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  1. RainMotorsports

    Modified a laptop to hold my Nexus 5.

    Well for resizing images without the plugin is simple CSS. You'd need to figure out a selector for all images within the div that contains the post. I'm on my phone so I can't get the div class and the rest is off my head so take it as an example only. The selector would be something like...
  2. RainMotorsports

    Modified a laptop to hold my Nexus 5.

    PSST I forgot your website does that to thumbnails linked to a url! No seriously your site turns all images into click to open in new tabs. There is no url on the main image for example but you can click on it and it opens in a new tab. The URL for the thumbnails is 100% correct, check the...
  3. RainMotorsports

    Modified a laptop to hold my Nexus 5.

    I haven't tested it in the field but getting the same speeds on LTE as always. I did a test here at the house got 18/18 but my download regularly varies between 40 to 15 Mbps. When I am at work I can walk in the walk in freezer and while I lose LTE I still have a great HSPA signal so I think...
  4. RainMotorsports

    Modified a laptop to hold my Nexus 5.

    I bought a new laptop that was already ridiculous and then did something ridiculous to it. Its a Bay Trail Quad Core Celeron which while weak does play Portal. More importantly it was $230 bucks and gets 4 to 6 hours of battery life. But it has no optical drive and the space is there. So...
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    Got my Nexus 5 hope it looks this good in 3 years.

    You can remove the tamper flag as well as relock the bootloader but of course only if the phone is working enough to do so and thats where you never know what the situation will end up being. Problem with warranty and RMA is you never know how long you will be without the phone. If you bought...
  6. RainMotorsports

    Got my Nexus 5 hope it looks this good in 3 years.

    Rob made the comment like 6 months into me owning my Galaxy S2 that it still looked in good shape. I had to laugh because the plan was for it to be perfect 2 years later. It has held up very well so far the main fail point is the USB ports of course. I didn't take photos for the first...
  7. RainMotorsports

    OS X is now FREE for ever!

    Well your talking the PC market when you say that. When it comes to tablet and phone sales they are supposed to be making money and if they ever got their head out of their ass then maybe. If Apple never put out a machine again the iPhone profits alone should fund their entire OS division...
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    OS X is now FREE for ever!

    Damn it microsoft lowers their price to reasonable and then Apple goes for free! The only thing here is its technically updates since there is no bare hardware to buy the OS for in the first place. I assume this means they will be dumping retail packaging which may be a jab at the cloners. I...
  9. RainMotorsports

    Best use for zip ties Corsair included with the PSU... Assembly!

    I needed a second machine to run 24/7 and my only real choice was to use the machine long slated for my arcade project. With a video card donated by none other than TechGage. Problem is the machine is BTX, the low end video card chosen for its ability to fit in front of the BTX CPU cooler is...
  10. RainMotorsports

    Who's planning to upgrade to Haswell?

    I wouldn't mind grabbing a haswell laptop. My old gaming laptop needs a new battery a new power supply and the screen bezel is starting to crack. Main thing has always been the expense of getting something that can still keep up with my overclocked 9800M GTS. The IGP should be enough to play...
  11. RainMotorsports

    Consumers Prefer Tablets More than Laptops this Holiday Season

    Tablet PC's were just that. The iOS and Android Tablet devices are a completely separate market to me. I would never buy one to do the others job. Tablet form factor PC's in the past have suffered more from their hardware requirements then their operating systems. Tablet convertible laptops...
  12. RainMotorsports

    My first 5 seconds with Windows Server 2012

    LOL I call the whole lot there an easy day. Your actually setting up and importing an entire server. Funny this operation is much larger than a single tiny task I speak of, yet very easy. I am only talking about configuring a very small piece of a large piece of software. Once again and I...
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    My first 5 seconds with Windows Server 2012

    Not sure how it could be a major exaggeration. Some IIS command line stuff requires that even though I am doing the default equivalent of the GUI operation I must still specify no less than 5 switches on top of the file name and path, identifier. Ive had a single operation that normally spans...
  14. RainMotorsports

    My first 5 seconds with Windows Server 2012

    Im not an IT person per say but I think its idiotic to type 500 characters into a command line in place of 5 mouse clicks (Talking things like mysql server (not database) management or much worse IIS type stuff where no one including the guy who wrote the damn thing has it memorized.) There is...
  15. RainMotorsports

    My first 5 seconds with Windows Server 2012

    ...Where did i put my Windows NT 4 Server Disk at... MUST DOWNGRADE Seriously. So they removed the start menu, put in metro and proceeded to make everything desktop based. So uh I now have to change my work flow in order to launch desktop applications from an interface meant for something...
  16. RainMotorsports

    Show off your desktop!

    This is apparently my newest desktop to stare at:
  17. RainMotorsports

    So... this is interesting. A $210 4TB hard drive

    Right but you also have an unbalanced sample size. Theoretically I could buy 1,000 from either brand and have every single one of them fail on the same day. Statistically unlikely but possible non the less. Hard drive failures are scary not just because of expense but because of data loss. But...
  18. RainMotorsports

    So... this is interesting. A $210 4TB hard drive

    Poll every person on the planet and you will find plenty of numbers from WD failures to match Seagates. Hard drives fail period. I have had terrible luck with WD. 250 and 500 GB from the same generation lasted about 6 months (Back on my Pentium 4 each one was bought when they became...
  19. RainMotorsports

    Nvidia Titan

    Of course you can. Its pretty much a matter of game support. I could run Sins of a Solar Empire on 2 screens with my laptops 9800M. Many games that support windowed mode can be forced upon as many screens as you can drive as well. Unless you had an epic card like this I would recommend...
  20. RainMotorsports

    So... this is interesting. A $210 4TB hard drive

    Geeze I know how it is right now but I would have thought 210 to be pretty fair for 4 TB. I picked up a USB 3 Toshiba in 3 GB trim for 120. I hated going external but 90 bucks for an extra terabyte seems par for the current scheme. Sucks the mechanical storage is fighting limits like never...
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