Everything posted by Dusty Chalk
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What are you listening to Part the Third
Some smooth jazz shit, waiting for a conference call.
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What are you EATING right now?
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Building electrical problems - halp!
At least try it in the other room with the earthed/grounded plug first, to see if that even fixes the problem. You don't necessarily need to run all the wires all the way, just the ground. And if you can find something else grounded that's closer (like plumbing in the walls), you can run the ground wire from that.
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What are you listening to Part the Third
Rock Candy Funk Party, We Want Grooove -- like Booker T & the MG's meets a less synthy George Clinton's backing band in Dap-Tone Studios. Dig. Now listening to a bunch of covers of Glass' "Façade".
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And now what did you do TODAY?
I still prefer them to either UPS or FedEx. The guys in Merrifield aren't bad -- they do a good job of keeping the line moving, yet friendly enough so as not to seem like complete proles. And I've known some of them since I opened the box in...the early 90's? Late 80's?
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Deals
And now it says, "discontinued". I'd actually give Nate way more than 0%. Maybe 49%.
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Makes me worry about Chesky
Maybe he's used to sitting with his back to the orchestra. KIDDING.
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Makes me worry about Chesky
I'm not sure it makes a big difference, as long as the driver is positioned in the same place it would be if he was wearing them frontwards. The angle might be a little different (yes, acknowledging the housing too), but it's not like these are Stax Sigmas or anything.
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Building electrical problems - halp!
[dusty]Maybe it doesn't know the words.[/dusty] No, seriously, it sounds like a ground loop (look up ground loop -- it's a common problem with common solutions). Well, to start with, buy one of these, and see if it's a simple miswired power outlet: Available at most hardware stores and larger department stores (Lowe's Home Depot Target etc.)
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Best cheap tablet?
Yeah, considering it's basically a glorified magnifying glass, I'm thinking of getting her a -- wait for it -- non-glorified magnifying glass...and maybe one of those helping hands things.
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What are you listening to Part the Third
My Bloody Valentine, mbv Yeah, I don't care that I'm at work, I'm listening to this now. Also, only a couple minutes into the first song, and it sounds like they've picked up right where they left off.
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slower forum
WCJ$/N (Want; Cannot Justify Price/Need Ratio)
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Deals
I'd be hard pressed to accept a $200 5 bay NAS over a refund. 'cause you know they're not going to give you another MSRP $1500 NAS, right?
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And now what did you do TODAY?
Not a problem.
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Deals
Hey! Chat guy didn't offer me a comparable replacement item. That said, there is no comparable replacement item -- you search on $100-$300 NAsseses, and it just sort of stands out as being in a completely different league. I think I'll stick with my refund and be happy.
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Yup, it was obviously drop shipped from "Magnell", and they probably told NewEgg that they have all this stock of DS508's, and could you blow them out at $200, etc. I don't blame NewEgg at all, but they really should just go ahead and refund the money -- some people bought a bunch of WD Reds or Greens or whatever to populate this, I'm just glad that I didn't get around to it between when I got the ship notice yesterday and when I came in and saw the box today. That's just softcore, dude.
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Deals
Sorry, not the Magnell DS508, the Peerless-AV DS508. And yes, it is -- a wall mount with a computer holder. I am on chat with NewEgg right now.
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Well, this might be a problem, I don't think I got the Synology DS508, I think I got a Magnell DS508, some sort of wall mount, which is what the packing list says.
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And now what did you do TODAY?
Smelly of cats Free health care, and with that level of monitoring and prevention is awesome. I just spoke with Dan's investigator. Answer to a lot of questions was, "I don't know". I don't know how many children he has, their names, education level...wtf? Ask me what kind of headphones or beer he likes, that I can answer.
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Deals
A couple Criterion Blu-Rays over at Amazon today. I received a large flat box today. WTF? Am I going to have to assemble it myself?
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Best cheap tablet?
Alright, so my sister had the brilliant idea of getting my mother a cheap tablet and a magnifying app to assist with reading and spontaneously reading things like medicine labels. So what's the best cheap tablet for this? Kindle Fire? Anyone know of a magnifying app that deshakes? My mother does, indeed, have the tremors.
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HBDOTU
Happy Birthday, Al! (party favour noise)
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Drobo 5D
I'm not sure how software can span air gaps, but I do understand that what I was talking about wasn't RAID. More RAID-ish. RAID-esque. Vaguely RAID-y. I just wrote a whole description and realized, you know, if this hasn't been done, it's a business idea, and I should probably protect it, first. So I deleted it. Need to investigate further.
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slower forum
Want one! Looks like it's from a movie called Spring Breakers -- I only stumbled upon it because of the soundtracker, and the title didn't strike me as his sort of film. That's Selena Gomez on the right. Cliff Martinez Scores