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At least as far as battery life goes in smart watches, Pebble is hard to beat. They got that nailed. Haven't heard that any other smart watch came even close.

@Dan Castellaneta true. In my first post I referred to a youtube clip. It ranted quite a few times about the cars. Both the main characters and the ones that had less than a second of screen time.

I might be able to help but I don't know what kind of regex engine is used in Minecraft chat. If it has all of the fancy features that Perl has then this should work.

I had the same thought myself but I'll leave the question to the experienced audio professionals. For now I'll give the guys (Jeroen Tel and Matt Gray) the benefit of the doubt because as a programmer I know how many people underestimate the effort required to write software; it just seems so easy and cheap that people just wonder: how hard can it be? Questions of this nature often have a legitimate answer.

Hi,
 
I thought I'd share my story which could be titled "how I messed up my build"
I started building my new and beautiful rig in last May and after it was done I noticed that my CPU temp was 105°C during heavy folding (100% CPU usage). I thought it was odd but being a lazy guy I just stopped folding on my main rig and left the folding for my laptop which is always on. Then I mentioned my max temps to some people at work and someone suggested that I should check if the cooler is properly attached. Yes, you guessed it: it wasn't.
At this point I thought that at least everything is now properly attached and there are no obvious heat sources so everything should be fine. Max temp during heavy folding: 105°C At this point I had nothing. No idea what was wrong and I decided to be a lazy guy once again.
A week ago I visited my best friend and he suggested that the stock thermal paste might have dried out when the cooler wasn't properly attached. I thought he was wrong but I know that some thermal pastes are better than some others (Linus might have mentioned this once or twice). I ordered a tube of Arctic Cooling's MX-4, got some alcohol from the pharmacy and an hour ago replaced the thermal paste. Folding has been raging on for 20 min and the temperature remains at 83°C! My friend was right and I was wrong and it feels so good
 
All newbies out there: Intel's stock cooler for i7 3770 can appear to be attached while it really isn't. That same cooler is probably used for quite a few Intel CPUs.

Hello all,
 
I thought I'd share my story on trying a mechanical keyboard. There's quite a hype at the moment about mechanical keyboards and I thought I'd share my opinion which does not conform to the generally held beliefs.
 
The short of it: I find that my old Logitech Illuminated keyboard is better than the Ducky Shine 2 that I bought in early May this year. More specifically I got DK9008S2-CFIALG with Cherry MX blue switches. I stopped using the Ducky this Monday. So you can see that I really wanted to give the mechanical one a real chance; that's almost two months of trying to get used to the blue switches.
 
My first reaction to the blue switches was that I hated them. The reason was that they felt so heavy. I literally had to change the way I type. I'm a touch typist and I just lay my palms on the keyboard's palm rest. With Ducky I couldn't do that because it was so heavy to type. I measured that it took 20g more to push the key down with the Cherry MX blue switches as compared to the Logitech. However it didn't take too long to get used to keep my palms in the air when typing and that resolved the issue.
 
I did get sort of used to typing with the Ducky after a few weeks and at this point I came to a couple of conclusions:
Follow Slick's and Linus' advice: try the different mechanical keyboards first if you can. Where I live I simply do not know anyone who has a modern mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches so for me it wasn't an option and because of it, I'm 150 euros in the hole. A coworker was able to try my keyboard and based on that he didn't buy one with blue switches so I guess it wasn't a total lost. And if it was then just for me :) There's a claim going around that the tactile sensation will make you a faster typist. That claim is usually accompanied by one that says the same thing about the click sound. Just like this post, you should consider that an anecdote. Until you have some scientific research data, feel free to ignore that claim. I didn't experience any increase in my typing speed. Furthermore I measured the words / minute and it is the same which it has been for years with membrane keyboards: on average 70 words / minute. I originally thought that one clear benefit of mechanical keyboards is that the keys can be removed. I liked this because then I can wash them. This is an actual benefit because with my Logitech Illuminated I actually can't put them back once I've removed them. I'm using my second Illuminated for that very reason. All in all: no regrets. I'm not completely done with the mechanical keyboards. My coworker bought a Ducky with mostly red switches and those felt a little better. So the type of switches matter at least for a touch typist.

And we have a winner. It was the PSU. I tried the system with my server's PSU and I was able to see my HDD and boot to Ubuntu Gnome.
 
 
 
Much thanks to all who participated in the problem solving.