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by lovenlife
Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:39 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you READING right now?
Replies: 443
Views: 141701

Re: What are you READING right now?

Finishing up the fictional Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell (based on true events) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_%28novel_series%29 Good stuff if your in to 19th century war and stuff. Bernard Cornwell has also done series on civil war (Starbuck series) and the Anglo-Saxon period of England (...
by lovenlife
Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:21 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Gun prOn!
Replies: 3467
Views: 639737

Re: Gun prOn!

Two is better than one, nice. :) I got the stock from Northridge International, they were selling them unissued/new and unfinished. I like the way it feels better than the straight. http://northridgeinc.com/store/index.cfm Might have to go for it......... http://northridgeinc.com/store/index.cfm/c1...
by lovenlife
Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:37 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Gun prOn!
Replies: 3467
Views: 639737

Re: Gun prOn!

Some people like plastic guns, I guess. My 1903A3 with the unissued scant stock I recently finished and installed. This particular 1903A3 was rearsenaled at Raritan after the war and sold to a gentlemen in the 1960s as part of the predecessor to the civilian marksmanship program. Said gentleman nev...
by lovenlife
Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:33 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Gun prOn!
Replies: 3467
Views: 639737

Re: Gun prOn!

how is the .338 for shooting? Part of me wants something bigger than a 30 caliber but part of me worries about recoil. 30-06 doesn't bother me in most rifles at all; I've gone through up to about 40 rounds in a sitting shooting one with grampa back when I was...13 or so? Biggest thing I've shot sin...
by lovenlife
Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:39 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Gun prOn!
Replies: 3467
Views: 639737

Re: Gun prOn!

The Armalite 15A4 (top one) came in green, and the DPMS AR-15 was black, but I picked up a furniture set cheep at a gun show. The Remington 700 LTR had a factory Houge stock in Black, but then the green bug got me and I sent it back to Houge to get them to refinish it OD/Spider Black (one of the sta...
by lovenlife
Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:43 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Gun prOn!
Replies: 3467
Views: 639737

Re: Gun prOn!

Here are a couple of mine: http://tinyurl.com/639bmyk
by lovenlife
Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:27 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Which way to roll the toilet paper over. Huge Wiki article.
Replies: 110
Views: 12758

Re: Which way to roll the toilet paper over. Huge Wiki artic

I really have no pref, but I do it under cause it irritates my son, he always has to turn it to over. It's the little things in life.........
by lovenlife
Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:23 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Fun with your users
Replies: 35
Views: 3621

Re: Fun with your users

I had this annoying obsessive-compulsive guy in the UK so I placed an * asterisk in his home directory and changed the perms to his. It took less then a week when I got a request to restore most of his files in his home directory (directories were still there) He was like "I don't understand it...
by lovenlife
Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:01 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Black Ops
Replies: 30
Views: 6781

Re: Black Ops

I am not impressed with COD BO, the episode in Russia in 63 with MP5's and red dot scopes? Going to the Pentagon to meet Pres Kennedy being escorted by BMW motorcycles, I mean they sure didn't take the time to get stuff correct. The graphics sux to, sure a disappointment considering COD MW2. I hope ...
by lovenlife
Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:09 am
Forum: Apple Sanctuary
Topic: Help with Macbok Pro upgrade
Replies: 8
Views: 3139

Re: Help with Macbok Pro upgrade

You may want to check but 1st Gen MacBook Pro's are limited to 2Gb of ram:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/m ... acity.html
I just ran across this limit with a VP at work....
by lovenlife
Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:07 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Battle of the Core i7 920 vs. 940
Replies: 11
Views: 3400

Re: Battle of the Core i7 920 vs. 940

Yeah i couldn't see the point on the 940 considering the benchmarks I've seen here and other places.
by lovenlife
Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:03 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!
Replies: 12
Views: 1250

Re: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!

Hey all will be checking out the bits everyone has suggested. And yes we had a great time at the dive (it was it's last night, the owner is selling it so who knows what may turn up in it's place) I actually left early when the fight broke out and some idoit but his arm through the front window.
by lovenlife
Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:50 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!
Replies: 12
Views: 1250

Re: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!

Cool thanks I will check it out. Heading out with my step son (my Ex's son) at the local dive. Funny how him and his sister both commented I would be better off with out her(the X), I only had to deal w/her for 5 years, they get to deal w/her for life. But I digress. Thanks and I'll check back a bit...
by lovenlife
Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:13 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!
Replies: 12
Views: 1250

Re: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!

Thanks, the D thing does sux, but WTF do ya do <shrug> Yeah one GPU for now is no problem, I just want to look at something upgradeable once I have more "ducks in a row" So a MB with at least 2 PCI Express 2.0 (I like Asus, but not that particular).
by lovenlife
Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:56 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!
Replies: 12
Views: 1250

Re: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!

crazybus wrote:
Why would you even consider dual graphics cards with only a 19" LCD? If I had a budget of $2500-$3000, I'd probably be putting 1/3 to 1/2 of it into a monitor. BTW, is this primarily a gaming pc?



For now the 19" I do plan to add bits as I go. I just got divoced so one expense at a time.
by lovenlife
Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:53 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!
Replies: 12
Views: 1250

Re: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!

Where ever I can find the best deal from when ever i get the parts lists
by lovenlife
Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:28 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Ok my box took a dump, need to build!
Replies: 12
Views: 1250

Ok my box took a dump, need to build!

Ok my 3 year old box has died on me. I will be using some of the original bits (for now at least) to create a new box, I’d like some ideas and advise. I currently have; NZXT ATX mid tower case Athlon-64 X2 4800 939 Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe 2Gb Corsair XMS DDR400 2 Nvidia 7800GTX 512MB SLI 2 Raptor WD74...
by lovenlife
Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:45 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Is your employer a good one?
Replies: 22
Views: 998

Re: Is your employer a good one?

Well my company didn't make the list (nor any of my previous employers, Sprint, Perot systems, Systems House) But I must say the guys I work for ain’t bad. NeuStar Inc. is a great place to work for as a Unix Systems type guy. The pay, the yearly bonus, and anytime you need to work from home, head of...
by lovenlife
Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:21 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Looking for a good tent
Replies: 6
Views: 893

Oh oh I see North Face has em, (and larger) but they are pricey

http://www.thenorthface.com/opencms/ope ... anguage=en
by lovenlife
Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:04 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Looking for a good tent
Replies: 6
Views: 893

I wouldn't call that a 4 season tent, but it has lots of room. Here is what I have been using for a few years for light short trips for camping/hunting. http://www.eurekatent.com/p-72-k-2-xt.aspx I also have this one for when it's just me: http://www.eurekatent.com/p-71-alpenlite-xt.aspx Both are gr...
by lovenlife
Mon May 21, 2007 1:08 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Building a gaming server
Replies: 4
Views: 1382

Not sure COD2 and BF2 at least, like i said a max of 4
by lovenlife
Mon May 21, 2007 12:56 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Building a gaming server
Replies: 4
Views: 1382

Building a gaming server

Well I picked up an EOL Sun v60x dual socket Xeon box work was gonna pitch. It had a dead proc, and one empty socket. It did however have 6Gb of DDR 266 ECC Reg mem, 2 X 146 10,000 rpm SCSI drives with an adaptec raid cont. 2 10/100/1000 Ports, 2 PCI-X slots I picked up 2 Xeon 2.8GHz processors, (eb...
by lovenlife
Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:10 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: computer doesn't see new sata hard drive ???
Replies: 13
Views: 3270

During boot up there will be a some form of vendor (nvidia, adaptech, etc, etc) driver load and there will be a press F<somekey> type of thing to allow you in to the RAID manager software. Go in there and make you new disk visable. Sorry don't know enough about your mobo and chipset
by lovenlife
Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:45 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Sun shutdown command question
Replies: 7
Views: 2949

Re: Sun shutdown command question

Okay, what are the values of the flags in the following command for a complete shutdown on a Sun (i.e. Solaris) system? Google reveals a little bit of information, but not everything that I'm looking for. Thanks for your help. shutdown -y -g0 -i5 well you just halted you system with that one (-i 5)...
by lovenlife
Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:16 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Simple command line SMTP client?
Replies: 18
Views: 6975

Well if you can setup your sendmail.cf or submit.cf DS variable with your ISP relay host ( would have to test), any how after you get the relay right a simple

mail -s "Some Subject" [email protected] < /some_text_file

Usally works fine
by lovenlife
Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:57 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: The Unsolvable Problem (gluck)
Replies: 20
Views: 4082

over the weekend i plugged the comp directly into the router and it works fine. so its definatly something with the wireless. The card is turning off when something is running full screen. Plag and play issue? Wireless Zero Configuration (service) configuration issue? Try going to run> services.msc...
by lovenlife
Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:38 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: The Unsolvable Problem (gluck)
Replies: 20
Views: 4082

im not sure what to think at this point. Its like my only option left is to reformat. Just kinda crazy. Just a stab in the dark could it be something to do with directX? Maybe try using the dxdiag and see if there are any errors <shrug> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;q190900 scroll dow...
by lovenlife
Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:03 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: For all those who know more than the microwave....
Replies: 111
Views: 27057

This is my basic tomato sauce 1 bag of garden fresh tomatoes (plumb are the best but fresh is the key) A bag like ½ ¾ filled brown grocery bag 16 once can of tomato paste 1 large yellow onion 1 each read and green peper 3 Tbl spoons of parsley 3 Tbl spoons of salt 1 Tbl spoon oregano 1 tea spoon cum...
by lovenlife
Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:42 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: How long have you had brand prejudice?
Replies: 79
Views: 14191

I prefer Solaris over Linux. Solaris is my bread an butter <shrug>

I prefer Winchester over Remmington since I was a kid, brough up on Winchesters.

I prefer S&W over Colt, my first handgun was a colt, but all my wheel gins now are Smith's.
by lovenlife
Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:04 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: 24" monitor comparison
Replies: 27
Views: 7627

The Dell monitor is on sale now at $747.15

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/Prod ... u=320-4335
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