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    What are your 2015 DC goals?

    With New Year's Eve fast approaching, I thought about what are our DC goals for 2015? This year I'm surprised I was able to hit 2 million in WCG, considering I only started a few years ago, while PrimeGrid I'm also surprised I've hit 3 million with only CPU work. For 2015: WCG: 4...
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    Upgrading Core i7 860 Build

    Hello all, After many years of reliable use, I've been contemplating upgrading my former multi-purpose rig (gaming, virtualization, rendering, distributed computing, etc) to newer hardware to support more video rendering. The former rig's current hardware: Core i7 860 (not-overclocked)...
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    WCG competition for a few weeks?

    Since the monthly PrimeGrid challenge has been completed, and we have ~28 days until the next one, I've moved all of my compute power to WCG. I'm not sure what current challenges or competitions we are in, but I would like to propose an internal, friendly competition to further increase our...
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    Experiences applying for jobs via online employment applications

    I know this probably belongs in a poll but i wanted more candid answers from people, I am doing research, for a UI project, into what people think about the application process, with applying for a job online. A few things i am specifically looking for are below, but i really want your candid...
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    The Return of Weekly Stats?

    As I'm sure most remember, we used to have weekly stats delivered by our very own Spacehead. Since last year, I've missed seeing the stats, especially the intense competitions for top spots within key projects. What I'm wondering, if Spacehead no longer has time to record the latest records...
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    Crowd Sourced Computing for Solar Cells

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/crowd-sourced-solar-cells/ http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ Just barely read this article. It has very interesting concept, though I'm not sure if there is any sort of BOINC/F@H Team Competition "style" that could be formed. Upon clicking the link...
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    GTX 570 in an Antec 902?

    I have been getting an urge to upgrade my video card (Evga GTX 260 sp216) and lately it's been struggling to keep up with DiRT 3 on max settings. I've been looking at some GTX 570s and am not sure which video card will fit in an Antec 902 (2nd Edition with USB 3.0). Right now I have a RAID 1...
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    Using a toggle switch to power PC

    The other day I was looking through the website below, and saw these "military style switches". It got me thinking of a possible DIY project, to create a simple on/off switch for my desktop. The reason for this potential project, is the motherboard power/reset/hdd pins and my current case's...
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    GoPro recommendations

    After seeing a commercial for a GoPro Hero camera, I am wondering if these are worth the hype I've seen online. I would primarily get the "Auto" edition to mount in a car, or on a snow machine, if they are as good as people are saying. What do you guys think?
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    Camera gift ideas

    Hello everyone I'm undecided about what to get my mother for Christmas, so I figured some practical gifts would be more suited for her. She currently owns a Canon Rebel T1i with a stock 18-55mm lens and a 75-200mm len (she got it ages ago when she owned a 35mm film version of her current...
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    fileserver project build

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. This build will be used for storing pictures, movies, music, podcasts, etc. Potential streaming on LAN. 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread I...
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    commandline parsing rss feeds

    Hello all- I'm currently working on a personal "project" where I... 1. take a RSS feed url (http://www.tntradioempire.com/rss/?type=podcasts&format=rss&path=/AUDIO/podcast for example) 2. download the entire page (with links) via wget: $wget "http://url.link.here..." -O log.txt 3. parse...
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    Decision for wireless keyboard/mouse combo

    Hello- I am currently planning to use one of the desktops in my house to use as a HTPC of sorts. I currently have a remote/receiver combo that works just fine, however I would like a mouse/keyboard combo to go with the HTPC. This would be useful for, if I want to show a Youtube video (via...
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    Cannot connect to Internet with new Internet connection

    Hello all- Earlier today a Comcast technician came by and installed a new cable modem as part of the triple play package my family bought. I currently use a D-Link switch (gigabit and the 'earth friendly' edition) to connect to two Vista PCs (one is Vista Home Premium and the other Vista...
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    Problem with file corruption

    I am currently using OpenOffice writer 3.0.1 (latest) for word processing of school assignments. For the past 5 days I have noticed assignments were being returned missing most, if not, entire sections of text from professors. I save all of my documents approximately every 5 minutes and the...