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I was so sad when MachSpeed left the motherboard business.
Lifetime guarantee; oh was that nice.
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Newegg is AWESOME. They are one of the best sites for computer parts.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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RyanDev wrote: What do you guys use when looking for a new PC?
pcberza.rs
Won't help you, but you asked 
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Today I would start with an affordable system from a local store, sometimes there are pretty good „special offers“. Then add or change parts. It takes time and I’m not so sure wether I save any money. But You get a very customized PC.
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Sure, buy an off-the-shelf PC and put a Bob sticker on it. Done. 
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I'll chime in and say if it's a non-laptop, then it's off to newegg I go. Great customer service, but more importantly, they are DEATH ON GRAY MARKET parts. Amazon.com is great for picking up things like mice, keyboards and the lot, but I've had a run of bad luck with their "fulfilled by amazon" items. It's not worth the risk.
Now, if I had oodles and oodles of time and not a sweet little day sailor sitting in my garage, I'd love to build up a new gaming machine. But the outside calls.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I am currently using a Brix Pro with i7 CPU 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD mSATA primary drive, 1 TB SSB secondary drive attached to the back of the monitor using the VESA mount. I must say, I am highly pleased with this configuration. Unobtrusive (can't be seen behind the monitor) and very quiet. Only drawback is taht there are nothing but HDMI and 4 version 3.0 USB ports on the box (4 X 4 X 3 inch). Initial install of WIndows 7 was tricky (standard USB stick is USB 2, and you need to 'trick' the box in the BIOS that it's ports are V2.0 for just a few minutes)
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EDIT: Looks like others beat me by a day. I'll still leave my comments about PC Part Picker here.
Regarding the site: PC Part Picker[^]
They named their site well. You pick each exact part for your PC.
I have not built my next great machine yet, but I have registered an account there, and I like the way that they set up their screens and their database.
At this time, no good or bad words will come from me as to their value, as I have not yet taken their advice with my own money.
I will say that the guy(s) who put that site together have some brains in his(their) head(s); as it almost looks like they took a decent structured thinking approach to the task of making a PC exactly like you want it.
Apparently (totally guessing here) they make their money from advising and steering their site visitors to the suppliers who sell the specific parts. This results in a Two-Edged sword...
- Yes, you are sending your money where they tell you, so you might not get the last penny minimum price
- They are aware of technical fits and misses on specific parts; way better than the rest of us
modified 8-Aug-15 14:51pm.
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In Windows Explorer, you can customize the quick access toolbar. So far, I haven't been able to get DELETE and RENAME to work using the icons. I have full admin rights. Also, the column dropdown filters are very cool.
Edit: The Quick Access view is neither modifiable nor sortable. Works anywhere else.
modified 7-Aug-15 22:53pm.
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Had to look up some special codes on an ASCII chart -- haven't done that in a while.
Why? Because this Verifone PinPad device I'm interfacing with uses ACK, STX/ETX and SI/SO characters in its serial communication protocol. Gads, I feel like I'm back in the 80's.
Marc
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Quote: uses ACK, STX/ETX and SI/SO characters in its serial communication protocol
Don't they all?
I takes me back too. I have written too many "talk to the serial port" implementations!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I not only have to look up ASCII codes frequently, but I had to look up some ESCape sequences recently. 
Marc Clifton wrote: I feel like I'm back in the 80's.
We all float down here.
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The 80's weren't so bad, but the best thing about them was that I was younger.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I was younger, but I wasn't getting l... 
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Let me just check the big movie releases...Star Wars...Terminator...Indiana Jones... Yes, we are back in the 80's 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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The movies were in the 80s and now the stars are in their 80s?
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Attack of the killer tomatoes
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Marc Clifton wrote: Gads, I feel like I'm back in the 80's.
In a way those times never ended. On the PC those things have been burried under abstraction layers and frameworks, but you only have to dig deep enough and they will reappear.The good aspect is, that your code becomes less vulnerable to changes of the underlying layers the closer you get to the hardware. It's great to take functions from 35 year old code and simply use them ecause nothing fundamental has changed.
Just look into QA and you will see how people struggle to keep up with the current conventions of some framework and have little hope that their work lasts longer than to the next version where many things will change again or when the framework dies in favor of the next new thingie.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Marc Clifton wrote: serial communication protocol. Gads, I feel like I'm back in the 80's
Ewww. I mean, like, ick.
The last time I had to write a serial comm application(*), I had to dig out a Win9x era copy of HyperTerminal to help debug. Blech.
(*) I was talking to a GPS widget at 19.2K. In 2012.
<GeezerMoment>
At least with modern Windows you don't need to program UART registers, interrupt controllers, and all that crud like you did back in the DOS days.
</GeezerMoment>
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: At least with modern Windows you don't need to program UART registers, interrupt controllers, and all that crud like you did back in the DOS days.
Except when talking to bill acceptors that use the parity bit to distinguish between command bytes and data bytes.  Most Linux serial port drivers don't even support that, as I learned when writing the interface on a Beaglebone.
What's worse is, this Verifone pinpad, I have to install a USB-COMM driver first, then the Verifone COMM driver. But then again, these things are intended to normally interface with point of sale (aka POS, haha) hardware -- looking at the cash register at the local minimart, there's like 8 serial ports on this thing. Even a parallel port! Geez, I didn't even know they made that hardware anymore.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: looking at the cash register at the local minimart, there's like 8 serial ports on this thing. Even a parallel port! Geez, I didn't even know they made that hardware anymore.
If you take a look at the point of sale hardware used by retailers, they keep it until it breaks. There's probably a lot of 10 year-old stuff out there in mom-and-pop shops.
As far as the number of interfaces goes, I imagine that is to handle accessories: extra printers, bar code scanners, inventory guns, that sort of thing. You could also use the extra interfaces to talk to other registers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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At my local minimart, the cash register has a fan louder than my computer's and produces a cacophony of clicking noises when operated, as if it runs on relays! I don't think it even has a serial port. 
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The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
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Google Voice transcribes incoming voice mails, which can be very handy. However, sometimes it doesn't do a great job. #GoogleFail
Hey, this is your for damage, and I'm going to be very honest with you. I god and the prime minister of music at it at that. you are you I like and I'm going to tell you something you'd come home office in the ad as is in a fancy Pharmacy now, and I'm done getting me course you will ask for station. Lee Dad. I wanted to talk about the issues estate you would not discuss would be great. We should I thought I knew where are you bitch. how you got my phone number, and you can talk to me. I know like the way you wouldn't I'm normally, and I wanted to you about what why you ask what I understand you you you dumb pro, And that is or day. I know they're adding very offensive to me.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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