much better cooler
  9. yeah according Us weekly there's stuff going on with the Tt rep (yeah I thought it was time THAT was revived)
  10. If this is associated with your other thread, boot from your Windows install media (DVD/USB) and choose repair windows installation once again do not install windows features in the end
  11. right click on one url file and associate it with chrome (in windows 8 for example right click, go to open with and choose default program)
  12. you have a clear CMOS button on the back I/O beneath the PS2 & 2 USB ports shutdown the computer, unplug the power cord, press the little button for like 10 seconds, plug the computer back in and boot edit: it's the small black button to the left of the optical out port in this pic http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/186948/2/msi_z87g45_gaming.jpg
  13. this would go quicker if you just tell me what motherboard you have ..... I am not psychic
  14. there's a clear CMOS switch/jumper on all motherboards, that's why I say read the manual
  15. move the SSD to a different SATA port on your MB, preferably SATA1 (look in your manual if you don't know which port is SATA1) If that fails, clear CMOS (again read the manual for instructions) and DONT enable windows 8 features
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