I say we all pitch in and buy him a nice ipad Air 2, and make sure he has Wi-Fi at home. Then he can post at his leisure from anywhere in the house.
Sandy G Status Report!
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I say we all pitch in and buy him a nice ipad Air 2, and make sure he has Wi-Fi at home. Then he can post at his leisure from anywhere in the house.
KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
Corrected for accuracy. Non-Linear Systems it was. P.S. I propose we go iPad Air 2 one better and do it true Sandy G style, get the man a used ToughBook. The R390A of laptops. Full Milspec!
sKiZo
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Very first hard drive I ever did buy was a 20mb monster for my TRS80. Until then, it was just the dual 8" floppies. I remember thinking - 20mb - wOw - I'll NEVER be able to fill THAT up ...
And only a bit over $800!
(Id start it up, but I can't find the pull cord.) <G>
And only a bit over $800!
(Id start it up, but I can't find the pull cord.) <G>
Insane how things have moved forward - I remember dropping $400 to buy 16MB of used ram from a local college student (just before spring break) at one point and it was quite a deal at the time!
my 1st HD was tiny, think it was 20MB as well -
but I bought a new 3TB Seagate 7200rpm drive last week from Microcenter in Fairfax for $90 -
that makes 8 drives tied to my desktop now ... 4 internal and 4 in an esata/USB external case.
Freaking Terabytes - OMG!!
sKiZo
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Yup ... I've got a farm going here too. A couple 2tb drives on the HTPC, and several 1tb on my Maggie DVR that's converted to use an external dock for all the old movie rips.
Most expensive drive I've bought lately is an 120gb SSD for the OS on my HTPC.
(Doncha love it when they speaks alphabet?)
Long as we're geeking out while Sandy's away ... went digging in the bins and dug this monster out. This is what a 1gig drive looked like back in '85 ... eight five inch platters and about 12 pounds.
(750mb, actually)
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sKiZo
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Big advantage is low power drain AND dead quiet.
Still have a 2tb SATA platter SATA for the music, but that's a WD "video" drive that's also super quiet.
Lot of air space in the latest build using my old Bach Media case. I keep that for the bling factor, and it also fits my standard rack space.
Fun fact ... an ITX board bolts right into an ATX case. Didn't know that. It also draws low power and not much heat, so the only fans running are the CPU cooler and the power supply, and those are all "smart" and barely tick over. Real important in a quiet listening room. Things to consider if you're still running an old server with a whole bunch of fans and drives spinning away ... last build would scream pretty good on a hot August day. :thumbsdn:
sKiZo, that thing belongs in a museum! (the old disk drive, that is!)
KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
We need to get Sandy G a Panasonic ToughBook, the R390A of laptops. Military Grade (right up his alley)
sKiZo
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In the meantime ...
PECAN SANDIES
Ingredients
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in vanilla and salt. With mixer on low, gradually add flour, beating just until combined. Fold in pecans.
Roll dough into 1 1/2-inch balls, and place on two baking sheets, 2 inches apart. With the dampened bottom of a glass, lightly flatten each ball.
Bake until cookies are golden brown, 15 to 17 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer to wire racks, and let cool.
PECAN SANDIES
Ingredients
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in vanilla and salt. With mixer on low, gradually add flour, beating just until combined. Fold in pecans.
Roll dough into 1 1/2-inch balls, and place on two baking sheets, 2 inches apart. With the dampened bottom of a glass, lightly flatten each ball.
Bake until cookies are golden brown, 15 to 17 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer to wire racks, and let cool.
Pio1980
AK Member
PECAN SANDIES
Ingredients
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in vanilla and salt. With mixer on low, gradually add flour, beating just until combined. Fold in pecans.
Roll dough into 1 1/2-inch balls, and place on two baking sheets, 2 inches apart. With the dampened bottom of a glass, lightly flatten each ball.
Bake until cookies are golden brown, 15 to 17 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer to wire racks, and let cool.
No sand? Wazzup with that?
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Or a Chrome book !
Big advantage is low power drain AND dead quiet.
Still have a 2tb SATA platter SATA for the music, but that's a WD "video" drive that's also super quiet.
Lot of air space in the latest build using my old Bach Media case. I keep that for the bling factor, and it also fits my standard rack space.
Fun fact ... an ITX board bolts right into an ATX case. Didn't know that. It also draws low power and not much heat, so the only fans running are the CPU cooler and the power supply, and those are all "smart" and barely tick over. Real important in a quiet listening room. Things to consider if you're still running an old server with a whole bunch of fans and drives spinning away ... last build would scream pretty good on a hot August day. :thumbsdn:
Interesting (presumably HTPC) build there looks good !
I'm running Widows 10 Technical preview (10041)installed on a primary drive partition in a dual boot configuration and using it for the daily driver now.
It's fast as a scalded dog with the new version 10 NT kernel and faster rendering stack and has much improved navigation , start menu and UI interface over Win 8.1 .
W10 will be available as a free upgrade for existing legitimate Win 7, 8.1 users . Pirate OS upgrades will be possible from M.S. but severely hobbled.
Should hit the street in maybe June or so ( Presumably ,as now without Windows Media Player and no ability to install/use it if you try ) MS isn't saying either way just yet .
(for now ) If you install WMC on an W10 TP upgrade install it rolls you back to Win 8.1, on a clean install it breaks win 10TP requiring a re install without WMC to fix it .
If Microsoft doesn't wreck W10 by then ( it's almost decent right now )it will be worthwhile upgrade if you don't need WMC (unless something changes by then .)
Windows Media player is included but you will need something like VLC ,Power DVD or Daum Pot Player x64 to play DVD and img burn ,Power DVD or something to make DVD's .
I was thinking about a clean install from an W10 download -ISO /DVD on an ~ 250GB SSD with frequently used stuff on it and just use this 1TB metal hdd for storage when the final W10 comes out........... that could happen.
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Although everybody should respect everybody's privacy I would like to suggest that somebody who has his phone number calls him in order to ask him if his is okay. I hope that he still got JUST a technical problem.
sKiZo
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Of course, the important item here ... any improvements in sound handling? I'm real happy with W8's WASAPI ... next best thing to bit perfect it is. Nary a hiccup here in sKiZoLand since the upgrade.
PS ... I hope yall miss me HALF as much when I'm gone ...
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Hey, I'm back! Did I miss anything?? <G>