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I've disconnected my home alarm system and resigned from the Neighborhood Watch.
I've got two Pakistani flags raised in the front yard, one at each corner, and the black flag of ISIS in the center.
The local police, sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching the house 24/7.
I've never felt safer and I’m saving $49.95 a month!
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's a pity we can't do that in South Africa. I'm already paying for 2 security companies, but still get hit quite often.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Actually quite easy.
Raise the 'Vierkleur' in one corner and 'the old orange white and blue' in the other corner. Put a statue of Madiba up and dress it with EFF colours and you are set. The police, supporters and 'die valke' would watch your house 24 Hours a day 7 days a week in shifts! 
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Never thought of it that way. Do you think they still print AWB flags? That used to help as well.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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That Leslie is a pretty active guy!
Dave.
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Well, the joke is so good I upvoted it. 
After all, I can't upvote my own post.
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Also, I realized you could not refer to your own Leslie; that's why I gave the reference. 
modified 17-Jan-15 2:09am.
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My desktop at home turned 4 years old this year and it is time to look for a replacement. I have not looked at specs since the last time but the laptops in the office are faster than my dev machine, bloody SSDs.
So what is a reasonable spec for a purely VS development box and minimal gaming? Cost is not a factor but I don't buy gold plated audio cables and I don't need an alien ware monster.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I don't need an alien ware monster.
nobody needs one
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I tend to define want as need when it comes to tech.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Doesn't matter how much I try that, my bank balance disagrees 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Yeah but I'm a man of simple wants! I used to look at monsters like the alienware thing but since I don't game much any more it is a waste of money, bloody hell I used to buy a workstations, now I just want a reasonably high end desktop.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Replied at length - CP crashed.
summary:
but I just want a turbo-nutter gaming machine - even if I only play Candy Crush on it!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
modified 15-Jan-15 22:10pm.
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No no no - not saying I would, only that I'd want the kit even if I did only play candy crush on it.
Of course I'd play PooperPig!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Check out the Vibox machines on ebay, I had one for a while and they're pretty powerful for the price, just stick an SSD into one and you're good to go.
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My "standard" tips: i5, minimal 8 GB RAM, a SSD and good graphic card (1 GB RAM DDR5).
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I would have thought an i7 would be the minimum requirement.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The difference is very small. The i7s have hyperthreading and a bit more cache, that's it. You pay $60 extra for that.
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i7s feel a lot quicker. I have one of each, an i5 and an i7, and often have to build an entire Linux kernel. The i7 is noticeably quicker IMO.
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That's because you're building a linux kernel. It doesn't matter for gaming or regular single-threaded compilation.
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I see, so if its a Linux kernel its built with a multithreaded compiler/assembler and if its a windows app it isn't?
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There is an option somewhere in visual studio to do a multithreaded build, but it's not enabled by default and (perhaps because) it doesn't mix with precompiled headers, minimum rebuild, and bunch of other options that I don't know off the top of my head.
Meanwhile in linux land, there's make -j and gcc -pipe and whatnot and it just works.
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OK, fair enough.
I had a quad i5 PC in a company I worked with a few years back. That was an impressive machine.
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