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jefboyardee said:
they're doing the fix too.
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I got the 'fix' in less than 24 hours, which amazing. But the 'fix' is two cables, one exactly the same HDMI which doesn't fit in the PC, the other and old-style screw-in XGA(?). I assume that'll work when I get off my arse and try it.
 
Geez jef, I'm sorry (that I laughed when I read that ;) ). Sure, the vga cable should work, but if you are using a high resolution monitor with 36 bit color depth, you could run into some performance issues. vga just doesn't have the throughput for that. FWIW, the DVI-D cable is just set to carry the digital component of the video signal while the DVI-I carries both digital and analog, so if you have an older monitor, you can use an analog adapter on a DVI-I cable. But if your video adapter is only digital you have a DVI-D connector on the card/motherboard and a DVI-I cable won;t fit because of the extra (analog) pins. A DVI-D cable will fit a DVI-I connector but only carry the digital portion of the signal.

Don't get me started on DisplayPort vs. HDMI. :eek: ;)
 
Yes I am a geek. Don't judge me.
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lunatic59 said:
Geez jef, I'm sorry (that I laughed when I read that ;) ). Sure, the vga cable should work, but if you are using a high resolution monitor with 36 bit color depth, you could run into some performance issues. vga just doesn't have the throughput for that. FWIW, the DVI-D cable is just set to carry the digital component of the video signal while the DVI-I carries both digital and analog, so if you have an older monitor, you can use an analog adapter on a DVI-I cable. But if your video adapter is only digital you have a DVI-D connector on the card/motherboard and a DVI-I cable won;t fit because of the extra (analog) pins. A DVI-D cable will fit a DVI-I connector but only carry the digital portion of the signal.

Don't get me started on DisplayPort vs. HDMI. :eek: ;)
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Ah yes, DisplayPort to HDMI.
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^^^^^^^^^
I don't even understand the top half.......yet somehow I instinctively know I "like" it.

Latest "purchase".......A few hours ago, 15$ contribution to whatever the entity is that I downloaded Unbutu from. Huge step for me, major scary, all new.......couldn't be happier to start down a new, foreign, non MS road, happy to contribute, even if it's a dead end for me personally.
 
How much work was replacing the burn pot? Not that I need to yet, but I'm curious as it seems like one of only a few failure points for the Traeger.

For me, $210 for a new key for my truck. :mad:
 
Bought this beauty recently - well, I say I bought, actually more bought for me by my employer, though it was ordered on my credit card:

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Dell XPS 15 9550
4K touchscreen
iCore7
32GB RAM
1TB SSD
nVidia GEForce GT 960M

Quite an awesome - and remarkably pretty, for a Dell - beast. Even has a type C USB so I can fast charge my Nexus 5X ;)
 
SiempreTuna said:
Bought this beauty recently - well, I say I bought, actually more bought for me by my employer, though it was ordered on my credit card:

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Dell XPS 15 9550
4K touchscreen
iCore7
32GB RAM
1TB SSD
nVidia GEForce GT 960M

Quite an awesome - and remarkably pretty, for a Dell - beast. Even has a type C USB so I can fast charge my Nexus 5X ;)
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that ought to be a very fast bootup device, I will hazard a guess from 5 to 10 seconds after turn on, it is ready to go.
 
SiempreTuna said:
Bought this beauty recently - well, I say I bought, actually more bought for me by my employer, though it was ordered on my credit card:

dell-xps-13-oct150052.jpg


Dell XPS 15 9550
4K touchscreen
iCore7
32GB RAM
1TB SSD
nVidia GEForce GT 960M

Quite an awesome - and remarkably pretty, for a Dell - beast. Even has a type C USB so I can fast charge my Nexus 5X ;)
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Bloody hell that is smoking!
What do you do at work? Whatever it is you'll do it quick with that beast.
I would say I'm really jealous, but on second thought, I'll stick with mine, it gives me excuses to put the kettle on while waiting for a build/deployment.
 
SiempreTuna said:
Bought this beauty recently - well, I say I bought, actually more bought for me by my employer, though it was ordered on my credit card:

dell-xps-13-oct150052.jpg


Dell XPS 15 9550
4K touchscreen
iCore7
32GB RAM
1TB SSD
nVidia GEForce GT 960M

Quite an awesome - and remarkably pretty, for a Dell - beast. Even has a type C USB so I can fast charge my Nexus 5X ;)
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I just had to run out to the local "online emporium" and put one of those on my debit card..........
uh, that is, until I realized that the debit charge was going to equal my last SS bank deposit :(

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No pics (but I promise it happened). Took my wife and good friend Chris out to the movies Sunday morning. We went and saw Star Trek Beyond, it was actually quite wonderful. If you like Star Trek and have been on the fence about the new movies, you'll love this one. It's much more "Treky" than the other 2. Great action (but not overload and not just for the sake of action) and great heart. Lots more character moments here much more of a crew/family feel than the past 2 and though I have always loved the casting with these new Trek movies, I think the main cast really came into their own here, really channeling the original cast. Pine did a much better job with Kirk. Bones, Spock and Scotty all had real character moments and sadly, Anton did wonderfully with Chekov hard to see him go. Really an amazing movie.
 
LV426 said:
Bloody hell that is smoking!
What do you do at work?.
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AZgl1500 said:
uh, that is, until I realized that the debit charge was going to equal my last SS bank deposit :(
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I need to run things like reasonably big VMs that have Teradata and Hadoop VMs running inside them so 'unfortunately' I needed something with 32GB of RAM, lots of SSD and a fast processor and this - believe it or not - was the cheapest, branded option ;)

Disappointingly, it doesn't feel blazingly fast - but that's probably because it replaced a 2 year old laptop with an iCore7, 8GB RAM and 500GB SSD. On the other hand, when I start my own laptop, I do keep thinking it must have died ..
 
shalemail said:
No pics (but I promise it happened). Took my wife and good friend Chris out to the movies Sunday morning. We went and saw Star Trek Beyond, it was actually quite wonderful. If you like Star Trek and have been on the fence about the new movies, you'll love this one. It's much more "Treky" than the other 2. Great action (but not overload and not just for the sake of action) and great heart. Lots more character moments here much more of a crew/family feel than the past 2 and though I have always loved the casting with these new Trek movies, I think the main cast really came into their own here, really channeling the original cast. Pine did a much better job with Kirk. Bones, Spock and Scotty all had real character moments and sadly, Anton did wonderfully with Chekov hard to see him go. Really an amazing movie.
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Saw it in iMax 3D (and even got a Star Fleet pin, in case just going to the movie wasn't enough to guarantee we get beat up afterwards ;) ) I thought a bit of the action scenes were a tad gratuitous, but didn't hurt the film. I was a little disappointed in the abundance of rubber-headed aliens who looked more suited to the Star Wars franchise. Still, I'd go see it again ... and again. ;) :D
 
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